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  1. Re:Go fiche on Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    that's the beauty of microfiche, the document is reduced to 1/25th its original size. You could make a "reader" out of tech the Islamic Golden Age had (those guys were smart, things like Snell's law...guess what Snell was late to the party)

  2. Re:Is and Has Been Decentralized on Can We Decentralize the Web? (computing.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    eh? very few ways to connect to the web in most places. and some of those providers will restrict content or delivery rate of content.

  3. yes and the market was so overjoyed with the news that BTC went to the moon...

    except today it plummeted below $7K

  4. Re:Huh? on Tesla On Track To Turn a Profit This Year (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Telsa shill spotted.

    Tesla never has been profitable. There is no reason to suspect they will ever make a profit.

    Short term goal...hah...there is no long term plan or way to profit.

  5. Re:States can get serious on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Party dependent? eh?

    I live in Crook County, IL

    The democrats here do hacking, it's a tradition over a century old, "where the dead vote early, and often"

  6. Re:Order n^2 vs. nlogn on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    But we're saying there would be library of tools. you tell the tool the rule for putting "this thing gets sorted in front of that thing", then call the sort tool.

    Sorting is a solved problem, after all.

  7. No, not all merchants can sell all things. Are you talking about restaurants that can only serve the "american barnyard diet"? As example, the asian restaurants are also buying out of the rear warehouse of asian grocery store, mexican ditto, middle eastern, ditto

  8. no, while (barely) adequate for cryptocurrency blockchain is a lousy solution for most business processes though, a very bottlenecked architecture. superior solutions exist for other business distributed databases and trust mechanisms.

    as far as saying "it can only go up from here", er, no markets never have that guarantee. bitcoin could have its value sabotaged by government actions, for example.

  9. Bitcoin miners pay electric bills, electric companies make money. It's fine. Meanwhile these Islanders are getting handouts

  10. cryptocurrency is one thing, but other business use of blockchain is another. Blockchain architecture is lousy for distributed database systems, that's a long solved problem. Right now various groups are trying to push blockchain as a solution for the wrong types of problems.

  11. Re:let's try that with something else on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    no, the web "full stack" is needlessly complicated...provably so by the security flaws and bad design of the standard components.

  12. they've been skimming the top 40% off of donations for decades, what's with your puny 37 grants?

  13. Re:Google capitulated, but I think it's kind of la on Google Is in China Cloud Talks With Tencent, Others, Report Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    for google to have any consequential initiatives in a police state that censors oppression of minorities and other abuses, it has to join in the evildoing....

  14. Re:That's a lot of dimes on Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    That's absurdly high, March of Dimes grants for research have nothing like that kind of return. Space program has trillions of dollars in benefits, MOD grants not so much.

  15. Re:That's a lot of dimes on Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    and 4 out of 10 times went to line someone's pocket as salary and benefits, not to help anything. Even then most the MOD research grant money is a waste anyway and produces nothing of benefit.

  16. pfft, you are assuming anything useful would have come from this. A cursory review of such grants reveals the answer is no.

    Quit imagining that randomly throwing money at a problem solves anything.

  17. Re:what did you expect on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    sure, no real world country has 0%

    However, there are places with better economies, even higher average income, than the USA with much lower unemployment rate.

    Once you throw free money at unemployed, those people become part of the "illiquidity" of which you are so fearful, the same as employed. You're destroying liquidity.

    Spouting your econ 101 book without understanding or common sense is what you and other person are doing. You learned a little thing and imagine yourself an expert.

  18. Re:what did you expect on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 0

    No, not for victimless crimes.

    There are many competing economic theories.

    No level of unemployment is "demanded" since there are countries with less than 1%. Maybe your professors had some silly higher number in mind?

  19. Not at all,, guns that are adequate and safe at the prices I quoted do exist. The single shot breaking shotguns would be by Rossi or Hatfield, for example

  20. Re:what did you expect on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nope.

    3. Handing those that don't work $17,000 to $24,000 is too much money to be confiscating from those that do work.

    I'm amused at how many slashdotters wish they could be parasites on the rest of us. Grow up, get a job.

  21. Re:States can get serious on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    what part of "some Democrats" has any notion that there would be equal number of D's and R's against a proposal?

    I only made the statement because I live in the land of crooked Democrats.

  22. Impossible to consume more than the Earth has to offer, premise is stupid. Nor will we run out of water or gold, that stuff doesn't disappear.

    Fossil fuels? Sorry, we'll ruin the oceans if we keep this crap up but we have decades of oil and centuries of coal supply.

  23. Re:Huh? on Tesla On Track To Turn a Profit This Year (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    you must be one of those "trolls" the summary talked about, with that dated notion that a company must make more money than it spends or it'll go out of business.

    Pshaw! I say. Hype, hooplah, and happy feelings are the currency now.

  24. It's more complicated than that, yes there is that, there are also grocery stores that make bulk deals with restaurants, bakeries, local distributors and warehouses, etc.

    Money is going into the area.

  25. "market or wholesale merchant"...that's what I meant by "local stores". Those are stores too, but you may also be unaware your local grocery store also makes bulk deals with restaurants... since I have family and friends in that industry on both sides I know.