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  1. Comcast does this already with its "public" WiFi from customer's home routers

  2. you wouldn't?

  3. Re:Why does it look like an sidewalk? on Police Chief: Uber Self-Driving Car 'Likely' Not At Fault In Fatal Crash (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    this makes sense as it is the lead up to a pair of one way bridges and traffic might need to be directed off of one and the other shared

  4. Re:It's a circle-jerk echo chamber on Reddit and the Struggle To Detoxify the Internet (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    T_D started as satire and mockery and then Poe's law (and trolls) took over and it became what it ended up as

  5. I think that view is a bit cynical. Lucas strikes me as someone who actually enjoyed being a story teller and film maker (especially playing with new technologies). He was just smart enough to realize he could make a buck doing that, then used that as a way of getting funding to continue doing what he liked.

  6. Re:Fix it with some careful regulation on What Airbnb Did To New York City (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    In SF it is also the wealthy land owners who are opposed to new housing because they believe it will weaken their investments and reduce their rental income.

  7. Re:I'll say it again, you can't teach artisan on Barbie Will Be Used To Teach Kids To Code (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    But you can't teach creativity, creative innovation, nor artistic creative innovation -- that means problem solving.

    Sure you can. It's not learned the same way as math or history but exposure and practice definitely can improve those skills.They are not inherent, immutable, or absolute.

  8. Re:What about the boys? on Barbie Will Be Used To Teach Kids To Code (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's funny you say that but part of how I learned to sew as a kid was by making ninja outfits for my action figures.

  9. Re: So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You've got it backwards, Texas was Mexican first, then invaded by white folk.

  10. Re: Razer what? why? on 'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux' (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    I've been using Logitech hardware for quite some time now, and while it does require software (how else am I going to map the 12 buttons on my mouse) I've never had to register or login to anything.

  11. Re:Razer keyboards are not high-end on 'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux' (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    If you can find $5 model Ms then you should be flipping them on ebay for 20x profit

  12. Anyone can be the eponym for anything, there doesn't need to be a relation, Tesla cars are eponymous of the scientist, but Nikola has nothing to do with the company.

  13. Re:The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good on Hoping That Sucking CO2 From the Air Will Fix the Climate? Good Luck (easac.eu) · · Score: 1

    Instead of burying them in mines, turn the wood into charcoal so won't ever rot. You lose a little carbon in the process, but you end up with a much more stable product, and you can net some energy out it all too.

  14. Re:The only downside I see to this ... on An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need pairs for that to work, just a family group (not even necessarily related). For example elephants tend to stay in groups of just females to raise the relatively vulnerable young.

  15. Re:try before you buy on The Rise Of The Contract Workforce (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    This mistake is so prevalent I wonder if there was a misinformation campaign at some point to conflate them.

  16. Re:It's not facebook's job to protect people on Facebook Says It Can't Guarantee Social Media is Good For Democracy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick" -Jethro Tull

  17. Re:States rights is racist? on Lawsuit Filed By 22 State Attorneys General Seeks To Block Net Neutrality Repeal (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree at this point the phrase is marred by its past usage, but is there another term we should use then? Because there is a real subject of debate that has nothing to do with slavery at this point, be it about gambling, cannabis, or firearm regulations.

  18. No more "millennials" will ever be made, production stopped a little over 15 years ago. I'm not sure what the new models are branded as yet

  19. Re: Designed for the Left on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    >"radical centrist" seems an oxymoron.
    Not in a highly bi-modal system

  20. Re:You guys have it all wrong on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I wish I could remember the short story about a time in the future when they run out of original melodic sequences because everything is under copyright

  21. Re:Democrat party are anti-american on Democrats Are Just One Vote Shy of Restoring Net Neutrality (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd mod you funny had I the points

  22. Re:And suddenly... on 2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How does an example of total economic failure represent a loss of individuality among its citizens?

  23. Re:Wrong approach, kill the nazi faggots on A Reporter Built a Bot To Find Nazi Sock Puppet Accounts. Twitter Banned the Bot and Kept the Nazis (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    how to you get "I killed them so they must be a Nazi" from "kill the Nazis"?
    and who modded this backwards logic up?

  24. Re:From Corporate Agenda from conflict of interest on Google Wants Google Doodles Taught In Public School, Warns Kids They Best Behave · · Score: 1

    It's still up to the teachers or schools to implement the lesson or not, Google isn't forcing anybody to do this it's just providing resources for those that choose to use them.

    And this isn't new at all, for example look up Pepsi's use of the US's attempt at adopting the metric system to push using 2 liter bottles of soda as teaching aids ("follow the liter" campaign)

  25. So you've never been in a committed relationship? that's a "non-binding" "agreement" between people (at least before they're married)