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Comment Re:Divestment campaign? (Score 2) 190

The major holders of these stocks are holding them because its believed to be better than the alternatives, based on what is (for good reason) believed to be relevant reasoning.

Investors have found that its "unlucky" to be superstitious... in other words arbitrary reasoning increases the likelihood of negative outcomes.

The U.N. here is proposing the use of arbitrary reasoning ("oil is bad, mmmkay!") to make investment decisions. I recommend that you follow their advice. The sooner you are broke the better.

Comment Re:No warning ? (Score 1) 204

Several logical drive sectors are mapped onto a physical NAND sector.

umm... no...

First, I'm going to assume you are just terminology-ignorant, because NAND comes in BLOCKS composed of PAGES.. so I am going to translate your poor use of "sector" with regards to flash as what you probably really meant.... "page" (if you meant something else, you are even more ignorant... so take this kindness)

A logical drive sector can be mapped to literally any physical page on the flash, and which page a specific logical sector maps to changes over time.

Now why the hell did you open your mouth?

Comment Re:Politicians will be stupid but scientists/techn (Score 1) 356

All this is irrelevant. Uranium, is limited in supply, even if it's a large supply. This limit means we will eventually have to stop using it and use something else. So why bother starting?

The sun will one day burn out and not provide solar energy, eventually we will have to stop using it and use something else. So why bother starting?

Comment Re:I know it is a bit late in life... (Score 1) 186

I manage to completely forget all those moves I foresaw so brilliantly, and make the absolute worst possible move I could have made instead.

In chess thats called Kotov Syndrome

In Kotov's 1971 book Think Like a Grandmaster, he described a situation when a player thinks very hard for a long time in a complicated position but does not find a clear path, then running low on time quickly makes a poor move, often a blunder.

Comment Re:I know it is a bit late in life... (Score 1) 186

I once lost a game of chess to a guy who was partially stoned

Probably because he was stoned. The downsides to being high, as it relates to chess, can be managed.. while the upside remains.

(the downside is that you are more prone to overlook things, the upside is that you can focus quite well on specific things.. "wide" vs "deep")

Comment Re:I know it is a bit late in life... (Score 1) 186

as a kid I enjoyed chess and played with my friends right up to the point where you suddenly had to start memorizing openings and other canned sequences.

The world champion doesnt do this... prior champions certainly have but the current one isnt looking hard for an advantage in the opening...

Comment Re:Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress latel (Score -1, Troll) 517

the devil is in the details:

Yes, such as the 50,000 studies they "use" annually.

Thats 137 studies 'used" per day.

I guess common sense doesnt figure into your view of things sine you quoted the part where this is detailed, but failed to notice how ridiculous this is.

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