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  1. Re:Threshold on Half the Work People Do Can Be Automated, Says McKinsey (techinasia.com) · · Score: 1

    The only problem with your worldview is that it's so blatantly demonstrably untrue in the absolute terms you put it in. But it sounds like you need it to sleep at night.

  2. Re: Facebook wants more liberal news on Facebook's 'Journalism Project' Seeks To Strengthen Online News (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    where folks who don't want invasive government moved to

    Or you could give up trying to get what you can't have. You have no right to live as an island.

  3. Re:Breadth & Accuracy 120 years ago on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your back of the napkin familiarity on the subject matter in an age of scientific hyper specialization makes any opinion you have on the matter totally moot.

    How on earth do you think you could possibly add any line of thinking that hasn't already been thought of, proposed, hashed over, and sorted out by the people who've been studying these lines of science for decades?

  4. Empthy on How A Massive India Call Center Swindled 15,000 Americans (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I feel bad for people who fall for it, but the two times I was called for similar grifting, it was a hilarious fun conversation.

  5. Re: Interjection! on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    The dude knows his choir.

  6. wonderfully confusing! on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    year of the distro! what's a distro?

  7. Re:the smell of E-6 in the morning on Kodak Is Bringing Back Ektachrome Film (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    You could just ask a professional photographer. And could you stop using the word hipster like you know what it means, dad?

  8. Re:All-in-One = One-Shot Monitor on Dell Unveils XPS 27 All-In-One With 10 Speaker Dual 50W Sound System (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Desktops or whatever you want to call this don't really die tho.

  9. Re:Peak Slashdot on Samsung Proves Its Business Remains Sound Despite Note 7 Fiasco (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You're very sensitive.

  10. Re:I admit it, I like Windows 10. on Microsoft To Revamp Windows 10 UI With Upcoming 'Project Neon' Update, Leaked Images Show (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The performance gains alone of Win10 over Win7 are substantial enough that it makes me confident that anyone who is sticking to the latter hasn't tried out the former on the same hardware.

  11. Re:Proof that they're spying on you on Rumors of Cmd's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither does Windows.

  12. Re:Proof that they're spying on you on Rumors of Cmd's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    They could know it (well, say it with confidence) from a limited number of users who participate in detailed opt-in telemetry. They could collect it from surveys. They could make estimations. They could infer it from indirect but related telemetry you're aware of. It's not like they said, "We know exact numbers." For the sake of the point being made, it's a claim that they can say with confidence.

  13. The world isn't a Saturday morning cartoon.

  14. Re:This stuff makes me feel old on Bitcoin Is Crashing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    > when you witness the instability coming to your favorite fiat currency

    I'm always impressed when people say things that people have been saying forever, but they're convinced that they're right, this time.

  15. ^is because

  16. Re:So... on Netflix Hasn't Forgotten About Its 4.3 Million DVD Subscribers (qz.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So your rhetorical answer to why people download movies for free because they can download movies for free?

  17. Re: Good luck getting contracts! on Work Emails After Hours Finally Banned in France (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Man, I love saying stuff nobody can prove or disprove! I'm so right!

  18. Re: Good luck getting contracts! on Work Emails After Hours Finally Banned in France (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoa, the four French tech entrepreneurs you know in San Jose left France to start a company there? What are the odds?

  19. Re:More time for TV on Work Emails After Hours Finally Banned in France (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    If you like doing off-the-clock work, great. Not sure what that has to do with labor laws, tho.

  20. Re:Good luck getting contracts! on Work Emails After Hours Finally Banned in France (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Companies who give a shit about their customers and their employees can have enough people not to require people to be available 24/7. Note how this only applies to companies over 50 people. If you do business with people, your comment doesn't apply. If you do business with companies, nothing prevents a larger sized company from being available 24/7 without their employees being available 24/7.

    Anyhow, what the OP says is mostly true. The minimum is doing no work. The maximum is being "at work" every minute you're awake. It's amusingly naive to believe that those who make themselves available all of the time are inherently better at what they do, or are more valuable. Anybody with a decent amount of experience in life and exposure to different working environments and disciplines knows this.

  21. Microsoft just bought LinkedIn. It's ironic that you'd make such a comment given how this article is about people who said the exact same thing when FB bought Instagram.

  22. Are you incapable of reading more than one article on a given subject?

  23. Re:That's the wrong move. Build a market for ivory on China Says It Will Shut Down Ivory Trade By End of 2017 (go.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a private market. What part of "phases out the legal trade" is complicated?

  24. Re: we saw that the science was falsified by the C on Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources Site No Longer Says Humans Cause Climate Change (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you agree with the consensus, it seems really stupid to me to really harp on scientists. Should we be looking at politicians or religious leaders to lead by example here, or?

  25. Re:Where's a telco when you need one? on The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Monsanto. Also, it would be nice if you didn't imply to be something that you're not.