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  1. Well, exactly that .. a star or something zipping along faster than light?. Or a flashing in one sector of the galaxy that appears in sync or coordinated with something happening light years from it. There are many possibilities.

  2. Weâ(TM)ve been staring at space and the stars for a while now and have seen no evidence of superluminal travel.

  3. What are you talking about? on Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This could be the year..

  4. Amazon shareholders pay taxes on their investment gains when they cash out. What is the problem?

  5. Movies are fiction, only a fool would learn from them. Use logical extrapolation not movies.

  6. Accident avoidance on Automakers Want Cars That Won't Start If You're Drunk (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not build in accident avoidance features? Make it impossible to run a red light or blow past a stop sign. That alone and nothing else would prevent 1/3 of traffic accident deaths.

  7. How about a magnet shaped donut instead. That ought to have some uses. Before I eat it.

  8. Really? Then provide yours.

  9. Biggest breakthrough on Scientists Have Discovered a Shape That Blocks All Sound (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    What? I'd say their biggest breakthrough is finding that 94% = 100%.

  10. Uh on US Seeks To Allay Fears Over Killer Robots (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I, for one, proclaim that their decision to call it a lethality system has allayed my fears.

  11. Too bad on Has the Great 'Moonrush' Begun? (thespacereview.com) · · Score: 1

    We are not running out of anything on Earth except maybe intelligence. I doubt youâ(TM)ll find much of that on the Moon, though bringing back few rocks might significantly improve the average IQ of the planet.

  12. Cash is violent crime on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Cash increases violent crime.

  13. Re: Musk is a con on Tesla Will Close Most of Its Stores, Only Sell Cars Online · · Score: 1

    Cars are going electric, within the next 20 years. Tesla alone made that possible. Now it may have happened anyway, but it was certainly sped up by Tesla. The same way the iPhone sped up smartphones.
    SpaceX pioneered reusable rockets, the same way.
    The hatred towards Elon is despicable, he has mainly done good things.

  14. Re: sing for your supper on Programming Interview Questions Are Too Hard and Too Short (triplebyte.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahh the classic âoehow do you reverse a string?â question. A better interview question is, what are some occasions in which you may need to reverse a string?

    Anyway, my favorite interview question is when one of my colleagues, actually friend, but all-round jerk, upon seeing he had a math degree, asked an interviewee to âoeprove that pi is irrationalâ (for a job that didnâ(TM)t require much math), handed him a marker and left the room saying heâ(TM)ll be back.

    Anyway, the interviewee managed the task .. but then refused the job offer. So I guess itâ(TM)s a way of weeding out candidates who donâ(TM)t have a sense of humor.

  15. Not curing them isnâ(TM)t sustainable on Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to keep paying off everyone that comes up with a cure? That doesnt seem sustainable.

  16. Re: No Bill... on Bill and Melinda Gates: Textbooks Are Becoming Obsolete · · Score: 1

    Got proof or concrete examples?

  17. Twitter Sucks!!!

    * To clarify, I didn't mean everyone on twitter. Obviously.
    ** Update: I wasn't referring to any specific individuals or twitter workers. I meant that twitter as the service is currently provided has non-salient aspects but not due to any specific persons.
    *** Note: I was talking about Twitter brand Vaccuum cleaners which are sold in Morocco.
    **** OK I lied.

  18. My point is also they should join and contirbute so it happens faster. If they go with ARM they will become dependent on ARM.

  19. RISC V on Adobe is Considering Whether it Wants To Design Its Own Chips (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why not RISC V, do companies really want to pay ARM forever? It's like, do you want to keep paying for a cloud subscription to software? Hmm.. I guess in Adobe's case they are cool with it.

  20. Re: India shows that Apple made a big mistake on Apple Says Profits Were Flat, Citing Slump In China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you rather profit $1 each off a million people and have to deal with all their petty support issues?

    Or profit $100 off 10,000?

  21. I didnt say to regulate anything! I would want no regulation. I am talking about messaging being interoperable, the same way different vendors sell HDMI cables. HDMI.org isnâ(TM)t run by any government. Unlike HDMI which is just a standard, central servers are needed for an efficent messaging service (the current decentralized models have various issues).

    I don't see why facebook would be opposed to this btw. They can make money on the client installations. The only reason they would oppose this is if they felt they wont be able to make awesome front-end clients.

  22. We should be asking that

    1. All the central messenger servers be placed under the rotating (5 year?) control of a non-profit organization such as Mozilla, Apache, or Wikipedia.

    2. All protocols utilize end-to-end encryption.

    3. Protocol must be published as an open standard.

    Users can be free to use any (well behaved) third-party client to connect to those services. The producers of those clients will be strongly encouraged (not to mention incentivized to donate to the organization that is running the central server).

  23. Also in that issue of Science Advances, Alzheimerâ(TM)s is caused by bacteria in your teeth. Yes, caused by. Not kidding, the bacteria releases cytotoxic vesicles that fragment the neural tau proteins.

  24. LOL seriously? Out of those only Brainfuck is difficult. And I have never seen anyone use it for anything serious.

  25. Nobody notice the typo in the title? Wtf is Starcarft?