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  1. So really, it ain't gonna solve ANYTHING.

    That's badly wrong. It will solve the most important thing; shutting the mouths of wrong-thinkers.

  2. Because these are BLS numbers; political fiction. There is a large pool of unemployed and underemployed and this supply keeps wages from climbing. BLS factored large numbers of people out of the workforce to produce good employment figures under Obama. You'll know when the pool is drained when wages start climbing. Until then we're still working through 8 years of BLS bullshit.

  3. Re:27 year deadline on Hawaii Passes Law To Make State Carbon Neutral By 2045 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    California leads the nation in naive soy boys that cream themselves whenever some state passes another fatuous mandate. And yes, California has the largest number of mostly fossil fuel powered token EVs.

  4. Re:27 year deadline on Hawaii Passes Law To Make State Carbon Neutral By 2045 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Yet we see many counter-examples of this.

    Yet we see many examples as well. California has been kicking the ZEV can for two decades; they re-revise it as each new deadline approaches and reality asserts itself.

    This new 2045 deal is essentially a can kicking maneuver for the 2008 Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative with an arbitrary 2030 deadline that has zero chance of being met.

    Hawaii generates a large fraction of it's electricity — 33% — with imported fuel oil, and over 85% of all energy with oil. Oil plus coal accounts for over 92%. Everything else; all the vaunted geothermal, solar, wind, yada yada lives in that last 8%. The land is too valuable to cover in silicon and there are only so many places to put windmills. If Hawaii ever gets to zero carbon it will be with nukes. And if they're going to make 2045 they'll have to start building them in the next couple years.

    Don't hold your breath.

  5. But they signed the Paris Agreement, the Kyoto Accords, the Montreal Mandate

    Being exempt from all the meaningful parts of these agreements makes signing pretty easy.

  6. Re:I'm not up on all the jargon on Intel Launches Optane DIMMs Up To 512GB (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Not.

    It's nonvolatile storage with a DIMM connector. Intel has always positioned "3D XPoint" as either a nonvolatile cache for slower storage or an independent storage medium; they aren't claiming this replaces RAM. Latency and bandwidth are far behind contemporary DDR regardless of what edge connector you put on it, and no one is claiming otherwise.

    Maybe in the fevered dreams of some tech writer a future refinement of 3D XPoint can somehow compete with capacitors, but don't hold your breath waiting for it.

  7. Re:Talk about burying the lede on Consumer Reports Recommends Tesla's Model 3 After Braking Fix (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    they [sic] software thought it is not the usual user going about normal driving. May be the car is going downhill on a long road and it is better to stop the brake from over heating.

    So the Model 3 was effectively simulating brake fade?

    No thanks. Good on CR for calling them on it. If Telsa thinks this is the right approach then the car needs indicate this behavior to the driver, at which point it might be considered a praiseworthy feature. But just mystifying everyone with poor performance is stupid; that just arms critics.

  8. Re:Good, fuck them. on Personal Records of Nearly 1 Million South Africans Leaked Online (iafrikan.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a well deserved famine coming too; persecuting white farmers is crippling the food supply. The ANC is turning South Africa into another African dumpster fire.

  9. Another Tesla battery fire is making its way into the US news cycle. This one was fatal. The photos are astonishing; the whole car was slagged right down to the pavement with the driver is inside. Not a good look.

  10. Re:better educated, more aware of their rights on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be considered disrespectful. It would be frowned upon.

    Workers in the West were subjected to all manner of cultural shaming by the ruling class, the clergy, their elders, law enforcement, effectively everyone. Your ignorance of this history is painfully obvious.

    Education is required to get over that mindset

    So says you. History supports my view. You have educrat talking points.

  11. better educated, more aware of their rights on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You know, the "40 hour" week was formalized in the US by uneducated line workers many of whom could barely read. It doesn't take a half a life time of education debt to grasp the concept. These attitudes are emerging in China because the demand for workers is high enough that workers have leverage, not because they have degrees.

  12. Re:Thread Root on LLVM's mailing list on One Of LLVM's Top Contributors Quits Development Over Code of Conduct, Outreach Program (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Much better to get this from the horses mouth

    Indeed. The first thing you'll spot when you go to the primary source is that he doesn't want to be required to sign the "code of conduct" to attend LLVM conferences. Nice how that is left out of the Phoronix story and this summary. Beyond that he points out exclusionary paid internships he doesn't care to support.

  13. Re:Polar bear replant in grab bags? on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're talking about Toronto, where most people speak English.

    English, sure. But their heads separate from their necks when they talk, which freaks me out.

