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  1. Re: What's bad about starting at 7:15AM on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    So does context. It was obvious the poster meant lesser. But, like those grad students, you focused on the pedantic details instead of the actual picture.

    PS: That lack of proper analysis on the part of MIT can easily be explained - they weren't parents and probably never gave a thought or helped out with the details of getting siblings off to school, perhaps even being influenced by their memories of hating being bussed.

  2. Re:what about we just build more schools on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly you are not a parent or haven't looked at any city maps and traced the homes of origin to the schools. It's a spider web approach, with hundreds of students coming from literally 360o around. Your plan would require 'security' for hundreds of children each way, every day. Also, 7:30AM is in the fucking *dark* in the winter.

  3. Re:Optimal Busses on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 0

    When they tried this in KC, they scheduled my daughter be picked up at 5:30 AM at the corner of 39th and Washington, one block off Broadway in front of a known goddam hooker hotel. She was fourteen. Needless to say, no fucking way.

  4. Oh dude, some of the very worst designers/developers/programmers I've ever run into were degreed. How about that gal who collapsed that bridge onto people's heads? She had a degree.

    Judging someone by their lack of credentials is a fool's gambit as is judging someone by their credentials.

  5. very wrong, applications now are built on many bloated layers such that no can understand or secure it.

    Very broad statement there. Some are and some aren't.

  6. Nobody ever

    If by that you mean physicists, you may be right. If however, you mean intelligent (that may caveat this) people, bullshit. I've argued with that interpretation right here.

  7. Re:What typical 9-5? on Wharton Professor Says America Should Shorten the Work Day By 2 Hours (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Cite some statistics.

  8. Re: What typical 9-5? on Wharton Professor Says America Should Shorten the Work Day By 2 Hours (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    To the non insane, non RW snowflake , easily triggered folks reading the article, it is clear the writer means for backend/non retail type "thought" industry workers

    First, after reading your post, I'd say you have no leg to stand on with your "non insane" remark. Almost everything was straw and comes across very 'triggered'.

    Second, it was written by an academic (and a guy with a book to sell). You have no idea if what you wrote is true. Me? I go by what people say/write, not any imagined telepathic powers I'd like to have.

  9. Re: What typical 9-5? on Wharton Professor Says America Should Shorten the Work Day By 2 Hours (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They should be open ...

    No. To be fair, they should be open exactly the same hours as you go to work. They're people too. What gives your desire for convenience priority over their desires to have the same free time as you?

  10. Re:Still using Facebook on Facebook Wanted Banks To Fork Over Customer Data Passing Through Messenger (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not relevant, it's not their call to accept or not as this would impact bank users who don't use FB. FB's modus is to use info it gathers from one source to suss out info about another. There's a reason the feds require all wire communication be private. Turns out the reason is FaceBook.

  11. Roadside stands are typically from the farmer's own field that is used to feed said farmer's family. In those, treatment is usually not done or is so with tobacco-juices and such, not commercial pesticides. Large conglomerates and farmers harvesting for General Mills don't have roadsides. And unless you're a moron, you wash your veggies anyway.

  12. Seventy was an exaggeration. NYC only had 31 that they will fine you for for not using 'correctly'.

  13. Re:I need a Gyro... on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Do you seriously craft your diet around late night comedians?

  14. Re:And then there are special needs on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I suspect the number of "special eating needs" derives much more from the psychological than biological (see "gluten intolerance").

  15. Re:Americans going back to normal at home cooking? on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You really go out to eat each day, every day? And if you "cook" at home, it’s ready-made convenience food? How do you even survive? Isn't that extremely expensive? Don't you miss real food?

    Dude or dudette, you need to talk with actual, average Americans more. Don't develop your world view from news clips.

  16. You left out "crushing". There's a difference between overall student loans being paid off and "crushing" ones. That 40M (44.2) is overall.

  17. Re:We are ditching the stupid Boomer Ways! on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife would make baked goods by pouring a mound of flour on the counter, making a crater and adding the other ingredients by "feel". Once the dough was done (bread, cake, pie crust, biscotti; didn't matter - and neither did volume) the excess flour was swept back into the bag.

  18. Re:We are ditching the stupid Boomer Ways! on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Especially as jellomizer said, you learn how to render the rest of it down. My late wife could take a turkey and make damn near half a month's meals from it; turkey dinner, sandwiches (cold and hot half-plate with gravy), and the gallons of gravy (she froze the stock and used it for literally months afterward), then soups and stews. .

  19. Re:It's the Economy, Stupid on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Pick some better markets. All three of the ones I shop at have an entire fresh produce section.

  20. My time is worth more to me than the $$ is costs to get a (good) restaurant meal.

    I really doubt your off time is a valuable as what you assign it. As stated elsewhere, this is a very common /. attitude. Your off time is no more valuable than the garbage man's.

  21. Re:It's easier now to cook, and FAR cheaper. on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    False comparison. That ten minutes you spend cooking you are **not** spending at work. This is a very common mistake that /.rs make - all their time is worth whatever they make at work. It ain't. You are simply not that important.

  22. Because said information is ofttimes buried in a labyrinth of deceptive section and topic headers.

    A manual's not a novel. It should cascade through topic headings that lead you to the information you need.

  23. How about instead we give them a free room in a nice monitored location and they undergo treatment for their addictions? That way we know for damn sure where they are and where they're going to shit.

  24. Re:They said the same thing about food aid on Google-Funded Study Finds Cash Beats Typical Development Aid (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    When you make sweeping statements about "they", you're just lamenting that everyone else doesn't believe in the same things you do in the same ratios.

  25. Re:Because I tell them to ... on Why Can't More Than Four People Have a Conversation at Once? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    As you get older, you start using the phrase "I don't care." as you look in their eyes.