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Re:'Alien Alloys' in The New York Times' UFO Story on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:15PM (#15992294)
As a former scientist well practiced in x-ray diffraction it has been really fun watching these blatant flasehoods spread. We have mastered identifying the atomic structure of materials.

Sadly spreading these claims is how these programs self propegate. Luckily they don't do much real damage other than misleading the public and wasting government funding.

Re:Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations on Monday December 18, 2017 @10:42AM (#15952332)
Nothing about detached heads?
Re:Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring on Saturday December 16, 2017 @02:53PM (#15941581)
Your counter argument to public transit is flying cars? Your entire statement is a strawman argument.

No one is saying get rid of cars, simply improve traffic by adding mass transit

From the personal growth perspective;

Bigco can mean being constantly surrounded by experts and having to compete with more experienced coworkers to get the fun projects or extra responsibility that make a job rewarding. It can also mean lots of easy learning from well experienced coworkers.

Smallco can mean less expert coworkers to learn from but lots of room to grow and lots of experience gained from extra responsibility.

Save and replay is how this data is usually used. Run headless in real time and fancy complex gui upon replay.