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Comment Re:Unprecedented (Score 3, Insightful) 39

Leaded gasoline is estimated to have killed over 100,000,000 people, reduced the collective IQ of the entire planet and permanently polluted most waterways over the course of 50-60 years, all based on lies by General Motors and some others.

The demonization of cholesterol has lead to the sickest generation in human history with the highest rates of diabetes ever recorded and a massive increase of heart disease, cancer, stroke, despite claiming to reverse these conditions. We're then told its genetic to cover the lie, as if our genes somehow changed so significantly over the last 40 years that the rates of these diseases increased orders of magnitude. We now have the lowest levels of cholesterol in human history and the highest rates of disease, yet they continue to lie.

There are analogs to this. This is not new to humanity. It's just the tip of the iceberg.

Comment Re:The death of homework (Score 1) 102

If school hours aren't long enough to allow this, why not make school hours longer!

First, because there are only 24 hours in a day.

Second: I took AP classes constantly. Compared to normal classes, there was not "more homework." The homework was MORE RIGOROUS. For students who were not equipped for it, it might have taken more time than the "standard" class homework.

Third - The quantity of homework has gone up significantly since I grew up in the 1970s. - Every time I see some senilefuck say things like this, I suspect they're either lying or just not remembering correctly. Time to change your Depends in the retirement home, grandpa.

Comment Re:Signature Aviation (Score 1) 174

when I can't schmooze my way on a private get (G550 last time), then I would fly commercial on the cheapest fastest flight I can get. Especially when flying domestically where sitting on a plane for 4-5 hours isn't the worst part of the trip, it's the airports. And paying more and still having to get naked body scan pictures taken of my wife seems like a pointless way to spend extra money.

Comment Re:Remove Encryption? (Score 1) 69

APFS supports compression, but it's the same compression techniques (deflate, LZVN, LZFSE) that HSF+ supports. And it seems to be a slightly higher-level approach to compression than ZFS uses, making it only mostly transparent compression. So newer techniques that ZFS leverages, like LZ4 or ZSTD, they're not an option. Compression is such a no-brainer with ZFS (particularly with how fast LZ4 and ZSTD can be) that more and more distros/operating systems are enabling it by default.

Comment Re:I have a phd in physics this is not possable (Score 1) 37

Ah, but you may be mistaken about the point.
If you're talking about the simple physical reality it accomplishing the task of detection, well sure, it might be impossible. But if you recognize the point isn't to detect nukes but to gain nearly infinite streams of funding based on ok-perhaps-it's-implausible-but-hear-me-out -nukes-are-scary, well sir that certainly is within our reach.

Comment Re:Remove Encryption? (Score 1) 69

I think Apple should have converted to ZFS in the first place, APFS kind of feels like they decided to re-invent the wheel and missed out on some important stuff (like block checksums) in the process. I still think it's reasonable for them to drop HFS+ encryption support and tell people to convert the drives to APFS if they want to keep doing it, though.

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