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  1. Re:Simple math... on If Humble People Make the Best Leaders, Why Do We Fall for Charismatic Narcissists? (hbr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Imagine there were a law that you are required to gamble!

    There is such a law, though rather than gambling we call it insurance.

  2. It takes some serious financial incompetence to be unable to pay out with a 50% house take.

  3. He didn't say they filled the dumpster. All it would take would be one person that tossed their bottles on a weekly basis as that's usually how often dumpsters get emptied.

  4. Average would be .98 or so on the dollar, assuming the same job, experience, etc. The majority of the advertised pay gap is from the different jobs that men and women gravitate towards, with a significant additional portion being from women being more likely to take time off for family.

  5. Re:There must be a mistake ... on Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination By US Labor Department (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The difference is that we can't opt out of the NSA.

  6. Re:There must be a mistake ... on Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination By US Labor Department (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically, racism and discrimination are still official policy, just now it's against the majority with the intent of balancing out the assumed racism in society.

  7. Re: ATTN: Potential New Hires on Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination By US Labor Department (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    He's not saying that women can't be good at salary negotiation, just that, on average, they are worse than men.

  8. Re:Golly. Gee. Gosh. on Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pro death penalty I can see, the other two not so much. He has complained about liberals trying to legislate in the court room when they can't get laws passed, including on gay rights issues. He has also commented that abortion rights are dependent on the court's finding that a fetus does not qualify as a person, which even the most liberal judge should agree with.

  9. Re:God Dammit on Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Keep telling the people in the middle that they don't matter and they'll keep voting against you.

  10. Re:God Dammit on Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have a personal stake in the wedge issue, you should be trying to fix the issue rather than voting for the parties that are perpetuating it.

  11. Re:I am running out of excuses on Uber Said To Use 'Sophisticated' Software To Defraud Drivers, Passengers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Socialists and communists are the ones that believe that companies being that way is a bad thing to be fixed rather than a part of a working society.

  12. Re:And here's the issue with excessive regulation. on Uber Said To Use 'Sophisticated' Software To Defraud Drivers, Passengers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You left out monopolies. Around here at least, the lack of competition lead to the taxis still using credit card imprints until Uber and Lyft came through. The added hassle meant some cabbies asked up front and refused service to those not paying in cash, worse, some would kick people out when they found out part way through the ride.

  13. Re:Oh boy, here we go again on Uber Said To Use 'Sophisticated' Software To Defraud Drivers, Passengers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    They're really Über, they only drive on elevated roadways.

  14. From the description it seems that the customer price is fixed when they put in the request and the driver payout is based on the actual route driven. If the two routes are the same, Uber would get a consistent price per mile or minute. If the routes are different Uber would be responsible for the difference, getting more if the driver beats the estimate, potentially losing money if things go badly.

    IMO, this seems a bit backwards, as it both encourages Uber to do stuff like this and encourages the drivers to waste time or take a longer route if they think they can justify it.

  15. I would be a lot less suspicious about stuff like this if they made this announcement when they first acquired the devices instead of when they got caught. Even if there is a legal warrant process, hiding them makes it look like they're doing something wrong.

  16. Re:Charging a battery to charge a battery . . . on Electric Car Ferries Enter Service In Norway (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Was thinking about the same thing and wondering if it might be more efficient to swap the batteries each time. Would have to design them for relatively quick swaps but would remove the double loss and the need for high speed charging. Would probably also need a smaller set on board that didn't get swapped to maintain power during the swaps.

  17. Re:Charging a battery to charge a battery . . . on Electric Car Ferries Enter Service In Norway (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, that's 72% of whatever efficiency you get at the pier after accounting for losses in production and transportation of energy.

  18. Re:The court did not "bar" anything - title is wro on Utah Supreme Court Ruling Bars Direct Sales of Teslas Through a Subsidiary (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Very few titles or even summaries are correct under that criteria, even articles would frequently be incorrect if that's the way you judge.

  19. Re:Wheb you can't beat 'em on Utah Supreme Court Ruling Bars Direct Sales of Teslas Through a Subsidiary (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Our state's judges are elected, and it is a problem that they can rewrite law. The entire state gets to vote on judicial races, meaning all of them share nearly identical views on political issues. These views are shared by a majority of the people, but only a slim majority, leaving a large minority unrepresented in these rewrites.

  20. Re:year's worth of access - not a deal on Taser Offers Free Body Cameras To All US Police (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Not to mention the cost of processing everything for the inevitable FOIA requests.

  21. According to local politicians if you discriminate against a group of people that don't demographically match the overall makeup, you can be considered to be discriminating against a protected class. In this case, by discriminating against Trump voters you could be said to be discriminating against white people or against men.

  22. Re: IOT good. IOT + forced shit BAD! on IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    More likely your kid comes back from college while you're at work and you want to let them park in the garage.

  23. If it's set up as an intranet device, you could have the central server for your house be accessible from the internet without turning over all the information about your devices to a third party or being reliant on someone else's server.

  24. Re:Wheb you can't beat 'em on Utah Supreme Court Ruling Bars Direct Sales of Teslas Through a Subsidiary (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    A court as a whole should seek justice, but a judge (or group of judges) should rule on the merits of the case and the letter of the law, not what they think the law should be.

    If the legislators write (or let lobbyists write) laws that are inadequate, it is on the legislature to fix them. At most, a judge might strike down such a law until it is fixed, but should not under any circumstances try fix it themselves.

  25. Re:The court did not "bar" anything - title is wro on Utah Supreme Court Ruling Bars Direct Sales of Teslas Through a Subsidiary (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The court's ruling supports the commission's right to bar direct sales. Perhaps saying that the ruling bars direct sales is not completely correct but it is the effective result of the ruling.