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If this guy can't go to the trouble of registering his podcast with the normal services which delineate podcasts, I can't be bothered with tracking it down nor listening to it.

What if the "normal services" denied him listing because he held dissident political views that the "normal services" wanted to suppress? RSS is a decentralized technology that resists censorship; centralizing publication into the hands of a few "normal services" increases the risk of censorship.

The censorship has already begun.

If podcasting apps remove the ability to subscribe to unlisted RSS feeds, corporate control of one media channel will solidify, as will censorship. The last paragraph in TFA expresses that worry: Apple and Google not only control and censor their own podcast indices but also exert influence over app makers, and they could easily decide to kill off RSS subscription outside the confines of their own indices of approved podcasts as well as influence app makers to do the same.

Those apologies during last week's earnings call must have left him with a really bad taste in his mouth.

Update: Shares of Facebook surged nearly 3% following the report. A paywall free, alternative source of this story.

Wait a minute...

Shares of Facebook surged nearly 3% following the report.

WTF is wrong with people?????

I'm sorry, and I know this will upset people and get downvotes but...

WHY IS ANYONE STILL ON FACEBOOK? Seriously, you have to either be really foolish, or very codependant to remain with a network that has had so many privacy violations and done so many horrendous things.

What would it actually take to get you to quit? Can Facebook do anything to you and you don't care? I'm bewildered how anyone stays with that network with all it's abuses.

Update: Shares of Facebook surged nearly 3% following the report. A paywall free, alternative source of this story.

Wait a minute...

Shares of Facebook surged nearly 3% following the report.

WTF is wrong with people?????

Yeah, your nation is really worried about the planet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/...

Google was fined because they're an American company. I can't imagine Europeans treating their own like that. It was a gigantic fuck you to America in general and Trump in particular. They sent a message, loud and clear.

No, you've sent a message. Your imagination sucks, your knowledge of how Europe treats its own is non-existent, and nobody should pay any attention to you concerning this topic.

Just wrong. Completely backwards. Look at actual stats for loan delinquency, then get back to me.

I really don't think you want me to look up those delinquency stats. You've made some assumptions without facts to back them up, old friend.

First the students most likely to be in default are the ones who borrowed the least

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/0...

Second, the states where there are the highest rates of student indebtedness are South Dakota and West Virginia. Those sound like places where a lot of people major in gender studies? Oh, and California has the third lowest student indebtedness score.

https://wallethub.com/edu/best...

Also, the states with the highest rates of student default are (in order) Mississippi, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Nevada. Do those sound like places where students are clamoring to get basket-weaving degrees? And, the kicker is that the state with the lowest rate of student loan delinquency? If you guessed "Massachusetts" (and I know you didn't) then you would be right.

HornWumpus, you know, sometimes the thing that feels so much like it should be real...just isn't.

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That's going to leave a mark...

Recent report is that Apple's service revenue go soar to $50B. The market is bullish on Apple's prospects on their service side. They don't need to sell devices alone to make up their revenue. Apple's business has always been a mix of hardware, software, and services.

Apple beats earrings most quarters, because blah blah blah

No. Apple beat earnings this quarter for exactly one reason: The 41.3 million iPhones shipped during the third quarter is basically flat from the year-ago period, but the ASP of $724 is a notable jump from the year-ago period. In otherwords, squeezed more money from each brain-damaged Apple cultist. with only one possible result: Apple's 17% slice of the smartphone pie will get smaller.

Not that I can really think of any other way for AAPL to keep its share price flying high. But anybody who isn't high on Apple Kookaid can see where it goes.

While the Android makers continue to lose money, selling less and less of their crappy phones, instead of staying flat. That's the wrong kind of winning, you dumbass.

Apple beats earrings most quarters, because blah blah blah

No. Apple beat earnings this quarter for exactly one reason: The 41.3 million iPhones shipped during the third quarter is basically flat from the year-ago period, but the ASP of $724 is a notable jump from the year-ago period. In otherwords, squeezed more money from each brain-damaged Apple cultist. with only one possible result: Apple's 17% slice of the smartphone pie will get smaller.

