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  1. 1) The information is that interesting if you're doing A.I. research or market research for advertising, or A.I. research for market research for advertising.

    2) Direct access to a communications channel with millions/billions of verified real humans constitutes indirect access to a vastly more interesting bottomless trove of data for anyone doing the types of things mentioned above in point #1.

  2. Congratulations, now you violated Federal Law as well as the Facebook TOS!

  3. Re:Delete all the real accounts too on Facebook Deleted 583 Million Fake Accounts in the First Three Months of 2018 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. Someone already created an account in your name. You can guarantee it wasn't one of the 583 million that were just deleted. It will safely continue spearphishing all your family, friends, former schoolmates and colleagues for years. Great job proving that inaction can be worse than malicious action.

  4. Why does this post make me sure you're the one who wrote it?

  5. Re: Of course on Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Consider this: You're the only one who has mentioned his name in the entire thread. Now, what did you just learn about yourself?

  6. Have some understanding. If you were born and raised in the back woods of Kentucky, you would have trouble believing electric cars really exist, too.

  7. Re:If adding roads reduced traffic congestion... on Elon Musk's First LA Tunnel Nears Completion, With Free Rides To Kick Off This Summer (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess it's not common knowledge, but since the disassembling of the Red Cars, various local interests and property owners killed the plans for almost half of the freeways that were originally intended to have been built to take up the slack. And that was before the greater metropolitan area had 9 million residents with an average of 2 vehicles per person.

  8. It doesn't have to beat London's underground. It just has to be faster than the 405 at rush hour.

  9. Re:Elon Musk, desperate for a distraction... on Elon Musk's First LA Tunnel Nears Completion, With Free Rides To Kick Off This Summer (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    .. boring shit...

    I see what you did there. :-D

  10. Yea, I love that mental image he conjured up in his fantasy world too. I'm just imagining all those greedy rich people crowded into the subway station to take advantage of this new extra-posh train ride. Seriously hilarious.

  11. Re: Free rides to the public! on Elon Musk's First LA Tunnel Nears Completion, With Free Rides To Kick Off This Summer (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    I think a bus ticket is still less than $2 here.

  12. Re: At what point do tax payers stop subsidizing T on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not happy with it, but I'm also educated and experienced enough with how business and economics work to realize that this is an emergent behavior inherent to the system that "The Wealthy" didn't plan or pay for. They may be smarter about using it to their advantage than you but their advantage is more about timing than birthright. So, no, you're wrong in thinking that I take for granted that society has to be structured in this fashion. In fact, quite the opposite. What differs between me and you in this regard is just that I'm smart enough to recognize that this is the situation correcting itself, while you've been brainwashed into biting the hands that feed you.

  13. If you've been paying any attention recently you might have noticed the power company is no longer "100% available."

  14. Re: At what point do tax payers stop subsidizing T on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, correct. Then, and only then. Maybe, in light of this revelation of yours, one might see why it's counterproductive to purposefully impede the progress.

  15. Re:How is fitness a planet? on 'Yes, Pluto Is a Planet' (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Planet Hollywood sees your attempt to bring prejudice into the discussion (How dare you claim that corporations can't be planets!?!) and raises you one discrimination lawsuit.

  16. Re: Sagen Is Rolling In His Grave on 'Yes, Pluto Is a Planet' (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the government put paraquat in his weed.

  17. That's the thing I find most interesting about this. When it was clearly just a joke for the past decades, nobody complained about there being a joke there. Now that we have a political climate that's quickly darkening into the type of one where this is a serious possibility they want to astro-turf over the warning?? Seems like highly suspicious timing to me.

  18. Re:No good guys to cheer for on Richard Stallman Demands Return Of Abortion Joke To libc Documentation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Your logic is trivially easy to turn on it's head. Really, it doesn't seem like you're even trying here. They put the joke there to shine a tiny spotlight on the government-sanctioned practice of only some of the US states of ruining freedom for others.

  19. from the waaaay too late dept. on Apple Cracking Down On Apps That Send Location Data To Third Parties (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    They already know where you are.

  20. Re:Great. on California Becomes First State To Mandate Solar on New Homes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Over here, $10,000 is also known as "a trivial pittance compared to the existing price of an average house." Feel free to pretend it won't lower the air conditioning costs, too. You clearly live somewhere cold and sunless if you think this isn't the opposite of wasteful.

  21. Bracing for impact on California Becomes First State To Mandate Solar on New Homes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Queue a bunch of Siberian astro-turfers and jealous midwestern rural coal miners angrily ranting on and on about how solar panels are simultaneously a threat to their well being while still somehow paradoxically being both unsustainable and worse for the environment than oil or coal.

  22. Re:"Side effects" on Potential New Cure Found For Baldness (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, sure I totally believe this story is true and not a work of fiction.

  23. Re:I have my own cure on Potential New Cure Found For Baldness (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ...baldness is a recessive trait and X chromosome only.

    Sorry to inform you this is an old wive's tale. Since this was first observed some 500 years ago, they've discovered several other genetic variants of male pattern baldness that are neither recessive nor limited to being carried by the mother. Go talk to an actual doctor instead of parroting medical mythology your great grandmother told you.

  24. Re:"Side effects" on Potential New Cure Found For Baldness (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Vice shill. Fuck your click-bait.

  25. Re:Important to note: not actually a new feature on You Can Now Run Linux Apps On Chrome OS (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What I had gathered previously was that it was something that not many vendors had left access to. (On purpose, anyway.)