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The Problem is that when you cut programs for fighting domestic terror in a country where white supremacists account for a disproportionate amount of attacks and then say both sides are bad when literal Nazis are rallying, well...

There just comes a time to call a Spade a Spade. I don't care of Trump really drinks the Kool-Aid or is just doing it for the votes or even the lulz. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and hiel Hitler's like a duck, it's a White Nationalist. Sooner we stop living in denial the better. This will not end well for us otherwise. Ignoring reality never does...

Tesla is not doing well and is not important at all when compared to actual mass electric car markets like China. It is half the entire EV market and there Tesla is a low selling brand with only 2% share far below Chinese brands and only really comparable to Volkswagen. They are a minor player in niche countries for the EV market. BYD and SAIC are much more important.

Tesla is not doing well and is not important at all when compared to actual mass electric car markets like China. It is half the entire EV market and there Tesla is a low selling brand with only 2% share far below Chinese brands and only really comparable to Volkswagen. They are a minor player in niche countries for the EV market. BYD and SAIC are much more important.

The mystery is: why does it have two sensors, when only one is used for the MCAS system? https://qz.com/1575509/what-we...

This is a good point.

I don't want to have to wonder, "is this a good app?" Apple does the vetting for me (supposedly) That's just FINE with me. If some company doesn't want to pony up some cash to Apple, then FUCK THEM, they don't need to be on my damned phone. Pay to play, motherfuckers!

And guess what? Grocery stores get kickbacks from its suppliers too. They only have so much floor space. Do you think a grocery store sells anything that some vendor somewhere wants them to sell? Hell no! They pick and choose. There are winners and losers. Suppliers that DO get put in the store ALSO pay for premium placement on the shelf! Pay to play.

Don't believe it?
https://qz.com/807723/inside-t...

I was kind of curious so I did some quick Google searches. There was one article based on a report about which states are most susceptible to corruption. The top state was curiously enough North Dakota which apparently is due to the fact that they have few laws or regulations in place designed to prevent it. Texas was 1 of 16 states with a passing grade in that report.

Another article discussed the results of a study that looked at convictions for federal anti-corruption laws to establish rankings. Here the most corrupt state was Mississippi. I had to click through to the study since Texas wasn't in either the top or bottom 10, but it's listed as the 18th least corrupt state in the rankings.

One article that did report Texas as corrupt (it only came in 15th) was one which cited a report that looked at laws in systems each state has in place to prevent or curtail corruption. In this case the worst rated state was Wyoming.

FiveThirtyEight also has their own article from a few years back that delves into the topic. Texas does have a lot of corruption convictions, but on a per capita basis, it's in the top third. In this assessment, Louisiana is the most corrupt based on convictions per capita, Kentucky had the worst reporter rating, and Georgia is indicated in having the greatest lack of laws to prevent corruption. Oregon, Massachusetts, and New Jersey are respectively the least corrupt states based on those same categories.

In conclusion, you can apparently measure corruption in several ways and get a variety of results. Texas seems to be pretty middle of the pack in an overall sense.

What do you think is wrong with it, exactly? Why do you think it's "absurd"? Wells-Fargo financed the companies who cage children. That's a fact.

Except that it isn't. The companies Wells Fargo funded never caged children, but the Obama Administration did.

LOL no. Get out with your bullshit.

A more "colorful" history of DST:

At some point in elementary school, many American children learn that Daylight Saving Time was originally intended to give farmers an extra hour of light to work the fields.

That is, in fact, a lie.

Farmers actually hated the practice, because it cut an hour of daylight in the morning, leaving them with an hour less to get goods to market, according to Michael Downing, author of the book Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time. In reality, the extra hour of evening daylight was good for one thing: selling products. ...

Specifically we have the candy lobby, the barbecue lobby, and the golf ball lobby to thank for modern American Daylight Saving Time. But we’ll get to that in a second.

And another article, from Smithsonian magazine.

I answered you elsewhere, most of the executives (store managers - equivalent to a senior director/VP in most non-retail organizations) make around $75K per year. A few at their corporate ownership - Amazon - probably pull in high 6/low 7 figure. But let's not confuse wealth with income.

