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  1. No, as soon at that starts to happen the local authorities will mandate that charging stations serve the general public.

  2. Re:Tesla's Cobalt Conundrum on Tesla Could Be Hogging Batteries and Causing a Global Shortage, Says Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to this Canadian mining company about to start operation of a primary cobalt mine in the US, 58% of world cobalt production was from DR Congo in 2015.

    http://www.ecobalt.com/assets/...

    Before offering corrections, it is important to understand what the words mean within their context. In the context of industrial supply, where the mines are is what they are talking about when discussing the locations of a resource.

    For example, it doesn't prove them wrong to point out that there is a lot of cobalt on Venus.

  3. Re:Environmental impact of this manufacturing on Tesla Could Be Hogging Batteries and Causing a Global Shortage, Says Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Cobalt is mostly a byproduct of open pit copper and nickel mining, and little mining is done specifically to extract cobalt.

    While true, there is more to the story. 15% of US cobalt production is already from recycling. Also there is the Idaho Cobalt Project (ICP) that already has permits for a primary-source cobalt mine in Idaho, which should go online imminently. It is owned by a Canadian mining company. They're expecting 1500 tons/yr for 12.5 years.

    The most important thing though is that cobalt is totally recoverable, in the future most of it will come from recycling.

  4. A friend of mine has a recording studio, and we were talking about his cords a few months ago, and he said most of his $250 German ones are over 25 years old and he's never had one go bad.

    That's the difference. The cheap ones, as you say, have their life shortened through typical use by musicians. And if it isn't even their cord, but belongs to the studio? Yeah, they're not taking special care of it. ;)

    The expensive ones are not necessarily having their life shortened by it.

  5. Re:I fully expect... on 'Watershed' Medical Trial Proves Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because you don't understand what the word "cure" means, and how being "cured" differs from being "in remission."

  6. Re:vitamin B on 'Watershed' Medical Trial Proves Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to seek out a dictionary and look up "sentience," I don't think it means what you think it means.

  7. No, being unable to work with other humans isn't "getting shit done," it is "getting in the way."

    If they can only work with other neckbeards, they're completely worthless and if worst comes to worst I can just outsource their assignments.

    Just because you're an individual human doesn't mean you're a good person, a good worker, or "getting shit done." Everybody thinks they are good. Everybody claims to be "getting shit done." Part of the "shit" that they have to get done is following the workplace behavior guidelines.

    Lack of social skills is only an excuse for being unpopular, it is not any sort of excuse for overt violations of mandatory workplace requirements. The implies the person is an asshole and also an idiot, not that they have poor social skills. They should probably learn to get back to work; if they weren't fucking off, it wouldn't even come up what their disgusting personal opinions and depraved desires are.

  8. Re:I fully expect... on 'Watershed' Medical Trial Proves Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So you believe a lifestyle change to be permanent? You might want to visit the surface more often.

  9. Re:This was a real crime. Not worth chasing them d on Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd have to have uploaded it to manage criminal infringement, downloading doesn't cut it.

  10. Re:Germans Aren't Quite As "Decent" As They Seem on Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The funny part about how stupid this comment is; they're both rich, they'll both go to the same sort of prison, they might even end up as cellmates.

  11. Re:This caused massive environmental damage on Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    That's, to put it simply, moronic. Exceptionally so.

    Unless you've been secretly tracking every photon in the universe, an estimate is the most precise possible answer.

    And for example, if somebody is sentenced to death for murder, it isn't based on having been able to measure the exact amount of harm that they have done. Indeed, at the sentencing there are likely to be numerous impacted persons who give a statement on the harm that the person's death caused them; and their own accounts are stories are merely estimates. They have no way of knowing all the impacts it will have on their future. And what about all the things the person who died will no longer be able to do? You don't know all the things they would have done with the rest of their life, and the impact it would have on others.

    Stop being a fucking moron, and start thinking with your brain instead of trying to think using your conclusions.

  12. Re:Quality Beats Diversity on To Solve the Diversity Drought in Software Engineering, Look to Community Colleges (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't make it useful or desirable. Fail.

  13. Chance is a stupid explanation. Just sayin'.

  14. And even if it didn't work, it would look totally awesome.

  15. They sound like 1337 moron snowflakes to me.

    If you're walking on eggshells it is because you are a disgusting asshole, and you should have already been keeping to yourself whatever disgusting thing you really "think."

  16. For most business use cases you're better off with an expert system, and all you need are a bunch of regular engineers.

  17. Re:Here's what you need to know about ICOs on Feds Shut Down Allegedly Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Offering (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Horse shit. The US is a significant country, and ICOs are totally legal here.

    What was illegal and fraudulent about this one was that they advertised returns that had no objective basis. If you want to promise return on investment, you have to have some sort of history to show, or at least some reasonable assumptions. If you just make up a crazy number and say people will earn that much you're gonna get the smackdown.

    The SEC is being very clear here; this case is about false promises.

  18. Re:I fully expect... on 'Watershed' Medical Trial Proves Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no cure, and there never will be.

    This story is not about a cure, it is about lifestyle-induced remission. It only works as long as the lifestyle changes are in place.

  19. Re:Quality Beats Diversity on To Solve the Diversity Drought in Software Engineering, Look to Community Colleges (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No thanks. Not a real skill.

  20. Re:Are the people taking the AI courses being hire on Tencent Says There Are Only 300,000 AI Engineers Worldwide, But Millions Are Needed (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the bait-and-switch; the headline says "engineers" but they're actually sad about not having enough "professors." They should take comfort; for decades there were no computer science PhD's at all, and all the computer classes were taught by people with math or physics degrees.

  21. Re:Are the people taking the AI courses being hire on Tencent Says There Are Only 300,000 AI Engineers Worldwide, But Millions Are Needed (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Compare that to the .com era, when there was an actual shortage, and they hired anybody who could do the work.

    Like one recruiter back then said, "If you've been convicted of murder I might not be able to help you, but if it was only manslaughter lets talk!"

    If they care more about the paper than the skills, they didn't actually even have a need. That tells me that if somebody does have the right papers, the job will turn out to be something different, and they won't actually accept it, and the listing will stay up. Probably a lot of the jobs are with advertisers who read somewhere that if they had AI they could make more money, so they want to "add AI."

  22. Re:Funny that they're not paying C-exec pay? on Tencent Says There Are Only 300,000 AI Engineers Worldwide, But Millions Are Needed (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    we're playing with magic in hopes of becoming a god.

    Naw, that's just the echoing sound it makes when people heads get too filled up with buzzwords and arrogance at the same time.

  23. I don't know, but there is some blathering in the summary about "researchers," even though the field doesn't seem to be researching anything.

    It is probably just some idiots at an AI department who didn't know there are also software engineers, who actually do the work.

    It is just a regular computer, it is just a set of software techniques and use cases; outside of employees of academic institutions there is no reason to get a narrow research-related degree instead of a mainstream work-related degree.

  24. Re:Carefully ignoring what he said on Drone Pilot Arrested After Flying Over Two Stadiums, Dropping Leaflets (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    We

    OK, I looked it up and you're still not the Queen. So therefore, no we don't.

  25. Just visit a fucking tea shop and find out if you can buy any grade of tea in a bag.

    It should be very easy to realize that you're making an absurd "No True Scotsman" claim that is refuted at numerous existing teashops. This isn't a theory. Or an idea. You can literally buy custom-filled teabags at many shops. That makes your claim impossible.