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  1. Re:China can't complain on China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Are we still talking about this Obama, or some other: https://www.theguardian.com/wo...?

  2. Re:China can't complain on China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I wonder what Obama would do. He'd probably launch an apology tour of some sort.

  3. Re:Still won't change a thing on FCC Chairman Admits Russia Meddled In Net Neutrality Debate (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Vote _who_ out? The FCC is not an elected body.

  4. You don't understand on FCC Chairman Admits Russia Meddled In Net Neutrality Debate (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't understand. Pai is there to lay the groundwork for removal of some of the regulatory functions of the FCC and moving them to the Congress where they belong. He's there as a vivid demonstration that unelected bodies are unsuitable for regulation of what amounts to constitutional rights (speech). Shit, even elected bodies are barely suitable. They'd much rather you didn't have any of those pesky amendments, especially the first few, but thankfully for us the founding fathers foresaw that, and implemented a bear of a procedure to change anything in the Constitution.

  5. Headline should instead say on NYC Votes To Set Minimum Pay For Uber, Lyft Drivers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Headline should instead say, "NYC voters to set pay for Uber, Lyft drivers to zero". Because if Uber/Lyft withdraw, that's exactly what it's going to be.

  6. It's faster, and it's not Google. It just needs a little bit of UX polish to really shine, including such bare necessities as global scale factor that Firefox flat out refuses to implement.

  7. Re:Easy solution on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't just shut down, it drives to the side of the road and comes to a stop.

  8. Seriously, I mean. Saudis kill a Saudi in Turkey and we walk away from $500b in deals and abandon the upcoming Yemen peace negotiations? Thatâ(TM)d be utterly retarded, and for all his faults, Trump is most certainly not an idiot.

  9. Easy solution on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Have a camera pointing at the driver as well. Shut down autopilot if eyes are closed or aren't looking at the road for longer than some predetermined amount of time. This is literally an undergrad-level deep learning project. If cost is a concern, this can be done without deep learning as well.

  10. Re:If it grows exponentially, what's the exponent? on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Exponentially so far. Look at the graph. It will taper off, of course, but so far it's a classic hockey stick.

  11. Re:Courtesy of China on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, I think prescribing opiates willy-nilly led to some really bad shit as well. You're making it sound like it was no big deal, but it was a big deal. Opiates are highly addictive, easy to overdose, and often dangerous to take with other drugs. So the crackdown on over-prescription was entirely appropriate IMO. What was not appropriate is that people who were already addicted to opiates did not have a viable path to get off them: drug rehab is heavily stigmatized and costs a ton of money.

  12. Re:20 billion a year on NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    SpaceX is also a research facility. Last I checked they're doing a lot of research on reusable rocketry, very large rockets, and other such stuff that NASA can't be bothered to pursue anymore.

  13. Re:20 billion a year on NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe NASA needs a little more focus then.

  14. I recall Zuck was also eager on Google Shut Out Privacy, Security Teams From Secret China Project (theintercept.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I recall Zuck was also eager to kiss comrade Xi's behind. Learned Chinese, asked him to name his child (Xi refused, because WTF: https://www.independent.co.uk/...). Didn't go anywhere. Comrade Xi ain't giving the control over the Chinese propaganda machine to some lizard humanoid hybrid. Apparently Mr. Pichai was more successful.

  15. 20 billion a year on NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company (pressherald.com) · · Score: 2

    And we can't send people to ISS without Russian help. This is a national embarrassment. Russians spend one tenth that. That having been said, it's also like 10 days of Pentagon budget. In any case, I'm pretty sure SpaceX will make NASA obsolete within about a decade.

  16. Courtesy of China on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    30k deaths in 2017 from fentanyl overdose, most of it coming from China. And rates are growing exponentially.

  17. I actually feel bad about this as a taxpayer on Microsoft Wins $480 Million Military Contract To Bring HoloLens To Battlefield (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I actually feel bad about this as a taxpayer. Not because of "ethics" or whatever, but because Hololens is a total useless piece of shit. I've used it myself, it's not even a "toy", it's totally useless even in that context. I'm having a hard time imagining anything useful the taxpayers are buying with this half a billion dollars.

  18. Make $XXm, get fined $XXk on Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled Charged For Illegally Touting Crypto Offerings (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Make $XXm, get fined $XXk. Seems like a good deal to me.

  19. Trump explained it in a tweet on 'The Supremacy of Japanese Cars Has Been 40-Plus Years In the Making' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Thereâ(TM)s a hefty import tariff on trucks: https://mobile.twitter.com/rea.... A lot of Japanese companies are more American in fact than âoeAmericanâ ones if you consider where they manufacture their cars. Quite often âoeAmericanâ cars are manufactured in Mexico.

  20. Re:Macron is a “threat to our democracy& on France To Close Four Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2022, 14 Nuclear Reactors By 2035 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That’s one way to put it. Another, less autocratic way, would be to hold a referendum, which he would handily lose, because 77% of the country are against this bullshit. That’d be democracy.

  21. Macron is a “threat to our democracy” on France To Close Four Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2022, 14 Nuclear Reactors By 2035 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll
  22. At least one of the signers is fully in favor on Google Workers Sign Letter Seeking End To China Search Project (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    At least one of the signers, Colm Buckley, is fully in favor of implementing censorship right here in the good olâ(TM) USA. Not kidding, search him up.

  23. There are DOZENS of us on Google Workers Sign Letter Seeking End To China Search Project (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    DOZENS!

  24. Re:iPhones are luxury goods on Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people in the US don't have $500 to spend. And those that do, can afford $550.

  25. Re:$12 billion farm bailout on Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia itself borders Poland, in Kaliningrad Oblast, and it has significant military presence there. And Belarus is Russia's ally. If they wanted to go to Western Europe, Belarus would come along for the fun.