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  1. Re:let the apologists start jumping through hoops on Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The answer is to force every name to be a write in

    That's actually how it worked in the very early days of the US. People brought in their own ballots with the appropriate name written on it. Of course, what happened very quickly was that the candidates would have people handing out ballots outside the polling stations, with the candidate's name on it.

    Here in CA, you can write in a name, but unless that person has registered, your vote won't be counted.

  2. Re:let the apologists start jumping through hoops on Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ranked-choice would be better, but we need to address the rampant gerrymandering.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

    How you choose matters little if your vote doesn't carry the same weight as others.

    On top of the gerrymandering, we have the problem that the Constitution confers an larger influence on the Presidency and the House (and originally, also the Senate) to voters in small states.

    Then, there is voter suppression going on in multiple states.

  3. How is this different from ... on Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Ms. Trump did not create a private server in her house or office, ..."

    How is using the Trump Organization's server any better than using one in her own home or office? In fact, it is likely worse, because there will be more people with administrative access, simply because it is a bigger organization.

  4. Re:There's at least one thing to praise on Amazon Releases A No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The superb name. Hats off to whoever was the genius!

    Indeed.

    For those who need an explanation, google "caffe corretto" [my keyboard doesn't have the appropriate characters and, if it did, they probably wouldn't work properly on /.]

  5. Re:Why does everything in California suck on Air Quality in San Francisco is So Bad that Uber Drivers Are Selling Masks Out of Their Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Typical Red state or Republican voter: lies about things that can be easily verified.

  6. Re:Why does everything in California suck on Air Quality in San Francisco is So Bad that Uber Drivers Are Selling Masks Out of Their Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't worry about it.

    Those Red state Republican enthusiasts hate California because it shows the liberal policies can lead to a great economy and a great place to live.

    It shows the lies that are spun by the right for what they are.

  7. Re:Why does everything in California suck on Air Quality in San Francisco is So Bad that Uber Drivers Are Selling Masks Out of Their Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    So, the wildfires in rural areas of California are caused by urban homeless people?

  8. "I didn't fit any of the descriptions for sleep apnea," she told me on a phone call. "I'm a woman,

    What? There are CPAP machines specifically made for women.
    https://www.resmed.com/us/en/c...

  9. Re:Hypothesis and Disproof on Climate Change is Making Hurricanes Even More Destructive, Research Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    âoeNOAA: U.S. Completes Record 11 Straight Years Without Major Hurricane Strikeââ"headline, CNSNews, Oct. 24, 2016

    Except that you are a moron for conflating two distinct issues.

    Issue 1: Hurricanes.
    Issue 2: Hurricanes that made landfall on the USA.

  10. Re:Switching to EVs does very little good if on Israel Aims To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles By 2030 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Other than taxis in stop-and-go traffic and garbage trucks, I can't think of something better to have as an EV.

    Local delivery trucks, especially USPS trucks.

    It's scandalous that the USPS is looking for a new truck and isn't looking at EVs.

  11. Re:Switching to EVs does very little good if on Israel Aims To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles By 2030 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    CNG does produce less CO2 per BTU/joule/calorie than gasoline.

    Interesting but irrelevant. I was comparing natural gas burned in generating plants to gasoline burned in ICEs.

  12. Re:The poor get screwed on Israel Aims To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles By 2030 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The elephant in the room with EVs is that they become economically unfeasible to keep on the road once the battery pack sufficiently degrades.

    What do you call an ICE vehicle with 200,000 miles on it? Typically: "scrap".

    EV batteries will last over 200,000 miles and EVs don't have as many moving parts to wear out. EVs are much more likely to be running at high mileage and years than an ICE.

  13. Re:Switching to EVs does very little good if on Israel Aims To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles By 2030 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Switching to EVs does very little good if 95% of your electricity generation is via fossil fuels [www.lnrg.technology].

    Bullshit!

    CO2 emissions are lower for EVs that are charged using power generated using natural gas than ICE vehicles power by gasoline.

  14. Re:Labor intensity vs captial intensity on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are there so few chip foundries in the USA? Surely this is a very capital-intensive process?