Bezos is rich not because of income but because of investment - he founded Amazon, maintains a massive amount of stock, and whilst making $81K per year - on par with a Whole Foods manager, his wealth is massive because the stock he owns - originally worth nothing - has dramatically appreciated in value. But then, he created the company, he invested his own time and equity, and he spent the years building it.

Do NOT confuse wealth with income - they are usually not related.

Learn economics and facts before you speak...

Oh, this is going to be good.

- Volatility is COMPLETELY NORMAL and EXPECTED process of adoption of a new distributed currency into a free and open market.

Citation needed.

Fiat is only "stable" due to manipulation to target, see the Fed's own whitepapers on that.

So if you abandon all pretense of manipulation to target, you get volatility. Nice own-goal.

IN FACT, Fiat is extremely volatile when priced in cryptocurrency.

Yes, due to the volatility of the cryptocurrency. Now price either of those in real world goods, like a pizza.

- Blockchain design model itself has NEVER been "hacked". Only the shitware and shitcorps and shitcoins surrounding it has been.

Counterpoint. Unless your "blockchain design model" manages to exclude every cryptocurrency deployed to date.

- NOT your keys, NOT your Cryptocurrency. Read the news... banks get "hacked" ALL THE FUCKING TIME MATE.

Not as frequently as cryptowallets, not without recourse (insurance because thank you state banking laws), and not with the ability to disappear with nary a trace because thank you Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation).

Sounds plenty learned to me.

"'No Touch' is requested by BPA when unusually hot or cold weather increases the demand for electricity, notes Mike Paoli, spokesman for Energy Northwest," the report adds. "Many regional transmission and system operators across the United States ask nuclear plants to keep running during extreme weather because nuclear plants are the least affected by bad weather.

Erm...Europe’s heatwave is forcing nuclear power plants to shut down

US drought causes nuclear power station to shutdown

Those shutdowns were because of a lack of water to cool the plant. Also, all power plants, nuclear or not have to use water for dumping excess heat. Its why power plants of all types are so often put by large bodies of water. Those heatwave shutdowns had nothing to do with the nuclear aspect of those plants.

"'No Touch' is requested by BPA when unusually hot or cold weather increases the demand for electricity, notes Mike Paoli, spokesman for Energy Northwest," the report adds. "Many regional transmission and system operators across the United States ask nuclear plants to keep running during extreme weather because nuclear plants are the least affected by bad weather.

Erm...Europe’s heatwave is forcing nuclear power plants to shut down

US drought causes nuclear power station to shutdown

This kind of behaviour is not common, especially with Democratic party presidents. To be clear, simply appointing a former lobbyist doesn't necessarily amount to putting a fox in the henhouse, although it's obviously not good. Appointing a lobbyist who used to lobby for a conflicting cause, a businessperson who currently profits from a conflicting interest, a person who denies the science that underpins the mission of the institution they're appointed to, or a person who had previously expressed interest in dismantling the institution they've been appointed to, are putting a fox in the henhouse.

The only qualifying example of that kind of behavior from Obama I can think of was Tom Wheeler, and that didn't even turn out badly.

With Trump on the other hand, he's done this very consistently:

https://qz.com/861897/fox-in-t...

Calling someone that uses their parent's login "piracy" is an unjust label. It even flies in the face of what streaming companies themselves say "it makes no impact to their business" https://qz.com/639726/the-comp...

direct link for people who don't want to give them page views
It's got nice high resolution for those who have seen some and can tell by the pixels.

Something is also up with the photo that Qz used to illustrate this. WTF have they done with this, the rider is obviously moving at low speed (look at her hair), and then the background is smeared to imitate motion blur, but look at the railing, theres' breaks in it and features that appear and disappear across different regions of blurring. What a mess!

FYI, this is the same company that took the 3rd most popular add-on for SublimeText and silenty added ads and spyware (err, telemetry) to it.

https://qz.com/1043614/this-st...

https://forum.sublimetext.com/...

Sounds like someone who you want to trust with your company's source code, indeed.

