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  1. Re:So instead of building infrastructure on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    Normalcy of economic interaction keeps law and order alive. You can't immediately switch the entire distribution system on the Island to being charity based.

    It's a symptom of people still having some common sense ... so maybe it is a symptom of your current ruling party.

  2. Re:Try to get change for a gold coin on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to use multiple fiat currencies to make change.

  3. Will be nice when the patents run out on Toshiba's Fast-Charging Battery Could Triple the Range of Electric Vehicles (newatlas.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We need either a patent unencumbered replacement for Lion which is far better, or multiple technologies which are far better. One technology which is far better will help fuck all for the next 20 years.

  4. Also culture and genetics.

  5. The NSA could trivially show proof of a backdoor or sidechannel in a two year old PUBLIC binary without exposing any secrets. If it was there they'd show it.

    Ipso facto, it's not there ... fake news.

  6. Re:ideas are cheap, execution is king on Apple is Really Bad At Design (theoutline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple has no real competition. Samsung got closest, but lacks the software talent to compete without Google ... and Google sells it's customers. Microsoft is a shipwreck and the lack of vertical integration which they are stuck in for historical reasons was fine for when computers were more expert devices, but has become too big a handicap now.

    Best hardware, best security, best privacy, best longevity of support, best ease of maintenance for idiots ... a few niggles in UI and I/O and outrageous prices can't harm them when all their "competitors" fail to get close on most of those.

    PS. wish they didn't exist though.

  7. Re:Systemd on Ask Slashdot: Whatever Happened To the 'Year of Linux on Desktop'? · · Score: 1

    Yep, Linux needs exclusive consumer applications to push it ... the OS in and of itself is irrelevant to most people. Unfortunately the only company willing to push Linux with good applications is a privacy raping juggernaut for whom customers are the commodity.

    I think SteamOS could succeed if Valve was more ambitious. They need to pay devs to support Vulkan and find a way to do fast switching to and from a VM running windows, with only a single gaming GPU.

  8. Re:There's a toxoplasma vaccine for animals on Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked To a Whole Lot of Neurological Disorders (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting.

  9. It's almost incurable to begin with and pretty much the only people getting any treatment for it are AIDS victims.

  10. Don't take the /pol/ memes too seriously ... just go look at the videos, it's just edgy comedy. Little different from edgy comedians making holocaust jokes, just poorly executed.

  11. Hebbian learning was always the more fundamental on Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Says We Need To Start Over (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Hebb showed us the way forward right from the start, yet we still managed to get stuck with backpropagation and perceptrons time and fucking time again.

  12. Re:What strikes me as odd on PewDiePie Is Inexcusable But DMCA Takedowns Are Not the Way To Fight Him (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    With Schumer pulling the Democratic cart on keeping the dreamers in and blocking the wall, a far cry from the policies he supports in Israel, it's not a good time for Jews to have that discussion in public.

  13. Re:Publicly acknowledged on PewDiePie Is Inexcusable But DMCA Takedowns Are Not the Way To Fight Him (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He didn't kill himself, it's the only way to acknowledge the depth of his sins (ie. being a non jewish, non transgender white male).

  14. Re: Oh please on PewDiePie Is Inexcusable But DMCA Takedowns Are Not the Way To Fight Him (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wrong != inexcusable.

  15. Re:Because they see the money on Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? (a16z.com) · · Score: 1

    If they were truly cautious they wouldn't be talking to a confidence trickster, they'd ask to talk to engineers.

    They are sold one-off to very hesitant buyers.

  16. They allowed the system to be active with seven warnings and over the speed limit.

  17. If it doesn't, Tesla opens itself up to increased liability.

    It has to because it optimizes profit (or in Tesla's case, reduced losses).

  18. Re:Those profits are taxed in the US on Four EU Countries Seek Higher Taxes On Google and Amazon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Winning at racing to the bottom isn't exactly innovation. Free trade should really be about trade, not services, not company taxation and certainly not foreign investment.

    Unfortunately it isn't, free trade is about destroying national sovereignty and reimplementing feudalism.

  19. Re:DARPA grant needed to fix previous DARPA grant on Should Congress Force Social Media To Investigate Foreign Propaganda Trolls? (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    The majority of Antifa (a loose assembly of people who protest anyone they perceive as fascists) consists of white people born biologically male who exclusively fuck women (ie. cis white males). So when an "Antifa manual" says "do not distribute to cis white males" you know apriori it's a joke.

  20. Re:DARPA grant needed to fix previous DARPA grant on Should Congress Force Social Media To Investigate Foreign Propaganda Trolls? (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    There a lot of kids and people who never grew up on the right with a lot of time on their hands, blaming Putin for this bit of larping is a stretch.

    If you want it to look authentic instead of clear satire you wouldn't put that bit of not distributing to cis white males for a start, they are the majority of Antifa after all.

  21. Re:DARPA grant needed to fix previous DARPA grant on Should Congress Force Social Media To Investigate Foreign Propaganda Trolls? (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia is trying to internally destabilize the EU and US, I doubt they are aiming for civil war in countries with nukes though.

    On the other hand globalists tried to push the EU into incorporating an economic basket case for geopolitical reasons and against EU citizen's economic interests, like most EU expansions in recent history, helping kick all this shit off.

  22. Re:For a more rational discussion on the issue on Should Congress Force Social Media To Investigate Foreign Propaganda Trolls? (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is fine, anywhere where free speech and relative anonymity (ie. it takes more than a minute to dox someone) exist political incorrectness has no lack of representation, nor does it need Putin.

    I maybe lose a little more karma than I gain by being offensively politically incorrect, but it's pretty even handed.

  23. It doesn't matter what they paid themselves, what matters is that they have to disclose what they paid themselves (among other things).

  24. Re:Basic Skill on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Can you afford a guru?

  25. How much salary did these guys pay themselves? Without an answer they haven't lived up the bad joke post-2014 kickstarter contract (which most failed kickstarters do not).

    Hence why the backers are entitled to a refund.