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  1. Re: THis is stupid on The Economics of Streaming is Making Songs Shorter (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck would you want the limited words in the title+summary to be wasted on pointless repetition?

    Too dumb to remember the title by the time you finish reading the summary?

  2. Re:Not economics on The Economics of Streaming is Making Songs Shorter (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not exactly uncommon to play through an entire album. A 15 song album hence earns 50% more than a 10 song album per such play through. That seems like an economic incentive to make albums of many short songs rather than fewer long songs.

    I'm pretty sure you can play everything by an artist on most streaming platforms too which would magnify that even further.

  3. Re:No, they did deny it. on Climate Modeller Wins $10,000 Wager Against Solar Physicists, Fails To Collect (blogspot.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure they would, you just don't understand simple math.

  4. Re:Where's the problem in this case? on Police Use Fitbit Data To Charge 90-Year-Old Man In Stepdaughter's Killing (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Which bit of " the feds spending hundreds of manhours to bust your local weed dealer" do you think isn't following proper procedures?

    Those manhours are getting warrants and court orders for the tracking data for everyone they bust with a joint in their pocket, and thus finding that local dealer that they all visit... Nothing illegal or improper about that, just a furthering of self inflicted surveillance.

  5. Re:Petty whiners on New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not everyone is dumb enough to not know how to disable amber alerts.

  6. Re:Optimal Busses on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 2

    My 14 year old has been getting themselves up in the morning and ready for school and to the bus stop entirely on their own for years now.

    I'm assuming it's illegal in modern day america but a 10 year can easily get themselves to the bus stop (or walk to school) and back again without parental supervision or interaction.

    I've had to leave at 4am and the kid has got himself to school fine, and I've only arrived home at 1am and the kid has managed to do their homework, have dinner, and go to bed just fine. I never did both on the same day of course, but I'm sure it would have been fine if I had to (and now, at 14, I could vanish for a week - up until the fridge ran out of food :)

  7. Re:Yes on Cody Wilson, 3D-Printed Gun Pioneer, Arrested In Taiwan (reason.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Who is "we"?

    About half the US population live in states where they do not, in fact, imprison people who fuck 16 year old - 31 states set the age of consent at 16.

    14 isn't uncommon in South America and Europe.

    Unsurprisingly, your "we" doesn't actually run the entire world.

  8. Right, so rather than actually wasting the effort to set up such a system and get those packages on trucks they just have to have "sources" tell the media they do that for probably a larger reduction in theft.

  9. Re:Hola and Primer comentario mis señoritas on Life In the Spanish City That Banned Cars (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Which idiots said that? Given the Metropolitan Railway already existed showing that underground railways were in fact possible with the materials and engineering of the day.

    Unlike trying to build the worlds biggest (by FAR) vacuum chamber with moving parts and people in those parts and of course, which hasn't been demonstrated as actually possible with current materials and engineering.

  10. Re:Code of Conduct - Exact Text on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you really want people who don't understand that "for everyone" covers everything they listed involved in kernel development. More than the double the length of a paragraph in order to repeat themselves over and over that yes everyone does in fact include a bunch of specific identifiers.

    Worse still it actually adds ambiguity since is that list supposed to be exhaustive or just some examples. It doesn't say "such as" or "for example" after all. "Everyone" has an obvious definition to start with, but since they felt the need to add a bunch of qualifiers are they using some other definition with a more restrictive meaning?

    Is it OK to harass people based on some other attribute? Say their politics or their taste in music?

  11. That being "against the GOP" is considered being 'a Democrat" sums up a lot of what is wrong with American politics.

  12. Philips got the EEC (precursor to the EU) to put massive tariffs on Japanese machines to make them cost the same as Phipps' ones, but all that did was increase profit margins for Japanese companies and relieve price pressure on their manufacturing.

    That is not how tariffs work, so no it didn't.

    What they actually did was use a VER which was not a tariff (there were already tariffs of course).

  13. Re:Reverse osmosis makes more sense. on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    RIght, because that region has never thought about desalination until you mentioned it. Oh wait: https://www.theguardian.com/gl...

    Towing icebergs from the south pole to the middle east is still bullshit of course.

  14. Re:Not the workaround you may be thinking of ... on Sportsbooks Start Refusing More Bets From 'Wise Guys' Trying To Win (espn.com) · · Score: 1

    The concept is he doesn't care about your one bet. If you win, sure he loses on the bet with you. But if you lose he loses on the bets of some other people.

    It doesn't matter what the outcome is, some punters win and some lose - but the bookie comes out ahead either way (assuming he didn't screw something up). He literally doesn't care what the outcome is since he makes money no matter what - if that's not the case then he screwed up the odds somewhere along the line.

  15. They're even allowed to present themselves as though players have a real shot at winning

    I'm pretty sure they aren't allowed to lie about the odds, and thus can't do that.

  16. There wouldn't be more drownings this year over last year because there's a record breaking heatwave this summer and thus more people swimming. No it's definitely because parents are looking at their phones way more than they were last year.

    I'm sure they have detailed statistics from previous years of how much time parents spent staring at their phones compared to this year to prove their "direct connection".

  17. Or maybe it's what happens when you call let financialization run unchecked for a few decades and tell them that the finance capitalism that results is actually just plain old capitalism. Surprise, surprise they might end up having a negative opinion of capitalism.

    And if you also tell them that that is clearly mixed economy is called socialism, then it's unsurprising that they might end up having a positive opinion of socialism.

    When society lies about what things are people end up believing the false labels.

  18. Re: Could it possibly be age? on Women Die More From Heart Attacks Than Men -- Unless the ER Doc Is Female (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    It's what the entire article is about.

  19. Re: Bitter much? on Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you think a video of someone explaining that lists interact badly with caches is evidence of that someone being surprised that lists interact badly with caches?

  20. If only there were laws that gave such hosting providers such protection. You could call it a safe harbor, and add a whole bunch of hoops to jump through in order to qualify for it. Then youtube could jump through those hoops and avoid civil infringement and not willfully violate copyrights in order to avoid criminal infringement.

     

  21. For something worse for me than a traditional liicense plate, but better for them?

    Wait, me pay them?!?! That's backward. And of course not.

  22. Re:Really??! on Home Security Camera Sends Video To Wrong User (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I think bank-grade means 4 digit passwords.

  23. Re: 110010001000 is an error on The 'World's Worst' Smart Padlock Is Even Worse Than Previously Thought (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    And tons of houses have doors which they don't bother locking and never get robbed.

  24. Re:Another PATENTLY RETARDED and SUPERFLUOUS promi on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably the creating an entire new chain of command (hopefully they can take the example of the Marines and share a Secretary) with all the civilian and military leaders involved.

    Consolidation might give some benefits, then again creating the air force didn't seem to stop the other branches from managing their own aircraft...

  25. Re:No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlimited downside makes it quite different from most other investments from a gambling perspective.

    That doesn't mean it should be outlawed - shorting serves a useful function in a market.