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  1. How will they address the problem of staining? on China Is Building a Solar Power Highway (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    How will they remove the stains from tires? Regular cleaning?

  2. project management for software teams? on In Defense of Project Management For Software Teams (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Basically, the same like some self-imposed yoga teachers. There is nothing to teach in yoga, there is nothing much to manage in software. Of course, one could always invent absolutely necessary rituals, practices, routines and then attribute every single positive thing to these rituals. Religions perfected these techniques for a millenia.

  3. This is a rhetorical questions.. on Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    LIke any other kind of parasites management ruins the ecosystem in which it lives. Linux kernel has no management, only reasonable set of rules and procedures.

  4. Yeah, that's stupid on Tesla Model 3 Owners Share More Info On Model (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Motorcycle and car industries evolved a standardized way to control various aspects of a vehicle without taking hand of the steering in case of a bike and do a short, simple movement without looking in the case of a car. Ruining most of these reasonable, evolved ways of control *while keep looking ahead* is indeed stupid.

  5. Using words like Orwellian and Creepy is pseudo-intellectual hipster's bullshit.

  6. yet another statistics-based bullshit.. on Fathers Pass On Four Times As Many New Genetic Mutations As Mothers, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There is literally no underlying biology to support such claim. The very basic process of mitosis is exactly what makes such numbers impossible. Yes, men could get some mutations in a lifetime due to harsh lifestyle and substance abuse, but to make it into a gamete is very improbable. Life has good guard mechanisms against deadly mutations.

  7. Equal treatment on Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion By EU For Skewing Searches (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF is equal treatment? Someone grew a profitable business and got a shitload of money, which allows him to pay for the top tier hookers. Shall I sue him for equal treatment because the only hookers I could afford are ugly and fat? Why?

  8. Re:Pinkertons, Debs, and the Unions on Leaked 'Standing Rock' Documents Reveal Invasive Counterterrorism Measures (theintercept.com) · · Score: 0

    > no working class person should be going to fight in World War II because it's just a richmans war making the munitions makers richer and killing the poor. But this is an utter bullshit.

  9. as a solution for *inequality* from a front-man pupet billionaire LOL! just LOL! Inequality has no solution. Inequality (genetic, social and economic), including gender biological specialization, is the fundamental aspect of the process of evolution, of which everything in Nature, including Zuckerberg, is a product.

  10. Everything mentioned here is correct on The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    and there is nothing much to see here. Java is a bubble - the worst thing that happen to CS since MS DOS or The Packer's Paradise (the first chapter of The Programmer's Stone). Oldfags like me still remember the J2EE nightmare and how we fought to avoid this crap and stay sane (I hope the J2EE advocates are still enjoying the compatibility and performance issues or are in some deeper layers of Hell they've deserved). Since then Java is steadily growing. PHP and Wordpress/Joomla/whatever-it-is-today is not even yesterday - it belongs to the past age, so is Windows (which is not completely obvious due to its monopoly in the corporate world). "Moving to the cloud" is also very real, and companies who paid a few hundreds of thousands to Amazon for some standard crappy Oracle setup are very common (which is confirmed by AWS revenues). In short, yes, the time of garage technicians (or small construction companies) is over. Welcome to the world of mega-corp automakers (or property managers). Even Upwork is on decline despite being a cheap sweatshop for all the things mentioned above - LAMP and the other PHP-level crap. But wait! the coming Javascript crap will eclipse (hahaha) even J2EE and Cobol crap combined. These people (the packers) never learn.

  11. Re:Next step... on Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You're Willing To Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They did this first.

  12. Re:Don't think Uber will be alone with this on Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You're Willing To Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    > negotiating prices based on what they think you are willing to pay you wouldn't believe, but they do exactly this in Indian (or Nepalese or Tibetan) spontaneous street markets since the beginning of time.

  13. would envy the level of bullshit modern "science" exhibit.

  14. Look no further than on UK Conservatives Pledge To Create Government-Controlled Internet (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    China, Iran, Russia and Turkey for this kind of innovations. It would be sad and ironic if UK will join this elite club.

  15. Surely, they should use Windows instead on Google Owns the Classroom (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    and pay some ransoms time and again.

  16. Why these half-way measures? on British PM Candidate Promises Social Media Crackdown (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    Let's ban kitchen knifes, smartphones with cameras (because they could be used to make an explicit pictures of teens we love so much) and computers with keyboards on which most of hate speech (including this one) has been written.

  17. Microsoft is not responsible, of course? on Wana Decryptor Ransomware Using NSA Exploit Leaked By Shadow Brokers To Spread Ransomware Worldwide (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No responsibility for a crappy design and insecure coding for decades?

  18. That is a huge win on China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Cash (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    for the parasitic middlemen, sorry, payment platforms. I am really too stupid to get why people are willing to be dependent of a third party (who takes its percentage) in their payments in cases when banks aren't necessary to be involved. But, of course, smartphones are so cool, let's use them for everything.

  19. Just one question: on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Where that free lunch would come from, given that most of European states (with notable exception of Germany) cannot even provide a decent pensions for their elderly? Perhaps, they should have been reminded that voting for free lunches for everyone does not magically makes it happen.

  20. Modern day magician - a dream job. on Did A Billionaire Harvest Big Data From Facebook To 'Hijack' Democracy? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing is new under the moon. Some clever guys could persuade some rich guys that they could change the future by shitposting of primitive memes in the internets, and for that the rich guys have to pay a big money. The key idea here, as it was a milenia ago, is that there is no way to ascertain that the crap worked. If the prophesy seems to fulfill, it is, obviously, due to the skills and abilities of the magician to influence the goods (use a big data). If it fails miserably, it means, if course, that there was not enough sacrifice (amount of a big data) has been given, and the failure is chiefly due to lack of funds to perform a big-enough sacrifice. Thousand of years passed, nothing is changed. There is absolutely no way to prove that *any* of these activities, leave alone the big-data analytics crap have a substantial impact on election results. 4chan, for example, could be a *much* bigger factor to influence the uneducated and naive that all that facebook analysis crap combined. One catchy meme ("Shillary will start WW3!!1") with an appropriate picture of a nuclear blast popularized on /b/ would accomplish more than any purchased dataset... But, obviously, you need to know some psychology to understand that. So, instead, you are telling the customers with usual powerpoint crap that it is your pseudo-scientific research activities and data crunching is what swayed the election, not the 4chan, reddit and similar boards powered by the law of big numbers. This, by the way, is the remarkable example of how shit works in the high places. If you thing finance or investment are different - think again. If you are bold enough you will attribute success to yourself and failures to not enough funding, like a good old brahman or oracle of old days. The only difference - instead of masks and amulets one dances with computers and datasets.

  21. This is a nice summary of our times. on Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ex-USSR uneducated, radicalized, revanshistic scum is killing people producing innovations in the heart of progressive, liberal Europe.

  22. Gravity waves, really? on Mars Rover Spots Clouds Shaped By Gravity Waves (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    And the reason why we do not have those gravity waves here on Earth is?

  23. Bullshit on Miniature Lab Begins Science Experiments in Outer Space (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Earth gravitational force is absolutely negligible compared to molecular forces. Even hydrogen bonds are to strong to be affected by gravity.

  24. just reading good classic novels and poetry? BTW, lots of Indian tantric and Tibetan "meditative" techniques are based on visualizations, and some of them has been studied and considered useless by scientific consensus

  25. Whatever they thing they have created, according to interpretation of their instruments, which uses statistics and probability, is not time. Time is a derived characteristic of an observed process and does not exist as an independent phenomena. Whatever they have convinced themselves it is, it is not time.