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  1. Re:This is all around good decision on White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, and this is exactly why you should be forced into vegan diet. Raising meat releases a lot of greenhouse and CO2 emissions.

  2. Re:This is likely to worsen safety on White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    All other factors are not dependent on safety. For example, cost of maintenance.

    You are proceeding to argue without justifying your priors.

    Here is counter argument. Safety is not at all important. Modern cars are safe enough, many consumers would prefer cheaper car and leather seats to additional improvements in road safety. We ought not to impose our will and presume to know better. You, personally, are still free to prioritize your car purchases any way you want.

  3. After making such recommendation, it is customary to disclose your position in Tesla stock.

  4. Re:This is likely to worsen safety on White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think safety should be higher priority than meeting consumer demand?

  5. A lot of sites, we really should be able to preserve our identities, at least internally so there is actual repercussion on what we say and do.

    You do understand that standard for repercussions is "whoever is the craziest to act out against you", and by that standard there is absolutely nothing that is safe to say?

  6. This is all around good decision on White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California (npr.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I am car enthusiast and I approve of this decision. Emission standards on ICE are well past diminishing returns point, it costs A LOT of money for hardware and A LOT of development expenses to squeeze additional marginal gains.

    Shipping, manufacturing, agriculture all produce a lot more emissions than personal transportation. Yet it is cars that are over, over, over regulated.

  7. File this under obviously bad idea category. The Internet is full of crazy, so you don't want to tie anything to your real life identity.

  8. Entirely spam calls on Number of Mobile Calls Drops For the First Time (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think 95% or more of calls to my cell are spam. Why would I answer the phone with such odds?

  9. Re:muh feels on The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    He's actually on your side politically, and he's saying that he wants to address your concerns, but you are in a tizzy because he won't say the "right" things about how he feels and he won't emote the way you want him to??

    I think it was fairly shrewd move to not announce sexual arousal and the urge to spank the interviewer by Mark.

    When you ask people to tell you how they feel, are you really prepared to hear the answer?

  10. Re:what did you expect on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Sure, some people do belong in jail. This doesn't mean that everyone who is currently in jail belong there. This is especially true for US, that has massive incarceration numbers.

  11. I understand you are tied to your smartphone, but ticket booths and paper tickets still exist. Give up some of the convenience of booking online and this issue completely goes away. You just need to get off your ass and find physical location. I yet to go to a concert, show, or talk that would not accept some form of a paper ticket.

  12. I recently went to a show, and while many people used apps to show bar codes, printed version that I presented worked just as well.

  13. All non-profit means in this context is that it doesn't pay out dividends. They are still free to endlessly expand administrative staff, build lavish facilities and dormitories, and voraciously spend on diversity and inclusivity initiatives.

  14. Can you afford your resume getting screened by HR regardless of your skill and experience? It was much easier to get into IT without any degree when degrees in IT were rare. Sure, some brilliant people can overcome this even today when CS degree is expected. When you are The Expert in X, people who need X done right won't care about your degree. However, if you are just a replaceable cog in the machine, like 90% of us, not having some kind of degree is highly detrimental.

  15. Currently, there is no pressure to keep tuition costs in check. That is, consumers are not price-sensitive. No matter what you are charging in tuition, loans and aid will cover it. Education loans are also not discharged in bankruptcy, so there is no reason to turn borrowers down based on their estimated ability to repay. It is all-around failure to apply market principles that resulted in inefficient and very expensive system. Tuition prices will not come down until there is a market pressure to do so. More aid will only make this problem worse.

    Downstream of "$150,000 loan for gender studies undergraduate degree" is reduced quality of life, reduced lifetime wealth, and overall economical drag from less available income from consumers. If anything, these loans should have a California's mandatory cancer warning label attached.

  16. Re:We don't have a usable desktop operating system on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a very small corner of OSS where I am an expert. It is really complicated to fully understand and requires multi-domain knowledge. You are probably looking at 3+ months of reading code to just understand how it works. However, thankfully, it just works so nobody but maintainers need to do this. It is safe to copy-paste.

    Most modern systems are just like that. "Copy-paste" is a normal and rational response when you have no reasonable expectation of becoming an expert. This isn't 80s anymore where it is possible to know most of everything IT. Today the best you could do is to know how to vet what you are copy-pasting.

  17. I think I have seen this movie before. on MoviePass Having Outage Issues Because It Couldn't Pay Its Bills (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think I have seen this movie before.

  18. Re:Windows 10 updates are a plauge on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I hear you, and it is probably a good thing to eventually force these people to update. However, I am clearly not these people, yet Windows 10 abuses me as a serial misuser by trying to yank the carpet from under me while I work.

  19. Re: Windows 10 updates are a plauge on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    It is even worse than that. Due to bad luck I ended up as an early adopter of Win10 in our organization. I had Windows 10 Enterprise force-reboot me in the middle of work with no warning to save. I had to force IT to create policy to explicitly prevent this from happening again.

  20. Windows 10 updates are a plauge on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I really don't understand why you need to create policy to prevent Windows updates during working hours. There is absolutely nothing so urgent in these updates that cannot wait until I log off. Microsoft insisting that these updates pushed out on their schedule and not on user's schedule is ultimate hubris.

  21. Re:...the only winning move is not to play on Twitter Is Limiting the Visibility of Prominent Republicans In Search Results (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Eric Weinstein and Dave Rubin formulated idea that I paraphrase here:
    The death throws of traditional media as it is being devoured by social media resulted in click-bait sensationalization of everyday disagreements. This directly translates to polarization and loss of civility in the political discourse, as all participants are constantly whipped into frenzy by said media.

  22. I really don't care about how thin or small laptop is, I don't work in sales or marketing and don't have to look hip above any other consideration. I don't have a medical condition that would prevent me from carrying it unless it is ultra-light. However, I do care about screen size, battery life, ports, and performance.

  23. Re:Zuckerbook's Doomsday clock is ticking on Facebook Notification Spam Has Crossed the Line (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, Uncle Zuck has enough information on you that if he wants you to sit on his lap, you better comply or all your FB contacts get a copy of your browsing history.

  24. I Googled for DuckDuckGo and was told by Google to check my privilege and go back to using Google, or else they index me as an oppressive member of patriarchy.

  25. The problem is that we replacing irrational but possible to understand human decision making with an opaque algorithm written by irrational humans.

    It is not as easy to detect and correct flaws in decision making.