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Comment Evaluation is over (Score 1) 382

Even if long term Sweden will come better long term (I really hope they will be ok) and ignore mishandling protecting the old people in care houses what they did is still wrong.

When the govern took the decision to "ignore" the virus not so many things were known at that moment like fatality rate, long term complication the mutation speed, how long immunity will hold. Many of the things are not known not even now.

Is like playing Russian roulette with a nation health (and with other leaders looking at them as an example). I do not appreciate the "brave" who won 1 million at Russian roulette, I appreciate the coward who lost 1 million for refusing to play it.

Comment The solution is simple but hard to implement (Score 2) 335

You need to add a course in schools about rational reasoning, a little bit of applied psychology starting from early age like how to spot when somebody is lying, gestures interpretations, missdirection like in the MBA courses but adapted for the young ages. It can be even a popular course for kids if made properly when you teach them how to lie to each other and spot the liars mistakes.

You can argue this will make everybody a better liar and good at manipulation but the entry level needed to manipulate people will be higher and usually smart people have something better to do.

Of course this will never be ever implemented fo obious reasons.

Comment Re:Solving the wrong problem (Score 2) 127

Most scholarship athletes are given quarter-million dollar educations at no cost to themselves - something that many students wind up trying to pay off over ten+ years after graduation. It is a bit insulting and galling to pretend that opportunity is "worthless".

It is worthless https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment You should read better the article you posted (Score 1) 98

Most plastic comes from tires and clothes

The article says:

The report estimates that between 9,000 and 32,000 tonnes of microplastic pollution enter British waterways each year from just four sources. The two leading sources are tyre abrasion, with between 7,000 and 19,000 tonnes entering surface waters each year, and clothing.

Then latter on:

The scale of plastic pollution from household plastics is of the same magnitude as that from large plastic waste such as bottles and takeaway containers – about 26,000 tonnes of which enters UK waterways each year.

So as a summary tires and clothes are the biggest polluters of microplastic which is the same order of magnitude as "macroplastic" (which later on break down to microplastic). Indeed handling microplastics will be much harder but this does not mean we should continue polluting with plastic bags, bottles etc.

Comment We need to have people off planet (Score 1) 64

You are making some wrong assumptions here. The goal is not to save the human race but the civilisation and Earth itself. Even in the worst case scenarios of asteroid strikes or supervulcano eruption the human race will survive, the human civilization or the earth ecosystem not.
Technologically we can do any time a self-sustainable earth “colony” anywhere on Earth but there is no need for it. Nobody will invest in a self-sustained outpost in Artic or desert when is much cheaper just to haul supplies from earth.
Having a permanent presence outside the gravity well is having both short and long term benefits.
Short time:
- Having a fuel resupply station in space will decrease the costs of longer range missions and at the same time making impossible missions possible.
- Have a platform from where you are not only observing the space outside the atmosphere and electromagnetic interference but also a place from where you can launch “strike” missions against dangerous asteroids.
- A place from where you can launch missions for controlling climate via a solar shade against global warming for example
Medium time:
- Start making a self-sustainable habitat step by step by harvesting resources from asteroids and make an artificial biome at the same time
- Make an industrial base in zero-g which could manufacture some materials which will be more expensive in earth gravity or even impossible
- Get rid of nuclear waste or even make experiments which are too dangerous on earth like a damned big nuclear weapon able to pulverise an asteroid
Long time:
- Create a network of habitats which will help us colonize space and planets.
- Whatever will make us to not keep all the eggs in the same basket.
At this moment I’m against focusing on mission to Mars because even if it is technically possible now if you throw a lot of money, it will be nothing more than a gimmick and a onetime shot like the moon landing was. It was an engineering marvel but was written off because of lack of long time vision (politically).

Comment Re:So where's the "Honda crashes into bus!" storie (Score 1) 302

Except the subject in those articles is the driver/victim and not the brand of the car. "4-year-old dies in fall from moving pickup", "Pair 'flee' crash after car hits bus in Rowley Regis", "Sandwich woman crashes car ..." where any news involving a Tesla car is "Tesla craches ...". Even taking into consideration the "autopilot" function, long before you know the autopilot was involved or not is the Tesla car doing the stuff.

Comment Re: because they're subjected to rigorous inspecti (Score 1) 900

Yes because cleaning in 30 days all traces of radioactive materials with half-life of billions of years it's an easy task. And doing it so with all satellite surveilance.

If iranians know how to do this we should lift all the sanctions at once and pay them good money for the technology. It will be really usefull in cleaning up the nuclear mess in some places.

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