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  1. Re:So...mr. Trump... on The US Is Becoming a Hot Spot For Outsourcing (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess he didn't do this too...
    http://www.businessinsider.com...

  2. Re:Outsourcing is just a way on The US Is Becoming a Hot Spot For Outsourcing (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    While this is very true, many who've outsourced have learned hard lessons in the total cost of outsourcing (TCOO). It's not simply that I have to pay worker X twice what I pay worker Y. It's what does it cost to deliver the widget either way.

    Just a short list of additional items in the TCOO...
    Dealing with additional costs for shipping
    Language translation issues.
    Quality concerns
    Timezone difficulties...setting up conference calls at times when everyone's available.
    Additional rules/regulations from the other country, as well as or own.
    Extra travel

  3. Re:Already a failure on Facebook Funds 'Defending Digital Democracy' Initiative At Harvard (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's hardly the point.

  4. Re:Already a failure on Facebook Funds 'Defending Digital Democracy' Initiative At Harvard (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah, I don't believe that the OP meant the comment in that way since the vast majority of people consider the U.S. to be a democracy....technically right or wrong.

  5. Re:Already a failure on Facebook Funds 'Defending Digital Democracy' Initiative At Harvard (diginomica.com) · · Score: 0

    This project is already the failure. The US isn't a democracy and was never meant to be. You can't defend what isn't there.

    Yeah, because for 241 years it's been failing. Surely it will fall apart before it gets to 242.

  6. Re:Isolation on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention...

    Want to know how we got cable to the four homes I lived in? Some guy would come over an climb a pole, and toss coax across the roofs to your home. No messy business of marking & digging up the neighbors lawns. You call the place, and they showed up the next day to throw the wires. It was quite an eyesore, but quick, cheap and effective. We wouldn't put up with wires everywhere like that, nor the lack of (over)regulation.

  7. Re:Isolation on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    South Korea is roughly the size of Indiana. And, while the population density does vary, it's much denser than most anyplace in the U.S. On top of that, any provider there only has to deal with one set of (much simpler) laws/regulations, unlike trying to cable up any state in the U.S., where you have federal, state (varying), and local (also varying) rules to deal with. S.Korea simply put, is an orange, to the U.S. apple. FWIW, I spent six years there.

  8. Re:Not going to happen on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    It's rather unfortunate that no-Americans would believe this because it's simply not factual. I have first hand experience with it in my own family.

  9. Re: Not going to happen on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    the govt still uses Windows because the agents at the IRS have to make excuses for the hold time they put you on because...they use slow computers which are connected to their slow Internet / Intranet.

    They don't have to make any excuses to anyone. Nobody holds them accountable because they're the government. It's like that in nearly every government run office I've been to, and I've been to plenty here in the DC area, along with working in/around the military for the last 40 years. It's simple, bureaucratic sloth.

  10. Re:Not going to happen on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    My mother who is living on only Social Security ($12k/yr before they make deductions!) has had numerous trips to the ER, several falls, two stent operations, etc. So, basically you're full of shit.

  11. Re:Not going to happen on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    That explains why so many people immigrate here to die.

  12. Re:Stupid Idea on Google Is Testing Autoplay Videos Directly In Search Results (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Muted or not, if you happen to accidentally put an "x" in front of hamster and get videos from that site, you're likely to get a call from HR.

  13. Re:People Don't Remember on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody dies. Some people get dealt a shitty hand. If you can't run with the pack, too bad.
    We can't drag the rest of society down for a handful of unfit (or stupid) people. Cold and heartless? Sure.

    So, you agree with this? If so, you're as stupid as he is. Everyone who gets dealt that "shitty hand" should just go die suck it up because the other dumb fucks won't get vaccinated, and we shouldn't require it? That IS quite literally one of the dumbest responses I've seen.

  14. Is there any evidence that that was the case, is there a link to the indictment? Also, IANAL, but I'm curious if it's truly the no a lawful order for the police to require people to disperse from an area of rioting, and my quick google search didn't clarify that.

  15. Re:People Don't Remember on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm hoping that was /sarcasm. But several immediately come to mind...Hawking, FDR, Temple Grandin. The list is actually huge.

  16. Re:People Don't Remember on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Let us know how your master race works out Adolf.

  17. Re:A political issue on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As if MSNBC isn't just as bad. True journalism left the room with Cronkite and Reasoner.

  18. Re:Autism Rates are not slipping, and not correlat on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Drawing more attention to the troll. Your post is currently at Score 2. Many of us would have never seen his (as it should be) because we browse above that level

  19. Was it a Good Study? on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What was the p-value? Note the other /. story on this... https://science.slashdot.org/s...

  20. Imagine how that's going to play out at your office when you innocently google something that turns up a Not Safe for Work video.

    Our office has our browsers pretty locked down, so we'd probably get a warning message up front, but I'm sure that's not the case at many businesses.

  21. You insinuate that peaceful protests weren't allowed, which simply isn't the case. You can also find plenty video evidence of actual rioting, but don't let that interfere with your worldview that the government is out to squish your right to peaceful assembly.

  22. Hardly the case here, with the inauguration, there were cameras everywhere, and there's plenty of video evidence you can google. So, let's all stop pretending that this situation is anything like those you're pointing to. There wasn't some conspiracy to lock up peaceful protesters at the Trump inauguration, otherwise you'd have a lot more people being charged.

  23. Re: Not a protest on Feds Crack Trump Protesters' Phones To Charge Them With Felony Rioting (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A classic tactic in the US is to give these warnings and orders AFTER having boxed the crowd in from those same avenues of "walk away"

    With all the media, and cameras in DC, especially during the inauguration, there's little chance that that occurred in this case. There clearly was rioting going on, and there was video shown on the news...google "inauguration riots 2017" videos, there are plenty. So, let's not pretend that this was some trumped (pun intended) up case of the Po Po going wild.

  24. This is the P-value in a nutshell: it's the probability that your measurements could be the result of chance.

    Quoted from http://fivethirtyeight.com/fea...

    A common misconception among nonstatisticians is that p-values can tell you the probability that a result occurred by chance. This interpretation is dead wrong, but you see it again and again and again and again.

  25. Re:But only 56% of scientists agree with this on Scientists Propose To Raise the Standards For Statistical Significance In Research Studies (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Glad I checked first, I was going to link to another 538 article:
    http://fivethirtyeight.com/fea...