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  1. Re:Which comes at the cost of environmentalism. on Renewable Energy Powers Jobs For Almost 10 Million People (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Correct. Headline should have been "10 million more people on welfare". Or "Government paying for 10 million people to create pollution".
    In my area: Hydro 3 cents/kw. Coal 7 c/kw. NatGas 9 c/kw. Nucleare 12 c/kw. Wind 30 c/kw. Solar 60 c/kw. My overall bill used to be 6 c/kw but now 9 c/kw and climbing, all due to wasteful subsidies and increases in regulations.
    That extra cost means extra pollution. It's just somewhere else in the supply chain so you don't see it as easily.

  2. Cash is good. I also disable my phone tracking.

  3. Re: Who are they on LeEco Said To Lay Off Over 80 Percent of US Workforce (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    $2B in loans from the chinese government in an effort to steer many times that amount back to "Made in China". Yet more economic warfare.

  4. Re:Even the insects on Where Have All the Insects Gone? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Insects thrive on warmer weather. The only potential cause that I can think of are pesticides.

  5. Re:I've noticed it too on Where Have All the Insects Gone? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Especially with all those eco-friendly diesel cars and trucks that spew black dust that covers the arctic and causes ice to melt faster.

  6. Re:"The Machine" could they get any more non-descr on HPE Unveils The Machine, a Single-Memory Computer Capable of Addressing 160 Terabytes (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    AI using multidimensional data sets. I work with cubes in the tens of terabytes that could be sped up thousands of times if they could be held in memory.

  7. Re: Hackers Paradise on China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Cash (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those who insist on not having a bank account are those who want to skip alimony payments.

    Nice strawman, fuckface. Go off yourself.

    Actually, he has a point. I worked in payroll over a decade and that was the large majority of them.
    China has barely implemented a slightly functional credit card system. As with most stories from there, don't believe 99% of it. And of course its all about tracking people, not helping them.

  8. It's not working because it's not efficient. 3x the cost for "renewables" is creating that much more pollution but hiding it somewhere else in the supply chain.

  9. As usual, some very important data is missing. For example, how many false positives? How many missed negatives that a $50k machine would find? What's the cost of the finds and misses? Time frames? etc.

  10. Re:Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle = full stack vendor on In Oracle's Cloud Pitch To Enterprises, an Echo of a Bygone Tech Era (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 1

    Integration is most costly than the original implementation so pre-integrations are key. I just set up 2 Oracle Cloud SaaS instances with a local database. I've never had enough access with PaaS so this hybrid approach offers the best of both worlds.

  11. Re:More idiotic click-bait on Dormant Diseases Frozen In the Ice Are Waking Up (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ground squirrels south of me have mass deaths nearly every summer from plague. Lot of scary stuff in the wild.

  12. Re:and prison pop will go way up as healthcare wil on The Parts of America Most Susceptible To Automation (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    You want a smaller prison population? Quit being a thug. Quit pushing a culture that values violence, lack of education, and laziness.

  13. Re: My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    As an engineer you need to measure things. Crap by USA: 20%. Crap by Asia: 95%. Crap by Management decisions: 99% (that may be low).

  14. Re: Make America Great on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No, American products and labor do not cost more. When you factor in longevity and quality, American products beat most the others.

    I can out produce outsourcers on a dollar per project basis. However, PHB look at headcount. The entire H1B is a scam.

  15. Re:I was most frustrated by ... on Researchers Determine What Makes Software Developers Unhappy (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've worked at multiple USA and Canadian companies that followed SOX and SAS 70 but never had any of those problems. It's the corporation, not SOX.

    The responses of "unhappiness" is something you'd see from newbies, so I strongly question the data set. Far more pressing issues are age bigotry, politics, PHBs, and outsourcing.

  16. Spot on. The only real party in the USA is the Corporate Party. It's biggest enemy is Social Media and it does everything it can to twist it.

  17. How does it get your full attention after a half hour of commercials and a disruptive rude audience? Not to mention poor quality movies the last couple years.

  18. Re:Story is exactly the opposite of headline on Connecticut May Become First US State To Allow Deadly Police Drones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A mile away or up and close... if our local peace officers have to resort to lethal force then you damn well deserve what's coming.

  19. Re:TFA is lite on details on Connecticut May Become First US State To Allow Deadly Police Drones (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The democrats have demonized our local peace officers like they did on military conscripts during vietnam. I don't see them doing anything useful when it comes to our safety.

    Weaponized drones have already been used to good effect and saved lives. If you have a problem with this then don't blame the police - go protest the politicians offices and start voting more intelligently. Better yet, volunteer to put yourself in harms way rather than guide a robot to do it.

  20. Re:"We're" loosing it? on UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Misinfotainment is everywhere. We need better critical thinking and demand for honesty.

  21. Re:Putin blows them all away on Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that Putin is worth something like $200 Billion.

  22. Average cost of management and profit for a private company is around 50%. Add in detailed planning for projects lasting many years and 72% isn't unreasonable. I've seen it as high as 90% for private companies.

    We're a service economy now - not a manufacturing economy like we were during the first moon mission.

  23. I hear that burkas are coming back in fashion.

  24. Re:The climevangelists are busy today on 'Moore's Law' For Carbon Would Defeat Global Warming (technologyreview.com) · · Score: -1

    That would certainly do it. We have 7+ Billion people on a planet that can support 3 Billion.

    The combination of economic, political, and technological factors makes carbon reduction something that may happen 100 years from now. Until then we should focus on adapting rather than fantasizing.

  25. Re: Rough edges visible miles away on Southwest Airlines Is Doing Away With Pneumatic Tubes, Paper Tickets (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you seen how many people fumble their phones and hold up the line? It'll take 3x longer to board if everyone has to use their cell.

    Paper works better.