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  1. Re:Invented by Boyan Slat when he was just 17... on Giant Plastic Trap Breaks, Gets Towed Back To Land (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Another obviously stupid idea: passenger traffic by air! Using something that can barely lift one person 10 feet above ground over a distance less than 900 feet? Humbug!

  2. Re:I hate Apple but.... on Apple Took Out a CES Ad To Troll Its Competitors Over Privacy (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    One can troll while stating the truth, it is the act of intentionally provoking/manipulating people that matters.

  3. Re:a butterfly will be sued for causing a typhoon on NVIDIA Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit Tied To Cryptocurrency Implosion (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Machine learning != oracle.

  4. No, one can't have chemical dependence on sugars. You are simply crazy.

  5. Re:As usual, mainstream has it backwards on Once Considered Outlandish, the Idea That Plants Help Their Relatives is Taking Root (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The brain doesn't need much glucose to function, medicinal science isn't about nutrition and nutritional pathways in the human mechanism, unsupported crap from ACs (whose brains need very little glucose) belong in Trump speeches not in slashdot posts.

  6. Re:That's a better use of land on Washington Could Become the First State To Compost the Dead (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    The last time I looked for a grave I've never visited before nothing special happened. No strange flowers falling over, no bird sitting sitting on the tombstone, no single ray of light from an overcast sky illuminating it.
    If there weren't a coincidence that day you wouldn't remember that visit as something special and wouldn't write about it online.

  7. ... 2 billions people think Facebook is worth using. You are an anomaly.

    And yet as people are informed about the incredible amount of information gathered by Facebook and how they do it more and more are becoming less infactuated with it, with a non-insignificant number of people closing their accounts. Of course given that Facebook track people that have never had an account in the first place that isn't a 100% cure.

    Yes we are an anomoly - we are the people that are informed.

    Captcha: "paranoia"!

    Two relevant quotes:
    Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
    Only the paranoid survive.

  8. Re:Selling phones because they are expensive on Did Apple Retail Prices Get Too High in 2018? Consumers Say Yes. (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    This is true, while it's possible to infer trends depending on how components fail it's unlikely a small scale operation could do it reliable. OTOH I guess repair service people talk to each other.

  9. Re:Languages are not that important on Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize For Numerical Software (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    Yes, due to most programmers being stupid and lazy. Some even think javascript is a good language...

  10. Re:if you want it fast, Try Main street on 'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    To a first approximation: nothing. Some things could be bought with higher prices and worse quality, most things offered online can't be bought locally at all. That includes the dildos and IoT ovens some idiot drooled about above.

    Not all Amazon customers live in large cities.

  11. Re: Consum(er)ism on 'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    God damn you are stupid. Can you function in society with such a severe disconnect?

  12. Re:Other Benefits, but Accusations on 'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    If you blame the user and not the heap of crap shame on you. Now go away and continue your drinking habits instead of interrupting adults.

  13. You missed some steps there. Please at least read the blurb before constructing your straw man argument.

  14. Re:Latency on 'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Putting a human on mars is as much an achievement as putting one in an active volcano. Yes it would be impressive, be extremely expensive, require new technology, and be completely useless.

  15. Re:SO what? on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    In many places a cheating woman is killed or at least a pariah while a cheating man is celebrated. In many other places a man can have as many wives as he want, including temporary wives for some sex, while a woman walking outside by herself (even if not exposing any skin which of course is a great crime) can be killed.
    Yes women have it easy and the poor men takes all the blame. :(

  16. Re: Science? on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    So where are the statements? If you know where they are why not post a link to them, or are we to go to stormfront.org to see an "archived" statement?

  17. Re:Science? on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

  18. Re:They're all stalkers on Taylor Swift Used Facial Recognition Tech At Concerts To Spy On Stalkers (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    That line of thought makes me think you are very happy.

  19. Agnostic is how you spell atheist in the USA. Atheists are all dirty immoral beasts, agnostics are redeemable people that will surely turn religious sooner or later.

  20. Re:Aren't you the same dumb Luckyo plastic eater? on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You should have stopped with the first sentence.

  21. Re:That means Youtube has won on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Because we all know that all non-far left, center, right crazies (we're all crazy in the eyes of someone) thinks intentionally provoking people with something is not only acceptable but something to embrace, right? I don't mention the far right that obviously had their right arm projecting upwards in appreciation.

    Given the number of times right wing (US standards) people have protested against something small that provoked them your perception of the world is interesting.

  22. Lack of empathy is a lack of humanity.

  23. So you are a psychopath with no real feelings. The majority of humans aren't and (as a social animal) need other humans. Pretty simple but you wouldn't understand that being a strong, independent individual and all.

  24. Re:Who would do this? on In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Strange that for each generation there will always be the same types of claims. You are also of a generation the elders knew as spoiled, just as they in turn obviously wouldn't amount to anything when they were young. One would expect total anarchy if each generation became worse like humans have claimed at least since the invention of writing, strange that we don't have that...
    TL;DR idiotic claptrap

  25. Re:Yes, sometimes you get this form Amazon on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... Never ordered Amazon again after that, Newegg only.

    Did you order from Amazon or from a vendor selling on Amazon? It's a huge difference.