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Comment Re:Resizing an SVG... (Score 1) 75

Resizing an SVG isn't a thing in the first place. It's a vector graphic - The name MEANS Scaleable Vector Graphic.

The input and output of this program should be identical.

Well, you might still need to change <svg width="123" height="456"> to some other values to change the default dimensions of the image. But you can do that with plain old Notepad.

Comment Two economic solutions (Score 1) 476

Owners of the public charger stations could use two solutions to eliminate this problem:

1) Divide the charging station into two types of chargers: Quick chargers will stop charging at 80% instead of switching to the slow mode. Full chargers will charge up to 100%. You're free to choose which one you want to wait for.

2) Charge by the minute, not by watt. Charging to full capacity will cost you extra.

Comment Re:Better solutions exist (Score 1) 96

Something as simple as [what you said] isn't as simple as what you just said.

Case in point, your full compensation is now $1/month. One minute later you're fired. To which you reply "well add to that some rule to not allow that" - or put shorter - "It's not that simple"

I don't know how this works in America but where I'm from, there already is a rule against changing someone's salary like that: Every salary change requires a contract amendment signed by both the employer and the employee.

Comment Patents, actually (Score 1) 261

The thing that inflates drug costs the most is not clinical trials but endless patents. The pharma industry keeps using patent law loopholes to keep their drug patented even decades after the original patents formally expired. There used to be a generic drug industry which produced cheap patent-free drugs and some of those companies even got big enough to start their own research. But it was mostly bought up by big pharma or driven out of business by endless patents.

Comment Re:Where is the specific problem? (Score 2, Insightful) 100

and then "no comment" as to how the thing passed peer review to begin with.

This all may have a dignified air and phrasing about it, but it is 100% compatible with "minority view slipped through. now crushed". (note, i haven't investigated the issue of the claims and counterclaims further, yet... in large part because they are not mentioned / linked to! (and i have to go off and do it via searches etc)

The paper authors picked a physics journal that has nothing to do with climate science. It's very likely the authors knew that the paper would be reviewed by physicists who think they know more about climate change than actual experts (but really don't). That's how it passed peer review to begin with.

Comment Re:I'm shocked. (Score 1) 352

EU countries have already filed lawsuits against Gazprom for breach of contract when it stopped supplying gas through Nord Stream in early 2022. If Nord Stream didn't blow up, Gazprom would be on the hook for damages far greater than the cost of building a new pipeline. https://www.reuters.com/busine... https://www.cez.cz/en/media/pr... https://globalarbitrationrevie...

Comment Re:I predict (Score 3, Interesting) 181

Well, the trailer appears to be based entirely on a 33-page introduction chapter of the first book. In short: A genius young mathematician from a backwater planet goes to Trantor, meets with Hari Seldon, gets caught up in Seldon's treason trial and ends up exiled with Seldon and his 100,000 followers to a barren planet at the edge of the galaxy. If that's the entire first season of the show, they didn't have much plot to work with and had a ton of blank space to fill.

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