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  1. I have to agree with you ArmoredDragon! These fools obsessing over outdated economic theory divested from reality are in for some real shocks. The concepts of macroeconomics are wrong and useless outside of niches academic journals. The reality of trade is based on contracts and these kinds of sudden tariffs fuck with all of that. (This is actually called meso-economics.) Trump has killed off the last chance for American recovery.

  2. Great, but now it is RCA Time! on Tesla Issues Its Largest Recall Ever Voluntarily Over Faulty Model S Steering (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla needs to break down the actual root causes - including all management failures. This kind of defect doesn't just show up in a finished product without warning from someone on the line seeing shoddy practices due to overwork or other bad pressures, or some engineer doing backend checks finding structural flaws overlooked previously. How far up does the failure go? The NHTSA will surely find out.

  3. Re:Obligatory SMBC on One Percent of Reddit Users Cause 75 Percent of the Drama (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    That best case scenario exists within academics, the valuable authors work together to create new knowledge. Unfortunately the larger body of internet users can't get with the program for various reasons related to lack of education, interest, or ethics. And this has to a degree infected science journalism, although the journals written by actual scientists remain immune.

  4. Re:Regulatory Compliance is Also a Problem on US Startups Don't Want To Go Public Anymore (qz.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you stupid? SOX is the fallout from Enron, that scam cost at least $40 billion in 2001-2. I know you weren't born yet but to put it into perspective that's 4 large aircraft carriers now, and more like half a dozen then. Real costs per dollar revenue are a pittance; data storage costs and added costs for accounting information systems are basically nothing now. The real reason your buddies complain is the jail time they now personally face for committing fraud.

  5. New fork: Bit Coin Crash! on Bitcoin Plummets Below $8,000 For First Time Since November (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Suicides skyrocket among over leveraged geeks who didn't understand finance, news at 11.

  6. Re: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation on Researchers Say Human Lifespans Have Already Hit Their Peak (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You idiots trot out that trite phrase as soon as research is mentioned because you donâ(TM)t understand it. Stop trying to âoelookâ smart and go study more. Try reading more than a Wikipedia page about research methods, because there are very rigorous ways to determine causality that require a bit more background to understand. Try SEM, and see how much you understand.

  7. No one deserves the results of biased treatment - neither men with pay bonus nor women without. The real pay for a job is based on what is paid for it regardless of all factors that do not actually influence performance, and whose assessment is not biased in nature or application.

  8. Re:To the contrary on EU Urges Internet Companies To Do More To Remove Extremist Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    No, they should all be treated as terrorist groups - their assets should be seized, bank accounts frozen, all revenue streams negated. Limited to their personal ability, they can act within the confines of the law. If crazy people rant on a corner then someone can directly remind them of their insanity, and if they obstruct the public then they will be removed by police.

  9. Re:It's the eu's way... on EU Urges Internet Companies To Do More To Remove Extremist Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Refugees are humans, with the same rights as all have. For a potential host nation, welcoming the refugees is the only process that results in their being integrated into and expanding the economy of the host nation. Camps by themselves with no outflow and no way out become cesspools inculcating the things that actually cause people to adopt terrorism as an approach to resolving their actual problems. Rather, vocational training and active camp security are required to combat that and funnel people into productive roles. Global warming will increase warfare and environmental decay which intensify migration, and the world has to adapt now.

  10. Re:Extremist Content on EU Urges Internet Companies To Do More To Remove Extremist Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Automation - every post is already structured text, and posts are submitted sequentially. The problem is simplified to one of traffic management and filtering. Excessive use is flagged and denied publication by default. New posts go into cache until inspected by both statistical word-count and linguistic algorithms for terrorism affiliated words and phrases, including using numbers and misspellings to obfuscate meanings. Social media networks are the internet press, so anyone using their systems for distribution is subject to publication rules

  11. Re:Destination censorship on EU Urges Internet Companies To Do More To Remove Extremist Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Go back under your rock, you damn ISIS advocates are disgusting!

  12. Re: Free speech takes courage on Cloudflare's CEO Has a Plan To Never Censor Hate Speech Again (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, courage is what is required to kill all Nazis and Fascists, and not only build but protect a civilization. Customer feedback drove Cloudflare decisions previously as it should. This statement is just pointless Nazi ass kissing. Cloudflare needs to replace this idiot now before he damages their actual business value.

  13. Re: Why does Apple even bother on Shouting 'Pay Your Taxes', Activists Occupy Apple Stores in France (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple directly benefits from all of those location factors and more in terms of services or they would not have stores anywhere, and would teleport products after being telepathically sold. Or go bankrupt

  14. Re:Why does Apple even bother on Shouting 'Pay Your Taxes', Activists Occupy Apple Stores in France (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Centralized commerce requires concentrated customers. Concentrated customers only exist in cities, and cities also decrease costs for businesses with agglomeration economies, but cost money for maintenance. Cities are supported by their nation. Taxes for all are mandatory. Disagree and you can go try making and selling shit in Somalia. In which case, good luck - a pirate will shoot your clerks, steal your products, and take you hostage to be killed unless paid promptly.

