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  1. Re: Hyperloop misses the forest for the trees on Elon Musk Inspired an Industry of Hyperloop Startups. Now He's Building His Own (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people outside of the US take trains regularly.
    The fact that trains are shit is a specific problem to the US.

  2. Re: Yeah, that'll work on Senators Propose Bill Targeting Websites That Facilitate Sex Trafficking (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The end result is just more dangerous and more expensive sex.

    Coming from Europe, where escorts are good-looking, healthy and talented entrepreneurs, I'm always shocked whenever I see the low quality of the offers in the US, which are also outrageously expensive and dodgy as fuck.

    The US should just embrace the principle their very constitution is based on, freedom, and let the market privide common-place safe sex for everyone.

  3. Adobe never invented Flash, Macromedia did.
    Adobe never liked it, so they let it deteriorate and die.

  4. Re: Is there any actual benefit to that schedule? on Say Goodbye To Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    School finishes at 5 or 6pm in that part of the world.

  5. how the hell is that sexual assault?

  6. The more popular solution is to hire only men for department A and only women for department B.
    Men can do the real work, while women do irrelevant stuff like HR, accounting or legal.

  7. Re: Find a better state on Investors Who Back VC Funds Are Worried About Valley Culture (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Top engineers do not live in the middle of nowhere.

  8. Women tanking the economy on Investors Who Back VC Funds Are Worried About Valley Culture (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    Nice job tanking the economy by making up allegations of sexual harassment every time a man you don't like makes a pass at you!

  9. This system is fairly sensible and only appears racist to some because of the way it's spinned.

    Sex+Race is protected, but not Race+Age. That's because Age is explicitly not protected.

  10. Re: ..and the march of SocJus continues on 6 Female Founders Accuse VC Justin Caldbeck of Making Unwanted Advances (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You mean he was pressurized to step down due to the smear campaigns?

  11. Re: ..and the march of SocJus continues on 6 Female Founders Accuse VC Justin Caldbeck of Making Unwanted Advances (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an arbitrary and very limiting restriction.
    Most people -- especially successful ones -- don't have many social interactions that isn't work-related in some way.

  12. Re: ..and the march of SocJus continues on 6 Female Founders Accuse VC Justin Caldbeck of Making Unwanted Advances (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    It's even worse with the new generation; they think people coming to talk to them in real life is crazy, and that they should use Tinder instead.

  13. Re: Our national ride sharing nightmare... on Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Has Resigned Due To Investor Pressure (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Why would I want to call someone?
    I want to use an app with full transparency on where they are and how much it will cost me.

  14. Cat food is actually the only thing I use Amazon Now for.

  15. Re:Domesticated? on Cats May Have Been Domesticated Twice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    That river valley you speak of is modern Iraq, not Turkey.

  16. Re: "Activists?" on Ethiopia Turns Off Internet Nationwide as Students Sit Exams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nation-wide exams are a good practice and allow to grade everybody on the same standard.
    I understand the concept of standards may be something alien to an American but that is how skills and knowledge are usually assessed at the end of high school in civilized countries.

  17. Re: Not a bad idea on Ethiopia Turns Off Internet Nationwide as Students Sit Exams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I've found it interesting since it gives me insight about how other people think about language.

    For me, I need to know how to write a word to be able to think about it. Its ethymology and generally how its writing compares to that of other words helps my understanding of its meaning and its relationships with other concepts.

    Clearly that's not the case for some other people, who appear to just think of words based on the sound they think they've heard when others said it.

  18. Re: He embarrassed the government on Silk Road Founder Loses Appeal and Will Serve Life (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    So I guess the lesson here is that you shouldn't question the legitimacy of a law, however stupid it might be?

  19. Re: Share? Maybe. But Like? Effoff Sweden! on Man Fined $4,000 For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts on Facebook (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Sweden and Switzerland are different countries.

  20. Re: Wow, talk about shitting on free speech on Man Fined $4,000 For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts on Facebook (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Any countries that has "inciting violence" laws does not have free speech.

  21. Re: Who knew!!! on 83 Percent Of Security Staff Waste Time Fixing Other IT Problems (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not everyone is content with mediocrity.
    Also 100k isn't even that so money that you shouldn't aim higher. It's the starting salary of many IT/software positions.

  22. Re: Linux desktop doesn't satisfy on Endless OS Now Ships With Steam And Slack FlatPak Applications (endlessos.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't buy or replace hardware to suit your use case? Seriously?

  23. Let's make sure I got this right on New Battery Technology Draws Energy Directly From The Human Body (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    So they want to extract energy from body heat and charge.
    Very little energy can be extracted this way, so they just fix that by considering using a hypothetical graphene battery that can store a lot of energy.

    But if we had a way to store a shit ton of energy in a very compact battery, surely we wouldn't need recharging our phones on the go using the human body?

  24. Re: Solution - learn new stuff on The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone that spent 10 years doing the same thing is worthless.
    You should have discarded his CV before interviewing him.

  25. 90% of coders are crap on The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    The large majority of coders are just terrible so they use toy languages to write their toy applications. It just so happens that the majority of software people need is trivial, so that's alright.

    Meanwhile, there is a small minority of coders that work on major core and infrastructure projects, hard science, or in highly competitive areas. These use languages that give them real power and control.

    I think what the prediction really means is that as the market grows, this minority will stay constant as the majority increases.