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  1. Re:Gimme the old interface! on Microsoft Making More of the Windows 10 Built-In Apps Removable (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Um... do you have any understanding on Facebook Posts May Point To Depression, Study Finds (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You have no idea what depression is. Because you are confusing a mental illness with a mood.

  3. Re: Deep Fakes should be illegal on Someone Used a Deep Learning AI To Perfectly Insert Harrison Ford Into "Solo: A Star Wars Story" (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With this kind of parental upbringing you are showing he'd probably voluntarily stay away. People with messed up childhoods are often too difficult to be worth the hassle.

  4. Why not use "it"? It is a perfectly fine gender-neutral pronoun.

  5. Yes, you are the chosen one, Neo.
    Normal people often listen to some music while they surf the web and autoplay seriously ruins the experience.

  6. Re: PIF is dangerous on Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I have read some people doing exactly that - using the motors as brakes in a four electric motor dump truck. They said that it is very difficult to do right and can often lead to situations where the truck goes back and forth just a little instead of standing perfectly still, making drivers nauseous.

  7. Re:Prediction on Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    What you fail to realise is that oil is a global commodity. Sure, you import more of it from Canada, but the price you pay is the price Saudi Arabia sets.

  8. Re:34th here! on Japanese Passport Now World's Most Powerful (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And North Cyprus isn't a real country anyway.

  9. Re:Too late on UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If anyone should have pulled out, then Trump Sr.

  10. Re: I'll be waiting for the on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
  11. Re:These aborts are dangerous on Crew of 'Soyuz' Spacecraft Establish Contact After Failed Launch (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not according to a major Russian new agency.

    They say that the astronauts are not in a "completely good health".

  12. Re: I'll be waiting for the on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything can be reversed.
    Just ask Merkel about the exit from the nuclear power phase-out and the shortly following exit from the exit from the nuclear power phase-out.

  13. Re: No this is the result of no nuclear dumb polic on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. Baseload came about because coal power plants could not follow the load - it took hours to alter a coal power plant output so if possible it was always running at whatever output it was designed for. Since coal power plants have been the most common power plants for over a century, all electrical power infrastructure is built around them and their limitations.
    In other words, if the most common power plant type is only able to provide a constant output, it is inevitable that the electical power generation is split into base and peak load power plants.
    In countries that get their electricity mostly from hydroelectric power, that can easily follow the load, this discussion doesn't even exist.

  14. Re: I'll be waiting for the on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, modern car catalytic converters are three way converters, so they do that as well (and also convert the nitrogen oxides), but they are not very good at, converting carbon monoxide is their primary task. This is, by the way, the reason why exhaust suicide is not possible anymore.

  15. Re:I'll be waiting for the on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Since always. This is why catalytic converters have been added to both cars and power plants in the first place. Converting carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide is their main job. Even modern computerisation will not help you there, thanks to the Boudouard equilibrium there always will be carbon monoxide in the exhaust.

  16. Re:I'll be waiting for the on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Catalytic converters convert incompletely combusted carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbons into carbon dioxide. Not sulphur (that's a job for scrubbers, not catalytic converters), not soot (that's a job for particulate filters).

  17. Re:No this is the result of no nuclear dumb policy on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Baseload is a concept that exists only because of coal power plants (and later nukes) that cannot follow load (well, French nuclear power plants sort of can, but that makes them quite inefficient and somewhat unreliable, with an availability of 70% or so). Without these the whole base load concept will cease to exist.

  18. Re:No mention of resource needs for wind and solar on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And I've heard that we'll have a power plant running on unicorn farts in 10 years. Seems like a more realistic solution to me.

  19. Re:I'll be waiting for the on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    This is a result of a overly pro business and conservative local government colluding with a huge company with local head quarters in an area with a long history of mining and trying to enforce a bad idea against the will of the population just because.

    The local government will pay for it and after Stuttgart 21 they should have known better. But conservatives never learn.

  20. Re:I'll be waiting for the on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course catalytic converters are required for gas fired power plants. When something organic is burning it will release carbon monoxide as well as soot from incomplete combustion.

  21. It is not a completely incorrect confusion - Germany had introduced the biometric passport with fingerprints due to the US threatening Germany to remove it from the visa waiver program otherwise.

  22. Re:all of these warnings do nothing to incite chan on IPCC Climate Change Report Calls For Urgent Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So people simply die in the gulag (because dead bodies don't countt, and it keeps the ledgers clean) yet youir grandfather managed to spend 20 years in one.
    Don't you see a little contradiction there?

  23. Re:all of these warnings do nothing to incite chan on IPCC Climate Change Report Calls For Urgent Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Funny thing about imprisoning people. Do you know which country has both the highest incarceration rate and the largest prison population (the latter actually higher than in the Soviet GULAGs)?

  24. You probably have visited Moscow and started extrapolating. That is a bad idea.

  25. Re: Um, it won't work on Government of Canada's Plan To Improve Cybersecurity? Be Less Attractive (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Until petro-exports started to make money, the USSR was trading potatoes.

    Nope. More like wheat, steel, lumber and tanks. It was not a very export oriented country, most of its production was for internal consumption only.

    Reagan, for all of his crap, outspent the USSR and sucked up its resources in military spending.

    Again, nope. What sucked up its resources in the late 1980s was Chernobyl, a devastating earthquake in Armenia and what amounted to two civil wars. One of them, in fact, still sort of goes on in the present day despite the ceasefire.

    The uprisings were the result of not being able to feed people, crappy bureaucracy, and horrific infrastructure.

    The uprisings were purely racist in nature, like Azeris telling the Armenians to GTFO out of their state. Before Gorbachev this kind of crap used to be violently suppressed. The crappy bureaucracy, and horrific infrastructure still exist in the most successor states of the USSR, matter of fact both is often far worse now than it used to be, yet people manage. And as for the inability to feed people, for fuck's sake, we are talking about the 1980s here, not 1950s. Where do you get your history lessons from? Comand & Conquer Red Alert?

    Party members were elevated to a pseudo-status of wealth. They weren't really rich, but they fared much better than the masses.

    No shit Sherlock. Now name me one single country on earth where higher ranked members of the ruling party don't fare better than the average citizen. If you had said that without party membership certain career advancements weren't possible, your argument would have more standing, but it is also quite common elsewhere - often, career advancements are more about the people one knows and less about one's skills.