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  1. Re:I don't care on Parenthood Can Help You Live Longer In Older Age, Research Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    compared to the 70's, the environment has been fixed

  2. you just described almost every kid that has lived in the last 100 years

  3. Re:A middle man always comes back into the picture on The Promise of Blockchain Is a World Without Middlemen (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    yeah, they used to trade stocks on the grass in downtown manhattan in the 1700's and 1800's until things grew and they needed a central exchange. same with banks before clearance houses

  4. Re:Newsflash on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    no stupid, he's not a moron

    he's putting stupid fake news out there for the media to talk about all weekend instead of covering what he's really doing. and you idiots believe it

  5. Re:Newsflash on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    every weekend he flies off to florida to golf and meet with business and foreign leaders right after he shoots off some idiotic tweet that the media eats up all weekend long to take away from what he is actually doing

    total justification

  6. so this is like the 70s with IBM and BUNCH? on Tech's Ruling Class Casts a Big Shadow (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You had a few large tech companies and everything revolved around them until PC's came along and killed their businesses?

  7. Re:Where is the Federal Criminal Probe on the CIA? on Federal Criminal Probe Being Opened Into WikiLeaks' Publication of CIA Documents (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    NSA has been mining data since the 60's if not earlier. they would listen in on satellite telephone calls and later when the long distance US calls were routed via microwave they would intercept those as well. been legal for a long time

  8. streaming brings in the most revenue on Music Charts No Longer Make Sense (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    which is why it's weighed so much. very few people are paying $10 for these album things anymore. even fewer are paying $80 or whatever it costs for a vinyl now

  9. Re:$2000 rebate on a $40000 electric vehicle on New York State To Launch Electric Vehicle Rebate (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    $38,000 for a car isn't that much. my CR-V was $30,000 when i bought it 6 years ago. the subaru my wife wants is like $35,000. and i see a lot of $40,000 cars around here

  10. hasn't apple patched it by now? on Exploit that Caused iPhones To Repeatedly Dial 911 Reveals Grave Cybersecurity Threat, Say Experts (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and since most IOS users are on the latest version how is this still a problem?

  11. Re:U.S. Patent No. 5,331,637 (the "'637 Patent) on Sprint Wins $140M Verdict Against Time Warner Cable For Infringing VoIP Patents (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    first introduced in school and getting it to work in the real world are two completely different things

  12. Re:Create multiple barriers to failure on Why Typography Matters -- Especially At The Oscars (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 2

    it's already been done. the auditors are supposed to memorize all the winners in all the categories. but word on some TMZ type blogs is that the two partners assigned to the event this year were too busy snapping pictures and looking at the stars and their near naked bodies

  13. Re:What I wonder is.... on Amazon Outage Cost S&P 500 Companies $150M (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    probably cause it was replicated to all regions unlike some of the data that was only in the region affected cause customers didn't want to pay more $$$

  14. at the very least they should have made the VM's unavailable instead of removing them so that if something happened all they had to do was bring them back up again

  15. i've seen someone once change the usable memory of SQL server down to 1/10 the physical RAM by accident cause he thought he was so awesome and only used sql for changing configuration options

    why i like the almost dumb proof GUI where you can double and triple check visually before you do something that can take a dozen applications offline

  16. Re:A bit hypocritical on Netflix CEO Predicts Mobile Operators Will Soon Offer Unlimited Video (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    netflix has the money and tech to deploy the servers and the software to allow the carriers to do this. unlike say your small startup

  17. Re:At some point on Netflix CEO Predicts Mobile Operators Will Soon Offer Unlimited Video (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    maybe 10 years but wireless still has some technical issues that wired telecom doesn't have

  18. they will probably keep the companies separate legal entities and lease the TWC licenses for some low price

  19. Re:Taxes and Fees on AT&T Undercuts Verizon, T-Mobile With New Unlimited Plan (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    i'm like $6 in NYC so it's not AT&T but your local county and state and paying the FCC fees to make sure the cows can use the phone

  20. Re:Come on guys, isn't this a bit rediculous? on Sony Launches Phone With World's First 4K HDR Screen; Nokia Brings Back the 3310 Handset (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    chances are they have a bunch of glass left over from making those new giant TV's and it's a waste of money to throw it away. along with the environmental costs. So they are selling it in phones. Apple was doing the same with Apple TV and it's older chips too.

    it's cheaper to sell your junk in a profitless product than throw it away and take the loss on your financial statments

  21. he should learn how to pack his stuff on $10K Package Of Super Nintendo Games Finally Found By Post Office (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 3, Informative

    you can clearly see in the photos it's not packed well. something like that you don't use paper to brace the outsides of the box. he should have bought some packing peanuts or those plastic air things that amazon and every other professional shipper uses to brace their packages

    if he would have sued he would have been laughed out of court with those photos

  22. Re:The trillion-dollar answer to Why. on Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    $$$

    lots and lots of money since insurance will pay for virtually everything these days and so many more people have it now

  23. Re:can't make $$$ if your study fails on Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    that's the point. look at vioxx. it was first developed in the 80's and the lawsuits didn't happen until 20 years later. the people who originally developed it and oversaw it being released to market were long gone by then. and during the whole lawsuit hype there were old scientists on TV who read the original research at the time and said it would most likely cause problems due to the way it worked

  24. the enron of this generation on Inside Uber's Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    loses money

    sex fueled culture

    no definitive product

  25. Re: Drop iTunes requirement on Tech Breakthroughs Take a Backseat in Upcoming Apple iPhone Launch (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    i like the no file system access and having apps use their own dedicated storage which can be locked down

    means i can lock down apps and the data in them so my kids can't access them while playing with my phone