  15. Re:Didn't think it through... on Tesla Worker Charged With Embezzling More Than $9 Million (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 2

    The criminals that are caught are generally not the brightest.

  16. Re:More power to them! on VW Plans A $ 22K Electric Car To Compete With Tesla, Transition From Combustion Engines (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    More Lithium can be mined. The global supply can be increased.

    Cobalt is the element that battery manufacturers worry about.

  17. Re:Tax exemptions are almost always a bad thing on 'Amazon's HQ2 Was a Con, Not a Contest' (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apparently, your personal biases are more important to you than facts:


    Aviva Chomsky, a professor at Salem State College, states that "Early studies in California and in the Southwest and in the Southeast...have come to the same conclusions. Immigrants, legal and illegal, are more likely to pay taxes than they are to use public services. Illegal immigrants are not eligible for most public services and live in fear of revealing themselves to government authorities. Households headed by illegal immigrants use less than half the amount of federal services that households headed by documented immigrants or citizens make use of."[36]

    National Public Radio (NPR) wrote in 2006: "Supporters of a crackdown argue that the U.S. economy would benefit if illegal immigrants were to leave, because U.S. employers would be forced to raise wages to attract American workers. Critics of this approach say the loss of illegal immigrants would stall the U.S. economy, saying illegal workers do many jobs few native-born Americans will do."[26]

    Professor of Law Francine Lipman writes that the belief that illegal migrants are exploiting the US economy and that they cost more in services than they contribute to the economy is "undeniably false".[37] Lipman asserts that "illegal immigrants actually contribute more to public coffers in taxes than they cost in social services" and "contribute to the U.S. economy through their investments and consumption of goods and services; filling of millions of essential worker positions resulting in subsidiary job creation, increased productivity and lower costs of goods and services; and unrequited contributions to Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance programs."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  18. Re:They're a business, what do you expect? on 'Amazon's HQ2 Was a Con, Not a Contest' (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the perspective of society: We should force them to. Because that money can pay for schools, hospitals, police, firefighters, roads, electricity, water and a hundred other useful things.

    That's where politicians need to step up to the plate. Instead of bending over and competing to give the biggest tax concessions, they need to grow a pair and say no.

    Remember how some people predicted that Scott Walker's deal between Wisconsin and Foxconn would be bad for Wisconsin? Now it's come out that those predictions are true.

  19. Windows 10 doesn't give them much revenue.

    Yes, but it crucial to their revenue. Without Windows, you don't have Outlook. Without Outlook, you don't have Exchange. You don't have Visual Studio, etc..

    Without Windows, you don't have the Windows mindset amongst website developers. Even fewer websites will be hosted on Windows.

  20. Re:How was the road to hell paved again? on A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What drove me away from editing?

    Being blocked by an administrator for the "crime" of reporting that a permanently banned user was editing again. Although I was eventually unblocked, there was no apology, no acknowledgement that my block was wrong.

    Then, on top of that, some time later, I saw that same administrator being protected in an arbitration proceeding through shenanigans by other administrators (the arbitration proceeding against him was consolidated with a much more contentious and unrelated arbitration, leading to the arbitration against him being dropped).

  21. Re:Renewables and variability on UK Renewable Energy Capacity Surpasses Fossil Fuels For First Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Then there is tidal power. It's not 24/7, but has the big advantage of being predictable.

  22. Re:Good progress but renewable capacity is tricky on UK Renewable Energy Capacity Surpasses Fossil Fuels For First Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    and even with a safety net of any discharge to the grid will not take their car's battery below (say) 75% charge,

    not below 75%? We don't normally charge our Model 3 to above 75%.

  23. More corporate flight from California. Good.

    You know that at least one big business CEO was promoting this, right? Or don't you care about facts?

  24. Re:How pointless is that on Microsoft Working on Porting Sysinternals To Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All you are doing is showing your ignorance of Linux.

    strace provides the answer to your question.

  25. Re:How pointless is that on Microsoft Working on Porting Sysinternals To Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ProcMon logs file accesses, registry accesses, and network activity.

    So equivalent to strace?