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  1. Re:You mean Star Trek? on Physics Students Devise Concept For Star Wars-Style Deflector Shields · · Score: 1

    Photons don't interact with each other. So no amount of magnetic field will repel a later or heat from the sun. Also not that some magnetars have magnetic fields so strong that they have energy mass equivalent density of lead.

  2. Re:One word on Graphene Could Be Dangerous To Humans and the Environment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yea so its going to turn all the other elements into carbon? Its going dissipate its heat how?

    The laws of physics, the way the universe works in other words, precludes a grey goo any worse than we already have. aka bacteria.

  3. Re: Congressional fix? on How the FCC Plans To Save the Internet By Destroying It · · Score: 1

    Yes I am. Seriously whats the point if it only covers things i could afford my self anyway. If doctors say that is the best bet. Insurance will cover it. This is Europe after all. I pay ~300CHF a month and by law they must cover your medical expenses. They can't just come out with "too expensive". That's not insurance, that.. is i don't know? Theft?

  4. Re:Fucking Casuals. on SEC Chair On HFT: 'The Markets Are Not Rigged' · · Score: 1

    How is buying stock only to sell it a second later adding liquidity? If that HFT was not there the original seller would wait an extra second? HFT don't add liquidity since they are not there to buy stock. They add overhead since they want to buy then sell at almost the same time with a small cut for themselves. That is not liquidity since the market already needs to be highly liquid for HFT to even work at all. I don't call up my stock broker and yell at them because my stock sold in one minute verses one second. Ok fine don't call brokers anymore... whatever.

  5. Re:It's a turd that's slowly being polished on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    Yea, my personal favorite is Lisp. Good luck finding anyone else that can code it.

  6. Re:Feels Dated on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    Ask Linus why, he seems to think C++ is s***.

    His specific quote was that he thinks C++ programmers are %^$@#$@ @#@# ^&*@#!@ and didn't want them anywhere near the kernel. He is Finish after all.

  7. Re:Not just dated... on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    That quote sums up just about every single project i have worked on in C++.

  8. Re:Economic reasons on How Concrete Contributed To the Downfall of the Roman Empire · · Score: 1

    I feel the challenge of the 21st century is just this. Its moving to an economic model/policy where no growth is considered good.

    There is ample evidence/arguments to link power consumption with economic growth. In 2008 world wide energy consumption was 144000 TWh. Now lets assume a 1% growth for the entirety of the future. After 100 years that gives us total consumption of 390000 TWh or about 2.7 times more than now. After 500 years its 2% of the total energy the earth receives from the sun. After 1000 years it is 2.9 times more energy than the earth receives from the sun. In 2500 years that is 23 times the total energy output of the Sun! And well it doesn't take much longer to require the energy output of the entire galaxy.

    Humans don't understand exponential curves. The physics of this universe preclude unlimited growth.

  9. Re:I still like cubing... on The People Who Are Still Addicted To the Rubik's Cube · · Score: 1

    I have several good 3x3s a very good 4x4 and a rubiks 5x5. The Rubiks is really horrible. But i can solve easier than the 4x4 since i never remember parity moves.

  10. Re:Learned to solve it recently on The People Who Are Still Addicted To the Rubik's Cube · · Score: 1

    One of my math teachers once told me that if its hard you don't understand it yet. Once you do understand it, its so easy its hard to understand how it was ever hard in the first place.

  11. Re:Eeeehhhhhh - meanwhile in Europe... on DarkMarket, the Decentralized Answer To Silk Road, Is About More Than Just Drugs · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    South park never lies.

  12. Re:Eeeehhhhhh - meanwhile in Europe... on DarkMarket, the Decentralized Answer To Silk Road, Is About More Than Just Drugs · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of guns in Europe. Austria you only have to be over 18 to buy rifles. CC is less common but i know of several people that had CC and did carry. I am now it Switzerland and well i know of quite a few gun owners here to.

    Gun crime is not related to gun ownership from the statistics anyway.

  13. Re:Theoretically, life is a given on Proposed Indicator of Life On Alien Worlds May Be Bogus · · Score: 1

    So if this life is forever unobservable, unverifiable .....

  14. Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    The against healthcare still doesn't make any sense.

  15. Re:Punishment fits the crime on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yea because otherwise everyone will be evil. I mean its lucky the US has the death penalty because it has deterred so many of the evil fucking people. Oh wait, the US has one of the worse rates of violent crime. States with the death penalty don't have less of this crime. It is not a preventive nor a deterrent.

  16. Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    And the legal system never screws it up right? Oh wait yes it does, all the time. And no i don't think they deserve to die. I don't think that solves anything.

  17. Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So its unacceptable for them to behave this way, but its ok if the state does it?

  18. Re:Fucking Casuals. on SEC Chair On HFT: 'The Markets Are Not Rigged' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only problem with that argument is it ignores the liquidity and spread reduction produced just by having HFT in the market.

    God i am sick of this BS being trotted out every time someone wants to defend HFT. Liquidity as a useful metric is *never* measured in milliseconds. It could be easily argued that measuring less than a minute is simply not understanding what liquidity even is.

  19. Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why does the US still even have the Death penalty?

  20. Re: Congressional fix? on How the FCC Plans To Save the Internet By Destroying It · · Score: 1

    really. I am living in my 3rd country. I get unlimited care. What good is health insurance if it only covers you when your healthy enough?

  21. Re:Ukraine on Former US Test Site Sues Nuclear Nations For Disarmament Failure · · Score: 0

    Nuclear power stations along don't give you access to enriched nuclear materials. Not by a long shot.

  22. Re:Premature much on Consumers Not Impressed With 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    There is a reason that even with fairly cheap printers, big printing presses are still used. I know the arguments, but really a good 3d printer at the local copy center would work much better since its likely to be fairly expensive for something that most people will almost never use. I mean replace a part? Why who does that? Most people don't what to unscrew anything so the whole thing is replaced or its taken to a shop or you call a plumber or whatever. Outside novelty items i just can't see them having an application.

    And lets be clear, they are not printing cloths or shoes or anything like that. They are printing at best part of a shoe and often in pretty poor quality. That $2 shoe in a bargain bin looks like a better deal.

  23. Re:TSA-like Money for Fear on Expert Warns: Civilian World Not Ready For Massive EMP-Caused Blackout · · Score: 1

    Unlike the other two, an EMP event that could damage or destroy most electronic equipment within 1,000 mils of it can be created by most any nuclear power on the planet.

    No they can't. You can't get a nuclear plant to go nuclear. The material is simply not bomb grade and you CANT make a bomb out of it if you tried. Next you need a high altitude nuclear bomb for EMP. So double no.

    Please don't talk about stuff you clearly have no idea about.

  24. Re:Actual thought process on Expert Warns: Civilian World Not Ready For Massive EMP-Caused Blackout · · Score: 1

    I would think the impending nuclear war would be of greater concern than the small precursor EMP. Since the only to get anything even close to the EMP they are describing can only be from a nuclear weapon.

    Please note. Solar flares don't produce EMP.

  25. Re:Interesting read but pretty cowardly on GitHub Founder Resigns Following Harassment Investigation · · Score: 1

    We're dealing with one story which is being publicly told by an individual who is putting her name out there..

    And just trying to publicly shame people and force a unfair trail by media. Nothing is credible about how she has approached this. You don't scream from the tree tops. You get a lawyer and deal with it in a professional way.