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tryingagainbro··on Volvo Promises Uber Fleet of 24,000 Self-Driving Taxis by 2019
was there a showdown with experts rating each company? I get that Google has a much better PR machine
tryingagainbro··on India's Indira canteen: The best meal you can buy for 13 cents
Height and obesity...
tryingagainbro··on The World Is Running Out of Sand
This is also ruining beaches (sand should go to the sea)

Grinding limestone ??

tryingagainbro··on India's Indira canteen: The best meal you can buy for 13 cents
should extend this to a lot of places:

"In fact, Guatemala has the highest rate of malnutrition in the Western Hemisphere: 50 percent of the population is stunted and, in rural Mayan villages, that figure gets as high as 80 percent." * We compared a group of native 9-year-old Mayans and a group of 9-year-old Mayans raised in the United States. The difference was dramatic. The American Mayan children who have access to better food are, on average, six inches taller than those raised in Guatemala.* http://abcnews.go.com/Health/malnutrition-severe-stunting-gu...

tryingagainbro··on Pentagon contractor leaves social media spy archive wide open on AWS
Strong as the weakest link...NSA with virtually unlimited budget brought to its knees:

"Inside the agency’s Maryland headquarters and its campuses around the country, N.S.A. employees have been subjected to polygraphs and suspended from their jobs in a hunt for turncoats allied with the Shadow Brokers. Much of the agency’s arsenal is still being replaced, curtailing operations. Morale has plunged, and experienced specialists are leaving the agency for better-paying jobs — including with firms defending computer networks from intrusions that use the N.S.A.’s leaked tools.

“It’s a disaster on multiple levels,” Mr. Williams said. “It’s embarrassing that the people responsible for this have not been brought to justice.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.htm...

tryingagainbro··on The Zuckerberg delusion
I don't understand your point at all: he bought the 4 homes, what he does with them isn't your business or mine.

Why shouldn't he build a wall around his property, it's his and if he likes privacy so be it. With the wall he can walk freely in his property.

tryingagainbro··on Colombia, Once Consumed by Violence, Became a Tourist Destination
How much money we're talking about in your dad's business?

Couple of hundred dollars to a teenage sicario in Escobar's time and you're gone.

tryingagainbro··on Amazon Is Becoming the New Microsoft
Should Apple provide US style standards and pay for labor in China?
tryingagainbro··on Norway Idea to Exit Oil Stocks Is ‘Shot Heard Around the World’
Yup, they're already invested in oil, buying XOOM etc shares just un-diversifies (is that a word??) their investments.
tryingagainbro··on Ancient data, modern math and the hunt for lost cities of the Bronze Age
That was my (sarcasm) point...unless we change, they'll find NOTHING.
tryingagainbro··on US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of H1B visa workers
iPhone costs, say $800 on average. How much of it is in assembling it ....? USA can and should tax the rest.
tryingagainbro··on US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of H1B visa workers
Oh yeah, let's bring every programmer from India /China in USA at $30k a year so companies pay less US programmers and fire 30+ year old ones.

Bring in the best only, and $90k is a good salary requirement

tryingagainbro··on US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of H1B visa workers
if you do the job...you do the job. Market decides
tryingagainbro··on US committee votes $30,000 increase in minimum salary of H1B visa workers
Brilliant! If you really need foreign workers because you can't find them in USA, they must so good, so special and deserving way more than $60k.
tryingagainbro··on Argentina says signals detected, likely from missing submarine
Maintenance is the likely missing link. Get a brand one and don't do maintenance for a while and you'll get the same result.

A lot of countries have these subs and airplanes but not enough money for training, maintenance and so on.

tryingagainbro··on Ancient data, modern math and the hunt for lost cities of the Bronze Age
we have 10s of thousands of 4,000 year old clay tablets. What a data set!

