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  1. Rather surprised by the list on Amazon Picks 20 Finalists For 'HQ2' Second Headquarters Location (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I was expecting to see Luxembourg, Monaco, Gibraltar, Nicosia, The Nobodyknowswheretheyare Islands ...

  2. Re: I'll say... on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    By the time he heard it the bullet should have already hit him. Unless you're using an arquebus.

  3. Re:May have been brought to Mexico by the Spanish on Salmonella Probably Killed the Aztecs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's common sense that the sun goes round the earth. Does the ground feel like it's moving?

    It's common sense that disease is caused by bad smells. Notice how typhoid outbreaks usually happen in the slums?

  4. Re:Fashion or need? on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Apps! Full stack resoponsive webscale apps. A P P Y spells APPY!

  5. Re:The Moon: A Ridiculous Liberal Myth on Bitcoin Watchers Running Out of Explanations Blame Slump on Moon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And where can I get some?

  6. Re:People look like apes, black people more so on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not even sure there is an algorithm, in the sense that you could point to it and go "there, line 243 - it should be squared, not cubed". Machine learning doesn't work like that.

  7. Re:Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In the end, one is often better off trying to fight off an infection without the aid of antibiotics than with.

    Ah. That must be why the chances of wounded soldiers surviving in WW2 were so much lower than in earlier conflicts. Naughty, naughty sulfonamide!

  8. Re:All french everywhere on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you are mixing up Basque with Catalan.

    You guess wrong.

    Basque is an isolated language with no know trace/relationship to any other language.

    Irrelevant. He didn't say anything at all about relatedness. He said nobody outside the region speaks it, and he's right.

  9. Re: Whatever on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't count if you actually succeed. That's the first rule of history, that is.

    Sometimes phrased as "You can't write anything when you're dead".

  10. Re: Whatever on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 0

    Why aren't they fleeing to Saudi Arabia & Pakistan?

  11. Re: Whatever on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    A good cheeseburger is^H^Hcould be much much better.

    Well, you should learn to use the conjunctive correctly.

    Or better yet, the subjunctive.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. Re:All french everywhere on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Twaddle. The existence of a language board has zero bearing on whether the fuzzy-wuzzies in Bongobongoland learn it, especially since nobody apart from academics pays them the slightest heed.

  13. Put those goalposts back on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I never used the word logical. Is it logical to refer to inanimate objects as he or she?

  14. Queue the fireman supporters

    No, get one of those numbered ticket dispensers. Then people can do other things while they're waiting.

  15. Re:Why did it take 40 minutes to correct? on Fake 'Inbound Missile' Alert Sent To Every Cellphone in Hawaii (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    1 minute to send the original message.
    1 minute to try to restart the sending process, except it hasn't stopped.
    1 minute to get into a tangle of deadlocks & fork bombs.
    37 minutes trying to get the log files into a readable state in order to work out that the above happened.

  16. Re:Why did it take 40 minutes to correct? on Fake 'Inbound Missile' Alert Sent To Every Cellphone in Hawaii (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    There's also a panel at the building entry to kill the alarm from another place if it goes off inadvertently.

    Tell me, does that panel have a key? Do the alarms?

    Seems it's designed to be easy to activate, but more difficult to deactivate.

    And most larger buildings that have fire alarms also have intercom systems allowing security to inform people if the alarm has been triggered by accident.

    Not even sure if that's true. I've never seen it. And it'd be pretty stupid, actually. Think disgruntled employee.

    Thanks, you picked a really good example.

    True, but not for the reason you think.

  17. Re:All french everywhere on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Not quite. The Belgians and Swiss can't even count properly.

  18. Re:Whatever on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you go into a Burger King?

  19. Re:EDM? Maybe 15 years ago on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I recently got access to BBC Four, and among the other stuff they show is old episodes of "Top Of The Pops". It's incredible how much of it is utter shite.

    They showed some end of year specials and a good half of the stuff on those was mediocre at best.

  20. Re: Designed for the Left on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And so it's the Deja Vu all over again.

    I C(SNY) what you did there.

  21. Re:They outsourced them all to India on Google Starts Certificate Program To Fill Empty IT Jobs (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Well I'm a Russian IT nerd; friends and acquaintances don't have me!

  22. Re:Then move to India. on Google Starts Certificate Program To Fill Empty IT Jobs (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlikely. They require a better level of English.

  23. It works 100% if you hold it right on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You're holding it wrong. The woman should grip it between the upper thighs.

    Alternatively the man can shove the phone down the front of his pants until it fries his Jacksons.

  24. Re:Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    perish the thought that choices and actions have consequences.

    I agree. Next time you choose to be clumsy and cut yourself on a rusty nail don't apply antiseptics and don't take antibiotics.

    you diminish the merits of those who would have have otherwise avoided it.

    With a bit of luck you won't do it again.

  25. FTFY on The Human Cost of the Apple Supply Chain Machine (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Apple is still struggling to give the impression that it gives a tinker's cuss about working conditions at its supplier chain factories.

    FTFY

    P.S. Supply chain, not supplier chain.