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  1. Priorities on British PM Seeks Ban On Encryption After Terror Attack (boingboing.net) · · Score: 2

    If you took all the money and time spent on ineffectively fighting terrorism's tiny blip in the homicide rate and directed it to really saving lives, how many additional people would be alive today? Even if you focus it strictly on preventing homicides, those billions could've achieved significant crime reduction through detective/beat work alone and certainly through better mental health care.

  2. That you feel it is worth it enough to view indicates you are actually willing to pay something

    There are so, so many things people will accept for free that they won't pay for. Like most of the internet. That's why paywalls don't usually work, if we can't get it for free anymore we'll use our time on something else similar but a bit worse (there's sure no shortage of legal free entertainment out there).

  3. Re: Then don't use Facebook on Pirate Bay Founder: We've Lost the Internet, It's All About Damage Control Now (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    They claim to have 2 billion active users per month, so about 30% of people. But considering only around 40% of people have an internet connection, that's most of the possible people.

  4. The chaotic dump is still there, all you have to do is go around the back behind the shiny new buildings. There are more amateur and/or non-commercial websites now than there ever were.

  5. In fact, the whole reason Musk started SpaceX is so he can launch a mission to capture and retrieve the sun for his own solar energy purposes.

  6. It rained 70 inches this year here in California. We're well aware of rain. Clouds and rain do not block all light or even most of it. Solar panels do in fact generate energy while it's raining. Not quite as much as on a sunny day, but that just means you need a few more of them.

  7. Re:Look outside of Africa, too. on Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco, Altering History of Our Species (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    It's politically incorrect if you're worried about offending 0.1%. The other 99.9% just want to see clear evidence before giving up on the best working explanation we've had so far, because it makes a lot of things harder to explain.

  8. Re: Wait in line on Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Visa-free travel doesn't mean document-free travel. Passports are a very likely middle ground.

  9. It's not actually a myth. It's just something very, very, very rare that happens in odd circumstances. For example, someone from a wealthy family becomes poor but their parents still let them drive the pink Cadillac.

  10. Indeed. Even if you have a direct bus line, a bus ticket costs about $2.50, so round trip is $5. One saved trip a month nearly pays for the prime membership.

  11. Re:Innuendo on US Insurer Hikes Tesla Premiums Due To 'Higher-Than-Average' Claim Rates (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Musk said Tesla's stock price is "higher than we have any right to deserve", yet people ignore him and keep driving it up. Apparently they don't trust him when it comes to his evaluation of his company.

  12. But if gender is not taken into account, and suddenly females get identical sentencing, you can bet there will be a lot of legal agitation from a different group.

    You seem to be assuming that the longer sentences are the fairer/better ones. If the "that guy looks big and scary" bias is removed and everyone gets the shorter sentence, it's good for all.

  13. There are other San Franciscos in Guatemala, Honduras, etc.

  14. But it's very important for me to stay where I grew up

    Seems like a self-imposed problem. Move 50 miles to the central valley and you can live like a [relative] king on $50K, eat whatever you want, and have plenty of money left to visit Silicon Valley every weekend.

  15. Re:Need to ban gasoline powered cars on 'Instantly Rechargeable' Battery Could Change the Future of Electric Cars (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    We have fixed or improved so many of our environmental problems already in just the last half century. It's not magic, it's steady technological progress plus regulation. You might as well be standing here saying unleaded gasoline can never be competitive and the only way to fix the lead problem is to ban all cars. Absurd as well as impossible.

  16. Re:Why are we doing this more? on LG Joins NFC Payment Party With LG Pay (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had to replace a credit card that got skimmed once in my life, and despite the thief spending thousands of dollars there was no risk of my being responsible for any of it because credit cards protect the consumer against that. On the other hand, if you carry a wad of cash you can be robbed and you won't get any of that money back. Credit cards aren't just hugely more convenient, they're infinitely safer for the consumer.

  17. Money doesn't have to come from somewhere. The global economy grows.

  18. Why would I go to the grocery store when the grocery store can bring the food to me?

    Many grocery stores will already deliver your food for free. Turns out most of us prefer to go pick it out ourselves. People like going places.

  19. Re:Throwing them under the bus on Putin Hints At US Election Meddling By 'Patriotically Minded' Russians (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Every nation on the planet that has covert intelligence organizations does the same exact thing.

    Tuvalu strongly denies your accusations and demands an apology from the other 194 nations.

  20. Re:And the USA is also one of the worst per capita on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Low population density isn't an issue if 99% of your population lives in cities with high population density, and the rest of your country is open space. The USA is rural, nordic countries aren't.

  21. Re:And the USA is also one of the worst per capita on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Perhaps the only way to get the USA to fight global warming is to tell them they can invade Qatar, the UAE and Kuwait to punish the top polluters.

  22. Re:Life sentence on Silk Road Founder Loses Appeal and Will Serve Life (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Capone only served 7 years for his tax evasion. Still too harsh for the crime though. If you can't prove a crime, you shouldn't consider it in sentencing for a different crime.

  23. Health savings on Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the healthcare savings from the ~40 million people per year injured in car crashes, and their increased productivity and incomes, will create a lot of jobs. Plus the 1.3 million people who die every year in car accidents are able to buy nothing currently, and will become active consumers.

  24. Re:Um No, That is Not The Solution on Experts Call For Preserving Copper, Pneumatic Systems As Hedge For Cyber Risk (securityledger.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Treat state sponsored hacking like an act of war, and make sure everyone knows you will respond with devastating force.

    Unlike a bomb, it can be very difficult to definitively establish state-sponsored hacking as responsible for an attack. You can't (or shouldn't) start a devastating war over a gut feeling.

  25. Re:I wonder if they realize... on Experts Call For Preserving Copper, Pneumatic Systems As Hedge For Cyber Risk (securityledger.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone with solar.