Year 6017: we have 10s of thousands of 4,000 year old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk . Hhmmmm...

tryingagainbro··on Kaspersky: Yes, we obtained NSA secrets. No, we didn’t help steal them
>>rather than Kaspersky doing anything malicious

I'm sorry but Kaspersky gets NSA files and deletes them, instead of handing them to FSB? Nope, I don't believe it. You can get away with xx murders in exchange for that

And that's the most generous assumption--that Kaspersky wasn't looking for them

tryingagainbro··on Health Giant Sutter Destroys Evidence in Crucial Antitrust Case Over High Prices
15 million pieces of documents and 1400 witnesses to talk to. I made those numbers up but on HCA case apparently the Govt had 13,000 boxes of documents...500 FBI agents participated and HCA spent $300 mil in their defense https://books.google.com/books?id=5SwZ0j9lf40C&pg=PA235&lpg=...
tryingagainbro··on Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest (2014)
dumb question: what happens to them? Suppose you get lots and lots of energy converted into electrons and positrons...do they go and forth with each other until they create something bigger? If so, what?
tryingagainbro··on Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest (2014)
Read that entire article to find out what type of matter turned out...only to realize that they have not actually created anything, or run the experiment.

So, any idea what type of matter would it be created?

tryingagainbro··on There’s a Digital Media Crash, But No One Will Say It
>>No sources or even attempt to prove any claims: - There are too many publishers

Maybe the market is deciding? Mashable sold for $50 Million which is no chump change but way less than last year.

>>- There is a fixed amount of 'revenue seats'

Isn't it? Does it grow every time one launches their own blog or Buzzfeed?

- Google/fb/etc take a portion of that fixed revenue

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+facebook+revenue+ad+dollars...

tryingagainbro··on Amish Mutation Protects Against Diabetes and May Extend Life
Find a diabetes cure and be a the world's first trillionaire and probably go directly to heaven when time comes :) ?

>>The total cost of diabetes and prediabetes in the U.S. is $322 billion. - The average price of insulin increased nearly 3 times between 2002 and 2013. - People with diabetes have health care costs 2.3 times greater than those without diabetes http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/statistics/infograph...

tryingagainbro··on There’s a Digital Media Crash, But No One Will Say It
Tl;Dr

--too many guys with laptops means way too many sites /blogs

--Google and Facebook are gobbling all growth in ads. That new ad dollar is being increasingly spent on Goog and FB.

tryingagainbro··on Google increasingly is promoting a single answer for many questions
The real answer is: "don't go to the website we stole this info from, but click on an ad here"
tryingagainbro··on North Korean defector found to have 'enormous parasites'
>>0.01% of NK population is ~2500. There's going to be a lot more casualties of war than that.

wrong way to calculate. Sometimes you need to die so others, including your family, have a chance.

Of course, you can say who are we to decide that "John" in North Korea should die for freedom...

tryingagainbro··on Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
<<All I want is impartial.

First they are prepping for an IPO and need to clean up image.

Second, is being impartial even possible, short of some super-duper AI that after being programmed by biased programmers cleans itself of the bias?

tryingagainbro··on Microsoft joins the MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum level sponsor
Call me paranoid but I don't trust {99% of huge corporations} at all. They all want to do things that ultimately benefit their bottom line, directly or indirectly.
tryingagainbro··on North Korean defector found to have 'enormous parasites'
How can one make the land of milk and honey look bad?

Military invasion, while unlikely (cost, mainly destruction,) would probably be better for 99.99% of North Koreans. Oh, if they are ever attacked it will be because they have threatened to nuke quite a few countries.

tryingagainbro··on Bitcoin is a bubble, no plans to short-sell: Japan Post Bank CIO
All other things aside, gold has a several thousand year history as being used as currency. To pay for grains, hostages, to buy protection, raise armies, pay people etc etc.

Bitcoin on the other hand...

tryingagainbro··on Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early
I know. Sometime a joke is a joke. Even if trains ran on time I wouldn't advocate fascism as a trade-off.
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