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Comment Re:Already done! (Score 2) 123

Solar panels are cheap because of China, not because of "development effort" of the "decades-long research" done by rich nations. You are taking like that research was given for free and is not riddled with patents designed to make more money that it cost to make them, designed to make the rich nations richer.

This kind of stories always bring about the most bottom scrapping idiots who have zero critical thinking and ability to self-reflect right to the forefront. Each 1 positively modded comment is regurgitating outright lies like no one has ever actually looked at them and realized it is bullshit.

China makes solar cheaper. Not the west.

China makes it cheaper because it can - it has invested in being able to be cheapest.

China makes solar panel because that is what the "researchers" of the rich countries want.

Comment Re: Air pollution from driving KILLS PEOPLE (Score 1) 27

All great but pollution in Delhi is not because of vehicles, it is because of wanton burning of stubbles in neighboring state which has direct hotline to Greta and Trudeau, so any laws curbing their behavior gets reported in the western media as an attack on farmers and/or minority .

Comment Re:Firefox is great, Mozilla is flaky (Score 1) 240

I am surprised at all the people debating on unrealistic points, to be honest.

Let's call it what it is - cancelling.

Would you be quite if the CEO was hanging out with Osama bin Laden or would you go out of your way to have your voice heard? What if CEO was hanging out with someone who raped your friend? A reasonable person would chose the latter. This is called non-cooperation and is legitimate form of protest, first put to use by Gandhi. So there is that for the morality/ethicality/dont-bring-politics-to-work theories.

Let us face the fact - faggots infiltrated Firefox and skewed its workforce away from an unbiased sample of the population. That's the hard cold fact. Mr. Eich failed to see that and suffered because of it. May be he thought others won't see it or whatever reason he thought will save him from being cancelled - ultimately doesn't matter. What happened was bound to happen.

The only question is why Firefox team is more concerned with maintaining their skewed-on-a-normal-distribution workforce instead of creating a better product?

Comment Intelligible (Score 1) 52

I suppose the AI will speak an intelligible language, not distorted by Indian accents.

I have met a whole lot of Indians, some of them much smarter than me, and most of them use correct English grammar, but the weird accents they have add a large level of noise...

Comment Re:modern music is trash anyway (Score 1) 137

Well, modern radio music (pop music).

In the last five years I discovered a whole spectrum of rock music that I didn't know even existed, from stoner rock, through space rock, then of course the whole lot from hardrock to extreme metal, and then post-metal. It helps that I like heavy guitars and complex compositions.

Comment Re:access to background information (Score 1) 85

For more background, "The Demon-Haunted World". Carl Sagan was a real visionary. I read this book recently, and it chilled me to the bone how correct he was in his predictions, 29 years ago.

However, I still think that Mark Twain, with the description of Huckleberry Finn's father, already gave out an early warning.

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