Not that I can really think of any other way for AAPL to keep its share price flying high. But anybody who isn't high on Apple Kookaid can see where it goes.

> There is no "fun" way to learn calculus.

Bullshit. Go read A Mathematician's Lament

First off, having one teacher for ~30 students is an absolutely shitty way to teach. The fast learners are bored while they wait for the rest of the class. The slow learners are always struggling as they try to understand concepts. The best kind of teaching is one on one, self-directed learning.

When I was in high school one of my classmates was struggling to get 50% in Trigonometry. I spent one hour with him and he got 80% on the next test. The teacher thought he cheated until I said I tutored him. He was NOT stupid -- he just learnt a DIFFERENT way from HOW the teacher was teaching. A good teacher MUST use different ways of learning: Algebraic, Visual, Tactile, Auditory. The focus is HEAVY on symbol manipulation with some visual learning, and almost zero tactile or auditory modalities of learning.

The fact that Music is not a required course shows how brain-dead the education system is. Music and Mathematics go together like a ball and glove. So what happens? We neuter Mathematics and then wonder why the kids are bored out of their fucking minds. Gee, lets ignore 80% of the OTHER fun ways to learn.

Kids used to learn cyclic addition aka Number Theory's modular arithmetic when they were taught how to read an analog clock. No one ever stopped to tell them that they were doing advanced math. Gee, who knew!

Calculus is differentiation (sub-dividing things into infinitesimals) and integration (summing infinitesimals up) -- it isn't rocket science. The secret to teaching all mathematics is make it _engaging._ You can make a game out of ANYTHING. But that involves work -- and teachers don't have time to prepare for that. Their schedule is already over-loaded -- they don't have time to personalize and individualize learning because we don't value it and give the excuse that we can't afford it. But yet we can make missiles that cost a million each. Our financial priories are completely fucked up so we are left with a crap teaching modality.

> but the raw mechanics of calc and differential equations aren't things you can master by doing anything other than rote work

Again bullshit. That's because that is used as a Litmus test to tell if the students know how to _apply_ the concepts. Having students repeat mind-numbering, boring, exercises is the symptom of a shitty teaching methodology. That's not to say "practice" is bad, but practice for practice sake is stupid. The difference is musicians and great teachers know: perfect practice makes perfect. You need to be practicing the _right_ things. Doing the same set of dumb exercises over and over doesn't teach kids critical thinking -- only formulaic, no-original-thought, regurgitated memorization.

When you engage students one on one, and go at _their_ pace, they are able to learn, and apply, FAR faster more then the traditional, indoctrination, mode of "teaching".

If learning isn't fun -- then you are doing it wrong.

The funny of it is, if you add up how much we pay administering the current welfare system--the thousands and thousands of bureaucrats who administer things like Electronic Benefit Transfer cards, who determine what items you are allowed to buy, who determine if you qualify, who police the system--we could provide a reasonably generous UBI to everyone with nearly no administrative overhead.

Remember: a proper UBI replaces EVERYTHING, including tax deductions normally enjoyed by higher-income individuals, such as tax deductions for children (as children also receive a UBI), mortgage tax deductions, tax deductions for retirement savings, tax credits for paying for college. The idea is to eliminate the unfairness that is intrinsically tied into all of these separate programs, each which have their own target audiences, administrative bureaucracies and qualifications.

I don't think it will be that easy.

To me the big unsolved problem with UBI is still going to be people at the margins. There's always going to be a portion of people who are really bad at managing their money, only 39% of Americans can handle a $1k hit right now, presumably most of the remaining 61% are employed, meaning that even with a UBI they'd still be $1k away from financial trouble.

