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States which have legalized marijuana have seen increases in automobile accidents since legalization. Up to 6% more accidents.

What about other drugs? Is this technology going to test for their presence as well?

Actually he did.
http://fortune.com/2018/10/08/...

Next bullshit point?

I didn't give the original figure, but I'll jump in on the topic with some sources:
Regulations Cost U.S. Business More Than Canada’s GDP
The accumulation of rules over the past several decades has slowed economic growth, amounting to an estimated $4 trillion loss in US GDP in 2012 (had regulations stayed at 1980 levels)

A study published in the Journal of Economic Growth in 2013 finds that between 1949 and 2005 the accumulation of federal regulations slowed US economic growth by an average of 2 percent per year.[5] Had the amount of regulation remained at its 1949 level, 2011 GDP would have been about $39 trillion—or 3.5 times—higher than it was.

From: John W. Dawson and John J. Seater, “Federal Regulation and Aggregate Economic Growth,” Journal of Economic Growth 12, no. 2 (2013): 137–77.

http://fortune.com/2019/01/31/...

There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case.

Yeah, that frustrates me too. Rotten Tomatoes is no longer showing "do I want to watch this?" so I can't make any assessment. I'd want to know whether the volume of "do I want to watch this" ratings for Captain Marvel is significantly different from that for other MCU films. If it is, that suggests trolling/bombing. If it's not, that suggests genuine sentiment.

Before rottentomateos scrubbed it the main "not interested" group was made up of old accounts greater than 8 years. Feel free to look up the archived snapshots if you want, wayback, archive.co, whatever go have fun.

Oh that's a good idea! I did just that. Here are how many people voted yes or no on the "I want to see this movie" button on rotten tomatoes, as of 10 days prior to each movie's release:

• Captain Marvel - 44,735 voters - https://web.archive.org/web/20...
• Ant Man and the Wasp - 11,503 voters - https://web.archive.org/web/20...
• Avengers: Infinity War - 10,536 voters - https://web.archive.org/web/20...
• Black Panther - 33,540 voters - https://web.archive.org/web/20...
• Thor Ragnarok - 49,917 voters - https://web.archive.org/web/20...
• Spider Man Homecoming - 52,536 voters - https://web.archive.org/web/20...
• Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 - 53,872 voters - https://web.archive.org/web/20...
• Doctor Strange - 47,723 voters - https://web.archive.org/web/20...

These numbers flat out don't make sense. I don't know much about MCU but my perception of the hype was that "DrStrange (47k), AntMan+Wasp (11k), CaptainMarvel (45k)" were all minor films about minor characters, while "GOG2 (54k), BlackPanther (34k), InfinityWar (11k)" are major films that were massively hyped.

Oh speaking of how well is the moving going to do? They've already revised the opening weekend downward twice, and now are expecting it to not clear $100m on opening weekend.

I wanted to understand your claim in context. Here's some good context, from two weeks ago:

https://deadline.com/2019/02/c... (Feb 14th)
Outside of Iron Man‘s $102M and Black Panther‘s $202M, no other Marvel origins film has opened to north of $100M, particularly those in the deeper universe, i.e. Doctor Strange ($85M) and Guardians of the Galaxy ($94.3M)...
Another box office industry source informed us on Captain Marvel‘s $100M start: “Give or take $20M”.

http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/... (Feb 14th)
early tracking data suggests the Brie Larson-helmed superhero film is heading toward a $100 million opening-weekend haul at the box office. That would make it one of the highest-grossing Marvel-movie openings of all time, and put it close to the $103 million earned by DC’s Wonder Woman film during

Critics at least try to look at the movie for what it is

LOL. No they don't. They are the most obvious shills on the internet and the old business model of independent critics is coming to an end. Critics now have to compete with regular viewers which is apparently a problem. Can't have people disagree with critics/narrative or else they be racist sexist trolls!

The Orville Season 1 hated by critics. What changed in season 2? How can you go from creatively, morally, and ethically bankrupt to it's all characters stories in the space adventure return and that's a good thing. When it's the same show/formula nothing major different? I am all for people changing their mind but there are plenty of these kind of examples and that kind of 180 is a little ridiculous. Media producers are buying up critic sites so in many cases there is a conflict of interest to say something bad.

