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  1. how much of it is money laundering?

  2. Re: BS: Look at the other car companies on What Happened When Automation Came To General Motors? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting that you use Tim Cook as an example - how about Steve Jobs? (I am not talking about is second time at Apple)

  3. free market / surprise or arrogance? on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People complained about replacable batter, phone jack, ability to fix device and prices. They did not care - people stoped buing products - now they are surprised?How about listen to your customers next time?

  4. history repeating on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do I need to remind you that Apple failed looong time ago because they started pushing product that no one wanted (precustomized, never upgradable product)? Sounds familiar?

  5. If you browser breaks b/c of empty div then I am glad that we are done with IE. Don't design software that is that fragile in the first place. We have wasted enough lifetimes with IE6.

  6. We did not have enough coal to power industrial revolution - and somehow we kept digging.

  7. I keep wondering if it is marketing that makes these cycles or some new guy gets eureka moment - "VR that is the future!"

  8. Trump is right... on Japan Plans For 100ft Tsunami (thesun.ie) · · Score: 1

    ... we should build a wall ...along the west coast!

  9. It said I had a message. I opened it and it wasn't there!?

  10. what they were thinking? on Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If they have asked anyone on this forum we would help them save $4.6B for a minimal fee long time ago.

  11. It teaches you how to think. Flying sticks - verry violent. You can cheat - fraud. Phallic objects - sexual content. Don't even get me started that you are controlling game play not the government.

  12. they should have done Volkswagen! on China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Application should detect if game is the under test and display teletubbies. Once player takes over - go full nine yeards.

  13. Re:How to be a start up on Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to be good at sell ideas and keep trying. Once you can do that you can find people to follow you (from developer to investor). If it fails you try it again and again.

  14. maybe the learned a lesson from previous cohort? on Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    There are no angles in investing - there is only a pure business where you work your ass off for pie in the sky that may never realize. The only one who benefits is owner - which is not you but your Angle Investor!

  15. At that speed we are going nowhere. on Nasa's Voyager 2 Probe 'Leaves the Solar System' (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Elon is right it is high time to abandon internal combustion engine. Newer engine designs will hopefuly translate into more options for space travel.

  16. Re:It does seem like VPN's are a widespread now... on Eastern European Banks Were Attacked Via Backdoors Directly Connected To Local Networks, Report Finds (securelist.com) · · Score: 2

    Better question is why they are on the same network. Office and bank networks should have been separated.

  17. You run windows and complain about a security? on Eastern European Banks Were Attacked Via Backdoors Directly Connected To Local Networks, Report Finds (securelist.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows never followed the least privilege principle.

  18. Re:'huge windfall for Amazon shareholder' on Will AWS Be Spun Off Into a Separate Company? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Wall street does not make money on steady well balanced company - they want a split to create deca-unicorn in couple years due to next IT bubble and low risk.

  19. How else you call creating a national story based on infromation from 6 employees? Did they even pick them at random? Who did benefit from running this story?

  20. cable cutting dilema on It's the Beginning of the End of Satellite TV in the US (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    confused ... how do you cut a cable when you have sattelite tv?

  21. great way to drive education cost for US students on Trump Admin Takes First Steps To Overhaul H-1B Visa That Tech Companies Use To Hire Internationally (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    This is a great way to drive education cost for US students by admitting more foreign students. Expect two mortgages if you want MS degree. If you cared about US workforce you would make sure they can afford education!

  22. ... don't get started with the chem trails consiparcy theory.

  23. Re:let the apologists start jumping through hoops on Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    if she does not have official position why she gets official emails?

  24. Re:Roller Skates on Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I already have them in my closed. They don't go anywhere either!

  25. ....since fake news are a threat to national security they should be tasked with shutting down some twitter accounts