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  1. Re:Less than public transit? on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Uber's venture capitalists and investors are eventually going to get skittish.

    Which is why there was such a rush to try and IPO it over the past few years. That way the founders and investors could get out with their cash and Wall St. (read - your 401(k)) would be left holding the bag. After all, the Fed is pumping so much printed money into the system something has to soak up all that extra cash. Nowadays it's IPO's. But god help us when the bottom drops out of the market NEXT time...

  2. Re:/. editors: why do you maintain this shit hole? on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Why don't you self censor and stop reading the comments? I stopped reading yours after the first line. It's easy!

  3. Re:Sounds too simple to be true on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Well covered" doesn't mean confirmed. Especially in today's fake news era where all news agencies are quoting themselves as sources and it finally turns out the actual source was someone's blog somewhere.

  4. Re:"Police found Purinton 80 miles away at Applebe on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why educated people who talk about "race" use the term "ethnicity" instead. It's more specific although it's no magic bullet because it also includes culture, not just gene pool.

  5. Re:"Police found Purinton 80 miles away at Applebe on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Keep going. There's more:

    a : a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock

    b : a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics

    : any one of the groups that human beings can be divided into based on shared distinctive physical traits

    2: a group of individuals who share a common culture or history

    3: a major group of living things

    These are all from the very same page you linked. If you're going to use a dictionary to slap someone down, make sure you understand every way the dictionary says the word can be used. Not just the one that suits you.

  6. Re:"Police found Purinton 80 miles away at Applebe on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you need to take some geography classes. The big mountain range near India is the Himalayas, not the Caucasus mountains. Different mountain range entirely.

  7. Re:Not a problem at all on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We don't hire any Trump supporters

    So you discriminate by political party in the hiring process. Interesting. Do you do it by color and religion, too?

  8. Re: Baseline for zero activity on Fasting Diet 'Regenerates Diabetic Pancreas' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Not my job. This is an internet post not a peer reviewed article submission. If you think I'm wrong, prove it.

  9. English lessons on Arizona Bill Would Make Students In Grades 4-12 Participate Once In An Hour of Code (azpbs.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    English lessons force everyone to do some writing too, yet how many students actually become authors. And of these, how many become authors BECAUSE of the grammar and language lessons they received?

  10. Re:American fasting diet? on Fasting Diet 'Regenerates Diabetic Pancreas' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hell.. 1000 calories is nothing like fasting.. you can easily live on that 365 days a year..

    Baseline for zero activity adult patients is 1800 calories per day. This assumes a hospitalized patient in bed all day. 1000 calories is just over half of what you need so it IS "fasting" even if it's not "starvation". You can NOT survive 365 days a year on 1000 calories per day.

  11. Putin sent agents in to steal it. By now it must be in Russia somewhere. Damn you Russia, DAMN YOU!!!

  12. Re:Fake News on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Drat. If ONLY it had lasted long enough for my grant to be approved! Now I'll never find enough money to make more!

  13. Re:What makes this special? on Thrilling Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Nearby Star (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, just because you think it's a long walk to the grocery store, doesn't make that any more of a absolute yardstick.

    Tell that to a quadriplegic. The back yard may be closer than the grocery store but that still doesn't mean he's gonna get there any time soon. Without the wheelchair and a motor or someone to push, all distances greater than zero are out of reach.

  14. Re:What makes this special? on Thrilling Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Nearby Star (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Fairly close, lol. Because one mind-bogglingly distant object is an order of magnitude or so less astoundingly far away than some other mind-bogglingly distant object is no excuse to use an adjective like "close".

  15. Market research feels that people will be much more open to a smaller incendiary device which instead of burning your house down and killing you will only cause 3rd degree burns on a single limb.

  16. Re:Layman's Terms on JavaScript Attack Breaks ASLR On 22 CPU Architectures (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Turns out it's not as random as they would want you to believe...

  17. Their skyscrapers are catching fire at the rate of one per year, but I trust them to design and implement 100% safe drones...

  18. What could possibly go wrong on Ransomware Insurance Is Coming (onthewire.io) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. Back up your data

    2. Install the ransomware yourself on the computers.

    3. Cash in on insurance policy

    4. Reinstall data from backups.

  19. Evolution doesn't work that way.

  20. Testing it in Kenya on eBay Founder Pledges $500,000 To Test Universal Basic Income Program In Kenya (mashable.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because automation is a real threat to the economy in Africa...

  21. Yet another thing that Microsoft will hype for a year or two and then drop.

  22. Re:Otto is not ready for the streets on Watchdog Group Wants Uber's Self-Driving Trucks Off the Road (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Claim there are no real statistics as the basis for not letting trucks on the road to gather real statistics.... catch 22 much?

  23. Re:See, this application actually makes some sense on Watchdog Group Wants Uber's Self-Driving Trucks Off the Road (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    America has forgotten how to make railways profitable.

  24. Since there are absolutely no legal consequences, this kind of stuff is just going to keep happening.

  25. Re:Makes especial sense given studies on RSA: Ban On Booth Babes Has Been No Big Deal (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Well it's not working because even if they give up sex, they still get hacked.