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Comment Re:Will be modded down but... (Score 5, Informative) 200

Where do you have your info from?
From https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclimate.nasa.gov%2Fnews%2F...

“Our findings don’t mean that Antarctica is growing; it’s still losing mass, even with the extra snowfall,” So there are no ice gains. It's a loss that is a smaller loss due to increased snowfall, but still an absolute loss.

Comment Re:Fascinating how you do not get that fixed.... (Score 1) 65

Where in Europe?
Cause here in Germany we get many scam calls. Not robocalls, always live people, but still enough of those, often several per week. Even when cold calling has been illegal explicitly for years. And most all by now falsify their caller ID.

It's always a purely political problem especially since telcos make a profit from these calls.

Comment Re:Wow, the bullshit is strong there (Score 1) 100

So on what do they spend 450 million per year? Anything else besides actually making a good browser? Are they sponsoring some virus research? Or fighting racism wherever?

First thing they should do is kill of non browser related stuff and not fire their security and incident team. Or people working on their next gen browser engine. Maybe Some VPs could be let go instead?

Comment Wow, the bullshit is strong there (Score 5, Interesting) 100

A company that has around 1000 employees, low cost for machines and similar capital, gets at least 400 million dollars per year. And they have to lay of people? A software company that is laying off security teams, developers for the company's next core product (servo the browser engine), documentation teams.
I dunno where I read this but they hired more UX people? Really?

400k per employee is nothing to sneeze at, why lay offs? And why fire engineers actually working on the product while hiring more UX folks when they only have only on real product? A team of a dozen should be more than enough for this one UI, no? Especially when they have been on a spree to "simplify" their single product (they kicked out Thunderbird) for many years now. Sooner or later there is nothing to simplify anymore, since the product has vanished after it got too "simple". When I read on the blog entry for this firing "From combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism to protecting individual privacy" then wtf am I reading? They write software, they don't combat any virus unless it's written in JAVASCRIPT!
They don't battle racism either, they are a SOFTWARE company, not a NGO or political party! And if they battle racism, it's certainly not done in Silicon Valley.
And the privacy of their users they invade with mandatory cloud shit like Pocket.

Maybe their CEO should write less prattle like this where she has no clue, and hire more programmers instead, making them crank out good code instead of battling racism and plagues. If they cannot do that with 400k per employee since they must live in SF, then maybe, just maybe their location policy is wrong and not their too high headcount.

Comment Re:It'll become a resource long before then (Score 1) 273

France doesn't do this at all. They did, but it cost too much, more than the usual light water reactors, and now there is no breeder in France anymore. It was connected to the grid in 1986 and closed 1998

This on top of the already most costly way to produce electrical grid power in existence, see Hinckley Point C. Every country has the same nuclear waste problem, none has a permanent storage facility.

Comment Change the app a bit (Score 2) 36

Whoever wrote it could do some things not to irate google:
a) Only make a list "these installed apps are from china"
b) list alternatives for each of these apps
c) show a list of "safe" apps on the system which are not from china or chinese companies.

So the user has to remove the app totally manually without any prompting or buttonclick from inside the app.

And of course change the name to something less inflammatory

Comment A heart monitor is no macbook (Score 1) 30

Allowing everyone to repair medical devices without any oversight is a bad idea. Normal machines like macbooks or John Deere tractors, everyone should be able and be allowed to repair them: he parts are standardized and mostly available. If the repair is screwed up it's just some economic loss, the device is broken and some customer irate

Medical devices are different: there literally is a life at stake. Which is why there is a lot of expensive and cumbersome red tape by the FDA associated with them. One has to expensively certify them with the FDA before one can sell them. They have to be inspected regularly, tested if the data they show is still valid, they still perform within spec, etc. This all costs a lot of money especially since only bonded craftsmen are allowed to certify them. Even a simple blood pressure device for a few bucks has to be certified yearly to make sure it still shows an accurate pressure when used in a hospital, I've seen stickers on them when they were last checked.

It's like food vs. medical drugs. Everyone can open a foodstall and sell to the public. No previous experience required for a housemom to bake her delicious cakes and sell them to the public. Only minimal inspections by the health department if at all. Totally different if mom wants to sell some drug against some illness. Then she has to shell out millions of dollars in various trials to certify that the drug works as intended and that it's not harmful.

Same here: normal machine: everyone can come and play, medical machine: lots of hurdles. The FDA is tasked with oversight for both, drugs and devices to make sure nothing harms the patients And generally these hurdles that looks out for the patients are needed to weed out the snake oil salesmen. Even with them, still lots of things like Theranos slips through. Without any oversight that would increase dramatically.

ifixit should stay with their macbooks and iphones where they understand what they are doing.

Comment Hopefully no US company does... (Score -1, Flamebait) 31

anything at this UN shindig. I certainly wouldn't be right if a torturer and terror state like the US of A would cater any function at the UN.

US lawmakers are responsible for the worldwide and domestic surveillance from the NSA.
US lawmakers are responsible for the Schools of America where they trained torturers, death squadrons and mass murderers for 74 years now and ongoing.
US lawmakers oversaw a torturing program for many years and then pardoned all the criminal torturers. And they continue to employ torturers to this day
US lawmakers promoted a known torturer to the post of chief of the CIA.

And those criminal US lawmakers want to lecture others about human rights violations and torture?
Any single one of them is a mass murderer who needs to go to jail for the rest of his or her life for crimes against humanity, not to any UN function where human rights are commemorated

Comment Re:Once... (Score 2) 311

That is obviously wrong. People buy german bunds which have negative interest. They PAY to "invest" money.

People will invest as long as they have money to invest. Cause it's better to have a chance of return instead of letting it rot. What they do is, they will be more careful what they invest in. And that is very much needed. RIght now, the markets are a stupid casino and not a financial market where money is invested to make products.

Comment Re:non-violent terrorism (Score 1) 106

So Taiwan has to choose either 1,300 million customers or 330 million customers.

No. It's 1.300 million poor people vs. 330 US, 520 EU and 200 million asian (japan, korea,..) people, All of them rich people compared to the 1.3000 million poor chinese.

If TSMC doesn't submit, they won't be able to sell anywhere else outside China, Russia, maybe India either. IE, TSMC would go bankrupt.

Of course it's state terrorism, but right now, it's successful.See the US terrorism against Iran to see it in action

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