Online trolls do not explain why box office numbers are down . It doesn't explain Oscar viewership at the 2nd lowest record. And it certainly doesn't explain the garbage that is being produced and hailed as the 2nd coming of sliced bread. Do not disagree lest ye be troll!

I think Steve Jobs was an asshole, but I also consider him a hero and more importantly a genius.

And I think Elon Musk is an idiot, but he's also a genius...and a hero. Okay, maybe not a hero, but I'm jealous of his success and I really do wish I had a Tesla and also a rocket that could launch me to Mars.

I'll get a Tesla sooner or later. As soon as the transmission falls out of my 20 year old Detroit garbage which the "Check Engine" light tells me is due to happen any mile now.

I do keep hearing horror stories about Teslas, but most of them sound overblown and I've been hearing horror stories about cars all my life. Did you ever hear the one about the Pinto?

I only say Musk is an idiot because he sometimes blurts out stupid stuff that he probably wouldn't say if he weren't so stoned (kind of like me). All the problems with Tesla...quality control, production numbers, whatever...those are all expected from a relatively new car manufacturer and when was the last time a new car manufacturer ramped up to the level of Ford or GM?

Tesla still has a long way to go, but when Ford recalls nearly 2 million vehicles.... I dunno...I guess when Ford recalls 2 million vehicles I'm glad I drive a Chrysler.

So Ford just recalled 1.8 million vehicles which nearly equals their annual production of 1.9 million vehicles. Holy shit! Can you imagine the bad press that would ensue if Tesla had to do that? But with Ford, hardly anyone blinks an eye.

Fortune.com reported over 700 million iPhones in use in 2017 with an expected billion within a few years.

If only a tenth of one percent of those iPhones were owned by someone who uses Linux on their desktop. you have a million folk impacted.

Sure, Linux is a niche, but when you're the size of Apple, even small percentages quickly become big numbers. Let's be conservative ans say just 20% of Linux users buy their iPhone new - that still points to 140 million in revenue, not including any app store sales.

Right and how many of THOSE, actually have to go to iforgot.apple.com on a Linux based browser at a given time. I mean really... if your only computers are an iPhone and Linux desktop, then log in from someone else’s phone if the iPhone is out of commission. Buy a chrome book. Use a work computer, a tablet, anything. When was it that fucking hard to find another browser.. in 2019 ffs really.

And you don't think male CEOs have pulled crap like that?

They surely have pulled crap like that.

The fun is when people go into denial that it is even possible for a woman to pull crap like that. In fact, a large number of people believe and claim that Elizabeth holmes is the victim in all of this. https://www.businessinsider.co... I wonder what he thinks today? Anyhow, we have been force fed the concept that women are not only capable of being CEOs - of course they are - but that they are remarkably better than men. Even just being a mother makes you a better CEO http://fortune.com/2015/05/07/...

So while in an equality based system - yes women can be just as qualified to run a company as men - we aren't in an equality based system, we are in one that states that men are inferior to woman in the matter of leading companies .

And that is simply bullshit. But we can look forward to more women grifters taking advantage of the political climate.

The issue was political correctness. Frankly it don't care if they are female, black or identify as an Apache attach helicopter. I very pointedly did not object to the fact that she is female. My issue is that people allowed the PC narrative to trump established best practices.

Theranos is a story I've been following for years. As you can see the concerns with their business practices go back years. Rational review never would have allowed Theranos to survive as it did.

https://www.darkintelligencegr...
http://fortune.com/2015/10/27/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://fortune.com/2015/10/27/...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

The issue was political correctness. Frankly it don't care if they are female, black or identify as an Apache attach helicopter. I very pointedly did not object to the fact that she is female. My issue is that people allowed the PC narrative to trump established best practices.

Theranos is a story I've been following for years. As you can see the concerns with their business practices go back years. Rational review never would have allowed Theranos to survive as it did.

https://www.darkintelligencegr...
http://fortune.com/2015/10/27/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://fortune.com/2015/10/27/...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

Fortune.com reported over 700 million iPhones in use in 2017 with an expected billion within a few years.

If only a tenth of one percent of those iPhones were owned by someone who uses Linux on their desktop. you have a million folk impacted.