  15. Re:How do you know what people need? on Tesla Switches on Giant Battery To Shore Up Australia's Grid (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, markets existed before capitalism and will exist long after it is dead and part of history. Capitalism in the applied sense, which is all that matters, is abuse of markets for personal gluttony. I am a capitalist if it that word is substituted for the real term "trader", but not for its realy meaning as one in favor of gluttony and abuse at all costs.

  16. Re:Special Solution for a Special Problem on Tesla Switches on Giant Battery To Shore Up Australia's Grid (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Hmm, maybe. DC transmission at high voltages still requires conversion back to AC for heavy machinery, and the equipment required is more complex, heavy, and more expensive. It is just shifting the burden of costs for a DC decision in power supply out to the customer.

  17. No, that is a command economy, designed for wartime efficiency in the face of scarcity despite increased needs for defence. Every country uses it for industrial warfare now. Socialism in the sense of the article is about removing the impetus for capital accumulation beyond what is used to meet the needs of people. Gluttony is the core of raw capitalism. This is why modern countries use social democracy with markets to correct that excess.

  18. Re:Elon Musk ... is a fraud on Tesla Switches on Giant Battery To Shore Up Australia's Grid (reuters.com) · · Score: -1

    If Musk claims personal responsibility for even 1% of the output of the firms with his name on the board, then I'm the damn tooth fair. He is just a marketer that Slashdot and some techies have become infatuated with. Responsible development requires long-range planning, which Musk is not doing with this installation or the claimed charity work in PR. In both he has created a flimsy system with fixed short life and high maintenance costs. By the time those costs are unavoidable he will be off perpetuating the next scam/sale.

  19. No, capitalism requires that you chase capital without mercy. Socialism implies that you generate what people need.

    Read this article from 1988; specifically "It is this obsession with capital accumulation that distinguishes capitalism from the simple system for satisfying human needs it is portrayed as in mainstream economic theory. And a system driven by capital accumulation is one that never stands still, one that is forever changing, adopting new and discarding old methods of production and distribution, opening up new territories, subjecting to its purposes societies too weak to protect themselves. Caught up in this process of restless innovation and expansion, the system rides roughshod over even its own beneficiaries if they get in its way or fall by the roadside. As far as the natural environment is concerned, capitalism perceives it not as something to be cherished and enjoyed but as a means to the paramount ends of profit-making and still more capital accumulation."

  20. Re:Special Solution for a Special Problem on Tesla Switches on Giant Battery To Shore Up Australia's Grid (reuters.com) · · Score: -1

    And, DC transmission would be horribly resource inefficient. Think meter thick lines to go several hundred KM. AC exists to reduce effective resistance without increasing wire gauges. You can still use DC converters on the other end if you REALLY want DC, but most machinery is designed for AC of various types.

  21. Re:Special Solution for a Special Problem on Tesla Switches on Giant Battery To Shore Up Australia's Grid (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    More populated continents will have greater demands in a populated area, so will still require some sort of energy storage for excess production to be used at night or when there is no wind/heavy cloud cover, etc. Kinetic storage would actually be cheaper for small scale application, but it doesn't have the media appeal of batteries for some reason. What is more advanced than space-age technology creating nearly zero friction flywheels that weight tons?! Some dumb ass with a big mouth making a temperature sensitive solution in one of the hottest and driest areas of the world... One that won't even support the resource extraction industry that southern Australia depends on.

  22. Re:Pogrom against logical consistency on Scientists Call For Ban On Glitter, Say It's a Global Hazard That Pollutes Oceans (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except chemistry is very specific, and metal glitter is partly aluminum and partly PET, none of which behaves remotely like iron. Think metallised film, "PET is a hard, stiff, strong, dimensionally stable material that absorbs very little water. " This means it isn't biodegradable, and doesn't dissolve in water at appreciable rates vs the amounts being discharged. There is a wiki link too if you google that but it is less direct.

  23. Re:Pogrom against logical consistency on Scientists Call For Ban On Glitter, Say It's a Global Hazard That Pollutes Oceans (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is almost entirely the uniquely small size and sudden introduction into a foreign environment. There is a major difference between metal in the ground as ore and metal as it is used in industry, and again a difference between e.g. 1 gram/trillion liters in sea water and 1 gram/billion liters, for everything that breathes it or otherwise lives in constant contact with it. Not just animals but plants, and even both in ecosystems sustain damage. It is the change in availability that literally crowds out existing organisms, causes metabolic problems with what eats it, and especially with what breathes it. Plastic does all that plus has additional problems from chemical leaching that directly harms people, rather than just their food supply.

  24. That does a great job of explaining how the predictable run on a bank compares to the inevitable run on an exchange. Any institution, and I use the word loosely in the case of bitcoin exchanges, is either insured by a larger central bank or other larger more well funded agency, or is limited to the reserve it personally holds. There is some flexibility if the exchange is funded by illegal trade in the background then it can float a little based on its income, but because it is not insured by any larger entity you face the absolutely non-zero risk that all your millions are really nothing. Whoever owns the most and cashes out first, cashes out last. Now, there is the option also that if a state government is supporting bitcoin for any reason they may funnel some currency into supporting the exchanges, but then it is limited by how much they are willing to spend and how long they can spend it.

  25. So, which scammer got your credit card number? You can usually report that to police anywhere.