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Yes, I agree with you. Hopefully they do all those things.
Still it's hard to go below zero, which is what a hell of a lot of people currently use...

I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is a Republican. He has donated money to the Republican party.

He donated to Marco Rubio, but he also donated to Hillary Clinton.

Between 2003 and 2015 he donated $258,350 to Democratic candidates and $261,300 to Republicans.

The people living in the hottest places on the planet are the least likely to have air conditioners

Can you point out where he incited violence against anyone?

Oh, why do I feel the need to respond to people who are about as likely to understand as my cat?

https://qz.com/1335125/infowar...

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/...

Obviously you lack the intelligence to be able to discern the difference between rhetoric and an outright threat. The proof this is true is evident in the fact that Jones is not in prison. Actual threats will result in arrest, conviction, sentencing, and imprisonment.

Better luck next time, honey.

Can you point out where he incited violence against anyone?

Oh, why do I feel the need to respond to people who are about as likely to understand as my cat?

https://qz.com/1335125/infowar...

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/...

And they are definitely doing so.

https://qz.com/1300832/bitcoin...

"We're down to about 3% of Americans owning guns legally"

That looked obviously wrong and so it is.

Only a quarter of Americans own guns, according to numbers from General Social Survey and Gallup in 2013.

But

The US tops the list of countries with the most guns, owning about half the world's guns while making up only 5% of the world population. In relative terms, the US has the highest number of guns per capita. There were an estimated 89 to 100 guns for every 100 Americans in 2013

How many guns you got?

The average American gun owner owns three guns, according to a 2015 survey conducted by Harvard and Northwestern University. More than a half of them own just one or two, whereas 14% of them - 7.7 million or 3% of the US population - own anywhere between eight to 140 guns. This 3% of the population owns half of the civilian guns in the US.

https://qz.com/1095899/gun-own...

Alex Jones Threatens to Shoot Robert Mueller
Alex Jones threatens to shoot "Pedophile" Robert Mueller
Youtube takes down 4 Jones videos because of violent or graphic content and issues a warning to Jones.

Solar makes much more sense in places like California and Arizona, now that PV power is so cheap.

Solar and wind are cheap until you need to store it.
https://qz.com/1125355/solar-a...

Solar and wind might be able to provide as high as 30% of the grid electricity but at that point the intermittent nature requires expensive storage and all cost benefits disappear.

Solar generates when we need it most but falls off before the peak demand.

Falls off before peak demand? Then it's not there when you need it most.

Nuclear is base-load and not typically available on demand. New systems can follow load but don't respond as quickly as a spinning NG turbine.

That's fine, we'll just use those cheap energy storage systems that the wind and solar people keep saying will come along any day now. You think cheap storage only helps with wind and solar? I believe if cheap storage does come then nuclear will look very nice. If it doesn't then we'll need those NG turbines either way, wind, solar, or nuclear. If solar fades just before the peak load then that means more NG burned in turbines than if we had simply used nuclear, no? That is CO2 burned that we would not have had to if we simply did not rely so heavily on solar.

Solar is only cheap if it doesn't need storage. If natural gas turbines are used to back up solar then solar isn't a low carbon energy source any more.

The Chinese import technology, not products.

https://qz.com/1249984/as-dona...

He's talking about the value of Bitcoins in the first ever "official" transaction.

https://qz.com/1285209/bitcoin...

Yep, you should have told it to Amazon (AMZN), that they should have started making profit from year 1, instead of them losing money by stupidly spending it on useless stuff like expanding their infrastructure (and basically becoming THE CLOUD since then)~~

I'm sure, If they had listen to you they would have been successfuly instead of going down crashing and flaming as Tesla motors (TSLA) is going to do any moment soon !~~

This recent article indicates the opposite: Kraft Heinz (owners of the Country Time Lemonade brand) set up a fund to help pay for lemonade stands fees & fines: https://qz.com/1300935/country...

https://qz.com/1305718/the-sci... link to https://qz.com/1045037/the-med...
now whether you trust "QZ.com" is another story but they properly link to the original article : https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/n... and https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/n...

https://qz.com/1305718/the-sci... link to https://qz.com/1045037/the-med...
now whether you trust "QZ.com" is another story but they properly link to the original article : https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/n... and https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/n...

