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Comment Re:No robo-vacs?? (Score 1) 89

> Sooo, they get money from their enterprises via high tax that they then give back to subsidize them? How does that work?

It allows them to take money from established "cash cow" industries to prop up the expansion of selected industries. It's roughly comparable to Microsoft subsidizing an up-and-coming product or category using all their Windows and MS-Office profits, often bankrupting competitors in the process.

Comment Article missing information (Score 1) 15

The article is missing key context information.

When Google says it's "shutting down" the project, does that mean that the AlphaFold software will cease to exist? Or does it mean, the project has been completed, and therefore the development team can be reassigned to new projects, but the AI prediction model can still be used to predict protein folding?

Comment Re: Hopefully he sues for a few million. (Score 1) 222

Hard disagree.

There are mistakes that can happen - getting a phone number wrong, knocking on the wrong street number, stuff like that, sure.

But all of those mistakes need to be found and fixed DURING the investigation. This is the duty of the police officiers.

Not finding any evidence and STILL going to trial - that's on the prosecution. But I doubt that there would have been a conviction if police had not omitted things or outright lied in court. I doubt any courd would hand down a guilty verdict if all the police involved said that they found no evidence of anything.

Comment Re:The question no one is asking (Score 1) 84

...The black hole would probably be hardest to see, since it wouldn't be expected to have an accretion disk. (If it did, we'd probably have seen it already.)

Why do you say it wouldn't be expected to have an accretion disk? The fact that we haven't seen it already isn't evidence.

"We don't know whether there are any kangaroos in my house. The fact that we haven't seen any means that they are invisible. How do we know that they are invisible? If they were visible, we would have seen them already."

Comment Nemesis hypothesis [Re:really shashdot?] (Score 1) 84

It may not have gained much traction, but that's because there's no real way to test it.

The way to test it is to find Nemesis.

There were multiple searches looking for Nemesis, all of which failed to turn up anything. There's a bit of a discussion in the book "Collisions", by Alec Nevala-Lee
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