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  1. As the topic says, but I repeat: What is a high-roller database?

  2. Ethics and moral and logic do not mix together.

    They are different concepts.

    But if you believe you can charge a millionaire who happens to stop at your diner $1 one for a bottle of water, because you know he would simply drive off and buy elsewhere if you charge $10 (but you know he would not because he probably would shrug and pay $10) and then again you charge a poor guy who is about to collapse of thirst $100 because you know: he can not go anywhere, you have no ethics and no moral.

    Oh, I should have exchanged "water" for "soda" ...

    In my country we still honour the old gods, if one is thirsty, you give him water, free of charge.

  3. Re:not on servers and not in the EU on Microsoft Windows 10 Gains Linux/WSL Console Copy and Paste Functionality (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    My vmware and parallels VMs disagree.

  4. Re:Food deserts on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    By questioning about "minimum wages" you kind of made it a point, or not?

  5. Re:It's time to user smaller specific social media on Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Email has no like or share button ...

    No idea why "idiots like you" can't grasp the difference between social media and email.

    Posts like yours are completely bollocks. I for my part don't want to end up on black lists for spam because "I sent an email to all my friends" ... nor do I like my ISP to be blacklisted because "he distributes to much spam".

    I have about 250 Aikido friends on FB. And I know the eMail address of about 25. Probably less. Do you really thing we meet in person and exchange eMail addresses? Or call each other to hook up (how would we get each others phone number?) We connect because we go to the same events. If we want to exchange eMail addresses, guess what: I ask "you are on FB, right?" They answer "yes/no" if they say yes, we use FB later to exchange ... when one of us remembers and thinks it is "worth it", if "no" we exchange the eMail address. Chances are, I lose it on the way home ... or forget to mail. If I go on FB next time, I likely see photos from the event we met. And hence I remember to contact the person in question.

    Do that with eMail ...

    FB et all, closes a "communication gap". They have many useful features. And most of my "friends" are aware about "the problems". We only use it for our sport. Why the funk would everyone of us have to maintain a private mailing list for "his -special Aikido- friends" when a site like FB does that _automatically_ for us?

  6. Re:You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    EXACTLY!

    Both metrics (median versus average/mean (( I honestly believe now that many people mix up mean with median)) ) are completely useless if you have no max/min and no idea about the distribution of the curve or the sample size. Obviously if one is posting average and median of wages the sample size will probably be the whole country, or enough people to be confident that it matches the country's distribution.

  7. Re:Food deserts on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    Poor is relative.
    In Europe no one is poor.
    If you are "poor" you get welfare.

    Grocery stores are everywhere ... there is no lack of good, fresh and "cheap enough" food.

    Minimum wages has nothing to do with the topic.

      If you want to find a "food desert" then it might be remote towns in Switzerland (or Austria). But those get supplied my "market trucks", moving supermarkets going from village to village and selling stuff for the exact same price as they do in the supermarkets in the big cities.

  8. The freedoms we enjoy are quite precious, and the sacrifices made to preserve them do not all occur on the field of battle... sometimes the good guys have to carry the enormous burden of a moral compass during the pursuit of the most immoral.
    Must be cool to live in a country where the law enforcement can search your device without warrant and could put any evidence it needs onto it or can claim it found it on the device.
    That is indeed a precious freedom for a random police yahoo ...

  9. Re:You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    So the median is below average?

    You meanwhile understand why comparing medians or use it in arguments makes no sense?

  10. Re:The Fruit Has Gone Bad on In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked in a cluster with about 100 Macs, and we had plenty of 20 - 30 Macs clusters. Never noticed any issues. I guess they had enough switches, on the other hand, I don't remember if we even used AppleTalk or where already using EtherTalk.

  11. Re: Not stop - using own owned platforms on Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    Most people are smart enough to post pictures AFTER they are back from vacations.
    And most burglers are: not on my friends list, and hence don't see my pictures.
    And: 90% of the people on my friends list, don't have my home address ... but they could probably easily figure who has it and ask him.
    I'm basically only sleeping at home and spent most of my free time outside, unless it is a lazy weekend ... so they could break in any time anyway.

  12. Re:It's time to user smaller specific social media on Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Would not work.

