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Comment idiotic decision (Score 2, Interesting) 96

The vehicle will slow for all detected traffic lights, including green

Not even the Waymo cars are doing that.

Braking without reason for a green light should be illegal. It's certainly unexpected and will result in rear-ending accidents, with the poor schmucks hitting these Teslas being left on the hook for the extortion-like costs to repair them.

Comment Re:SHOCKED AT A "MATH PROFESSOR" (Score 1) 278

Or it is possible that, by retarding the virus spread through the population, the natural selection of a less aggressive strain is less likely to happen.

This puts the population not exposed yet to the current virus strain (or a milder variant) at risk of having to deal with potential deadlier strains of the same virus. Just like what actually happened in 1918.

I like your idea of controlled inoculations, but I don't know if it's been used in modern times.

Comment Re:I'm curious (Score 1) 192

That's pure BS.

That dude stayed in the driver seat far longer than the Republican schmucks the GP is talking about, therefore he clearly did not intend to drop off when the consequences catch up with him.

Regardless, we will never know how the New Deal would have unfolded because of that little event called WW2, which upended all assumptions about society and economy.

Comment Re:Fuck no (Score 1) 299

You have a lot of anger, why?

If you would understand the power of good design specifications, you would see that useful QA (or DV for hardware design etc) does not start from the implementation but from these specs, the same as the designer.

It is obvious that you have no idea about how QA should work. There is a lot of very good information in this discussion thread about the subject (and some not so good), spend some time educating yourself.

Comment Re:Bummer (Score 1) 250

Not the brightest bulb, are you? If you've been living under a rock or are too lazy to research the subject, you may miss the fact that stack ranking has consistently produced results opposite to what you're belching about.

In any work setting that requires cooperation (you know, like a company), forcing everyone to look over their shoulder constantly makes the work force to become a bunch of backstabbing jerks.

Comment Re:Impacts (Score 5, Interesting) 135

When the queen gets old, the workers simply produce a new one (or several, it all depends on what are the larvae fed with) and kills the old. The hive goes on. BTW, the life span of a worker bee is several months, therefore over the queen's life span multiple generations of regular bees have died - this is normal.

Colony collapse happens when a large majority of workers die off relatively quickly, straining the food supply to the point that the queen dies or there are not enough workers to tend the larvae.

The recent trend of collapse is caused by a perfect storm of more potent insecticides used in agriculture, running out of chemical options to contain the Varroa mites, and regulatory decisions to reduce the number and amount of chemical treatments the bee keeper is allowed to administer.

Comment Re:Low fat whole grain? (Score 1) 788

Don't be stupid. MOST milk you can buy in a carton in US is UHT. What do you think "UltraPasteurized" means and how does it have a shelf life (in the fridge, but that's just for the show) measured in months?

Here in the Bay Area most milk is UP, but some of it (notably Clover) is simply pasteurized and goes bad in 2-3 weeks.

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