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  1. Re:Automated Writing on Half the Work People Do Can Be Automated, Says McKinsey (techinasia.com) · · Score: 1

    Reporters that just put their byline on press releases have made their jobs incredibly easy to automate. I have no sympathy for those deceitful fucks.

  2. Obsolete truism on US Puts Bumblebee On the Endangered Species List For First Time (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    In the late 1980s computer power got good enough to model bee wings that flex and they were allowed to fly again.

  3. Re:This is one type; others have less decline on US Puts Bumblebee On the Endangered Species List For First Time (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Get them early, they get really aggressive as fall approaches.

    A bucket and 10lbs of dry ice will wipe out a nest. In the evening (just prior to sundown), watching from a distance, note the location of the nest openings.

    In the morning (before dawn) put a block of dry ice on each opening, cover with an upside down bucket, you will asphyxiate the whole nest.

  4. Re:What's the point? on Microsoft's New Windows 10 Game Mode Will Maximize Gaming Performance (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 2

    Console ports are the 'better games'? You are nuts.

  5. Re:And mathematicians, including on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Nobody except Marx has even claimed that monopolies are inevitable. He was wrong about every prediction he made. Capitalism should be down to zero profit by now, if you believe that drunken idiot.

    Less Karl, more Adam would do you good.

  6. Re:You don't know what a free market is, do you? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Idealogues are a subset of theoreticians. They are just very emotionally attached to their pet theory.

  7. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    People do strange things all the time. Some people collect old French cars...

    Spending $500 in time, disassembling a crappy cassette player to replace all the belts, makes no sense. In the end, it will still sound like very low data rate MP3 plus hiss.

    Who knows, VCRs could be next. Noisey SD pictures being 'warmer' and all.

  8. Re: In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Imperfect, just better than anything else yet tried.

  9. Re: In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You know it. Japanese in perfectionist mode. Audio circuitry in a Faraday cage, next to the heads.

  10. Re:Super Cheap? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Willing to bet it depends on storage conditions.

    They make smart labels for temperature sensitive drugs that integrate temperature over time (some chemically, some electronically) and turn red when it's no longer 'good'.

  11. Re:You don't know what a free market is, do you? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's 'free enough', absolutes don't exist outside the minds of theoreticians.

  12. Re:you mean capitalism works? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Like I suggested downthread, roll your own and post the design on 'hackaday'. Talk is cheap.

  13. Re:you mean capitalism works? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    None of those things did anything.

    CVS is doing it for the money.

  14. Re:"Super Cheap"? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Roll your own and post the design on 'Hackaday'.

  15. Re:What lesson is that? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The lesson to smart monopolists is 'don't charge the full tilt monopoly price unless you want to attract competition'.

    Had their excess profit been less than the short term amortized cost of entering the market, they could have milked it for decades.

    Charging more would have drawn competition faster.

  16. Re: In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, everything Nakamichi made was that overpriced. Also willing to bet those were early/mid 80s prices,

    They were the best cassette players, no belts, everything direct drive with its own motor. Still not worth the money IMHO. Kind of wanted, but always had something better to spend the money on.

  17. Re:Conservatives need to realize cheating occurs on US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Batteries don't work when frozen. EVs just won't work in Moosejaw, Big diesels need to be left running all winter, Gas cars are plugged in whenever parked. Rental car companies have riders on their agreements telling you 'not our problem if you don't plug the car in and it won't start in the morning.'

    You can add battery heaters to an EV, but EVs don't make enough waste heat to stay thawed when rolling.

  18. Re:Well yeah.... on US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The post smog large diesels suck balls compared to the older ones. Seriously, suck big wet donkey balls, like a 80s gas engine.

  19. Re:Now this is just getting stupid on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    'Noise wars' predate CDs. It was worse on vinyl as they had much less margin.

  20. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Remind us all, how much did those Nakamichi decks cost new? $1000?

  21. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Cassette players were disposable. Sure you can focus on Nakamichis, but 99.9% of the market was junk made by Matsushita.

  22. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    IIRC some fool traded 'Carlsbad' beer (the company) for two tulip bulbs just before that bubble popped.

    Some idiots are lucky, doesn't make them not idiots. Trying to time a bubble is an idiots game.

  23. Re:give me convenience or give me a kill switch on Europe Calls For Mandatory 'Kill Switches' On Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't even know where to start, that claim would imply blithering incompetence from the top to the bottom of the company.

  24. Re:Discrimination on Europe Calls For Mandatory 'Kill Switches' On Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Jam your finger into the mechanism so it gets pinched by the rotating ice extractor. Wait for it to start turning, then try and turn it off.

    Don't test this on your fapping hand.

  25. Re:You see, killbots have a preset kill limit on Europe Calls For Mandatory 'Kill Switches' On Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    and Hillary would be 'mom'.