Except that the FTC has explicitly said that's not going to happen.

Linky.

Interestingly, the FBI is currently alleging that the use of communications platforms with encryption such as WhatsApp amounts to obstruction of justice and evidence of criminal intent when used to communicate with people who might eventually become witnesses - even if they are witnesses for the defense.

The FBI is also currently alleging that the use of communications platforms generally amounts to obstruction of justice when used to communicate with people who might eventually become witnesses - even if they are witnesses for the defense - when attempting to coach instruct witnesses as to what they should testify and such testimony is false.

You've lumped "and evidence of criminal intent" in with some elements of the crime, and then omitted a bunch of other elements of the crime, presumably in order to create fear that the use of WhatsApp and other platforms with encryption is per se obstruction of justice and evidence of criminal intent. But that's not what is happening. Because criminal intent is a state of mind, there can be no objective evidence of criminal intent short of an admission. If you do something that is unusual for you to conceal such tampering - guess what -- that's circumstantial evidence of criminal intent.

Also, please cite the allegation that "WhatsApp amounts to obstruction of justice and evidence of criminal intent." Because they have much more than that on Manfort since he's an idiot:

Manafort allegedly tried to hide his communications with potential witnesses using the encrypted messaging apps WhatsApp and Telegram, but prosecutors appear to have accessed the messages via his iCloud account.

The prosecutors also had statements and documents from the two potential witnesses, as well as phone records, but the iCloud account helped them confirm the messages and phone calls that Manafort had attempted.

So no, the FBI is currently alleging that witness statements, phone records, and WhatsApp message content amount to obstruction of justice and evidence of criminal intent."

So all of you folks who poo-poo the slippery slope argument... well, there you go. They are also all over companies like Apple for building encryption into their phones and have used the fact that devices are encrypted as evidence of criminal intent.

Poo-poo. Times ten. Yes, they're all over unbreakable encryption, but use of unbreakable encryption is not concrete evidence of a crime.

England is currently living out the argumentum ad absurdum from the gun control debate - having outlawed guns and the sorts of knives used for hunting or defense and finding that people are still violent, they are now talking about banning kitchen knives with pointed ends.

On public streets. You're losing your mind over a ban on knives with blades longer than ~2.5 inches being carried in public. The same sort of ban that exists with folding knives. The same sort of ban that exists in air travel -- except it covers even shorter blades. But God gave you a right to carry steak knives down the street, just in case you happen upon a steak...

Finland tried it and didn't expand it when they said they would, and instead ended it. There's probably a reason for that: it didn't work.

Or their right-wingers killed it. Maybe you should look up the facts before assuming your biases are confirmed.

BTW, Alaska has been doing UBI for decades now. Its called the Alaska Permanent Fund. And its worked out pretty damn well.

People can be against fascism and still be assholes.

It's disturbing how, when there are protests between wannabe Nazis and basically anyone else, some people leap to condemn the "anyone else". Whatever ever happened to not being huge fans of the Nazis?

The "Nazis" aren't a threat. Your "anyone else actually is.

Yes, people standing up against Nazis and protesting police brutality and not standing for the pledge of allegiance are a threat. A dangerous threat. CRUSH THEM!

Whereas the people who commit multiple acts of terrorism and crime aren't.

They don't. Average range of electric vehicles in China is 103 miles Or 3 times his trolling number.

You are full of shit LynwoodLiar. Average range of electric vehicles in China is 103 miles Or 3 times your bullshit number.

https://qz.com/1285452/south-k...

This brings us to the national poll of unreported accidents, which finds that 30% of all crashes are unreported https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.g.... So, fine, let's up that from 5.5 million accidents to 7.15 million accidents. Humans still drive 450,349 miles without an accident. Your link gives me a 404 so I can't look at the document you provided (and I will withhold personal comments). However, this link https://qz.com/1220576/the-rac... indicates Waymo has hit 30.500 miles without an interaction in November 2017. However without much consistency. Also, we know that Google is picking where and when they drive, don't drive in bad weather, constantly check sensors, etc etc. Even doing that, they seem to be 30,500/450,329 = 6.8% as safe as a human.

