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  1. Just don't take your teaspoon while you swim. Problem solved.

  2. Re:Whoops - the women AREN'T up to the job on Women Interviewing For Tech Jobs Actually Did Worse When Their Voices Were Masked As Men's (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    Can you point a study which shows that there is a causality (or even a correlation) between being good at job interview and being good at the job itself? Because I don't know how you go from a study on interview to "being up to the job".

  3. Re:of course it will burn.... IF on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    It's possible that he means the timeframe for the consumption of the fossil fuels. But he's also speaking of "burn it over a millennia". An article trying to explain the impact in 2300 of fuel burn in the ~700 years after that date would not be published in a climate category, but more in some fundamental physics category, with subject like "is the direction of time fixed", "is the consequence always after the cause",...

  4. Re:of course it will burn.... IF on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article makes absolutely NO MENTION of time frame

    Absolutely no mention, except for the six mentions of time frame in the article: "by year 2300", "in 2300" (twice), "during the 2100-2300 period" (twice), "to the year 2300", plus 3 mentions of the 2100 time frame. And I stopped to count before even reaching the end of the first page (out of 6)

  5. Re:Why more fuel than usual? on NASA's Kepler Enters Emergency Mode 75 Million Miles From Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Basically, it's a wheel that you can speed up or down with a motor. The axis of the wheel is fixed to the spacecraft body. When you accelerate the wheel rotation, its angular momentum increase. But as the total angular momentum of the spacecraft does not change, the rest must rotate in the other direction, by reaction. Typically you include several of them in one spacecraft because each of them only control one axis.

  6. Re:Why more fuel than usual? on NASA's Kepler Enters Emergency Mode 75 Million Miles From Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Safe mode probably use thrusters instead of reaction wheel to control the attitude. Reaction wheel works with electricity (from solar array, so "unlimited"), thrusters use fuel.

  7. "to and from the spacecraft" means *two* times 75 millions miles, the signal must come back to know if your action worked, the 13 minutes mark seems correct.

  8. Re: "mass market affordable car" on Elon Musk Announces $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Electric Car · · Score: 1

    That is the average price for a new car.

    "Average price for a new car" seems to suffer the same problem as "average salary", the distribution is skewed (IMHO). It's an interesting indicator, but I think that the median price may be a little better. Does anyone has it?

  9. He will ask government to subsidy his food, so that he can distribute it to the unemployed people.

  10. Same production, less effort? on Fast-Food CEO Invests In Machines Because Regulation Makes Them Cheaper Than Employees (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    If the humanity as a whole can produce the same amount of goods/services with less human effort, this seems to be a positive thing. The only thing to fix is the way to make all humans to have access to this goods/services, but that's not something to fix on the production part, it's somewhere else in the system.

  11. When we have a cold snap the global warming types say "it's just weather" and so when we have a warm month here and there I believe I can rightfully say that "it's just weather".

    When was the last time that the monthly (or yearly) global anomaly broke a low record? Was that at this point that you heard people say "it's just weather"?

  12. They could have taken the years at the beginning of the recorded temperature (as the comment at the origin of this trend assumed), but the quality and uncertainty is bigger there. If they had done that, the current anomaly would bigger, but that does not really matter. The trend of the anomaly (= the trend of the average temperature) is the important part. And the fact that the anomaly has got several new high.

  13. Re:So? on Last January Was the Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly In Recorded History · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The summary does not says that recorded history began in 1951. It says that 1951-1980 average serves as baseline for the temperature anomaly "0" level.

  14. Re:Yeah, sure on SaxoBank Predicts Universal Basic Income For Europe · · Score: 1
    No, it is not required. The right to free residence (FTFY, free movement is everything below 3 months) as defined in the "EU freedom of movement and residence" text already include a clause explaining that you cannot move just to take the social benefits. Go to article 15:

    2. Member States may require the persons concerned to provide evidence that they have:

    (a) stable and regular resources which are sufficient to maintain themselves and the members of their families, without recourse to the social assistance of the Member State concerned. For each of the categories referred to in Article 14(2), Member States shall evaluate these resources by reference to their nature and regularity and may take into account the level of minimum wages and pensions;

    (b) sickness insurance covering all risks in the second Member State normally covered for its own nationals in the Member State concerned.

