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Comment It would be surprising if it wasn't shedding more (Score 5, Insightful) 30

It would be surprising if it wasn't shedding more heat than it receives from the sun:
Uranus is pretty distant from the sun, so it doesn't get much solar heating. Large blobs of gas tend to collapse, emitting heat in the process. Pieces of rock tend to have radioactive components. Etc.

That said, 12% seems a bit higher than I would expect.

Comment Re:Proliferation of distros is not a sign of vigor (Score 2) 48

I guess it did, and your response didn't clarify things. Suppose I listed the choices as
"Apple, Debian, Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu, Windows"? Putting them in nice alphabetical order, and leaving out the choices that require a bit of tech knowledge. (I'm not sure about SUSE, but I suspect it's just as easy to use or install.)

The real limit is that most people don't install an OS, so they just use whatever their computer came with. The last time I installed windows it was harder to install than Debian...of course that was back in the 1990's. I haven't touched their updated TOS, and even in the 1990's I had someone else click through the requirements. (OTOH, Windows 95 and 98 were relatively easy to install...but then you needed to get all the drivers installed. So Debian was still easier...but that's not fair, because the Debian I'm comparing against is at least the 1998 version, and often one slightly later.)

Comment Re:Can we get a source that isn't The Guardian? (Score 1) 24

Which "The Guardian"? Certainly the one I kept getting in my mailbox was NOT reputable journalism. Perhaps "The Manchester Guardian" is reputable. But I've never seen a copy. And if the US edition of "The Guardian" (without adjectival mods) is the same company as the British edition, then neither one is trustworthy, as they just say what they think will sell. And they occasionally directly contradict each other.

Comment Re:Ironically communism (Score 1) 102

Wikipedia calls it Horseshoe theory https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F.... Article seems to argue against it being true.

It does seem plausible that being "extremist" means that a large amount of the population does not like your ideas, therefore the only way to get them is authoriatism, so the only similarity is authoriatism. However this does have a lot of appeal to centrists, and it kind of looks like the 2-dimensional political opinion charts.

Comment Re:How would this be used? (Score 4, Informative) 37

They said in right in the summary. Given by the emergency department (ER) or used by first responders (paramedics).

Since clearing the CO is extremely urgent, I assume IV push would be preferred. Since it's a protein, I doubt inhaling it would be effective.

I doubt it would be over the counter just because of needing to give it by IV.

Comment Re:Dispicable (Score 2) 105

Since the employees worked there in consideration of the eventual pension, slashing it should be considered outright financial fraud. In cases of bankruptcy, the pension funding should be first in line for whatever remains.

Comment Re:What do we do about it? (Score 1) 159

The foundation of windmills is reused when they are replaced.

And you have posted negative lies about electric cars, which are vital if nuclear power is to do anything about global warming. Same for heat pumps, and basically anything that uses electricity (what a nuclear power plant produces) instead of hydrocarbons.

Fix your lies and maybe you can be convincing. I agree we need nuclear power but supposed "proponents" have dug a hole with decades of this spew.

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