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  1. Essayâ(TM)s are short free associations on 'The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die' (psmag.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ivory tower types use structure to assert authority where none exists

  2. Gov't, Regulation, Commissions and AGW on The Oil Industry's Covert Campaign To Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ALL designed to facilitate commerce - except AGW. That bitch be an equal opportunity hottie. AGW will disrupt ALL.

    You and me alone can't stop AGW but sure as hell the collective WE can stop commerce that feeds it. Money matters; its all that matters. Spend unwise, waste your life - waste a planet; Woke, spend wisely, stop AGWcommerce save a planet - save a life.

  3. Blackbox bricked by Reason on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    This is the uncanny valley in which the world of REAL slowly sinks, sinking...sunk into the technological relative world of NOW.

    There is no bridge between. You stand stranded on the shores of reason while the world in which you live sinks away, out of sight and out of mind.

    Millennials know the futility of questioning the NOW, its irrelevant to wonder ' why?' Just BE now!

    Enlightenment as to why, what went wrong - much less how to prevent bad things is not among possibles. Shit happens!

  4. Where's * FOLLOW* button? on 22-Year-Old Google Engineer Dies At His Work Terminal (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    I've pulled all nighters. Hell even day'n nighters on end, 36 hrs. no sleep, in rooms without windows... somewhere; no matter. At 22 y.o. this young man had his peak of youth vitality and creativity just ahead. So this be one to follow SLASHDOT as a subscription.

    If you don't; you don't care - why you here?

  5. FCC by definition on FCC To Probe Whether Carriers Gave Inaccurate Broadband Coverage Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ...is a commission. Commissions are designed to destroy anything it probes. That's how commissions work.

  6. hop into an Uber and you put your life into the hands of a legal system that is unassailable, unlawful and unresponsive.

    Worst case...passenger hospitalized in Hawaii riding in back of Uber when rear ended. Driver not at fault. Uber told passenger to go fuck herself. She got nothing more than her money refunded on the incomplete fare. She has not only the physical ramifications from the accident but the psychological as well. She thought Uber was a company. Its a software developer.

    Woke yet? Uber doesn't own taxi's, doesn't hire drivers and doesn't have users. Driver partners on the Uber software platform do.

  7. North of San Francisco the City of Mill Valley said ' Hell No' to the antennas, the radiation and frequency load in their community and their schools for the sake of young developing minds. Doubt they'll be the last.

  8. The AUS experience suggests an architecture at scale Grid Operators can site to reduce dependency, detrimental reliance on peaker plants and cut rates - aka clean up its image, reliability and rate structure givebacks.

  9. Structure by fiat - Madrid Core on Madrid's Ban On Polluting Vehicles Cuts Traffic By Nearly 32 Percent In Some Areas (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    More effective than technology is the architecture to solving a problem which Madrid deserves credit in the making. Let it be the Madrid Core answer to ICE, NO2 and protection against pollutants that disrupt human health. Elevate to world stage, incorporate its metrics by which all further cities compliance are measured.

  10. Monarch apocalypse on Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    30 yrs. living in SoCal, the wildfires in San Diego County began in the 80's where it was first noticed effect on Monarch migration. Each February Point Loma which stuck out into the sea would afford the Monarch a nutritious waypoint on their migration northward. The surrounding canyon's wild milkweed air would flow for days in a stream of butterflies. With successive wildfires the drop in Monarch sightings transitioned official narrative from migration change to population tragedy to loss of food source.

    Today the coastal flyway is host to few Monarchs and the loss for those hoping for a return defies the Monarch apocalypse. Now, living NoCal, the Monarchs flew through the Bay Area's Marin wetlands on their way south this October. It was a happy reminder however brief, one afternoon, that they aren't dead - yet.

  11. 20+ years in the industry... on Airbnb Will Start Designing Houses In 2019 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    AirBnB are to be commended. Nothing has changed in building, industry or technology. Maybe they can move the course of History. I see men who want to follow in the footsteps of Jesus - a carpenter. I meet engineers whose ideas are vaguely similar and unchanged since the pyramids. Technology isn't even comparable to the Romans, since our concrete used today could not remain standing the test of time as have the great works.

    Being built today will be razed, dumped and reused structures that have no intentions of providing anything more than cashflow, temporary shelter and marketable value for resale in 8 years time. Laughingly, I see Billionaires waste their treasury on this shit, only on a grander scale not grandeur. Already, we have multi-million dollar estates dropping by 50% their value in the markets. It is a joke.

    Manufactured housing likewise has become an economic reality for folks who can't afford built housing on-site. Manufactured is the new trailer housing; albeit better, nicer still its cookie-cutter gingerbread and gold-plating.

    Looking where it went wrong begins immediately after adobe building and no other category added to the canon thereafter rises to sustainable, affordable and utility since. The house you grew up in will be gone in 100 years consumed by time, weather and natural decay of the material from which it was made.