Think about what will actually happen with a UBI. Some people will spend it on a big mortgage, or they'll find a way to borrow against it by building up credit card debt, or they'll have a substance abuse problem and spend everything on feeding their habit. Or they'll just have zero savings like most people do now and a major expense will come up and cause ruin.

So even with a UBI we still have homelessness, we still have kids going hungry, we still have families with their heat and power shut off, and we're still going to need programs to deal with those people.

Not sure how anyone could be surprised about this. If you're an investor, you damn well better be paying attention to what the company is doing, and in April when Mark Zuckerberg delivered his prepared testimony to Congress, he laid it all out:

"I've directed our teams to invest so much in security — on top of the other investments we're making — that it will significantly impact our profitability going forward. But I want to be clear about what our priority is: protecting our community is more important than maximizing our profits."

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/0...

It was the biggest daily loss in stock market history
You could maybe argue it's only due to inflation. Intel's daily loss of $90 Billion in 2000 would be bigger in inflation adjusted terms for example.
But to argue it's only a "minor retracement" is just pants on head retarded.

It's not like it was the biggest loss in stock market history or anything...except it was.

Total assets = $27.3B
Total liabilities = $21,6B

In the quarter ended March 31, Tesla's net loss widened to a record $784.6 million, or $4.19 per share, from a loss of $397.2 million, or $2.04 per share, a year ago.

Source

Tesla is pretty volatile, so using an average, Tesla can stay in business for another 9 quarters. Yeah, I'd say that's trouble. After those nine quarters are up, time to buy a Volt. There aren't going to be any more OEM parts being produced from Tesla.

I think slashdot ate them as part of the "undo moderation" prompt.

Here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/0...
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16...

Also, what's "ironic" about broken links in this context? Are you sure you understand the word?

As I replied to GP: Bullshit.

Have you tried falsifying your own theory? (Specifically, the theory that media outlets don't call bad Democrats, Democrats?) If you haven't, you aren't really trying to be rational - you're just trying to create a narrative that's intellectually comfortable for you and that won't challenge any of your preferences.

3 counterexamples that show you're wrong, from 10 seconds of googling:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politi... [nbcnews.com]
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/0... [cnbc.com]
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16... [cnn.com]

On the other hand, let's take Roy Moore is always labeled with republican. And that type of lie-by-omission has been going on for quite a while.

Bullshit. This may have happened in a couple cases, but the media goes out of their way to rag on liberals when they get the chance because they work hard to try to achieve balanced reporting. That's tough to do because the GOP of late is so consistently stupid and/or evil that journalists have to really dig to find liberal stories that begin to compare.

Example:
In ALL of these articles from the "MSM", Al Franken is declared prominently as a Democrat.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/0...
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16...

Your contention that the media doesn't label bad democrats as democrats is just wrong. The Republican media persecution complex is disgusting. Any evidence that contradicts your worldview is immediately dismissed as a biased product of the "MSM" conspiracy. If you don't want reporting on your politician's misdeeds, don't choose pedophiles, adulterers, and blundering idiots to lead your party.

Trumps steel tariffs have created the worst kind of red tape. The exemption process gives the government control over who can purchase steel and from whom.

Trump's answer to the retaliatory tariffs is to dole out billions of taxpayer money to those affected. In this case the government will be picking the winners and losers.

JP Morgan don't seem too impressed

Brinkman reaffirmed his $180 December 2018 price target for Tesla shares, representing 44 percent downside from Thursday's close

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/2...

And that's how the cycle goes. Someone posts a hit piece, everyone sees it, the fact come out later, and almost nobody sees them.

The reality (which one might have guessed from the original article in that some of the suppliers contacted by WSJ had never heard of the request) turned out to be that:

1) There were fewer than 10 suppliers that were contacted by Tesla.

2) They were not concerning past contracts; they were concerning ongoing contracts. While it may not seem fair, automakers using their bully pulpit to renegotiate with suppliers for ongoing contracts is standard industry practice.

3) These were not concerning parts suppliers; these were suppliers contracted with Tesla on capex projects.

