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  1. Call customer support on Astronomers Have Spotted the Universe's First Molecule (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    No doubt the location of your remote is being tracked in a database in Beijing

  2. Re:huh? on Facebook Shareholders Force A Vote On Ousting Mark Zuckerberg (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Trillium is an activist investor, in this case "activist" meaning they want to push their social agenda on corporations.

  3. Re:Trillium Asset Management? on Facebook Shareholders Force A Vote On Ousting Mark Zuckerberg (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    Outside investors don't have a say in the company. Zuckerberg has it set up so he got the cash from selling shares while still maintaining complete control.

    Trillium management is trying to send a message that those who they blame for 2016 will be punished, even though it was Hillary herself who blew the election.

  4. Re:They are moderating like mad on Top US Congressman Says Silicon Valley's Self-Regulating Days 'Probably Should Be' Over (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Her goal is to send a message that they must stop funding rogue politicians like AOC and get back to letting her be the conduit of money flowing from her district to Washington.

  5. Run out and buy one quick - they'll be more collectable than Beanie Babies. And the marketing drones who thought this up will get nice bonuses.

  6. Re:I would assert it is retail as a whole on Jeff Bezos Confirms Amazon's Growth Is Slowing (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon does more retail sales than all other competitors combined

    E-commerce retail perhaps, but Walmart's total retail sales are almost double Amazon's total.

  7. Re:I would assert it is retail as a whole on Jeff Bezos Confirms Amazon's Growth Is Slowing (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Housing costs are up in some markets due to the return to normal interest rates thanks to the thriving economy and very low unemployment rate.

    The gig economy is tiny, not a factor at all.

    I agree with you about government partisanship, it's always been a mess although it seems to have gotten worse over the last 25 years. But read up on some of the things that happened during the first 50 years of USA history - how about the Vice President shooting one of his political rivals?

    Of course there will be a recession at some point in the future, just no signs of one today.

  8. Reminds me of a Woody Allen's "Sleeper" on Andrew Yang Plans To Use a 3D Hologram For Remote Campaigning (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of the Nose he can campaign as the Yang.

  9. Re:I would assert it is retail as a whole on Jeff Bezos Confirms Amazon's Growth Is Slowing (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There aren't any signs of a recession. My guess is that the slow growth is caused by three factors:

    1) Amazon is no longer the only game in town. Most retailers, especially Walmart, are competing better
    2) The market for e-commerce is finite, Amazon's growth will slow eventually
    3) A smaller but still relevant factor is the Washington Post. A lot of people really don't like the direction it took after Bezos bought it

  10. Re: No one overlooked this on MIT Says We're Overlooking a Near-Term Solution To Diesel Trucking Emissions (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    For stop start driving in cities hybrids make sense

    Maybe, if the hybrid can carry enough charge to get through most of the day without depending on the ICE. But carrying several tons of battery means carrying several tons less cargo, so maybe not.

  11. Re:Only accessible by sea on New Human Species Found In Philippines (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It was probably a combination of luck and an attempt to navigate.

    Yup. "Luck" meaning they survived where (most likely) many others ended up as shark food.

  12. Re:Opportunity for hardware development elsewhere on China Wants To Ban Bitcoin Mining · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin is the most manipulated currency ever, which is the main reason it and other cryptocurrencies will always fail.

    Science fiction is fiction

  13. Re:Population density or building density? on Facebook is Using AI To Map Population Density Around the World (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    there are so many exceptions...that the results would be next to useless.

    Not at all; they can compare areas with known populations to areas with unknown. The estimate won't be exact, but it will be close enough to make informed decisions such as whether there are enough people to invest in some infrastructure.

  14. Re:Opportunity for hardware development elsewhere on China Wants To Ban Bitcoin Mining · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Chinese government recognized that the bitcoin fad is over. Time to move on.

  15. And Linux users want 'free' on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 0

    Linux users complain about commercial software because it isn't open source. Why would commercial products want to support it? They don't.

  16. Re:Have the government step in to build it on Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon Are Quietly Buying Undersea Cables (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Telecom is highly regulated in every country, whether the government owns it won't change how it's operated. And given the shenanigans we've seen in the US government over the past couple of years I'm inclined to leave it in private hands.

  17. Re:Slap on the wrist on Former Senate Staffer Admits To Doxxing Five Senators On Wikipedia (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you take a look at democratic pardons you'll notice they aren't of political cronies

    Nonsense. Take a look at Clinton's Pardongate controversy.

  18. Re:Peculiar news on The US Just Had the Most Q1 Layoffs in a Decade (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Total employment went up by over 1/2 million jobs in Q1, so yeah, he's creating jobs. The net change is what's important.

  19. The purpose of the investigation was to investigate whether there was evidence of collusion. Mueller didn't find it.

    What "evidence" is needed to exonerate him? Nothing Mueller could produce could prove that nothing happened; you would always say "B-b-b-but we don't know what was said at the Trump Tower meeting !!!".

  20. Re:No surprise on Cats Can Recognize Their Own Names, Study Suggests (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Say four random words to your cat -- separated by about 15 seconds -- with the same length and intonation as its name.

    They also pick up subtle inflections in your voice. Even if you try to say the name with the same intonation as the other words, you won't. When I had a cat he would respond to his name when I called him, but if I said "Come here stupid" in the same voice he would respond the same way.

    All they hear is sounds (like we hear their meows), so how you say it means at least as much as what you say.

  21. Democrats aren't showing anything. They're looking for something, anything, that they hope will garner some votes in 2020. Mueller shot down their collusion conspiracy theory and Barr is going to go after the parties responsible for the faked evidence.

  22. Democrats have done everything they can to sabotage the current administration rather than looking for a way to get things done by compromising.

    As a result, they will not get anything passed that they want. She knows this bill has zero chance of getting out of committee.

  23. Headline is wrong on Judge Orders Fairfax Police To Stop Collecting Data From License Plate Readers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're still collecting data, the judge said they can't store it indefinitely without a good reason.

  24. "Our code has no known bugs."

    And we pretend there aren't any unknown bugs.

  25. Better eplanation on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 0

    Canada uses that pinko Celsius system. If they would use a patriotic system like Fahrenheit they wouldn't be warming nearly as fast.