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Comment Re:Deserve what you get (Score 2) 81

Long time osmand user here. Hey, osmand is cool for offline navigation, but its router has always been either mediocre or non-functional.

Google Maps have a nice router, but the route agreed before departing should not change mid-route. When driving, we really should not have to fiddle with the phone. This is a stupid idea.

Comment Re:I'm all for cheaper tools (Score 2) 112

... but diamonds are forever good for cutting steel.

Not quite. The temperature at the cutting edge gets really high, and the iron reacts with the diamond's carbon, shortening the tool life. Diamond cutting inserts are then mostly used with non-ferrous metals and composites. For steel one would either use tungsten carbide or CBN (cubic boron nitride) inserts.

Comment Re:pretty cool (Score 1) 39

ever seen how a crab shell cracker works?

I have this horrifying vision of something like a coin/key getting in there while folding and then hearing an awful cracking noise

and similarly, even some grit/dirt/sand would seem problematic.... this is not the phone you take to Tatooine

These designs do not let the internal screen touch itself; a bevel outside it closes first and keeps reasonable gap on the screen.

Comment Re:How does this work? The sea is huge, I cheked. (Score 1) 77

From TFA:

"Recent modeling studies of shoreline adaptation and SLR in San Francisco Bay have demonstrated that shoreline protection using engineered structures like seawalls can cause amplification of the tides by reducing frictional damping in shallow areas along the perimeter of the bay and enhancing reflection of the incoming tidal wave at the shoreline (26, 28, 29). These changes in tidal amplitude can influence the magnitude and spatial distribution of peak water levels and inundation around the bay."

So it is sort of a dynamic, second order effect.

Comment Re:Not a dime .... (Score 2) 124

(a) There's no (or little) data yet on if infection confers immunity.

(b) If infection does confer immunity, there's no (or little) data yet on how long that immunity lasts.

(a) There are 1 million already cured and still no signals of recurrence. It is not like recurrence is being ignored. It is being looked for, and it is not being found. So statistics says that some sort of immunity is actually granted.

(b) Sure, but for SARS and MERS coronaviruses it is known to last a few years, and next year we will have the vaccine.

The Almighty Buck

Uber Class-Action Case May Hinge On What the Drivers Want 88

New submitter shanemccarthy writes with a story at Forbes that lays out a non-intuitive factor in the ongoing class-action suit over alleged labor law violations filed in the name of Uber drivers. Namely: how Uber drivers see themselves in relation to the company. While some drivers consider themselves, or would like to be considered, employees, and accrue the conventional benefits of employee status at a large company (and Uber, for all its crowd-sourcing, disintermediating origin story, is large enough to garner a valuation in the billions), a considerable number of the drivers do not want to give up their status as independent contractors. The rules of class action lawsuits, though, mean that if Uber's drivers are classed as employees, those who would like to remain independent won't have that option -- so the company is lining up examples of drivers who would seem by no one's definition to be employees, and who want to keep it that way. See also this earlier story about workplace classification for these drivers and others in non-traditional work arrangements.

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