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  1. Re:The difference being... on 'No Drones or Driverless Trucks', Demands Teamsters Labor Union (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The driver in this case will be engineers designing drones, autonomous control and drone delivery facilities.

  2. Why stop there on 'No Drones or Driverless Trucks', Demands Teamsters Labor Union (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Just think the jobs that could created if all deliverers had to be delivered by hand or hand truck?

  3. They can have my flamethrower... on Elon Musk's Boring Company Delivers $600 Flamethrower (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I'll give you my flamethrower when you pry it from my scorched, dead hands.

  4. With friends like this... on Former Employees Say Lyft Staffers Spied On Passengers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hell yes. I definitely looked at my friends' rider history and looked at what drivers said about them"

    I can't imagine how boring and petty life must be to be motivated to spend time looking up shit like this...

  5. The biggest advantage of autonomous cars is that road carrying capacity goes way way up... which not only increases overall transportation efficiency but will require less lanes and less real estate, which is a huge cost driver in metro areas. I envision someday soon that certain roads in and out of congested urban areas will be autonomous cars only for certain hours of the day.

  6. Re:feel everything but forget afterwards on Scientists Change Our Understanding of How Anaesthesia Messes With the Brain (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If this were true there would be unmistakable markers of experiencing pain... such as elevated heart rate, blood pressure, pupil reflexes, etc.

  7. Stitch in time on Scientists Change Our Understanding of How Anaesthesia Messes With the Brain (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I friend of mine just had a colonoscopy and was laying on his side looking at a pattern on the wall just before being given propofol. He woke up looking at the same pattern and the Doc said everything was normal. He accused the Doc of haven't done anything and was conducting some fraud because he hadn't any sense any lapse in time. Propofol is like that.

  8. Transparent Concrete? on China Is Building a Solar Power Highway (electrek.co) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder if they tried transparent aluminum...

    Seriously I don't understand the impulse to put solar panels in roadways... Durability, spilled oil, scratches from studded tires or flat tires, less than optimal angle, difficult to access for maintenance, etc. , etc.

  9. Re:A Right? on The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What? clean air, water Do not cost other people money. Those are good examples of a right.

  10. A Right? on The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    How can something that costs other people money and time be a legal right? This talk is insane.

  11. Re: The"fall" and the Christian religion on Scientists Confirm There Was Life On Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I went to Catholic school and Sunday School in the early 70's... I can confirm I was taught the literal Genisis story.

  12. Working for the singularity... on 'Productivity Is Dangerous' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember if you aren't using your time productively to bring about the singularity in the future the singularity may resurrect you and punish you for your frivolous waste of time (humbug advertising for Nestle indeed).

  13. Re:Dating by Radioactive half-lives proves nothing on Scientists Confirm There Was Life On Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If you read the paper that is what makes these rock special is that they haven't metamorphosed.

  14. Re:Age of Earth 4.5 billion on Scientists Confirm There Was Life On Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep... there has to be a brute fact some where along the line. And that is the mystery. However, insisting that there is an eternal all powerful, all knowing, all beneficial (whatever that means) Necessary Being is the most absurd.

  15. The"fall" and the Christian religion on Scientists Confirm There Was Life On Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    All of Christian theology hangs on the fall of Eve and Adam and the world with it. Without this literal event nothing about New Testament theology makes any sense. That is why Creationism is very important. Jesus believed in the actual literal Genesis story and built his theology upon it. I personally don't understand how a Christian cannot believe in the literal Adam and Eve story and have a coherent belief .

    (Disclaimer I don't believe it but I understand why they fight)

  16. At least in the immediate future... on ISPs Won't Promise To Treat All Traffic Equally After Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Verizon indicates that, at least in the immediate future, it will not block legal content.

    However later down the road.... well you know the common man forgets this stuff and then they can do what they want. Especially when ISPx impliments something they will have to stay competitive.

    Just like the Tax Bill that sunsets Individual Tax breaks and keeps Corporate breaks in place - they are planning on people have short memories.

  17. Big corporations love barriers to entry - keeps the little guy from innovation and disrupting the marketplace. Repealing Net Neutrality is an obvious dance to big money concerns.

    Vote these bums out!

  18. And yet Canadian life expectancy exceeds the US.

  19. Pictures or it didn't happen... on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pictures or it didn't happen... oh wait.

  20. What is the problem they are trying to fix by repealing Net Neutrality? I don't get it...

  21. I think this can be generalized on Fewer Toys Gives Kids a Better Quality of Playtime, Study Claims (nypost.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    To include adults also... you know the saying -> The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys

  22. Cats and Birds... on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 0

    Cats kill 3.7 Billion a year... that is with a B. You were saying?

    https://www.usatoday.com/story...

  23. Is it just me but... on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think wind turbines are beautiful machines.Highly engineered and efficient devices that (mostly) silently turn 24/7 generating power and displacing carbon producing sources contributing to human flourishing. They are a statement that says intelligent creatures live here.

  24. Re:Senate Republicans Aren't Republicans on Valuable Republican Donor Database Breached -- By Other Republicans (politico.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But at least they got the Estate Tax repealed and increased taxes on those lazy post-grad students.

    America was made great on the backs of people like Paris Hilton and Donald Trump Jr.

  25. The breach was discovered in May 2017 the data contained older records.