Sure, Linux is a niche, but when you're the size of Apple, even small percentages quickly become big numbers. Let's be conservative ans say just 20% of Linux users buy their iPhone new - that still points to 140 million in revenue, not including any app store sales.

"Average life expectancy keeps going up in the USA not down."

Um, no?

http://fortune.com/2018/02/09/...

For more information on why this is on Congress. ITEP notes that its non-existent federal tax payment is a result of the Trump Administrationâ(TM)s corporation-friendly tax cuts. The think tank writes that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act not only decreased corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%, but it also didnâ(TM)t close âoea slew of tax loopholes that allow profitable companies to routinely avoid paying federal and state income taxes on almost half of their profits.â According to The Week, Amazon ended up paying an 11.4% federal income tax rate between 2011 and 2016, which is a contrast to the -1% rate this year. http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/...

The smartest man in the world believes vaccines are a danger.

http://fortune.com/2017/02/16/...

Tax breaks are a reduction in expenses. It is not income received.

When this deal was originally discussed on /., there were many ignorant people pushing this incorrect narrative then. I see that you did not learn the truth at that time.

If I gross 100K dollars, and pay 30 percent of that in taxes, I have how much.

If I gross 100K dollars, and pay nothing, I have how much?

If I gross 100K dollars, and am paid money because reasons, I have 100K dollars plus what that payment to me is.

The funny money folks always make up schemes and cute designations. It's how money can be hidden.

Anyhow, "Although the state measures to attract Foxconn are labeled tax incentives, they largely would be paid in cash since the effective Wisconsin state tax rate is 0.4% on manufacturers."

and

"The incentives include up to $1.5 billion in state income tax credits for job creation and up to $1.35 billion in state income tax credits for capital investment. Foxconn is eligible for additional local incentives.

"The company is eligible for refundable tax credits equal to 17% of wages paidinstead of the typical 7% and 15% of capital costs instead of 10%." sauce: http://fortune.com/2017/07/31/...

So while you can strut around like I have no idea what I'm talking about, we have payments that are called tax incentives, and up to 3 billion of these tax incentives or what us great unwashed call.... ahem...payments. Who can tell for certain? All the interim steps and misleading names are just accounting tricks.

There is something I call Realekonimik, similar to realpolitik. One might call it "cash in pocket after all of the bullshit." Realekonomik calls these massive incentives to be taxpayer subsidies to a non-US company. It's like paying a woman to date you. She makes money, and you end up poorer and looking like a fool. And as soon as you stop paying her, she'll dump you and find some other willing dope.

This is a bum deal, pretty plain.

Even if it did matter it still would not matter because no professional data firm would put PII at risk anyway and would always keep data in the proper hands. Of course, feel free to keep preaching otherwise to yourself if you like wasting your own time in bouts of what ifs.

Oh, you mean like this data firm?

"Facebook and Twitter hold a huge amount of users' personal data while LinkedIn includes users' professional data. Data from real-estate site Zillow was also roped in to create these consolidated user profiles. Researchers believe these profiles containing sensitive and personally identifiable information is highly coveted and targeted by hackers."

Or, perhaps this one? I mean, it's Google, right? They've never had this problem before, right?

Oh, wait! Maybe you mean this one!

I believe we, as a society, and as a global people, need to put Google, and others who hoover up and trade in peoples' data in their place. We need to get up off our collective butts, find or create an alternative to the service(s) offered by them. Start with Google. Bankrupt them and bury them. Fast and hard. Perhaps that will teach the others like them to think twice before engaging in this chicanery.

Show us those places then ami.

Well, there is the USA.
http://fortune.com/2017/12/21/...
https://news.aamc.org/press-re...

100 corporations are responsible for 71% of carbon emissions.

That headline is misleading. From the article, "These companies, led by Saudi Aramco, Russian gas giant Gazprom, and Exxon Mobil, have produced about 923 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents between 1988 to 2016."

Those companies produce oil and natural gas. So who's "responsible" for carbon emissions: the people who produce the oil and gas, or the people who burn the oil and gas? (As another note, people can use oil indirectly, for example by buying goods transported by ship, truck, or air: people tend to concentrate on their direct consumption while ignoring the indirect.)

Meaningful change is only going to come at the the policy level.

Probably true. A very large collection of individuals, acting together, could make a difference, but how likely is that?

