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Comment Solitary confinement (Score 1) 519

This article (at least based on the snippet here) talks about solitary confinement for entire sentence as if it was somehow unique and shocking punishment but solitary confinement for multi decade sentences is already a standard practice in the US despite of the mountains of data that show that it's inefficient as a rehabilitation method and leads to an astounding number of repeat offenders, mental illness and inability to cope with the outside world. It is one of the most horrific practices in US and still it's spreading in usage.

Comment No (Score 1) 304

How fucking hard is it to understand that I want larger resolutions because of the vertical resolution. Move from the old 16:10 aspect to 16:9 already stole ~200 pixels of vertical resolution because common consumers don't understand that "FullHD" doesn't mean bigger when it came to computer monitors. I want my 4K monitor because I don't want to be scrolling continuously.

Comment My subjective experience (Score 1) 432

I bought my first car shortly before Finland switched to fuel with ethanol in it and during summers I drove several times a trip that was around 200km in length (from the city where I studied to the city where my family lives). During the first summer (without ethanol based fuel) and trying to drive as fuel efficiently as I know how I got fuel consumption of 5.5l/100km, which was fairly nice for the car I owned. Then before the next summer we switched to the ethanol mix. I swear you could hear the fuel type change just from the motor sound. Next summer I continued to make that same trip using the same driving style but never got under 6l/100km with ethanol mix fuel.

Comment Just a thought (Score 2) 131

But wouldn't it be easier to have a satellite on earth orbit that was locked on the same apparent orbit than moon and then transmit data through that. By communicating with that satellite using radio and then from that satellite to moon using laser you wouldn't have to work the laser through the atmosphere and after you establish a stable station on moon with a line of sight to earth you would have a continuous beam channel going.

Comment Re:Duck and cover (Score 4, Insightful) 522

Duck and cover is actually very sound advice in the situation it's meant for i.e. protecting you from the blast wave caused debris and shrapnel (just like in earthquake). It won't save you if you're close enough to be vaporized by the flash or the blast wave demolishes the whole building but that's not the situation where it's supposed to matter anyway.

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