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  1. Re:This is just the beginning on America's Five Biggest Tech Stocks Lost $97 Billion Friday (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Comparing stock valuations to an artificially-depressed and manipulated interest rate produces skewed valuations metrics. Naturally that's why the Fed has interest rates so low, to encourage such comparisons and thus more risk taking. But what's good for short-term boost to economic investment is bad for he investors' long-term results.

  2. About as effective as making killing illegal on British PM Seeks Ban On Encryption After Terror Attack (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Criminals are no less likely to use encryption if it's made illegal as they are to commit murder, which is already illegal.

  3. It's not as crazy as it sounds on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression? (youtube.com) · · Score: 2

    I have a friend who invented an alternative to tracking time in place of the proposed time_t. Just 24 hours before he was to present it at a conference he was found murdered. I'll never forget the day it happened - January 1st, 1970.

  4. Self-interested hyprocisy on Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you complain when hundreds of small hardware stores closed down after Home Depot and Lowe's expanded across the country, bringing lower prices for your purchases with them?

  5. How was this not already common knowledge? on Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press (theoutline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who else could leak a private memo written by Comey except Comey himself?

  6. How to become a millionaire investing in Ballmer on Steve Ballmer Says Tech Firms Should Be As Accountable As NBA Teams (backchannel.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Start with a billion dollars and invest in a company where he's the CEO.

  7. Ain't that a stinker! on Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Was Tech Capital (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    What an unfortunate and malodorous outcome.

  8. Another 40% improvement in CPU performance? on Apple Announces New 10.5-Inch iPad Pro With Narrower Side Bezels, 120Hz Refresh Rate Display (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 0

    Apple has been increasing the performance of their ARM cores by about 40% for the past several years. They're absolutely killing it.

  9. Let's remove the washing machines too on 'Our Streets Are Made For People': San Francisco Mulls Ban On Delivery Robots (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    We can Make America Great Again by restoring all the labor-intensive, low-productivity, non-thinking jobs.

  10. Yet another reason to surf in VMs on Chinese 'Fireball' Malware Infects Nearly 250 Million Computers Worldwide (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Congratulations on compromising my Virtual Machine. I will one-click delete you now.

  11. It'll be as huge as 3D TV! on VR Sports? It Can Be a Billion Dollar Business, Says Intel CEO (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    If it's lucky.

  12. Re:That's a whopping 0.07% of employees on Hundreds of Walmart Employees Say They've Been Punished For Taking Sick Days (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Nevermind, I see it's hundreds of employees out of just 1,000 surveyed. I suck.

  13. That's a whopping 0.07% of employees on Hundreds of Walmart Employees Say They've Been Punished For Taking Sick Days (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Walmart employees 1.4 million people in the USA.

  14. You know your tax idea is bad on EU Commissioner Says No to Bill Gates' Robot Tax Idea (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    When even the tax-happy EU decides against passing It.

  15. What the heck does this switch do? on British Airways IT Outage Caused By Contractor Who Accidentally Switched off Power (independent.ie) · · Score: 4, Funny

    No sure Bob - just flip it so that we can go get some lunch. I'm starving.

  16. Maybe the'll make the vetting retoractive on Trump Administration Approves Tougher Visa Vetting, Including Social Media Checks (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting
  17. ESPN was a primary contributor to cord-cutting on Bill Simmons Says ESPN Blew It By Not Embracing Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Of the ~$28/month that cable companies pay for their basic basket of content, over $8/month goes to ESPN and neither the cable company nor end customer has a say in the matter.

  18. "Wearables gaining adoption, 25% Americans own one on Mary Meeker's 2017 Internet Trends Report (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    With only about 2% of Americans actually wearing one. So much more adoption figures.

  19. There's no rebooting that business on Microsoft's Looking To Reboot Mobile with New Software and Hardware: Sources (thurrott.com) · · Score: 2

    It's bricked worse than router that lost power during a firmware update.

  20. I have a much easier solution on US Might Ban Laptops On All Flights Into And Out of the Country (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's ban all flights and be done with it.

  21. Re:Egypt Air has a history of deflecting blame on Working Theory In Jet Crash: IPhone In Cockpit Is To Blame (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Because "pilot action" includes things performed by pilots, including errors.

  22. Re:Now it's discrimination against young people? on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    On the same token we can easily identify who has a sense of humor and who doesn't.

  23. Now it's discrimination against young people? on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 2

    Soon the only people you'll be allowed to hire without being acused of discrimination is anyone who is exactly 32.54 years old.

  24. Re:Egypt Air has a history of deflecting blame on Working Theory In Jet Crash: IPhone In Cockpit Is To Blame (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I said "pilot action" rather than "human error". And if Egypt Air was willing to question the investigators' findings of suicide when there was clear evidence of it then their involvement in any future investigation should rightly be treated with suspicion.

  25. Egypt Air has a history of deflecting blame on Working Theory In Jet Crash: IPhone In Cockpit Is To Blame (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even though this is a French investigation, Egypt Air has a history of applying pressure to investigators to find reasons for a crash other than pilot action.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990