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  1. Re:Crisis management government on Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage May Be Hurting Workers, Report Finds (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Illegal immigration has decimated the availability of those entry-level jobs.

    No, its the minimum wage that did it. Illegals wouldnt have an advantage attaining these low skill jobs if they didnt also have an advantageous wage.

    This shit keeps repeating. The sour of these dumb minimum wage increases will grow more and more apparent and will take minimum wage increase policies off the table of support-of-the-ignorant for a decade or two, until a new generation of ignorant people is raised to replace the ones lost to reality.

  2. You increase prices to cover the added expense.

    Sure, because the price wasnt already what the market could bear.

  3. Re:This has already been proven bunk on Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage May Be Hurting Workers, Report Finds (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Fascinating how the article notes lower payrolls, which means the paychecks are somehow smaller or that there are fewer people employed. Do you want to defend either?

  4. Re:"Lawmakers want to move fast . . ." on Lawmakers Want To Move Fast On Self-Driving Car Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    ding.

    (A) holds a legislative influence over company or persons (B) that reside in district or region (C)
    (A) is elected by the people of district or region (D)
    (A) faces opposition in (D) but not in (C)

    Isn't this the ideal recipe for assured corruption? (B) must solicit (A) but anybody that opposes (A) must solicit (B)

    What is happening right now *is* the argument against broad federal powers.

  5. Re:They're going to fast-track this on Lawmakers Want To Move Fast On Self-Driving Car Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Adding:

    This is how a New Jersey Senator (for instance, Frank Pallone) gets campaign donations from businesses in California and Detroit. Anyone running against him... not so much.

  6. Re:They're going to fast-track this on Lawmakers Want To Move Fast On Self-Driving Car Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The federal legislators do not need to concern themselves with technical details of safety.

    What federal legislators are concerned about is that they make this a federal lobby issue before the next federal election cycle.

  7. Re:Thousands already die on the roads on Lawmakers Want To Move Fast On Self-Driving Car Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The test for self driving cars should be: does it save a lot of lives overall?

    No matter the cost? Nice. You are part of the problem.

  8. Re: The Nuclear Option on Hacker Behind Massive Ransomware Outbreak Can't Get Emails From Victims Who Paid (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The NSA is working against the American people in many cases

    ..and against the world in the rest of the cases.

  9. Re: Sounds scary on New Study Confirms the Oceans Are Warming Rapidly (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apparently, falsification to "hide the decline" isnt fraud.

    Understood. Thanks for correcting my unenlightened pre-modern view.

  10. Consider, Aaron Swartz faced less jail time.

    This guy got a 1 year sentence but faced up to 90 years and a $3 million fine.

    This pretty well backs up my theory that Aaron may have never had to serve any time as a member of the general population of a federal prison, and even if he did it would not have been anything even close to the maximum.

  11. Re:The thing about Anonymous on Sorry, But Anonymous Has No Evidence That NASA Has Found Alien Life (popsci.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well thats ok, the other half are NSA agents.

    Both sides unknowingly investigating the pretended activities of the other, never getting any real evidence, so it just continues forever.

  12. Re:Not just AMP... on 'Why I Decided To Disable AMP On My Site' (alexkras.com) · · Score: 1

    is systemd written in emacs lisp?

  13. Re:Accommodating fat fingers without excess scroll on 'Why I Decided To Disable AMP On My Site' (alexkras.com) · · Score: 2

    Because its not supposed to be up to the page what the size of links are. Its supposed to be up to the browser. That was the original intent of HTML, of the Web itself.
    br. Disabling AMP doesnt solve the problem that browsers arent reformatting automatically, nor can a web page developer solve that problem. The browser authors need to step up and stop trying to be the next PDF.

  14. Re:Does this predict ruling? on Supreme Court Partially Revives Travel Ban, Will Hear Appeal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a dangerous idea.

    Yes. Nobody said it wasn't a catch-22.

  15. Re: Does this predict ruling? on Supreme Court Partially Revives Travel Ban, Will Hear Appeal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The war on Trump is a war on thinking (no I am not saying Trump is a good thinker.) It is always about what Trump supposedly believes/etc, which makes it really hard to "refute" aside from arguing it with the argument I am using right now. There is no fact you can bring up which will ever refute the "what he really thinks" arguments other than that the whole fucking thing is a bullshit fallacy about nefarious motive instead of nefarious actions.

  16. Re:Does this predict ruling? on Supreme Court Partially Revives Travel Ban, Will Hear Appeal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter w.r.t. ban on a religion. What needs to happen is new law written to at least allow the possibility for religious bans.

    Some ideas are too dangerous to welcome.

  17. Re:On secession on Supreme Court Partially Revives Travel Ban, Will Hear Appeal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems Americans are extremely keen to fight based on party lines for no reason other than they're party lines

    Because neither major party represents anywhere close to a majority of Americans, but every election cycle the media tells people repeatedly that they better vote for one of the two major parties.

  18. Re:Haha, EVERYONE has a claim to that though! on Supreme Court Partially Revives Travel Ban, Will Hear Appeal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    How many people looking to emigrate can't cultivate a 'bona-fide' relationship with a legitimate person in the US sufficient to make this claim?

    "I have a very deep and personal relationship with the NSA. Our relationship is so close that I keep no secrets from them."

  19. AMD's very similar bug is suggested to only occur with over-clocking. YMMV.

    Consider though that if you take Intels updated Microcode you will lose the ability to do base frequency over-clocking entirely on non-K processors whereas before using Intels update you still could on some skylake and ivy models.

    So yeah... you get the chance to patch the microcode... but it may be doing things you dont want it to do...

  20. Not at the same magnitude that they are today.

    Sure, lots of little things like the cpu will crash in some cases if a second level shadow of the carry flag register is set immediately after some other thing... so the fix is for the microcode to reorder the operations a little bit so that operations that target the carry flag are on the shallow side of the shadow registers... or at least never in that 2nd slot.. shit like that aint nothing

    It is the parallel execution itself that isnt working here. Wrong results are produced. It isnt that performance is bad, or a core locks up... instead bad values are produced. Its a horrible bug at least as bad as FDIV.

  21. Because thats what Intel does, apparently.

    They were convicted of anti-competitive behavior, the largest such conviction at the time IIRC.

  22. The fix wrecks the HT performance gains they boasted about getting.

  23. Re:storing data in the US on Does US Have Right To Data On Overseas Servers? We're About To Find Out (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends what the data is.

    For instance, if the data I am storing isnt my personal data but instead it is data on millions of my companies customers... pretty sure I care far more about uptime and preventing my competition from getting it than I am about the NSA/CIA/FBI/DNC snooping on it, and pretty sure they will snoop on it regardless of where it is.

    You think our government doesnt already have the data? This is just a public show. The narrative: the Federal government attempts to grab yet more authority, Microsoft attempts to thwart them, .... rest of story here soon.

  24. The way I see it the summary might as well read "The competition of a wireless contractor..." because at least then there is a motive.

  25. Summary? on How A Contractor Exploited A Vulnerability In The FCC Website (wirelessestimator.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why doesnt the summary indicate in any way what was gained by the perpetrator in doing this?