Uuuuh, how does that contradict what I am saying? You can look it up yourself. New coal stations: http://airclim.org/acidnews/ge...

Expanding coal mines: https://qz.com/1389135/germany...

Complete idiot.

Couldn't you manufacture cheaply in Vietnam, Bangladesh or Africa, or Latin America as well?

1. all these countries also violate intellectual properties left and right. All developing countries, including the USA itself, violate intellectual propertiesen mass during the early days of its industrialization. (And they will all become patent trolls once they become developed.)
2. like the US, China has entered an era post low-end manufacturing and therefore boost its intellectual property protection as a way to move up the economic food chain. This is the real reason the US is so afraid of China now: once China plays the same IP games, the US will lose its competitive advantages.
3. many of those other countries, including those "democratic" ones, are more corrupted than the "communist" China.

You don't hear much about IP violations, or corruption, or human rights violation in those other countries or the US itself simply because China is currently the main arch-rival of the US and the West world.

I would pay mind to your post except for this part...

"The markets and science care nothing about your views. They don't even care about your sunk costs fallacies."

Do you know what kind of people make statements like this are? Stupid people... What does it benefit you to antagonize people that do not believe you? Only a stupid person tries to get people upset when it does not benefit them.

https://qz.com/967554/the-five...

Your ignorant suppositions are easily challenged. Lets go ahead and start with the most glaring.

"Without artificial tax policies, fossil fuels can't even compete"

Fossil fuels are burdened with loads of regulations, federal, state, and local taxes. You need to back that farce up with some data.

Also, "Without artificial tax policies"...
Can you show me one single "natural tax policy?" Are they not all artificial? This is what is called hyperbole... because it cannot be taken literally and you use it for dramatic effect. Only a person that has already lost the argument needs it.

"Um, guy, I live on the West Coast. We are doing something."

I live in a red state and we are doing something too. The problem is that something is not quantifiable in any meaningful way just yet. I don't have a problem with climate change being real, I am actually not very skeptical about that part... but that still does not mean the "politics" surrounding it is not a hoax all the same, and that is a problem you cannot seem to get your head around.

Your kind has still yet to make a single accurate prediction... are you not already supposed to be under water right now? Mr. West Coast? When you start getting your predictions correct I will definitely pay more mind to your rants. But even then... if your solution to an environmental problems is a "political" wealth redistribution scheme... it's probably better if everyone ignores your solutions to problems.

The US and EU have sucked in our dealing with Africa, mostly realizing that the area is too hospitable to colonize, they just left it alone. Not realizing there is a population of workers being under under utilized, and can be supported to be stronger economies, which in turn create more customers.

No, the US and EU has learned from experience that Africa is a hard place to do business for a lot of reasons (corruption, lack of infrastructure, political instability, etc.), which has made them cautious. The Chinese don't have experience with this, but they're quickly re-learning the colonial / imperial lessons that Western nations have learned. As the Chinese dump money into the continent, they're starting to learn that these projects aren't as simple or profitable. Raises the question of what happens when African nations start defaulting on Chinese loans? Will China be sucked into the same cycle of violence that Western nations are engaged in to try to protect or recoup their investments?

Wouldn’t it be great if the U.S. were the tax haven where the rest of the world funneled all of their money?

It already is the largest and strongest or the second largest tax-haven after Switzerland, increasingly, and has been for a long time.

Wrong, infact very very wrong! China has been the bad guy/bad actor for a very long time. Just look at vietnam war. Or this just about trade?

China was the economy boogyman before joining WTO in 2001, and since then it's a bad actor of trade of every nation it trades with. Way more than just currency manipulation. And no one is even talking about the fact that many of the workers are effectively slaves where they live in complexes and given rations.

I blame Regan and Clinton for the trade problems and selling out middle class to china. But all of them for allowing it. Trumps actions(trade war) against China should have happened during Clinton's Administration.

Not just about trade, but stealing resources and land from neighboring counties like India, Maldives, Japan and worse what it does with Taiwan! It even gets away with taking land from Russia!!
https://www.project-syndicate....
https://qz.com/1059314/chinas-...
http://www.pravdareport.com/ru...

