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  1. Going to be interesting to see what the effect on property values will be when people can't easily move stuff in and out of the area.

  2. Lululemon ? on The Latest Crop of Instagram Influencers? Medical Students. (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    A name they have to hope you don't look too closely at.

  3. So we are talking 5% of the earths surface ? on Shocking Maps Show How Humans Have Reshaped Earth Since 1992 (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Just to put that into a more meaningful number 75% of the surface being water and only 25% landmass

  4. You can expect that to be good for a week or two, before they are replaced.

  5. Gee people making fortunes off China on Bloomberg is Still Reporting on Challenged Story Regarding China Hardware Hack (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    and seeing the market flooded with cheap hardware they use to gather and sell your personal information, or a financial newspaper ?

    Hmmmm it really is a tough call.

  6. Re:Kind of curious how durable this is on Researchers Develop Hydrogel-Based Electrodes For Brain Implants (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    You don't care about how durable this is ?

    Well I guess you don't have to worry about failing brain implants doing you damage.

  7. Kind of curious how durable this is on Researchers Develop Hydrogel-Based Electrodes For Brain Implants (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Starch and Spit don't sound like they can last very long. Really hate to have that in your head when it dissolves away and your implant starts short circuiting or worse.

  8. Nahh it just works and not much markup at this point seeing as all the patents are expired.

  9. Bankruptcy Liquidation Acquistion by another corp on Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Or one of the many other forms of corporate death. Nothing lasts forever.

  10. Re:2013 ? We were already dead by then on CO2 Emissions Rose for the First Time in 4 Years (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't you read it? When asked what the world will be like he's like "traffic will be worse". And that's clearly rhetorical, because it leads him down the subtle consequences of climate change. I'm not saying it's in hindsight hyperbolic rhetoric, I'm saying that's how people speak when they are making a point, not a well-calibrated prediction.

    Yes specific predictions are hyperbole / sarcsm

    That's goalpost shifting

    No that's what happens with hurricanes. The reason people left was the island had a corrupt and nearly bankrupt government to begin with and couldn't do proper disaster recovery. Lookup the great hurricane of 1780 for just how bad that can be.

    Or, what would have to happen to convince you?

    Of what ? That climate changes ? That's a given. That we are doomed ? That ones a bit harder, You could start with predictions that at least pass the smell test and then work on from there.

  11. Re:2013 ? We were already dead by then on CO2 Emissions Rose for the First Time in 4 Years (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing in that link was demonstrated as incorrect.

    Hansen said current carbon levels in the atmosphere were already too high to prevent runaway greenhouse warming. Yet the levels are still rising despite all the efforts of politicians and scientists.

    Oh so he lied when he said that ? Or are we not doomed if we just invest more money with Al Gore's pet investment scheme of the week ?

    Are you not capable of understanding it was a somewhat hyperbolic quote?

    So when a climatologist makes a prediction about climate and gets it wrong, it's retroactively hyperbole ?
    Tell me can I do that with my stock trades ?

    That said, I would say that the hundreds of thousands of people who left Puerto Rico qualify

    Maybe qualify as being victims of a hurricane. These things do happen down that way.

  12. Cue People Complaining on YouTube To Make New Originals Available For Free, Ad-Supported Viewing (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    That Youtube favors it's content over theirs to a chorus of UNFAIR.

  13. Re:2013 ? We were already dead by then on CO2 Emissions Rose for the First Time in 4 Years (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    at this stage you'll drown before long

    Been hearing that for the last 30 years.
    Before that we were supposed to be killing each other to have something to eat
    We were also supposed to be out of energy by now
    and we were supposed to be out of almost all natural resources by now as well.

    It's almost as if the news is manipulated to fit agendas

    https://i.imgur.com/x7C10JP.jp...

  14. 2013 ? We were already dead by then on CO2 Emissions Rose for the First Time in 4 Years (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to Hansen
    https://www.theguardian.com/en...

    Still waiting for those 50 million climate refugees predicted by the UN
    http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

    Or how are things on the West Side of Manhattan these days ?
    https://www.salon.com/2001/10/...

    Then again snow is supposed to be a thing of the past as well
    http://www.climatedepot.com/20...

  15. Die Like Lemmings

    You have critical applications they have no business being in the cloud. Especially not someone else's cloud.

  16. They have decided to go after an older demographic.

    Sounds well thought out.

  17. Re:LOL I have Model A Roadster on Can The Police Remotely Drive Your Stolen Car Into Custody? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Well not about having the Model A. It only goes to car shows though.

    And about the controls there were lots of Model A's that were made into hot rods back when I was a kid. Heavily modified and souped up. In my case it's what I first drove and learned Auto Mechanics on. It's the perfect thing to teach the basics because it's so much simpler than one of todays cars and everything is out in the open.

  18. Normally I'd be against this on UK Parliament Seizes Cache of Facebook Internal Papers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But it's Facebook so what the hell burn em all.

  19. LOL I have Model A Roadster on Can The Police Remotely Drive Your Stolen Car Into Custody? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Let them try and hack it.

  20. Actually makes good sense on That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache (microsoft.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your cpu has been asleep for an apriori unknown amount of time, you are powering back up you'd absolutely want to clear the cache to purge any potential bit flips. It's a relatively cheap way of insuring data integrity.

  21. Re:Thatâ(TM)s why Iâ(TM)m a farmer on How A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes -- And a Global Software Sweatshop (forbes.com) · · Score: -1

    Go back and RTFA. That article talking about NON-technical jobs in Silicon Valley: Grocery clerks, truck drivers, waitresses.

    Funny that's what I did when I saw your comment. The article makes no mention of technical vs non technical. It does however mention highest paid against all others and points out that the large tech companies are paying less as a percentage of their revenue to employees.

  22. Re:Thatâ(TM)s why Iâ(TM)m a farmer on How A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes -- And a Global Software Sweatshop (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Man you're full of crap

    From this site 4 days ago and you even commented on it with a reply to the first post

    Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds
    https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

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

  23. Must be written by a cheap bastard on High Score, Low Pay: Why the Gig Economy Loves Gamification (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't tip properly. If a driver is doing a great job most people will tip. Hell I am a cheap bastard but even I believe in tipping well for good service.

  24. Because that is by definition an antitrust issue when you're in a position of market dominance.

    Would that be Amazon or Walmart that you actually mean ?

    Should they give free adds to Amazon ?

    No one is asking for this. What they are asking for is level playing fields

    Read the complaint that's exactly what they are asking for.

    The EU has always been horribly obvious about being bought and paid for by European aristocrats

    If that is your definition of actually enforcing the anti-trust laws that are on the books

    Yeah you need to talk to BASF about that. Hope you don't mind high food prices or energy prices, or high taxes

    But that's probably why the EU is holding together so well.

  25. Abused ?

    I suppose by that logic Macy's abused its position in Herald Square. Nevermind Gimbels was across the street, or Harrods is abusing its position