Comment Re:So what? (Score 2) 185
Bro, did you read the OP?
Native speakers get it _wrong_ 18% of the time.
Imagine living your life in a society where, in any interaction, you can fuck up and insult the other person 1/5 of the time.
That's stupid.
Bro, did you read the OP?
Native speakers get it _wrong_ 18% of the time.
Imagine living your life in a society where, in any interaction, you can fuck up and insult the other person 1/5 of the time.
That's stupid.
right, but I think the term just means "foldable" now
it's not like there are many important real flip smartphones right now
they should have fired him for inventing Javascript, to be fair
presumably if "latin men" could vote they aren't going to be deported. and maybe some of those people are precarious enough economically to out of self interest not want more illegal immigration like other blue collar/precarious classes. some of those "latin men" probably see themselves as white or white adjacent enough to not think of themselves in the way that category is being imposed on them. ultimately it's an empirical question about where the votes came from, were lost, etc
Lmao, how soon people forget that, by the end of the first Trump presidency, there was already talk of starting a massive denaturalization / deportation process.
that way lies madness; the most popular cpu will be the most studied for vulnerabilities
you may as well decide to let the market decide and then...choose the second or third most popular platform
But on the other hand: Do we really need to "grow the economy"? There are many things that would improve the quality of live without more little pieces of paper moving from people to people.
My time is valuable to me,
Funny, that is exactly the reason I sold my last car 25 years ago. It always needed something - fuel, wiper fluid, oil change, tire change, bi-annual inspections, repairs, insurance payments, registration, free parking spots,
Note that cycling doubles as a cardio workout, so unless you don't do sports, it's basically free time.
I have been in your shoes -- cycling everywhere and keeping wonderfully fit as a result. But I've never had a car that was as needy as yours. I think the newer ones are better that way. Meanwhile, I was tuning my bike every week or two to keep it running well: truing and inflating tires, cleaning the derailleur, adjusting the brakes...
That may go both ways - I have bought my bike with ease of maintenance in mind. Rohloff Speedhub (no fiddling with the derailleur, no super-skinny chains that need frequent replacement), hydraulic disk brakes (no adjusting of cables, brake pads live a long time), Schwalbe Plus tires (basically no flats, pumping maybe twice a year - and I have a good floor pump). It goes to the shop once a year. I used to do all maintenance myself, but I have reached a state where I have more money than time
EV's are evolving at a rate that makes the Cambrian Explosion look tame. That means that an older EV isn't just a second hand car, it's an out-evolved heap of junk.
Best to wait for the Ordovician era.
Indeed. The reason for the fast depreciation is not that the cars go bad, but that newer generations are better and cheaper. The solution is, of course, to keep driving your still good enough car for longer....
My time is valuable to me,
Funny, that is exactly the reason I sold my last car 25 years ago. It always needed something - fuel, wiper fluid, oil change, tire change, bi-annual inspections, repairs, insurance payments, registration, free parking spots,
I now use cycling for most trips, sometimes combined with public transport. I use taxis for the few occasions where driving is that much more convenient, or I get a rental car. I'm actually in a car sharing organisation, but I last got a car from them more than 5 years ago.
Note that cycling doubles as a cardio workout, so unless you don't do sports, it's basically free time.
Pointing a finger at the cause of that climate change is not, prima facie, supported by the data they're presenting here.
Indeed not. It's not the subject of this study. And it does not need to be, because humans as the overwhelming cause of current climate change is the established state of the science, backed by thousands of papers. Similarly, a medical study of the cause of broken bones will mention falls, but not show that they are the result of gravity.
The earth has been much warmer than the scare temperatures that thay are complaining about. How did crabs survive those temperatures? According to this study, they couldn't have.
When it was last "much warmer", it was at least a couple of million years ago. These are timescales over which biological evolution happens. Snow crabs either moved their habitats, or they adapted, or both. "This study" says nothing about their pre-historic populations. It looks at the cause of the current short-term reduction in the number and habitat of the crabs. Note that they are still living - just in much reduced numbers (but still 1.9 billion in the Bering sea in 2022). And they have reservoirs outside the Bering sea.
... but the furin cleavage site on covid (which doesn't happen in nature)
Bold claim, but wrong claim. There are multiple publications showing natural furin cleavage sites in different viruses, including other corona-viruses related to SARS-COV2. See e.g. SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site was not engineered in PNAS (September 2022) and The Emergence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in Annual Review of Virology (April 2024).
One standout statistic was that projects with clear requirements documented before development started were 97 percent more likely to succeed.
What a surprise - if you don't count the hard part (getting clear requirements) as part of the project, then your project is less likely to fail. But how many projects with BFUD did not even make it to the "clear requirements documented" phase?
how will people send me word documents containing screenshots of their errors now?
>"The money invested in nuclear energy would save far more carbon dioxide if it were instead invested in renewables,"
But they are not doing the same job unless they also include storage. Plus the output could still be inconsistent if generation was too low for too long (due to not enough storage or freaky weather). And if that storage is lithium batteries, you have to add in all that life cycle carbon, as well.
To quote from the article: "In comparison, the cost of each megawatt-hour of electricity from wind and solar photovoltaic plants is around AUD$100 [as opposed to AUD$400-600 for SMRs], even after accounting for the cost involved in balancing the variability of output from solar and wind plants." (emphasis added by me).
Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules. Corollary: Following the rules will not get the job done.