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  1. The US seized Venezuela's US assets after Venezuela seized US companies Venezuelan assets.

    Turns out there was something 'they' could do about it. Much to the commies surprise. Tough titty.

  2. Re:The latest 5 year plan from the Cali politburo on California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    CA industry would die if it had to run on CA natives. The state imports young techs from the world, some fail and go home, some succeed and drive CA natives out.

  3. Re: The latest 5 year plan from the Cali politbur on California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Our newest senator fucked her way into her career. Willie Brown's main squeeze.

    The SF homeless industrial complex spends over 40k$/(bum * year). It doesn't go to the bums.

  4. Re:The latest 5 year plan from the Cali politburo on California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    400+ ponies!

  5. Re: The latest 5 year plan from the Cali politburo on California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You poor bastard. 1%/month in property taxes...YOU should move.

    I'm in Sacramento, I pay 1%/year.

  6. You don't understand how caching works. It doesn't require a 100% hit rate to be effective. Take your strawman elsewhere.

  7. Re:Just pay in dollars then. on New York State Approves Two Dollar-based Cryptocurrencies (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Just depositing the 10k$ is going to be an issue. Best just to keep it private.

  8. The US government still spends 1 billion$/year on rural electrification. It goes to pad profits of utilities that serve rich people (farmers and out suburbs that were rural in 1930). Pure rent seeking.

    That program is not an argument in favor of government intervention, rather the opposite.

  9. Re:It's about time for a two-dollar crypto-currenc on New York State Approves Two Dollar-based Cryptocurrencies (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Just swipe your card through 'the slot'. Reader is in a piercing.

  10. Re:Facebook is not at fault for malfunctioning hum on How Facebook's WhatsApp Destroyed A Village (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    _Single_ use pads have been unbreakable encryption for many centuries.

    Only as unbreakable as the pads are secure, but there always has to be a way to unencrypt.

    I think there is a market for matched, large, flash drives full of truly random data.

  11. Who sets mortgage underwriting standards?

    Who runs the secondary mortgage market?

    Both questions have the same answer...Freddy and Fanny. They own a big share of that mess. Banks are going to 'bank'. Freddy and fanny were supposed to regulate bank behavior, but were used for social engineering, with disastrous outcome.

  12. Re:You call THAT a summary? on Replace 'Tech' With 'Banks,' and We've Seen a Big Comeuppance Before (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Proost: I young wanker wastes a lot of time thinking about questions with no answers, then realizes life is for living and sets out to get drunk and laid.

  13. Wikipedia is your mistake.

  14. What? Dems are all for 'deplatforming' views they disagree with, being stupid fucks and not thinking it will ever be turned on them

  15. Re:Just pay in dollars then. on New York State Approves Two Dollar-based Cryptocurrencies (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Having more than 10,000 dollars cash is a legal liability.

    Cops steal about 5x the amount burglars do, year after year after year.

    But this particular crypto currency is too legitimate. Likely tracked by the god damn IRS.

  16. You should suggest a new definition of 'net neutrality'.

    I will continue using the standard one.

  17. Re:Is this a good idea ? on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    What's needed to turn a simulation into useful information?

    Someone that disagrees with the results going through the dataset in detail. Like I do on a daily basis.

    Using model/dataset validation tools like backcasting, tools that are basically never used in climate modeling as there isn't good long term historic data.

    OPs claim was that 'models are just physics'...Which is true to an extent, but 'just physics' can tell you anything you want to hear...He and you have _obviously_ never modeled for a living.

    Risks? You monte carlo the piss out of it and use statistical methods. Chaotic, nonlinear systems and all. But _first_ you need a validated model or you're just mentally masturbating.

  18. Netflix pays for rack space, same as everybody else, duh. They just don't want to, think they deserve it for free.

    Netflix could also just 'broadcast' in HTML 5 and the ISPs caching proxies could handle the job.

  19. Agreed, part of Frontier used to be Roseville phone. Which was at the time, the 'worst phone company in the world'.

  20. Nonsense. ACA banned catastrophic health insurance/health saving accounts.

    Where you pay for your own routine doctor visits and only have coverage for actual medical emergencies.

    When they pass 'ACA for car insurance', it will require coverage for oil changes, which will cost you $5,000 once all the costs are rolled in.

  21. Re:Is this a good idea ? on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    You'd be completely WRONG about that.

    I make money by understanding the consequences of today's actions by computer modeling them (just one tool among many).

    I know that all 'competent modelers' can get the model to say exactly what they want. That is the definition of 'competent modeler'.

    When modeling is being done in earnest, it is an adversarial process.

  22. Re:Carbon footprint of this? on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    The iceberg is _floating_ genius.

    'Thin the oceans', now you're just trying to cover your mistake.

  23. They flare off natural gas, it's a byproduct of oil extraction. There is insufficient gas pipeline and liquified tanker capacity.

    It's INXS.

  24. Re:Technically Illegal? on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    That's just a green religious responsorial.

  25. Re:But need a lot of energy... on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    The thing you miss is they are flaring the excess natural gas. Using it only costs the price of the desalination plants.