Comment YTCracker is a prophet (Score 1) 208
Comment Re:#staythefuckhome.com (Score 3, Insightful) 425
Comment inconstancy (Score 1) 260
Comment Consumer power (Score 1) 348
Comment Spot checks? (Score 3, Insightful) 200
Comment Invaluable anyway (Score 1) 436
Comment Re:The patent office does not check if anything wo (Score 1) 212
I have ten issued and not a single one of them was challenged.
Comment Re: No (Score 1) 178
I'm sure you're right.
However, my wife, a child psychologist, doesn't agree with you.
Comment No (Score 1) 178
"Old man yells at clouds"
I have two kids, 6 and 3. They've had their own tablets since they were on year old. We put no limit on the amount of time they spend on them.
The future is not the same as your own youth.
Comment Crypto-coins (Score 1) 197
"does this also mean that remaining crypto-coins can be instantly discovered?"
No, that's not how the minting of new coins work, at all.
There are theoretical issues where someone might learn your private key from seeing a transaction, but they're mitigated for all new addresses and usage.
Comment Re:Tax system to tax gravity... (Score 1) 208
While I'm sure it wasn't the GPs intention, "effect" also works in that sentence.
effect can also be used as a verb to mean to produce or to cause to come into being
Comment One Aral, not the Aral (Score 4, Informative) 50
“It is helping to save the Small Aral sea,” says FitzGerald. “But it was also a death warrant to the Big Aral, on the Uzbek side. People on the Uzbek side are very angry about it. The dam shut the only source of water that was entering their sea.”
Comment Re:How can we explain your imaginary world? (Score 1) 219
The viking farms were not under ice.
"What does seem to have contributed to the abandonment of the Western Settlements, archaeologists said, is climate change. The onset of a ''little ice age'' made living halfway up Greenland's coast untenable in the mid-1300's, argues Dr. Charles Schweger, an archaeology professor at the University of Alberta, who has studied soils around the Farm Beneath the Sand.
Dr. Schweger said the Norse were no match for cooling temperatures, which caused a glacier several miles up a valley to expand. As this glacier grew, it also released more water every summer into the valley, causing turbidity in drinking water and raging floods that blanketed meadows with sand and gravel. Today the edge of Greenland's ice cap is only six miles from the old farm site. But in the mid-14th century, it probably was far closer."
Comment Re:how do you figure out who's hot or not? (Score 1) 202
It's not a myth.