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  1. I CC the boss when I want their attention on CC'ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted, Study Finds (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    because you're either blowing me off or screwing me over. If you see my Boss on an email chain then congratulations, you done fucked up son, and I'm comin' for ya.

  2. He shoulda posted on a UID. The above deserves to be noted.

  3. You bring up a good point with the Bed Bugs on Airbnb Fires Back, Accuses Hotel Industry Of Punishing the Middle-Class (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    do I really want a traveler in my house? It's not hard to cart those things around... Air BnB, like Uber, seems like another example of way too much risk being foisted on the user. Far more than they realize.

  4. With few exceptions on States Are Moving To Cut College Costs By Introducing Open-Source Textbooks (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    These are very well understood fields. It's trivial to right text books for them. Don't waste time trying to fix a broken system. You'll get mired down in lawsuits. Nothing will get done. Nothing will change. We tolerated the corrupt textbook market because most students didn't pay for them. They got grants to do that. We cut all that funding and now they have to pay (My Kid's books are around $1000 a year for a bloody undergrad). Now we're on the hook. Kill the old system. Letting textbook companies skim was fine when it was just one more form of American Socialism to spread wealth around. That time is done. Kill the textbook companies. Kill them with fire.

  5. right up until "Deep Cover". Nobody in Deep Cover would be this obvious about it. My 4 year old could hide stolen cookies better than Trump hides his Russian ties.

  6. You see bureaucracy on Wikipedia's 'Ban' of 'The Daily Mail' Didn't Really Happen (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I see rules that keep it from turning into a useless cess pool.

  7. when he bombed Syria & Afghanistan. "Look the other way everyone" was the answer. Now stop asking questions. We've always been at war with Eurasia.

  8. Nintendo isn't dumb enough to care on Nintendo To Launch SNES Mini This Year, Reports Eurogamer (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    About the hacking. The hack was a pain to do (relatively) and wasn't much less than work building a retro Pi. They cancelled the NES classic because it served its purpose, which was to keep the brand alive in between the dying Wii U and the Switch launch. And that's why we're not getting a SNES classic

  9. Oh sorry, that was me on Physicists Detect Whiff of New Particle At the Large Hadron Collider (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I had a quantum burrito for lunch. The worst thing was that as soon as I opened the wrapper the wave form collapsed and it got all over my cloths.

  10. They can just hire them back on Boeing To Lay Off Hundreds of Engineers Amid Sales Slowdown (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    after they get their bump. It'll cost more because they'll pay hiring bonuses but that's about it.

    The problem is our entire economy is being run by a well connected good 'ole boys network with very actual smarts. Things would go a lot smoother if we acknowledged our ruling class and took steps to reign them in but as things stand we just pretend they don't exist.

  11. It's for a stock bump on Boeing To Lay Off Hundreds of Engineers Amid Sales Slowdown (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    They took a hit when Trump announced "Cancel Order!" to their Air Force one bid. Our entire economy is built around short term stock bumps because most CEO pay is in bonuses and stock options (so that they don't have to pay income tax on it).

  12. he caused it. The rest of the world is cancelling orders because they're nervous about doing business with us while we've got such an unstable leader.

  13. because I just don't have the time to deal with the crashes. I keep hearing bad things about AMD's stability, especially on very new and very old games. If you're just playing the big titles (Overwatch, DOTA, WOW, Call of Duty) it's not so bad. But even GTAV was pretty buggered up at launch.

    I can't complain too much about gouging either. I got a Gigabyte 6gb 1060 for $215 shipped using deals from Jet.com. Those aren't even that common. That's not bad for a card that runs everything at 60+ FPS /1080p.

    That said I miss my 1650x's super nice image quality. And I don't like nVidia's habbit of sabotaging competitors ( tessellation anyone?)

  14. I'm calling it now on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    He's switched sides on tons of other key issues (Syria anyone?). CNBC is saying he's gonna switch ("might" in journalist speak pretty much means "will", they're kinda like scientists in that regard).

    So far everything he's done has been to enrich himself and his immediate family. He'll throw in for TPP and use the same tired excuse that failing to do so give China an edge (and maybe say he'll negotiate a better deal to boot). Yeah, TPP is bad for the American worker but it's _great_ for the American Economy. And that's what Trump (and the corporate Dems who pushed it) care about. After all, it'll trickle down, right?

  15. Robots don't unionize on Chinese Warehouse Cut Labor Costs In Half With a Fleet of Tiny Robots (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    and the Chinese are threatening to. Brutal violence has kept the Unions in check so far, but why bother with that when you can just automate. Plus you don't have those pesky liberal Americans and Europeans complaining about the poor working conditions. You just consign everybody to abject poverty and starvation. Nobody every complains about the working conditions in Africa ya know...

