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  1. Re:so one more lane, solves the traffic problem? on Elon Musk Unveils 1.14-Mile Boring Company Tunnel (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless it's a closed loop it has intersections.

  2. Re:If you're building a tunnel... on Elon Musk Unveils 1.14-Mile Boring Company Tunnel (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Like those plastic tubs at the airport scanner?

    Only bigger, of course.

  3. look at the eyes of people talking about their god or profits

    *golf clap*

  4. The only thing people seem to think that about is religious texts.

    It is one. The opening paragraph says something along the lines that it's all obviously true because God says so.

  5. Speak for yourself. We're almost medieval here.

  6. Re:Thanks, America? How about China? on 2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    For example, China is driving animals into extinction by paying poachers for things like elephant tusks, and rhino horns.

    Incredibly cunty, given that Chinese medicine is a load of fucking shit.

    At least with homeopathy one rhino horn would be enough to last forever.

  7. Yo momma so ugly it did the opposite.

  8. No Rei?

  9. Re:Why Python? on How Microsoft Embraced Python (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Python is a "glue" language.

    So people sniff it and it gives them brain damage?

  10. Re:Why Python? on How Microsoft Embraced Python (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    It's very lucky indeed that all managers know the difference between a prototype and a finished product.

    Otherwise they might say something stupid like "it looks finished - ship it!"

  11. Re:You mean.... on How Microsoft Embraced Python (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Says the person with a synonym of shit in his name.

  12. They bought Android & Google Maps. What's innovative about gmail, apart from the shit UI?

  13. Re:Sadly, the law requires this on Google Training Document Reveals How Temps, Vendors, and Contractors Are Treated (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    so having 30 TVCs doesn't mean that they're not temporary, it may simply mean that he just has 3 overlapping projects in their development phase

    If someone is managing 30 developers on three different projects they probably aren't managing them well. Span of control and all that.

    Unless, of course, someone else is actually managing the teams all you do is signing timesheets.

  14. the company did not directly employ a majority of its own workforce. According to a current employee with access to the figures, of approximately 170,000 people around the world who now work at Google, 50.05% are FTEs. The rest, 49.95%, are TVCs.

    1) The two numbers add up to 100%. So, there's presumably no other category that isn't mentioned.
    2) The first number is greater than the second.

    How then is that *not* a majority, albeit a slight one?

  15. Re:We are falling behind... on Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, AI writes you!

  16. Re: What the hell are they teaching students? on 'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It is incredibly hard to write a good test that will be taken by tens of thousands of people a year, gives consistent marks, and measures the ability to produce creative solutions to problems.

    It's not that hard.

    Doing all that for less than 500 quid per subject is the tricky bit.

  17. Re: Academic grades are what you can parrot! on 'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    STFU, Ivan.

  18. Re: Academic grades are what you can parrot! on 'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Research is clear that paying someone more doesn't make them work harder.

    Unless they're CEOs, apparently.

  19. Re: Academic grades are what you can parrot! on 'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This post

    https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    is describing something where you take a test and based on that they say "you're going to be this " or "you're gong to be that" and that's what you have to do or they send you to the salt mines.

    I'm not aware of any EU country doing anything remotely like that, though I heard the USSR did it - though that may be propaganda. But in any case, last time I checked, they were never in the EU and they don't exist any more.

  20. Re:airy fairy nonsense on 'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Fixing the leak pretty much implies finding the cause, unless your definition of fixing means putting a bucket under it.

    ER doctors don't ponce around asking why someone got stabbed; they don't have the time. The E stands for emergency.

    Search the web for a routine to do a multiplication? You must be a web "developer".

  21. Re:Maybe they are right this time on China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Is it though. It's not that different to burning books, and as the saying goes "where you burn books on Monday you burn people on Tuesday". Or something like that.

  22. No sausages? on Samsung Embarrassingly Partners With Fake Supreme (droid-life.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the kind of fake supreme that sings in Mean Machine (or maybe it was Stir Crazy), then?

  23. Flippy churned out 17,000 pounds worth of the fried foods

    Around 21,000 dollars, then?

  24. Re:So not only do you believe an obvious scam on Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams (sans.edu) · · Score: 1

    I thought they were only a Yoorpan thing, but I looked it up and apparently not.