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Comment Re:I have tried (Score 1) 306

In the last 16 months I ran workshops around the world for over 200 technical consultants working for IT companies. Less than 10 of them would be able to write recursive or sort functions or other problem-solving algorithms. Most of them were what I call "configurers". A massive amount of the problem-solving burden falls on me because i learnt how to program in the 1980's before the internet and code libraries appeared.

Comment Re:Soo... (Score 1) 69

You might be carrying 5 very rare genes that now have GPS coordinates of origin - this could tell you all of your origins.
And even in the very mountainous Dolomites of Northern Italy they demonstrated that Ötzi (4000+ years old) has almost the same DNA as the people living there TODAY. Some some genes can stay in the same spot for a VERY long time.

Comment Re:Stupid question from a non-astronomer (Score 5, Interesting) 142

Your question is whether Dark Matter could be real and observed MACHOs.
The other main option is that Dark Matter could be hypothetical WIMPs
Numerous experiments have ruled out MACHOS as making up the bulk of Dark Matter. The missing mass problem is not solved by MACHOs.
At the moment the WIMPS are beating the MACHOS.
See also History of the search for Dark Matter

Comment Re:And this is why.... (Score 1) 164

Facebook knows who your family is, where you work, who your kids are and all of their friends and teachers and everybody else you have known for the last 20 years, because they all gave Facebook and Whats App access to their entire address book. It simply doesn't matter what you did - each of your email addresses is a GUID point to you.

Comment Re:Something From Nothing. (Score 1) 393

of course matter can pop out of nowhere - it happens all the time, see Virtual Particle. What is different here is the vast scale at which it happened, and where this phenomon applies to the origin of the Big Bang
Don't throw away a theory because you don't understand how it is started. The Big Bang Theory is simply stunning in it's ability to explain almost everything in the know universe that we observe. It is up to someone else to work out what may have triggered it.
This is just like Evolution which brilliantly explains almost everything we see in terms of life as it is. but evolution is not Abiogensis
When you understand that Evolution and Abogenesis are different things, as are sex and embryology, you will also understand how you mixed up the Big Bang Theory with another area of study which is about multiverses, unverse bubbles, oscillating universes, God's Poke, and other interesting ideas that are today all still in the realm of speculation - because we have no way yet of seeing which of them could be true.
Big Bang cosmologists work on what is observable and testable and predictable. Big Bang cosmologists are not expecting to find out how to create a big bang, but describe what happens after it occurs.

Comment Re:Voltage != Power (Score 4, Informative) 208

IAAP (I am a physicist).
There is nothing wrong with "5 volt power transfer". It is just saying that the power (whether 100mA or 100A) is always transferred at 5 volts, and not at 0.5 V or 50V. What is strange here is the "power transfer rate". Power= "energy transfer rate". "Power change rate" would make sense when talking about power ramp up, (i.e. how many milliseconds it needs to go from 100mA to 1A).
A Type-C cable with100W racing through it sounds like a fire hazard to me.

Comment Re:Cures aids and cancer too (Score 3, Interesting) 61

My company has employees in over 40 countries globally - 100 of us need to daily collaborate to build demo, download and upload virtual machines. A cloud provider gives us that for about 100,000k€/year and gives us servers in US, Europe and Asia. There is no way we could do that internally for 2 or 3 times that price. Cloud is a great solution for us - data loss, hacking, snooping etc are not issues because these are customer facing demo machines, and we download what we want.

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