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  1. Ah, I see that now. Thanks! Agreed!

  2. According to the NY Times detailed report on MTA problems there is plenty of blame for all. I can find absolutely no supporting evidence that "GOP Controlled Boards" are responsible and I trust the left-leaning NYT to have found them if they existed. Yes absolutely the Republican mayor and governor screwed the MTA but so did the Democratic legislatures back their proposals, and the Democratic mayors and governors did no better. Everyone in office treated the MTA as a piggybank and robbed it.

  3. Re:UN has no authority. on United Nations Considers a Test Ban on Evolution-Warping Gene Drives (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    According to the article in Technology Review, the technical advisor to the UN says that opposition is simply lobbying to protect those countries with their own biotech industries. The assumption being (I think) that if Gates were to simply write a check to other countries or non-US industries for gene driver projects, it would be largely accepted. That aside, I was generalizing. You may be correct that some other UN policies are off-topic here.

  4. Re:UN has no authority. on United Nations Considers a Test Ban on Evolution-Warping Gene Drives (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seems like the sole purpose of the UN is letting 192 nations vote on how much money the United States should pay each of them.

  5. Re:"Chaos" is overstated on The Future of the Kilo: a Weighty Matter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically every recorded mass that is not recorded to an infinite number of digits is wrong.

  6. Re:Quackery is science now? on The Future of the Kilo: a Weighty Matter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did you hear about the homeopath that didnt take his pill and overdosed?

  7. Re:Reality Check on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem here is that as a technical person you think the documentation is the end product. It's not. If anything over-reliance on patient history means less diagnostics and less informed decisions, not better ones. All in the name of saving money, which it doesn't.

  8. Re:What's with the pro-Trump nationalism? on System76 Thelio Computer is Open Source, Linux-Powered, and Made in the USA (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm still amused that people think "Born in the USA" is a patriotic song, when it's really about the hypocrisy of patriotism, and how the blue collar class got screwed by having to fight Vietnam.

  9. Re:What's with the pro-Trump nationalism? on System76 Thelio Computer is Open Source, Linux-Powered, and Made in the USA (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think maybe there were people chanting that before the Trump administration. It was apparently popular right after the Revolutionary War to take pride in new-found self-sufficiency. Wikipedia has a photo of a Model-T hubcap stamped "Made in USA". Pretty popular saying during WWI and WW2. All the Democrat union workers" promote Made in USA pretty consistently.

    I think you give Mr. Orange too much credit.

  10. Re:TMT, dynomite on Hawaii Supreme Court Approves Thirty Meter Telescope On Mauna Kea (hawaiinewsnow.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    be glad it wasn't some absurd string of latin words translating roughly to "the glowy ring things from sonic the hedgehog."

    I dont know ... "Splendida anulum de sonic ericius" has a certain ring to it

  11. Also.... it's literally just named Thirty Meter Telescope?

    You can get more when you auction off the naming rights after you get the permit.

  12. Re: Skeletons falling out of the closet on Apple's Dual-SIM Tech Ruins Verizon Coverage (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info! So while Google may be better than others at this, and it probably isn't trivial, it sounds straightforward to implement. It's back-office stuff rather than infrastructure. It still seems as if T-Mobile could do this if they really wanted to? If so what's their downside to doing (or not doing) it?

  13. Re:Skeletons falling out of the closet on Apple's Dual-SIM Tech Ruins Verizon Coverage (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't say where the disconnect is, but Google Fi *is* T-Mobile (and Sprint). How can Fi use T-Mobile towers with eSim, but T-Mobile can't use T-Mobile towers with eSim. Maybe I'm no expert here, but that doesn't sound like a strictly technical problem.

    I'm entering this post on a Pixel 2 with no sim card, connected to a T-Mobile tower (LTE), so pretty sure it works.

  14. Re:Skeletons falling out of the closet on Apple's Dual-SIM Tech Ruins Verizon Coverage (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Google Fi uses eSim to access T-Mobile and Sprint, starting with the ancient Nexus and xconttinuing through the Pixel. So, no, not T-Mobile's fault.

  15. Re: Taste buds touching plastic bottle on Microplastics Found In Human Stools For the First Time (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Diamond decomposes to graphite (slowly) since that is a lower energy state. But somehow De Beers' "Graphene Is Forever" ads didnt catch on.

  16. Re:Camera? Or Photoprocessing? on Which Company Makes the Best Camera Phone in 2018? Not Apple · · Score: 1

    But not the Pixel 2. Try them side-by-side and you'll see. Everyone in my family has a different phone and when the picture has to be good, everyone asks me to use the Pixel, even the Apple fans. And in low light, there is absolutely no comparison at all.

    If Apple didnt have such an established (and well-earned) reputation no one would even be having this discussion.

  17. Re:Can't be done on NASA Is Offerring $1 Million To Turn CO2 Into Sugar (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Most informative thing Ive read on /. in a long time. Thank you Sir.

  18. Re:Wow on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  19. Re:Grow sugar cane? on NASA Is Offerring $1 Million To Turn CO2 Into Sugar (space.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Eating other animals has been common for 2 billion years or so. Seems pretty damned natural to me.

  20. And all this time I thought they were Battlestar Galactica fans!

  21. Re:Is it "malicious hackers stole data of millions on Hackers Stole Personal Data of 2 Million T-Mobile Customers (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Its just as illegal to leave your car unattended with the keys in it, as it is to be the one stealing it. How is leaving customer data unprotected any less criminally negligent? Its past time to have the FBI publicly walk these CIO's out to the van in handcuffs. Security would miraculously be fixed almost overnight.

  22. Re:Amazon has it's 100 hours a week issues! on Some Engineers Are Turning Down Tech Recruiters in Silicon Valley Over Concerns About Corporate Value (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I really liked working there, as did pretty much everyone else, and never saw anyone work a 100 hour week or even close. I only left because I found a much shorter commute. All the media coverage about how awful they are is I think completely blown out of proportion. Other than letting new hires show up to work in pajamas, it was a pretty cool place to work.

  23. Re:All process arguments are insincere on The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fact checker: Bethania Palma. The far left failed journalist that rushed to MSNBC's Malcom Nance's defense when he called on ISIS to bomb Trump properties. She called the tweet 'poorly worded' and reworded it to 'prove' he never meant that. Because ISIS was actually backing Trump.

    Yes, Bethania Palma, bastion of factualness and objectivity, and the reason not to trust Snopes all that much anymore with politics.

  24. Perhaps you need some of that "emotional/mental stability testing" before you are allowed to post again?

  25. Re:I have a corporate chat app on Slack is Buying HipChat and Stride From Atlassian (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If it works on self-driving rental scooters, I'll give you $500 million!!!