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  1. Re:The high price of Ignorance on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    Minimum wage is an easy thing to shout at.
    It may kick off automation several years early, but it doesn't triple labour costs.
    If your employee costs 1/3 of a robots purchase price per year, minimum wage pushing that to half might or might not cause you to get a robot.
    In five years, when the robot costs a third of what it does now due to a few thousand of them being installed, the difference between 1/3 and 1/2 is not meaningful.
    Unless the buisnes is either unusually principled, or compelled to keep the labour on, they're buying a robot, minimum wage or no.

  2. Re:If confirmed, does this make it realistic? on Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results (hacked.com) · · Score: 0

    Force on dark matter doesn't work.
    Because they have tried thrust in 'forward' and 'reverse' directions.
    The velocity of dark matter is not usually thought to be 0 at earth.

  3. Slowing isn't enough - with a graph. on Another Study Finds Earth's CO2 Emissions Have Flattened Over The Last Three Years (go.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.climatecentral.org/... contains the graph
    http://assets.climatecentral.o...

    This shows the rise in the CO2 level in the atmosphere over the last 5 years.
    For over a year now, it's been over 400ppm, and the rise in 2015-16, over the same period the year before has been the largest this past year than any time in the last five years.

  4. Re: Here's how to do telemetry properly on Nvidia Adds Telemetry To Latest Drivers (ghacks.net) · · Score: 2

    if you can't explain what the data is, you shouldn't be sending it.

  5. Re:GPL Bullet-Points on Wordpress Founder Accuses Wix Of Stealing Code (ma.tt) · · Score: 2

    You can't use a more permissive licence without question.
    You absolutely can't re-licence other peoples code in ways that give more rights than the authors gave with the licence without their consent.
    in some cases other licences are compatible with the GPL.

  6. Re:GPL Bullet-Points on Wordpress Founder Accuses Wix Of Stealing Code (ma.tt) · · Score: 0

    In short - if you use GPL code (neglecting LGPL for the moment) in your project, then your project needs to be GPL if you are going to distribute it.

    You can quite legitimately take GPL code, and modify it to your hearts content and then run it on your own servers and never sell it, with no requirements to do anything special at all.

    However - if you distribute the binary resultant from your code, you need to also make available the whole source, including your additions and you cannot add further restrictions that stop people from copying your code.
    If you attempt to add further restrictions, or do not supply the source, then you do not have a valid licence to use the GPLd code, and can be pursued for copyright infringement

    (this code strictly only has to be supplied to people who you give the binary to).

  7. Re:Impressive? on Tesla Posts Second Profitable Quarter Ever (bgr.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In steady state - no. While plowing a large amount of money into massive factories to pump out the next generation of products - absolutely, yes.

  8. Re:Actually, it's ALWAYS ON on UK Police Begins Deployment of 22,000 Police Body Cameras (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Err - no.
    It will be likely recording into an internal buffer, not streaming.
    Streaming would be quite expensive for 30000 officers.
    The problem is that the officer has privacy against internal affairs.
    Supervisors should not get routine access.

  9. Re: Nearly useless on UK Police Begins Deployment of 22,000 Police Body Cameras (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    So you record the fact of them spitting in the officers face, and you book them for it.
    Policemen deciding to beat up people is never, ever the right answer.
    Especially when their actions may not be what they appear on the surface.

  10. Re:Confused report on Cyber Attackers Have Successfully Hit A Nuclear Power Plant And A Lab (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Also, enriched uranium is a _TERRIBLE_ isotope for a dirty bomb.
    Enriched uranium is more radioactive than natural uranium - but only in a ridiculously small amount, because instead of half decaying in 4 billion years, half decays in 700 million years.

    Alexander_Litvinenko was poisoned by around 10 micrograms of Polonium-210.
    In rough numbers, polonium-210 is two billion times more active than uranium-235.
    To have the same dose equivalent of uranium, you'd need a 20 kilogram lump of uranium-235.
    There is no real way to get any radioactive danger from uranium-235 unless you make it into a bomb, at any dose the chemical effects (broadly similar to lead) would vastly overwhelm the radioactive.

  11. Re:Great news on Scientific Breakthrough Increases Plant Yields By One Third (wsu.edu) · · Score: 1

    The above does that to a degree.
    It both does not use nitrogen fertiliser - which means no CO2 is used in the production and transport of the bacteria, and grows bigger - which absorbs more CO2.

  12. Re:Great, but on Scientific Breakthrough Increases Plant Yields By One Third (wsu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Neglecting the anti-soy - if increasing nitrogen transport from the nodules improves their efficiency, it seems at least plausible that doing this for other plants which naturally fix nitrogen would also help. So - mostly legumes.

