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Comment Re:Dumb precedent. Addiction is on the user. (Score 1) 112

Society is not the governor of science. To become addicted, a chemical from outside of you must enter you, that causes the addiction. No chemical enters you via social media. You already have all of the chemicals, and your own actions cause the release of them. A society cannot officiate whether that is true.

Tell me you know ZERO about biology. Oof. You just did.

Comment Why? Please, why? There are so many excellent ... (Score 2) 136

... Fantasy worlds out there that would look epic as a AAA fantasy blockbuster triology. Raymond E. Feist comes to mind. Bernard Hennen, Guy Gavrial Kay, Brandon Sanderson and countless other top-shelf fantasy authors and epic worlds. Can't we just leave LOTR be? It's gotten an excellent film adaption, one that will stand the test of time if it doesn't get diluted with trash like it already partially has. Please stop right now.

I think we may be truly witnessing the dawn of western culture and it effing hurts.

Comment Re:This is bad and will cost everyone in the end. (Score 2) 112

She sued McDonalds because the HOT cup didn't warn her HOT coffee is HOT. You can't protect people from their own stupidity.

Except that's not what happened at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Repeating false things without researching them might make you stupid though. :-)

Comment Stupid(?) Astrophysics question: (Score 1) 27

Shouldn't the super-fast rotation of massive black holes counteract at least some of their gravity vertical to it's axis? Could that - at least hypothetically - eventually cause a black hole to break apart into bits of regular non-black-hole matter, if it spins fast enough?

Sorry if I'm sounding silly here, I'm a 5th-grader when it comes to astrophysics but perhaps someone with knowledge could offer some insight?

Submission + - Transporting antimatter on a truck is tricky ...

Qbertino writes: ... but the CERN Project "Antimatter in motion" just did it. For the first time in history researchers at CERN have transported 92 antiprotons on a truck in a specially designed magnetic enclosure. The test-drive went so well that the researchers spontaneously decided to go another round. One hard pothole could cause the antiprotons to exit their magnetic enclosure and be destroyed. The purpose of the experiment was to test the feasibility of transporting antimatter to other facilities in Europe to conduct further antimatter research. German news Tagesschau has a nice report.

Comment Re:Some ads are useful (Score 5, Insightful) 56

If a map service wants to take payment to make a business show on their map, that's fine. Good, even.

I disagree. Look no further than what Yelp does to see this is a terrible business model for the consumer and the businesses. It's only good for the tech company.

You have to pay Yelp $250+ a month so that competitors ads don't show on your page and that you are listed #1 for your own brand name. If someone is searching for you and you don't pay, you may be #7 on the list for your own brand name. It's mafia tactics.

Comment Binary to "Human Source Code" for reviewing ... (Score 1) 159

... is likely going to be the mid- to further out future of coding. Presumably de-compiling into some human-only language not intended for re-compiling is going to become more and more of a thing. No need to go through all the hoops of countless programming languages and frameworks just because some naked apes like to each turn their own little software world into a stack-religion.

Some form of containers is going to remain though. Especially to isolate problems and find bugs isolating logical components into different chunks is likely to remain a thing if source code isn't available.

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