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  1. Re:what did you expect on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 0

    If you have 5% unemployment it's more like $1200 from the rest of us.

    Besides, the idea that this is a cushy alternative is laughable, I'm not taking a 90% pay cut to get my free UBI.

  2. The glass in my last phone survived the drop just fine, but the LCD underneath it cracked like some marital arts master breaking the middle brick...

  3. Re:Redefining 'plethora' on Apple's New iPhones Will Come In a Plethora of New Colors, Says Report (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Canna but wilna

  4. Re:Redefining 'plethora' on Apple's New iPhones Will Come In a Plethora of New Colors, Says Report (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure it can do all of Latin-1:
    ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖרÙÚÛÜÝßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýÿ

  5. Re:Redefining 'plethora' on Apple's New iPhones Will Come In a Plethora of New Colors, Says Report (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?

  6. Re:What about content tiers? on Netflix is Testing a New 'Ultra' Tier of Service (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    F**k that noise, regional separation is bad enough, we don't want Netflix to turn into another "channel" provider.

  7. Re:Keeping hands clean ... on Would You Pay $700, Plus a Monthly Fee, For a Digital License Plate? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or you know, you could just stop the ridiculous practice of applying licence stickers when the cops all have number plate scanners and can tell if your rego is up to date without them.

  8. Re:In place of plastic bags.. on Mumbai Bans Plastic Bags, Bottles, and Single-Use Plastic Containers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's ridiculous because they get holes in them long before 10 years, and if you do have a 10 year old bag that's just more evidence that you buy a lot more thick plastic bags than you mean to because people forget them or shop opportunistically and don't always remember the bags. Certainly, driving home to get the bags you forgot would be more environmentally costly than a dozen thin ones.

    The decomposition speed of plastic bags, both thick and thin, was included in the study.

    Oh and your "low ball" estimate of twice a week is twice as often as we go... per head it's 6 times as often as we go... but honestly, set aside 4 or 5 of your thick plastic bags and use them exclusively, they won't last 1 year, let alone 10.

    Are you also running around in hemp clothing? Because washing most clothes creates thousands of plastic micro particles that end up in the water. If they were serious about this stuff they would have nothing but the old string bags made from jute for about $15 each, but those things WILL last 10 years.

  9. Re:In place of plastic bags.. on Mumbai Bans Plastic Bags, Bottles, and Single-Use Plastic Containers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but those thick 15c bags need to be used at /least/ 50 times to be the same impact as the thin bags:
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

    Plus, I never use the thin ones once, they're always bin liners or cat litter bags, or dog crap bags, etc. So that means the 15c one needs 100 uses.

    I'd suggest that's unlikely verging on the ridiculous.

    And the paper containers aren't much better, worse on some measures.

  10. "unfair advantage when they decide to jump into other markets" describes Uber's treatment of taxi regulation world-wide.

  11. Hahahaha, if Uber make this point it will be peak irony.

  12. Who even wants this stuff on Sony Is Blocking Fortnite Cross-Play Between PS4, Nintendo Switch Players (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd have thought if you were on a console blocking PC players from joining would be welcomed...?

  13. Re:I "pirate" tv shows on 'Pirates' Tend To Be the Biggest Buyers of Legal Content, Study Shows (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of the stuff on Netflix you can pre-download to the phone before your commute...

  14. Breathless on tvOS 12 Brings Dolby Atmos Support, Zero Sign-In, and TV App Improvements (macworld.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There's slashvertising and then there's this post....

  15. Re:I don't understand why you tolerate it on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but I could say the same thing about any number of things, like free speech in general which is abused more than it's used for good intent on just about every internet platform in existence.

    You could still have VOIP with it, but then you'd have a lot more "number withheld" calls, and they have their own problems.

  16. Re:I don't understand why you tolerate it on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    If the telcos were on the hook for unidentified spam callers, they'd wouldn't allow it to be so easy to spoof caller iD.

    Relates directly to spoofing caller ID in the post that I replied to....

  17. Re:I don't understand why you tolerate it on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Trouble is it has a valid use for both VOIP and PABX; it's kinda equivalent to the reply-to on an email.

    That is, I'm calling you from my extension, but I work for a large company and it doesn't matter who you get when you return the call, so the caller ID is the switchboard number, or possibly there aren't enough lines to direct dial an extension anyway.

    Alternatively, I'm on VOIP and the random outgoing number assigned to my computer today won't know to route to me (or alternatively my mobile) if you attempt to call back, so I display my number instead of the SIP provider's number.

  18. Both are houses, both have rooms, both tend to be designed with women in mind, both have furniture inside. I guess doll houses and houses are the same thing too.

  19. Re:Code enforcement, tiered pricing on Bitcoin Backlash as 'Miners' Suck Up Electricity, Stress Power Grids in Central Washington (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    There was a fair bit of sarcasm in there, but "Charge enough to cover costs" is a lot more complex when you need to run up more capacity AND your market is artificially saturated by users that will evaporate if you increase pricing to cover the increased capacity.

  20. A brief read suggests this is a good resource: https://john.albin.net/essenti...

  21. It's an analogy, in that network capacity and grid capacity are only linked by the word "capacity".

  22. Nope, not even close to being comparable. It's like suggesting you should be putting the same safety restrictions on a doll house as an actual house.

  23. Re:Code enforcement, tiered pricing on Bitcoin Backlash as 'Miners' Suck Up Electricity, Stress Power Grids in Central Washington (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The invisible hand of the market should fix this, you know, by spotting an opportunity and throttling it with price scales that kill it off entirely.

    0-50kWh/day at 10c (or whatever it is now)
    50+ at $1

    No worries.

  24. Re:I feel sorry for you streaming-media people on Comcast Confirms Plan To Buy 21st Century Fox and Control of Hulu (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People cut the cord because the pricing model sucks, it's not like any of these companies aren't ultimately on a scale between immoral and malevolent.

  25. Re:Why take the pill to begin with? on Amazon Offers Whole Foods Discounts To Prime Members (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol, I know, right. Soon we will reach ultimate the libertarian utopia and everyone one will be free to be unfathomably wealthy, or dirt poor.