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Comment Re:What's next for dark matter theorists? (Score 1) 64

This is just some normal (non-dark) matter that we expected to be out there but was previously unobserved. It has nothing to do with dark matter or dark matter theories. We infer vast amounts of (otherwise unobservable) dark matter from its effect on gravity, and that has not changed from this.

Comment Re: Paper strips (Score 1) 151

Flat for 15 years? Are they sure that wasn't 12 years?

14 years ago was when Congress put a poison pill in an increase to the debt limit, that required them to pass a budget that dealt with the deficit, or most (all?) federal agencies took a "sequestration" budget cut.

The cuts went into effect in March 2013.

Comment Re:Which planet's "5 years"? (Score 1) 124

This is actually a topic in Asimov's Foundation sequels. There's a galactic-standard hour, day, and year, and every plant maps their rotational and revolutional patterns to that. A main plot point was trying to find THE planet that had true 24 hour days and 364.25 day years, since that might have been the birthplace of humanity.

Comment Re: Treat check marks like cert authorities. (Score 1) 36

I was going to say handle it like the various food certification groups.

They come up with some sort of mark, copyright it (so you can't use it without their permission), then do whatever checks are required for their certification.

There's multiple Kosher and Halal certification groups, rainforest alliance, etc.

Handling it like certs means that they could be checked and revokable, so that might be the better option... but having easy to identify marks would be useful, too.

Comment Stop truncating browser history... (Score 2) 34

While we're fixing history problems with Chrome, why not make it stop truncating history at 90 days. Many things in life happen on a yearly cycle. It would be great to be able to see things I was looking at a year ago (holiday gifts, items for a class I'm planning, etc.) as I'm looking for things this year. What a stupid policy.

Comment um... (Score 2, Informative) 104

"with Hegseth noting the money would better serve "healthcare for our warfighters and their families, instead of $500 an hour business process consultant.""

And yet they're cutting how many people who provide those services?

or is just the VA? So they can promise people they'll get medical for life if the serve our country, then renege in that promise?

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