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Comment Re:freedom of speech (Score 1) 725

If you read that again you will see however, that it doesn't protect freedom of speech. It ensures that the government can not abridge it, but they way they're using the word makes it clear that it can conceivably be abridged by other entities, in accordance with this law, with such abridgement still being an abridgement of freedom of speech.

When private entities, whether they're websites or a coal baron who owns your entire town abridge freedom of speech they are abridging freedom of speech.

Comment Re:Conservative facepalm here (Score 5, Insightful) 345

Well, it's about natural gas export to Europe. One guy who wrote that he was from eastern Europe claimed on Reddit, in response to a comment that I wrote, that it was freedom gas them. It's certainly something which could give those countries who are using Russian an alternative if the Russians, for some reason, no longer want to sell to them.

Comment Re:For those of you keeping score at home (Score 3, Informative) 402

I don't agree.

Instead, I think this is genuinely important. All platforms aren't slashdot and on places like reddit political censorship is very real, in part done by mods and in part enforced by the site itself.

After the bomb attacks by a Muslim group on Christians in Sri Lanka /r/worldnews, a subreddit with six times the number of subscribers that the New York Times has, had at one point deleted 57.5% of all comments and it temporarily reached above 60% before dropping to 38.3% as comments arrived. Most of the comments removed were uncontroversial and broke no rules; and many highly upvoted comments were deleted. Particularly interesting is that there were deletions of any mention of previous reddit censorship, and lack of media coverage.

/r/news has a rule that only one post about an event may be kept and the post the moderators allowed was one by Al Arabiya, a media company controlled by the Saudi State, broadcasting primarily in Arabic, which lacked many pertinent facts that were known at the time, such as that the victims were Christians or that the perpetrators were a Muslim group. It also, performed similar censorship in that thread.

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 201

People have already done that. There's a company called Modern Meadow that seems to be experimenting with collagen-based materials. There are also people who manufacture leather-like materials by hot-compaction of mycelium. One manufacturer, Mycoworks, claims that they can make it as strong as deer leather.

Comment Terrible article (Score 2) 52

A system of this type has already been built by the German development company Seereal. Fraunhofer developed special anti-reflection coatings that allowed the construction of laser beam expansion systems for that display. Their system also used eye tracking.

I haven't seen the patent claims, but from what I see in the article I can't say that there's anything novel there. The article is absolutely terrible as a report on a patent, with it being obvious that the author knows nothing about what he writes, either about patents or technology. For example, there is no mention of the patent claims, no mention of similar technology and an unsupported claim that the device is revolutionary.

Comment Re:Good, then we can scrap that stupid f-35 (Score 1) 325

The Saab JAS 39 Gripen is a single-engine fighter and has had no crashes in the Swedish air force since we introduced it and no crashes of any kind have been due to engine problems.

Twin-engined fighters can also have weird stall conditions, for example, the first female carrier-based fighter pilot Kara Spears Hultgren crashed and died due to a where the nose also affected over the wing over one of the engine intakes leading to a compressor stall.

Comment Re:Except at night. (Score 1) 164

Though, think of like this: all the food we grow is made with solar power. Imagine making the energy to produce the food we need with nuclear power, gas turbines or coal. Even with the most efficient diodes that would require tremendous amounts of energy.

Meanwhile insolation in the absence of clouds is about a horsepower per square meter even in the high latitudes we are at here in Sweden. This will likely transform energy generation and electricity costs worldwide and may in the medium turn well even impact European manufacturing.

Comment Re:Trump just says stuff (Score 1) 875

I think that it's very unlikely that people would choose such topics for their degrees.

Entrance to these universities, like ours, would likely be quite competitive and I have a hard time imaging that people who in high-school obtained mostly A's would not seek to obtain a degree that is well-regarded and brings them as great benefit as possible. If students went for degrees with a less commercial focus I suspect that they would be going for subjects like theoretical physics, whereas they now that they are getting loans, might choose something more applied.

Comment Re:Trump just says stuff (Score 1) 875

I don't agree, especially with regard to Sanders.

To have university education at the existing public universities be publicly funded and free to the students is perfectly feasible. This is how it works here in Sweden as well as in numerous other countries, so it's quite likely to work well. I'm less certain when it comes to publicly funded healthcare since I feel that the way to do it in that case is to have government owned hospitals, which I suspect don't exist in the US, why have some doubts that its introduction would be entirely simple-- but there aren't any problems with it in the longer run.

People need to have visions for the future and move towards things that they after careful evaluation believe are better and I don't think that an aspiration to build a more social-democratic society can be dismissed as a dream, especially since it's been demonstrated to function elsewhere.

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