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  1. Simple enough on 'Productivity Is Dangerous' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "How I Optimized My Morning Routine To Get More Done Than ever -- before 8 a.m.!"
    The people posting links like this have a sickness, and we need to stop it before it gets out of hand.

    Just swap their morning joe with decaf. Epidemic averted.

  2. Re:The IT crowds on What's The Best TV Show About Working in Tech? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Attempt number three, coming right up.

  3. Just wow on Stolen Car Recovered With 11,000 More Miles -- and Lyft Stickers (sfgate.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    And in the back seat, Cierra said she found a pillow, a jacket and a stuffed animal. "It wasn't burned out, it wasn't gutted, but it appeared to be have been used as a Lyft," she said.

    Definitely the behavior and accoutrements of an irresponsible joyrider.

    That, Cierra added, was even worse than she imagined. "Not only did someone steal our car, they made money off it!"

    Those monsters! Probably some affluenza-infected trust fund kid who slept in the back of the car with their only item of comfort from their horrible parents ... ok, I'm losing the narrative here.

    Seriously, someone who has to drive for Lyft to make money and sleep in the back of their car with a stuffed animal for comfort, and it's the *making money* part that's even worse than she imagined? I'm ready to put in for this thief's gofundme to buy their own HR-V (which runs around ~20k, apparently).

  4. Hmm ... this reminds me of somebody ... on Former Exec Who Said Facebook Was 'Destroying Society' Still Loves Facebook (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone who can find value and fulfillment in things while believing that those same things harm society. Takes a certain level of thinking to be able to simultaneously give both concepts the consideration they deserve.

  5. Re:This guy is a grifter on Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon (themaineedge.com) · · Score: 1

    He is just trying to swindle some cash.

    I guess he at least understands the economic component of his argument.

  6. Re:Hit 'em with details. on Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Explain Their Work To Non-Programmers? · · Score: 1

    You make it sound simple, and they suddenly think you're paid to do simple things.

    Then you tell them that it's not the *simple* part, but the *paid* part, that makes you so smart. Plus if you've ever worked on someone else's code, you can bring out the plumber analogy

  7. Doesn't the internet we've come to know and love mostly involve Usenet and a lot of github traffic, much of which is text? Considering that's in the noise when it comes to bandwidth, would Net Neutrality affect that? It seems like a lot of the traffic that crotchety old people use gets a free ride bandwidth-wise compared to video traffic.

  8. Re:He's right. on Former Facebook Exec Says Social Media is Ripping Apart Society (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Google+ have the same problems with "short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops"? Also, don't a lot of people get together over Facebook groups that would never have gotten together? It seems like the problems described sit on top of a new foundation of benefits that a lot of people don't even notice since they're so much a part of a new reality in social interaction.

    Relatives, people with common interests and concerns around the entire world are now able to fluidly share instant messages, pictures, video, links and games like they're almost down the street, for no cost (which scales across developing economies as well), and it seems like this is taken for granted when considering the downsides.

  9. Re: What's the point? Here's the point on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    But he was an old guy who didn't have current skills, so what the fuck use was he, eh?

    With the skills you described, he wasn't already in management?

  10. Re:Dear unnamed Amazon worker ... on Exhausted Amazon Drivers Are Working 11-Hour Shifts For Less Than Minimum Wage (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That aside: A job this gruel-ing you might want to quit.

    Even though the "conditions [have been] described by one lawyer as "almost Dickensian"", I hear that some of them actually ask for more.

  11. Re:"hogging batteries" = booming sales? on Tesla Could Be Hogging Batteries and Causing a Global Shortage, Says Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    1970's:
    Kid: Daddy, my new radio-controlled car won't run!
    Daddy: Batteries not included? What the hell is this?
    Kid: Daddy, you shouldn't swear.

    2017:
    Kid: Batteries not available? What the hell is this?
    Kid's kid: Seriously, what the fuck?
    Kid: Where'd you learn that kind of language?
    Kid's kid: Are you fucking serious?

  12. Re: Wholeheartedly agree on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    As for saving 20 minutes, I'd question that too, because from the time my alarm clock goes off, until I walk out the door is only 30 minutes total, and that includes eating breakfast, and getting a 2 year old ready, fed, and out the door too.

    In the interest of full disclosure, however, he does work and live in a nudist colony.

  13. I have taken into account that Mr Colella openly stored his PDA device in an empty foil 'Twisties' bag. As an experienced electrician, Mr Colella knew that this bag would work as a faraday cage, thereby preventing the PDA from working properly

    Or as a Will Smith fan.

  14. Re:No, it does not on AI Goes Bilingual -- Without a Dictionary (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    May as well claim a squirrel is a "gourmet chef", because it can bury nuts, i.e. "process food".

    Or similarly a rat, because it can control a human in a kitchen by pulling on its hair -- possibly with some assistance from the food processor in your example.

  15. Re:And nothing of value was lost on Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Pfft -- what's the big deal? They'll just mint new bitcoins (with slightly less copper each time).

  16. Re:Jesus H. Christ... on Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably after tucking the rats in and reading them a bedtime story, because all of a sudden they've started complaining when you get ready to leave the lab if you don't.

  17. Re:This is just the problem on Scientists Save Child's Life By Growing Him New Skin (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    And Poe's law in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

  18. This is just the problem on Scientists Save Child's Life By Growing Him New Skin (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    University Hospitals of the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

    Stupid socialist medical institutions trying out last-ditch treatments so they can ration care to refugees who can't pay for it themselves. This is exactly how Hitler was able to come to power.

  19. There's another option on New Technology Should Be Neither Feared Nor Trusted (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    New Technology Should Be Neither Feared Nor Trusted

    How should we think about new and future technologies? The two main stances seem to be extreme optimism and extreme pessimism. A better approach would be careful planning and management.

    Can't we just ignore it until it becomes either established, obsolete, or discarded technology? We have protocols (however poor) for handling those things.

  20. Re:Squirrels cause the same issue in the US on Australia Cockatoos Chew Billion-Dollar Broadband (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Environmentally friendly electronics components, maybe?

  21. Re:The REAL question is on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Is 11 minutes without Twitter even justification for a torte?

    Well yeah, but I'd want to take a picture of it first so I could tweet it out after I finished eating it.

  22. Well, I guess there's some consolation in having it provide pretty much full availability with zero scheduled downtime otherwise.

  23. Anyone here ever work there? I hear it's kind of a rough place to work.

  24. Re:Does this include... on CIA Releases 321GB of Bin Laden's Digital Library (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering copyright laws, I'm more interested in how they determined that the materials they *did* release were not subject to copyright protection.

  25. Re:There is a Tsunami comming on Tech Companies Pledge To Use Artificial Intelligence Responsibly (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    What will they think about us?

    They'll look at our brains and ask, "Why did they perch themselves on top of so much meat? I mean, you don't need any of it after you reproduce."