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  1. If I buy a screwdriver... on South Australia To Be Home To Australia's New Space Agency (abc.net.au) · · Score: 0

    ... that does not make me an owner of my "own" screwdriver industry. It's satellite industry. Not space industry.

    Space industry is the industry of building and launching rockets. It's the industry of breaking the first cosmic velocity.

    And it will stay that for a while. Unless you are building and flying your own rockets, stop yapping about space industry.

  2. They were not secret on Mapping Service Blurs Out Military Bases, But Accidentally Locates Secret Ones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No military installation in the world of the size of the large university campus is secret.

    The secret could be details within that location, that's what map service provides by blurring.

    Stop posting idiotic articles.

  3. telling lies is part of free speech... on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ...until it hurts your ideological affiliation so much that becomes one of the factors causing Democrats white house.

    Organizing protests and opposition via Facebook ok .... until they are organized against politically correct tax burden in France or organized voting in aforementioned spectacular defeat.

    I can easily see the future without Web 2.0, without no user generated content at all.

    When it was limited in 1980s to academics only, it was tolerable, because users were intellectual elite of society.

    Now Web 2.0 is just a circlejerk of the entropically dominating dark matter.

  4. EU emissions rose in 2017 on Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU's emissions are near flat, but this follows a decade of strong falls.

    Like 2017, when France, Germany, Spain and Italy increased emissions, when US and UK dropped them?

  5. Re: Cutting Emissions on Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    All I see is that we produce less energy

  6. Re:Losing the Top 7% on Verizon Announces 10,400 Employees Will Voluntarily Leave the Company (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And they know that. It is still better than firing 10K then on top of that 2K of truly top employees (who is better the one who is not scared to leave without anything or the one who needs a five year safety net?)

  7. Re:But why? on Walmart Is Reportedly Testing a Burger-Flipping Robot (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Every single time I picked to the back of McDonalds, I see people literally flipping burgers.

    What the heck are you talking about?

  8. Re:You vote with your dollars on Walmart Is Reportedly Testing a Burger-Flipping Robot (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would I buy a human-flipped burger if it will cost less than a robot-flipped burger?

    Weren't you, bleeding hearts, always complaining how Walmart exploits employees?

    Here, no exploitation, at least, at this spot.

    Or are you some kind of luddite?

  9. Re:Quantum Privacy on Facebook Filed a Patent To Calculate Your Future Location (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    With all this talk about location precision, I am wondering why Waze still can't tell if I am on express road or local road on my highway.

  10. Re: Perfect democrats on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I did not know being overly synthetic is a requirement of passing Turing test :-)

  11. Re:Knowing the region on Alibaba Already Has a Voice Assistant Way Better Than Google's (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Everything that comes from China needs to be taken with a large bucket of salt.

  12. Re: Perfect democrats on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    What I am saying, thank you for your data, because people now can decide for themselves what data is more convincing.

    Personally, I actually do not have an opinion of 10K is a lot or not. I am not on the market and I am not actively thinking on this subject.

    Again, thanks for the data!!

  13. Re: Perfect democrats on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I am talking about your number: $42,049.70. 10k to that is, again, 25% (I miscalculated it as 20%).

    Again, thanks for information.

  14. Re: Perfect democrats on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for posting the data. I would leave to people to decide whether 20% is a big deal or not.

  15. Re: Perfect democrats on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It seems small compared to the absolute price, but that is incorrect normalization. It should be normalized to the typical rate of price change

  16. Re:Housing is unaffordable on Americans Are Moving Less Than Ever, and It's Bad For the Economy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually people move when they get significant bump in the salary, at least 10%

  17. Re:Housing is unaffordable on Americans Are Moving Less Than Ever, and It's Bad For the Economy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I have seen several people caught in the space of 6 weeks, move across country and then find they had no job afterall. I

    This sounds preventable by improving legislation.

  18. Re:Housing is unaffordable on Americans Are Moving Less Than Ever, and It's Bad For the Economy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, I'm shocked that so many younger people have been and continue to live off their parents past age of 30. What's with that?

    It's in line with tendencies that has been there for a long time

    - from less specialized work to more specialized work require more years of training
    - we need work force less and less with increasing productivity: less and less percentage of people can produce enough goods to fulfill needs of the rest of humanity (that includes automation), so young people are unemployed more and more, unless (see above).

    It's only natural that young will live longer with their parents.

    live poor until you can make it, that's what the rest of us have done for modern history till now.

    Young have much better chances of survival and growth if they spend that time educating themselves to get a better job later, than facing necessity of working full time to make a living while spending remaining time studying.

  19. Re:Housing is unaffordable on Americans Are Moving Less Than Ever, and It's Bad For the Economy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If people move, they usually move from places with bad job market and cheap houses to better job market and more expensive houses, so selling the house in Oklahoma won't do much for your house buying potential in California.

  20. Re: I've stopped paying any attention to this shit on Sea Levels May Rise More Rapidly Due To Greenland Ice Melt · · Score: 1

    There is general consensus about existence of warming but the more you go down to details the more variation in model results you will see. That's what AC was saying.

    This is very expected situation for anyone familiar with modeling of complex systems.

    And nobody knows what will happen in 2100. Spit on the face of anyone who claims that. Predictions of local weather to the next day sometimes a cause of great hilarity in my family, so when one claims what is going to happen in 2100, it's not even funny.

  21. oil will stay for a long time on Trump Administration Wants To End Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewables (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Oil is a strategic reserve. Tanks, warplanes, warships runs on oil

    Governments of G20 will keep and support oil industry.

    We will cut oil in civil sectors, but not completely. This means we will be far far away from 0% emissions for a long time. Learn to live in +5 degrees climate.

    Now.

  22. So, what are the numbers, does anybody know?

    Total number accused = (TP + FP) = hundreds you said (that's one number out of four)
    What is the number of correctly accused (TP)
    What is FN - people who he did not accuse but who were spies.
    What is TN - people who he did not accuse and who were not spies. (that's not the whole bunch of people on earth, that must be a reasonable pool of say all contemporary celebrities)

  23. Re: And some idiot just yesterday INSISTED... on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla was responsible for keeping him alive despite his odiotic behavior.

    Not sure if autopilot acted in the interests of humanity

  24. It does not matter how many times paperwork was filed.

    What matters is how much in dollar value.

    Niw get off your democratic shithorse and piss off

  25. Re: Cue the vegan-bashing... on Italian Bioengineer Develops 3D-Printed Vegan Steak From Plant-Based Proteins (dezeen.com) · · Score: 1

    memory from childhood.

    And I thought it would be some kind of bullshit reason...