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  1. Re:Reddit? on Nick Denton Predicts 'The Good Internet' Will Rise Again (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    But facebook, twitter, snapchat and formerly gawker suck _donkey_ balls. Which I admit I haven't looked for on YouPorn etc.

  2. Re:Why would you use batteries? on Australian Farmers Switch To Diesel Power As Electricity Prices Soar (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Being that wrong has to sting.

  3. Re: Why would you use batteries? on Australian Farmers Switch To Diesel Power As Electricity Prices Soar (abc.net.au) · · Score: 0

    Probably comes from delusional views of their own personal importance.

    Typed without a tiny hint of self awareness or irony.

    Many farmers have 4 year ag degrees and know as much about various plowing methods as the average /.er _claims_ to know about various databases.

  4. Re:reddit is a bunch of idiotic kids on Nick Denton Predicts 'The Good Internet' Will Rise Again (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3

    More reliable than the New York Times.

    I know, faint praise.

  5. Re:My twitter posts on Report: Up To 15% Of Twitter Accounts Are Bots (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Leverage that for sweet Google ad money. IIRC that's a penny for each 5 tweets. Setup bots to send 500,000 tweets/day and you're set.

  6. Re:IEEE, your grandpa's club on IEEE-USA Criticizes Failure To Reform The H-!B Program (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    You think they should do circuit analysis with Javascript on a AWS server? Fucking millennials.

  7. Re:A paltry $150 million? on Oculus CTO John Carmack Is Suing ZeniMax For $22.5 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Akalabeth (Ultima -1) had 3d views, on Apple ][s. It took one keystroke of input per frame. You could even shoot arrows IIRC. It has been a while.

  8. Re:One negative discovery after another on Alphabet's Waymo Asks Judge To Block Uber From Using Self-Driving Car Secrets (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A sucker and his money will soon be parted.

    As that's a given, it becomes important for the money to go to it's best use. By definition, that's for me to get it.

  9. Re:A paltry $150 million? on Oculus CTO John Carmack Is Suing ZeniMax For $22.5 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It was pretty cool eye candy in it's day. But yeah, Battlezone ++

  10. He's pretty damn rich as it is.

  11. Re:Not about winning a bet on Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days Or It's Free (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Australia has tons of crappy brown power coal. It's a big export for them.

  12. Re:Not about winning a bet on Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days Or It's Free (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hydro and CTs (combustion turbines) spin up fast enough they are often considered 'spinning' even if they technically aren't. Definitions vary, spinning reserve, ready reserve etc.

  13. Re: Batteries from Nevada to Australia? on Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days Or It's Free (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The South Australian power company is a 'public trust' (a PUD in American parlance). ETSA (Electricity Trust of South Australia, Hi guys, been a long time...) isn't technically part of the S Australian government.

  14. Re:A paltry $150 million? on Oculus CTO John Carmack Is Suing ZeniMax For $22.5 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If 'Stellar 7' qualified as pre wolf3d 3d shooter, then so did 'Battlezone'.

  15. Re:One negative discovery after another on Alphabet's Waymo Asks Judge To Block Uber From Using Self-Driving Car Secrets (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    All major new car vendors have finance wings that will give you a below market loan/lease in order to get you to sign.

    Lots of the leases have predictable over mileage payments that will be due at the end of the lease.

    Chumps are going to get chumped. It is an immoral act to let a sucker keep his money.

  16. Re:One negative discovery after another on Alphabet's Waymo Asks Judge To Block Uber From Using Self-Driving Car Secrets (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Volkswagen made a huge mistake. They talked to the cops.

  17. Bitcoin not setback at all. on The SEC Just Handed Bitcoin a Huge Setback (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now investors need to actually buy bitcoin, not just some shadow fund that may of may not actually hold bitcoin. Likely the fund would play arbitrage and create virtual bitcoins by matching short and long positions into nothing but profit for them.

    Having a fund might somehow 'add liquidity', but only a small share for the liquidity that investors buying/selling actual bitcoin will add.

  18. Re:A paltry $150 million? on Oculus CTO John Carmack Is Suing ZeniMax For $22.5 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    'Stellar 7'? Seriously what? Name them?

  19. Re:A paltry $150 million? on Oculus CTO John Carmack Is Suing ZeniMax For $22.5 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Be fair, he only invented the 3d shooter. Not like he wrote 'minecruft'.

  20. Re:One negative discovery after another on Alphabet's Waymo Asks Judge To Block Uber From Using Self-Driving Car Secrets (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Anybody being forced to sign anything? No...not a problem.

    You could make almost the same case against all new car vendors. Not their job to slap prospective new car buyers and say 'WTF are you thinking? Buying an insanely rapidly depreciating asset on a six year payment plan?'

  21. Re:Sounds Like Uber's in deep trouble on Alphabet's Waymo Asks Judge To Block Uber From Using Self-Driving Car Secrets (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Google uses off the shelf Lidar. Anybody that bought one, would get the same circuit board layouts. Google could buy their Lidar supplier, then they might own patents, but lidar is kind of old tech given patents length.

  22. Re:Guess what Google doesn't have on Alphabet's Waymo Asks Judge To Block Uber From Using Self-Driving Car Secrets (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Where the rubber meets the road, it does. Particularly in CA. No patent, no copyright, in my brain, mine.

    Things generally known are not secrets, trade or otherwise. The 'Kentucky fried rat' recipe (seven seas italian dressing mix, ground to a find powder and added to breading) is a 'trade secret'. Using 50k lidar systems in self driving cars and skipping all the cameras/image analysis steps is not.

    The only thing they have is the action of copying the files and the fact he took other's work product. Which was likely not in his brain at the time.

  23. Saying something is a 'trade secret' is _not_ the same thing as it being so. I've had employers claim that things right out of 'Art of Computer Programming' are theirs. I just ignored them and got on with my life.

  24. Re:non-issue then on How To Close the Gender Pay Gap By 2044 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly my point, they stop working and start bouncing the boobies. Because it works.

    When they hit their expiration date, it's too late. Nobody learns at 35 like they did at 15.

  25. You can't pay earnings to your stockholders without declaring income. No nation in the world charges tax on gross. Only a few _clueless_ states and cities. Your point is moot (and wrong).

    The really important number is (1-Corporatetaxrate) * (1-capitalgainstaxrate), which is very consistent at about 45% over the developed world.

    Having the corporate tax rate as high as it is, does distort the market. Companies don't pay dividends and instead concentrate on growth. Which will bite us.