4) None of these things will affect the Q3 profits picture.

That's because he is down to more or less just his psycho base supporters. An alarmingly large group but they support him no matter how crazy he gets.

Actually it's because the public has become immune to the constant Russia hysteria. When a CNN producer (John Bonifield) and a news anchor (Van Jones) are caught on video saying that "there's nothing to the Russia collusion", and "we talk about it all the time for ratings", people tend to stop believing the collusion narrative.

Since Trump came into office, the US is exporting weapons to Ukraine and cutting into Russia's profits on energy exports, it becomes difficult to accuse him of working for Russia as those are actions that were directly in his power that work against Russia.

Sources:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...
http://thehill.com/homenews/me...
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/0...

America is the only country in the world where it's leader is actively pushing for more coal to be burned. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/2...
https://www.politico.com/story...
Don't take my word for it, stick 'Trump' and 'coal' into Google, pull your head out of your arse and enlighten yourself.

Actually, Norway has been quite good about avoiding the temptation of spending like drunken sailors from that fund. Also, social democracies aren't Marxist. They're capitalist systems with a high tax rate and a strong social safety net. If you look at economic freedom ratings Norway (and other Scandinavian countries) are comparable to the U.S. as opposed to the countries that follow some form of Marxist philosophy (Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea). Those Scandinavian countries even have lower corporate tax rates than the U.S. as well.

There are not enough jobs.

There are more jobs than people out of work

GROWING problem

You sure?

This is great! I thought being a founder of something was an indelible historical event, but apparently, you can step down from being a founder! I'm going to go found some evil groups right away...once I step down, I won't be a founder any more, so I will be absolved forever. Awesome!

Is that you, Papa John?

No, they said 'factory', NOT 'next factory'. That is a huge difference. And considering that Tesla sells a great deal more cars in Europe than in China, I would be amazed if China comes first. Keep in mind that if a factory is cheap to put in Europe, that he has just as much, if not more, incentive to go with Europe. And with all the gear there, it would be cheap, easy, and fast.

Tesla has signed an agreement to build a factory in Shanghai

Buffet is richer in non-monetary ways and is certainly more respected. Buffet has given away more than $46 billion since 2000. Comparing monetary richness against someone who's given away a massive amount of his fortune is just meaningless.

You sir, are very demonstrably ignorant of this issue. I'm so sick and tired of you right-wing American F**ks who do not understand the FIRST THING about universal health care. First, yes, Canadians travel to the US for healthcare but many Americans also come here because it's WAY, WAY cheaper to pay for world-class hospital care here if you need it and are not covered in the US (which is about 11% of the overall American population according to: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/1... ). BTW, in Canada, that number is 0%. Everyone is covered; well, unless you're an American coming up here trying to get healthcare 'cause you'll die in the US - then you'll have to pay for it... about 25% or so of typical US charges for many things. *WE* may travel to the US because it's FASTER to get certain types of procedures in the US - specifically elective and those for non-life threatening conditions - and pay an insane amount of money for it. Obviously, this means RICH Canadians. Having had three major surgeries here in Vancouver over the last four years, which were all performed by extremely qualified surgeons and support teams in a timely manner even though none of them were for life-threatening conditions in the short term. In the US, my insurer (if I was lucky enough to have one) would probably still be dicking me around on wether or not they'd cover it. I can also tell you that if I had been in the US, as an independent software developer, it's very unlikely I'd have any coverage at all except for perhaps under the ACA. So there. While I wish no ill on you just because you're a right-wing 'tard, part of me kinda hopes that you find yourself suddenly without HC and with no ability to pay for it - and needing it or you'll die. Then maybe you'll get it.

From the first article: "more people moved out of California to other states than moved in from other states"

And yes, it's only a fraction of the population, but that population growth isn't coming from other states. It's immigrants, and new children. The size of your economy should be helping you with all of those folks living on your streets, but apparently that's not working out so well.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/1...

