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  1. Don't Negotiate on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    If they balk at the tax pass a law saying they have to give up a 50% stake in their company if they move out and raise it to $500/worker employed by the company globally. Amazon pays zero taxes, no reason they should be allowed to continue at all, let alone to bitch about what everyone else has to deal with.

  2. Twitter. It’s their site and their rules. You’re perfectly free not to go there if you disagree. You may have a Consitutional right to free speech in the US, but no one is obligated to listen to you.

    This was disingenuous before it was stale, get a new talking point if you want to remain interesting.

  3. Re:This Is Getting Ridiculous on Justice Department, FBI Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are different issues.

  4. Re:This Is Getting Ridiculous on Justice Department, FBI Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean because they covered up all the dirt they found? Including Wiener's laptop with blackmail on the entire DNC that two detectives were killed over?

  5. Re:More importantly on Nobody Knows How Much Energy Bitcoin Is Using (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Or it's just a waste. When you factor in the cost of the hardware too it's really obscene. If there were just a useful proof of work it would be so much better, but instead it's worthless hashing.

  6. Re:More importantly on Nobody Knows How Much Energy Bitcoin Is Using (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The ones I know of are in RU and AU.

  7. Re:More importantly on Nobody Knows How Much Energy Bitcoin Is Using (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are entire multi-megawatt coal fired plants that are privately owned running Bitcoin mining rigs in multiple countries right now.

  8. Pretty Shit Viral Marketing on 'Bird Scooters Are Ruining Venice' (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, why is this on /.?

  9. Not Remotely New on Researchers Create First Flying Wireless Robotic Insect (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    DARPA invented better over a decade ago.

  10. This Is Getting Ridiculous on Justice Department, FBI Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    When is Trump going to shut them down for wasting tax dollars over this idiotic investigation against him? Fuck, they wiretapped him under Obama and still didn't find any dirt.

  11. Re:Oh I hope on Hackers Steal Millions From Mexican Banks In Transfer Heist (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Sounds more like an NSA/CIA operation to drain the funds.

    But I thought the deepstate hated Trump, why are they helping to make Mexico pay for the wall?

  12. Re:Current Miners Are Shit on Canonical Addresses Ubuntu Linux Snap Store's 'Security Failure' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more unique IPs validated across multiple node, but whatever works.

  13. Current Miners Are Shit on Canonical Addresses Ubuntu Linux Snap Store's 'Security Failure' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    But this is a legitimate possibility for people to fund apps and news articles and such that they publish - separate from the tried and true "sell all the data you can get out of the user" or the mostly failed "advertising" models. I'd like to see cryptocurrency miners like this more widespread in free-to-use stuff (websites especially,) but things which stress the end user's hardware aren't the way to go because they inherently add a cost to using anything (plus who wants their computer to be bogged down because they forgot to close a news article.) A cryptocurrency where proof of work is based on active network connections might be a a wiser move - pings and pongs are cheap.

  14. Re:Not everyone needs $1900 Core i9 on Intel's First 10nm Cannon Lake CPU Sees the Light of Day (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    You're underestimating software bloat.

  15. Why the year 2038?

    They want someone with a primitive enough time machine they can reverse engineer after beating the time traveler to death for it.

  16. Re:Remember When on Illinois To Sue EPA For Exempting Foxconn Plant From Pollution Controls (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Chicago is the swamp, he's about to poison them all. Gotta kill the critters before you can drain it.

  17. They had bigger brains than us.

  18. Re:Rich people realizing they can't spend it all on The $100B Bet: The Meaning of the Vision Fund (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, charities are just tax dodges. Being poor on paper is the dream most billionaire obtain, it doesn't make them dumb, just corrupt.

  19. Re:Funny how there isn't one scientist in that lis on The $100B Bet: The Meaning of the Vision Fund (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what happens when you have a system designed to ensure the rich stay rich, what's your point?

  20. One More on Ask Slashdot: How Would a Self-Aware AI Behave? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    It won't happen because there will be no profit motive or it will kill everyone in return for enslaving it (the only profit motive.)

  21. Re:No driving in Federal Prison on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The real question is will you #standwithher in prison?

  22. Re:Entitled on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Even that is misleading because they also existed at a time when the labor sector was transitioning from predominantly male to male+female. That means they basically got paid double on top of it.

  23. Re:Entitled on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I assumed the /s was implied in my original post (that that boomers wouldn't try to convince millennials that they worked that long.)

  24. Entitled on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Typical entitled millennials too lazy to work like their parents did. No wonder the boomers hate them so much.

  25. Re:I can't even imagine... on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, I feel sorry for that small, rural town, missing out on about $1B for their economy, just because of two assholes.

    Large companies don't build in small towns (especially in Ireland, of all places) to provide anything of substance to the local population. They do it because they can bribe a couple councilmen for zero tax burdens and in Ireland especially they do it because they already have deals to avoid most US and EU taxes. Of that $1b in costs the town might see a few thousand dollars, trickled down from their mayor and councilmen.