    First principles is solving that rubric of sustainable, affordable and utility. Kudos AirBnB attack ' utility' design elements as its " Backyard" campaign addresses land use. I'll follow whether they're cash-flow driven mission can also tackle sustainable. Otherwise, Backyard simply add to the trash heap of History another architectural form of rubble making.

  12. The gov't brought irrefutable evidence to the judge that the good of the public, its safety and national security would be irreparably harmed if Facebook Messenger were day lighted, exposing MS-13 and all existing surveillance lost on a very dangerous gang.

    It would send MS-13 underground where the USgov't would need to start all surveillance over again.

  13. Surely, Elon you can muster a AWD design brief for a utility V that has 9" ground clearance, tow 8.000#, haul 10 overhead storage bags; 5 souls and get 300 mi. before empty that's not just another pickup truck. The Tesla X does not an SUV make. Arguably its the coolest, best crossover. Its not utility. Tesla owns the E in EV, lead it. Elon you have the cajones to juggle not two but three tech companies; four if SolarCity counts.

    Begin with '97 2 door, barn door Tahoe 4x4 aesthete as Tesla's brief. Design a U category killer SUV off that... a solar Airstream option and tiny home Globetrotter floor plan. There's a complete game, set - market.

  14. Fax facts... on The Fax is Not Yet Obsolete (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The revolution in Fax was getting TODAY.
    Fax's irreplaceable undeniable delivery produces physical documents that someone must handle.
    Fax is the only medium that guarantees delivery AND that someone will see it.

    Those attributes remain its most significant. For government whether battle plans delivered to the field, signatories or legal its remains admissible evidence. For business it is simple, cheap and ubiquitous communications. For politics piles of fax can be measured, categorized and vouchers.f

  15. Did Ajit Pai just lay a golden egg?

    AT&T has for decades maneuvered to change the Internet to ' metered rate' over ' access rate'. Here, the FCC singlehandedly transfers access to the providers AND assigns regulatory responsibility to monitor it, as well. That ain't gonna be cheap. TXT is the new FAX

  16. Spare the handwringing. Please!

    If he deserves the MASTER moniker he'd have done something instead of this dower sour grapes image manipulation.

    How about AI compilers that write efficient code, reuse best practices and engineer fixes in architecture humans code.

  17. From the outset what looked like a huge misguided free buffet at the expense of sweat equity (ideological slavery), I have witnessed the value of free, as in free beer, resource incentive to mine its treasury.

    This moment, nexus, will pivot and change. And the value it takes forward can be golden, mixed regulated or outside the box equity. It really amounts to whether the BIG's recognize, value and instantiate vestments for the beer they've drank.

  18. 5 years to commercialize!

    OK so their 1st product will be... wait...wait...wait...wait...wait

    DYSON produces the ARTIS CAP for chimney's that SUCKS. thanks to who? It will greatly fix fireplaces that draft poorly or not at all.

    wait...wait...wait

    The original inventors will not go into electricity

    This product looks unprofitable due to inertial mass above the rotational bearing point.

  19. SteveJobs R&D proved cores greater than 2X exhibit diminishing throughput on Intel for Darwin. A lot has changed; Darwin included as well as MacOS X with GPU onboard processing et. al. with cores doing look ahead, graphics, memory, etc...

    Could a generous anonymous type Avie Tevenian kernel nerd step in to raise all knowledge; level to the state of art on silicon? Are Hz marketing ' Intel' real world throughputs 'Inside'.

  20. Its BezosWorld we live in it.

    Economic development grants et. al. subsidies do not build tax base. Cities, townships and counties well-intentioned denizens they are; do not drive development – period. At most, they give away tax base. Companies locate by need ordered priority based upon supply and demand.

    D.C. supply of power
    NYC supply of capital

  21. HQ:2 NYC - EMPIRE STATE holds most world corporate headquarters; capitalism capitol
    HQ:2.1 DC - CAPITAL of US

  22. True Calling VOX on Voice Tech Like Alexa and Siri Hasn't Found Its True Calling Yet (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Bing or Google search going 100% voice would ring VOX true calling.

    Alexa's service approach .vs. Siri's assistant really is about footprints. Siri's in mobile and Alexa's in home. VOX search could steal away both

  23. both cpu and ssd soldering have only one goal: to make money

    Not so fast. ALL my failures have been portability, misuse and abuse related. Reliability is tantamount and no computer manufacturer exceeds Apple's reliability. That's right on target with soldered down. I concede that soldered CPU is throwaway motherboard should it should fail. BUT since 1975 I've never experienced a CPU failure over the span of mainframe, mini, desktop, laptop nor iDevice.

  24. What do we know? About SpaceX SAT architecture, network topology and service niche opportunity?

    Even the simulator doesn't layout the business case much less a technological opportunity for SAT use.

  25. Where's the incentive? on A New Method To Produce Steel Could Cut 5 Percent of CO2 Emissions (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Kennicott mines in SLC burn CO2 albeit for copper. Inherently the incentive beyond copper is in gold. The slurry transport system deposits gold in the linings of its tubes which systematically are taken out of production to be processed for their value in gold.

    Find the incentive and the electric production method gets adopted FAST