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  1. Re:Disability claims increased 44% after unemploym on Obama Is Forgiving the Student Loans of Nearly 400,000 Permanently Disabled People (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's the article. I typed my summary too fast - it's the increase in claims between 2003 to 2013:

    http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/1...

  2. Disability claims increased 44% after unemployment on Obama Is Forgiving the Student Loans of Nearly 400,000 Permanently Disabled People (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    benefits ran out in 2013. Which means either people who are unemployed are much more likely to slip and fall in their bathtub or that they're gaming the system. The same will likely happen for students with this new policy.

  3. Zuckerberg has one thing in common with government on In the Age of Trump, Tech CEOs Cast Themselves As the New Statesmen (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    They both like to trample over our privacy for their own gain.

  4. Why did FBI claim they would start helping police? on FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    After they "cracked" the San Bernardino phone the FBI publicly came out and said they would use the information they gleaned to start assisting local law enforcement agencies to crack iPhones for their cases as well. I guess that was a bold-face lie, told to make Apple look bad to their security-conscious customers who are concerned that the FBI now has the ability to crack iPhones.

  5. There's a free iPhone app that can do that on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Ugh.

  6. Why capitalism must account for the environment on Over 80 Percent of China's Well Water Is Polluted (voanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You just can't allow individuals and businesses to participate in the free market with no concern for keeping shared natural resources like air and water clean. Even the staunchest free-market thinker Milton Friedman was a proponent of a cap and trade system as a way to financially account for the pollution produced by business.

  7. Knight Rider was doing this in the 80's.

  8. Re:It's better to keep abuse in the virtual world on Top Tech Firms Urged To Step Up Online Abuse Fightback (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The root cause is human nature. That'll be hard to address.

  9. It's better to keep abuse in the virtual world on Top Tech Firms Urged To Step Up Online Abuse Fightback (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There will always be people who are inclined to abuse others. Wouldn't it be better to keep that abuse sand-boxed in the virtual world rather than forcing abusers to act out in the physical world?

  10. Don't haze me bro on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks.

  11. It's all part of the plan on NASA: Global Warming Is Now Changing How Earth Wobbles (go.com) · · Score: 1

    By wobbling the earth, governments can cause all the loose change from our wallets to fall into the treasuries' pockets.

  12. Yahoo is worth $34B with Marissa Mayer on Verizon To Submit Bid For Yahoo (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    And $40B without her.

  13. Re:You can't legislate prosperity on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Do a google search of "70's gas lines" and you'll see photos of cars stretching out into the street waiting to fill up their tanks.

  14. Company willing to let employees fail? on Jeff Bezos: AWS Will Break $10 Billion This Year (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    It's one thing if Bezos is ok with the company failing for a strategic product/service that was his decision. I wonder if he's as forgiving when the failure rests on someone else within the company.

  15. Re:Apple sold 13 million iPhone 6s/6s+ in 3 days on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Oops, I missed the reference to revenue. Nevermind.

    On second thought, lets see how many of those orders that Tesla actually satisfies in a reasonable amount of time.

  16. Apple sold 13 million iPhone 6s/6s+ in 3 days on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sounds like the reality distortion field is strong with this one.

  17. Re:You can't legislate prosperity on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually yes, demand did go up when prices went up. That's one of the effects of high inflation - future purchases brought forward based on the expectation of higher prices tomorrow. You can't have a general increase in prices without demand holding or increasing otherwise you'd get the opposite, which is deflation.

  18. I wish the FBI was as worried about banking crimes on Top FBI Attorney Worried About WhatsApp Encryption (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So many people in the financial industry should have gone to jail for all the shit that went on during the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis. Yet here the FBI is worried about whether our dick picks are encrypted or not.

  19. Re:You can't legislate prosperity on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The entire decade of the 70's disagrees with you, even net of the oil-price shock.

  20. Chat bots are the best thing since push technology on Chat App Kik Beats Facebook To Launching a Bot Store (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh wait...

  21. My brain has unlimited storage capacity and speed on NVIDIA Creates a 15B-Transistor Chip With 16GB Bandwidth Memory For Deep Learning (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet my learning ain't so deep.

  22. Re:You can't legislate prosperity on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    With rising wages companies will be able to raise prices without hurting demand. If that weren't the case then there would be no such thing as wage-push inflation.

  23. Pirates stealing from pirates on Anti-Piracy Firm Rightscorp Will Hijack Pirates' Browsers Until a Fine is Paid (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's no honor among thieves.

  24. Next WH advance will be to not use printers at all on The White House Finally Got Color Printers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why are they printing stuff when they all have laptops and tablets?

  25. In other words humans are no smarter than bees on Some Bees Are Addicted to Caffeine (albanydailystar.com) · · Score: 0

    Based on the long line I see walking past my local Starbucks every day.