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Quinner··on SpaceX undercut ULA rocket launch pricing by 40 percent: U.S. Air Force
They were already colluding to form a monopoly, I don't think antitrust prosecutions are going to be forthcoming.
Quinner··on Amazon Reports Surge in Profit
I work for a publisher. I appreciate quality content. This is a rehashed press release, I shouldn't be expected to pay for it.
Quinner··on Amazon Reports Surge in Profit
Why do people link to basic stories like this behind a paywall? If WSJ has an original piece out, fine, but this could've come from any one of a thousand sources.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-28/amazon-sal...

Quinner··on 20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
There's a reason you'll only see their number say >99%
Quinner··on Learning from Tay’s introduction
Also the whole government control and censorship of the internet thing.
Quinner··on The Big Alien Theory
Because we are living proof that alien life is possible. If alien life exists, we are alien life to them.
Quinner··on Download.com and Others Bundle Superfish-Style HTTPS Breaking Adware
The first case only works if you already know the name of the program you want. Otherwise you're funneling straight down the google rabbit hole.
Quinner··on A Diet and Exercise Plan to Lose Weight and Gain Muscle
"I've been paying very close attention to the responses of my body to different foods, etc."

Your personal anecdote is not a rigorous scientific study.

Quinner··on Venezuela is on the brink of a complete economic collapse
The troubles in Venezuela started while the oil price was still high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortages_in_Venezuela

Quinner··on Google engineer finds USB Type-C cable that’s so bad it fried his Chromebook
The spec is fine but they mis-wired the cable in the factory, badly.
Quinner··on Retirement Nomads: Too poor to retire and too young to die
That exists, it's called Social Security.
Quinner··on Etsy stock has lost 76% of its value in 9 months
Why does this have anything to do with it's status as a B-corp, rather than other market pressures on Etsy specifically, including Amazon's efforts in the space?
Quinner··on Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses
Except the NYT has surprisingly turned things around, considering five years ago they were a dinosaur on it's way out, much as Yahoo was and is.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/business/media/new-york-ti...

Quinner··on Freecol – open source colonization game
Correct, different developer, same publisher.
Quinner··on How to Prosecute Abusive Prosecutors
I'm all for bringing down the government, but I have to believe there's a better way to do that than Donald Trump.
Quinner··on 'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi'
So you're comparing the theoretical speeds in lab tests to actual speeds in the real world of older wifi tech? That's not really a fair nitpick.
Quinner··on Microsoft's Software is Malware
Or, you know, any of the several Windows releases since XP.
Quinner··on Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers
It's really a mix of over-regulation and under-regulation, with a lot of regulatory capture. In this case the monopolies are not illegal, they're actually protected by regulation.
Quinner··on A Back Door to Encryption Won't Stop Terrorists
I think your nit-picking needs more thought, nuclear bombs are illegal for an individual to possess, and if someone had managed to obtain a bomb from say the former USSR, they would most definitely be considered a criminal.
Quinner··on A Back Door to Encryption Won't Stop Terrorists
It's worse, because a gun is a discrete physical item. Encryption code is virtual and infinitely replicable, regulation is extremely ineffective at restricting it from those that want it.
Quinner··on Facebook and the Media Have an Increasingly Landlord-Tenant Style Relationship
This is their response: https://www.ampproject.org/
Quinner··on North Korea runs short of ingredients for winter kimchi supplies
That's probably an official exchange rate, with the currency being much weaker unofficially.
Quinner··on Prescription painkiller deaths fall in medical marijuana states
Wut.
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