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  1. Re:Bubble is about to burst on Facebook Shareholders Force A Vote On Ousting Mark Zuckerberg (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone pay for stock and the "privilege" to spend time running a company?

  2. Why would the shareholders hold any votes if a single person has over half the votes?

  3. They block very little sound. I can hold a completely normal conversation with my earbuds in.

  4. Re:kind of gimmicky on Startup Sells Pot 'Grow Fridges' That Are Tended By Robots (nj.com) · · Score: 1

    Why spend $100K to produce $100 bucks of tomatoes a year?

  5. Re:Math on Startup Sells Pot 'Grow Fridges' That Are Tended By Robots (nj.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is security. a 100 acre farm is nothing beside these boxes, even 100 acres of modern green houses is far less than a comparable pot box setup. But security is a huge cost and goes up as the footprint expands. And the thing is if they have a hundred pot boxes ready to be installed, and you get a line on a big empty factory. You could start growing next week. Building your own climate controlled greenhouses might be 10th the cost, but will can take a long time.

  6. Re:The exploding cost of education on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Why, exactly?

    Because you should be able to pay someone less who is just their to start a projector at the beginning of class, and turn it off at the end compared to a real teacher.

  7. This is sort of besides the point. We do not see many individuals advancing science. Taking out a loan, getting a Physics degree, and then improving our knowledge of the universe.

    Science nowadays mostly seems to take billions of dollars. So even if this caused far less physics students to be produced, we get more money for research possibly as we are no longer spending as much teaching millions of future car salesmen physics, and quite possibly more talented and skilled group of physicists to draw researchers from. Teachers no longer have to waste 90% of their time on students who are only there for something to do, class sizes fall and you have more one on one time, wages increase because the number of physicists dropped 90%.

  8. Re:...but here is why it will not work on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree that it won't work, but it's still probably not a bad idea for high earners. Many people with insane high earning potential still drop out or get burnt out by graduation. I know engineers with degrees who simply have no drive to do any more engineering ever again post graduation, so I can guarantee you that their are loads of doctors would rather cut off their left arm than ever practice medicine, and that is not even counting the millions of students who never finished their education.

  9. That is one way of putting it, but when they students actually start having to pay money, you can be sure their will be quite a few very vocal ones about how they were tricked into paying far more for an education than they otherwise would have and they cannot even afford an apartment with what is left over and they are living on the streets or out of their car because of this financial burden that they were tricked into.

    then you will have all the people complaining that they don't offer woman's studies classes, and how this is hurting the Arts. Or that their are not enouhg charity cases being let in with 1.0 GPAs.

    The thing about government subsidized up front cost education where the universities make the same profit on every student they can get, it is very easy make loads of money off of minorities and women.

  10. b) growing saplings fix a lot more CO2 from the atmosphere than mature trees do.

    What?
    A growing sapling produces like a gram of wood a year. A mature tree continues too increase its growth rate as it ages, so can produce upwards of hundreds of pounds of wood.
    Where is the sapling storing all this carbon?

  11. R&D isn't magic. You cannot create plastic from sunlight for free, using oil is the closest you will ever come.

    And I never really understood that type of environmentalism. Biofuel, bioplastics; Lets use 5 barrels of oil to produce some product out of plants, that we can currently create using 1 barrel of oil if we just chemically modify the oil.

  12. Mexicans.
    The average height of a Mexican woman is under 5'1".

  13. Re:So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Its a Pilot Training problem, but not a simple, "we just need to teach them about this one problem 737s have sometimes". It's that again and again, for decades now, we have perfectly functioning planes that have one sensor out of 50 go bad and the pilots will line the nose of the plane up directly with the ground, and proceed to fly directly into it.

    It does not matter if some plane in particular has a minor software error or something has to be modified by 1 degree. It is that their are many pilots flying commercially that have no idea how to fly if even one gauge is off. Am I wrong, or did people used to be able to fly planes by pointing the nose above the horizon?

  14. Re:Tea for Texas on Texas Lawmakers Want To Stop Tesla From Fixing Its Own Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Heck, the Satanic panic in the 80's generated a ton of laws regulating day care centers to ensure they weren't sacrificing children, a problem that didn't exist at all and is already illegal via murder statues.