$5.80 A GALLON??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What socialist HELL HOLE do you live in?????

Just $5.80/gallon? Here in Norway the gas price is closer to 8 USD pr. gallon (or rather, 16.65 NOK/l)

Here, 37% of new cars sold in March 2018 were electric vehicles. In addition, about 27% were hybrids.

To put it bluntly you are full of shit.

https://www.worldatlas.com/art... https://qz.com/437015/mapped-t...

In order of states with most gun ownership: Wyoming, 40th most violent (admittedly, not bad but by your reasoning should be 50). Montana, 26th most violent. Alaska, MOST VIOLENT (are they giving these people bullets?). South Dakota, 19th most violent. Arkansas, 6th most violent. West Virginia, 27th most violent.

Top five states and your theory already falls apart. These are far from the safest states.

Yes. Take a good look at that glorious 3.9 percent rate. This number is touted despite the 63% participation rate (if you've given up finding a regular job, you're not counted.)

I really hoped I would stop seeing this silly argument after Obama left office. A good explaination is here, but the gist of it is simply the fact the baby boomers are retiring. Your complaint sound pretty lame when you realize that. Do you honestly believe they shouldn't be retiring?

China has shot far ahead of the US on deep-learning patents

Well, sure, they have the computer programmer's motivators, so ...

China has shot far ahead of the US on deep-learning patents

More patents just mean they will lack behind in innovation as they are innovation inhibitors and not much else these days.

China has shot far ahead of the US on deep-learning patents

It was reported last year and recently that national Buddhists use Facebook as a channel to post things that help to incite violence towards minority Muslims called the Rohingya in Burma. A monk called Wirathu was banned, by the government, from public preaching, and that included Facebook.

More information:
A War of Words Puts Facebook at the Center of Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis
Rohingya crisis: How we got here
U.N. Fact Finders Say Facebook Played a 'Determining' Role in Violence Against the Rohingya
Myanmar: UN blames Facebook for spreading hatred of Rohingya
Is Facebook playing a part in the Rohingya genocide?
The Facebook official who oversees the news feed says his team loses sleep over the site's alleged role in violence in Myanmar

What happens when you Give Poor People Cash? They spend it on the things that it makes the most sense to them to spend it on. Things like livestock, tools, and housing repairs. Things like health care and education.

It's almost as though the idea that helping people is bad comes from miserable SOBs who are only ever happy when other people are miserable, too.

This. Similarly, the graduation rate doesn't tell you how good the school is at teaching. It just tells you what percentage of bad students they filtered out before admission. The higher the percentage of weak students, the lower the graduation rate. Each drop of one point in high school GPA corresponds with a 2x reduction in graduation rate.

In other words, this program doesn't give people a chance to attend the best schools, but rather gives people a chance to attend the most expensive, most elite schools. The burden of proof for whether the schools are "best" or not is whether the people brought in by this program end up with better graduation rates than similar students who attend other schools that didn't make the cut.

And if we want to look at automaking efficiency with robotic integration, it's not like Toyota hasn't designed their production lines for maximum efficiency already.. oh, wait, that's what they specialize in and what they've built their reputation on. They've recently removed some robots from their production line because people did the jobs better and faster, with less waste.

A think we need to update Drake equation and add a parameter for crypto mining.

I didn't know he was into Math, but Drake might have to collect his Spotify royalties with a bitcoin wallet in the future:

That means musicians like Drake, Justin Bieber, and Rihanna, who were Spotify’s most streamed artists last year, need to get comfortable with the idea that their royalties are going to be tracked on a blockchain—and maybe even paid out on one—before the fantasy of music on the blockchain takes shape.

Seriously. It's hilarious to watch the mental gymnastics of Google's CEO openly tauting that he's DIRECTLY working with a presidential candidate to "use our data" to help the candidate.

  - Facebook sold some ads. Who the fuck reads Facebook ads?
  - Google literally used their entire platform (read: tracking your information) + "muh algorithms" to assist a candidate.

