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  1. 8 years ago was the beginning of this latest bull market. 8 years * 15,000 contributions per year does not make $400K otherwise.

  2. 2 of the most inept career politicians on Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots From Ruining Holiday Shopping (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Laws will stop bots! Yeah!!!! Rejoice everyone. These two crack me up with their ineptitude on a daily basis. I am a local constituent and I see them in the news making outrageous proclamations all the time.

  3. In the UK ALL full time employees are entitled by law to something like 27.5 days off per year. So, although they are complaining, UK Amazon employees have it a lot better than US Amazon employees. And, the UK I think has the second worse days off count in Europe. Of course that does not make what companies like Amazon are doing any better but let's put into perspective how much WORSE the US blue collar workers are than their EU counterparts.

  4. Re:Sounds like an excellent reason... on Amazon Workers in Europe Stage 'We Are Not Robots' Protests on One of Its Busiest Shopping Days (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Baloney, SS is funded by employees. Military is funded by borrowing. What's worse? We do not need a military that costs as much as the next 10 highest military spending countries combined. The level of spending makes sense if you are in war or pre-war buildup but not as an ongoing concern. That's how empires in the past have failed. Over spend on unnecessary military build ups. I am all for a strong deterrent but we need to be smart and realistic on how much we should be spending.

  5. The crypto junkies I know sold recently on Bitcoin Plummets Under $6,000 To a New Low For the Year (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    They were staunch supporters. What that tells me is that the ones that jumped in to speculate and get huge gains are tired of waiting and just getting out. I expect that the real support is around $500. That's the level it was at before the speculators jumped in. $500 is where it is useful for the underground economy.

  6. If it plugs the hole for one feature of the universe that is explained currently by dark matter, that is progress. We may find other things that plug the rest of the holes and then there would be no need for dark matter. Besides, wouldn't a really dim galaxy kind of 'be' dark matter since we could not see it before?

  7. You DO NOT need insurance for non-life threatening conditions. Why do we need 10% or $25 co-pays and $2K-$5K deductibles to go get checked out for a runny nose? That is how we all got hoodwinked to think we need this kind of insurance. There should be plans that cover critical life threatening conditions like heart attacks/cancer. Everything else should out of pocket. You would quickly see prices drop for most services as people would actually price-shop for care for the non-life threatening ailments.

  8. Or many of the other letter agencies of US Govt? I am very concerned that all my tax money is not really getting a good ROI. I think we all have a very lofty ideal of what those agencies are capable of but it may be a bogus ideal that is formulated by Movies and TV and not based on reality.

  9. I despise all forms of uncrontrolled taxation on High Housing Prices In Tech Cities Are Now Raising Home Prices In Other States (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone who lives in a blue state knows that taxes are always increasing, usually faster than the residents taxable income. New forms of taxation is introduced without removing prior forms. Services are cut. Seriously, we need a better way of collecting funds for communal expenses than taxation.

  10. What about the existing residents who paid good money to live in a less crowded area? Are you going to reimburse them for dumping huge condos and/or apartment building right next to their properties?

  11. In the US, you do not own your home on Microsoft Announces Project Xcloud For Streaming Games To PCs, Consoles, and Mobile Devices (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ownership is an illusion. You are allowed to pretend you own it by the incorporated town you live in. Do not pay your taxes and see how quickly you stop owning it.

  12. Did you test with Meltdown/Spectre Fixes? on Intel Addresses CPU Shortage: 'Supply Is Undoubtedly Tight' (crn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    From what I've seen, Intel cpus take a huge hit when those fixes are compiled in. From 8%-20% according to Phoronix. AMD cpus take a hit as well although much smaller. If you take into account those hits, AMD CPUs are faster even clock for clock.

  13. That is ridiculous on Roundup Weed Killer Could Be Linked To Widespread Bee Deaths, Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    How can they prove causality? What kind of jury approves this stuff?

  14. There is some preprocessing on Gut-Brain Connection Could Lead To a 'New Sense' (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    that takes place before the signals reach the brain so yeah.

  15. Just put it in the water already on What Ecstasy Does To Octopuses (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Like fluoride

  16. Aren't the physicists in the box collapsing the function already by observing the coin? Unless we are saying that the system would behave like nested functions where the internal function collapses when the internal observation is made and a secondary function that includes the 1st one as a variable also collapses when the external observer performs their observation.

  17. Why is the government involved in the dealings between private parties?

  18. $130K in NYC is poverty level. You definitely cannot afford Rice tuition with $130K. After taxes you are looking at $75K. A year at Rice with Room and Board is close to that.

  19. Or convenience? on Saudi Arabia Invests $1 Billion In Potential Tesla Rival (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    For a home owner with a garage having the option to charge overnight and never having to visit another gas station is a huge plus

  20. It's like buying a V8 with 6 cylinders enabled on Tesla Issues Software Update To Extend Some Cars' Batteries Due To Hurricane Florence (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    And then the manufacturer saying "hey we can toggle this bit here to turn on 2 more cylinders for the tidy sum of $5k". Very scammy for this, for locked cpus, gpus and basically anywhere where this mechanism is allowed and implemented

  21. Who said anything about insurance? on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    When in was in Europe last time, we needed a prescription filled for a drug that in the US cost $600 (Mind you that was the insurance negotiated price in the US). The european pharmacy provided the equivalent medicine for 6 euros. No insurance was ever involved. That is the scam. Most of us would not need to exorbitant insurance premiums if the medication were priced at their world price. That is the real fleecing of America. We should be outraged on in the streets about this but they have obfuscated all of this in such a way that most Americans don't know that they are getting fleeced anymore.

  22. No they cannot, it's against the law on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the market distortion introduced by the Govt and sponsored by big pharma

  23. Do you mean the data grew to not fit the original specification and thus the data needed to constantly be vetted? That's what I would expect from an aging app. The fact that the new app is web based should have nothing to do with the improvement. It's just that the newer app fits the latest model of the data better. Give it 10 years and it will have similar data quality problems.

  24. Isn't this similar to why Obama got elected? on Pretty Clear GRU's Goal Was To Weaken a Future Clinton Presidency, Former Facebook CSO Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    People were so fed up with Bush Jr. they were even willing to elect the candidate most different from Bush Jr.

  25. Make the minimum wage be SNAP/Section 8 Eligibility Income divided by average annual hours worked. No need to complicate things with yet another tax. Basically the minimum wage should be enough to pull people above the thresholds that qualify you for government assistance and EVERYONE should be eligible for minimum wage.