  13. Re:So the bureaucrats have solved all the problems on Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    2030. That's 15 years. Or into 'mature autodrive' by reasonable progress.
    Anyone claiming to make predictions out that far - through electric cars going up a hundredfoldish in volume - (35% growth) needs to have massive caveats on that.
    Secondly - this is Europe.
    With limited exceptions, it's very dense, and driving long distances is considerably more involved. (though see above autodrive comment).
    The tesla model 3 can be driven from one end of the UK to the other in 4 fills - and journies that take two are going to be rare for the vast majority of consumers.
    Also, if you can do solar and wind to recharge, you've greatly reduced your net imports of oil.

  14. They may not be legally able to do so.

  15. Publishing careful subsets can be very misleading.
    If I (for example) go down the list of donations, and remove all ones to people I can identify as probably black or latino, that makes the donor statistics look very different.
    Or if I remove information on companies that did not benefit from various policies.

  16. Measles isn't a trivial disease, if you get it. on The Americas Are Now Officially 'Measles-Free' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    For every thousand people that catch it, the more serious symptoms during the course of the infection are:
    60 people with pneumonia, probably requiring hospital treatment.
    6 people having seizures.
    2 dying.
    (rarer complications include SSPE - where your brain shuts down for no well understood reason and you die 1-7 years later, at a rate of about 20 per 100000 cases).
    Measles during pregnancy leads to a higher risk of spontaneous abortion.

    In the last large outbreak in the USA, 11000 were hospitalised, and 123 died. (1991)
    .

  17. Fabrice Bellard is awesome. on Boot Linux (or OpenBSD Or Oberon Or FreeDOS) In Your Browser (copy.sh) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lzexe - exe file compression on the PC to fit more on your floppy.
    Qemu - emulate random processors on your PC.
    tccboot - boot linux using a live C compiler.
    Live broadcast of digital video using a VGA card. ...

  18. Re:When you're dead... on Autonomous Vehicles Won't Give Us Any More Free Time, Says Study (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Could is not would.
    The majority of 'good' drivers could perform better than the 'AI' on a good day, when they are paying attention.
    I note that significantly more than 50% of people think they are good drivers.
    Problems happen mainly due to misjudging risks.
    'Oh - I'm tired, as it's 5:30 on a friday and I've got another hour to go, I better take that energy drink'.
    -> drink spills due to the cap being hard to get off, and driver is distracted for 3 seconds and...
    Good drivers may be good drivers most of the time.
    Not all of the time.

  19. Re:Clickbait troll much? on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    I was commenting on the 'They could tell the difference between an innocent stumble and tell-tale signs of neuromuscular disorders.'.

    There are several issues here.
    A) apparantly partisan source - I have not checked the allegations earlier in the thread.
    B) If she in fact has something that looks parkinson-like on the surface, but is in fact quite treatable with no meaningful long-term deterioration.
    C) If the people polled were actually expert enough to tell anything meaningful about her condition.

  20. Re:Clickbait troll much? on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    'A trained observer' - well - perhaps.
    There is a truly massive difference between casual observations of physicians who have had no specific experience of a disease, and ones who deal with it daily.
    For many conditions, general practitioners do not have much greater 'feel' for if you have something than the general public.

    Quoting from https://www.researchgate.net/p...
    " Two parkinsons patients were under the care of each GP.
    Only 33 percent of GPs were aware of atypical features in early parkinsons disease.
      If the early atypical feature was one that may occur in late-stage PD, the GPs' awareness was even lower at 19 percent.
    32 percent of GPs were unable to provide any alternative diagnosis to parkinsonism.
    This survey suggests a poor level of awareness among Singapore GPs on the identification and presence of alternative parkinsonian conditions."

    (25% of patients with 'parkinsons' may in fact have other, treatable conditions.)
    If your average GP has 2 patients with a condition, they may know very, very little about it other than the briefest outline.

  21. Re:URL is also known on Meet URL, the USB Porn-Sniffing Dog (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    It depends on the terms of the search warrant, and why it was obtained.
    I can't find online details of the warrants in question.
    If the warrants were 'you can toss the place looking for porn' - based on other credible evidence then great - no problem.
    It seems unlikely on its face in this case that parallel construction was directly involved in the finding of the USB drive.
    (unless the warrant did not give them permission to toss the place, and they in fact did).

    It is an unusually great method of getting beyond the iniital bar of 'reasonable suspicion' if the officer has facts that he cannot rely on in court (for example, from extra-legal surveilance methods), if you can get (or claim) the dog indicated on the suspects vehicle, or ...

  22. URL is also known on Meet URL, the USB Porn-Sniffing Dog (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    as parallel construction.

  23. Re:A *Minimum* of Journalistic Skill on WrkRiot Collapses Amongst Allegations of Fraud (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Relevant xkcd is relevant. https://xkcd.com/1060/

  24. Re:What Employee Works Without Pay? on WrkRiot Collapses Amongst Allegations of Fraud (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, if you are required to work at the company to stay in the country...

  25. Refusing to pay risks killing all apple pay/... in the EU - even for existing devices.
    Just because a third party country has trade agreements with the EU does not mean that the phones would be exempted - for example from punitive sanctions on import, or even confiscation.