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  1. Do you often think laying fiber down in sand is the same as laying it down in soil?

  2. Re:disgusting yellow fever sexual fetish is unrela on Remote South Atlantic Islands Are Flooded With Plastic (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    and yellow fever sexual fetishism is fucking disgusting.

    My favorite kind of porn is definitely not disgusting.

  3. Re:Riiiight. on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems to me also that there is what people do and then there is what people say. All the talking is about getting people doing the doing. Maybe its time to make the people doing the talking to do some of the doing.

  4. Re:Hidden Talents on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Consider that your company does a poor job hiring technical expertise, but still you expect them to do a good job seeking out and hiring other qualifications...

    None of this computes because you are ignoring the for-a-fact evidence on the table.

  5. The gulags were created by people that were saying the kind of things you say, not the kind of things the iphone coward says.

  6. The sad truth is that there are some people who lack the skills, aptitude, or desire to be able to earn a living.

    Ask anyone that employs entry-level service people (cashiers, short order cooks, dish washers, stocking, etc..) and you will find its neither skill nor aptitude that is lacking, and obviously desire is meaningless here. The people in the endless entry-level cycle are skilled enough to do the job, and of course want a better job and better pay, but they lack responsibility. The primary qualification for service industry jobs is showing up to work when you are scheduled to show up and these people habitually fail to do so. There are decent paying ($50K/year) service industry jobs that dont even require a high school diploma. Stop being fuck-ups.

  7. Any fair analysis would tag the vehicle as a business expense, because it is a necessity for the business. If you want to account for the vehicle saving personal expenses, that would be accounted for as part of a compensation package from the business. People dont buy compensation packages for their employer. Its a "company car" that the employee enjoys, not an "employee car" that the company enjoys.

  8. Re:As long there's enough memory... on Carmack Compares Oculus Quest Hardware Power To Last-Gen Game Consoles (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why dont any of you understand that the bulk of the market is people watching those VR porn videos. This product is enough for that purpose.

  9. Re:Why on Earth would I submit files to Google? on Alphabet Launches VirusTotal Enterprise (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How many counts of copyright violations will Google be a party to while running this service? Seems to me that a nearly 100% violation rate is possible.

  10. Extensions are a malware and spyware vector, and notice how you arent pushing AdBlock or AdBlockPlus any longer.

    So what you are saying is that the browser doesnt need this feature because you can trust random people instead.

  11. I tend to agree.

    Opera in its heyday was outstanding. Get back to making a power browser that is setting the trend, not following it.

  12. Re:They're not more likely to fall for scams on Millennials More Likely To Fall For Scams Than Baby Boomers (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    Has anyone compiled data on kickstarter "success rates" ?

    I know there have been and are scams there, but I honestly dont have a grasp of the proportions.

    Show me the data.

  13. This is a generation that thinks that going out of their way to declare to all their virtue sounds forthright. The last thing it sounds like is forthright to me, and I'm squarely gen-X. It sounds like bullshit. It sounds like they are selling something... peddling a story... spinning yarn my grandparents would have said.

    But the fact is that THEY DO think that it sounds forthright and that I DO NOT think so. This divergence is the fault of the federalization of the education system in 1979. The beginning of the marginalization of parental control over the education of their children. Theres a pile of federal dollars on the table. Whats a schoolboard to do.

  14. Re:Well there's this thing called CROSS REFERENCIN on Safari's 'Siri Suggested' Search Results Highlighted Conspiracy Theories, Fake News (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That may be mostly true

    Indeed!

    but it's not due to the racist reasons you are implying.

    Zero racist reasons were implied. Therefore the racist implications are in your own head. You therefore, are the racist. There is no other truth here.

  15. I was coming to say basically the same thing about buzzfeed. When they arent manufacturing their own fake news, they are copying others.

  16. Re:But the same article.... on Southern California Sees Its Longest Streak of Bad Air In Decades (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying (and citing) is that climate change is responsible for as many fires as all the other causes of fire put together.

    When its put like that... doesnt fucking sound believable, does it? But here you are, saying it, and citing it, as if you didnt even know what it says....

  17. Re: Anyone have a handle on what this actually doe on Senate Passes Music Modernization Act With Unanimous Support (billboard.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because Disney rains Washington with gold and silver whenever any of Mickey's copyright's are about to expire.

  18. Re:Anyone have a handle on what this actually does on Senate Passes Music Modernization Act With Unanimous Support (billboard.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Free so long as you live under its oppressive weight.

  19. Re:Women less likely to be neurotic on People Tend To Cluster Into Four Distinct Personality 'Types,' Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    'Neuroticism' not 'neurotic'.

    If this is your problem, then you are being fucking neurotic.

    Seems that he nailed it.

  20. Re:Why would it be over in a few years? on Game Streaming's Latency Problems Will Be Over in a Few Years, CEO Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thats a lot of writing you did about bandwidth... but the topic is latency.

  21. You dont know shit.

    The USPTO has a shadow classification, "SAWS", for specific people that is basically "never issue this person another patent, ever, for any reason." Not only is this true, its a fact now in court evidence that this classification was placed on him.

    The USPTO is just favoring large corporations over the little guy here, because they are scumbags.

  22. Re:Full unicode variable names are a mistake on Is Julia the Next Big Programming Language? MIT Thinks So, as Version 1.0 Lands (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree that a type wart like adding a "t" is the "solution" to the lack of case being usable to distinguish between types and variables. Just name shit clearly. The classic OO examples of "Employee" and "Customer" arent good names for types. Those should be "EmployeeData" and "CustomerData" or similar. OO examples are written by assholes abusing case sensitivity which is the opposite of naming things clearly.

    I believe that at least low and mid-level level language should of course have case sensitivity, or more specifically I believe that the symbols in object and library files, as managed by linkers, should be case sensitive.

    But somewhere between assembly language and scripting the case sensitivity should be lost at the language level (by the compiler/interpreter auto-casing symbols to a uniform case standard, maybe with a language feature to override this behavior on a per-symbol basis.) It probably should be done by all languages that are name-mangling anyways (yes that included C, a high level language) but never when a symbol is marked as dont-mangle.

  23. Unlike C's transition to the new C++, the Python guys decided fuck compatibility and fuck our once loyal users that are now complaining about us breaking their existing code. They could have done a python enhancement without shitting on their old users, with a second enhanced language the same way C++ was a second language, but they didnt.

    I've been following Julia for over a year. Looks like a good language for those whose goal is to calculate, where programming is just a means to that end. Scientists and Statisticians. Due to the dynamic typing it is not a language suited for application development, but thats true for literally all dynamically typed languages. The niche of this side-language (as well as others) is that it is a step or two above calculating with a spread sheet that can be used without the user needing to be "well trained" in monolithic application frameworks (C#/JAVA/...), quirky language dialects and syntax (PYTHON/LISP/...), complicated architecture paradigms like pointers (C/C++/..), or proprietary bullshit (CUDA)

  24. Re:High carb shortens life too on Low-Carb Diets Could Shorten Life, Study Suggests (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The Con Syrup lobby agrees with all of you.

  25. yeah, but as you say, the time when "capitalism" did the best at reducing poverty was during that non-standard period.

    Capitalism did the best to end poverty in the past 20 years.

    You did know that, right? No, you actually didn't... because if you knew that, you wouldnt have posted such complete bullshit.