  14. Re:When does it end? on UK Officials Will Summon Mark Zuckerberg To Testify if He Won't Do So Voluntarily (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's a big [sic] unrealistic

    Zuckerberg et al. don't hesitate to play tax games among all these foreign countries. Zuckerberg et al. demand a borderless world from which to cherry pick employees. Zuckerberg et al. don't hesitate to cash the checks they earn from the UK and elsewhere. Zuckerberg et al. are unfailingly disappointed whenever the US fails to conform to the demands of international authorities (climate agreements, immigration policy, gun laws, etc.)

    Yet let any of these countries demand Zuckerberg appear before investigators and all the sudden everything is "unrealistic" or "unreasonable."

    You know what? Fuck Zuckerberg. He can spend the next tens years schlepping from one 18 star hotel to the next all over Europe and Asia dealing with these investigations as far as I'm concerned. If Zuckerberg doesn't like it he can stop accepting revenue from ad views outside the US or whatever he has to do to eliminate his obligations in foreign countries. If that means the Facebook business model isn't feasible then so be it; nothing of value will have been lost.

  15. Re:Hard to find 16:10 monitors these days on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Replying to myself here....

    BENQ has also just announced a new 16:10 desktop monitor; the BenQ SW240 is supposed to appear in May. The panel is little larger than the panel in the AOC monitor and has a different response time as well, so possibly these are not simply the same panel packaged by two different monitor manufacturers.

    Could it be that after many years panel manufacturers have heard the pleas of desktop users and are making 16:10 devices again?

  16. Re:Hard to find 16:10 monitors these days on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Last month AOC announced a new 16:10 desktop monitor. The X24P1 is supposed to be available in June and is a 24" IPS 1920x1200 display with 60 Hz refresh.

  17. I don't subscribe to Netflix because they make news at Cannes. I don't subscribe to Netflix because they win lots of Oscars. If (and that's a big "if") there is any truth to this claim that Netflix is buying theaters to score points somehow then there are management problems at Netflix; somehow the people running things have lost all available clues about their subscribers. Oh, and space that Letterman crap too; I don't subscribe to Netflix to watch limousine liberals dote on each other.

  18. 32 years out on Carbon Dioxide From Ships at Sea To Be Regulated For First Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    And they won't make that date either.

    Exempted from Kyoto... LOL. What a joke. Not ratifying these shake down scam agreements is among the best and most admirable thing the US has ever done and the citizens of the US deserve credit for not being suckers.

  19. Tesla vs the NTSB on NTSB Boots Tesla From Investigation Into Fatal Autopilot Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    This is an old story now. Tesla repeatedly creates shit storms with regulators and critics. Tesla expects to be the special, exempted exception to every rule and requires every outcome and finding to be in Tesla's favor, lest the offender be subjected to the mud slinging we see here. This scene in particular smacks of desperation; Tesla is finding it difficult to maintain the reality distortion field where it's ok for their "autopilot" operating in broad daylight to bury its passengers into a highway divider and erupt into a toxic lithium battery fire that takes most of a day to fully contain.

  20. "I'm not that familiar with Android" on New Navigation App 'Live Roads' Promises 1.5m-Accuracy With Standard Cellphone Hardware (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is this class signaling? A disclaimer in case someone mistake you for Android trash and not the awesome Apple bro you actually are? Because I can't imagine anyone supposedly "from Ars Technica" finding themselves mystified by anything on a modern Android device. That just doesn't compute.

  21. They made him wear a suit on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL

  22. Re:Prices are actually falling on GPU Prices Soar as Bitcoin Miners Buy Up Hardware To Build Rigs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Bitmain Launches Ethereum ASIC Miner With Hash Rate Performance Of 8 GTX 1080 GPUs For Just $800"

    Wow. I'd expect to see a flood of used GPU's piling up on Ebay with this news. Let's see...

    Search GTX 1070, click "used", results: 971 listings with the first ~275 under $400.

    Yep. "Crisis" over. Expect prices to fall precipitously.

    I believe Ethereum is/was the real source of GPU demand given that bitcoin miners long since moved to ASICs. Ethereum was designed to be ASIC resistant. So what has changed? Has there been some breakthrough in ASIC design, driven by cryptocurrency?

  23. Too much peace on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Which nation would these fine Googlers prefer have the most advanced AI, if not the US?

  24. She has a bunch of videos up on Daily Motion they haven't pulled yet. Self centered militant vegan whack job.

  25. Re:Everything old is new again on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    IBM, Motorola and Apple.

    Apple was the A in AIM Alliance.