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  1. Re:I just don't know about this on John Hancock Will Include Fitness Tracking In All Life Insurance Policies (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The main cause of accidents is 'not paying attention' rather than 'driving fast'. OBD2 monitors can't tell if your paying attention or doing needle point on your steering wheel while doing 65 down the freeway (I've seen it).

    Driving slow like an 80 year old can't get you a 50% discount.

    I drive like a fucking maniac, but focus when I do. Decades, no tickets, no accidents. Super cheap insurance rates.

  2. Re:EVERYTHING about this is wrong... on John Hancock Will Include Fitness Tracking In All Life Insurance Policies (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Daily felon.

    Fraud.

    Now you need to identify the other two felonies/day you commit.

  3. Re:But it IS their business on John Hancock Will Include Fitness Tracking In All Life Insurance Policies (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the LD50 of bacon?

  4. All good, until the government decides that certain lifestyles are 'protected classes' and can't be charged for their risks.

  5. Re:What about the Brazil model? on AI Could Devastate the Developing World (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Every shithole has a 'war on corruption' when power changes hands. Hint: It's a war on the _old_ corruption. China is also currently undergoing an 'all-out war on corruption', Russia has just finished one. In America, our corrupt control both major political parties, so we can't even get one started.

    I did like that case of 99 cent bottles of Brazilian Rum I bought last time Brazil had a 'war on corruption' and crashed their currency, the current war is kicking out the winners of the last one, so not likely to repeat.

  6. Re:Rubbish as it was over 100 years ago. on AI Could Devastate the Developing World (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Now characterize the opposing argument...it's chicken little.

  7. Re:The uncomfortable conclusion on AI Could Devastate the Developing World (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Pol Pot is a tough one for lefties.

    Chomsky is a well known denier of the Cambodian holocaust. Lefties LOVE Chomsky, he tells them exactly what they want to hear.

  8. Re:Africa on AI Could Devastate the Developing World (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The Chinese think they will avoid nationalization by getting 99 year leases on ports etc.

    They should look at the 'Suez Canal Corporation' to see their future. Their investments will be nationalized by kleptocracies, same as the Brit's and Frog's were.

  9. Re:AI and robots make more living models viable on AI Could Devastate the Developing World (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything has some value, but the point is to glut the market with free (or nearly free) mosquito nets.

  10. Re: Do nothing on AI Could Devastate the Developing World (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    'Snow' is pretty hard to make. Ice is easy.

  11. Re:Yes it's not technically AI on AI Could Devastate the Developing World (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Empty crumbling cities...

  12. Put your net worth into bitcoin TODAY.

    Moron.

  13. Re:But they wanted it that way on Time To Regulate Bitcoin, Says UK Treasury Committee Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Government can only regulate how you spend their currency. Bitcoin is out of their reach. The more they try, the worse their currency looks and the better crypto coins in general do.

  14. "...what they are planning on doing to you. But do it first!"

  15. I don't know why they worry. The government has thousands of nukes, I've only got three.

  16. Re: Taking bets this guy was an angry alt-right lo on Gunman Shoots 4 at Middleton Software Company; Dies in Shootout With Police (madison.com) · · Score: 1

    The ones that survived 'draw mohommad' were likely pretty sensible. Not 'alt-right' but not stupid lefties either.

  17. Re:Convert to Auction on Box-Office Giant Ticketmaster Recruits Pros For Secret Scalper Program (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It's been done. Particularly to break the back of Ticketmaster. Keep adding shows until they don't sell out. Leave the first two shows empty and TM tholding worthless tickets, for which the act go PAID.

    But the acts don't really care that much.

  18. Re:Time for a Rural Electrification Act, Part Deux on Despite Data Caps and Throttling, Industry Says Mobile Can Replace Home Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We're still paying 1 billion a year for 'rural electrification'. All to rent seeking scumbags. Not a good argument for it, rather the opposite.

  19. Re:Not if you want to also do "streaming gaming" on Despite Data Caps and Throttling, Industry Says Mobile Can Replace Home Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that what they're calling piratebay these days?

    It is getting close to the end of the month, better figure out what I'm downloading. Data cap is, use it or lose it.

  20. Re:But it looks bigger on Times Newer Roman is a Font Designed To Make Your Essays Look Longer (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's funny to hear a Marxist criticize Smith for being long winded. Just how unaware are they?

  21. Re:Quantum mechanics: The blockchain of phsyics on Reimagining of Schrodinger's Cat Breaks Quantum Mechanics -- and Stumps Physicists (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Does your computer work?

    If it does, electrons are tunneling.

  22. Re:Just ordered a Sony XZ2 Premium the other day. on Which Company Makes the Best Camera Phone in 2018? Not Apple · · Score: 1

    XZs have done low light, high speed photography for 3 versions now.

  23. Re:a bit too quick to declare it a rival. on Saudi Arabia Invests $1 Billion In Potential Tesla Rival (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an option. Search a little and you'll find that heat is an issue. They had tinted glass in 1950 already.

  24. What data? All I see is bold assertions by 'researchers' with an obvious axe to grind.

  25. Re:The long fall to Socialism on Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Just ask any of them how smart they are...fucking morons.