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  1. Perhaps their room‘ is at the southpole.

  2. The market relies on the fact that there are lots of stupid investors out there, if they are replaced by intelligence, artificial or not, it collapses.

  3. Easy on Return of the Bubble Car? (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    " One wonders how it could meet any kind of safety standards, "

    Easy, no side windows and it's a Quad. Just like the electric Renault Twizy.

  4. According to Betteridge‘s law of headlines.

  5. Think of it as evolution in action.

  6. 'Even if Amazon, Apple and Google sent their smart speakers to my house for free I wouldn't use them.'

    Smart speakers?
    You managed to post a message here, so you already used such a device.

  7. Re:clarification required on Florida's Gulf Coast Battles Deadly And Smelly Red Tide (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "I'm not familiar with that subspecies of Homo floridensis. Does it have a specific range? It must be a sight to see in the wild, "

    They migrate there, usually in their seventies. They drive big Cars, Cadillacs and they feed very early in the evening, eating stuff called 'early bird special' specially prepared for them by the local population.
    You can approach them very carefully, but don't spook them with political talk or they get apoplectic.

  8. Re:Don't worry, they're a swing state on Florida's Gulf Coast Battles Deadly And Smelly Red Tide (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If you get rid of the coastal golf courses,“

    Sssssss! Lèse-Majesté!

  9. Re:Don't worry, they're a swing state on Florida's Gulf Coast Battles Deadly And Smelly Red Tide (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Ever hear of the Red Sea? Yeah - it's been called that since 2500BC for the same reasons as this algae bloom‘

    Same thing on the Red Planet I suppose.

  10. Re:Lazy loading is what? on Built-in Lazy Loading Lands in Google Chrome Canary (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "Tells us the exact names of the config flags, doesn't even explain what lazy loading is. "

    I'm a lazy loader. I'm too lazy to load anything anywhere.
    I always feign sciatica or a thrown back.
    Now I can just change a setting.

  11. You mean the Holy Mary Anti-Virus sticker that a religious nut client of mine bought for 50$ and put on his notebook is not a good idea?

  12. I browse on TV on Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't have cable, just a notebook in the garage, connected to my 60 inch TV where I watch all my legal and illegal stuff.
    When I'm too lazy to reach for the keyboard, I just use the onscreen one with the mouse, either with my left or right hand, depending on what I'm doing at that time.
    I doubt that they recognize me that way.

  13. He's just not as good as a young experienced one. Old doctors assume they've seen it all and 70% of the customers are diagnosed as 'stomach flu' anyway, just on general principle.
    And nobody is as old as IBM.

  14. Re:News that... on Apple Delays 32-Person Group FaceTime From iOS 12 Launch (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "matter?"

    You got that wrong, the news is for nerds, it's the stuff that matters, not the news.

  15. Down under in Down under on The Mining Town Where People Live Under the Earth (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It fits.

  16. That's why I always have 2 wedges in my baggage, to put under the hotel door, blocking it, so that nobody can enter while I'm in the room, key or no key, cleaning, security or robbers.

  17. Bummer on Reddit Blocked In China (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    But where do the Chinese get their conspiracy theories now?

  18. I did not see that coming on Google DeepMind's AI Beats Doctors at Spotting Eye Disease in Scan (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    But it's great.

  19. "for not patching your systems."

    Perhaps their machines didn't have the chips to upgrade to the latest, greatest Windows version.

    You know, the cobbler's kids are barefoot.

  20. "sending the reactors to a nuclear waste storage facility"

    Problem is, there is no such thing.

    'This leaves American utilities and the United States government, ... without any designated long-term storage site for the high-level radioactive waste stored on site at various nuclear facilities around the country. '
    Wikipedia

  21. Re:Really impressive on Julia 1.0 Released After a Six-Year Wait (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Fuck you you fucking SJW bitch. This is why women are not welcomed in the open source community because you fucking cunts make everything WORSE."

    Oh Romeo, my Romeo, is that you?

  22. Great on Chemists Discover How Blue Light Speeds Blindness · · Score: 1

    Millions of old people will run around with orange tinted glasses in 5, 4, 3, ...

  23. The times, they are a‘changing on Scientists Claim To Have Solved the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Years ago it was supposed to be rogue aliens or rogue pirates, now it‘s rogue waves.

  24. Re:uhhh cool the water then? on Europe's Heatwave is Forcing Nuclear Power Plants To Shut Down (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    "Seriously, why not just chill the water?"

    They do. The massive towers around the plant are cooling towers. :-)
    But even those don't cool the water enough to be able to send it back to the river without killing all the fauna, because the river is already hot and also it doesn't have enough water in the first place.

    In winter, the river is frozen and they can't use them either.

    And still they want us to believe that they can work around the clock, unlike solar and wind.