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Comment Infinite? That's a bold statement! (Score 1) 7

Reminds me of a quote from the book High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic:

Any experiment involving semiconductors at a frequency of 10^-12 Hz will (eventually) reveal that they do not function. It takes so long to run an experiment at 10^-12 Hz that the circuits turn to dust. Viewed on a very long time scale, integrated circuits are nothing but tiny lumps of oxidized silicon.

Comment Phew, only photo from 2 years ago (Score 1) 85

If it's only photo ID images 2 years old, then everyone is safe! No need to worry about a thing.

My photo ID and driver's license information is of course completely different now compared to two years ago. I'm sure everyone has moved and changed their looks enough in two years to make that information virtually useless.

Comment Less than I had expected (Score 1) 41

This is actually less than expected. Low enough that I think this is too optimistic.

Then again, the cost is not so much labor, but energy, raw material, and land use. I wouldn't be surprised if cost of property and energy is actually comparable between Taiwan and Arizona, so there's only the extra shipping and a bit higher salary for a few workers.

Comment Reminds me of gold (Score 3, Funny) 12

This reminds me of the people who are impressed that there are (potentially) asteroids made of gold, and how much that would be worth.

Well, here you are, proof that Mars is worth about twice as much as gold! Just build a railgun on Mars and keep shooting rocks down to earth! We'll all be billionaires!

Comment How long until they shut off access to DuckDuckGo? (Score 4, Insightful) 19

"Larger customers like DuckDuckGo told Wired they won't be affected."

... for how long? While it is obviously a little ironic that DuckDuckGo routes the searches through Bing (and I was surprised the first time I read about it), it's still a sound idea and I'm glad DuckDuckGo can do it.

Or does DuckDuckGo pay dearly for the service, enough to compensate Microsoft's actual costs? Follow-up thought: If Microsoft no longer cares about Bing, will that cause DuckDuckGo to get worse over time?

Comment Not surprising, people are blind (Score 2) 28

My pet peeve is people uploading content with obviously incorrect aspect ratio to platforms such as YouTube, and the mass of people who watch it without realizing anything is wrong.

With that in mind, it doesn't surprise me at all that people think that "washed out" colors are normal, or just don't understand what they are looking at.

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