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  1. Re:honest answer: on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pensions are a Ponzi scheme, pure and simple.

    Says someone who obviously has no idea what a Ponzi scheme actually is.

  2. Re:Next Hi-Frequency Trading bubble in the making on Kodak Announces Its Own Cryptocurrency, Watches Stock Price Skyrocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt many exchanges want anything to do with this fad.

    Too late, they're already in on the fad.

  3. Re:Maybe it's time on A Popular Sugar Additive May Have Fueled the Spread of Two Superbugs (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Very little sugar is still grown in the states so which farmers are being protected and how is the populace benefitting from this tax?

    The farmers selling corn to ADM and it's not.

  4. Re:Something for Nothing on A Popular Sugar Additive May Have Fueled the Spread of Two Superbugs (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never trusted artificial sweateners[sic].

    The article is not about artificial sweeteners.

  5. Re: "otherwise harmless additives" on A Popular Sugar Additive May Have Fueled the Spread of Two Superbugs (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You can always add salt after you cook, but you can never take it out. So we tend to use 1/2 the salt that a recipe calls for.

    Now, that's just wrong if you're actually cooking/baking a dish, rather than just adding salt to a soup or something. Sometimes the salt is there for chemical reactions necessary for the result.

  6. Re:Antitrust on Opinion: Chrome is Turning Into the New Internet Explorer 6 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Capitalism is we the people having the power to stop corporations who become evil by starting our own competition and/or taking our business elsewhere.

    No. Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production (capital). Whether or not that leaves you with the ability to start your own competition or take your business elsewhere is completely beside the point.

  7. Re:Rotten Tomatoes on Ajit Pai Backs Out of Planned CES 2018 Appearance (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Traditionally, the commission is as evenly split between Rs & Ds as an odd number can be, and the president appoints those from the other party that the other party recommends.
    So blame Obama for playing by the rules, but don't think that Pai is Barack's idea of who should be head of the FCC.

  8. Damn, everybody seems to be reading their own bias into this.
    The paper doesn't even mention lies.
    It is about information vs empty words, not truths vs falsehoods..

  9. Re:ballot images on New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You need that to guard against duplicate ballots which is why they need serial numbers.

    I think identifying numbers are a bad idea, but if they were to be used, they must not be serial.

  10. Re:Oceans getting colder? on It's So Cold Outside That Sharks Are Actually Freezing to Death (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    . . . that which caused the pause for most of the first part of this millennia . . .

    The pause that you refer to was not a pause in global atmospheric warming, but a pause in the acceleration of the rate of change in temperatures.

  11. Re:back to value on Bitcoin Starts a New Year by Tumbling, First Time Since 2015 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    At least with regular government currencies, the denominations are limited to whatever the government creates, e.g. the penny . . .

    You ever notice that you can pay in mills (1/10ths of a cent), like at a gas pump?

  12. . . . the moon appearing full (every 28 days) . . .

    It's actually once every 29.53 days, to a reasonable accuracy.

  13. That stairway leads to the water taxi and tour boats that aren't even in service during the winter.

  14. Re:Possibly MUCH more serious problem... on Apple's MacBook Air-like Store Roof Wasn't Designed To Handle Snow... in Chicago (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    The city is never at fault. I don't know of any village, township, city, county, or state where they would have legal liability for a design flaw just because the plan reviewers and inspectors didn't catch it.

  15. Re:City engineers should have caught this on Apple's MacBook Air-like Store Roof Wasn't Designed To Handle Snow... in Chicago (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You do not understand the permitting process.
    The stamps of the licensed architects & engineers are a surrogate for actually understanding and vetting the design. The plan reviewers and inspectors only look for specific code issues. Actually, it would be an impossible burden for them to thoroughly review all aspects of every building design, unless you had more inspectors and plan reviewers that you have architects & engineers submitting plans, and required mountains of additional paperwork from the architects & engineers.

  16. This rooftop is a great symbol of what's wrong with Apple altogether: Design and form trump function.

    And this in the city where the saying "form follows function" was coined by Louis Sullivan.

  17. Re:stop blaming Apple on Apple's MacBook Air-like Store Roof Wasn't Designed To Handle Snow... in Chicago (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lots of buildings in Chicago have roped-off sidewalks in the winter.

    Why isn't this a valid point?

    Because it's not really true.
    Many high-rise buildings in Chicago put up warning signs, typically in warmer weather when snow is more likely to melt, refreeze, and fall. For older buildings this is usually because of snow on window ledges and for newer buildings it is usually when snow sticks to the vertical surfaces like windows.
    Only rarely are sidewalks roped off, especially for single-story buildings like the Apple store - I haven't seen any roped off yet this season. Newer buildings have ways of containing/melting snow before it falls from sloping surfaces, like snow melt systems.
    The article keeps stalking bout gutters like they would help. They would actually make it worse for snow & ice, unless it included snow melting. What you often see on sloping roofs are protrusions that help hold the snow pack and break it up when it eventually melts and flows down. But that wouldn't be slick enough for Apple.

  18. You do realize that our elected representatives are the ones who gave the power to make regulations to the bureaucrats in the first place and gave them directions on how they have to do it. Or do you think the representatives and senators should become experts in all things and codify every little decision into law themselves? That, I suspect, would turn out worse.

  19. Barack Obama, in keeping with tradition, appointed a republican that was recommended by the Republicans, in order to not have 3 Democratic commissioners. Not sure the Republicans would still abide by that tradition.

  20. AutoCAD at least lets you, with some effort, set up your old menus and toolbars to use, and has a much better overall interface compared to Revit. Now that user interface sucks.

  21. The Ribbon takes up more space than a drop-down menu plus three toolbars, is less customizable, takes more clicks to do common things than a menu + toolbar does, and rearranges itself when you resize the window, yet you somehow think that it makes the world a better place?

  22. Re:Why no generator? on Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
    >blockquote>The entire point of a backup is to eliminate single points of failure.

    You're still going to have a single point of failure at the switchover point, no matter what you do. Not that that should allow a single fire to take down two separate substations, but you never know if the reporter understands what they're being told let alone translates properly so the reader understands.

  23. Re:2nd major delay in as many weeks... on Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    An hour to de-ice? Sounds ridiculously long.

  24. Re:What happened to backup generators? on Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They already had a second feed.

  25. Re: Depending on the failure, Generators won't hel on Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked on a project where the backup generators passed weekly tests with flying colors, then failed under load during an actual power outage because they weekly tests didn't include a load bank.