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Comment Re:As far as I can tell (Score 1) 78

The experimental point "might" have been to luck-out on a high-temperature phase transition for gold, perhaps analogous to the Bose-Einstein condensate transition at low temperature scales. New phases of matter  usually lead to interesting/amusing/commercial consequences. If memory serves, a high-pressure phase transition in diamond was recently observed.

Comment ofcourse (Score 1) 45

by noshellswill (#65540140) Attached to: More Than 80% of Tuvalu Seeks Australian Climate Visa
Tuvaluvians really want to move from their damp ocean paradise  to a bone-dry continent with the deadliest fires, deadliest snakes, deadliest crocs, deadliest sharks , deadliest women and dogs that walk on two legs and punch humans in the face for fun. What's not to love in that migration ...sic... how much is Auzziland paying each Tuvaluvian ? Yeah yeah I know Auzzi wine has improved lots, but really ...

Comment Re:Mindblowing (Score 1, Troll) 190

For a sensitive guy, would you rather another ice-age? Human creativity (not potential ) really started to accelerate at the end of the Younger Dryas cold-snap. All the *tepes exploded ! Better having watermelons grow at the South Pole than 2-Km of ice encrusting Berlin.

Comment Re:AI could make that 0 work days. (Score 1) 166

by noshellswill (#65538044) Attached to: Science Confirms What We All Suspected: Four-Day Weeks Rule
You lose your "right" to eat and sleep warmly if you kill all business/craft owners.  Earth is not Eden ... everything must be paid for, everything produced including the next balony sandwitch and the next breath. Bitch Gaia/entropy will always try to kill you tomorrow, if (S)he hasn't succeeded today. With all its failings capitalism/guild structure is human societies  best provider & protector.

Comment editorDavid (Score -1, Offtopic) 100

One blurb after another generated by AI. Makes a body p*ssed-off to read nominal English text transmongrified by 20 year-old BJT-encrusted hardware that couldn't be sold on EBay. I'm breaking 80 in a couple weeks and would be happy to provide said-editor with a real ink-sucking fountain pen that tills  rather than thrills the  text. YMMV depending on your lack of education ... 

Comment Re:Automated shopping... (Score 1, Interesting) 18

Some sociopaths view shopping  simply as a method for acquiring goods. Historically most humans shop  personally for the interaction with other (retail) humans ... a bizarre or street-market or restaurant  functions very much like this. Human to human interaction ranks primary;  exchange of value functions as  little more than "social grease".  Humans were fundamentally social beings ( not product consumers ) when Aristotle said so ... humans have not changed ... sociopaths and recluse excepted. 

Comment Re:Mark my words (Score -1) 30

by noshellswill (#65522182) Attached to: CoreWeave Data Center To Double City's Power Needs
Sorry snowflake, nobody has a right to anything. If you're smart and disciplined and strong you just might rip bitch-Gaia a new asswhole and corral some value for personal exploitation. Or if you're a good-looking babe you might convince a male to provide a bit of his. But, RIGHT --- something that all-agree they should freely provide you --- such  entities do not exist. You want water and fuel --- then pay for water and fuel by personal effort or money. If you can't, then make-do or die off.

Comment Re:A bit win for capitalism (Score 1) 31

Capitalism produces value-from-labor greater than  slavery or guild/craft or communes. If you like a society with lots of "spare" value sloshing around waiting for the next bright idea then you chose a capitalist economy.  Otherwise you just survive, muddling-along until the next major  "extinction event".

Comment Re:Disbar (Score 0) 52

For the broad legal community disbarment is just a "cost of doing business". Compare that "cost" to Intercepted Chinese fentanyl shipments , ICE raided migrant wage-slaves or Coast-Guard confiscated black-market Kenyon rhino horns. Damnation, even a black-hole horizon leaks one-way. The problem is the toleration of  AI agents at any non-local scale. 

Comment Re:Anyone has actual info? (Score 0) 45

China systematically builds insecurity into every political relationship and any product they produce ... I suspect even a lump of  Chicom-iron right off the forge has an antenna and  transmitter built in. China by their own actions is unworthy of trust. So rejecting an explicit  chi-com infected surveillance mechanism is a no-brainer. Yes ... as if you didn't know ... only the paranoid survive.

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