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  1. While I consider that everything is at a safe distance

    Tell that to the dinosaurs.

  2. Re:At least someone... on Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped US Colleges (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    At least someone is investing in education.

    It can only be done in this direction; a Chinese company buying US schools. Back home in China foreign companies aren't allowed to buy a controlling interest (50%+) in anything.

  3. Re:At least someone... on Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped US Colleges (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    A shitload of free money in interest payments to banks and lenders.

    Interest isn't free money, interest is what time costs.

  4. How much does the US army, navy and airforce waste every year? You think that is sustainable? Are you really that stupid?

    US DoD annual budget: just under 600$ Billion
    US DHHS annual budget: just over 1,200$ Billion
    Assuming government agencies are equally inefficient and wasteful, which one should you be kvetching about?

  5. I may have to re-register as Democrat

    Resist the urge to become a pawn in the gerrymandering wars.

  6. Re:Slashdot has a liberal bias problem on Tumblr Has a Massive Creepshots Problem (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    People are posting pictures of people that they took in public

    ... with mini cameras attached to their shoes.

  7. Huge sprawling monster where? on How Amazon Became Corporate America's Nightmare (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon got nothing compared to Alibaba / Taobao

  8. Logic failure. It is a reason not use Cortana. It's not a reason to not use Amazon, Apple, or Google.

    How do you know it isn't via Siri that the security firms get into Apple devices?

  9. Re: Broadcasting to others what you see. on Mercedes' Futuristic Headlights Shine Warning Symbols On the Road (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why I never indicate. Wouldn't want to risk anyone knowing ahead of time which way I'm turning.

    If someone steals your car with this tech it will be the equivalent of running from the cops at night with LED blinky shoes.

  10. Re:ludicrously and patently unconstitutional on Rhode Island Bill Would Impose Fee For Accessing Online Porn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    How are licenses and fees ludicrously unconstitutional? Government at all levels has plenty of them. This is a case of "good luck with enforcement" not "unconstitutional",

  11. Re: More like $15-$25 vs $500-$1000+ on Passengers Who Call Uber Instead Of An Ambulance Put Drivers At Risk (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is one reason why are market forces will never solve health care problems.

    No, the efficient market model requires all players to have as closely as possible the same information. Obviously this is not possible in practice, but the way prices are a hidden mystery in health care is a serious anti-market mechanism.

  12. Re: More like $15-$25 vs $500-$1000+ on Passengers Who Call Uber Instead Of An Ambulance Put Drivers At Risk (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The companies here typically won't accept negotiated rates from insurance companies, so you're usually on the hook for the whole submitted bill too.

    The whole "negotiated rates" thing in medical treatment is the #1 problem. It's not like they post prices and then there's x% off for insurance groups. Good luck even finding out ahead of time what it's going to cost you, never mind what someone else is paying.

  13. Re:More like $15-$25 vs $500-$1000+ on Passengers Who Call Uber Instead Of An Ambulance Put Drivers At Risk (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a new doctor on a new plan and my healthcare costs went up... You decide what to call him.

    They had to vote on the ACA bill first before they could find out what was in it.

  14. Who wants to get on first? on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Honestly, except for needing to stuff an oversize bag in the overhead no one should want to be crammed into the stuffy airborne-infection-enabling metal tube any sooner than absolutely necessary to take off on time. Yet so many seem to treat it like trying to grab a seat on the subway.

  15. Re:Milton Friedman is right on Occupational Licensing Blunts Competition and Boosts Inequality (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    Adam Smith went over this topic too except back then it was called the journeymen and masters guild system.

  16. Re:China has also announced who will manufacture.. on China Reassigns 60,000 Soldiers To Plant Trees In Bid To Fight Pollution · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can't come from China if it's supposed to increased the forest-covered area from 21% to 23%

    Don't have much experience with official Chinese government issued statistics, do you?

  17. Re:60000 times 1 lb of poop = ? on China Reassigns 60,000 Soldiers To Plant Trees In Bid To Fight Pollution · · Score: 0

    Human waste makes extremely poor fertilizer.

  18. Re:kidding me... on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    So his way of paying for it is by forcing the states to match him at least 4:1?

    This works incredibly well. For example, the federal Department of Education doles out a minuscule fraction compared to state and local spending but every school district fights tooth and nail and adopts basically whatever testing procedures, etc, the feds dictate for those incremental funds.

  19. ...and shut his own phone down.

    It's good that Facebook lost over 2 million 17-25 year olds last year and will lose even more this year.

    I thought most insidious part of the problem is that they don't lose anyone, even if one naively thinks one's account is "deleted", The best one can hope for is to never have signed up in the first place.

  20. Re:Top Secret on Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That photo was taken at a museum. Either that or Russian nuclear production facilities have some very interesting decorative choices. Of course, it could still be at the facility, just not a restricted access area.

    It was taken at the facility... 60 years ago from the looks of it.

  21. Re:Top Secret on Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Good thing this facility was Top Secret. I would hate to hear about what goes on inside.

    One wonders how secret it can be if there are Getty Images of it.

  22. Re:They just wanted some research bux! on Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They were probably told to fund their own operation. My new ICO is called CoinBux!

    They were going to call theirs GlowCoin

  23. Deposits are not revenue on Tesla Burns Through $2 Billion In 2017 (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Tesla reported record revenue for 2017, floated by customer deposits

    Deposits are liabilities. They only turn into revenue when you deliver whatever it was the deposit was for.

  24. Re:S*** - two weeks of "Olympics" article are comi on Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    (as if any athlete would get near those brands except to collect the check).

    Ah the irony; Olympic grade athletes are the only people with the caloric burn rate to eat that stuff and not show it.

  25. Re:I think in golf stuff like that is banned on Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    the Russians use steroids in training and just go off of them to pass the competition test.

    No, they use a secret door to swap clean blood samples for the tainted ones.