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  1. 100 square miles, will not rule the country, blood on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0
    Please look at this map. http://www-personal.umich.edu/... You know why France has had so many governments in the time we have had 1? Because Paris is always more liberal then the rest of the country and leads it into ruin vs the rest of the place.

    If you want the U.S. to balkanize, continue dictating that San Fransisco, Los angles, and New York should rule OVER a country bigger than Europe. And when the blood comes, and it will come, it will be on ivory tower eggheads at Harvard like Lessig.

    If you want to change the electoral college for next election that is one thing, but saying electors should vote for someone else is doubly communist. You don't support the laws and systems and you aren't supporting democracy.

  2. trump isn't a Republican on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One party? Trump isn't a Republican, he just just happened to be the Republican nominate. Take off your media blinders

  3. " are to blame" on Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    " are to blame" nice tell you let slip, how about "are to thank"

  4. someone born in iran rpoves trumps point? on Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Shervin Pishevar, born in Iran. You know going forward with this idea he is only helping to strengthen trump's supporters idea that we are being invaded by Asians, Latinos and middle-easterners that care nothing about our history or country??

  5. cost of living?? Loyalties?? on Ask Slashdot: Why Are American Tech Workers Paid So Well? · · Score: 1
    For one, because of cost of living. You would never accept the same pay as someone living in india, sorry. But even beyond that, fuck you. Have some loyalties, globalism is cancer. IF you are U.S. based, the U.S. headed give you everything your founders needed to get started, not limited to working capital markets, education, a costumer base wealthy enough to buy your products, safe boarders and areas to attend said education. Their is absolutely nothing wrong with paying locals the asking wage price simply because they are locals. Maybe you should think about if you want to live in a place like India, because that is what you would turn the U.S. into.

    or drink the Forbes koolaid and pretend any reduction in costs = good, and be the first against the wall when the revolution comes dirty fuckers.

  6. exit polls should be illegal, just wait for the legal count. Exit polls are all well and good when they are right, till the day they are wrong, then it's hell

  7. exit polls will be wrong this year though on Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
    I love how they can announce the winners 30 seconds after the polls close, but it takes them weeks to actually finish counting, especially for ballot measures and such and especially for absentee voters . It's all based on exit polls of course. But here is the problem, a lot of people might be embarrassed about certain choices this year, and it's already well known people lie to survey takers. So how can you really know what the results are when everyone expects the answers within hours. Also keep in mind, people who vote late in the day vote different from people that vote early, absentees tend to vote different too.

    So what happens when a vote is really close in a state but it takes them 2 weeks to finish counting? You can't predict that with compete certainly

  8. This brain science with psychology is dumb on Study Finds Little Lies Lead To Bigger Ones (go.com) · · Score: 1
    So they are going off blood flow and activity? That doesn't mean little lies make big lies easier in a emotional or stress sense, just that you are faster at them or more reflexive. I'm so tired of people acting like consciousness is a sum of it's parts.

    also, it was A STUDY in a research hospital. here is the problem, lying in a study is NEVER going to be the same as lying in a organic situation where no one knows but you.

    That is another thing I am tired of, studies in a research office where after you go through a sorting questionnaire someone with a clip board asks "I give you 100 dollars but that means he gets $20 less... etc etc but you have to go lie to him about it etc etc but I take away this $1 bag of tasty corn chips" ---reseacer: ""Ah see! this proves people will sell cornchips for $100 and lie about it!"". ', They think this some how reflects what someone would do in the real world.

    protip: people don't act how they say they will, so ASKING them about something is worthless, and having them do it in a study group is only slightly less worthless.

  9. They also do the most Charity on Religion In US 'Worth More Than Google and Apple Combined' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Churches also do the most Charity, real Charity too in the local areas, not only with money but with time you can't easily measure. If you want to meet a bunch of people that really care about the neighborhood, and SHOW it, go hook up with a local congregation. Just like everything there are some bad actors.

  10. Whats with all the Luddites here on SpaceX Is Building a Hyperloop Test Track Near Los Angeles (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Everything seems unsafe till its proven safe. High speed ground transport is needed. And this would be much more effececit then auto cars once they get the bugs out..

  11. Re:Just for the record... on Hackers Stole Account Details for Over 60 Million Dropbox Users · · Score: 1

    that is a style thing not a grammar rule. Pendactics are always the slowest in the class tbh.