China has been a bad actor for a very long time, there is just so much out there it's impossible to find when it started.(also current trade war tops all searches)

But that doesn't mean that we can't change the technology used to make it. Solidia claims to have a fix.

Meanwhile, Google's mass surveillance of western society continues unabated.

assistants intentionally in the name of feminism https://qz.com/work/1180607/am... so making assistants better and less annoying than theirs shouldn't be as hard as it sounds.

Freedom of speech has never meant freedom to libel or incite violence towards others for example, nor does it cover things like false advertising.

Freedom of speech also does not mean that governments should be able to freely spread false information to their citizens. In Myanmar, it's gotten to the point that Facebook has been used to facilitate outright genocide by spreading altogether false claims about the local muslim minority, and this has been coming from the highest levels of authorities. Facebook recently banned a general of the army from the platform after it came to light that he had been publishing actual photos of dismembered children, claming them to have been killed by the Rohingya, a claim for which there is no supporting evidence.

Meanwhile, the Myanmar government and military have been among the most adept and sophisticated users of Facebook, using the platform to put out their own narrative of the Rohingya crisis. The office of the Commander-in-Chief in March posted photos of dismembered children and dead babies, claiming they were attacked by Rohingya terrorists, to counter British MPs, who were sharply critical of the country’s handling of the Rohingya crisis.

Keep in mind the international stance is that the Myanmarian army has been actively conducting what's basically ethnic cleansing by killing civilians and driving them into exodus. This is a military regime actively using the social network to spread their own propaganda to facilitate and justify genocide, and up until this point FB has done nothing about it, even though similar activities have been going on for a few years. A UN report found that the Myanmarian military has clear genocidal intent behind their actions and that Facebook and disinformation have been a part of this operation.

So this is case of the state using a popular social media network in the country to push their own genocidal narrative and propaganda. So what Facebook must do, and what it's now slowly starting do do is the opposite of what you're saying: not to allow the state to use its power to feed false propaganda to its citizenry to justify genocide.

Imagine if your own government started to do something similar, demonizing one group of individuals and pushing false information through the platforms to support their narrative: 'Look at what the jews/the muslims/the blacks have done, they must be interned to prevent further crime!" Would you still be screaming 'b.-b-but the state must be free to lie to its own citizenry because of freedom of speech!", because I doubt that. That's not what freedom of speech is about.

In the US, 90% of homes have an A/C, and per-capita cooling-energy use is 1,880 kWh, according to the IEA report. Of the 1.6 billion A/C units installed globally, 23% are in the US.

Put another way, the 328 million people living in the US consume more energy for cooling than the 4.4 billion people living in all of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia (excluding China) combined, according to the IEA report.

So eficient...

"Virtual coffee breaks, where employees talk about their lives outside GitLab, are built into everyone's schedules." that's interesting stuff, but the linked article doesn't expand on it at all, so I found this write up on Quartz in case anyone is interested. Seems like it would be a bit awkward at first, but I don't hate the concept, but it seems awkward, part of the coffee break is getting away from your desk.

Problem is if enough people did so the country would (probably? what do I know) be in trouble. At least in the non-long run.

That said I agree, and I do so too for the most part, I drive a 20+ year old car and use iPhone 4S. There are people who go farther though: "This couple lives on 6% of their income so they can give $100,000 a year to charity": https://qz.com/515655/this-cou...

You could argue that, but I doubt that you would win, esp. as other nations deal with your gov's Belt/Road. The nations that deal with you are finding out exactly how wonderful China REALLY is.
For example, if we were in CHina, you could not have posted the the opposite without your gov knowing and punishing you for it.
Pakistan had to give CHina a port and must alllow a number of the oil pipes that America was accused of wanting (which had ZERO value to the west, but huge value to China).
Sr Lanka had to give CHina a port, and is now importing far more than they export
In fact, CHina has forced many other nations to turn over their resources such as oil wells, ports, etc to pay the debt that they owe China.
Venezuela, Djibouti, Tajikistan, Kirghistan, Lao, Maldives, Mongolia, and Montenegro are just a few that your nation is controlling.

same as this. He's riling his base so they'll go vote.