I think one mistake people make is blaming, e.g., Big Oil. Corporations (in the US) have a disproportionate effect on government policy, but if people stopped buying oil-related products, Big Oil wouldn't be Big any more. It's always tempting to blame Somebody Else for problems, but I think the main problem is that billions of people just don't want change -- especially if they view the change as making them worse off. In addition, there's a lot of propaganda to convince people they don't need to change, or they don't need to change much.

I actually have some reusable plastic bags with the slogan, "I'm saving the planet". As if reusing plastic bags is going to save the planet.

100 corporations are responsible for 71% of carbon emissions.

False. CONSUMERS of products from those 100 companies are responsible for 71% of carbon emissions. ExxonMobil only sell gas to people who want it; if no one bought, they would quickly fold and go out of business. This is the ultimate pass-the-buck; it's not the companies, it's the consumers. But that tends to strike too close to home, so easier to blame some faceless corporation...

100 corporations are responsible for 71% of carbon emissions. Even if every would-be environmentalist dropped dead tomorrow and took themselves off the board, we'd still be in trouble (assuming you want carbon emissions to go down). Meaningful change is only going to come at the the policy level. As an individual the change you can effect isn't even a a drop in the bucket.

It's nice if you try to be "green" as an individual if it makes you feel good, but as a consumer it's not very obvious whether a given admittedly ineffective decision will actually be a net benefit, and it's unreasonable to expect every consumer to read an environmental impact report every time they buy a can of beans.

The vast majority of people loved TLJ. It's consistently polled high, it had extremely high ratings when viewers were polled on opening day, and Blu-ray sales are through the roof.

Here is some of SWTLJ's unprecedented popularity and success.:

http://fortune.com/2018/01/18/... So successful that they stopped showing it. But hey - thd Chinses market means absolutely nothing, it's nonexistent amirite? Disney doesn't need any money from them.

Fiugurine/promotional item sales are through the roof - never better! http://fortune.com/2018/01/18/...

That's okay, no one needs that stuff anyhow.

https://www.theguardian.com/fi...

Everything is doing so well that they put further spinoff movies off. Becoming more popular by austerity.

You sound like an SJW version of Republicans defending Trickle-down theory. Other than that - I've managed to be pretty successful in life by thanking people when I get criticisms, analyzing them, and acting on them to improve my product. I recently retired from running an event that had thousands of passionate fans. They stayed passionate because I respected that and them. Even if I disagreed with them. This doesn't mean I would take actual abuse. I had rules of no name calling, no threats, and keep swearing to a minimum. But they always knew I would listen. And they kept sending money so the happieness index was high.

As one wag noted about Rian Johnson's reaction to criticism - positively, I mimght add!"Eventually, Rian Johnson would hear the criticism made by fans, but ultimately decide it didn't matter." https://www.cinemablend.com/ne...

By the way - that would have been Johnson's last act in my employ. He'd be escorted out of the building by security. You work for me - you don't ignore the customer.

I take it that you approve of the idea that any criticsm must be responded to by calling the person offring it a sexist, racist, and too weak to handle your product. Because that was the Pro-TLJ narrative. https://www.salon.com/2018/07/...

Look - a critic might be wrong. But you don't just reject them by calling them names. They did care for your product enough to make the criticism. A variation on the "If we ignore the customer long enough, they'll quit bothering us"

Then there is the golden age of name calling: https://www.starwarsnewsnet.co... JJ. Abrams called them sexist and racist, but he really didn't because they are racist and sexist. Anytime you need your statements clarified its interesting.

Next time you get a performance review, try personally attacking your boss, if they offer anything other than glowing reviews of your perfection. Then deciding to ignore any critique. Then let us know how that works out for ya.

As I've told climate deniers, young earth creationists, anti-vaxxers, and now SJW Star Wars sycophants - You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Not even your alternative facts, Kellyanne!

The vast majority of people loved TLJ. It's consistently polled high, it had extremely high ratings when viewers were polled on opening day, and Blu-ray sales are through the roof.

Here is some of SWTLJ's unprecedented popularity and success.:

http://fortune.com/2018/01/18/... So successful that they stopped showing it. But hey - thd Chinses market means absolutely nothing, it's nonexistent amirite? Disney doesn't need any money from them.

