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Comment Re:Wikipedia, The Most Important World Site (Score 1) 45

Unless you're planning to print it out (requiring about 300 cubic meters of paper - per month, to keep up with edits), you still need things like electricity, and replacement hardware as it wears about and the infrastructure to keep it all going, which is about as likely to be available after a civilization destroying collapse (which is, by definition, what we're talking about) as the internet.

So good luck with that.

All that aside from the fact that it's largely useless with the internet.

Comment Re:Political since PROTECT IP in January 2012 (Score 1, Insightful) 45

Wikipedia officially requires articles to summarize their sources from a neutral point of view.

And NPR brags about how unbiased and factual they are, and little girls all want a pony.

But it isn't hard to find first hand accounts of their overtly political bias, so perhaps, their own claims about themselves are not exactly reliable or credible.

Comment Re:It won't last. (Score 1) 38

Another way to go would be to keep burning jet fuel but purchase bricks of carbon from a sequestration company that captures it from the air.

I know there are more efficient types of carbon credits, like investing in cleaner energy in the first place, or increased efficient at the point of usage such as insulation, or preserving rainforest that would otherwise be developed.

The problem is all that gets complicated and thus subjective. Maybe carbon credits could work if it is based on a new type of 'coin' that is 1 kg of pure carbon that is chucked into an old mine.

Comment Re:That dog won't bring home Huntsman's Rewards (t (Score 3, Informative) 153

It local independents who are most likely to not be interested in Amex, because their fees are, on average, 1-1.5% higher than Visa/MC's. And merchant fees are always higher for small businesses to begin with.

When your net profit margin is under 5% to begin with (and it almost always is), that 1% can easily be the difference between prosperity and your children having to go to public school, and can easily be the difference between a sustainable business and flipping burgers at your McJob for minimum wage.

Comment Re: Time to switch to iPhone then (Score 0) 49

It is his intention to imply that anyone who doesn't like AI is an evil sinner, like those nasty gays how have the other kind of AI. It's deliberately provocative, intended to keep anyone from actually thinking about what said sinner said.

I suspect he either a) works for an AI company, or b) is an AI itself.

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