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  1. I didn't order this... on Amazon Delivered Its First Customer Package By Drone (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    What I this? I didn't order Hellfire Missi..>(*$NO CARRIER

  2. Re:Mixed Feelings on Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just because traditional cabs are such vile and corrupt system, doesn't mean that Uber that replaces them with gig drivers is not a corrupt and vile system.

  3. Re:Trump is toxic in SV on Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Will Advise Trump On Business Issues (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    being loudly "progressive", with the emphasis on "loudly", is going out of style.

    I think this is just wishful thinking. I have seen nothing but doubling-down post elections.

  4. Re:Trump is toxic in SV on Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Will Advise Trump On Business Issues (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    He's all of those things and a lot worse.

    Your uncharitable interpretation and exaggerations are not shared by a large portion of electorate. Plus, virtue-signaling as AC is pointless - you won't get tribal credit for posturing.

  5. Gig economy = social toxic waste dumping on Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Gig economy is a social equivalent of dumping toxic waste into a river. Any company that operates like this deserves what they get.

  6. Re:Insert H1B Whining. on Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Will Advise Trump On Business Issues (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nobody would complain about H1B if salary floor was $250K. Bring more best-of-the-best to work in US any day. America F-yeah!

    Only this is not how most H1B are used. Instead, they are used to hire $65K workers to replace $80K locals and to drive wages down. Not everyone is "relevant", most people are just cogs, but even "cogs" deserve decent living.

  7. Trump is toxic in SV on Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Will Advise Trump On Business Issues (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Trump is highly toxic in SV, there he is viewed as a KKK grand wizard and a serial molester in one. Anything but loud criticism would be career-damaging.

    So I am surprised Musk and Kalanick decided to work with him. Did they forget what happened to Brendan Eich?

  8. This would make it impossible to move the car with the dead battery.

  9. You can slow down the car from highway speeds in reasonable time with e-brake. However, when used in this way it is sacrificial as it overheats and burns up pads.

  10. I am 100% with you on potentially disastrous effects of this. For example, my new car has an electric switch in place of emergency brake. This means in all-out failure it won't be there. Thankfully, it is direct steering and manual hydraulic clutch gearbox - so I will be able to steer and slow down by downshifting if brakes and electronics both cut out.

  11. Re:Imaginary benefits of social media advertising on Facebook Discloses New Measurement Errors, Continues To Hone Its Math (marketingland.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that what all snake oil salespeople tell me - you are not measuring results right. Until you can measure "assisster effect" it is just as imaginary as Santa Claus.

    Yes, my original statement was generalization. There are few industries, like luxury accessories, that could benefit from social media. On other hand, if you are, for example, selling refrigerators or accounting software you need not bother.

  12. The cost of doing the right thing on PwC Sends Legal Threats To Researchers Who Found Critical Security Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This will likely going to be very expensive for the security researchers, as PricewaterhouseCoopers have deep pockets and a history of shady litigations.

    Assholes like PwC is why most security researchers don't bother with responsbile disclosure. It is by far much safer to anonymously dump it to pastebin.

  13. Imaginary benefits of social media advertising on Facebook Discloses New Measurement Errors, Continues To Hone Its Math (marketingland.com) · · Score: 2

    It doesn't really matter how Facebook measures engagement and so on, much bigger problem is complete lack of results of all social media advertising. This is not 1-2% response ineffective, this is 10^-20 ineffective. It is quite likely that the entire Facebook advertising haven't sold a single thing today.

  14. Re:What happened to "carry a big stick"? on White House Voices Concerns About China Cyber Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not sure if "Bull in a China shop" is any better than do nothing. However remote, potential for a nuclear war is least preferable option all around.

  15. Re: commercial advantages on White House Voices Concerns About China Cyber Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The same way Nazi Germany did. High unemployment, low faith in its leaders and a scapegoat to blame.

    Germany had punitive WW1 repatriations to blame for hardships. US has what... oligarchic 1%?

    Unemployment, wealth inequality, disregard for social contract by well-off and low faith in its leaders are entirely home-made problem. Trump was entirely preventable, instead we have SJW twitter-storming outrage on largely irrelevant issues. I hope they will be happy when female labor participation rate reaches 50% in concentration camps.

  16. Re:What happened to "carry a big stick"? on White House Voices Concerns About China Cyber Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So there absolutely no intermediate steps possible between "politely ask" and "nuclear strikes"?

    Fortunately, politics are not that binary.

  17. What happened to "carry a big stick"? on White House Voices Concerns About China Cyber Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I think this administration is too much about speaking softly and not enough about carrying a big stick. China won't stop government-sponsored cyber espionage just because we ask them nicely.

  18. Re:There's an obvious alternative explanation on Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    *crickets*

    So this is another chemtrail conspiracy theory.

  19. Re: Pratchett and Baxter already predicted this on Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Caesars carry risks.

    Et tu, Brute?

  20. Re:There's an obvious alternative explanation on Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have any studies to support your 'residual livestock hormones - larger humans' assertion?

  21. Re:Lots of companies want Win10 on Microsoft Likely To See a Boost in Windows 10 Sales This New Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    As heartbleed demonstrated to us, serious bugs and/or plausible denability backdoors are almost immediately discovered in the OS code.

    If there is a source code in the forest, but nobody reads it, does it make a sound?

  22. Re:Lots of companies want Win10 on Microsoft Likely To See a Boost in Windows 10 Sales This New Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes they would, if they mistakenly believe they are the only ones with the keys to the telemetry backdoor.

  23. Re:Why should this be surprising? on Interns At Tech Companies Are Better Paid Than Most American Workers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    This is question of resolution, since we are not limited to integer values. Theoretically, only one person in existence could have IQ of 100.0000000001.

  24. Win10 is good OS that has bolted-on malware on Microsoft Likely To See a Boost in Windows 10 Sales This New Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Win 10 is good OS that would be quickly adopted if/when MS decided to remove or make optional bolted-on telemetry malware. Such "feature" is simply not acceptable on a non-free product.

  25. Re:Average is not median on Interns At Tech Companies Are Better Paid Than Most American Workers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    IQ, a substitute for direct intelligence metric, was shown to be normally distributed. So mean = median = mode.