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  1. If you think about it, nobody is going to commute two hours into San Francisco just to drive around delivering food.

    Of course they will. Heck, I would move two hours away, drive in and deliver food if it paid $50,000 an hour. It's just that some people in SF want to avoid paying that kind of money (the others would be on the receiving end of it, and therefore don't want robots).

  2. could all of Alphabet parent actually be fined for it's one product in one region?

    It can be fined up to whatever the assets it has in that region, certainly, and posisbly more. Depends on their treaty with America.

  3. Did you complain about Microsoft bundling IE? If they hadn't been stopped, there would be no Google. IE would block it, and Netscape Navigator just wouldn't install. Chrome and Android wouldn't exist.

  4. Re:Potential Donor Lists on Anti-Aging Start-Up Is Charging Thousands of Dollars for Teen Blood (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    Private prisons are the first to capitalize on this lucrative supply. Three months off for every pint they donate

    Private prisons won't give people time off, they'll pay them $0.08/hr to donate blood, usable at the company store. It may or may not be optional.

  5. It's illegal for me to beat my friends and just take their money. It's actually legal for the government to use force to get what it wants.

  6. Re:Why make six when you can make eight or nine? on Google Quadruples Top Reward For Hacking Android To $200,000 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Also why the Randi prize is meaningless. Any of the supernatural effects you could prove would make more than that on the open market.

  7. In the US we hold them to be very different things. For instance, a judge is required to approve entry to a home to look for evidence. The officer is charged with solving a crime, the prosecutor with prosecuting it, and the judge with enforcing limits on them (and the defense).

  8. I'd imagine there are cases where you can prove the existence of the box, but not the underlying crime. For instance, suppose they found a key to a safe deposit box (in an unknown location) with a trace amount of cocaine on it. That would be evidence of a safety deposit box that had drugs in it. But, by itself, would only be prosecutable for the trace amount. Which could be a different crime, based on the quantity.

  9. Re:At least FB doesn't have a motto on How Facebook Praises and Pressures a Country's Leader To Get Exactly What It Wants (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's true. The thing that bothers me when Google does something evil is just the hypocrisy. I'm fine with the actual evil act.</sarcasm>

  10. Re:A Community Without Trolls on Imzy, the Kinder and Gentler Reddit By Ex Employee, Is Shutting Down (imzy.com) · · Score: 1

    the admins will start ticking people off with inconsistent and unappealable rulings,

    Even with explicit rules you have that issue. Look at umps in baseball or refs in football.

  11. At the moment it looks like GVFS is Windows-only

    It's written in C#, which has virtual machines for Linux and OS X as well. So, if it does need to be ported, it will probably happen pretty quickly. Possibly even faster than if it was written in C/C++.

  12. Re:Call me ignorant but.. on Airbnb Is Running Its Own Internal University To Teach Data Science (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What happens when AirBnB wants to increase their profit margin without letting either party know? They'll have to obscure how much gets paid by the customer and how much the owner gets.

  13. Re:Call me ignorant but.. on Airbnb Is Running Its Own Internal University To Teach Data Science (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is 'data science' ?

    Statistics when your sample size is your population.

  14. Re:"Verboten"? on 'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Educated people often use obscure words without realizing that other people don't understand them. They tend to lend gradation to meaning.

  15. Re:Not easily reduced to algorithm on Mark Zuckerberg Is Working On a Way To Connect You To People You 'Should' Know (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I've seen similar situations in...

    It's common in most groups. As groups become more specialized, seemingly irrelevent details to those outside the community separate people into groups approaching holy war levels of disagreement. I mean, look at the freaking wars over text editors by a small group of people who objectively have more in common (by OS) than most of the population. I have no desire to repeat all the Linux arguments, but they continue to this day.

  16. Re:Ahhh the Bribes on Pittsburgh Is Falling Out of Love With Uber's Self-Driving Cars (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    It is not so much of a falling out as someone else is paying the right people

    It probably was, but I have no idea why Pittsburgh shouldn't support a local company that brings a $1 billion into the city, shares its data, and will help lobby for pro-Pittsburg spending in Washington. That is, it seems to be doing good for the citizens of Pittsburgh. So, good for them!

    Also, seriously, fuck Uber. I prefer Ford to Uber.

  17. Re:Uber not playing nice? on Pittsburgh Is Falling Out of Love With Uber's Self-Driving Cars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a little shocking. You would think that the very low cost of Uber fulfilling it's promises would be worth it to them, for the goodwill and to show off that other cities should welcome them. And then screw over all the cities en masse once they can be kicked out of 1/2 and still get what they want. But they were short-term greedy.

  18. Re:Punishment for BREXIT. on UK Conservatives Pledge To Create Government-Controlled Internet (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    people actually exercised their rights, against what they were told to do, even though they were told it would cost the people in power actual money!

    Well, Robert Murdoch is really happy with it. I mean, I suppose he has power, and will make a lot more money. Because he has a lot of power in the UK, but not in the EU.

  19. Re:Dickering or haggling... on Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You're Willing To Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea of a set price and or posted price tags is relatively new to civilization.

    So is penicillin. What's your point? Innovations are new, and therefore we should undo them whenever they are in the way of corporate profits?

  20. Re:Office space on IBM is Telling Remote Workers To Get Back in the Office Or Leave (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Although I am sure they think differently.

    That's Apple, not IBM

  21. Re:What is a Tony spot? on Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You're Willing To Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    "Tony" is an upscale word for "upscale "

  22. Re:How come Elsevier still exist? on Elsevier Wants $15 Million In 'Piracy' Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The scientists at universities don't care, because all universities pay for unlimited subscriptions. And they're more prestigious to be published in.

  23. Re:phase out cash, BAD idea on China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Cash (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I favor legislation where people who have too many accidents aren't allowed to own SUVs.

  24. Re:Obligatory on Android Now Supports the Kotlin Programming Language (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    C# can deploy to Windows and Windows Phone (kinda obviously) It also can target OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android, as well as less popular choices like Tizen and Fire OS. It can also compile down to HTML5/JS/WebGL. Gaming wise, as an MS product, it can support XBox 360 or XBox One, but it can also support Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Wii, Wii U and Nintendo Switch. And, there are a handful of of other platforms supported.

  25. you mean the people that take money from the same corps and lobbyists?

    Obama got more telecom money than Romney did, and he still put an FCC chairman in place in favor of net neutrality.