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Comment Re:Serously? (Score 1) 398

If you want to add a dozen orders of magnitude, you're talking about 2e12 minutes, i.e. 3800 millennia. Yet, people are happily living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nuclear weapons are in general designed to consume all the highly radioactive things in them - after all, each of those radioactive elements is something that can be turned into energy for an explosion to occur. They don't generally have significant contamination issues.

Comment Re:Logical Consequences (Score 4, Insightful) 398

Japan are probably worried that they are not in any way protected by the US nuclear program. They worry that the US would stop short of getting involved in world war 3 if China really did want to invade Japan. By building their own nuclear arsenal, they remove that possibility and maintain MAD with China.

Comment Re:This is fraud. (Score 2) 289

Not quite - I'm also not defending them, but the consumer has the right to receive what was advertised, not what they thought they were getting.

If kingston advertise certain specs, and the new build still meets those specs, there's no false advertising going on.

What 3rd parties say about their device is neither here nor there, and any consumer believing what said 3rd parties wrote is completely liable for their own mistake in believing something other than what was explicitly advertised.

Comment Re:I'm ignorant (Score 2) 105

No, this is simply the definition of a theory. If it's simply "I think that mice cause global warming", that's a hypothesis, but as soon as you add "you could test this by doing this, this and this, it predicts this result from the above tests" it becomes a theory. Once you do the testing it may stay a theory, or become simply wrong.

Comment Re:Actually, a gun is a useful machine (Score 2) 490

Similarly, Koninsegg 3D printing the entire gearbox (gears included, already printed inside), and turbo housing (again, turbo fans and compressors already included inside the housing) for the new One:1 car. Also showing that 3D printed materials can indeed stand up to repeated high temperatures and pressures.

Comment Re:4k at viewing distance isn't that special (Score 2, Insightful) 304

Um... just no... that is completely and totally false, I wish people would stop repeating that nonsense... Maybe YOUR eyes suck and you can't see a difference, but put them side-by-side, sitting 6 to 10 feet away, the difference is clear and obvious to most people...

No, it's nothing to do with his eyes sucking, it's to do with the angular resolution that 20/20 vision can pick up. at 8-10 feet, a person with 20/20 vision can not make out better than 1080p on a 60" screen.

I speak from experience...

How sure are you you don't speak from placebo?

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