But don't worry, it's only about 134,000 people as of 2017 (up 13.7% from the year before)

Right...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/1...
https://www.investors.com/poli...
https://www.bizjournals.com/sa...

My theory is that in many US cities the current taxi service is awful, so people who live there assume taxis are rubbish everywhere.
However, they are really good in some places, for example where I live, and London. This means Uber has no choice but to compete on price, meaning everytime someone hops into an Uber taxi the company loses money.

If you also factor in Uber attemping to evade their obligations as a taxi company and an employer they might not have much of a future.

What seems to be driving the massive cost increase is that free care is increasing, government payments are capped, and the surviving health care providers are squeezing the last handful of us who can still pay the bills.

Nope, it's because of the insane profits. Your healthcare is expensive because you have the worst possible system.

This is not even controversial, you pay more and receive less than other western countries because so much of what you pay goes to make the healthcare companies lots and lots of money.

unlike the US with 12.7 percent living in poverty.

It's a lot worse than that.

It's worth pointing out that this type of response by drivers is predictable. Not necessarily watching TV but zoning out in one way or another. You'll see Tesla trot out the excuse every time as well: "This system requires constant monitoring by the driver, it's not really fully self-driving, and the crash was the driver's fault for not paying attention when they should have."

But: equal--or even more--blame has to go to the designers of the system and testing protocol for not taking this obvious and well known fact about human behavior into consideration when designing their system and their testing protocol.

It's a simple fact of human behavior that once the system looks like it's working OK for a few dozen to a few hundred miles, you assume it's OK and you start to tune out.

In reality, drivers average between 90 million (auto v. auto fatalities) and 480 million (auto v. pedestrian fatalities) miles between fatal collisions. So a system that can manage to go a few dozen or a few hundred miles without anything disastrous happening is still many orders of magnitude less capable than even the worst human driver. But once the automated system has driven a certain route a few times successfully, just about any human "monitor" is going to start have confidence in the system and tune out.

There are many ways around this issue, and companies shouldn't be allowed to test self-driving systems out on the public roads without using some or all of them:

  * Far more extensive testing can be done using simulators etc before going live on public roads. They should be testing many billions of miles in this type of environment first. Some companies are putting more emphasis on this now (ie, nVidia). All should be required to do this or something similar.

  * Far more testing should be done on tracks & other non-public locations before testing proceeds on public roads.

  * Systems should not be allowed to be tested on the public roads until they have proven they are actually capable.

  * If systems do require human "safety drivers" as a backup then various monitoring systems and protocols must be in place to ensure that the humans are actually doing the work. You can't just hire random people at $12/hour, give them 3 hours of training, and hope. That is guaranteed failure.

  * Companies doing this type of testing need to be 100% responsible for anything that goes wrong. The fact that some employee wasn't doing something 100% right is no excuse. The companies need to have enough of a safety culture, safety system, and safety protocol in place that they know whether or not any individual tester is doing what they should or not.

  * Most of all, these safety-critical systems must be engineered in an environment of safety-critical engineering. Not the "move fast and break things" bullshit software development culture that is currently so pervasive.

"Move fast and break things" might be a great philosophy for developing a cell phone app, but operating a motor vehicle is a safety critical system operating in an environment with very high risk of serious injury and death. The systems and the testing must be designed to take this seriously from top to bottom.

FWIW Uber's corporate culture is like the polar opposite of this from top to bottom.

Congress is trying to pass a bill to allow nationwide testing of self-driving vehicle that is laughably lacking in any type of oversight. More here:

http://saferoads.org/2018/06/1...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/1...

You realize that Visa just eats the cost of credit card fraud and passes it on to merchants, right? Last year was $16 Billion. B. Billion. YEARLY. In the US. (But, that's all identify theft).

