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Re:Why Won't Europe Build AI Data Centers in Iceland? on Monday June 29, 2026 @10:43PM (#48727975)
Neither Iceland nor Norway are EU member states.
Will the US accept a nuclear apocalypse on itself by entering a conventional war with Russia over East European conflicts.

No.

Re:Venezuelan Jets Fly over U.S. Navy Ship in Show of Force on Friday September 05, 2025 @04:58AM (#45136457)
If you want to be president ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CHeK9WjO-C4

Yes, but at least Mette Frederiksen got her photo-op in an F16 cockpit with Zelensky!
Re:Why Romania excels in international Olympiads on Saturday August 30, 2025 @03:53AM (#45072769)
In the middle ages, theologians had sound arguments for how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.
You don't mention (or I didn't see it) the ability to add books by scanning the isbn. Manually adding books is too time consuming.
Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @03:51AM (#43100047)
According to the linked article this was achieved at 50 million degrees. The Chinese record was achieved at 100 million degrees.

I have also read that achieving productive fusion will require temperatures above 100 million degrees.

Most of my sources are pop-sci, so correct me if I'm wrong.

Re:The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @01:56PM (#42510437)
War groupie BS.
That is not a new scam.
Re:Japanese Words and Names Sound African. Why? on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @02:10AM (#40714540)
I think it's because we transcribe the languages discussed into the Latin alphabet.

If you hear the languages spoken, they sound nothing like each other.

Tariffs will be passed on to consumers in the West. China also has a lot of options to retaliate.
Re:Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check on Sunday May 19, 2024 @05:21AM (#40405533)
Russia asked for discussions on a new security infrastructure for Europe. The West refused out of hand because it expected Russia to collapse in the (then) coming war.

Russia did not collapse. It got stronger.

All this talk of the danger of Russia is self-fulfilling prophecy.

China will lead humanity into the future, while stupid US politicians desperately try to hold them back. Just wait and see how badly this will go for the West if we continue on the confrontational path!
There is Food-tracker and Waistline on F-droid. I don't like counting calories, so that is not a recommendation, as I haven't used them.
Re:Stuff that is backwards in Australia on Monday April 01, 2024 @03:32AM (#39891663)
"The sun in the Southern Hemisphere moves counterclockwise across the sky over the course of the day, rather than clockwise. Instead of coming up on the left and going down on the right, as it does in the Northern Hemisphere, it comes up on the right and goes down on the left."

What? So Australians always observe sunrise facing North ? This is an amazing behavioural observation, worthy of some sort of high profile international prize!

Re:The Once Beloved Country on Friday March 29, 2024 @02:59AM (#39861364)
"the country’s global realignment with all the worst people in the world."

And who are the best people in the world? Oh, of course, the Yankees and Brits, who actively supported apartheid (and who continue to support it in Israel).

Re:Yen sinks to 34-year low on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @04:14AM (#39836651)
Big dollar dump coming, maybe.
Re:Why frogs are so good on Monday March 18, 2024 @02:04AM (#39740845)
Also, they can be delicious. The best chicken I ever tasted was frog.
Re:Why time seems to pass faster as we age on Thursday February 29, 2024 @01:33AM (#39546898)
Each year as we age, in relation to the time we have already lived, is a smaller and smaller fraction.
"Don't bomb children", is now considered anti-semitic.
Puff of smoke and a flash of a mirror. There's nothing in that "paper".
Re:When U.S. Air Force discovered the flaw of averages on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:00AM (#39113818)
Find the median for young men's measurements, design to this standard and recruit pilots preferentially among those closest to this.
Well, they share that with many workers who are physically present.
Denmark must be an unstable, third-world country, then:

https://www.al-bank.dk/presse-og-nyheder/nyheder/2023/1000-k...

Almost nobody can keep a secret, including yourself. Keep your mouth shut.
Re:AI Reduces the World to Stereotypes on Saturday October 21, 2023 @04:49AM (#37965175)
"The depictions were clearly flawed: Several of the Asian Barbies were light-skinned; Thailand Barbie, Singapore Barbie, and the Philippines Barbie all had blonde hair."

Who is making assumptions here? My Asian gf has lighter skin than me (Northern European). Also, it is not uncommon for Asians to dye their hair.

Re:8k year ago, 17 women reproduced for every 1 man on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:29AM (#37671324)
I had never heard of "cumulative Bayesian skyline plots". A search on Google gave one hit, which was a dissertation quoting this study.

I assume they mean "coalescent Bayesian skyline plots".

Why invent a new name for something which already has a more informative name?

I have great difficulty imagining a culture which could socially sustain an N_e of 1:17 (male to female). Just do a few sample calculations. The priviledged males would be massacred.

A few things could explain it: (1) large scale male infanticide or male child castration (2) A disease which kills mainly male children.

Both of these alternatives suffer from one of the same problems as their proposal: How would the cause (whatever it was) spread so relatively quickly among distantly seperated populations ?

I think it far more likely they have made mistakes somewhere.

Re:100 Trillion Dollar Bill (Zimbabwe) on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @03:14AM (#37581312)
It would be funny if these again began to be worth something through becoming collectors items... oh, wait.
Emacs
This is a good point. The average age of menopause in the US is, however, 51, not 40. That does not undermine your argument in principle, though.

Probably, a woman's chance of getting pregnant decreases the older she is, even if she is still menstruating. That would complicate the numbers but would not contradict your argument.

This is why a province in China is offering a cash bonus to couples who marry before the woman is 25.

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