    That is sort of what I am saying, but like you mention it is all about perception as well.

    Via previous definitions that I was arguing against, the 80's in america was not the safest anyone had every been from being scarified by a satanic cult. The addition of dozens of anti satanic sacrifice laws did not mean that no satanic sacrifice was happening in America, it was because their was a perception that is was happening that the laws passes.

    Similarly, I would honestly expect Mexican law to be 10% anti-bribery legislation. Because it does not matter how often the law makes bribery illegal, you are not any more likely to be caught.

  15. Re:Tea for Texas on Texas Lawmakers Want To Stop Tesla From Fixing Its Own Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    To make it seem like they were not corrupt, or doing something about it at least. If you are honest you do not go out of your way to try and seem honest.

    The county with the most laws mentioning X is the country with the worst problems with X, not the least problems. They keep making up new laws only when it is clear the old ones have completely failed at doing anything and invariably the new ones will fail as well.

  16. Re:Tea for Texas on Texas Lawmakers Want To Stop Tesla From Fixing Its Own Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    1. It would seem to me that logically, the more corrupt a state become the more anti-corruption laws it will have. If the leaders are all honest, no one is going to write laws, at least not anymore than it generally being illegal to be corrupt.
    2. The more people convicted for corruption, the less corrupt a government is. It is surprisingly easy to be accidentally corrupt. Their will always be people to arrest and punish for corruption. It is only serious government breaking corruption when people stop getting tried and punished for it.

  17. Re:Ban for-profit editors. on 'Facebook, Axios And NBC Paid This Guy To Whitewash Wikipedia Pages' (huffpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Honestly, the for-profit editors probably get closer to the truth than the for-philosophy editors

  18. Re:Lol, "activist" is a tad generous on Are Online Activists Silencing Researchers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Troll is being generous. This is not trolling, this is electronic bullying or terrorism.

  19. Recycling is Too Complicated. on Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't know how the rest of the world works, but recycling makes no sense here in Canada.

    We get 2 recycling bins. "Paper" and "Containers".

    Where you do put cardboard boxes? Is cardboard paper? Not sure, but I guess a box is a container. But what about paper containers?
    Are cloths just containers that contain people? Wood definitely is not paper, but you think you could recyclable it without first building it into some form of container.

    You would think that you would separate recyclables by material type not use. Why would a glass vase be recyclable but a glass coaster not be?

    TL;DR: Either give up or just shove everything in the "Container" bin because pretty much everything is a container.

  20. So people prefer tubes because they do a imprecise job of modifying audio?

  21. Re: Probably more to do with the worsening economy on Workplace Theft Is On the Rise (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Not in the hotel business. But I imagine you would have to be a pretty incompetent hotel to not run an inventory of every room post use.

  22. Providing loans = disallowing public transit use?

  23. Re:Faulty assumption on Netflix May Be Losing $192 Million Per Month From Piracy, Study Claims (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So your kids have moved out. And I am sure loads of people are doing it like you are to save money. And I can guarantee you that many of them charge their kids to pay for these extra seats. What is wrong with that, just splitting the costs equitably? but maybe you only have 1 kid, so in an attempt to be frugal you find 2 other relatives to save even more money.

    This gives you an idea, and you start selling Netflix account shares to anybody and everybody. You are now making $1 a month per person you sign up.

    At what point did this get illegal?

  24. Re: Again this rubish? on Netflix May Be Losing $192 Million Per Month From Piracy, Study Claims (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's really not much of a grey area. You can lend Steam games to people similar to how you would lend a VHS. But for example Steam will not allow 8 people in 8 different countries to log into the same account at the same time. The people who are "borrowing a friends" Netflix account are using it concurrently.

  25. Re:Again this rubish? on Netflix May Be Losing $192 Million Per Month From Piracy, Study Claims (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the study is way better then I expect it to be.
    They could of just measured the number of times people downloaded Netflix owned episodes off of pirate sites and then multiplied that number by a years subscription to Netflix.