What pissed me off is the way he's doing is divides the nation and encourages violence. Meanwhile he's cutting programs to fight domestic terror which just so happens to come mostly from the right.

As they say on Fark, screw this timeline.

Here's almost an indentical article, from the same site, dated Nov 8 2017. Numbers are different. https://qz.com/1120344/200-uni...

Yes, they were introduced in the 60s, but their proliferation happened in the 80s as the chart in the link indicates: https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/...

Take your pick.
Pennsylvanians receive mysterious letters promising to expose them if they do not vote
Mailers attempt to 'embarrass people into voting' by revealing voting history to neighbors
GOP Mailer: We’ll Tell Your Neighbors If You Vote Democratic
Sleazy voter shaming letters coming by email, too, and some are inaccurate
A mysterious group is publicly shaming Pennsylvania residents with their voting records

And Minnesota too.
Creepy but legal: 'Voter shaming' letters showed up in Minnetonka mailbox

You do know how to use Google, right?

have all agreed on an agenda? And precisely what is this agenda? Don't hold back, lay it on us. Be sure to reference real scientific journals...unless, of course, you believe they too are in on some con.

Agenda, no, but sharing a common belief system? Sure. Evangelical Christians (who love a good doomsday story) are vastly over-represented among the scientists writing the climate doomsday fanfiction. https://nypost.com/2018/03/06/... https://qz.com/work/1196718/cl...

. . . Suggested reading:
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.scmp.com/video/chi...
https://www.rfa.org/english/ne...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...
https://www.hrichina.org/en/pr...
https://qz.com/1129837/human-r...
https://chinachange.org/2017/1...
https://www.sciencealert.com/c...
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

It also didn't flip out and kill people, so there's that.

Talking about flipping out look at the back flips this thing can do. Can anyone here do that?

Dateline CHINA: Interpol Chief Disappeared!

Evidently I am one of many in North America who was unaware of the status of the Interpol chief, incorrectly assuming when I heard his name that he was a Chinese-European --- and appalled to learn he was a Chinese national and member of the Chinese Communist Party who had been number man at their intelligence organization, the Ministry of Public Security!
Holy Mother of God !!!!!
And there are still fools --- and minions of the oligarchy --- who question and criticize Brexit!
The devil with those jackals!
The government of China is a vile, despicable totalitarian capitalist state full of corruption of the princelings, the spawn of the founders of the Communist Party in that country and it is obvious that the Interpol chief, Meng, was with the competitor political faction to Xi Jinping's political gang --- Xi Jinping being China's self-appointed emperor. (Jinping's daddy was the author of the original Chinese constitution which Xi amended.)
This is a most blatant and public insult from China to the EU --- suggestive of China's bellicose and warlike stance against the democracies of the world!
Let us not forget the many recent disappearances performed by China: against pro-democracy academic critics, journalists, and the wholesale disappearance of most --- if not all --- of China's human rights attorneys of several years ago!
In America, those jackals of the Business Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers, Cato Institute, American Enterprise Institute and too many other viper nests, assured us that if all the jobs, technology and investment were offshored to China they would have long since morphed into a democracy by now.
So much for the feckless self-serving assertions of jackals!
With China's program of "soft" intelligence penetration by way of their Confucius Institutes (from a decidedly anti-Confucius government) coupled with their Trojan horse of foreign property acquisition through debt warfare (their One Belt One Road (One Ruler) Initiative) --- and their militarization of artificial islands in the seas of the Pacific, especially the South China Sea, of which two-thirds of the oil shipments traverse --- their global martial strategy is evident.
Add to that their insidious implementation of an ultra-Orwellian control system: their Social Credit System, to further subvert any possibility of human rights in China and the future is obvious and cannot be disputed! Supporters of China's government spew nothing more than red dragon droppings: giant piles of crap! Suggested reading:
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.scmp.com/video/chi...
https://www.rfa.org/english/ne...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...
https://www.hrichina.org/en/pr...
https://qz.com/1129837/human-r...
https:/

Yeah coal is so uneconomical

https://qz.com/1404934/chinas-...

https://www.chinadialogue.net/...

