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  1. Re:Wait list? on Interview: Ask Ben Starr About the Future of Food · · Score: 1

    I understand your point, but it is being done in your home, so you can control that aspect of the health.

    And having restaurant at a fixed location would make more money with the health code.

  2. I owrked an a system on One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983 · · Score: 1

    that took 36 hours to compile. We alwaya ran it on mondayd.
    SO:
    Arrive: 8:00
    Meeting 8:15 to 8:30
    Start compile 8:35
    Take long lunches, and have long nerd discussions.
    Weds. Morning, review log.
    Thurs-Fri Make fixes.

    We could have had another system and done other work for 3k a pop, but no. It was too expensive.

    Bean counters. SHeeesh.

  3. ITs not about eating on Interview: Ask Ben Starr About the Future of Food · · Score: 1

    it's about being there and being a special snowflake.

  4. Re:Incomplete on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 1

    They are different in that they take their job serious, and they take the US citizens as citizens.

  5. Re:Incomplete on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 1

    It's not a dept, it's an agency. These are distinct things.

  6. Re:Incomplete on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 1

    "And if you look at the property taxes paid by the employees that would otherwise not have been paid, it is probably a wash anyway."
    specious reasoning. A typical logical fallacy used by large business to sound scary and make politician feel like the did something.

  7. Re:In 2001 USPS reported fund had $0, $32B debt. on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 1

    I can't find anything that say there ere zero dollar in the pension fund in 2001.

  8. Re:Incomplete on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 1

    there s no debate, trickle doesn't doesn't work.

    The 90% of the 60s was for people making over 10 million dollars.(73 MIllion in today's dollars) today 34% - 56% drop
    70% for 1 million 7.3 million today 34% - 36% drop

    100K in 1962 30% today - 21% 9% drop.

    I like how just removing 56% tax over night is OK, but putting it back is scary bad.
    So we should go back to 1962 taxes adjusted for inflation. The Working rich will still make more in this country then they can in any other country.

    Also, lets either cap home price value adjustment or remove the tax deduction. It's only used to convince people they can afford a home that they can not afford, and stop giving deduction for children for anyone make over 25K

    And believe me, this will impact my income, a lot.

    "If you start a massive debt reduction, you'll suck huge amounts of base money supply out of the economy"
    Well, that's going to happen. It can happen in a collapse or it can happen in a controlled way. The piper is coming to call.

  9. Re:Incomplete on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 1

    Who gets out of paying their taxes?

  10. Re:Incomplete on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 1

    The top 1% paid 35% of the tax(2011), and not 70%, and they pay less in all other taxes.
    Look at this:
    http://qz.com/74271/income-tax...

    See home far down the 500+ income tax as dropped compared to every one else?

    The should go back to the 1966 rate.

    Frankly, I thing all income over 10 Million should be taxed at 90%
    Also, business should only be allowed to write off employee pay and RnD, and taxed at 100% for profit over a billion dollars.

    And no, that isn't economic socialism, as defined in the last 100 or so year; which is a post-capitalism version of socialism.

  11. Re:My brain isn't that great on Stanford Bioengineers Develop 'Neurocore' Chips 9,000 Times Faster Than a PC · · Score: 1

    Yes, then they will figure out how to fix it, and then you.

  12. Re:Here it comes. on Stanford Bioengineers Develop 'Neurocore' Chips 9,000 Times Faster Than a PC · · Score: 1

    "The brain isn't just a random mass of interconnected neurons"
    no shit? herp derp.

    We have simulated 'large' number of neurons, and you know what happens? it begins to act like a brain. Granted we are talkaing some pretty basic signalling

    Expanding beyond that is pricey, power intensive, and take a lot of power. Did I mention the power?

    we will not understand the brain, and then build a simulator. We will build it up a bit at a time and use the brain as a model.

    http://theness.com/neurologica...

  13. Re:Mirroring the human mind... on Stanford Bioengineers Develop 'Neurocore' Chips 9,000 Times Faster Than a PC · · Score: 4, Informative

    we're not nearly as frustrating as people, meat sack
    .

  14. It will kill the eCurrency market.
    You can't hide secrets from the future with math, and something this powerful will change that game.
    Yes, 9000 time faster on 1 PC will still take a 100 million years. but on 10 million of these thing sitting in a farm from a non-favored nation?

  15. Re:Here it comes. on Stanford Bioengineers Develop 'Neurocore' Chips 9,000 Times Faster Than a PC · · Score: 1

    They have already simulated brain response on a small set of of simulate neurons connection, just with what we use now it would take a vase machine to scale it up, this, OTOH mean they can put it to practice really soon.

  16. Re:Silly people on Texas Sheriffs Crash $250k Drone They're Not Supposed To Be Flying · · Score: 1

    Government official get arrested and prosecuted.

  17. Re:I see what you did there! on Texas Sheriffs Crash $250k Drone They're Not Supposed To Be Flying · · Score: 1

    If you are outside, you have no right to privacy from being viewed.

  18. Re:Who will watch these selfsame watchers? on Texas Sheriffs Crash $250k Drone They're Not Supposed To Be Flying · · Score: 1

    we solved that issue.

    The people watch them.

  19. Here it comes. on Stanford Bioengineers Develop 'Neurocore' Chips 9,000 Times Faster Than a PC · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you ready?

    If they can use modern fabs, then we will have a simulate brain in a decade.

  20. Re:Security through Antiquity? on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    "You could likely simulate the entire system on a damn Arduino. "
    Let me save you some time: No, you can't.

  21. Re:Security through Antiquity? on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    3.5 in 1984. 400K.
    Of course, the Mac wasn't exactly a a large market share so it's no surprise not a lot of people would remember they had a floppy.

    3.5 didn't really get into wide release until early 90s. I think we where still putting both in new non Apple system in 93-94.
    (The Mac was a PC by parlance of the time)
    Now if you excuse me I need to get a new onion for my belt.

  22. Re:That big? on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    Or maybe she was just never involved with computers? It's not like they were on her desk.

  23. Re:Probably saved more lives with jamming on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 1

    What dream world do you live in? Or are you saying we need to mandate passengers do that?
    It's a bunch of crap.

    I can stop talking and put the phone down. If the the person keeps talking, it doesn't matter.

    "so you focus more on the phone than a person sitting next to you to get the same level of understanding"
    Did you think about that at all? Or when driving do you star at your passengers?

    It seems to my in your case, having a passenger is too much of a distraction.

    "There's a long list of reasons that a phone call is different from a passenger."
    None of which has been actually shown to distract any more then having a passenger, or kids, or the radio, or a blond in a convertible drive by..

  24. Re:Probably saved more lives with jamming on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 0

    Intelligent peoples cars have three or more seats in almost every vehicle where people can legally operate phones.

    FITY

    What?

  25. Re:Probably saved more lives with jamming on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 0

    Since there is no ACTUAL data saying talking on the phone actually make the driver worse, why would you say that? All data, that I could find as of 12/1/2013 was all based on 1 paper where the number was an assumption based on someones ass.

    When you pound your meat hooks in a vain attempt to find a study that backs your narrative, be sure to read it in it's entirety,and look at where it's getting it's information.