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  1. Considering the Hyperloop is trying to hit 750mph or so, that wouldn't be a hard average to reach even with a few stops.

  2. Between parking and TSA and layovers, you'll want to add 6 more hours.

  3. Re:Is there any actual benefit to that schedule? on Say Goodbye To Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break (citylab.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's insane is that they decided they still need an 8-hour day. Why not 6 hours with a 3-hour break in the middle? I bet it would be more productive (if not at least equal) than 8 hours with a 1-hour break in the middle.

  4. Re:Started to care, but then I realized it's a no- on Google To Add 'News Feed' To Website and App (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    When I'm on someone else's computer (i.e. repairing), I type google.com into the search bar to be sure I don't get Yahoo/Bing/etc.

    I'll probably just create a clean white web page with a Google logo and search bar and just give it a short URL - just have it submit the form to Google.

  5. Re:Deja vu on Google To Add 'News Feed' To Website and App (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nah, they should let you pick some favorite feeds and let you put it on your home page with other widgets like weather and news. They could call it iGoogle.

  6. Re:Good solution on Windows 10 Will Cut Off Devices With Older CPUs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's very possible they're getting their version control to the point where patching the newest version also patches every older release affected. That would make patches for older feature releases almost free for them to do.

  7. Re:They're also doing the opposite on Windows 10 Will Cut Off Devices With Older CPUs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    because of their need to support legacy code

    Their support of legacy code is the only reason people still want Windows. Everyone would move to Android or Mac OS for their main desktop if they didn't have software they already liked to use.

  8. Re:Because a Poor Excuse is Better Than None on Why is Comcast Using Self-driving Cars To Justify Abolishing Net Neutrality? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesnt mean the rest of Comcast is all evil empire n shit.

    Doesn't mean they're not, either.

  9. Re:PLease explain difference between QOS and fastl on Why is Comcast Using Self-driving Cars To Justify Abolishing Net Neutrality? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If streaming movies need a higher QOS not to stutter then they could be placed in a lower latency channel

    The only kind of streaming movie that needs low-latency is two-way live video conferencing. Everything else can pre-buffer on a high-latency connection just fine.

  10. Re:The risks are to their customers, not them on Telecom Lobbyists Downplayed 'Theoretical' Security Flaws in Mobile Data Backbone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, this is collective bargaining.

    No, they aren't forming a labor union. The word you're looking for is collusion.

  11. Re:It might be too late to stop this process on Crypto-Bashing Prime Minister Argues The Laws Of Mathematics Don't Apply In Australia (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A modern train-driving engineer may not be required to know much. I'd bet a steam engine engineer would have to know an awful lot about field repair if he didn't want to be stranded hundreds of miles from anywhere any time a problem came up.

  12. Re:The mathematics of irrationality. on Crypto-Bashing Prime Minister Argues The Laws Of Mathematics Don't Apply In Australia (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    not elected through solid campaigning and rational thinking. He was elected through fear mongering and backrooom preference deals.

    So....a public election.

  13. Re:Enforcement for "rank and file" workers? on Are America's Non-Compete Laws Too Strict? (nrtoday.com) · · Score: 1

    P.S. And otherwise every EULA would be unenforceable because they are all accepted under "duress." You don't have any choice but their way or no way.

  14. Re:Enforcement for "rank and file" workers? on Are America's Non-Compete Laws Too Strict? (nrtoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you're completely free to leave. And in at-will employment states, employers are completely free to fire you regardless.

  15. Re:It's not AI...hijacked term.... on Elon Musk Warns Governors: Regulate AI Before It's 'Too Late' (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    It's not intelligence.

    You're right...it's not real intelligence. It's like an artificial approximation...let's call it Artificial Intelligence.

    Your goalpost is set for authentic intelligence, not artificial.

  16. Re:Quote from president Minsky Snapdragon on Elon Musk Warns Governors: Regulate AI Before It's 'Too Late' (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    And this applies in peace times and not only at war times?

    There would have to be some sort of major crisis for all those people to go.

    Because it does not look really thought out, "Secretaries of something" are usually not elected in any way but appointed by the president.

    True, it would be better if it was an interim presidency and an emergency election soon to follow. But those "Secretaries of something" are still partly elected - they are only appointed if that president is elected.

  17. Re: Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how taxes work. The individual members pay taxes. The church pays its own bills. The church has no "profit" to be taxed, and excess money is usually used for charity work.

  18. Re:Enforcement for "rank and file" workers? on Are America's Non-Compete Laws Too Strict? (nrtoday.com) · · Score: 1

    unless I was given "consideration" (title, raise, etc) specifically tied to signing it, it was unenforceable in my state.

    In most states, "continued employment" counts as consideration.

  19. It's not a debt until it's past due.

    Most regular services and products usually require payment up-front.

  20. Re:war on cash = private sales tax on Visa Considers Extending 'War on Cash' Business Incentives Outside US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My cable box is slow too (I don't actually have cable), but that doesn't mean embedded computers are slow. Businesses go with the cheapest option possible and slow is the result.

  21. Re:Thanks, I'll let the world know... on Hyperloop One Conducts First Full Systems Test But Only Traveled 70MPH (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I keep thinking they're having The Boring Company help with laying track - because they keep advertising themselves as perfect for the job.

  22. Re:Thanks, I'll let the world know... on Hyperloop One Conducts First Full Systems Test But Only Traveled 70MPH (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to plan for places that get colder at night than 40f or hotter during summer days than 100f.

    Any heat differential you plan for will be due to friction and generated heat. This should be far enough underground to stay at about 60 degrees F year-round.

  23. It's Here Now on Hyperloop One Conducts First Full Systems Test But Only Traveled 70MPH (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This must be one of those new definitions of "here now"

  24. Rule 7: When dismissed, leave as quickly as possible.

    How does he have eminent domain?

  25. Interesting catch 22. If he stays in his "liberal elite bubble" he's a pompous ass. If he tries to venture outside the bay area, he's a pompous ass.

    Well sure - this road trip won't change that either way. It's also the reason lots of people don't want to meet him.