  12. Re:Why Niantic? on Niantic Responds To Senate Inquiry Into Pokemon Go Privacy (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You, I like you. People just like to hate on them because it's seen as a 'kids' game

  13. Re:They don't give a sh*t about private property on Niantic Responds To Senate Inquiry Into Pokemon Go Privacy (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    A sending players onto private propertys

    shut the fuck up. Have you even played the game? it doesn't send players anywhere. It doesn't even have a homing feature that works. If the spawn isn't on your screen you won't even know it's there. So you wouldn't even have any incentive to trespass. And even if it did, that is a players problem, not the games. Thats like saying a map of wi-fi rounters is at fault for me tresspassing for free wi-fi. NO. No NO. IT'S MY FAULT FOR TRESPASSING.

  14. Is this a troll? on Amazon Is Testing a 30-Hour, 75% Salary Workweek (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Your day: "coffeee" not working "meetings" everyday? How much is socializing, eating donuts, headnodd, etc. and how much is keeping everyone on same page. "fiddling about with code and discussing options with other developers" work After about 3pm I tend to get into the zone. I finish around 7 so most of your real actual work is 4 hours? subtract bathroom breaks and lucnh/dinner breaks.

  15. Economies are NOT just nnumbers or labor on Maximizing Economic Output With Linear Programming...and Communism (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    "Economies are just a collection of processes that convert raw materials and labour into useful goods and services" NO THEY ARE NOT.. Besides many many other problems with this statement, is the problem off unknown future markets, such as smart phones before the 90s makes this solution useless. For more information see 'The grand auction theory' in economics and see the term "radical uncertainty"

  16. String thiery is a cult on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    What, you dint know?

  17. FUCKING BLOAT. that is all

  18. You know over 50% of trades on the markets are made by algorithms? just computers trading with other computers looking at little changes in prices

  19. gerneral warrent. Just get a real warrent crown on US Court Says No Warrant Needed For Cellphone Location Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Just another general warrant or crown writ, which 300 years of legal history has proven a bad idea. Did they spit on the Constitution when the court announced it too? And the "3d party" is bullshit

  20. Re: What a load of BS on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    The reason they do drug testing is it lowers the amount of insurance premium they have to carry for employee fuck-up liability. Esepcailly when a company starts operating in two states or more, this kind of stuff helps their bottom line. Insurance companies know drug users are objectively more likely to fuck up

  21. especially female programmers, on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1
    "especially female programmers, "

    fuck off with this sexism bait, you want to program, learn to program and or get a degree in programming, be willing to move around for jobs and no one fucking cares if you are female, there is no seixsm in programing women just don't self select for it in big numbers and that is fine.

    also fuck off druggies, it's objective fact you make worse employees, stop watching Seth Rogen movies, pot smoking isn't cool.

  22. Do video card upgrades even matter anymore on NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070, Faster Than Titan X For a Lot Less (hothardware.com) · · Score: 0
    Do video card upgrades even matter anymore?

    Now days it seems you can run almost any game at high settings with old cards. And the games still don't look as good as old elder school mods, which you need cpu and ram for. Everything is console lvl now.

    "muh frames per second are slightly better then your frames per second" is just esat bullshit nowdays when the settings are the same otherwise.

  23. Asset Forfeiture is treason and the punishment for treason is death. The military should take over Florida and these police departments will be the first against the wall.

    Remember Asset Forfeiture doesn't invoke a court or a lawyer, or often even a future case. They are taking peoples land, or sometimes cash AND NOT CHARGING THEM WITH ANYTHING in many cases. Of course once you lose your farm and house and car and your cash savings, you are their bitch. And sometimes the police can use the money to fund their operations, which means they have a incentive to lie. This is what corrupted some medieval governments in the past and some lines in the constitution were directly written because of it.

    If you don't want death threats, stop being criminals.

  24. it was always a bubble, one long bubble sense 1999 on Freshly Minted Unicorns Now a Rare Sighting In Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The bubble never went away, the run away growth companies can be counted on one hand, google, twitter (still not profitable), facebook, Instagram. Most companies that 'made it' just got bought out by google or facebook. All other companies were profitable from before 1999 and had traditional business growth funding and plans or are broke.

  25. one off case athusued by a jduge on FBI Tried To Defeat Encryption 10 Years Ago, Files Show (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    one off case athusued by a judge. As long as they get a warrant for every case, specifying each computer or person, it's fine. Blanket warrents and no warrents are illegal