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  1. or WannaCry wouldn't have happened, even on non-updated machines

    That's a good point. A known vulnerability is surely one of the easiest heuristics to catch.

  2. Maybe. I'm not sure. You have to realize most of the readership in a political campaign have short attention spans and existing bias. What you describe works for people who are looking to educate themselves; for people who need their emotional basis or their beliefs changed, you need something different.

    If you want to make an emotional impact, start with How will this benefit me. Really. Your page is hard to understand because of the organization difficulties. Your writing (in general) is hard to understand because you don't use "topic sentence" and "supporting sentence" method of organization.

    And of course a small group of motivated people can change the world: indeed, it's the only thing that ever has!

  3. Re: A good first step on Trump Plans To Dismantle Obama-Era 'Startup Visa' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't deny that $250k is a small number, but arguing that you can't start a company with quarter of a million dollars is ridiculous. Not all startups have to be unicorns.

    I don't think people are saying you can't, rather that it is unlikely the visa is being used for this purpose.

  4. Re:Time for a $20 minimum wage. on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It should be mentioned that if you get a job, even the lowest paying job around, then you lose your welfare. So by getting a job, people get less money than they would on welfare.

  5. I think I would change the outline of your page to something like this:

    1) How this will benefit me (roughly, since every reader is a different 'me')
    2) What problem in particular creates a need for this solution (for society in general, for particular unfortunate individuals etc)
    3) How much it will cost me
    4) Details on how to pay for it

    You don't need to make a separate heading for each one of those, but if you pay attention to the structure, I think it will be a lot more readable.

  6. Re:Truth on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you watch the clip, John Oliver was very careful in the way he spoke. He didn't say, "Coal guy said X" instead he said, "the newspaper reported that Coal guy said X." I'm sure they had lawyers reviewing the script before airing.

  7. Re:Updated video links on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Here it is in the context of the longer episode: https://youtu.be/aw6RsUhw1Q8?t=764

  8. People talk about the plight of the poor and start attacking the rich instead of proposing solutions--as if they don't care about the poor at all,

    Yeah they don't care about poor people. Ask them when was the last time they complained about homeless people? Someone should fix those problems, but it's not going to be me!

  9. If she has the skills and can do the job, then I'd hire her. If she 'whistleblows' on sexist practices, so what? I don't want that kind of stuff at my company. She would make the place better.

  10. Re:idiotic and impossible on South Korea Signs On To Build Full-Scale Hyperloop System (newatlas.com) · · Score: 2

    The expansion joints thing is just another example of why you don't turn to a biochemist for a lecture on engineering. Most HSR doesn't have expansion joints either. Lots of things don't have expansion joints

    Incidentally, continuous rail is really, really cool.

  11. Re: They did a hell of a lot more than just disabl on Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    AC motors are kind of the canonical example of something that won't work at a different voltage level. Especially hair dryers.

  12. Re:False economy. on Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Adding antivirus gives malware writers an even larger surface to attack. All the major antivirus vendors have had vulnerabilities, some of them extremely serious. Furthermore, they don't protect against new threats.

  13. Re:When Recycling goes Too Far on Star Wars' Han Solo Spinoff Directors Quit In the Middle of Shooting (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as people keep buying tickets, the formula will be followed.

  14. Re:Not a good sign on Star Wars' Han Solo Spinoff Directors Quit In the Middle of Shooting (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    . He goes from good guy

    He wasn't a good guy. He was barely holding it together, cut off from parental ties that would have kept him well grounded and unable to bond with his new community.

  15. Re:Not a good sign on Star Wars' Han Solo Spinoff Directors Quit In the Middle of Shooting (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The Force Awakens as a movie, and I definitely think the directing/acting in episodes 1 thru 3 was terrible (save for Anakin's mother).

    Palpatine was solid too, he took his role seriously.
    I would also argue that Jar Jar Binks did a great job in the third movie, based on the horror that the entire audience felt upon his appearance. Not easy getting an emotional reaction like that. Dexter Jettster did a good job, and a few other characters were good as well.

  16. Re:Both Lucas and Disney fucked it up: on Star Wars' Han Solo Spinoff Directors Quit In the Middle of Shooting (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  17. Re:They should sue the NSA on Honda Shuts Down Factory After Finding NSA-derived Wcry In Its Networks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    and we have at the very least "criminally negligent" on the NSA's part here

    That's an interesting legal theory. What law did they break? (Or even, what law did they break that "normal" people would be exposed to, since of course the NSA gets special treatment).

  18. Re:This has been predicted forever on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    even if someone wanted to live a 1930s lifestyle, how many employers really want someone who will only work 15 hours/week?

    Plenty of "gig economy" jobs will take you.
    People don't want to live a 1930s lifestyle, they want to have more than their neighbors. And what they do in their freetime is mostly a waste, so why not use it to make money instead?

  19. Re:Check the textbook [Re:Real, but] on A Third Of the Planet's Population Is Exposed To Deadly Heatwaves (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point.
    The rest of what I said is true though :)

  20. Re:The priesthood has spoken on Scientists Declare End to Global Coral Reef Bleaching Event (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    ok, that way of saying it clarifies your meaning.
    I can't think of a Google query to verify that claim haha. Probably would have to use the wayback machine or something.

  21. Re:New normal sometimes is reversion to the mean on A Third Of the Planet's Population Is Exposed To Deadly Heatwaves (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI the drought in California is over.

  22. Re:Cooling wasn't real, but warming is [Re:Real, b on A Third Of the Planet's Population Is Exposed To Deadly Heatwaves (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1

    It was easy to debunk because the scare was actually in the 50s and 60s. In the media it peaked in the 70s, but not in the scientific community.

  23. Yeah, all you really need is a terminal, and actually "echo" mode on is kind of a waste of bandwidth.

  24. "AI-powered" on Google Launches Its AI-Powered Jobs Search Engine (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    How is that difference from a regular search engine with filtering (and maybe a relevance score)?

  25. Re:the scary thing has nothing to do with the cras on Driver Killed In a Tesla Crash Using Autopilot Ignored At Least 7 Safety Warnings (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    In theory that's how they're going to make auto-pilot good enough that it doesn't need human intervention......collecting data over time to avoid more and more problems until they approach the limit of zero problems.