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  1. Re:median vs average on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You should never spend more than 20% of you annual income on a car.

    Where did that rule come from?

  2. Re:Buy very used... on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So for around $3000 I have a nice, reliable car

    It's not a reliable car, it could break any moment.

  3. median vs average on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They are using median and average really loosely there, and comparing them in ways that don't make sense. It's a good advertisement for the website owner, though.

  4. Re:Who Cares? on What Air Conditioning Can Teach Us About Innovation and Laziness (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's true....there is some beautiful old architecture designed to take advantage of natural light to illuminate areas. But it's a relic now because you can do so much more with electric lights.

  5. Re:There's a contradiction there. on Blizzard Sues Overwatch 'Cheat' Maker For Copyright Infringement (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    When calculating damages for copyright law, you're allowed to include anyone who might possibly have bought the thing if it weren't for the infringement. Not realistic, but that's how the law is.

  6. Re:Finally a sensible and well thought out policy on China Bans the Use Of Social Media As a News Source · · Score: 1

    Some people trade stock based on tweets.

  7. Re:Tell Me Again Why We Hate On China on China Bans the Use Of Social Media As a News Source · · Score: 2

    Right. In all the nationalism and flag-waving that is often displayed on the 4th of July,

    There's a difference between "I like my country" and "I want to conquer other countries." One of those is good, and one of those is problematic.

  8. Re:Tell Me Again Why We Hate On China on China Bans the Use Of Social Media As a News Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think we hate on China. We worry about our Chinese brothers/sisters and hope someday things will get better for them.

  9. Re:Information is key on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no particular reason to listen to programmers on the topic. It's most likely a mix of the typical Seattle thinking, a smattering of facts from online, and a bit of logic. Same as what you find on this website. I don't expect to find a careful, studied examination of the issue.

  10. Re:Information is key on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I know .net is not popular around these parts, but the geek outs on dotnetrocks is really cool. Richard is awesome at reading up on specific topics, and that show really has some cool insight into gmo. They even made a followup in may. Also worth listening too.

    .net is fine, but there is no particular reason to listen to .net programmers about GMO food.

  11. Re:Driver assistance system or autopilot system ? on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Most people understand "autopilot" to be something that keeps an airplane flying in a straight line.

    I don't think most people understand that.

  12. Re:So what does it do then? on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The goal of Tesla is to get people on the road, so they can build a huge data set, and use that dataset to improve self-driving cars, to the point that the cars can be fully autonomous.

  13. Re:systemd rocks! on Slackware 14.2 Released, Still Systemd-Free (slackware.com) · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Systemd-free on Slackware 14.2 Released, Still Systemd-Free (slackware.com) · · Score: 1

    As systemd absorbs more and more things, and more things start to depend on systemd, it's a simple problem of manpower: Unless your distro is run by a multi-billion dollar company that has the resources to undo the damage caused by systemd, you may have no choice but to adopt it.

    I don't think it's likely to be a problem, most systemd components are being replaced by non-systemd components (like ConsoleKit2, or elogind). No one seems really excited to depend heavily on systemd because of its limitations, so I expect systemd might remain nothing more than an init system into the future. It is ok as an init system, and doesn't prevent people from using other init systems, so I don't see a huge problem there.

  15. Re:Over the MPAA's dead body on Netflix to Soon Let Users Download Videos, Says Report (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think they trust Netflix, though

  16. Re:War on drugs on Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a bad idea......the drugs can still only be supplied by illegal means, so organized crime will be providing all the drugs. An increase in demand only increases the power of the drug cartels, and we see violence increase in Mexico (and America) as a result.

    If you're going to decriminalize consumption, you need to legalize production and transportation. Anything else makes the world a worse place.

  17. Re:Data Driven? Bullshit. on Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    So it is the government's fault, just a different branch of the government.

  18. Re:Over the MPAA's dead body on Netflix to Soon Let Users Download Videos, Says Report (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a good point, and no one wanted it then. People have changed?

  19. Re:Fighters becoming an anachronism, like horse ca on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    every cruise missile is a self-flying plane.

    Not really....

  20. Re:Fighters becoming an anachronism, like horse ca on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    For a human, sure. No drones can do it very well (and even then, dead reckoning for a sailor is not really effective).

  21. Re:Fighters becoming an anachronism, like horse ca on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A) They don't work all that well (try heading home without GPS......good luck)
    B) circle/hover/land/head for home isn't behavior that is going to win dogfights.

  22. Re:Fighters becoming an anachronism, like horse ca on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Mainly because we don't have the technology for completely self-flying planes yet. Drones require a wireless link to a pilot, and an even more direct link for takeoff and landing. So a good jammer and the self-flying plane is lost, whereas the human just can't talk to home.

  23. Re:Fighters becoming an anachronism, like horse ca on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. A good jammer and it's game-over for the automatic pilot.

  24. Re:You want them to rush in incomplete features?! on New C++ Features Voted In By C++17 Standards Committee (reddit.com) · · Score: 1

    I wrote C++ library code > 20 years ago which is still actively maintained as part of complex, commercial server software.

    This feature is drastically undervalued.

  25. Re:Missing features on New C++ Features Voted In By C++17 Standards Committee (reddit.com) · · Score: 1

    It's true macros are a lousy replication of Lisp macros, but they are turing complete, so you should be able to say they are a poorly specified implementation at least.