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Comment Climate Change? (Score 0) 126

Remind me again how we are afraid of heating the air by 2 degrees over the next few years? I mean, I am no scientist, but it seems to me the law of thermodynamics requires that heat to go somewhere, and I am guessing that somewhere is our atmosphere.

But no, it is green house gasses that is the largest cause of climate change.

Comment So many problems. (Score 1) 304

The first of which is intelligently using resources. Animals can survive on land that is not farmable for crop plants. This means we are trying to use premium space to replace something that is worthless otherwise. This is a bad idea on the face of it, let alone the idea we can somehow make a better product than for our bodies than nature has over the last million years.
Not to mention meat has the added benefit of packing vitamins and minerals we need in a more compact space, which is why you can survive off of smaller amounts of meat than vegetables, making the same weight in meat feed more people.

Comment Re:why not just (Score 1) 226

So, this program is already in place, but thi is more expensive than the local program.
And poor people already don't pay taxes, in fact if you look at all the services provided to them, they pay negative taxes, to the tune of thousands.
Having compassion is fine but learn what is actually available before trying to "add" benefit. As in this case, this is actually a hindrance to those paying lower rates.

Comment Very dangerous... for your students. (Score 1) 346

Grades leave a paper trail that can track things like favoritism and progress. Not giving them is not protecting your students, and it is not doing your due diligence for your own sake, letting you know if you are in fact treating some people better than others because of any inherent biases you may have.

Comment Seriously, 100 Million Degrees? (Score 0) 215

Okay, I am missing something here. If we produce something that hot here on the planet, doesn't that contribute to the heat of the planet? The cooling part of the system is going to spread that energy to the rest of the globe, and global warming becomes accelerated. It's not like that heat disappears; it just disperses.

We don't even get good returns for that amount of energy, unless we are using it to heat all the hot water on the planet. (That actually might be a better idea than just pump and dump into the local water supply.)

Also, such a heat source in one concentrated area would cause issues with the weather directly around it, wouldn't it?

Comment Obvious (Score 1) 184

Why do we take bottled water in certain countries? Because the water isn't safe. Why did our ancestors drink mead instead of water? It was safer than the water.

Did you know I can walk on water? All I have to do is think about the problem, then freeze the water. Logic, guys.

Comment Basic Statistical Analysis. (Score 1) 387

We are comparing raw numbers of population from the 1800s? And they didn't think to show the numbers as percentage of population? DO they not know how statistic work?

1) Galveston Hurricane (in 1900) — 8,000 of 76.09 mil
2) Battle of Antietam (1862) — 3,675 of 31,443,324
3) Battle of Gettysburg (1863) — 3,155 of 31,443,324
4) This Thursday - 3,067 of 330.53 mil
5) This Wednesday - 3,054 of 330.53 mil
6) September 11 (2001) — 2,977 284.97 mil
7) Last Thursday — 2,879 of 330.53 mil
8) Last Wednesday — 2,804 of 330.53 mil
9) This Friday - 2,749 of 330.53 mil
10) This Tuesday - 2,622 of 330.53 mil
11) Last Friday — 2,607 of 330.53 mil
12) Last Tuesday — 2,597 of 330.53 mil
13) Today - 2,477 of 330.53 mil
14) Last Saturday - 2,445 of 330.53 mil
15) Pearl Harbor (1941) — 2,403 of 133.40 mil

1) Galveston Hurricane (in 1900) | .000105%
2) Battle of Antietam (1862) | .0001168%
3) Battle of Gettysburg (1863) | .0001003%
4) This Thursday | .0000092%
5) This Wednesday | .0000092%
6) September 11 (2001) | .0000104%
7) Last Thursday | .0000086%
8) Last Wednesday | .0000084&
9) This Friday | .0000083%
10) This Tuesday | .0000079%
11) Last Friday | .0000078%
12) Last Tuesday | .0000078%
13) Today | .0000074%
14) Last Saturday | .0000073%
15) Pearl Harbor (1941) | .0000072%

See the problems with this analysis? The dates are too far apart, the numbers are actually meaningless. We have so many people, and the number is expanding, the number dying each day will obviously start to equal the worst days in the past. This is a bad analysis. It is bad hype.

Now, a useful look would be how many people are dying each day compared to last year, or the yearly death rate, which has been going up year over year about 2.1%, has that changed this year? The answered according to a study posted on John Hopkins says the death rate has gone up the same amount as previous years.

Strangely, this has been fact checked to say since he didn't use raw numbers, it doesn't show the death increases. But a pandemic with 200,000 deaths attributed to it would spike that number, even if only a percentage point. So something gives.

Comment Isn't he just the richest man on paper? Because he (Score 1) 276

Isn't he just the richest man on paper? Because he owns Amazon stock? To get to that money, he would have to sell his stock, which may not be easy seeing as everyone else that is rich is in the same boat.

People have no idea how finance actually works. And because of that ignorance, things like this is accepted so easily.

Comment Re:Is this a troll? (Score 1) 484

Well, while we are getting rid of the old OS, so all the applications need to be recompiled anyway, lets switch to the Mill Computing Platform. Why? Number one feature for an OS, there is no such thing as a ring zero. All applications, including the kernel, run at the same pace.

Now, couple that with all the benefits of the Mill Architecture.

* Next, lets start with seL4 as the Kernel, as the only mathematically proven, verified bug free kernel*.
* Add Vulkan as the only Graphic API,
* Switch to ZFS for large clusters of Hard disks,
* Switch to an SSD optimized Filesystem for appropriate hardware,
* Add different flavors for the OS. seL4 has this idea that the OS interface is simply made up in how applications pass information. So, you can setup a Windows passing scheme, a Genode passing scheme, a gaming specific passing scheme, an OS X passing scheme and so on and so forth.
You can then have applications written directly to the metal, or locked to one particular scheme.

Yes, I know that it doesn't work quite like this, but we are dreaming, aren't we?

* Yes, this assumes no bugs in the verification and all that jazz.

Comment Re:The Big Three (Score 1) 484

Well, I would imagine he wants the GNU stuff to be able to be swapped out for newer versions without breaking OS X at ever OS update. Or maybe he wants the GNU compiler to be included again. Or maybe he wants the GNU tools to be first class citizens, instead of slowly being fazed out for applications written by Apple.

Then again, maybe he wants the Linux kernel, with the GNU license, instead of the Apple License the Darwin (which is not FreeBSD, though it has some shared history). Or maybe he wants a kernel that wasn't forked from BSD at the time the were trying to create a micro kernel by tacking things on. Or maybe I am just guessing, and I don't know what he wants.

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