And IN RETURN, the CEO got, and I quote, "a virtual open door to access the White House at will"

https://www.googletransparency...

https://theintercept.com/2016/...

https://mashable.com/2009/04/2...

https://www.wired.com/2008/11/...

https://www.politico.com/story...

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

"Eric Schmitt, 'CEO of America' "

And these are LIBERAL WEBSITES running these articles. So you can't even play the whole "alt-right / foxnews / fakenews / Russia-wrote-it" Red Herring bullshit.

Of course, I don't know why we're restricting to Obama either. Under Hillary, they did the same thing (for likely the same quid-pro-quo arrangement):

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://www.googletransparencyp...

https://qz.com/823922/eric-sch...

https://www.politico.com/magaz...

https://qz.com/520652/groundwo...

So with literally DOZENS upon dozens of professional articles dedicated to the subject from dozens of separate news organizations, anyone who ignores this well-established fact is throwing their head in the sand and humming, and not worthy of a debate response and should be downvoted accordingly for low signal-to-noise ratio.

  -> Google did everything Facebook did, and far more.

Seriously. It's hilarious to watch the mental gymnastics of Google's CEO openly tauting that he's DIRECTLY working with a presidential candidate to "use our data" to help the candidate.

  - Facebook sold some ads. Who the fuck reads Facebook ads?
  - Google literally used their entire platform (read: tracking your information) + "muh algorithms" to assist a candidate.

And IN RETURN, the CEO got, and I quote, "a virtual open door to access the White House at will"

https://www.googletransparency...

https://theintercept.com/2016/...

https://mashable.com/2009/04/2...

https://www.wired.com/2008/11/...

https://www.politico.com/story...

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

"Eric Schmitt, 'CEO of America' "

And these are LIBERAL WEBSITES running these articles. So you can't even play the whole "alt-right / foxnews / fakenews / Russia-wrote-it" Red Herring bullshit.

Of course, I don't know why we're restricting to Obama either. Under Hillary, they did the same thing (for likely the same quid-pro-quo arrangement):

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://www.googletransparencyp...

https://qz.com/823922/eric-sch...

https://www.politico.com/magaz...

https://qz.com/520652/groundwo...

So with literally DOZENS upon dozens of professional articles dedicated to the subject from dozens of separate news organizations, anyone who ignores this well-established fact is throwing their head in the sand and humming, and not worthy of a debate response and should be downvoted accordingly for low signal-to-noise ratio.

  -> Google did everything Facebook did, and far more.

The Vox isn't a credible source. Come back when you have a reliable source.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://qz.com/1031027/the-us-...

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

http://thehill.com/homenews/ad...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...

http://www.newsweek.com/americ...

Try again.

OK.

https://qz.com/1031027/the-us-...

"To be honest I'm HIGHLY dubious that Google is listening to your conversations."

And yet, Google confirmed that the Location Services switch was never really off and they were tracking locations of millions of Android users without their knowledge or consent.

https://qz.com/1131515/google-...

Any proof of that? Seems like nobody knows.. The article was written by an englishman who are best know about the sabotage of EU than for the well-rounded jobs.

"As part of the reorganization, Rajesh Jha, the executive VP of Microsoft Office products, will be expanding his responsibilities to encompass Myerson's role..."

Apparently Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants people who are as lacking in social, managerial, and technical ability as he is. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is NOT competent. The entire board of directors and top management of Microsoft should be replaced, in my opinion.

One area of extreme incompetence: Somehow, shockingly, managers at Microsoft decided that it is okay to spy on Windows OS computer users in the same way that Google spies on cell phone users using the Android operating system. (One of the many stories about Google spying: Google collects Android users' locations even when location services are disabled.)

Microsoft and Windows cannot be trusted. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

Desktop computers users often have a HUGE need for COMPLETE privacy. Microsoft has damaged its already very poor reputation.

One of the MANY articles about Microsoft's EXTREME ABUSE: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you... (You may be able to stop the ads until Microsoft finds other ways to control your computers.) The effect: Microsoft wants companies to pay for Microsoft distracting employees with ads.

Statue of limitations on the most serious accusations don't run out until 2020:

https://qz.com/987490/julian-a...

Once the prosecutor has exhausted the avenues to continue the investigation, they are obliged to discontinue the investigation.

