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  1. Re: Has potential but... on Google Glass is Still Around (nymag.com) · · Score: 2

    Recording audio is often prohibited, depending on your state. Video is generally acceptable. Audio is considered private because you can lean in and whisper, while video is considered public (in a public place) because you can see someone from across the room.

  2. Re: Easy way to avoid on The Mystery Tracks Being 'Forced' on Spotify Users (musicbusinessworldwide.com) · · Score: 1

    NA-pop, Euro-pop, J-pop, K-pop...

    Maybe the problem is your preference for pop music. There are lots more options out there...

  3. Re: Trump owns it on Shutdown Hits Industries Nationwide (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You could absolutely keep your doctor under the ACA. But there are two parties in a free market.

  4. Re: Trump owns it on Shutdown Hits Industries Nationwide (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump seems to think it's worth it.

  5. When you are working with heavily dynamic and abstracted code, you will waste a LOT of time reading code that never runs. The code is not representative of what's going on if the previous coders did not know how to write good code.

    Stuff like:

    fn(str s) {`do${s}`(true)}

    If you know what that function does or where you should be looking next in the code without a debugger, it's only because you wrote the crap code in the first place.

  6. No, it's even worse. Rather than introduce a terminator gene, they let the seeds spread to neighboring fields so they can sue any farmer who doesn't get with the program.

    Terminator genes would be a blessing.

  7. Just because something is in the public domain doesn't mean anyone has to spend the time and money to digitally transfer the content and make it available for free online.

  8. Re: California expensive as total or percent on SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas · · Score: 1

    Actually, yes, it is the type of thing people share when you have a good relationship with them.

  9. Re: No keyboard next on 'I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse For a Week and It Was Amazing' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows or GTK, primarily. You get basic navigation with that feature on Mac (as opposed to practically none), but there are still plenty of places where you can't swith context between one part of an app and another. I know this because I have had issues connecting my Bluetooth mouse to my Mac Mini and there are various things that force me to plug in a USB mouse to get the Mini setup. I've almost never experienced a UI on Windows or GTK I couldn't get around with a keyboard. But it happens with core Mac software included in the OS.

  10. Re: No keyboard next on 'I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse For a Week and It Was Amazing' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The mouse is for pointing at things. Not for issuing commands. For UI, its primary role is selecting from a number of arbitrary items. Keyboard is more efficient for most anything else.

    If you use a Mac, you probably are right; keyboard accessibility on Macs is atrocious.

  11. There were. Congress has slowly - through precedent - eroded its own powers of oversight.

  12. Re: Deja Vu on College Students Are Rushing in Record Numbers To Study Computer Science (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you have a decade of experience, it usually only takes about 24 hours to learn a new language well enough to get shit done in it.

  13. Re: This is exciting news on We May Finally Know What Causes Alzheimer's -- and How To Stop It (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Another person who doesn't understand tax schedules or the difference between deductions and credits.

  14. Re: California is much more expensive on average on SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas · · Score: 1

    Everyone I know in Michigan where I grew up pays a higher percent of their income for housing than anyone I know in California where I live now. The salaries more than make up for it.

  15. Re: California is too expensive for a billionaire on SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas · · Score: 1

    It's not a failure to get rid of the useless workers. CA is expensive because everyone makes so much money here. Those who can't cut it move to Texas. Welcome to competition. You just can't compete well enough to live where everyone wants to live.

  16. Re: Nobody knows anything on Is California's PG&E The First Climate Change Bankruptcy? (marketscreener.com) · · Score: 1

    "Most of the problems with both are ethics and being used to push an agenda, often for political or religious reasons."

    Exactly.

  17. Re: Trump owns it on Shutdown Hits Industries Nationwide (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    You can't possibly expect Democrats to accept any "deal" in which American money is spent on a border wall. Trump should be held to his promises, and he promised Mexico would pay.

  18. Re: Nobody knows anything on Is California's PG&E The First Climate Change Bankruptcy? (marketscreener.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's not like the real science that gave us phrenology and eugenics. Those were on much stronger scientific footing.

  19. Re: It is a fucking cIt is not an alien spacecome on Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua (newyorker.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Only those three, huh? Prove it scientifically.

  20. Freedom of speech and association on Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Laws To Tackle 'Shadow Economy' of Data Firms (time.com) · · Score: 1

    If you tell me a thing, I can share that thing. If I know a thing, I can sell that knowledge. These concepts have been enshrined into the United States law. You need a clear and pressing reason to restrict the right to free speech.

    If you don't want your info shared, don't give it out.

  21. Re: Come to California on Too Many Workers Are Trapped By Non-Competes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol! Non-competes are the reason CA's economy is the sixth largest in the world. Wtf are you smoking? It's the single biggest reason for Silicon Valley.

  22. Re: Single responsibility priniciple on USB Type-C Headphones Were Nowhere in Sight at CES 2019 (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

  23. Re: Simple solution on Too Many Workers Are Trapped By Non-Competes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what I meant when I said "non-compete law". There would be no law to skirt if non-competes weren't banned.

  24. Re: Not about training, but often about customers on Too Many Workers Are Trapped By Non-Competes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    We value our customers and our service techs. But no one is trying to poach them. No one has ever poached a service tech at any company I've worked at. No one cares about service techs as much as you.

  25. Re: Oldest trick in the book on WeWork's CEO Makes Millions as Landlord To WeWork (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Regardless of the qualities of your business proposal, if it requires large up front capital expenditures, it's going to be a startup. Apple was a startup.