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  1. Now Chrome will take up 80% of my memory rather than 50%

  2. Sounds like a good policy when there are no jobs on Finland Basic Income Trial Left People 'Happier But Jobless' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Certainly a good option for when there are no jobs due to AI doing it all....I think a negative income tax is best for now though. Milton Friedman was a huge proponent of this.

  3. You are completely misrepresenting what happened. You also ignore that food patents have been common for decades well before GMO was even a glint in the eyes of anyone. You can, and people do, patent foods that were created via "traditional" means....Honeycrisp Apples are an example of this....Now....If a bird ate one of those apples, shat it out on another farmer's field and a tree grew...no one would sue that farmer....if that farmer then harvested those apples and started planting HC trees to commercially profit from his accidental tree growth, the patent holders of the HC apple can sue the farmer because he did not pay them for the rights to grow the apple (rights that come with strict brand requirements)

    https://geneticliteracyproject...

  4. No farmer that actually financially supports themselves from growing hundreds of acres of crops "save their seeds". They buy every year because they know commercially produced seed (even non GMO seed) is more productive as it nearly eliminates the risk of seeds not germinating under proper conditions (AKA Dud seeds).

  5. How you got an insightful is beyond me. You are literally an example of Dunning-Kruger.

  6. Re:Dunning-Kreuger effect at work on Those Opposed To Scientific Consensus Bolstered By 'Illusion of Knowledge' (edmontonjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    This goes a little deeper though. It goes beyond just the DK effect describes and investigates the hypothetical consequences of such an effect, such as the view of science and knowledge that these people hold.

  7. Re:Gimme a summary without the double-negatives on Supreme Court Rejects Industry Challenge of 2015 Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    who is going to bring a suit? the DC Circuit already ruled and they are the circuit court with authority to hear cases about administrative agencies of the US government.

  8. Re:Gimme a summary without the double-negatives on Supreme Court Rejects Industry Challenge of 2015 Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Uhh.....the DC Circuit has authority over all US government administrative agencies so this does set precedence for how the FCC can govern it's domain into the future.

  9. ooooorrrrrrrr......
    The population as a whole doesn't care about hording digital music files anymore and pays for a music service that has 99% of what they are looking for.

  10. Trump, McConnell, and Ryan: "If we can't repeal the ACA, lets destroy the legitimacy of the system by running it like idiots and allowing hackers to break in"

  11. 90% confidece? on Measurement Shows the Electron's Stubborn Roundness (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    That is kind of a large gap to trot around stating you have determined a constraint, no?

  12. For enterprise...and frankly, if they added a free desktop to my office 365 home subscription, I would probably use it. I store a lot of my stuff on OneDrive so being able to be somewhere and get access to my stuff from a desktop I know I own and control (control with respect to people I am not in a subscription relationship with) would be nice.

  13. It was sane for the time because the compute power of a mainframe and the flexibility of tasks a mainframe could perform for a company was limited. That is no longer the case. Equating a full GUI desktop experience to a timeshare text terminal experience doesn't make sense.

  14. Centralizing desktop functions for an enterprise is about saving tens of millions in hardware costs. If staff can interact using a centralized virtual desktop they can walk up to any terminal and there work is sitting there, exactly how they left it when they went to lunch. The flexibility and reliability that brings to a business is ridiculously valuable.

    PCs were used as endpoints because servers were not powerful enough for the scale of operations that were happening at businesses, or, the business was so small that it could not afford a server infrastructure. Now, all of that is gone. Servers can serve up the end point experience for workers anywhere around the planet. It's one of the few times a change in business practice has happened because of the technical superiority as opposed to some stupid trend.

  15. you're mentally ill.

  16. Re:Not about headphone jacks on Apple Discontinues iPhone X, No Longer Sells iPhones With Headphone Jacks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    cue nefarious conspiracy theories.....

    The DRM battle is over buddy....Get over it.

  17. Re: Apple's Recent Choices? on Apple Discontinues iPhone X, No Longer Sells iPhones With Headphone Jacks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    sounds like you have a responsibility problem.

  18. Re: Cannot be climate change on All-time Heat Records Are Being Set All Over the World (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, its bullshit conspiratorial thinking.

  19. George Lucas..... on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    A guy that directed two good movies (THX and SW Ep 4)....and sold toys up the wazoo...

  20. Who cares? Chevron Deference is going to be tossed on Supreme Court: Warrant Generally Needed To Track Cell Phone Location Data (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This court is on the verge of tossing Chevron Deference and replace it with judicial fiat. That is a greater threat to operating in the modern world than this stupid crap.

  21. Re:How long before... on Microsoft Windows 10 Gains Linux/WSL Console Copy and Paste Functionality (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You can run a GUI on it.

    https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/ho...

  22. Hint: Correlative studies are bullshit and do not help anyone learn anything of actionable value.

  23. Boomers ruined the planet on Can We Fight Climate Change With Carbon-Absorbing Rocks? (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Their parents saved it and the boomers wreaked it....good job jerks.

  24. Prostates don't get sunlight....and breast cancer too....If they said they saw an increase in say....skin cancer....then maybe their imagination would be closer to reality.

    You know what else produces less melanin? Lack of sleep!!!!!

  25. Complete and utter bullshit on Blue Light Like That From Smartphones Linked To Some Cancers, Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Correlative study.....Guess what people who spend a lot of time out at night do? Drink, Smoke, do drugs.....lose sleep......Wow.,.....hmmmm....I wonder if it could be any of those things rather than fucking blue light that we get all fucking day long.