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  1. Re:Flat Earthers on Google Maps Now Zooms Out To a Globe Instead of a Flat Earth (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    flat desert plane, like the midwestern US.

    As deserts go that area's pretty green and agriculturally productive.

    Either your compass is upside down or your pants are.

  2. Re:More than a few weeks on Google Maps Now Zooms Out To a Globe Instead of a Flat Earth (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. That totally makes sense. Because of course when you zoom *out*, you expect to see *less* detail.

  3. Re:Stop it Google on Google Maps Now Zooms Out To a Globe Instead of a Flat Earth (venturebeat.com) · · Score: -1

    Well, it's locally flat under creimer's feet....

    Under ur mom's feet, it's concave!

  4. Re:Got to disagree with the haters on this one on Nestle Experiments with Tracking Gerber Baby Food on the Blockchain (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone saying this is an "internal" tracking issue must have never heard the phrase "global supply chain".

    What's a global supply chain got to do with anything?

    Say I'm a brewer and I find some of my beer is off. I examine the batches of my product with the problem; I can do this because like any sensible manufacturer of foods & pharma I record the ancestry of my products. I find that they all have one thing in common - hops[1] from supplier X batch Y. That's my internal tracking issue.

    I then yell at supplier X and he says he's sorry and gives me a credit note. Finding out that one of his drivers spilt diesel everywhere in the van is his problem.

    Global schmobal. It's totally irrelevant whether those hops came from Kent, Kentucky or Kampala.

    [1] For the benefit of readers left of the pond, they're what causes that funny bitter taste you get in foreign beer.

  5. Re:Here, let me help on Nestle Experiments with Tracking Gerber Baby Food on the Blockchain (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    How does it give you certainty? It gives you traceability.

    If you find iron filings in bottles from batch F00B4R23 you issue a recall notice that batch. You might test F00B4R20 to F00B4R26 too, because you know they came off the same line. All this is possible now without blockbastardchains, because they do it.

    How would a blockchain prevent iron filings getting in there in the first pace?

  6. Re:why blockchain on Nestle Experiments with Tracking Gerber Baby Food on the Blockchain (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Because mauve has the most RAM.

  7. Well then the solution is simple: if we wish to have colonies on Mars by next week, we must return to levels of inequality and social stratification similar to those in the middle of the 19th century!

  8. Re: It's a republic. on Korea Plans To Tax Google, Apple and Amazon (koreatimes.co.kr) · · Score: 1

    And countries operating in Korea do so through a subsidiary whose own country is ... take a guess ... Korea.

    VAT SchmeeAT. That's nothing to do with this issue at all. For one thing, companies collect it, they don't pay it.

  9. Re:Making money here is only "nice to have" on Facebook's New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    The famous "We don't have a clue what to do with it, but someone else might - so bag it just in case" strategy? Also known as the dog in the manger.

    See also: Oracle, Java.

  10. Rather the new regime is made up of basically old "bootleggers", smugglers and petty "criminals" who actually had somewhat of an inkling of how a market economy worked.

    Berezovsky was a member of the Science Academy. Prokhorov worked for the Sports & culture ministry. Potanin worked for the department of trade and his parents were high-ranking party members.

    And to top it off Bad Vlad was a senior officer in the KG fucking B.

  11. Russia did become a free country, with true democracy and free media...

    For about three minutes.

    by now it's most of the way back to being a repressive dictatorship.

    That's because the old repressive regime never actually went away. They just swapped places a bit and changed their clothes.

  12. the rest is potentially a way to get sued if you demonstrably dropped profit and/or shareholder suffered through it

    Stop repeating stuff you've heard stupid grown-ups say.

    https://www.nytimes.com/roomfo...

    https://medium.com/bull-market...

  13. What? Is there another Microsoft?

  14. Alternative explanation on Ancient Public Library Discovered In Germany (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    the niches were too small to bear statues inside

    Unless the statues were really small too.

    Pshaw! So -called "experts".

  15. Re:What, again? on Commodore's Amiga Is Being Revived In Newly Updated Hardware (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft ("who would ever want to run more than one program at a time?")

    They later changed their mind on that.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Ah, the decade that taste forgot...

  16. Re:safeguard the sanctity of the classroom? on France Bans Smartphones in School (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You're sig

    No he isn't.

  17. Re:Solving the problem, or solving the symptom? on France Bans Smartphones in School (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    William Edwards Deming said "95% of line-level worker problems, are the direct result of top-level management decisions."

    I think he knew how to punctuate properly. Maybe he paid attention in class instead of playing Candy Crush?

  18. Image the wotsisname triangle. where you replace each side with _/\_. IIRC it's bounded and never crosses itself yet it has an infinite perimeter.

    I have no idea what happens when the notch is rectangular and points inwards.

    Sometimes I really wish I was like more brainier at sums and shit like that.

  19. Re:I guess we shouldbn't be surprised.... on How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry they'll bring it into compliance by posting it again tomorrow or next week.

    Probably both.

  20. Re: Zachary Shahan said WindBourne sucked his cock on Tesla Model 3 Outselling Small, Midsize Luxury Cars In US (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    That might be a nice answer. I'd love, out of a kind of morbid curiosity, to know what post it was aimed at.

    Because it's got fuck-all to do with mine.

  21. You haven't worked a physical job in awhile have you?

    I suspect it's more recently than he's done an intellectual one.

    P.S. You probably mean "a while".

  22. Apple managed to lose a lot of their appeal very fast.

    Well it all starts out well - it's edgy and it's tight, but at the end of the day you get shit on your cock.

  23. I mean, it probably is, but not until ChromeOS and OSX are planning on doing it as well. Probably not for 5-10 years at least.

    There'll always be the alternatives - SystemDredhat and Kgbuntu.

  24. Re: But I thought... on Apple May Include Support For a Second SIM Card in New iPhones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You do actual work that requires typing? What a pleb!