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  1. Re:Limited production on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If you're worried about the food supply, then the solution is simple: stop eating beef. Will you plant crops that you will use to eat, or to feed cows?

  2. Re:The more you tighten your grasp... on YouTube Toughens Advert Payment Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Who's going to fund a rival to Youtube when it doesn't make any money and only brings bad press?

  3. Re:So this is because... on YouTube Toughens Advert Payment Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The article doesn't say it's a consequence, it just says 'follows', which is a journalistic weasel word meaning nothing. It doesn't matter what the article said, it's just a story written by the BBC. Unless Youtube actually say that this change is directly because of Logan Paul then it's all speculation.

  4. Re:So this is because... on YouTube Toughens Advert Payment Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing to do with that. Youtube doesn't have enough ad revenue to pay everyone so they're having to be pickier about who gets it. A fuss over nothing.

  5. Re:Poor Programming on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The client does these calculations when it works out whether to show the other players on screen, no fundamental reason why the server can't do the same thing in parallel.

  6. But why, if they still have to pay some tax. Surely it would make even more sense to spend that money abroad and pay no tax.

  7. Re:Warren is right and wrong.... on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, so being unusable as a currency is a feature not a bug of this currency?

  8. Re:Yes. Yes it is. on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing about this plan is that it's in Finland, not America. They don't have to give a fuck what American nut-job libertarian/republicans think about it. As an independent country not answerable to the Trumpets, they're free to run this experiment on their own terms and decide on whether to roll it out or not.

  9. Re:No, No its not.. on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you expecting anyone to take seriously a diatribe which unironically uses 'Big Government' in the first sentence?

  10. Re:Yes. Yes it is. on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Most European countries are not living up to their defense obligations, relying upon the US to backstop them.

    Maybe they've worked out that if you don't go round bombing everywhere, the world doesn't have you and you don't need to spend hundreds of billion on defence?

    If Sweden and Germany Became US States, They Would be Among the Poorest States

    I'm sure that a German, driving his Audi to work at 120mph on the Autobahn for his 35 hour a week job at a world-leading engineering company, before returning to his well appointed, modern apartment with strong tenancy protection, bemoans his existence, and wishes he was in Alabama driving a rusty pickup truck along pothole-ridden roads to his government makework job at a military contractor, working 60 hours a week with no overtime and no vacation, before going home to his trailer, or his dilapidated shack that turns into matches every hurricane season.

    In 30 years it is possible that Europe will be almost unrecognizable, including the country you live in.

    America is already unrecognisable. In thirty years it will look more like Mexico than 1950s America.

  11. Re:smart money on Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know what everyone's complaining about, America was built in government support for business. States are regularly played against each other to attract businesses via subsidy, it's a not a new phenomenon, it's why America is so successful. Europe has laws against 'state aid', member states are not allowed to attract businesses like this, which is why Europe's economy isn't as successful.

  12. Re:About time. on Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What use is the warranty if they go out of business?

  13. Re:About time. on Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla claim lots of things. Bear in mind that they struggle to make cars that don't leak water, and a recent update to the AI made the windscreen wipers spray water into your door, and that Telsa cars are famous for spending so much time in the shop, would you trust them with a roof over your home?

  14. Re:Doesn't terrify anyone on Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Fast food outlets don't have the luxury of locating where they like, they have to be where the customers are.

  15. The problem is, can touch screens buy burgers?

  16. Re:Their website... their rules on Yelp Accused Of Hiding Positive Reviews For Non-Advertiser (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Publishing disproportionately negative reviews if you don't pay them is definitely extortion and possibly also defamation.

  17. Re:Do not blame the shuttles on Google Loses Up to 250 Bikes a Week (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe then these oh-so-clever tech companies should think twice about locating themselves in sprawling suburbs with awful infrastructure.

  18. Re:Yes really on Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Pickup Truck Coming 'After Model Y' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Design and manufacture are part of the same process. Maybe the designers should be paying attention to the manufacturing so they can make the future vehicles easier to make.

  19. Re:Not really on Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Pickup Truck Coming 'After Model Y' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Those are not electric cars though, so why even make that comparison?

  20. Re: Not really on Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Pickup Truck Coming 'After Model Y' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Let's see: Announce Model 3, take money for Model 3, lose lots of money, don't deliver the Model 3s, announce semi and Roadster, take money for them, lose even more money, still don't deliver anything, announce Model Y and pickup.

    Until Tesla prove they are capable of actually delivering on their promises, consider ordering their product like buying a lottery ticket. Remember that when they go bust, the depositors won't be the highest priority creditors. They've been going for 14 years, still don't know how to manufacture, and still can't make cars professionally: the Model X is officially the least reliable car of the year.

    What other car company's shareholders would tolerate a part time CEO with no experience in the industry, who refuses to hire anyone who does have experience, and continually loses top talent?

  21. Re:Not all conspiracies are created equal on People Who Know How the News Is Made Resist Conspiratorial Thinking (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    What's the weather like on Planet Trump?

  22. Re:Law & courts are funny on Italian Clothing Company Defeats Apple, Wins the Right To Use Steve Jobs' Name (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they heard bacon-faced Americans chanting 'American First!' and flipping the bird to the world, and decided that some 'Europe first' policies in return might be in order in retaliation.

  23. A solution looking for a problem on Airlines Restrict 'Smart Luggage' Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    This is what happens when your economy has run out of useful things to make but your economic model requires constant growth: fucking smart luggage.

  24. Re:First In Pork on Boeing CEO Says Boeing Will Beat SpaceX To Mars (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Is SLS even powerful enough for manned Mars missions? It doesn't have any landing vehicles or any way of getting back to Earth.

  25. Re:Meh. M. E. H. Meh. on Boeing CEO Says Boeing Will Beat SpaceX To Mars (space.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see why it's surprising, Musk is building a rocket to go to Mars, NASA isn't.