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  1. In the 1970s India paid men to get vasectomies.

    Many men that already had their families literally got dozens of vasectomies.

  2. So you agree with him? Hint: Capacity factor.

  3. Re: Too bad they don't aim... on India Aims To Put One Million Electric Vehicles On the Road By Mid-2019 (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Steel age cultures wipe out stone age cultures whenever they meet. Duh.

  4. Re:Isn't most of it propaganda these days? on Should Congress Force Social Media To Investigate Foreign Propaganda Trolls? (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    When and where was that? Seriously, it was way before my time, and I'm old. Were you watching TV or news reals? Couldn't have been TV.

  5. Re:Nature vs Nurture on AI Can Detect Sexual Orientation Based On Person's Photo (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Could have been at 'The Church of Our Lady of Copious Lubricants'.

    But I would have spotted him from the pulpit.

  6. No reason not to try it. But be aware that this isn't a 'pure win', like electronic fuel injection (carbs having a similar cost to EFI). More like mechanical FI.

    Sails will deliver a benefit and have a cost. It's not a sure winner.

    Fixed sails are a bad plan in storms IMHO.

  7. Re:Why VR will never work on VR's Tough Demand: Your Undivided Attention (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    No.

    You can change speed and direction, so long as you moderate the rates and maintain a fixed cockpit or other reference within which the camera movement is the headset.

    Car sims are one of the better genres for VR. But even there, content is key, short ovals and rapid switchback courses are pukey.

    Same is true for flight sims. Fixed frame of ref, within which the only movement is the headset, then limited rates plus flying style.

    Space sims blow the whole coordinated turn illusion, for me they are typically worse than flight sims. But Elite is OK. It really is down to content.

  8. Re: First sentence is absurd on Could 'Re-Engineering' Earth Help Ease the Hurricane Threat? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They're both (still decent/awesome at the time) GMC factory race trucks/SUVs from the early 90s. 14 seconds, bone stock. Bored out grand national motor, blown V6.

    Want to see a ford lightning guy frown, drive up in one.

  9. Rich women are too spoiled to pop out double digits these days. Lucky to get eight.

  10. Re: Work 24/7! on At Burning Man While Your Startup Burns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also a quote. Some 19th century riverboat gambler, who's name escapes me at the moment..

  11. Re: Work 24/7! on At Burning Man While Your Startup Burns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    A sucker and his money (will soon be parted/were lucky to get together in the first place).

    Somebody is going to get it.

    The most moral outcome, by definition, is for me to get it.

  12. Re:English, please on VR's Tough Demand: Your Undivided Attention (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You're SO watches the VR porn. You supply the 'feel around'.

  13. Re:I love it so much. on Why It's So Hard To Trust Facebook (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    And don't forget the Russian pissing whores propaganda. How was that not the Ds colluding?

  14. Re:"Tone at the top" is a thing on VR Company Upload Settles Sexual Harassment Lawsuit (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, except rarity...mutual attraction is rare, females are common. For clarity, I'll amend my comment: If you don't know how to go about it, don't try and learn at work. Don't wear a 'wanna fuck?' t shirt. Don't email dickpics to all@work. No stalking. etc etc.

  15. Re:Sample sizes of ~700 are enough for polls... on 67% of Americans Use Social Media To Get Some of their News · · Score: 1

    Internal polls attempt accuracy. Public polls are glorified ads.

    If what you said was true, would the 'push poll' even exist? Polls are used to push agendas all the time. It's all how they ask the question. can get any answer they want.

  16. Re:Its expensive as fuck, on VR's Tough Demand: Your Undivided Attention (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Spoiled. Flight Unlimited on a VFX1. Those were hard to read gauges.

  17. Re:In the EU by law you get them and DO over as we on At Burning Man While Your Startup Burns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Do hangovers count? The brits will never run out of vacation time if hungover days count as sick time. Their weekends would be near endless.

  18. Re:Why VR will never work on VR's Tough Demand: Your Undivided Attention (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You can leave up up and control rates on the other axis. Like most driving and helicopter sims.

    Assetto Corsa is pretty much 'puke free', except for the hill climb course.

    Who says they'll never have a safe way to fuck with your inner ears? Not today, but never is a long time.

  19. Re: And burning yourself out is useless on At Burning Man While Your Startup Burns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    All the great liars believe their lies at the instant they tell them.

  20. Re:Work 24/7! on At Burning Man While Your Startup Burns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Sell your stock? In a closely held private corp? To who? Nobody would give you a nickle for it.

  21. Re: Work 24/7! on At Burning Man While Your Startup Burns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the gardening and plumbing business has a chance. Juicero is _done_, never had a chance.

    He should party as hearty as possible, for tomorrow he has to find an honest job.

  22. Re:Work 24/7! on At Burning Man While Your Startup Burns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Who's bad mouthing him? We're bad mouthing his idiot investors. More power to him. It would have been an immoral act to let the suckers keep their money.

  23. Re:Why VR will never work on VR's Tough Demand: Your Undivided Attention (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Put your grandma in front a big screen, 3d shooter. Bet she gets motion sick.

    You build tolerance, but the content has to be carefully written to not make you motion sick.

  24. Re:English, please on VR's Tough Demand: Your Undivided Attention (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You can run a browser, media player etc in virtual desktop and task switch like any computer. But it sucks, so nobody does.

    VR's advantage is immersiveness. Multitasking isn't the point.

  25. Re:And burning yourself out is useless on At Burning Man While Your Startup Burns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    $8/half cup of juice.

    It was dead from the word go. They were just looking for a sucker and failed.