Now, Visa (and credit cards as a whole) is a monetary system. No doubt about it. A privately run monetary system that charges merchants the right to accept money, and takes a slice of every transaction. Anyone with your number can go to nearly any store online in any country and spend YOUR money. But Visa is pretty good about identifying fraud, forgiving the customer, and then just eating it. LIKEWISE, anyone with the key to your bitcoins can simply take your money, but there's no-one taxing all the merchants in the world to offset it.

before they're ready to adopt crypto on a daily use basis.

I honestly don't see that happening. It's pretty trivial to make phone transfers, or something that works like a credit card (And then a massive rollout for merchants to switch their PoS systems, which is happening with Google and Apple's pay by phone systems). But the transaction times would have to come down to seconds. Which isn't going to happen for bitcoin, and probably any other crypto that gets popular. Maybe if there was a culture of "I'll trust this $5 action will clear eventually, go on your way". But... hell dude, it works GREAT for Internet purchases. They don't ship till it clears. Easy peasy. There's really nothing in the way of Amazon accepting bitcoin... you know, other than the wildly fluctuating value.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=electricity_in_the_united_states

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electricity_consumption

Reuters, Forbes, CNBC and others report that the US solar industry lost about 10,000 jobs in 2017. And that's after an initial increase of jobs in 2017 that promised to be about 17 times faster than the total US economy.

Yeah, I think Trump has curtailed the adoption of renewable energy. But it's just my opinion. I could be wrong. Wouldn't surprise me. Often am.

Initial report of job growth:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/24/news/economy/solar-jobs-us-coal/index.html

Reports of job loss:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuarhodes/2018/01/23/solar-tariff-a-direct-hit-to-fastest-growing-job-market-in-us/

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/07/us-solar-industry-lost-nearly-10000-jobs-in-2017.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-solar-jobs/u-s-solar-industry-lost-nearly-10000-jobs-in-2017-idUSKBN1FR15O

The ocean pollution problem apparently comes from ten rivers located in Asia. North and South America are not killing whales. This is just another pointless feel-good move to show that "they care" in Chile.

That's pretty much my assessment - macro sized plastic from third world countries, and microsphere plastic from developed places.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/1...

http://www.digitaljournal.com/...

Cites provided because the prominent search results blame countries that already recycle a lot of plastic. Making someone in those countries feel guilty about themselves, while doing nothing about the Pacific Rim countries will accomplish exactly nothing.

This is not to say plastic in the oceans is not a problem. It's that completely eliminating the first world contributions to the problem will stall out at a 10 percent reduction.

Nonsense. Requiring quarterly profit statements brings much needed accountability to organizations. If you feel you need a pass for a number of quarters, discuss it with your shareholders (eg Musk). The pressure for companies to deliver regular results is one of the things driving our economies (read: quality of life) so much higher. If you were smart, you'd demand the same thing of your software projects and force a regular production deployment. If you're just going to complain about how things aren't fantastic for those living in North America, or that things are getting worse, well... probably means you can't see the forest from the trees. Objectively compare standard of living at the end of each decade over the last century and there is only one logical conclusion.

Not according to Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon. "When companies get where they're sort of living by so-called making the numbers, they do a lot of things that really are counter to the long-term interests of the business," Buffett said.

Note that these large fund managers like Voya and Fidelity have pretty ready access to information about their customers. They know how old they are, they see how much is saved, they likely kjnow what their salay is, and they can do the math a zillion different ways to figure out where people are fucking up. They can tell you average balance (terribly low), they can tell you annual contribution (also too low), and they can also tell you how many people cracked the million dollar mark - too few. So yeah, these companies are in a pretty good position to sound the alarm - and they have been.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/0...

Crimes don't matter, fraud doesn't matter, lies don't matter. We're living in the post-truth age.

Especially since Holmes was a big Clinton supporter, even going so far as to host a Hillary 2016 fundraiser at her company Theranos headquarters in Silicon Valley.

http://fm.cnbc.com/application...

I don't know that Holmes was particularly liberal or progressive, she probably just figured if she became a well-connected Democrat insider like her buddy Hillary Clinton, she would be safe from prosecution for whatever crimes she committed. And she's probably right.

