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  1. No they saw something better and wanted it bad enough to do something about. The same as the one kid in a poor family who sees his only way out is to escape the family holding them down. It can be done they have to be willing to do it

  2. Re:Not in Africa and all of Asia on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Owning a car has nothing to do with a place that 40 minutes outside of a city by car. You just rent one or use one of the soon-to-be-fleets of autonomous cars (or take a bus or a train). It sounds like you have a hard time grasping the freedom of not being tied down by the financial responsibility of owning your own car.

    You haven't considered what happens when you have kids where I live it is illegal now to let them walk to school unescorted under a certain age and they need to be in car seats until 7 years of age. lets see how many autonomous vehicles you will need for school drop off and pick up. with the appropriate child restraint seats. or the worker is he going to unload his vehicle every time he gets home just so it could do its next pick up. Only 2 examples I could keep going. This guy needs to get out of his ivory tower and see how people actually live

  3. Re:Obvious takeaway from TFA on China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Cash (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    first thing I noticed is the Chinese had a thing for white people

  4. Re:Google isn't protected like AT&T was on 'Google Is As Close To a Natural Monopoly As the Bell System Was In 1956' (promarket.org) · · Score: 2

    Yes, they do have hundreds of thousands of rack-mounted servers in data centers around the world, but so does Amazon, and companies can rent virtual servers in them.

    I'll bet Jeff Bezos has more than one pet project aimed squarely at Google search right now.

    This is the problem today It would take someone the size of Amazon to even make a competitor for google. the only hope if you came up with a great idea for search engine is to get investors, The cost to setup a single data centre on the off chance you may be able to compete would scare away any likely investors.

  5. Re:I use gas buddy on Why Do Gas Station Prices Constantly Change? Blame the Algorithm (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting that they have cash only policies as there insurance would be higher than the fees they are paying on credit cards unless they aren't declaring all that cash but they are too honest to not declare all the cash

  6. a piece of advice from a billionaire " Go legal as soon as you can afford to pay for everything legally,not sooner" you would be surprised at how many rich people started with illegal or pirate type organisations including whole countries, see privateer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Re:Socialism on the march on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Doesn't really matter if the USSR was never a true Scotsman.

    The problem is not the ideal version of communism or democracy, it is that human nature never lets the ideal version actually happen

  8. she gets pissed and claims I slept with her? I've basically got no legal recourse to protect myself. I'll be found guilty in the court of public opinion and never be able to work again from the mere accusation.

    This is already happening and worse it now happens for teachers being accused for the victims compensation with little or zero evidence by grown ups who found a way to get back at that any teacher they hated and collect a hand out as well. And when is the last time you saw a school official say "No we don't believe the students story"

  9. How about not taking incriminating evidence of your activities (legal and private or otherwise) and keeping it around. Also not letting those people you trust currently to do the same unless your planning to stab them in the back later note they keep it just in case as well. Better yet don't do anything that you would be embarrassed to admit publicly. Gone are the days where gentlemen and ladies don't talk.

  10. What essentially is a clone of ebay or early amazon where people with no web skills can sell their product to other people and they act as the middleman again a little due diligence by stock holders and a few less expenses by the CEO, those 80 workers even at low estimate of 30k average represent 2.4 million in wages (anually) and oncosts which would have been the difference between profit and loss

  11. Due Diligence on Startups Struggle For Survival As Investors Turn 'Picky' (gerbsmanpartners.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    you mean that investors are finally doing due diligence before investing had to happen sooner or later

  12. Re:I Have No Trouble Making Accurate and Precise.. on Ask Slashdot: Are Accurate Software Development Time Predictions a Myth? (medium.com) · · Score: 2
    A sign seen in some work practices Speed, Quality, Low Price you can only have 2, choose wisely.

    Yes when clients and managers choose often it speed and low price in the preparation then demand quality at which point the speed disappears. to maintain the price which rises anyway due to the extra time cost but this isn't passed on leading to failure.

  13. Re:Each dev consistently off by a constant factor on Ask Slashdot: Are Accurate Software Development Time Predictions a Myth? (medium.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Developer’s and programmers have relatively poor time estimation skills. The one thing that makes them good is focus and getting lost in a problem often getting lost in the work and waking from this extreme concentration days later not realising how much time has passed and only counting the final Eureka moment where the programming was quick. Then when asked next time for a expected time they estimate the perceived time of hours not days or weeks.

  14. Re:It's data, not bumper stickers. Costs, not drea on Steve Ballmer's New Project: Find Out How the Government Spends Your Money (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    One small addition who benefits from each government contract not the companies but the individual(s) who owns them

  15. Mistakes on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Humans Learn from them so will AI's, Intelligence really is determined by how fast something or someone learns from mistakes

  16. If it really was racist when its possible to give this choice would it prefer a robot/AI or a human?

  17. Also forgot to add didn't buy from amazon but from another etailer that was far kinder to my credit card

  18. Actually I bought one of these Kodi boxes as it also supported Netflix and a number of other streaming services most of which have some form of DRM. Kodi was a nice surprise never used it before even supports h265. so this is just BS from Amazon. Amazon also banned AppleTV and Google Chromecast essentially they are being anti-competitve and are abusing there position in the market

  19. Re:I'm honestly blown away... on 'Unprecedented' Bleaching Damages Two-Thirds Of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Australian government hires an American Elvis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to piss on bushfires

  20. Re:don't worry, this is fake news on 'Unprecedented' Bleaching Damages Two-Thirds Of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    and burning more Coal is going to save us all.

    Sic.

    Yes this is Global Warming in Action but those who decry it will just stick their heads in the sand (again).

    I really would like to fix the global warming problem but the Evil Super-villain in me, while I pat and stroke my white Persian cat, is debating wether wiping out 90% of the worlds human population via some cunning scheme like an orchestrated war, or letting them suffer through an extinction event is the more evil, so many pros and cons in both scenarios.

  21. Re:I wouldn't expect job losses on An Unexpected Relationship Between Nuclear Power and Low Birth Weight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    But beer goggles (male and female versions) allow a larger group women to get pregnant through enhanced attractiveness of the other sex so we should see a birth rate increase around nuclear facilities

  22. Re:Hypothetically speaking... on About 90% of Smart TVs Vulnerable To Remote Hacking Via Rogue TV Signals (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no force in the known universe capable of forcing a typical IOT vendor to take security seriously.

    Except the bottom line companies will do anything to keep those numbers positive even start testing their products e.g. samsung

  23. Re:Why would you use batteries? on Australian Farmers Switch To Diesel Power As Electricity Prices Soar (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    However, it has plenty of sunshine.

    For part of each 24 hour period only. Also if solar was cheaper why are there subsidies by the government charged to electricity companies and eventually paid for those who can't get solar (e.g. live in an apartment, renting can't afford the initial installation etc) basically screwing the those at the bottom of the economic pile.

  24. year should have been years too early in the morning

  25. From the PDS of every financial investment firm

    Past performance does not guarantee future performance,

    It applies to immigration very well also in the past it could be said we were more picky about those invested in and those that really did escape year ago were smarter as they got out early just like the rich who sell their shares at the top of the market and could see everything going downhill