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  1. Look at the effort involved in making Nickel 63 on Russian Scientists Upgrade Nuclear Battery Design To Increase Power Output (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...
    These look like good things for deep space missions, but where else would you find a good use for them, that solar couldn't do more effectively?

  2. Re:Please no on Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    then take your own plastic utensils with you wherever you go.

  3. Re: Trump to take credit. Let's wait for the spin on North Korea Announces Plans To Dismantle Nuclear Test Site (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Lol. He is capitulating because his nuclear mountain collapsed. Trump is only taking credit for it. South Korea is "playing" sycophant to the Narcissist in Chief in the hope of getting better conditions for themselves after the meeting in Singapore.
    Don't forget that Kim took his first trip to China by train a few months ago. Do you know what was said there? Maybe "Reconcile with the world you petulant child, before we turn you into a province or starve your people to death."

  4. Re: Ha! on Microsoft Turned Customers Against the Skype Brand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Skype is a failure with Microsoft. I use it privately and corporately. You cannot communicate with people without knowing their handle. FaceTime and WhatsApp are easier to connect, as they only require the phone number. DTMF is not easy to use. You have to find it in a weird right-click menu. Phone numbers donâ(TM)t support , and ; for pauses. You have to select the country. If you type +1 for usa it doesnâ(TM)t change country. While you are on a Skype-out call it doesnâ(TM)t warn when you have no money left - it just disconnects you Itâ(TM)s just very sloppy.

  5. Re:Horrible idea on Kazakhstan Is Changing Its Alphabet From Cyrillic To Latin-Based Style Favored By the West (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    c does not sound like sh in Turksih, its like ch.
    Latin has 5 vowel symbols, but many languages have more, including English. You either put up with ambiguity or you use diacritics, or both. Ataturk did it to break ties with Persia and Iran and focus towards the west. And as statues in front of many schools show him teaching children the alphabet himself, https://www.shutterstock.com/i..., a big focus was in literacy.
    Turkish is a vowel-heavy language with 8 native vowels and a few pulled in in Arabic loan words, but the Arabic script only partially represents vowels a,i, o by doubling the meaning of glottal stop, y and w, or using diacritics.
    switching to Latin made sense for Turkish.
    Importantly Ataturk allowed on transition time like the Qazaqs are thinking. it had to be done within months, under pain of fines. Medical words in Turkish are mostly Arabic, Maritime are Greek, early 20th century words are French, many modern words are English, computer and tech words are mostly Turkish - becuase that was also a great success of the Turkish language project, to creatively generate new Turkish words. bilgisayar=knowledgecounter=computer.

  6. Re:Not zero emission in China yet. on Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Even with the worst quality coal, generation of electricity for cars/buses is less polluting than "good" diesel. And you open the possibilities of sourcing the electricity from many other clean sources. Even if the pollution were the same, it is not at street level where millions are breathing it directly. In the end, human health will drive what is happening, not just energy politics.

  7. is this about vote buying for 2020? on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    nt.

  8. Re:Not worth the electrons its printed on on Dual-Motor Tesla Model 3 Possibly Coming In July (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Isn't it great that he doesn't give up when he fails, slips or has to changes plan? What have you done with your life that makes a difference to anyone?

  9. When will the President of Trumpistan and the Head of the Environmental Destruction Agency be put on trial for serving their swamp buddies instead of serving the people? "Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, by all the people, for all the people.”

  10. Re:Get ready newbs. on FCC Authorizes SpaceX's Ambitious Satellite Internet Plans · · Score: 2

    5000 ms is to the Moon and Back TWICE. Where do you think the Starlink satellites are going to be? You are orders of magnitude wrong with these ping times.

  11. That car had a LIDAR on the roof. The cyclist was on the middle of the road, not behind any obstruction. Why didn't the LIDAR react before she was visible?

  12. Re:"Before Devs Make Them" on Ubisoft is Using AI To Catch Bugs in Games Before Devs Make Them (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Sadly true on New York Times CEO: Print Journalism Has Maybe Another 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Vienna has TWO free newspapers in the commuter trains and they are read by many passengers every day.

  14. Re:An interesting prospect, but also an edge case on 'Sinking' Pacific Nation Tuvalu Is Actually Getting Bigger (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    and how much volume of the Island remains above sea level? that may have gone down.

  15. They reached space and then turned around. They were going more than 10 times slower than orbital speed. Stage 2's job is to get the payload to orbital speed, and in this case put it into an aphelion-near-Asteroid-belt heliocentric orbit. This car will never come near the Earth again.

  16. Have a look at the ugly view off the coast of Los Angeles at the oil platforms. Why aren't you complaining about those polluting eyesores.

  17. Re:Oil will only go out of style when... on New York's $6 Billion Plan For Offshore Wind Shows That Oil Drilling Really Is On the Way Out (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't necessarily follow. Oil will go out of style when the alternatives are seen to be cleaner, safer and cheaper. Not all scenarios require high energy density. Maybe long distance flight is the last to switch with rockets
    There is already a switch happening to electric planes for training flights and Boeing & Airbus are looking at shortrange e-planes.
    Ferries are already going electric and New Zealand sent up an orbital rocket last week with electric pumps driven by lithium.
    Then we will respect oil and use it to make amazing compounds instead of burning it or making throw-away plastics that kill marine life.

  18. You can see the red dot below their eye, so you know they are looking at something.
    Why were they spending so much time talking about AI and stuff. Just make the glasses and let others decide what to build. I don't want Intel deciding how it works, i want the app i choose to decide that.

  19. Suborbital just means 2000 km/h or so. Orbital means 27,000 km/h - that is more than 10 times as fast. When Bezoz launches suborbital he goes vertical, a missile is launched mostly upwards, and when an orbital rocket/spaceshuttle goes up it tips almost horizontal within a minute of launch - most of the velocity is going eastward (or southward from polar orbits), not upwards. Watch the speed and height numbers in any SpaceX launch.

  20. Re:Encryption doesn't sell cameras on Camera Makers Resist Encryption, Despite Warnings From Photographers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't we already have self-encrypting SD cards, that could hide photos unless they were inserted into a safe device back home?

  21. The Captain is long dead on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Because this cargo is typical for the early 19th century, but not the 20th.

  22. Re:Space based? on NASA Poised To Topple a Planet-Finding Barrier (nextbigfuture.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You've basically described the James Web Telescope, it has 18 such mirrors. It's IR, but that is optical for cosmological distances.

  23. Re:Limited production on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The erosion, low biodiversity , glysophate, Nitrogen and Phosphorus use and runoff is appalling. These are the non-renewable costs of these biofuels.
    How much energy went into producing the nitrate fertilizer for this soy? Phosphorus is not a renewable resource.

  24. Re:It's too far from the strip on Hardly Anyone Wants to Ride the Las Vegas Monorail (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only is it behind the hotels, you have to navigate a labyrinth of hallways to even find it, and if you dare to go around buildings to get to it from the outside you'll just find fences and have to double back.

  25. Re:Spoken vs Written on The Last Man on Earth To Speak His Language (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    if you've only got one speaker left, record everything he has to say about every possible topic.