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  1. Re: Facebook/Google or...MS? on Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Google - without my input - keeps track of where I park, learns where and when I work, manages incoming communication to work with my schedule, gives me driving directions based on how I drive, and otherwise makes very effective use of the data I share with them.

    MS provides me nothing.

  2. Re: Too much whining on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    System 76 makes some models with very nice matte screens.

  3. Re: Should be A4 portrait on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You realize a screen isn't a static place to print text, right? You can have multiple windows open at once? A4 is almost never the right viewing size on a screen, because the right viewing size depends on the content, other things you are viewing, your workflow, etc. My terminal windows are never going to be A4; they would be unusable. Webpage references are never going to be usable at A4, because I'm using them with other windows open, with parts of the window I don't need right now (e.g. file manager sidebar) occluded by the useful material from other windows.

    If you think everything should be A4, my guess is you are on Windows or you have no idea how to use your window manager to use multiple apps at once.

  4. The ratio is fine, the GUI design is crap on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I put my app bar on the left, and I don't run every window full screen. For this, the ratio is fine. I see no reason for a laptop to go over 16:9 however. The HD ratio is a practical standard to settle on. Mobile devices arguably should extend that to account for their notches, and I imagine that's what we're mostly seeing there.

  5. Re: Why do you right wing nutjobs hate the Earth? on White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, we'll just spin up a test planet in a lab and do experiments on that. Simple. Science isn't religion. Once you learn that science includes more than just faith and doctrine, you'll understand why your statement is one of scientific illiteracy.

  6. Re: Seize the means of production on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be the mainstream left, in contrast to the center left you see throughout much of the world. The far left is groups like antifa.

  7. Re: Why? on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    CA's debt is rising, but it's rising slower than that of the federal government or Europe.

  8. Re: Why? on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe if CA wasn't paying to keep FL and AL afloat, they would be in less debt. The truth is people leave CA because CA is so successful in generating money, basic services and especially housing are more expensive. People leave not because they want to but because they aren't successful enough to cut it in a productive state.

  9. Re: 2 trillion is a lowball estimate on Could We Fund a Universal Basic Income with Universal Basic Assets? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't be that hard. The stock market is worth $30 trillion and that's just publically traded stock.

  10. Re: Depends on Could We Fund a Universal Basic Income with Universal Basic Assets? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you can't afford UBI, then your society can't afford to exist, because it does not generate enough productivity to keep your citizens alive. If you think the US can't afford UBI, you are too far gone to learn how economics and math work.

  11. Re: They lose my business on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no processing fee for paying "all debts public and private" with "legal tender". This isn't business, this is monetary policy. Businesses don't just get to make up their own monetary policies.

  12. Re: They lose my business on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you can say "No sales tax" without bumping up against laws about clear pricing. You have to say something like "We pay the sales tax". Because sales tax is still getting paid, the cost basis for that tax would be a lie if it were presented as "no sales tax".

  13. Re: They lose my business on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Except you are completely wrong and ignorant about the law. The law says you must accept cash if someone owes you. If you do not accept cash, then that person does not owe you anything but a pile of cash. If you refuse to take the cash, you are refusing payment for your services. None of this applies to credit. No one is forcing you to accept credit for payment.

  14. The real question on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do affluent millennials prefer cash at restaurants? Are affluent millennials too poor to rotate tabs? Are they too luddite to pay each other with Square? I'm really confused by this fact. I don't use cash for anything legal.

  15. Re: Lower prices right? on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You sound like someone who lives in rural America.

  16. Re: Receipts on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd pretty much go to one of these restaurants every day if any of them were dumb enough to open in my neighborhood.

  17. Re: step one on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Make My Own Vaporware Real? · · Score: 1

    Neither C nor C++ has a context free grammar. Perhaps those aren't "modern" enough, but they are at least important enough to think about emulating in some cases. Python does not have a context free grammar either, but I think it's still parseable with bison.

    Natural language programming is another area that gets into (infinitely) more complicated language parsing designs.

  18. Re: It's an interesting fact, but... on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon could not operate on their current margins if their workforce can't afford to take the job and eat. Any subsidy on an Amazon employee is a subsidy on Amazon's labor costs.

    Think of it this way. If we had UBI, some people would do warehouse jobs for $1/hr. to make some extra cash. Amazon benefits from that cheap labor.

  19. Re: Why? on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Because red states can't compete with blue states. They haven't been able to for a generation. The red states are in a downward spiral race to the bottom to stay afloat. Their pro-business, rising tides policies are coming to bite them in the ass. Now, the welfare queens running the red states have to prostitute themselves on the (Wall) Street, sucking Amazon's giant dick for a bit of promised tax revenue.

  20. Re: FREEDOM to BE RWNJ on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Israel: land of security and freedom.

  21. Re: Isn't surprising on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike Amazon, Wal Mart's staff isn't all warehouse workers though. Wal Mart has plenty of other really low paying jobs.

  22. Re: Isn't surprising on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Those with the power are supplying that power to their employees by paying them while demanding their labor. The workers are demanding the power while supplying the labor. Still supply and demand.

  23. Re: Isn't surprising on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Poor people tie their lives and economic well-being to the non-liquid debilitating asset of home (equity) ownership. Home ownership is poisonous to local economies whose population can't mobilize to react to a changing world. Everyone's stuck in a downward spiral of falling house prices, with no financial stability to take the hit and get the fuck out of dodge, which continues its downward spiral of poverty until Amazon comes in and rents those poor "homeowners" for pennies on the dollar.

    Red state race to the bottom.

  24. Re: Isn't surprising on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 0

    As a high school graduate with a six figure salary, I have zero sympathy for people who thought they could just buy their way into success with a college degree. Maybe learn useful skills and do hard work, rather than continuing to coast through life after high school, wasting your time of useless degrees just because you think you will come out the other end as a master of the universe.

  25. Re: Seize the means of production on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    We found the socialist!