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Comment Re:Just a little cancer- (Score 1) 63

The entire post is a B-Movie, save the misunderstood public danger from just crappy construction. I wonder what else they'll find.

Marvel should get the rights. Maybe a Disney movie about WaspMan, to compete with the aging and tired Spiderman franchise.

While no one was looking, apparently, there was other news, like CPB going dark and Tesla being fined nearly a quarter billion dollars in liability due to premature auto-driving feature use.

But no, wasps. Radioactive wasps.

Comment Re: Most cities really need this (Score 1) 107

In Houston the water table is also high and the ground in some areas is just fine sediment. Not very conducive to tunnels and a big reason why basements are uncommon. Some kind of aboveground line along the Hardy toll road probably makes the most sense, but as you say most Houston airport travelers don't go downtown.

Comment Re:We all pay (Score 1) 88

The examples you give have been long established. Utilities have a good understanding of how long it will take to get a payback on a new housing development or school. Or even a factory in an established industry.

But all of those together don't come close to matching the scale and fast timeframe that tech companies want for AI datacenters. That's not an established business. What if it's a bubble and they close down in 5 years or find new tech which requires 1/10th the power? The rest of us would get stuck with paying off the infrastructure costs. That new housing development isn't going to have everyone leave in 5 years.

Comment Re:Windows is not a professional operating system (Score 1) 220

The problem with absolute statements is they are disproven by evidence. The world is run on Windows, professionally. It literally makes the world go around and contributes a shitton to the GDP of nations the world over.

The problem with statements is they are disproven by "literally".

Comment Re:Somehow... (Score 1) 45

You live in a tiny universe. See the NTIA's band plan to understand just how narrow your thinking is.

We agree that the cuts in the science budgets are heinous.

Nonetheless, the world is filled with *useful* radio.

Nothing trumps nothing. Your values, narrow as they might be, show your misunderstanding of spectrum management and usage.

There are asserted and managed radiological quiet zones. That's as good as it's going to get, until receiver discrimination improves, or external/satellite data permits improvement on reception. That's my best hope for fetching this data. Think: Dark side of the moon.

Comment Re:Somehow... (Score 2) 45

If there's a compelling need to allocate spectrum for astroradiology, there are mechanisms for this. The post cloyingly and insanely believes their need is compelling over all of the other allocations already made.

There's a seat at the table available, but the process is well known, and their need isn't prioritized by the intense need to precisely correlate the earth's position in the universe by listening to black hole songs.

Comment Re: Maybe programmers aren't quite obsolete (Score 1) 151

A point to the contrary- in the US, you would think that the advent of spreadsheet software would have bad for the accounting field, that jobs would go away and fewer accountants would be needed. The opposite turned out to be true. Accountants gained productivity and because each thing became cheaper to keep track of, we started keeping track of more things. There's a big shortage of accountants now, the profession has not suffered under the technology advancements of the past 50 years.

Comment Re:Three times? (Score 2) 81

You're not being too picky. The summary pretends there's only one temperature in play, whereas the original source mentions at least two temperatures (one defined after a phonon-phonon equilibration time; and a more conventional thermodynamical temperature which is only well-defined after a longer time). The sensationalism comes from thinking the longer-time-scale one applies at very short time-scales.
It's shit like that which makes headlines and then makes people distrust research.

Comment Re: unsportsmanlike buttock comfort (Score 1) 121

That's where I see the problem in the sport. Bicycling on a single-rider bike is inherently an individual sport. Differences in equipment are just a way for wealthy people and organizations to buy better results. "Strategy" in this sport is often on the edge of unsportsmanlike behavior, at least from my perspective. Teams deciding who should be the winner among those on the team, and whatnot. But monied interests like the status quo so it will stay like that.
Cycling should be on the same field as singles tennis, where the choice of racket makes not much difference, strategy is only about exploiting your opponents weaknesses, and victory is overwhelmingly due to the skill and mental fortitude of the individual (or mistakes by opponents). Probably I don't understand cycling, but there seems to be a lot of wiggle room for other factors in what should be a simple contest of who can ride a bike the fastest.

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