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  1. You keep using the word "proprietary". I do not think you know what that word means.

  2. Re: Wha?? on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Because they are web apps.

  3. Re: Wha?? on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    And yet you can't use any of that shit unless there's an API built for websites to use. Only stuff you can do on a website. If you want to use native GUI features, like, you know, the Mac app drawers, you're shit out of luck.

  4. Re: AGW Denier trolls are out in force on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about predictive models? I can't tell from what you posted.

    The consensus on the mid-holocene vs now isn't strong, but it generally favors comparable temps.

    Predictive computer models are suspect when the predictions are outside the range of measured values. Too many variables, feedback loops (negative and positive), etc. to put much stock in. In the 70s, we thought we were gonna have another ice age. The timelines for which we have data are miniscule.

    When you go back in time, the data is much more likely to be missing short-term highly variable output. It's mightily difficult to distinguish signal from noise. So, when you start talking about alarmist models (those that predict climate outside that found in human history), you're arguing on faith in a computer to model climate events which have never occurred.

  5. I'm sorry all of your coworkers wish you were dead. Maybe you should work on that.

  6. Re: The Post Office Should Do the Same on Amazon Wants To Curb Selling 'CRaP' Items it Can't Profit On, Like Bottled Water and Snacks: Report (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon is profitable for the USPS. Only a moron would think otherwise. It's actually against the law to lose a profit on USPS parcels.

  7. It's insane to use Amazon logistics to deliver beverages. That shit is all shipping costs, and Amazon will never compete with large scale grocery deliveries.

  8. We should have been building nuke plants this whole time, but environmentalists are more concerned with purity tests than practical solutions.

  9. Re: Who would do this? on In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds like fraud. While salary is not based on hours, the compensation assumes an effort is being made.

  10. Re: ANYONE on In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So just say, "I quit". No need to passively aggressively disappear, leading people on a social media chase to see if you're just dealing with a family emergency, or got hit by a car or whatever.

  11. That's like including Euros when determining the inflation of the dollar.

  12. Re: The customer is not always right... on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they buy the clothing at $1 per unit direct from China, and sell for $20 a unit, making a profit even if they give half away. Never underestimate the ability to get customers to pay extra for a "good deal".

  13. Re: "through" Amazon, not "from" Amazon on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon is a shipping and logistics company, not a retailer. Amazon is more akin to asking your postal carrier to go pick something up at the store than it is like going Wal-Mart or even shopping on walmart.com.

  14. For the same reason that "look out" means "duck".

  15. If I look at a car and sit in it, the dealer isn't going to have to sell that car as "used". Taking something out of a box does not make it "used". Many things don't even have boxes.

  16. Re: Yes, sometimes you get this form Amazon on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What about when people open boxes in stores to take a look? Is that now a "used" product?

  17. Re: Yes, sometimes you get this form Amazon on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. Amazon's operation is massive, and relies on human reporting.

  18. Re: The full circle of the Food chain on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If I expect the product to arrive at my door, then I damn well expect a return to be picked up from my door. That's basic logistics.

  19. Entitled cunts on Hiding in Plain Sight: The YouTubers' Crowdfunding Piracy (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How much harder is it to select a higher encoding bitrate or quality?

  20. Re: AGW Denier trolls are out in force on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not anti-science to disregard alarmists. The reality is the global temps during the mid-holocene were about the same or higher as they are now. The mid-holocene is when mankind discovered civilization and writing, so returning to that era of temps just doesn't concern many of us.

  21. Mining is the equivalent of pushing around pre-existing currency. No new currency is created. It is simply claimed. And there is a limit even to that. Something like 80% of all BTC that will ever exist has been claimed. The currency was all created and locked up in the initial algorithms. Since some coins are lost over time, this makes BTC and similar de facto deflationary currencies. No semantic nonsense will change that.

  22. Re: I thought Obama fixed climate change though on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Carbon emissions for Americans were dropping during Obama's term. As oil shale was booming. Hmmm...

  23. Re: I will save the world and YOU will pay for it! on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The ones who really vote - Congressmen and Senators - would never support such a thing.

  24. Re: Responsible coastal development on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No waterfront property is below average price, so that's effectively the same.

  25. Most cryptocurrencies are deflationary, not inflationary.