Fiugurine/promotional item sales are through the roof - never better! http://fortune.com/2018/01/18/...

That's okay, no one needs that stuff anyhow.

https://www.theguardian.com/fi...

Everything is doing so well that they put further spinoff movies off. Becoming more popular by austerity.

You sound like an SJW version of Republicans defending Trickle-down theory. Other than that - I've managed to be pretty successful in life by thanking people when I get criticisms, analyzing them, and acting on them to improve my product. I recently retired from running an event that had thousands of passionate fans. They stayed passionate because I respected that and them. Even if I disagreed with them. This doesn't mean I would take actual abuse. I had rules of no name calling, no threats, and keep swearing to a minimum. But they always knew I would listen. And they kept sending money so the happieness index was high.

As one wag noted about Rian Johnson's reaction to criticism - positively, I mimght add!"Eventually, Rian Johnson would hear the criticism made by fans, but ultimately decide it didn't matter." https://www.cinemablend.com/ne...

By the way - that would have been Johnson's last act in my employ. He'd be escorted out of the building by security. You work for me - you don't ignore the customer.

I take it that you approve of the idea that any criticsm must be responded to by calling the person offring it a sexist, racist, and too weak to handle your product. Because that was the Pro-TLJ narrative. https://www.salon.com/2018/07/...

Look - a critic might be wrong. But you don't just reject them by calling them names. They did care for your product enough to make the criticism. A variation on the "If we ignore the customer long enough, they'll quit bothering us"

Then there is the golden age of name calling: https://www.starwarsnewsnet.co... JJ. Abrams called them sexist and racist, but he really didn't because they are racist and sexist. Anytime you need your statements clarified its interesting.

Next time you get a performance review, try personally attacking your boss, if they offer anything other than glowing reviews of your perfection. Then deciding to ignore any critique. Then let us know how that works out for ya.

As I've told climate deniers, young earth creationists, anti-vaxxers, and now SJW Star Wars sycophants - You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Not even your alternative facts, Kellyanne!

This is the US, i.e. the richest country in the world.

Not according to any relevant metric. In other news: American Football is not the most watched sport in the world and the US did not single-handedly beat the Nazi's in WWII.

The Democrats, and the majority of Americans, don't support the wall.

What are you talking about? A recent poll showed that 67% of Americans support the wall. A very small minority, around 15%, oppose it. The rest don't care. The Wall is incredibly popular.

Which poll was that?

Quinnipiac, December 18, 2018: "U.S. Voters Say No Wall And Don't Shut Down Government. ... American voters oppose building a wall on the Mexican border 54 - 43 percent and say 54 - 44 percent the wall is not necessary to improve border security, according to a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today. This is the highest level of support for the wall since the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN- uh-pe-ack) University National Poll first asked the question in November 2016."

"ABC 30 News, St Louis" (undated): "CBS Poll: 51% Of Americans Support Border Wall"

Fortune magazine, December 12, 2018: "69% of Americans Don’t Think Trump's Border Wall Is a Priority, Poll Says. ... More than two-thirds of Americans don’t think the wall should be a priority, according to a new poll by NPR, PBS News Hour and Marist. Only 28% of those polled answered that the border wall should be an immediate priority, while 19% replied it shouldn’t be an immediate priority, and 50% said it shouldn’t be a priority at all."

Huffington Post, January 3, 2019 (politically liberal): "Trump Says Country Wants Border Wall, But That’s Not What Polls Say"

"The Hill", December 28, 2018: "... a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill. The survey found that 56 percent of respondents do not support the president’s proposal to construct a wall along the southern border, compared to 44 percent who do."

Is it that no one is on hand to renew or that people are on hand and choosing not to do their job?

Most likely the administrators are not essential and thus cannot renew them. If they are furloughed they are nnot allowed to even check email, use a gov't issued phone, or do any work at all.

That's what some at the TSA are doing. Calling in sick to make matters worse. http://fortune.com/2019/01/11/...

Given the choice of working for no pay or doing something else to try to pay rent and buy food, yea I can see calling in sick to work a side job.

Also keep in mind that many in the federal bureaucracy were already "resisting" the moment Trump came into office.