Tesla is the most shorted stock in history.

This gives many, many people an incentive to trash-talk the company, so that the stock tanks and they can make money.

Investors don't short stock in hopes that trash talk brings the price down, they short based on the risks to success they feel exist, the financial sheet, and the ongoing performance of the company in general. There are many more people long on Tesla which would mean even more incentive out there to 'hype' the company.

Do you know any other tunes? It turns out what you're playing for is only the beginning of the story. Here is something from the middle.

Vicious truck attack kills 84 during France fireworks display
Berlin massacre reminiscent of deadly Nice attack (12 dead, 48 injured)
Barcelona attack as it happened: At least 13 dead and 100 injured after van hits crowd in act of terror

We don't know how it will end yet, but the portents aren't good.

German Intel Report Reveals Extent Of Islamist Infiltration In Germany

You can avert your eyes if you want to, or refuse to hear, but that will not stop the truck, bomb, knife, machinegun, . . .

How Edward Snowden Changed the Habits of a Terrorist

There is only one person I know who changed behavior because of Snowden. In October of last year, I traveled to Kenya to meet members of al Shabaab, an al Qaeda linked group that had pulled off a spectacular attack on an upscale mall in Nairobi a month earlier. One of the members, a man named Abdul, changed the SIM card on his mobile repeatedly. When I asked him why, he gave me a one-word answer:

“Snowden.”

It's all good, right?

Tesla is the most shorted stock in history.

This gives many, many people an incentive to trash-talk the company, so that the stock tanks and they can make money.

"Oh, but wait: if you look at the numbers this way, it shows that Tesla will crash and burn any day now."

or,

"Musk is a serial liar, literally nothing that comes out of his mouth is true. The company is run by incompetent nincompoops and Musk is one bad day swsy from a psychotic break"

Tesla will either crash and burn, or be completely out of the woods, in 3 months. Call it 6 months just for some wiggle room: by the end of the year, Tesla will be either gone or a rock solid investment.

What you are seeing is a bunch of last-ditch efforts to try and crash the stock so people can make some money from it.

Fortunately, many Tesla investors have realized that news reports about Tesla don't matter (I read one report that said exactly that, but can't find it ATM). They're going to wait out the summer storm and see a stronger, better company in the Fall.

Stock prices have dipped *slightly* over the last month, but have largely recovered.

Investors are keen to wait out the storm. Check back in 6 months time.

In fact, it is losing money hand-over-fist and not likely to around much longer

Uh....$200M a year is just a little bit away from "losing money hand-over-fist".

It makes no difference that MS already has it's own service

Microsoft was already using GitHub.

I'm sure the other major cloud players will be either buying up the other small guys or rolling their own soon

Actually, the trend is for the major players like Google and MS to wind down their efforts and go with...GitHub. Wonder why MS bought them.......

Currently Amazon does have a "code repository" product, but it's primarily focused on housing your private repo. It's part of their push to have to do all your coding, building, issue tracking, testing, deploying and hosting on their servers. While you could make a public repo there, it isn't their main focus.

No they don't pay $70k per employee

When you strip away the reference to the original Politico article that claimed to quote from the actual application but conveniently failed to provide a copy, the only verifiable fact in your link is that Trump wants to build walls to control erosion that's actually happening today.

Bullshit. Sources abound. For example, here is the original article. I suppose you think dozens or hundreds of news outlets around the world are all lying about this?

If you're presenting that as evidence that he believes in climate change, what does that say about all the environmental groups that oppose the walls?

It doesn't work that way, and you know it. I'm presenting his claim that the damage was caused by climate change as evidence that he believes in climate change. The environmental groups that oppose the walls also believe in climate change (you can ask them) but they oppose the seawalls because seawalls cause problems.

Do you have any arguments which are not logically fallacious?

They're leaving too, check it out: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/1...