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Comment This seems ridiculous on the face of it (Score 1) 41

TFS appears to be attempting to conflate the phone-buying habits of individual consumers with business hardware replacement cycles and productivity. It appears to be complete garbage.

I am left to assume this was shadow written by someone in the marketing department from some large tech company - e.g. Dell, Samsung, Apple, Google, Microsoft.

As an aside - it seems pretty wasteful (and pointless) to replace your smartphone even after 29 months, let alone every 22 months.

Comment Re:Not climate change. (Score 1) 128

why did they go to some professor in Mexico who had nothing to do with the study to explain the findings?

Because they wanted someone with expertise and credibility to explain the issue plainly so that they could be quoted.

The reporters go to some seemingly random professor to comment on the findings of someone else's study.

This is quite a common thing for new outlets to do and it's confusing why you find it strange.

Why not talk to the people who produced the findings about what the findings mean?

It's generally hard to get a response from people who write papers like this in a timely manner because everyone is asking them a zillion questions all at once.

Comment Re:Not climate change. (Score 1) 128

The fact that the outcome is inevitable doesn't mean this case climate change has contributed zero to it.

True but the issue is the scale of the impact. It's like you're insisting that there be mention of a skinned knee on the the cause of death for someone who died from exsanguination as a result of a missing limb. Skinned knee or not, the person has zero chance of survival.

Comment Re:Japan's high speed trains (Score 1) 215

That would be the Sanyo Shinkansen then, and it's 100% grade separated, and always has been.

If it was near the Marine Corps base it would have been the Sanyo Main Line. I don't know what the historic speeds were, but these days the maximum is 130 kph. The Shinkansen line is some distance from there.

130 kph (about 80 mph) might not seem like much, but it can appear pretty quick when you are very close to the train at a crossing. The Shinkansen line was around 250 kph when you were there I think, now up to 300.

Comment Re:Banned. (Score 1) 65

Meh, this kind of crap is what peer review is for. As long as he learns his lesson I'd be fine with letting him keep going. I mean he's still going to MIT so he's not an idiot.

I mean we all act like he got away with this but he was caught during the initial process of peer review. The system really does work.

We all like to complain about how there's thousands and thousands of papers that are just garbage but here's the thing so what? If the papers aren't doing any harm and they're just sitting out there then it's not a big deal. It's not like we are spending all that much money on any of this crap. I'm sure you can come up with a number that sounds big because we have a 33 trillion dollar economy so yeah you could find somebody who maybe got a grant and did some bad research for a few hundred thousand. But in the grand scheme of things it's not a big deal

I mean think about how much money we waste on other crap. Human beings are just wasteful creatures. And we kind of need to be to keep our civilization and economy going anyway.

Comment Re:Uhg... (Score 1) 24

It would be kind of neat to see the algorithms for AI hand it off to a GPU or one of the fancy cores on a modern CPU.

But I can't see that really happening because machine learning algorithms requires so much processing power and modern graphics do the same so you just don't have a lot of head room.

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