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  1. Re:Is that really a flaw on How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    But the flaw there is that you are defining people who have a lot of credit as "not rich" when access to that much credit is in fact very much a form of being rich.

    No, it's not.

    In the end if they declare bankruptcy that does not mean they did not literally live like a king for a while.

    Living like a king is not the same as being a king.

  2. Why do writers do this? on Two Stars Collided And Solved Half of Astronomy's Problems. Now What? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 0

    the densest things in the universe besides black holes.

    People get immune to click-bait hype. Say "the second densest things in the universe" instead.

  3. Re:Better idea... on How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping (nypost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Trust me, your little darlings aren't going to be scarred for life.

    A metric fuck-load of people need to learn this.

  4. Re:Some do-gooding politician failed basic economi on How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    watch the crying kids belonging to the more practical parents

    The flaw in your counter-argument is that the same quality that makes practical parents not pay outrageous prices on fad pieces of shit makes them have trained their children to not be spoiled, whiny brats.

  5. Re:Yeah.... but.... on How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    More importantly, more money is being extracted from rich people who clearly have too much

    The flaw in your argument is "credit cards", which allows any wahoo with sufficient credit limit to drown themselves (and then complain to the government about getting fleeced).

  6. Re:Yeah.... but.... on How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping (nypost.com) · · Score: 2

    why isn't it GOP policy to buy up the toys and force people to pay more?

    Because there's no forcing people to buy non-essentials.

  7. Some do-gooding politician failed basic economics. on How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping (nypost.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    and then reselling them at outrageous markups.

    If all of the resold toys are bought at the outrageous markup, then that's what they should have been priced in the first place.

    Instead, Schumer should be bitching and complaining about idiot parents who pay that much for Fingerlings. I say that acts like this make people unfit to be parents. and that there's a strong case that their children should be taken away.

    (Where these kids should be placed is left as an exercise for the reader.)

  8. Four times per year, with numerous other 300 km round trips.

    And, like @magzteel, there's a shocking number of people who make one hour -- or more -- commutes every day.

  9. "The maximum NEDC range of the Nissan e-NV200 is 106 miles"

    LOL. That won't even get close to cutting it on our (one day, one way) 1000 km drive this Christmas.

  10. How much does an electric minivan cost, what's it's passenger capacity, and how much does it cost?

  11. "North Dakota" (90% white) was my first thought...

  12. Re:And 90% of the 90% are the biggest boys on Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? · · Score: 1

    There aren't going to be many null pointer dereference errors in COBOL-85 and FORTRAN-77...

  13. Re:And 90% of the 90% are the biggest boys on Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Operating systems and programs may be wrote in inherently less secure languages such as C/C++, and it may even be for good reasons

    Or bad reasons like Comp Sci elitist "I'm so smart, I'm not going to fuck up" snobbery.

    Ada FTW!!!

  14. Re:Security problems are NOT just bugs on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Nah, it's Comp Sci snobbery.

  15. Re:Security problems are NOT just bugs on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 0

    Bad design choices

    Like choosing to use insecure-by-design languages.

    The vast majority of security bugs would disappear if languages like Ada, PL/1, FORTRAN and COBOL were used instead.

  16. Re:TBL is delusional. Or an academic Marxist. on Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of the Web: 'The System is Failing' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical libertarian.

    ProTip: Marxists aren't the only ones who are delusional about human nature.

  17. Re:TBL is delusional. Or an academic Marxist. on Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of the Web: 'The System is Failing' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing you wrote disagrees with what I wrote.

  18. TBL is delusional. Or an academic Marxist. on Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of the Web: 'The System is Failing' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Of course, academic Marxists *are* delusional...

    Anyone who know a whit of history knows that an "open platform that allows anyone to share information, access opportunities and collaborate across geographical boundaries" is completely contrary to human nature and the economics it creates.

  19. The stuff I (used to) buy from walmart.com is the grocery stuff I wouldn't expect to buy from Amazon.

    I did notice two weeks ago that Wally has increased online prices compared to in-store, and figured that shipping cost was the reason.

  20. Re:"45% of us believe" on 'Black Friday Is Dying' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet he was a trans-man. (Or woman; I keep forgetting which is which...)

  21. "45% of us believe" on 'Black Friday Is Dying' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    That would be 90% of women, and 0% of men.

  22. Re:Russia has been doing this forever on Russia Hackers Had Targets Worldwide, Beyond US Election (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Whether they liked patchouli or crewcuts they'd be flipping the f*** out over the idea that Russian agents were (or are) "working" for some aspect of the highest office in this country.

    Nah. Uncle Joe was sorely misunderstood, and Communists really care for the oppressed, unlike the hated Yankees. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro are my heroes, and the Maryknoll Sisters are my heroines.

  23. Re:Russia has been doing this forever on Russia Hackers Had Targets Worldwide, Beyond US Election (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been a long time since I watched FNC. What are some examples of farcically untrue stuff that it broadcasts?

  24. Re:Russia has been doing this forever on Russia Hackers Had Targets Worldwide, Beyond US Election (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    Whenever I see an "shocking" article about Russia, my first thought is, "Why the shock that countries work for their own interest and against their enemies?"

  25. Re:Yeah, right. on Chipmaker Nvidia's CEO Sees Fully Autonomous Cars Within 4 Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, exactly...