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  1. Re:"Peak Screen'? 8K HDR? on We've Reached 'Peak Screen'. So What Comes Next? (wral.com) · · Score: 1

    They need to figure out the soap opera effect though. So far, I prefer 60Hz for TV and movies.

  2. Re:Yeah, thanks for your observation on We've Reached 'Peak Screen'. So What Comes Next? (wral.com) · · Score: 2

    Screens are not a replacement for board and card games.

  3. Re:Amazon's cloud s no better on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Our company has one main web server on AWS, and I don't think it's ever gone down due to Amazon's fault. If it were important enough, I could set up a load balancer or hot backups in different AZs or something, but for our needs a backup VM that is turned off is good enough.

  4. So, yes, hilariously, nuclear power is sustainable and renewable.

    How is it renewable? Is there more uranium being created inside the earth? I thought it came from supernovae. http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...

  5. One wonders, then, why the COO was talking to a reporter about an engineering prototype.

  6. If he had a minigun firing at 6,000 rounds per minute, with an effective range of 1,000 meters, I'd say there's a good chance he could kill enough of them that the rest would flee. They would see their compatriots falling to the ground dead for no apparent reason, accompanied by a strange noise. They'd probably think they were being slaughtered by whatever god they believed in. You definitely wouldn't have to kill the entire army.

  7. I'd love to see the return of a professional Apple laptop with user-upgradable SSD and DRAM, a decent keyboard, a MagSafe power connector, and more ports than just USB-C.

    But how are they supposed to make it 3 mm thick if they do that??

  8. In the case of the DIA terminal, the "regular" replacement interval is expected to be over 50 years.

  9. Re:Cheaper Later? on Uber Tests Cheaper Fares For Riders Who Are Willing To Wait Longer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    People don't want to negotiate a rate for a ride and then wonder if they got screwed. People don't want to spend five minutes haggling over the rate for a 10 minute car ride. And then there's the gaming. If I offer $8 and a driver accepts immediately, what's to stop me from cancelling the request and making a new one for $6? Some riders will be screwed by drivers with more knowledge of the market, and some drivers will be screwed by riders willing to game the system.

  10. But those atrocities cannot be adequately explained by stupidity.

  11. Re:Possible problem on Senate Will Try To Reverse ZTE Deal Via a Must-Pass Defense Bill (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    A bill declaring everyone a criminal would also be unconstitutional since there would have been no due process to find people guilty of a crime.

  12. Re:pffft, 150,000 cars per year on China's Ambitions To Power the World's Electric Cars Took a Huge Leap Forward This Week (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    150,000 a year is still around 1% of Toyota's output. It's not nothing, but it's not a game changer either when viewed in the context of the world auto market.

  13. Re:From Someone in the area on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1
    The one thing you didn't post is the rate of voting by homeless people.

    the National Coalition for the Homeless estimated in 2012 that "only one-tenth of unhoused persons actually exercise the right to vote".

    https://www.theguardian.com/us...

  14. Re:Amazon on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Salt Lake City had some success just giving homeless people apartments.

  15. Re:This is lies from Trump on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely if Amazon didn't benefit from being in Seattle, they would have left.

  16. Re: Agile is bullshit on Should Developers Abandon Agile? (ronjeffries.com) · · Score: 1

    Very true!

  17. Re:Agile is bullshit on Should Developers Abandon Agile? (ronjeffries.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of instances where a team can actually split a "monolithic" task into smaller pieces successfully.

    If by monolithic with quotes around it you mean not actually monolithic, sure.

  18. Re: Agile is bullshit on Should Developers Abandon Agile? (ronjeffries.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a good chance your organization is doing them wrong then.

  19. Re:Why don't we have a "DNS" for email? on The One-Name Email, a Silicon Valley Status Symbol, Is Wreaking Havoc (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    DNS resolves which email address belongs to which person?

  20. Re:Why legislation? on French School Students To Be Banned From Using Mobile Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Freedom remain central in France

    Well, unless you want to wear something the government deems inappropriate. https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

  21. Re:16 years on Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    That's pretty unusual though. Most 16 year old cars sell for pennies (or dimes) on the dollar.

  22. Re: First? on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I think competency in being able to defend yourself with firearms, and with unarmed combat is a good idea

    You implied that competency in life includes competency in firearms (otherwise I don't know what you meant by "many things" or why you brought it up), and that's a much stronger claim than "a good idea".

  23. No, actual legally defined libel has no specific protections.

    Maybe not specifically, but service providers generally cannot be held liable for anything someone else writes, including users of their platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  24. Re:Because people aren't rational on 'Carbon Bubble' Could Spark Global Financial Crisis, Study Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Israel does though they won't admit it. I haven't heard of anyone else in the Middle East having nukes.

  25. Mass starvation/war on a scale never before seen.

    Something tells me people are or will be working on other ways to make fertilizer. Failing that, there are other ways to make oil.

    Also according to these sources fertilizer is made not using oil but natural gas:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
    https://grist.org/article/2010...