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  1. Re:If they're smart, they should on Are Silicon Valley Workers Abandoning Libertarianism For Socialism? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    You're being redundant. The problem is the purists who refuse to face reality discredit the entire concept.

    True. That also applies to just about any ideology or system of thought humanity's ever pursued.

  2. Re:Sounds like on NYT Reporter 'Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain' (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    There's an app for that.

  3. Re: Missing Information on Redis Changes Its Open Source License -- Again (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It would not, if the AC was implying that Redis would run within an embedded device. Redis is addressed toward use cases like "I need a distributed cache that can effectively cache a hundred-million objects with sub-millisecond access." That, and the other use cases for Redis, are not the kind of things that would be likely to occur for an embedded device.

  4. So two crackers walked into the Ritz..

  5. Re:ridiculous on Amazon Will Pay $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Just, no. What matters is the amount you gave the government relative to the amount you earned, both as an absolute amount and as a percentage of your earnings. Your refund only represents a loan that you gave the government that they are now paying back.

    If looking at your refund amount is the sole metric you use to determine whether you are "worse off" or not as far as taxes, then I'm sorry, there is literally no way anyone can make it simple enough for you.

  6. A screwdriver is just a drill that lacks ambition.

  7. Re: C# Killed Java on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest feature that Java has that I wish C# would adopt is default methods on interfaces. Other than that, C# is linguistically superior to Java in almost every way.

  8. Non-competes are pretty much DOA in California, regardless of the state they were signed in.

  9. That, or an ABM that went off course.

  10. Re:Massage that title a bit, please on People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alexa and Cortana were arguing about which route their Waymo should take...

  11. Re:improved interface: key to 'ambient computing' on Is The World Shifting To 'Ambient Computing'? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    With 64 connected neurons, it's not going to be a high rate of speed. Neurons have a refractory period of about 1-4 ms between each firing, so it'll be more like dial-up modem speed.

  12. A Better Name Would Be on Is The World Shifting To 'Ambient Computing'? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Ambient Surveillance.

  13. Re:Billions of tons of organisms on Scientists Identify Vast Underground Ecosystem Containing Billions of Micro-organisms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Surface-dwelling plants get their carbon from the air (CO2).

  14. Sure, he's a crackpot. A crackpot with a PhD from Cambridge (the Cavendish Laboratory) who is currently doing research at Oxford, and is on the science team for the construction of the largest radio telescope in the world, who's been published dozens of times in tier-1 peer-reviewed astrophysics journals. So, I guess I'll read what the crackpot has to say.

  15. Re:After 10ms that information is no longer realti on By 2025, Nearly 30 Percent of Data Generated Will Be Real-Time, IDC Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No don't. It's fun watching it happen, in real time. ;)

  16. Hmm, I read the AC's comment as satire, along the lines of "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift. In other words, I think he may have been agreeing with you. No matter, since it's the internet, proceed immediately to the verbal evisceration phase.

  17. Re:Kids nowadays on How I Got Locked Out of the Chip Implanted In My Hand (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd be careful about saying that "one of" your online friends isn't a child.

  18. Re:Not sure what is new here. on The Boring Company's First Tunnel Is All Dug Up (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm spelling-option challenged, you insensitive clod!

  19. Re:Not sure what is new here. on The Boring Company's First Tunnel Is All Dug Up (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow. I know it's impolite to call out typos and misspellings on the internet, but Jesus!

  20. Re:Quackery is science now? on The Future of the Kilo: a Weighty Matter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Take 50 mcg of sufentanil and get back to us on that.

  21. Re:Good to know for job interviews. on People Who Prefer Black Coffee Are More Likely To Have Psychopathic Or Sadistic Traits, Study Finds (rd.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless it's on Wall Street. Then, ask for straight coffee alkaloids and snort them.

  22. Re:Who's Intel's Mum? on Intel Mum On When Entry-Level CPU, IoT Supply Will Improve (crn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that's not a widely known fact because, well, mum's the word on that.

  23. Re:Lemme Guess on SpaceX Says It Signed First Private Passenger To the Moon (nbcnewyork.com) · · Score: 2

    "BANG, ZOOM!"

  24. Re:Meanwhile, the FDA continues its war on Kratom on OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Research those 44 supposed kratom-related deaths. I have. They were all very tenous conclusions at best. My favorite was the attribution of kratom as the cause of death when the decedent coincidentally also had just gotten a gunshot wound to the chest.

  25. Re:Meanwhile, the FDA continues its war on Kratom on OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Prove it. A doctor saying Kratom alkaloids were present in the bloodstream, therefore the death was caused by Kratom is a long way from proving that it was even likely as the causative agent. And the typical doctor has next to no knowledge of the pharmacology or toxicology of mitragyine or hydroxymitragynine.