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Comment Re:Lead in OLED (Score 3, Insightful) 36

And where do you think that paint ends up? Do you think it magically disappears in 50+ years?

No, it just dissolves into the environment around your house, and from there slowly works it's way up the food chain until it reaches you again. It is in no way easy to avoid lead once it is released into environment, because it never disappears.

Enclosed lead, as I assume it would be in an OLED, could be safe. But only if disposal is safe, and you actually take the lead out. Not so safe if it just goes to a landfill where it will eventually leak out.

Comment Yes if we manage it ourselves (Score 1) 198

The company I work for makes hardware that mainly runs in Linux servers. All developent work is done on remote lab machines with our hardware in it, and running Linux.

Our desktops are of choice, many use Windows, some of us use Linux or FreeBSD. No Macs though.

The IT dept is mostly about Windows. Their primary goal is to serve management, marketing, etc.

If we developers want to run something else then fine, we just have to manage it ourselves. The IT dept just requires encrypted disks on laptops, and access for monitoring.

Comment Liberalist thinking (Score 1) 412

From a Dane...

No surprise that this bank likes to predict it.

Saxo Bank is so closely tied to the political party "Liberal Alliance" that they are practically one. They are quite ideological laissez-faire liberalists, and not at all left-wing in the american sense of "liberal".

Some liberalists here in Europe like the idea of universal basic income. Not because it is very liberalistic at all, but because it can replace a bunch of other basic welfare state grants. And since everyone is entitled, everything is much simpler, so it does away with a bunch of "evil" welfare state bureaucracy.

Comment Re:Dark matter is always there when you need it (Score 2) 174

Properties: it has mass (bends space)... don't know of any others, except the trivial stuff like it can move and be scattered around.

Effects: explains galactic rotation curves, explains some instances of lensing, possibly explains the perturbations this article is about.

Yeah, it has exactly the one property that someone is missing: mass. But is conveniently free of any other property that could influence anything.

The explanations you refer to are all based on calculations that are ultimately based on our understanding of gravity. The least understood force, the one that just won't fit into the picture. What a real scientist should do was to better research and explain gravity instead of making up some magic invisible soup to fix it all.

Pseudoscience, I say.

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