Bullshit. I know a lot of feds, and they just want to do their jobs and carry out whatever policies the administration puts in place, even if they disagree with them. In a number of cases, all the turmoil has resulted in them not even being told what they are to do, what programs to drop, where to refocus efforts, etc.

Is it that no one is on hand to renew or that people are on hand and choosing not to do their job? That's what some at the TSA are doing. Calling in sick to make matters worse.
http://fortune.com/2019/01/11/...

Also keep in mind that many in the federal bureaucracy were already "resisting" the moment Trump came into office.

That's not true. Enron executives did go to jail.

It's possible that these people can be prosecuted, especially after repeated cases of fraud. But states are happy to get their slab of money and move on.

After all, with the number of problems facing the various ISP monopolies, one would think that states would work toward the ultimate fix: breaking the monopolies. These businesses can only continue to repeat their "mistakes" -- or, more accurately, get caught repeating their crimes -- if there's no competition for their entrapped customer base to shift over to after being shown the light.

I would hate to be one of these bait-and-switch customers who ends up being effectively forced to continue to get service from Comcast. Most likely their only alternative is high latency satellite or slow DSL.

Also, it is well established that Americans who eat processed meat have a higher rate of colon cancer

So, help me understand how it is that processed meat consumption is up, and colorectal cancer is down...

http://fortune.com/2018/01/02/...

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/col...

"The 1%" isn't some static group of people which never changes. Almost everyone is at some point in their lives in both the bottom 20% and the top 20% of income earners. That's just life.

For example:

PSID data show that by age 60:

– 70% of the population will have experienced at least one year within the top 20th percentile of income;

– 53% of the population will have experienced at least one year within the top 10th percentile of income; and

11.1% of the population will have found themselves in the much-maligned 1% of earners for at least one year of their lives.

At the same time, it’s much more rare for a person to reach the top 1% and stay there. According to PSID data, only 0.6% of the population will experience 10 consecutive years in the top 1% of earners.

were to automation not outsourcing. To be fair outsourcing makes it that much more painful for the few jobs left. But I think it's pretty clear that our current system of wealth distribution isn't going to hold up. As much as people hate it when people get money they didn't earn (which is funny, since rent seeking on the properties your dad willed to you is A-OK) we're either gonna have to get over all that puritanical bullshit or get comfortable with a dystopia of 1% haves and 99% have-nots.

Here's the thing folks, when 99% are the have nots you're probably not going to be one of the haves. But there's always pride. True story, buddy of mine's a basement dweller living at home in his 40s because he can't find a decent paying job (blue collar guy, couple of mental issues that means he can't hustle like you're expected to in 2018). If you ask him, he's middle class. And Taxed to the Max. I don't even know where he got the phrase, "Taxed to the Max", but he got it, and he's convinced he is, even though on the crappy wages he makes working part time he's not paying any taxes ourside of his vehicle registration on a 20 year old truck. This is what we're up against folks...

Well Intel literally paid OEM's to not offer AMD chips, and they still increase the amount of "reimbursements" they give to companies based on how many non-Intel chips they sell.

What are you complaining about, silly?

Volume discounts and rebates are standard business practices:

Intel's rebate payments to Dell maxed out that fiscal quarter, February to April 2006, at $805 million...

That figure represented 104% of Dell's net income for the quarter.

LOL, TIL Dell is still "in business" I thought it went belly up years ago.

Well Intel literally paid OEM's to not offer AMD chips, and they still increase the amount of "reimbursements" they give to companies based on how many non-Intel chips they sell.

What are you complaining about, silly?

Volume discounts and rebates are standard business practices:

Intel's rebate payments to Dell maxed out that fiscal quarter, February to April 2006, at $805 million...
 
That figure represented 104% of Dell's net income for the quarter.

we're 20 years out from self driving cars. Maybe 40. Heck, It'll never happen.

Now you just need to build it five to ten stories high with fireproofed wood pulp bricks, include modern HVAC, fiber and telecom, water and sewage, other machinery,...

I think you were being sarcastic but in fact they are planning to build a wooden skyscraper in Tokyo.

No, 5th. http://fortune.com/2018/05/05/...

Nice completely made up response though

they want to charge the originating companies extra fees for the ability to send text messages to their customers rather than charge the customers

Not so fast there! In California they want to start taxing the user for text messages.

