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  1. Re:Highlights the problem with our legal system on Was The Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse Triggered By Post-Tensioning? (enr.com) · · Score: 1

    The class of people made late by the road closer is large. They could each get a nickle, while the shyster gets a million.

  2. Re:PhD is short for on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You need a doctorate. So your qualified to 'doctor' data.

  3. Re:That was a little too quick. on Uber Settles With Family of Woman Killed By Self-Driving Car, Avoids Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Coming from the left. The video shows a wide shoulder to her right, if not a true lane.

  4. Only six times? on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 0

    There is irrational depression and rational 'oh shit what the fuck have I done'.

    Many recent grads are facing the end of 'the party', the realization that 'the party' has left them dumber then when they started college and denial of the both these facts.

    If you have a * studies degree and your not depressed, see a shrink.

  5. Re:That was the same statement made... on Tesla Says Autopilot Was Engaged During Fatal Model X Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I own one of the first cars with cruise control. It's a 1960, so almost 60 years ago.

    It works by pushing up from under the gas pedal. You have to keep your foot on it.

    That's a conservative design. Tesla should shock the driver in the balls/labia with increasing voltage if they take their hands off the wheel or eyes off the road.

  6. Re:Was this unsafe following? on Tesla Says Autopilot Was Engaged During Fatal Model X Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It was on a bay area highway. Safe to assume _everybody_ involved was tailgating.

  7. Re:And running it at minimum following distance? on Tesla Says Autopilot Was Engaged During Fatal Model X Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    _Everybody_ tailgates in the bay area. I'm surprised it was only two. Likely only the traffic going down the off ramp was blocked/involved.

  8. Re:Driving is can be extremely dangerous! Be safe! on Tesla Says Autopilot Was Engaged During Fatal Model X Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    'Thinking about boobies' has gotten many people killed.

    100% focus is impossible. But most people 'sleep drive'.

  9. Re: Driving is can be extremely dangerous! Be safe on Tesla Says Autopilot Was Engaged During Fatal Model X Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The car...Wanted to be a roadster. Couldn't stand the shame of being a mall utility vehicle.

  10. Re:That was a little too quick. on Uber Settles With Family of Woman Killed By Self-Driving Car, Avoids Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    She was in the middle lane when hit. Didn't 'jump out'. Ubers cameras have _shitty_ night vision. WTF happened to LIDAR?

  11. Re:USPS does NOT lose money on Amazon on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    You can say it again. It remains a lie.

  12. Re:USPS does NOT lose money on Amazon on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    'Sick and Evil people' setup SS, then exempted themselves.

  13. Re:USPS does NOT lose money on Amazon on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your just 'pants on head' wrong. First class postage pays the costs of the post office. The rest is just like Amazon, getting a cheap rate as the delivery guy is a sunk cost.

  14. I have a dislike for government tit suckers that exempt themselves from ponzi schemes run by the government.

    First class mail 'pays the freight'. It's volume is on a steady downward trend. The 'email hit' continues, year after year.

  15. Re:Lawsuit in 3... 2... 1... on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If this is the most egregious example you've seen, you have had your eyes pinched firmly closed.

  16. Re:USPS does NOT lose money on Amazon on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We should, also unions and anybody else that manages retirement trusts.

    But so long as I'm not on the hook for the money, the retirees and workers should be doing the work.

    Defined benefit retirement should just be a dead concept. People _should_ manage their own investments, it encourages economic understanding. (Which is bad for the Democrats.)

  17. Re:USPS does NOT lose money on Amazon on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    The post office is a fairly unique government agency. It's going to continue shrinking, even the government can see that.

    Funding current employees retirement is to get them to _stop_ hiring employees they no longer need.

    There are dozens of government agencies that have long outlived their function (e.g. rural electrification) but shamble along as a zombie agencies, sending billions/year to rent seaking scum. Too bad the congress of the 1960s wasn't as smart.

  18. Re:Oh Gawd, another Trumptrum on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I voted for Vermin Supreme. But I haven't laughed as hard as on election night in a long time. The butthurt is still putting a smile on my face. Keep it up.

  19. Re:Trump is referring to post office subsidizing A on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Average cost != incremental cost.

    As long as they are charging more than incremental cost, they _are_ making money. The delivery guy on the route is a sunk cost.

    You should know this...it's not like your a kid.

  20. Re:USPS does NOT lose money on Amazon on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: -1

    Bullshit. The post office is shrinking (email). It would be insane _not_ to require a shrinking service to fund its retirement obligations.

    Requiring them to fund current employees will get them to reduce headcount. An almost intractable problem in the federal government.

    But I'll say it again: Post office employees, congresscritters and staff should get social security, a 401k match and NOTHING ELSE. Once they've funded their retirement accounts congress should just fold the system into the SS trust fund.

  21. The post office is going to be smaller than it was...email.

    Given that fact, it would be insane _not_ to require them to fund their employees retirement accounts. Tax payers are on the hook for those retirements, fund them now.

    That said: Fuck them. _After_ they have funded their accounts, the post office retirees should all be forced into Social Security (along with congress). Put all those funds into the SS trust.

    As to what Amazon pays: Less than average cost, more than incremental cost. Normal business practice. Sunk costs etc, the postman was already travelling the route.

  22. Re:Lawsuit in 3... 2... 1... on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's called 'smash and grab' and has been common practice in DC for many decades. (Deliberately crashing a company's stock price so your friends can buy it up).

    Did you object when any other admin did it? No...Well fuck off.

  23. Which API needs to be subverted? on Google Starts Blocking 'Uncertified' Android Devices From Logging In (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, this should take about a second. Simply have it always return 'Pixel 2' (or something similar).

  24. Re:Investments only go up right? on Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense.

    If you aren't making grades and progress towards your degree in Germany, you are bouncing down the stairs of the university. You obviously phrased your search in a stupid way.

  25. Re:75% is clearly an overestimate on More Than 75 Percent of Earth's Land Areas Are 'Broken,' Major Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Overestimate? The word you are looking for is: lie.