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Comment You do know we have 100 GB/s and 40 GB/s in US? (Score 1) 533

What gets me is 10 Mbps is not fast.

We already have 2 ports with 100 GB/s and campuswide have many 40 GB/s ports here at the UW.

We're running Internet 2.

Not the slow backwards Third World internet that thinks 10 Mbps is fast, a speed that Japan and S Korea had A DECADE AGO.

Comment Re:No they don't... (Score 1) 260

You seem to have the ability to confuse solar PV with passive solar. Passive solar has a high ROI, oil is finite, and they're adapting to that.

There are many methods to use solar, entire buildings in Dubai and Saudi Arabia and other nearby areas use solar convection for heating/cooling, some use PV.

It makes more sense for them to sell finite oil to other countries than to burn it for electricity for their own urban and remote consumption.

The nuclear reactors may or may not survive. Just ask Iran.

Comment Saudi Arabia produces most electricity from solar (Score 1) 260

Both the UAE and Saudi Arabia have a number of solar units that produce their current electricity supply from solar.

That said, the zero tax exemption Musk got for the plant makes this more viable.

Which is shorthand for saying everyone in that state will be subsidizing this.

Comment Re:GIst of the problem is ... (Score 1) 250

The tax burden is over 50% for just about anybody that actually works. Which is less than it has been at any time in the last 50 years, as a percentage of the total population. So therefor less money to spend. What is needed is business friendly regulations, right now businesses are too scared to hire. Ask some small business owners.

Um. No. The effective tax rate in my state, Washington, on rich people is around 8 percent. Total. On middle class it's around 24 percent. On poor people it's around 30 percent.

If you're paying 50 percent, you're not smart enough to run a business and forgot to hire a decent tax accountant and decent business lawyer. Go back to school and stop writing stuff online from your parents' basement.

Comment Read this in the New York Times (Score 1) 363

I read the print version of this in the New York Times Magazine, from the Sunday print edition.

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: Hell No.

It's an overview systems course. Yes, it's boring memorizing dates, and change is better than the pablum that Texas approves for the US textbooks, but this is not better, just different.

You shall not pass!

Comment Re:Her Videos Are Shit (Score 1) 1262

yeah, she complains that ms pac man is a just a male character prettied up with cultural female crap to look female. and she is saying this wearing earrings, lipstick and other cultural female items. except for the plad shirt

You should really clean up the mustard stains on your shirt, btw.

It shows how isolated from humanity you are.

And how very sad.

Comment Not to worry, Wil Wheaton there (Score 1) 1262

Those of us who started the worldwide gaming industry are fighting back against the 8 yo boys issuing death threats.

Steve Jackson, Wil Wheaton, people like myself who created this are having panels at DragonCon, PAX, and other cons worldwide.

No, it is not ok to be a misogynist. Ever.

No, it is not ok to issue death threats online. Ever.

Flame on, baby trolls who stew in hatred, we know how inadequate your sad pitiful lives are.

Submission + - Magnetic stimulation boosts memory in people (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: Our memories are annoyingly glitchy. Names, dates, birthdays, and the locations of car keys fall through the cracks, losses that accelerate at an alarming pace with age and in neurodegenerative diseases. Now, by applying electromagnetic pulses through the skull to carefully targeted brain regions, researchers have found a way to boost memory performance in healthy people. The new study sheds light on the neural networks that support memories and may lead to therapies for people with memory deficits, researchers say.

Submission + - Why women have no time for Wikipedia 2

Andreas Kolbe writes: Wikipedia is well known to have a very large gender imbalance, with survey-based estimates of women contributors ranging from 8.5% to around 16%. This is a more extreme gender imbalance than even that of Reddit, the most male-dominated major social media platform, and it has a palpable effect on Wikipedia content. Moreover, Wikipedia editor survey data indicate that only 1 in 50 respondents is a mother – a good proportion of female contributors are in fact minors, with women in their twenties less likely to contribute to Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation efforts to address this "gender gap" have so far remained fruitless. Wikipedia’s demographic pattern stands in marked contrast to female-dominated social media sites like Facebook and Pinterest, where women aged 18 to 34 are particularly strongly represented. It indicates that it isn’t lack of time or family commitments that keep women from contributing to Wikipedia – women simply find other sites more attractive. Wikipedia’s user interface and its culture of anonymity may be among the factors leading women to spend their online time elsewhere.

Comment Re:Thing is, we know what we have to do (Score 1) 140

There already is climate change. Acidic oceans making shell formation difficult to impossible for baby clams in the NW coastal areas, species migration to higher elevations, entire forests decimated by insects that don't die due to global warming.

But keep denying it if you want. God doesn't care that you ignored his "steward" deal.

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