Text Message Tax

We're also approaching the year when we were promised self-driving cars. 2018, or ~2017, or 2018. It's going to be a few years of failed predictions.

Good god. In the 1970s we were promised that by now you'd be living on Mars going to work in a automatic self-flying car while a flesh-covered robot masturbates you.

We're also approaching the year when we were promised self-driving cars. 2018, or ~2017, or 2018. It's going to be a few years of failed predictions.

Just like internet basically replaced broadcast TV, the reason why satellite TV will decline is in part because of the rise of wireless internet options (including satellite internet, like the satellites SpaceX plans to put up).

My mother lives fairly far out of a major city, to the point where cable is not offered - in the past few years she has gotten all internet and video options from a cellular wireless hotspot.

So why would she want to get an expensive satellite TV option when she can do anything over a fairly decent wireless internet connection?

Why indeed? Traditional TV is an overpriced pile of crap that cannot die quickly enough and I will not be crying any rivers when it does.

Just like internet basically replaced broadcast TV, the reason why satellite TV will decline is in part because of the rise of wireless internet options (including satellite internet, like the satellites SpaceX plans to put up).

My mother lives fairly far out of a major city, to the point where cable is not offered - in the past few years she has gotten all internet and video options from a cellular wireless hotspot.

So why would she want to get an expensive satellite TV option when she can do anything over a fairly decent wireless internet connection?

the only real proof is a past borrowing history.

Nah, you can always fudge the books and hardly get slapped on the wrist. Still happening today.

Yep, if only for safety. Small-pitch seats are much more difficult to evacuate in an emergency than seats with more legroom.

The last fatal crash of a US airliner was in 2009. The need to evacuate an aircraft is a 1 in 100 million event, and the odds get higher every year. They already solved the safety issue by not crashing the planes.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10...

http://fortune.com/2018/10/28/...

There are four stories from four separate outlets about that Nazi shithole being "banned" from the Internet.

They're already very good at it; the problem is that jackasses like you expect them to be perfect. This is, again, impossible. May as well expect airliners to never crash.

The last fatal US airline crash was in 2009, so they've already more-or-less achieved that.

People trust that apps in the apple app store are not malicious.

That trust is misplaced.

And that is the trade off: Safe Apps that aren't malicious instead of the android wild wild west.

But we have established that the apps on the app store aren't safe. Therefore the tradeoff is freedom for nothing.

Sure! I'm glad you asked.

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To quote a google email on the Damore memo "we don't want diversity of ideas".

I searched and this doesn't seem to be a quote. Do you have a link perhaps?

The nearest I could find was:

Part of building an open, inclusive environment means fostering a culture in which those with alternative views, including different political views, feel safe sharing their opinions.

http://fortune.com/2017/08/07/...

Solar long surpassed coal for jobs. By 2017 its more than 3 times the number of jobs: http://fortune.com/2017/02/07/...

Coal generates ~30 times more power than solar, meaning it takes about 90 people in solar to produce the same unit of energy as in coal.

Ok, I'll have a go:

1: There is nothing intrinsic to crypto that makes it go up. If demand (i.e. utilization) is not growing as fast as new coins are mined, then the value drops. This is even more pronounced when the utilization growth goes negative. See yesterday, and last month, and this whole year. BTC is currently worth less than half what it was last year, and has the potential to drop all the way to zero without major changes to the world we live in. USD by contrast would only be capable of dropping to zero by way of the apocalypse.

2: They are only as secure as the software that is used to handle it. Software in general is notoriously insecure. Also see 51% attack.

3: You can achieve this same effect using a brokerage service, of which there are millions in every flavour you could want. The easiest to use variants are Credit Cards which are accepted almost universally. Visa handles 150M transactions per day, or approximately 3 orders of magnitude more than bitcoin, and in spite of that high load, they handle individual transactions in seconds. Nothing about cryptocurrency is inherently faster, better or safer.

4: Oh Really?

5: Only if they are universally accepted. If people stop accepting them, then they loose utility, and less people will be inclined to use them, which makes them even less useful. This is known as a death spiral, and the research cited in this story seems to indicate that bitcoin is headed in exactly that direction. This phenomenon is not unique to cryptocurrency, and is one of the reasons that AmEx plays dirty pool to force retailers to keep accepting their cards.