  16. stop kidding yourself. The ruling class will build robots (e.g. Drones) and wipe them out. Hell, look at the peasants in the middle ages. They had it pretty rough and suffered frequent famines and sucked it all down. Why? Because a hundred underfed pesants was no match for 10 well fed and trained knights. Now I'll remind you the "knights" of today have kevlar instead of platemail and laser guided rockets instead of lances.

    If you're going to do anything about rampant wealth inequality now's the time. Don't just keep telling yourself it's a problem that'll take care of itself. Christ, haven't you heard of the Dark Ages? They called it that for a reason. It lasted about 1000 years.

  17. No, the Government did on New York Plans To Force Uber To Add Tipping Option (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    because they built the roads, schools and infrastructure that made it possible. They built the civilization we all enjoy. Private companies didn't build the Internet. They didn't even build the motherfucking rail roads. And they sure as hell didn't build the satellites & ocean wires that make a global telecom network possible.

    For anything more important than a Twinkie if you look closely (hell, not even _that_ closely) you'll find it required an intelligent, organized response and you'll find that response came from a government. Leave people to their own devices and you get a thousand years dark ages. That's not supposition. That's historic fact. Now that said: That cold, hard fact makes people damned, damned uncomfortable. Not sure why. This country was on this.. But I guess nobody likes admitting they're not John Galt.

  18. Blacklisted? on Trump Administration Kills Open.Gov, Will Not Release White House Visitor Logs (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    what world do you live in? Blacklisted from _where_ exactly? I see Trump getting buddy buddy with the Goldman-Sachs types he swore up and down he would drain the swamp of. If that's Blacklisting then sign me the f' up.

    What you're doing is a classic right wing technique: divert attention with a straw man argument. The question I have is: Do you know you're doing it or are you just repeating something you picked up online or from talk radio? If the former, stop it. Best case scenario you're lowering the quality of discourse the world over and worst case you're throwing your country under a bus. If the latter I'd suggest broadening your horizons towards the left. Start with Bernie Sanders & Beth Warren.

  19. Jokes and meme's aside, nobody cares. Trump may full well screw all those swing state voters over, but his opponent didn't make any promises whatsoever (well, there was that time she promised to cost them all their jobs). There's a group of Dems going around called "Justice Democrats" trying to separate themselves from "Corporate Democrats" and line up with Bernie Sanders. I wish them the best. Otherwise we're gonna have 8 years of Trump because like the man said: "What have you got to lose?". If you're a coal miner in Ohio the answer is probably: nothing.

  20. Not hard at all on Samsung Blocks Ability To Remap Galaxy S8's Bixby Button (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    if you can find a ROM that supports the S8's radio. WiFi, hardware accelerated graphics, GPS, etc, etc. Difficultly: The S8 Just launched.

    Phones aren't like windows PCs. You can't just go to Samsung's website and pull drivers down. For a flagship like the S8 you probably will be able to find a ROM before long though. Try that with a cheaper phone like an LG D415 or Blu R1 HD...

  21. Instead of tips on New York Plans To Force Uber To Add Tipping Option (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    how about cracking down on illegal miss-classification of hourly workers? Enforce your minimum wage laws while you're at it.

  22. Whenever I hear that phrase on New York Plans To Force Uber To Add Tipping Option (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    it sends a chill down my spine. Not because I'm afraid of the government (the government paid for the cancer treatment & research that kept a close family member alive) but because everytime I've heard it it's been followed by tax cuts for the rich and screwing the poor. If you hear that phrase run, don't walk, to the voting booth and throw whichever bastard politician used it out of office. They just tipped you off on whose side they're really fighting for...

  23. You're not far off from it on How the Six-Hour Workday Actually Saves Money (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    look at celebrities and the very rich. Hell, look at our president, who's 70 and ran a presidential campaign. Human beings weren't meant to toil endlessly. We spent thousands of years in short bursts of activity followed by hours down. It's not surprising that modern living with it's 8-12 hour days kills us.

  24. Re:Obama was an exception, not Trump on Trump Administration Kills Open.Gov, Will Not Release White House Visitor Logs (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Obama was exceptional

    FTFY.

  25. A good chunk is on Uber Face Fines Over Drunk Driving Complaints -- And Lost $2.8 Billion Last Year (usnews.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and a good chunk is research and patents. What you're seeing here is basic research being done. The investors used to be able to get the gov't to do it for them for free but they traded that for tax cuts. Given we've gone from 90% top tax brackets to effectively 0 (thanks to Dutch Sandwiches and such) I'd say it was a good deal.