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  1. Re:No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It does not matter what the stock price was a 12 months ago

    It does if that's when they shorted the stock. If you want to say they lost a billion dollars, the change in price of shares times the number of shares shorted has to be a billion dollars If the stock moved down between when they sold and bought the stock back, they've made money.

    *Fees and interest complicate things

  2. Why is it that every time I see "Theranos", I read it first as "Thanatos"?

    The first and last letters are the same, the length is the same, the "era" and "ana" are visually similar, and people don't phonetically read things that are familiar to them. You either read Greek mythology or Marvel comics for years before someone came up with a name that is so similar,it practically had to be based on Thanatos.

  3. Re:Washington State, paying guilt tax for China on Can Washington State Finally Put a Price On Carbon? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have an income tax. The state needs to get money somehow. And taxing per-mile is a usage fee.

  4. Re:The solution to pollution? A tax on Can Washington State Finally Put a Price On Carbon? (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    You do know that taxing pollution as a solution is a Republican stance, and limiting the levels via regulations it is a Democratic one, right?

  5. Why would game companyâ(TM)s shell out billions to build giant gaming centres all across the country when gamers are already willing to pay for the hardware themselves?

    The recurring revenue of making it SaaS will make the data-centers more profitable, long term. And MS and Sony have the cash on hand to sink billions into data centers.

  6. But the younger generation seems to be unaware of the growing lag problem in the current world.

    People mentally account for lag pretty well. Up to 3 seconds can become transparent if someone is eased into it.

  7. It's then they realize that most employers provide coffee and not espresso or a latte

    If that were the breaking point, then employers should just fucking offer espressos. It's far cheaper than a raise would be.

  8. If 10m millennial women suddenly dropped out of the workforce over a decade to be stay at home wives**, they'd probably call them unemployed.

    The rules on who is unemployed are pretty simple (if possibly erroneous.) You have to want a job not have a job be healthy enough for a job and have had a job in the past two years. The last one is probably to detect people unwilling to admit they are unemployable because of skills/disabilities. However, post-2008, it caught lots of other people.

  9. Temp work, not gig economy on The Gig Economy is Actually Smaller Than It Used To Be, Labor Department Says (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    Alternatively people aren't saying Lyft/Uber/etc are short term gigs, but instead viewed like a job. Since it's self-reported whether it's short term or not./p.

  10. Re: Well that's just depressing on Emirates Planes Could Be Going Windowless (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Am I watching the views in a terrestrial microgravity environment (thanks to I guess antigrav tech?) Cause I'll take that. If you want to know if I think sitting in 1G would be an equivalent experience, I do not. But I don't think the graphics are the reason why.

  11. Re:Others they just bought on Microsoft Addresses Pressure From Developer Community, Promises To Rename GVFS · · Score: 1

    Sure,MS claimed a large amount of the space (although I disagree that Word was the class of the product, but there are a ton of other examples). But the worst example was Amazon's Lambda service.

  12. You can go from MIT to GPL if you like.

  13. Re:Prove without a doubt it IS man made... on Judge Orders EPA To Produce Science Behind Pruitt's Climate Claims (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    We've had as much success with our climate models as we have of finally eradicating cancer.

    We cured cancer years ago and no one said anything?

  14. Re:Fine, just make sure kids aren't buying this cr on Valve Will Stop Removing Controversial Games on Steam Unless They Are 'Illegal or Straight up Trolling' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying Valve should be confirming the age. I'm saying it's reasonable to expect/require that a parent looks at their child's account to make sure it's not set to 18+

  15. Re:Fine, just make sure kids aren't buying this cr on Valve Will Stop Removing Controversial Games on Steam Unless They Are 'Illegal or Straight up Trolling' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So it pains me to say this, but until they fix this gigantic loophole, they are in the wrong here.

    Maybe parents can check their kids ages on their accounts? I tend to be unsympathetic to the "you should be watching your kids 24/7" argument, but to verify their ages on their accounts?

    Also, what have you done about your niece's game collection.

  16. The site when served legal papers requesting it, is supposed to pass on the information they have about the poster. Failing to do that can very well make the legal buck stop on the sites shoulders.
    But that isn't really the issue here.

    I think it's a more important point. I don't really give a shit about some software I've never heard of. I care about the equivalent of DMCA takedown notices being slung around whenever someone is insulted^W^W thinks they were libeled by a forum post.

  17. Oh, I should have pointed out, IANAL.

  18. I know that DCMA and Safe Harbor laws allowed copyright holders (and trademark holders) to get content taken down. But I thought that libel was something that forum sites were protected against. Otherwise, why is Musk/Trump/Hillary not getting every anti-Tesla/pro-Muller/anti-PrivateEmailServer story taken down from /.?

  19. Re:Uphill battle on Hawaii Passes Law To Make State Carbon Neutral By 2045 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    This is going to be a difficult, uphill battle for Hawaii given their recent growth in production of locally sourced, volcanic S(O2)...

    Funny, I don't see any carbon in that chemical formula.

  20. Re:Virtual keyboard? Oh hell no! on The Asus Project Precog is a Pioneering Dual-Display Laptop, Due in 2019 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The virtual keyboard where all the keys were 64x64 eInk displays looked awesome. Of course, they were also physical buttons with real travel, and the whole thing was prohibitively expensive.

  21. Re:The next disruption will be distributed. on American Tech Giants Are Making Life Tough For Startups (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Android offers a range of sizes, prices, and features.

    Android does well because it's cheaper than and one alternative to iOS, and people are locked in via past app purchases. It's not because there are a lot of software options. Sure, there are a ton of options for camera, and size, and whatnot. But no one uses Android OS features as a deciding point.

    Also, I specified desktops to highlight that point. But yeah, how many people installed any alternative distro on Android?

    Likewise with email, there isn't one client that dominates the market.

    It seems like Outlook, GMail's webmail and Thunderbird split the market pretty well. Sure, there are a ton of exceptions, but those probably cover 90+% of the marekt. And Thunderbird is probably on 5%.

    Go look at the toothpaste or shampoo aisle

    And look at the budgets companies have to convince people to change. Because changing preferences is hard when it's just buying a different smelling soap that's a $4-10 investment. Changing workflow and software??

  22. Re:The next disruption will be distributed. on American Tech Giants Are Making Life Tough For Startups (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Have a system of loosely connected platforms where one person can choose platform A and another person can choose platform B and they can still talk to each other.

    Yes, this is why Linux totally destroyed Windows and OSX on the desktop. People don't want to choose between A and B. Sure IT pros liked being able to choose (and car guys like swapping out things under their hoods), but most people want to pick up something and have it just work.

  23. Re:The next disruption will be distributed. on American Tech Giants Are Making Life Tough For Startups (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why the next disruptors will be entirely distributed.

    I'm not seeing anything about cloud hosting costs being the determiner for the kill zone. And I don't know anyone* who cares about the backend technology.

    * Hyperbolic: - I know people like that. But such a small number it may as well be zero.

  24. Re:this is why... on Car Makers Used Software To Raise Spare Parts Prices (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You are suffering from learned helplessness. Fix yourself.

    The world's complex. There are infinite skills. People should be able to handle an emergency (e.g. change a tire, add more fluids if a leak occurs on the road). But learning to cook is probably a better use of your time if you're just trying to accumulate vital skills. And there are other skills after that.

    If you want to get into cars, even if it's just a little bit, by all means start by changing your oil. But if you're not interested, do whatever. Just do something.

  25. Re:Why do we care about lifetime output over 100 y on Russian Scientists Upgrade Nuclear Battery Design To Increase Power Output (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, thanks for the correction!