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  1. Mining vs Transaction on Bitcoin Mining Heats Home For Free In Siberia (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Are they the same? I'll be honest, I know little about bitcoins. But it seems to me the money isn't actually coming from the mining?

  2. Re:I expect in the comments here on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is cheaper fuel helps the poor. A cheaper luxury car helps people who can already afford a luxury car.

  3. The total plane contract is signed. They are going to be built. Bringing the cost of each plane down is dependent on production increasing. You want to slow that down and increase line costs so you can spend money on upgrades for planes that could be replaced by new planes coming off the production line? Look, I'm not saying the program isn't a mess at every level of the contractor. As a subcontractor for not only this but just about every major defense/NASA contractor I see it every day and its infuriating. But this is just a FUD hit piece.

  4. Sounds rather needless on Turning the Optical Fiber Network Into a Giant Earthquake Sensor (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    If its a giant earthquake I'm sure its been detected by other means.

  5. And whose fault would that be? on Chicago School Official: US IT Jobs Offshored Because 'We Weren't Making Our Own' Coders · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would estimate that a good percentage, upwards of 50%, of a CS program is foreign nationals. The schools are greedy, they prefer foreign tuition prices, no financial aid.

  6. Re:Problem isn't laws... Stupid consumers on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Put your own tap water in a bottle. How is it price gouging when just about every home has running water in it, with the exception of those very few places where its suggested not to drink it.

  7. Because the shock wave only damages controllers that are being used, not the ones in spares.

  8. I thought the jugalos were a few days ago.

  9. Not quite right on Kids Praised for Being Smart are More Likely to Cheat (ucsd.edu) · · Score: 1

    It's actually parents who lie to their kids and tell them their smarter than they are are more likely to turn kids into cheaters. The actual smart ones won't cheat because they won't have to. The rest are just being lied to.

  10. Re:H1B, cheap labor on Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians (economist.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's actually more about selling their product to the entire world than cheap labor. Not saying cheap labor isn't part of it, but Apple can't continue selling more products year over year if they don't open to new markets. In the end that is what really matters.

  11. Re:Before jumping to conclusions on Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Not even close to the same thing. Intel needs to sell massive quantities. In order to do that they need to be inclusive to a much wider audience. Tesla is selling a small number of cars to the rich and wannabe rich. And unlike a chip where material costs are about hte same regardless of cores it increases with density for a battery.

    In this case my guess is they are in fact not all the same capacity battery and they have deemed it safe for a limited time to go above their advertised rating.

  12. If the wind is always perpendicular to the way you want to travel. Of course the most reliable wind is from the ship moving forward thanks to its actual engines, which certainly isn't perpendicular to where you want to go. So now you have to apply a force to counter it to go in the direction you want to go.

  13. Yet today you can pick up a phone and immediately talk to someone. Technology spanned the distance. You aren't giving a reason why it wouldn't do so again given enough time.

  14. Agree in some part on Should Workplaces Be Re-Defined To Retain Older Tech Workers? (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most of this is garbage, however the phased retirement is something I've always believed in. I work in at an engineering space orientated firm that has been doing this since pre Apollo days. More often then not people work until the day they retire and 6 months later are back as contractors because they don't know how to do the transition to non working and more importantly the transfer of knowledge didn't happen because nobody wants to pay to have it done. A slower transition both lets people start to enjoy a bit of retirement earlier while they are a year or two younger and allows companies to see where the knowledge is actually lost and adjust.

    the problem with is is your hours worked doesn't really show your salary. It becomes a mess from an insurance and overall compensation perspective to institute such a thing. Things that are hard for HR and financial planny typically don't happen. They don't like things that are hard.

  15. Re:They're liberal when it suits them on Silicon Valley Billionaire Fails To Prevent Access To Public Beach (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when do judges create laws? I think your history has a few issues.

  16. I can't wait on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: -1

    For Taylor Swift to sue this guy.

  17. Re:Interesting. on MIT Team's School-Bus Algorithm Could Save $5M and 1M Bus Miles (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not likely for several reasons. The first being they are saving overall miles. While this doesn't exclude the possibility of a longer ride it is not the most likely scenario. Secondly, buses do multiple routes which is why school starts are staggered. If bus rides are longer they wouldn't be able to meet this schedule.

  18. Why do they care? on HBO Hacker Leaks Message From HBO Offering $250,000 'Bounty Payment' (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    HBO is a subscription based service. Do they think people will stop signing up or quit because there is a chance some of their shows may be leaked early? Anything they show is pirated within an hour after first showing. While they certainly should make an effort to try to do better and stop this, I don't think there were a ton of 2am meetings discussing it.

  19. At least with MA/CT, you pay state taxes to the jurisdiction that you work first, not where you live. You then take that money off of whatever you may owe the state you live in. This is actually good for the Wisconsin as other than the roads the only thing an out of state resident worker costs is road upkeep. A drop in the bucket compared to what residents taxes fund. Now you can talk municipalities losing revenues. But really their budgets are based on number of residents and is geared to break even for the most part. Considering most of these workers would be the age to have a family and most of a towns expenditures are for schools this really isn't a big deal having out of state workers either.

  20. Re:140 characters isn't enough ... on A New Way to Tell Your Airline You Hate It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's Iberia. Quit flying by who has the cheapest ticket price. The only real way to change is with your wallet. I listened to a woman complain about United and knowing about their bad reputation as they charged her for having to check an extra baggage at the gate because of the ticket she had. If she knew they were so bad why did she book with them in the first place?

  21. Re:Why Indeed... on Can Elon Musk Be Weaned Off Government Support? (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    One could argue that those subsidies are for products that aren't sold to the rich like a $75k+ car and $20k+ solar power system. Most are perfectly fine with subsidies, subsidies for the rich on the other hand.

  22. This site is so sad now.

  23. We should just give away all the land rights to the public lands and allow him to take any private by eminent domain. The local populace should have no recourse if its something Musk wants.

  24. Re:Yes. on Ask Slashdot: Are Interactive Computing Devices Addictive? · · Score: 1

    Goes to show how little you know of addiction.

  25. Re:It is not floating. on World's First Floating Wind Farm Emerges Off Coast of Scotland (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wow. That's about all there is to say to that.