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  1. The 15 bit/hour limit makes me skeptical. What relevant information can you hope to stand in the cache for hours?

  2. Taiwan government position has always been that there is only one China,and that they are the legitimate government. PRC has the same exact opposite position.

    Hence Taiwan should side with Beijing here. What is their opinion?

  3. Bad programmers on Ask Slashdot: Should I Ditch PHP? · · Score: 1

    Good languages do not prevent bad programmer from producing crap. See how most java programs are just insane bloatwares?

  4. Mobile phones make people stupid even without considering radiation.

  5. Children care on New Zealand Firm's Four-Day Week an 'Unmitigated Success' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    over half (54%) of staff felt they could effectively balance their work and home commitments

    Wait for children to have a four days week, and that improvement will vanish.

  6. Theory on Containers or Virtual Machines: Which is More Secure? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The approach described is pure theory, with bold assumptions such as uniform bug density. I am not sure the model can predict anything, and I am not even sure it fits existing experimental data.

    It is almost as useless as dark matter in cosmological models.

  7. Media control on Cuba Starts Rolling Out Internet on Mobile Phones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Analysts said broader web access will also ultimately weaken the government's control of what information reaches people in the one-party island state that has a monopoly on the media.

    Cuban can already get any news they want from foreign radio./p

  8. Relocating Internet infrastructure is a small problem compared to relocating billion of people that live near the sea.

    Even in the US, where there is a lot of inhabited land inside the country, that would cost a lot. Who will pay?

  9. Re:Venezuela did it on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You are courageous to defend Venezuela

    While I agree that Chavez government did a lot to improve the people health and education using oil revenue, I still maintain oil is a bane for people of Venezuela. If they had no oil, they would not be considered a national threat by the USA. That absurd status comes with a lot of propaganda against them, and the never ending threat of a USA sponsored coup.

  10. Sane oil economy on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Norway is probably the only oil-producing country on earth that managed to share oil revenues among citizen. Most of the time oil is a curse for the people, resulting in corruption, kleptocracy and dictatorship.

  11. How to stop subsiding on Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has (energycentral.com) · · Score: 1

    If government wants to stop subsiding, it is not very difficult to mandate that the last batch of subsiding funds must do to decommissioning.

  12. We are now used to this stance: big corporations take economy as an hostage, and elected leaders must accept their rule.

    But the news is that president Trump may have no problems with having the hostage killed to prevail.

  13. Beyond fake news on Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans' Trust In Local News (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These accounts apparently never spread misinformation

    There is no need for fake news or misinformation. Very good results are obtained by just choosing what subjects are covered or not. This is what mainstream media do andit works very well.

  14. Re:China vs China on Apple's China-Friendly Censorship Caused An iPhone-Crashing Bug (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    However, Taiwan is a democracy with protection for basic human rights.

    Sure, but why do you have this urgent need to tell the good and the evil when talking about foreign countries? Have you wondered why you do not feel the same need when talking about public figures, corporations, religions, etc?

    I agree many countries are ruled by evil governments, but it seems we now have a list of countries we must call evil before we are allowed to start a sentence about them. That sounds a lot like war propaganda.

  15. Find a flaw in 1Password, and compromise Apple. They just made it a high value target.

  16. China vs China on Apple's China-Friendly Censorship Caused An iPhone-Crashing Bug (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    the [People Republic of China] government, which for the last 70 years has maintained that Taiwan is a part of China and has no legitimate independent government.

    And Taiwan's government has the exact same opposite position, maintaining that they are the only legitimate government of China. Both government consider there is only one China, and that its territory contains mainland and Taiwan island.

  17. Who is the winner? on Sergey Brin Says Google 'Failed To Be on the Bleeding Edge' of Blockchain (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What company thrives on blockchain today? We see many announcements, but successful business cases are scarce.

  18. Given the current mindset in EU meetings, a billion could be better spent bargaining with member states to not enforce EU decisions.

  19. French spies already went there on Fitness App Polar Exposed Locations of Spies and Military Personnel (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    French DGSE agency personal were already bitten by this kind of feature.

    Even is the data is not public,it can be hacked. It looks very unprofessional for spies and military to fall in this trap, especially given that there was a precedent.

  20. Evaluation on Open Offices Make You Less Open (calnewport.com) · · Score: 1

    One point is that employer promotes openspace to get more interaction and collective intelligence, but all the time one spent not working on its own job is considered as a distraction during evaluation by managers.

  21. Perhaps this would make colonization of the asteroid belt more of a possibility?

    You would have to fuck Earth environment a lot more to make living on an icy rock attractive.

  22. EU parliament's power on The EU's Controversial Copyright Law Has Been Rejected -- For Now (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    EU parliament used its only real power, which is to reject a directive.That does not happen often, and it is a pity that the only elected institution in EU is mostly unable to push its own legislative projects.

  23. While you drink coffee on Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    There is an explanation by eviction: when you drink coffee, you are not drinking a soda.

  24. Re:Paper about the Huygens protocol on Google and Nasdaq Pursuing Nano-Second Precision In Network Time Protocol (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    PTP with supported hardware is achieving this

    I once assume you meant NTP, but I discovered the Precise Time Protocol.

  25. Paper about the Huygens protocol on Google and Nasdaq Pursuing Nano-Second Precision In Network Time Protocol (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The New York Time article is mostly about how Nasdaq is eager to make more money.

    For the technically minded, refer to the paper about the introduced Huygens protocol for network time synchronization precise to the nanosecond.