    If I organize an Aikido seminar with a famous teacher I expect about 100 - 120 guests.

    For that I have my FB account and simply post into my timeline the event details or organize an "FB Event" , where people can click "join", "maybe", "no".

    To reach all my audience I would need to do that on every majour platform. And hence: I would be on all majour platforms. Sooner or later people would migrate to the more prominent one(s).

    E.g. classmates from school gather on platform A
    Ex military on platform B
    Family on Platform C, except for your spoces parents who refuse ;D

    And so it goes on. In the end everyone is on several platforms. I'm on several platforms anyway, because I don't use FB for business, but linkedin and XING.

    It is the same with messaging Apps ... I use 4 regularly and have probably 4 more installed (and that does not include FB messenger ... I only use it if I need to sent a reply, but that I usually do via the web site)

  13. Re: You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Tomatoes last weeks.
    Only the modern for transport optimized "tastes like nothing" might spoil faster.

    We used to harvest them green and put them on a window shelf, they maturing there several weeks till being red and tasty.

  14. Re:You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    FYI:
    10 100,000 100,000,000
    10 100 100,000 100,000 100,000,000 100,000,000
    10 100 100,000 100,000 100,000,000 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

    have the same median ... no idea why it seems no one knows what median actually means ...

  15. Re:You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    And how much is that in "average income"?
    Median income has no meaning, especially if you don't tell us what the median is.

  16. Re:All crops are grown with solar power on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be crops grown the conventional way, in fields. Covering those fields with solar panels to power a high-rise building full of the same crops under lights is an expensive way of going exactly nowhere.
    They actually do experiments like that in Japan. And many foods don't need/like full sun anyway, so a bit of shade is good for them, like Kiwi. Just google, there are plenty.

  17. Re:Food deserts on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    Germany has no food deserts.
    Nor has France.
    Or Thailand.
    Or Denmark ...

    And actually till a few posts back I did not know the term exists, and I had never assumed Gods Own Country suffers from "food deserts". Strange that the free market does not sort this out.

    The wiki pedia article you link names exactly 4 countries ... that is quite far away from "every country".

  18. Re: Any signs of changing the way police operates? on Jailed Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Sneaks Online, Threatens More 'Swats' (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    but I can't support asking people to fight back against a knife attack with a taser.
    If the taser is already aimed at the attacker, why not?

  19. Re:Competitive Response on In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, for text messages that makes sense.
    However a video call would not go via iCloud, or a voice call.

    On the other hand signal based apps (the software "signal") go all via a central server. I believe same for telegram.

  20. Re:China has more HONORS students... on Trade War Or Not, China is Closing the Gap on US in Technology IP Race (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    then they changed the definitions, I was not aware of that.

    However, actually they have no definition ...

    "There are no WTO definitions of âoedevelopedâ and âoedevelopingâ countries. Members announce for themselves whether they are âoedevelopedâ or âoedevelopingâ countries. However, other members can challenge the decision of a member to make use of provisions available to developing countries."

    How do you come to the stupid idea that I hate America? I most likely will never visit it, but hate, no.

  21. Re: Are they sure that it's him? on A Wanted Man in China Has Been Caught Because of Facial Recognition Software (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It is actually not well known.
    And on the first glance, I have no idea on what base that would be possible. How would you even measure it?

  22. Re:You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    health ills in the U.S. that are in some ways a result of food deserts in big cities where it's simply not possible for people to get fresh foods.
    Wow, I knew the USA are a bit backyardly, but you have no supermarkets?

  23. Re:You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    Solar won't do it, because it requires large amounts of land covered by panels, which implies wires, switching stations, repair roads, etc...

    Wrong ... why don't you google before spreading nonsense?

  24. Re:Competitive Response on In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    iMessages, which go through iCloud, are end-to-end encrypted, with the sending device encrypting
    WTF, has no one any clue anymore?

    The "establishing of the connection", the "online status" that is what goes via iCloud.

    As soon as the two parties are connected all traffic goes over "the internet" ... no secret iCloud middle man involved. What would be the point of that?

  25. Re:The Fruit Has Gone Bad on In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I only stopped using their computers because my university didn't support them on their network at the time
    The brand of a computer does not matter when connected to a network ...
    Just saying.