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Comment you're looking for scapegoats (Score 1) 414

couple of family member illnesses hit in 2006. Then the 2008 crash wiped me out when I started getting back on my feet.[...] The double whammy of Clinton Democrats and the GOP both siding with mega corporations against me left me screwed. H1-Bs flooded the market and my wages plummeted. I think the Berniecrats will eventually fix it, but I'm pretty sure I'll be dead by then.

Don't blame the H1B. The horrible money-extracting system American people call "heathcare" is at the source of your situation. It is leading more workers to bankruptcy than any single-payer system that is the norm in other OECD countries.

Comment Re:What about the other units? (Score 1) 207

You keep using this fundamental units, it doesn't mean what you think it means.

The SI system is a complete clusterfuck of "fundamental units":

* Amp depends on the definition of kg * candela depends on the definition of kg * Kelvin depends on the definition of kg * Mole depends on the definition of kg

These units should be ORTHOGONAL; not dependent on one another.

yes, except you can't because, you know, physics?

Comment Re:Nuclear power and hydrocarbon synthesis (Score 1) 240

Not necessarily due to accidents, but if you look at the whole of chain of energy production:

for coal: by-products storage and disposal - https://content.sierraclub.org...

for dams: large populations have been moved, and agricultural lands are now underwater so the impact is not exactly 0.

Look, I am not saying that nuclear energy is the cleanest, but if you take into account externalities the picture for nuclear is less dark than what people think. The problem with nuclear accidents is that they are dramatic, they are very heavily reported and so we have a large psychological bias against them that other energy sources have not (even though they may be more dangerous or polluting).

The problem with energy is that renewable (solar, polar, wind) is far from covering all our needs. I hope it will someday, and I have opted with my energy provider to pay more and have some of my electricity sourced from renewable. Still, we need either gas, coal, or nuclear to fill the gap. Personally, I'd rather leave 50miles from a nuclear plant than from a coal plant.

Comment Re:Nuclear power and hydrocarbon synthesis (Score 1) 240

Or when did you actually hear a solar plant go boom? Or a coal pant for that matter? How often do or did dams break?

Dam breaking: August 1975: The Banqiao Dam flooded in the Henan Province of China due to heavy rains and poor construction quality of the dam, which was built during Great Leap Forward. The flood immediately killed over 100,000 people, and another 150,000 died of subsequent epidemic diseases and famine, bringing the total death toll to around 250,000—making it the worst technical disaster ever. In addition, about 5,960,000 buildings collapsed, and 11 million residents were made homeless

Coal plant: not a lot of coal plant accidents indeed, but coal mines have been killing flocks for centuries. For example, 13 May 2014 The Soma coal mine disaster was an explosion at a coal mine in Turkey that killed ~301 and trapped a further 600 underground.And that's without the indirect deaths by air pollution

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re: be woman (Score 2) 476

>Lie about age when signing up to prostitution website >Lie about age to man to get money and sex >Willingly have sex >Willingly take money for that sex >Admit to doing all of this, WILLINGLY >Claim this was "assault" >People actually take your side

THE ABSOLUTE STATE

I think that you misunderstand the charges. From a legal point of view, even when consensual, having sex with someone underage is considered statutory sexual assault.

Comment Re:Carbon footprint of this? (Score 2) 412

Heat loss is proportional to Surface area while core heat is proportional to volume so bigger bodies can survive better in cold climates. Of course in hot climates its more efficient to be thin and short.

Here you go. You just disproved the reality of climate change in the United States, esp. the South. ;)

Comment Re:We've reached peak Bells & Whistles (Score 1) 224

[...]wouldn't it be cool to come hone, slam your phone into a dock and have a mouse, a keyboard and a couple monitors linked to that dock, complete with Internet access, LAN access, etc.

Yes, it would be cool, but how do i use my phone then? Do i need another phone-form factor device that wirelessly connects to my phone? :)

Comment Easy fix (Score 1) 490

Let the information be free, make 3D-printed guns illegal. The 2nd amendment doesn't give the right to own any weapon.

In addition, even with the improvement in CNC machines 3D-printed guns are not up to the safety standards of mass-manufactured weapons and may be deemed to dangerous to use for their owner/maker. They wouldn't be the first items banned out of safety concerns.

Comment Re:First things first (Score 1) 88

We did that back in 2016; Trump is more "naturally" intelligent by a mile than Obama ever was.

Citation?

Here is the only comparison I could find: Trump's own twitter feed, which is obviously a reliable source, since we all know that Trump is not prone to overstatements

. What we know for sure is that he speaks at fourth grade levels We can all agree that there are very clever fourth-graders, but they are not 71 years old.

Comment Re:Is "sort things out" an euphemism? (Score 2) 116

No, semiconductor manufacturing has just gotten awfully complicated. If Intel haven't found yet a process integration scheme that gives an acceptable yield, they are not going to put it on the market and sell it for a loss.

Discloser: I work in the semiconductor industry

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