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  1. Re: We still treat the oceans like "too big to aff on Will Future Nuclear Power Plants Float? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 2

    Just because we have super sensitive detection devices that allows us to detect radiation doesn't mean that radiation is at a harmful level.

  2. Re: California's fault for poor water management! on FCC Criticized For Surrendering Power To Punish Verizon After Firefighters Got Throttled During Wildfire (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    CA's water and forestry management is a clusterfuck of corporate and environmental protections that led directly to the wildfires. The wildfires are absolutely the fault of CA politicians and CA NIMBYs.

  3. Re: Maybe itâ(TM)s the cost? on Popular College Majors Changed Abruptly After the Financial Crisis (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Humanities pays almost as much as science (not computer science). Why would anyone pay $30k/year for any degree? It really only makes sense if you're going into a highly lucrative career such as finance or becoming a doctor or lawyer. Even then, it's tough to argue it needs to be so expensive.

  4. ...majority... meant to say majority...

  5. No, white people don't get to build an apartheid state, oppress the black minority, take all the nation's wealth, then cry "racism!" when new policies are put in place to right the economy and extract wealth from the wealthy. If you think taking money from rich people and giving it to poor people is racist, it can only be because you are a white supremecist who believes the whites deserve the money they stole by right of their skin color.

  6. Re: Crazy talk; we're all a little worried! on In Venezuela, 'Cutting-Edge' Cryptocurrency is Nowhere To Be Found (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And they are definitely doing so.

    https://qz.com/1300832/bitcoin...

  7. Who doesn't do this? If you spend two hours on the train working, you spend 6 at work. It's always been like that, even before email and wifi.

  8. Re: Gather 'round kids, the climate's changing aga on Climate Change Could Lead To Nutrient Deficiency For Hundreds of Millions (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    You think new beaches will destroy the planet?

  9. Not sure if you're racist or just ignorant of what's going on in South Africa...

  10. Re: By The Same Token on Sea Level Rise Already Causing Billions in Home Value To Disappear (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And Russians came from Africa. So what?

  11. Problem for rich people on Sea Level Rise Already Causing Billions in Home Value To Disappear (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Primarily rich people and real estate investors wild be hit, while the middde class homes a bit farther inland will increase in value. Win/win.

  12. If the world got its energy as cheap as the BTC miners must be getting it for, the whole world could run on the budget of CA.

  13. Can't force people to engage in commerce on Sportsbooks Start Refusing More Bets From 'Wise Guys' Trying To Win (espn.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone walks up to me and asks me to make a bet with them, it is my decision to enter into the bet. I can refuse the bet for any reason, up to and including having lost previous bets to this person.

    Why would sports betting be any different?

    If you don't think there's a house advantage, you're a fucking moron, probably an addict, and it's healthy to learn that you will be screwed in this deal.

  14. Re: He wanted to take it private to avoid sharehol on Elon Musk Says Investors Convinced Him Tesla Should Stay Public (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Musk is fine with shareholders. What he has a problem with is short sellers betting against the company.

  15. Re: Old code never dies. Working code at least on IRC Turns 30 (www.oulu.fi) · · Score: 1

    And yet no protocol has been introduced since that actually solves the same problems. XMPP came close, but then died off with everyone's taste for XML.

    It's not that IRC is a super great protocol, it's that it's the only standard we've got. Extend the standard (I don't agree the fundamentals would have to change for Slack). Make a new standard. Use XMPP. Whatever. Just don't introduce another useless proprietary messaging protocol.

  16. SEPA instant transfers (not traditional SEPA) are faster than BTC, but were only introduced last year and are not available in most countries.

    And you can send BTC for much less than 25 cents.

  17. Re: Well Fuck on No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing is there are plenty of studies which try to find problems with cannabis, but when they do, they are problems which are generally associated with smoking. We obviously need better science, but the best science we have does not suggest vaping or eating cannabis is any more harmful than living in a typical polluted American city.

  18. Re: Storage and bandwidth crunch of registering on Google Play Shows Warning To Anyone Searching For Fortnite APKs (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    "Content providers can help an application ... share data with other apps"

    https://developer.android.com/...

  19. Re: Old code never dies. Working code at least on IRC Turns 30 (www.oulu.fi) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It should have been. There's no reason it couldn't have been. It even used to support it with an optional gateway. But no. Slack decided to fill our Intertubes with yet another worthless proprietary clone of IRC.

  20. Re: Storage and bandwidth crunch of registering on Google Play Shows Warning To Anyone Searching For Fortnite APKs (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure Google at least has a mechanism to share data between apps if the developer wants. So when you get the full version, everything is just as it was with the demo.

  21. Re: Caught in the middle with you on Apple Asked Developers To Adopt Subscriptions and Hike App Prices, Report Says (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a moron. Release AppFoo. Sell it. Provide free security updates. Release AppFoo 2 with new features. Sell it. Provide free security updates.

    If you can't figure out how this shit works, then don't be an app developer.

  22. Re: Only in America on Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I grew up in a poor neighborhood around plenty of black children. Still never seen one who's bow legged.

  23. Plenty of people send BTC without fees, and unless there is some kind of unusual event going on, these transactions do get picked up and confirmed. The default software used for mining does not reject transactions without fees. As long as the demand for the network is below capacity, no one has any problem using BTC without fees.

  24. So, you don't actually use BTC or know how it works...

  25. No. It takes seconds for them to trust that it will get sent in the future. This is equivalent to a transaction appearing on the BTC network, which usually takes less than a second. The money doesn't actually get transferred over ACH until later settlement. In BTC, this settlement takes 20-60 minutes. With ACH, it's typically a full day; sometimes more, depending on the relationehips between banks. Try sending an ACH to Malysia and see how long it takes when the banks don't actually trust one another.