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Comment Re:Wildly premature question (Score 1) 81

If we look at jet aircraft, wear depends on the airframe and the engines, and the airframe seems to be the number of pressurize/depressurize cycles as well as the running hours. Engines get swapped out routinely but when the airframe has enough stress it's time to retire the aircraft lest it suffer catastrophic failure. Rockets are different in scale (much greater stresses) but we can expect the failure points due to age to be those two, with the addition of one main rocket-specific failure point: cryogenic tanks.

How long each will be reliable can be established using ground-based environmental testing. Nobody has the numbers for Falcon 9R yet.

Weight vs. reusable life will become a design decision in rocket design.

Comment Re:Best idea ever! (Score 2) 130

Bull. The majority of pedophiles transition between fantasies to actual rapes

You, err, have actual evidence of this?

The pattern is well known to law enforcement and mental health professionals.

Law enforcement find that people they arrest for raping small children also have fantasies. Big fucking surprise. Still doesn't follow that A causes B.

The only realistic alternative for allowing pedophiles to be free is to force them to have absolutely no contact with children.

This is quite tricky, given most pedophiles come under the category "Parents".

Comment Re:Unclear to me depends on google action (Score 1) 191

What if Google includes click-through rates by users in its search rankings?

People in Spain wont be clicking through links to Spanish news sites via news.google.es so Google will algorithmically have no choice but to deprioritise those sites in comparison to e.g. Mexican ones.

Of course, we're both assuming that Google are even allowed to link to Spanish news sites in search results - when I search google it shows me an excerpt of the matching text; if Google have to pay the news sites to include that then it's illegal for them to include those sites if they haven't paid.

Personally I take the view that it's Google's website, Google's index and Google that succeed or fail by whether the results they show meet the needs of their users. So let them make the call and not politicians.

Comment Re:Hot Glue Guns (Score 1) 175

why still buy a HDTV when 4K's are becoming the norm

Lack of 4K content - now, and for at least five years until they work out how to deliver it.

What, you _like_ upscaling artefacts onscreen?

Comment Re:Overlapping options (Score 1) 175

Luckily those of us that are merely aware of Office Space and don't abjectly worship it get to laugh at the intentional misquote that has meaning to people that haven't ever seen the fucking film because lets face it, PC Load Letter was only in Office Space because every poor shit that's ever worked in an office in the 90s saw it at least once. Usually once a day, or more.

Subverting it into the 3D printer era isn't even a new joke, but clearly it's passed you by nonetheless. Don't worry, someone will buy you a red fucking stapler for christmas.

Comment Re:Hot Glue Guns (Score 1) 175

Only by socialists.

Today's people living in poverty have wealth I could only dream of as a child. Shit, people in poverty in the UK have colour television, cars, new clothes.. Very much unlike my childhood.

Comment Re:Good to Be A Software "Engineer" (Score 1) 161

Absolutely - but they can replace software engineers with some cheap as shit grad in India who will deliver _something_, so the choice is simple: Deal with the shit and deliver anyway, or watch the job go offshore.

Just because you have the fortune of regulatory protection doesn't diminish the skills and capabilities of people using the title software engineer, and doesn't mean that their job is as easy as yours. Any cunt can build a sewer, there's been a couple of millenia of practice to learn from.

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