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  1. Re:Classes? on Cryptocurrency Classes Are Coming To Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    not just a as an investment but also a currency. currencies must be stable to be useful.

  2. Jump on every trendy thing! on Cryptocurrency Classes Are Coming To Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Once again academia just on a fashionable trend. Why not merge CS with the design and style departments of a university? Trendy, so modern, so *you*! Until the next sexy teen comes along. After crypto-currencies die the people who jumped on the band wagon will wish they had real skills (not "skillz").

  3. Re: Classes? on Cryptocurrency Classes Are Coming To Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Stock et. al. are to be bought for dividends and interest. Otherwise it is sheer speculation. The difference is that dividends et. al. are tied to reality specifically company sales and the credit worthiness of an organization which is tied to revenue. Crypto-currency does none of this. It is sheer speculation.

  4. Re:The lone ranger on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Every scientist I ever met was part of a team, go see how many papers have co-authors.

    Then add in contributions by grad students and you get a large number of people contributing to the research.

  5. Re:When building a forest you start with sugar pal on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Very much the start up model.

  6. Re: AI on Ask Slashdot: What Is Missing In Tech Today? · · Score: 1

    In the US, you still have to, at least for now, directly or indirectly pay Social Security. If you hire direct as employees, you have to pay the employers share. If you hire a 1099 or through an agency then t is priced in. BTW, it is more efficient to hire a 1099. You don't have to pay the pimps so the rates are better and the 1099 gets to keep more of the cash.

  7. I was talking banks and brokerages. They do not have customers, they have marks. It makes more sense to keep your money under a mattress these days than in a bank

  8. Heresy! We must burn fluffernutter!

  9. Don't need no stinking' documentation. We're Agile.

  10. Their definition of "Innovation" is ripping more people off faster with financial shell games. Anything that impedes the "financial services" sector from "innovating" is a good idea.

  11. Re:No shit Sherlock on Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Prefers Clusters of Small Engines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes. Redundancy is always good.

    Yes. Redundancy is always good.

    Yes. Redundancy is always good.

    Yes. Redundancy is always good.

    (Let's see how much levels Slashdot can take before crashing :^))

    Yes. Redundancy is always good.

    (Let's see how much levels Slashdot can take before crashing :^))

    Yes. Redundancy is always good. (Let's see how much levels Slashdot can take before crashing :^))

    Yes. Redundancy is always good. (Let's see how many levels Slashdot can take before crashing :^))

    Yes. Redundancy is always good. (Let's see how many levels Slashdot can take before crashing :^))

  12. Re:No shit Sherlock on Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Prefers Clusters of Small Engines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "KORD's rushed schedule also left it with poor debugging and too few safety checks."

    Just like modern Agile CI/CD projects.

  13. Re:He also wrote a lot of songs for the Grateful D on EFF Founder John Perry Barlow Has Died At Age 70 (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    He also sued the hell out of the oil and gas companies in Wyoming. They were ripping through fences, bulldozing roads through pastures etc. So he sued them. They laughed. Little did they realize they were up against a multi-millionaire who had made beau coup bucks as a rock star. The companies lost.

  14. Do you want the whole world to know your spending habits? Who you associate with? Etc. If you use Uber/Lyft etc. and the surveillance state will love you.

    Scenario: you stop off at a restaurant to pick up some take out. 15 minutes after you leave a bomb goes off. Of course if you did nothing wrong you have nothing wrong to worry about. Right?

  15. Or bettter yet, used to track marketing data. Then sold. How many people would you like to know you like strip clubs, retail MJ, or take a lot of trips to the liquor store? It could have job and insurance implication.

  16. I've done a fair amount of field work. GPS has always failed my when I needed it the most. Either non-existent routes, or unable to calibrate due too poor hits from satellites. Any place where the signal is blocked. This is why I always have a map back up and when in the field a compass as well.

  17. "A human navigator can't see ahead for optimizing against current traffic patterns as can GPS"

    Really now? Anyone I have ever met knows things like, "If I don't leave in 15 minutes the 340 is going to be crowded, but I could take the 225. The 225 is longer but would end up being faster". And " since it is the holidays and there is a game that lets out soon, I'll take the 720, use high street, go through Clear Water subdivision, get on the 225 and miss the surge".

    If a person is familiar with an ares, human usually wins.

  18. This is a good thing. on US Startups Don't Want To Go Public Anymore (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no real advantage to IPOs any more. All it means is you lose control of your company. Once you go public all your decisions revolve around making wall street happy. Not your vision. You can be closely held and private like Dell (which rebounded after going private) or find larger investors. You can even sell shares and bonds to employees, vendors, customers the general public etc. off of your web site if you present the standard disclaimers. I've even bought a few shares like this.

    As long as it is not publicly traded the rules are much more flexible.

  19. Re:The summary is really contradictory. on Why Windows Vista Ended Up Being a Mess (usejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the collaboration model that is often the problem with Linux et. al. Thousands of libraries or drivers with tens of thousands of developers many repeating same libraries or applications over and over again introducing interesting and sometimes clever bugs, misfeatures, and incompatibilities. Linux et. al. shows that sort of loosely coupled organizational architecture. I'm not saying Linus et. al. sucks. I am saying Windows and Linux both suck, but both suck in interesting and sometimes imaginative ways.

    Linux et. al. should be more cohesive with better couple, while Windows should loosen up and decouple a bit and become more modular. Maybe they can meet in the middle and we could have WinLux.

  20. Re:Here's your problem: on What Are Today's Most Difficult IT Hires? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Data "Science" looks like nothing but dressed up Statistics to me. Hire a Statistician, the tech isn't too hard. The tech was built for monkeys.

  21. None of the S.O.B.s on Ask Slashdot: Which Tech Company Do You Respect Most? · · Score: 1

    If you sold real estate like you sold tech, you would go to prison. If you sold used cars like you sold tech, you would go to prison.

    If a daughter came to me wanting to pursue a career in tech, I would try to talk her into a rewarding and ethical career in prostitution. (Hey... maybe that explains why fewer woman are in tech...)

  22. Re:If I lived in West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Including the offenders there are 7 pharmacies in town. Your est. looks better than mine (8) but neither of us of had any numbers on the other 5 pharmacies.

  23. Re:If I lived in West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    the 8 per day was only for 2 pharmacies, not counting the other 5. What probably happened was someone notices those 2 pharmacies were filling way more Rx per person than the other ones in the area, which includes a Wal-Mart.

  24. Many people will probably not be perscribed (prenant women, children, anyone with a CDL etc.) the overall Rx rate being 1/3 and I worked it out to 8 per day. Now factor in I counted 7 pharmacies in the town.

    Not good.

  25. Re:Two pills a day, per person. on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Most states allow Rx to cross borders. If someone comes in and says "I live just across the border and you are the closest and/or the only one my insurance will pay for" then not too many questions would be asked.