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Comment Re:I thought (Score 2) 71

I thought the superior design, well funded and professionally maintained proprietary code was the reason governments and businesses around the world paid for Windows, and that when malicious hacks and attacks would occur the institutions could turn to the vendor for accountability.

But no, it is always some foreign government's fault, or the users for opening an email.

So if the rise of market share makes everything equal, why waste so much tax payer money if not to fund bullshit jobs?

Comment No luck needed if done right. (Score 1) 52

If you are mining crypto at a level low enough for your electricty bill to pass off as a base board heater, you are not part of the problem.

As you alluded to, the entropy created is just as useful to heat your house.

Nevertheless, making it illegal should alllow them to go after and shut down more problematic actors.

Comment Re: Dark energy aka magic... (Score 1) 157

Of course that is not what I was doing, and do not expect that anything is owned; I was calling out words put into the mouth of unspecified people for the sake of supporting one's position. That does not qualify as a scientific discussion.

The fact that I made up a silly term shouldn't determine if I know something about the subject matter. As for needing your permission to comment, that is simply quite amusing.

Comment Re:Dark energy aka magic... (Score 1) 157

How does this paper support your claim?

They argue that "the generic formulation of string theory leads naturally to dark energy", then propose the supporting mathematical equations to support some models. They do not claim in any way that "dark matter is the root of string theory".

Whether non-baryonic matter can be detected by any other means than gravity is unknown. I'm not sure how one could claim for sure that it is impossible. That does not appear to be discussed in the link provided though, and there is sure is still hope that it can be, even if the detection of axioms have so far been deemed false positives.

In this specific case, the supporting data you claim missing is from Hubble, and stated so in the paper:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiopscience.iop.org%2Fart...

The math can be proven wrong, the model(s) demonstrated erroneous or the argument counter argued, but it seems that has yet to be done.

It is perhaps it is a matter of perspective, but whatever the facts will prove themselves to be, they would to some appear "extraordinary" anyway.

Although it did not serve its intended purpose, thank you for the link.

Comment Re:Dark energy aka magic... (Score 1) 157

Are we supposed to know by 'dark osmosis' which "advocates" and which "extraordinary phenomena" 's you are referring to?

You may have read stuff you didn't like or talked to people you didn't agree with, but please tell if you expect people to understand rather than imagine or guess, unless that is what you were going for.

Comment Re:Best of luck to them (Score 2) 38

Orbital mechanics is math, but it is not 'basic' despite being well understood.

What is not that well understood is the exact behavior of materials involved in the impact. An asteroid can be made of somewhat loosely connected boulders, and we need empirical evidence beyond theory.

We woudn't want to find out too late that we should have had a bigger mass to deflect an incoming asteroid.

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