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  1. roughly the same as Elon Musk's SpaceX on Beijing Startup Offers Engineers $1M Salary Plus Options in Battle For Talent (financialpost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that the new standard of company valuation measurement? Or do /. editors have an Elon Musk mention quota to meet every freaking day?

  2. Re:Categories on Why Is There No Nobel Prize In Technology? (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also, Economics isn't really a Nobel Prize. It's given out by the Bank of Sweden.

  3. Re:Another Repulican controller state on Facebook To Build $1 Billion Data Center In Virginia (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Just the construction of a billion dollar data center will probably recoup that $19M, not to mention the taxes that will still be paid on the facility every year.

  4. Re:Unions on US Senate Panel Approves Self-Driving Car Legislation (reuters.com) · · Score: 2
    Click on the reuters.com link next to the headline. K, thx.

    Neither the House nor the Senate bill would speed approval of self-driving technology for vehicles over 10,000 pounds, a step pushed by trucking organizations. Labor unions raised safety and employment concerns, and Democrats resisted that part of the proposal.

  5. More misleading than fake on IRS Awards $7 Million Fraud Prevention Contract To Equifax (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    The IRS tried to replace Equifax back in July when it awarded the contract that was competed to another company.

    Equifax was the incumbent and protested the award.

    In order to keep the service available to taxpayers, the IRS awarded Equifax a "bridge contract" until the protest is resolved.

    So the IRS did everything right, the normal red tape prevented it from reacting to the security breach when it happened.

  6. Steamer is the mascot of the Altoona Curve, a minor league baseball team.

  7. Capacity != generated on Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Please stop posting claims about "installed capacity". It means nothing. Tell me about solar when the actual generated power is no longer down in the noise.

  8. Re:And why wouldn't they take off on Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The only thing left for me to do is buy a lithium-ion rechargeable battery for my home so I can have power when the sun goes down

    You don't have power except when the sun is high overhead on a clear day? That would explain why your electric bill is so low.

  9. Re:flawed goals, premises, everything here on Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up With Depression (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's even simpler than that. Choose between 100 divided equally among four people, or 50 but you get 30 of that. Bernie and Jesus would say take the larger reward and spread it around equally; a Republican would take the 30 and tell the others to screw themselves; a Democrat would want to take 40 of the 50 as tax and tell the group how they should spend the other 10.

  10. Re:Feels Good Man on Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up With Depression (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Individualist means that one is self sufficient, able to take care of ones self in life and business

    It goes beyond being able to take care of ones self; it also means the person is motivated to take care of himself over taking care of the community at large. In other words, selfish.

  11. You know what else isn't available in nature? Cooking

    There's plenty of evidence that human evolution took off around the time they learned to use fire. Cooking meat and vegetables makes them easier to digest, providing the extra energy needed by larger brains.

  12. Re:Nobels in Science Seem OK, It's Peace... on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Peace prize isn't even awarded by the Nobel committee. It's just a way for Norway to make a political statement.

  13. Re:To be fair... on IRS Awards $7 Million Fraud Prevention Contract To Equifax (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    The decision was no doubt made weeks ago. The announcement had to be made by Sept. 30 so it was in the right fiscal year budget - use it or lose it.

  14. Re:Not 40% Improvement for the Same Diagnosis on Breast-Cancer Death Rate Drops Almost 40 Percent, Saving 322,000 Lives, Study Says (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean the odds of survival for a given diagnosis have improved 40%.

    I don't understand your point; the American Cancer Society didn't report a 40% improvement for the same diagnosis. The combination of better diagnosis and better treatments has resulted in a 40% improvement.

  15. Re:Religious Bias in New Study? on When You Split the Brain, Do You Split the Person? (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    Looking at the organization that published the study I kind of agree. It looks like some kind of "free thinking" society that doesn't concern itself too much with scientific method.

  16. Re:Why is this a slashdot story on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The internet that we want must be open and free and there is also a thing in some places called free speech.

    Agreed. Let's talk about it.

  17. Re:That's not their job on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    It isn't their job to think for us, and anyone who thinks so, clearly isn't thinking.

    Traditional media outlets like The Atlantic or the New York Times do indeed want to think for us, or at least tell us what to think.

  18. Re: But but but but on Tesla Badly Misses Model 3 Production Goals (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The reusable boosters are still experimental at best. Yes, they did manage to reuse a couple of them once before retiring them. I'm still not convinced.

    It's also not clear the Tesla will succeed as a car manufacturer. GM is beating them on every front.

  19. 37-ton tanker ? on Russia Suspected In GPS-Spoofing Attacks On Ships (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Nice proofreading. That's not even a big truck. The article says 37000 ton

  20. Hidden subsidies on Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The solar panels aren't subsidized. But they're not the primary purpose of the project anyway.

    This is a load balancing project, needed because existing wind and solar generation fluctuates so much. The real money here is in the battery storage, which will be charged from the grid and is only needed because of subsidized solar and wind generation generation projects elsewhere.

  21. Re: Here's another idea on Squabble With Contractor Delayed Equifax's Response To Data Breach (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever heard the old joke about the three guys on a safari that piss off a lion?

    First guys says "We're all dead". Second guy says "I only need to outrun one of you". Third guy takes his walking stick and cracks the second guy in the knee.

    In Equifax's case, the CEO, CIO and CSO left the company and took their parachutes to the bank. Not their problem anymore.

  22. Re:Bullshit. on FCC Silenced Puerto Rico Radio Station's Boosters In March 2017 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yup. It's a shame they didn't apply for a license to do just that.

  23. Re:Its the rightwingers who snowflake on religion on Hawaii Approves Telescope On Volcano Sacred To Indigenous People (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So why did you ask what leftwingers will do?

    Reading comprehension fail. GP's question was whether libs are protesting or celebrating:

    1) "Is it racist,xenophobic/Nazi?" - lefties should be protesting

    2) "is it science triumph over archaic superstition?" - lefties should be celebrating

  24. Re:I've always wondered this.... on Equifax Board Forms Panel To Review Executives' Stock Sales After Data Breach (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Insiders are supposed to file their plans to buy or sell ahead of time with the SEC. It becomes public information that they're going to trade so outsiders have advanced knowledge of what's going to happen, if not why.

    These guys are in trouble because they sold the stock without any advance notice.

  25. Re:Globalization = Pure Capitalisim = Locustlike on IBM Now Has More Employees In India Than In the US (newsindiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It boosts the economy of poorer countries and adjusts them slowly to the economy of richer countries, which is an overall positive trend.

    It pulls the poorer country up by pulling the richer country down, which is a positive trend for one and a very negative trend for the other.