The prosecutor did, however, point out that the investigation "could be reopened if Assange returns to Sweden before the statute of limitations ends in 2020."

Given that the U.K. authorities would not doubt be happy to make that happen, and the consistent refusal of Swedish authorities to make clear this is only about rape allegations and not a pretext to hand him over to the U.S., Assange's decision to stay in the embassy is a no-brainer for him.

Nepotism runs strong in India. Nearly 85% of the countryâ(TM)s businesses are family-run, and Bollywood is dominated by just a few families. Even job-seekers with impressive resumes have to fall back on personal connections to find work.
https://qz.com/889524/the-us-s...

I think you might want to re-evaluate that first statement. It's like all of them. It's not if, but when:
Brick Layers:
https://www.marketwatch.com/st...
Bridge Building:
https://www.engineering.com/Ed...
Concrete homes:
https://qz.com/924909/apis-cor...
Flat Concrete: Look for the automated one
https://www.forconstructionpro...

Shoes:
https://www.recode.net/2016/9/...
Clothing:
http://www.deviceplus.com/conn...

Electricians and plumbers might fair better for a while as well as seamstress's, but it's coming. Car repair might take a little while also, but look at where automotive building has gone in the last 100 years.

And how long before this one can pick up it's own tire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Times are changing. The only safe jobs are with the Amish.

And why make it look like the wall, instead of making it look like a picture in a frame, instead of an expanse of wood, brick, whatever?

(and if it's not a 3D, curved screen, you're not really buying into the marketing, anyway)

They make one of those too.

You still fail to explain why China should be cutting faster and more than America when America is over twice as polluting? Facts are facts, China has over a billion more people than the US.
China has 4 times the population, but only twice the CO2. Even if China went further than your prediction and doubled it's coal use, it would still be less polluting per person than America.
But the fact is China's coal use has already peaked.
It peaked a few years ago, and the coal that is being used now is also being used much more efficiently.

they risk the kind of nightmarish government intervention that once plagued his Microsoft

It was found that Microsoft violated a de facto monopoly position, and they got off with a handslap. "Plagued" is not the right word here, unless you want to say that we were plagued by Microsoft, as it has been said that Microsoft set back computing significantly.

The reason Qualcomm doesn't give a flying fuck about smart watches is because no one is buying them.
If google etc wanted one so badly they could order custom designs, or make their own.
They is no money in that market.

Apple made $1.6B in the last quarter on their watches. The segment "Apple wearables" is equivalent to a Fortune-500 company in its own right

From: https://qz.com/973920/apple-aa...

There was a steady increase in the unit’s sales in the first year the Watch was on sale, rising from $1.7 billion at the start of the year to $4.35 billion by the end. Other products cooled off in 2015, but saw another strong holiday quarter. This time, the business unit generated $2.87 billion, a jump of about 30% over the same quarter last year, but still relatively small compared with even Apple’s other non-iPhone businesses. Even so, Cook said its wearables business, which he defined as the Apple Watch, AirPods, and Beats headphones, was comparable to the size of a Fortune 500 company.

Sure, it's no iPhone-X, but it's hardly buttons either. My ole gran used to have a saying "look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves", and the same applies writ large here.

promotes such a toxic workplace...

I would hasten to add that toxic workplace is as most subjective as can be, and that this is *your* opinion. There are a lot of external references to Uber's toxic workplace. Try google searching Uber+toxic+workplace. A few hits I could dismiss as "a few haters", but I get 443 thousand hits.

Here are some of the top few. It looks pretty toxic to me: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... https://www.recode.net/2017/6/... https://thinkprogress.org/trav... https://www.recode.net/2017/6/... http://www.businessinsider.com... http://theconversation.com/fix... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... https://www.theguardian.com/te... https://qz.com/1010986/a-timel...

Maybe Alphabet doesn't believe that Google's results are accurate. ;-)

Strangely, I just ran the same search in Google, Bing and Yahoo.

Google: 157,000 hits

Bing: 3,690,000 hits

Yahoo: 21,000,000 hits

Most Indian coders say they are self-taught
https://qz.com/1187943/most-in...