Oh apparently you are just as knowledgeable about the profitability of mining coal

https://www.montelnews.com/en/...

U.S. Exports expected to be up 60% in 2018 go figure.

Why are so many people trying to ban Neonics?

Look up when the patent expires on them: 2019.

What if I told you they have not been found to cause colony collapse disorder (CCD) but antifungals are that also take out the immune system leaving to the host prone to infection it could normally fend off.

It's not just the bees, this is happening to amphibians, bats, coral and in some cases man. Next time somebody tells you a gas or heat is killing corals... go look up the necropsy. No it is not, it's the damn antifungals.

http://www.plosone.org/article...
https://qz.com/107970/scientis...
http://rs79.vrx.palo-alto.ca.u...
http://www.gbr.qld.gov.au/docu... (July 2016)
http://www.gbr.qld.gov.au/docu... (May 2016)

Compare this with Cuba.

http://www.pri.org/stories/201...

Put another way, the 328 million people living in the US consume more energy for cooling than the 4.4 billion people living in all of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia (excluding China) combined, according to the IEA report.

America uses about 4-5 times as much electricity for cooling as the EU.

Way back when, when we first had cameras, that was the saying. Because it was really hard to make a convincing "wrong" photo. (Early: One, Two, Three, Four.

And then came along tape, and audio editing, and auto-tune and computerized voice editing. And Hatsune Miku, who not only doesn't exist, her VOICE doesn't even exist: She was created by taking vocal samples [which] all contain a single Japanese phonic that, when strung together, creates full lyrics and phrases. Video. The people with glowing green sticks, though, are real.

And now with movies have placed people's heads on other's bodies, never mind body-doubles. The trick is that's it's becoming better, cheaper and more widespread to create. (And I *SWEAR* that people are more gullible now-a-days than they used to be. Or maybe it's because things just move so much faster.) So we're back to a century or so ago: just because there's an audio/video of it, doesn't mean it's HAS to be true.

No worries though, since you're innocent until proven guilty, which has worked so well with MeToo and everything else in the last few years. We'll all just have to have a 2-way shoulder mounted camera that does a real-time blockchain video feed to verify where we are all of the time and that it's really is US in the video.

Now if blockchain would only run at Visa-level transaction speeds instead of a slow 8mm Movie Motion Picture Camera. Oh, and that's 7 BitCoin transactions system-wide and not just per camera. The limit for Litecoin is 56 TPS and the limit for Bitcoin is 7. Visa: 24,000 TPS (Link. And far be it your mounted camera loses WiFi/Cell connection or runs out of power.

I read a lot of cancer research. China's researchers are repeating a lot of western studies done over the previous half century, which I find useful. But it is not original research.

If most of western medical research is corporate controlled bullshit then they are effectively carrying out the studies for the first time and so it really is original. In which case they might end up with actual medical research. Let's just hope they are more honest and what they do actually has value. I have my doubts, but hey, they can hardly do worse.

That's nice, the largest nation in the world produces the most reseach papers got it. But are they mostly crap papers? https://qz.com/978037/china-pu... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1... https://www.nature.com/news/20... Did the author of that peper just use numbers of papers written, just as they only used email addresses from within China to count Chinese papers?

This exactly. Just factoring out the number of papers that Chinese researchers have to retract due to peer review issues (see here https://qz.com/978037/china-pu...), their actual output does not exceed ours.

It's totally fine to throw away most Alkaline batteries: https://qz.com/331854/fyi-its-...

Most rechargeable batteries do need to be recycled properly. You are correct that a lot of people who don't care will still throw away their old phones with the battery still attached.

On the bright side, the Great Nanny State of California will soon mandate that helmets and other protective gear be provided for each scooter — after they make it legal for scooters to ride on the sidewalk first. I predict this will be a short lived fad.

https://qz.com/1348969/europes...

Not being dependent on weather conditions my arse.