  15. Re:Go Vegan on Overfishing Responsible For Declining Fish Population (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A vegan killing himself could help the environment, but he would have a bigger impact if he kill two or more other people. Do you think that vegan should do that?

  16. Re:Ah Belgium Politcs on Belgium's Aging Nuclear Plants Worry Neighbors (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I am/was* from the other side (well in fact I'm from the border between the French speaking and the German speaking parts), but I also think going back to a simple unique government/parliament/... I've seen a few days ago a proposal from the NVA to reduce the number of politicians in order to cut spending. Simple solution: change the federal/region/community to a simple unique government/administration. But I don't think it was the idea that they had ;-)

    But the belgian organization has one big advantage. It's a fun story to try to describe it to foreigners.

    *I've been living outside of Belgium for the last 10 years, but I don't completely rule out the hypothesis to go back. And I'm still Belgian on my passport. I think my opinion should probably not count as much as people living there.

  17. Re:There's no "groundswell" on Belgium's Aging Nuclear Plants Worry Neighbors (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    The reactor are not really close to Germany. Well, they are close in absolute distance, but if you look at Belgium scale, not that close. And if wind push radioactive material to Germany, it will pass over Liège (Lüttich/Luik) If they had to chose a place with the less impact in Belgium with dominant winds coming from SW, still on the Meuse, they should have gone on the other side of Liège, like somewhere in Herstal or Visé, close to the Holland border. (they probably had good reasons not to go there, I don't know)

    It's difficult to build anything far away from a border in Belgium. But when I look at the map of nuclear reactor in Germany, it's quite similar (at least according to this map https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... ), a lot close to the borders, less in the middle. France also has a similar pattern. (special prize for the Chooz plant)

  18. Re: Ah Belgium Politcs on Belgium's Aging Nuclear Plants Worry Neighbors (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    However, Belgium has a super fragmented police force. As shown recently in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, it became clear that they do not understand the structures in their own country. They had less insight than any other country. And it was almost impossible to communicate efficiently with Belgium police forces, as there is no well defined interface.

    I was only a teenager at that time, but isn't this almost the same conclusion that after the Dutroux case? Wasn't the police/gendarmerie merging supposed to resolve that? Looks like it fails...

  19. Re:Ah Belgium Politcs on Belgium's Aging Nuclear Plants Worry Neighbors (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    You say that 34% of Belgian voted for N-VA, and 76% against (or not for them.) This does not add up to 100%. Just to fix that, here are the numbers (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ): NVA had 20.4% at Belgian level, 32.2% of the Flemish part (if I understand correctly the table)

  20. Is he confirming that the object of the rumor is true, or is he confirming that a rumor exists?

  21. Sanders wants to give away money without talking about where he will get it. That's similar to Trump who will construct a wall and makes someone else pay. But if I have to chose between the two possible use of imaginary money, I prefer Sanders' ideas. But isn't promising to spend non existent money the basis of most politicians, nowadays? And I don't know what Sanders would be capable to change (probably not much, as all possible candidates), but seeing republicans fanboy with a devil communist (for them) as president should be fun to see.

  22. I don't know where you live, but as far as I know, in Sweden, the police is not a media.

  23. I'm living in Sweden (but I'm not Swedish) and I definitively don't support Trump (I don't really see "good" candidates, but he's more at the bottom of the list of the possible one) According to discussion with a few colleagues, they are also not supporting Trump. But it's difficult to know more details, swedes don't really like to talk about politics.

  24. Re:So the plane tells ATC where it is... on Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services (flightglobal.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's not impossible. But even an idiot can understand that it takes less time and that you don't give any advance warning if you don't start by disabling the ADS-B.