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  1. Re: Symbol adopted by racist sacks of shit on Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Do try to not read into my comment more than I have written.

    Thats not hard because you haven't said much of anything that actually adds to the conversation.

  2. Re:Symbol adopted by racist sacks of shit on Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah and when racist sacks of shit that don't bother with 4Chan see it reported and start doing it not ironically but rather with intent... well, at that point it is a symbol of racist shitbags

    Even the creator of pepe has disavowed his own creation because its been co-opted.

  3. Re:In Communist Europe... on It's Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How big is your server farm?

  4. Re:It doesn't matter who supports it on Americans From Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality, Poll Shows (mozilla.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course the head of the FCC isn't elected and doesn't have constituents and will do pretty much whatever he and trump want. If he is out at the end of 4 years he can go back to a cushy job in the industry or maybe move on to lobbying.

  5. Re:All Apple-related posts for the rest of the day on Apple Unveils What's Next For macOS Desktop OS: High Sierra (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its almost as if there were some big event... perhaps even a world wide conference of some kind... that was going on today and regarded apple technology. If only I could find some information about it....

  6. Re:Explanation on Denmark Is Killing Tesla and Other Electric Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    if its a registration tax it would presumably be applied to used cars as well. The way that works here in the states (well, my state) is that it is based on the book value of the vehicle rather than the sale price to avoid people paying $1 for a car (if the car is in fact a gift from a family member or something I believe you can file for a waver on the tax with a signed affidavit)

  7. Re:"It never happens". on Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Start considering options for structuring human behavior other than capitalism.

  8. Re:Isn't this just welfare for the rich? on Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Universal Basic Income in His Harvard Commencement Speech (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    And if you had a basic income provided to you so you didn't have to worry about losing your home or starving, do you think that you could put some of that education, knowledge and skill to work and build something of benefit to society? Something beautiful or something useful... maybe something that a business wouldn't touch because, while useful, it doesn't have a revenue stream sufficient to justify the investment?

  9. Re:it's VERMONT on Vermont DMV Caught Using Illegal Facial Recognition Program (vocativ.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, really chill down there...

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/...

  10. The ship of state on US Intelligence Community Has Lost Credibility Due To Leaks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the only ship that leaks from the top.

  11. Re:"Ambulances have been called more than 100 time on Tesla Factory Workers Reveal Pain, Injury and Stress: 'Everything Feels Like the Future But Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but there probably aren't a bunch of pensioners working at tesla, you would want to look at the number of transports of people within a reasonable working age range.

    Also you want to eliminate hospital to hospital transfers which may or may not be in your original data set.

  12. Re:"Ambulances have been called more than 100 time on Tesla Factory Workers Reveal Pain, Injury and Stress: 'Everything Feels Like the Future But Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My guess from the descriptions is that most of these people were suffering panic attacks... thats a lot of panic attacks for a workplace.

  13. Re:Getting along? What are you talking about. on Buzz Aldrin To NASA: Retire the International Space Station ASAP To Reach Mars (space.com) · · Score: 1

    generally agreed that there aren't enough to take out the whole of the species

    [citation needed]

  14. Re:Nobody believes the Zestimates on Zillow Faces Lawsuit Over 'Zestimate' Tool That Calculates a House's Worth (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    My bank insisted on an appraisal as part of the loan process. It was effectively part of the cost of taking out the loan.

  15. Re: OMFG u have got to be kidding on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    But his replacement will be in charge of those investigations and who appoints his replacement again?

  16. Just retrain them on Artificial Intelligence Closes In On the Work of Junior Lawyers (ft.com) · · Score: 2

    As coal miners.

  17. But France has a life expectancy that is almost as long as Japan and they use a TON of butter.

  18. You say that, but there was more job growth per quarter under Obama than there has been under Trump. I mean I'm not convinced that a single quarter, his first, is legit to judge him by but since you are I don't really see how the numbers can be in his favor.

  19. In small, self driving electric cars that you rent on demand... possibly from tesla.

  20. of course if the cars were self driving then you could have your "rail provided power" on the freeway be good to go. If we got to the point where freeway access required a self driving car then we could probably increase the speed of those freeways safely. This seems like it is avoiding those requirements by putting the self driving ability on these little carts, which is good in that it would let us get to this vision sooner, but it is bad in that it requires an amazing amount of infrastructure to be built to make this work (tunnels everywhere).

  21. Re:Unrealistic for you, maybe on Most Millennials Have an Unrealistic View of Their Retirement Prospects, Analysts Say (hsbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The welfare of the citizens IS the welfare of the country.

    But maybe you need a better connection. We devote more money to healthcare than any other developed nation and we have worse health outcomes, this is a drain on the GDP... for one spending extraordinary money on healthcare is not a good use of money that could go to any number of other economic pursuits and two, the people who remain sick or less than ideally healthy are not as productive as they could be.

    Fixing this problem would absolutely be in the interest of the general welfare of the state.

  22. Re:The view fails to account getting &*#@ed on Most Millennials Have an Unrealistic View of Their Retirement Prospects, Analysts Say (hsbc.com) · · Score: 1

    While your premise is correct your conclusion is not... What makes you think any of them will be able to find jobs when they hit 60 years old?

  23. Re:Unrealistic for you, maybe on Most Millennials Have an Unrealistic View of Their Retirement Prospects, Analysts Say (hsbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If "provide for the common defense" can be used to justify spending as much on the military as the next 10 countries combined then perhaps "promote the general Welfare" might be considered to include keeping the citizens of the country healthy.

  24. Re:The view fails to account getting &*#@ed on Most Millennials Have an Unrealistic View of Their Retirement Prospects, Analysts Say (hsbc.com) · · Score: 2

    yeah but on the other hand by the time they reach 59 they probably wont be able to get a job anymore with the way the economy is going... thats a form of "retirement"

  25. Re:Total regulatory impact 2-3 percent on The Cheap Energy Revolution Is Here, and Coal Won't Cut It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Coal has been made disproportionately more expensive over the last several years by government fiat, not market forces.

    Citation desperately needed. The linked article shows many forces pushing down the value of coal, all we have for your claims is your word.