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  1. I suspect there's plenty of "investment in housing" going on in one of the hottest real estate markets in the world.

  2. Re:More energy and water vapor in atmosphere on Climate Change is Making Hurricanes Even More Destructive, Research Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Climate science predicted a "New Ice Age" several decades ago: https://longreads.com/2017/04/...

  3. Re:Luckey landed on his feet however on The Real Reason Palmer Luckey Was Fired From Facebook (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    What have you achieved? Oh, I see, you've posted a bullshit message on Slashdot. Yay, you!

  4. Luckey landed on his feet however on The Real Reason Palmer Luckey Was Fired From Facebook (zdnet.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's 100% clear he was fired to placate the internal SJW mob. Luckey landed on his feet however. His new company seems pretty kickass. Border security, military, all those cool things FB won't do for fear of liberal retaliation.

  5. Apple is lower than Google? on Only 22% of Americans Now Trust Facebook's Handling of Personal Info (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Apple is lower than Google? WTF kind of poll is that? Google literally sells you out to advertisers as their primary business model.

  6. Liberal startup CEOs get a healthy dose of liberal on San Francisco Passes a First-of-its-Kind Tax on Big Businesses To Help the Homeless (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Liberal startup CEOs get a healthy dose of liberalism. I'm in support of that. Should have been 10% of gross receipts for all I care. Vote republican next time.

  7. Re:The reality is..... on AMD Reveals Zen 2 Processor Architecture in Bid To Stay Ahead of Intel (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    PE is largely a factor of potential growth. AMD has _plenty_ of room to grow. If anything, if EPYC really takes off (and it might), their PE might be too low at the moment.

  8. They should also invest into something that on Bill Gates Backs A Company That Doubles the Shelf Life of Vegetables (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They should also invest into something that makes the fruit/veggies cheaper to grow. It's ridiculous when good quality apples or salad mix cost the same (or more!) as pork or chicken breast. In the case of apples, I'm sure it's not because they go bad quickly, if the retailer was worried about that they'd reduce the price to move inventory.

  9. When even the founder is jumping ship on Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says His Creation Can't Succeed Unless He Takes a Step Back (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    When even the founder is jumping ship you know it's going down. Cryptocurrencies have been around for 10 years and they have a big fat zero to show for it and aren't used for anything other than buying drugs on darknet. Epic fail.

  10. Making food more scarce/expensive will do that. Making transportation more expensive will do that. Making manufacturing more expensive will do that.

  11. If you want to use the analogy, it would be useful to know whether plugging the holes will stop the ship from sinking, or whether alternative arrangements (i.e. geoengineering) need to be seriously explored. If you cut the carbon emissions to the proposed levels, you will throw much of the developing world back to the stone age, and significantly set back the developed world as well. We're at a pretty unique time in history: global poverty is at an all time low and dropping like a rock. Are you suggesting we should go back to higher levels of poverty to placate the climate establishment _which doesn't even know if the proposed measures are going to do the job_?

  12. It's like that two button "daily struggle" meme. Either the oceans don't affect the climate change all that much and the panic is unwarranted, or all the previous models are horseshit. Both can't be true all the same time. :-)

  13. Pssst, buddy. You've inadvertently admitted they're making those numbers up, by saying "we don't know shit about how all of these factors affect one another". To be clear: there's no need to "believe" that the climate is warming: the warming is observable. My main issue is when they pretend they can predict anything so far ahead based on the models that have been repeatedly shown to be total horseshit, including by this study. If your models do not predict the future (and currently they don't, they barely predict the past), then suggesting massive changes to the way people live is DUMB, because you don't know if those proposed changes will even move the needle, let alone stop anything.

  14. This basically tells you all you need to know about climate "science". The "scientific consensus" did not notice until now that one of the main things influencing climate, the oceans, absorbs _60%_ more energy. So in essence all the previous climate models will need to be thrown out because they can't possibly be anywhere near correct at predicting the future. The world's politicians, however, are already ready and willing to commit trillions of dollars of somebody else's money on the predictions made by the old models.

  15. If I read at home I prefer the larger form factor of a book. If I read on the go, thereâ(TM)s no way Iâ(TM)ll have a book with me anyway. Iâ(TM)ll just use kindle.

  16. "Increased productivity" is code word for on Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    "Increased productivity" is code word for "eliminated half the jobs and made the remaining workers work twice as hard". I'm not sure that's a net positive for the working poor.

  17. From the second TFA: "That can only happen at the OS level. And technically, a true secure device can only be secured at the hardware level. The device is simply designed in ways that no one would design an off-the-shelf smartphone."

    This dude is a n00b. There has never been a more secure phone than the iPhone, including at the hardware level. US Government is incapable of building something this sophisticated, not the least because they don't make their own chips, and whatever they make does not undergo extreme decade-long scrutiny, including by state actors.

    He author of that screed should read the iOS security whitepaper which they publish every year. It's a work of art.

  18. Re:So iPhone lets you "listen in" on the conversat on China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they are tapped BY THE NSA. I seriously doubt a foreign agent can just walk in and tap the phone of US President, _which NSA fucking monitors_ 24x7 if they're any good at what they do.

  19. Re:So iPhone lets you "listen in" on the conversat on China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    It better be difficult. And even if weren't, there's _no way_ NYT would know about the existence of any such access. Use your critical thinking skills, if you have any.

  20. So iPhone lets you "listen in" on the conversation on China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report (thehill.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So iPhone lets you "listen in" on the conversations? Someone tell Tim Cook, he doesn't know.

    Really, guys, NYT is a fucking joke. This is very obvious, 100% uncorroborated, made up bullshit.

  21. Re: I don't get it... on Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Havenâ(TM)t you heard? Orange man bad. Trump can get dems to oppose literally anything, simply by speaking in favor of it. Heâ(TM)s literally trying to abolish modern day slavery by not letting sub-minimum-wage slaves into the country and dems respond with a âoewhoâ(TM)s going to pick our cotton thenâ message, just like they did in 1865.

  22. Hillary should be charged too on Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Sheâ(TM)s been âoesowing discordâ for 3 years straight by now.

  23. Re: There's no "problem" on Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The overwhelming majority of them are actually poorer than I am.

  24. So? Why not end it like Trump did?

  25. There's no "problem" on Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you've ever worked with Silicon Valley types you'd know most of them will sell their mom for a buck. Nobody gives a shit where their next round comes from as long as it does come.