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Comment Re:Working for stock options (Score 1) 374

Aren't you just defending fraud?

Where did you get that from? The guy said it referred to a term in a document *he didn't bother to read*. If you sign any contract as important as an options grant without bothering to even read the damn thing you deserve to get fucked. It's not like this was some obscure term buried in some EULA.

Comment Re:Original Research? (Score 2) 385

The No Original Research clause is pretty clear on the “not already published by reliable sources” part, yet I’ve seen multiple instances of my fellow researchers’ contributions get reverted because they happened to include a paper written by the contributor herself/himself. Never mind that the paper was peer-reviewed by those qualified to do so, and appeared in a reputed conference or journal.

Comment Re:Warez (Score 1) 652

That's a dumb argument. The people selling warez are doing so off other people's work without incurring any of the effort or cost that goes into creating the content or software. Taking the cost out of the equation obviously makes it easy for them to profit at price points that wouldn't otherwise make sense.

Comment Re:Stop cooling magma (Score 5, Informative) 215

Please, stop cooling magma. No more viscous magna means no more earth magnetic field, hence no more magnetic shield, ie no more life.
Please, don't dig for geothermic energy. Leave alone our earth kernel.

Now let's do some math.

Mass of the earth: 5.9*10^24 kg. Apart from a very thin shell on top, most of that is at a couple of thousand degrees kelvin.
Magma has a much higher specific heat, but let's be conservative and assume all of earth has the same specific heat as iron, or about 460 J/kg
Cooling the earth by a single degree will release about 2.75*10^27 joules

The total world energy consumption from all sources in 2008 was estimated at 4.75*10^20 joules.

At that rate, cooling the interior of the earth by a single degree would power the entire world for 5,789,473 years.

And that's assuming the earth doesn't continue to generate heat from radioactive decay, tidal forces, friction etc.

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