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  1. Lottery? on SpaceX Plans To Send Two People Around the Moon In 2018 (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is there a legal reason SpaceX can't have a lottery for tickets? Seems like a good way to fund these types of things.

  2. It's the transient in temperature that has most of the risk. As things cool at different rates you get stresses, seals can fail, cryos rapidly boil. Once you are chilled and in replenish things are pretty calm.

  3. Optical scan on Pennsylvania's Voting Machines Are Running Windows XP (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with optical scan? We use it in my country and its great. Just fill in the line. What's nice is you can 50 people in a room filling out the forms and one or two scanning machines that read then in a second and depot the paper in a locked box. Instant check to make sure you votes and o dublicates and easy to rescan later or manually count.

  4. Re:Did they collect risk and damage data? on Airbnb Unveils Changes To Address Racial Discrimination (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Because they are the only ones that would have that data. If you use national or state crime statistics it is logical to discriminate against groups that have significantly higher crime rates. But who knows what it is for the AirBnB subset?

  5. Re:Did they collect risk and damage data? on Airbnb Unveils Changes To Address Racial Discrimination (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You don't know that. Maybe for the black population as a whole it would be high but Airbnb is a particular subset.

  6. Did they collect risk and damage data? on Airbnb Unveils Changes To Address Racial Discrimination (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Young men are charged more for car insurance because they are a higher risk. When there was a free market in healthcare women were charged more because they use it more. Smokers were charged more as well.

    If they really wanted to show that discrimination was unfounded they would post the data proving that African American Airbnb users are no more likely to commit crime or cause damage than other renters.

  7. Re:So even without the conductive layer . . . on Police 3D-Printed A Murder Victim's Finger To Unlock His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The judge will most likely not allow the jury to hear that.

  8. Re:Get rid of FDA, Drug Laws, and Patents. on New Study Shows Why Big Pharma Hates Medical Marijuana (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. That's why I mentioned it as a legitimate function of government.

  9. Get rid of FDA, Drug Laws, and Patents. on New Study Shows Why Big Pharma Hates Medical Marijuana (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What ever happened to my body, my choice? Is it only true when you are killing the unborn?

    Maybe we don't need to get rid of the FDA but just change it so it can't prohibit drugs. It can give the FDA "Seal of Approval" for drugs that meet it's standards. You should be allowed to sell any compound. As long as it's labeled properly and accurately the drug maker shouldn't be liable for any side effects. After all Peanuts are a great, cheap source of protein. But they also kill some people. It's should be up to the patient and doctor to figure out what effects particular drugs will have.

    Intellectual monopolies need to end. Without the FDA there is no justification for them anyway as you can bring a drug to market quickly and the competition to manufacture them cheaply will drastically lower prices.

  10. Need to pass pod neutrality! on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    These are common carriers after all.

  11. Re:Queue the feminists on NASA's Juno Space Probe Enters Orbit Around Jupiter (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No because this is a professional team that is wearing Polo shirts with the mission patch instead of being attention seekers. They realize they represent thousands of people that dedicated a decade of their lives to make this work.

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/04/...

  12. Re:Just follow the rules on The Moral Dilemma of Driverless Cars: Save The Driver or Save The Crowd? · · Score: 1

    The reason jaywalking is illegal is because it is dangerous. Your death is the result of your action not a penalty.

  13. The real Nigerian Princes couldn't get through on Clinton's Private Email Was Blocked By Spam Filters, So State IT Turned Them Off (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    How else was she supposed to get bribes from all of those Third world nations with a normal spam filter?

  14. Re:Serious question .... why any body cares? on Peter Thiel's Lawyer Wants To Silence Reporting On Trump's Hair (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    It actually a very clever strategy similar to an angler fish. You have this distracting thing staring your right in the face so you can't pay attention to what is really going on. It's an old sales tactic that works.

  15. Re:1st Amendment? on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    And who is doing the enforcing?

  16. Re:Reminds me of this car I sold. on Tesla Suspension Breakage: It's Not The Crime, It's The Coverup (dailykanban.com) · · Score: 1

    Good idea. This was pre internet so we just wrote AS-IS on the Title near the sales price.

  17. Reminds me of this car I sold. on Tesla Suspension Breakage: It's Not The Crime, It's The Coverup (dailykanban.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a POS 92 Sunbird with 60k miles that ran like crap. I sold it to a guy for about $500 telling him honestly there is something wrong and he drove it and said he could fix it. 2 weeks later he calls bitching because he blew up the engine. I told him sorry but it was sold as is. Threatened to sue me but never did.

    Old cars breaks. If you want something that lasts forever too bad.

  18. Re:How to collect "atmospheric" CO2? on Pilot Test Of Storing Carbon Dioxide In Rocks Shows Impressive Outcome (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    There are new processes that burn fissile fuels in supercritical CO2 that is enriched with O2. This allows high efficiencies and allows you to capture the CO2 easily.

  19. Same here with low CO2 levels on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Without the industrial revolution CO2 may have continued its decline and eventually become too low to support life. 150ppm seems about the range where some plants start dying. We got to 180 ppm. Digging up an burning coal helped raise this amount back to a sustainable level.

  20. Re:Simple solution on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    Get an old enough car and get classic plates and registration cheap.

  21. Simple solution on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    But a couple of junk cars and park them on opposite sides of the street in the middle of the block. That will cause traffic to come to a stop if there is anything above a normal amount of traffic.

  22. Re:Fell for the hype, sold after 1 year on Nest's Time At Alphabet: A 'Virtually Unlimited Budget' With No Results (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I had that option on. But when you are away it shuts it all down.

  23. Fell for the hype, sold after 1 year on Nest's Time At Alphabet: A 'Virtually Unlimited Budget' With No Results (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I live in Florida so I liked the idea of a learning thermostat to save some money. Instead what I figured out (and should have known ahead of time) is that it is just better to keep the setpoint constant. Sure I saved $10/mo but the house was always muggy and uncomfortable. Part of the reason is I have a high efficiency A/C so when I keep the setpoint constant it just runs the low speed compressor and fan and keeps the house cool and dry. When the nest shut everything down to save energy when we returned it had to kick on the high speed to get back to temperature. I'd gladly pay $10/mo for a comfortable house and less wear and tear on my $10k A/C unit.

  24. What about the era of natural intelligence? on Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Still waiting on that one.

  25. Re:This sort of thing is why people like Trump on IT Layoffs At Insurance Firm Are A 'Never-Ending Funeral' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll explain. It would be nearly impossible in the current economic climate to make these products in the US because customers will shop based on price and if they are made here they won't sell. So the choice is to make them overseas or don't make them at all.

    The protectionist argument is if you make the tariffs high enough then at some point it is cheaper to make those items in your country as opposed to overseas. But at least your people are working and aren't on welfare. The problem is you are now paying tariffs and more money for the items.

    This is the problem with trying to centrally plan an economy.