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Comment Re: Houses (Score 1) 227

The reason houses are more expensive is that prices are now predicated on two incomes.
A generation or so ago, when women by and large created the communities and support structures of the first world, the price of a house was predicated on one income. Childcare was also communal (where you could leave a child with a friend if you both needed to be doing something).
The actual cost of the job that women were doing (and yes, I do consider making a home and community as a job) is now being seen, and unless you have a well paid job, childcare will easily eat one salary if you have two or more kids.

So now, people are leaving it later to try and have kids, in order to be financially viable in the new market conditions. Sadly, quite a few are realising they've left it a little late.

Comment Re:WAIT UNTIL THE FINES START ROLLING IN (Score 1) 123

The Supreme Court ruled nearly 40 years ago that you have no expectation of privacy with regard to trash that is placed in a publicly accessible location, like at the curb in front of your house or the dumpster at your apartment building. No warrant required. They do need a warrant to search your trash if it's not in a publicly accessible location. Your sewer lines are not publicly accessible, so you can calm down about that one for now.

Comment Re:Do the police have access to trash scans? (Score 1) 123

Even better than that, the police don't need a search warrant to use anything they find in the trash you put out, because it's technically property of the waste hauling business when they pick it up.

Just watch for the first case where exactly what you're talking about is used as probable cause for a warrant to take down some drug stash houses.

No search warrant is needed by the police to search through trash cans at the curb, regardless of whose property it might be. There's no expectation of privacy.

Comment Re:Wow combining two useless things I hate (Score 1) 123

You forgot: spending energy on printing and mailing post cards that will just end up in the trash, causing more postcards to be mailed because postcards are recyclable.

When I lived in Ohio a few years ago, nobody gave a fuck about recycling. I doubt getting extra junk mail to throw away is going to turn the tide.

According to TFA, they're just examining what gets put in the recycle bin, looking for stuff that shouldn't be there: Centerville is testing a new program where recycling trucks use artificial intelligence to spot and report items that do not belong in the bin. As each cart is emptied, the AI scans its contents and flags materials that do not meet local recycling guidelines.

If you just throw everything into the garbage bin, you shouldn't get any postcards.

Comment Re:Pay up or shut it off. (Score 1) 191

When there are 6 PRO's, and say you pay 3 for licensing, how do you determine which works are licensed and which aren't? So your only two sensible options are to pay _all_ of a growing number of PRO's, or not play music at all. And with a growing number of PRO's, the price goes up. It's not like streaming where if you don't pay for Disney+, you can't stream Disney movies. It's more like a situation where you are responsible for paying the licensing of what you watch on TV: if a Disney movie comes on and you don't have a Disney subscription, and don't change channel before it starts playing, you get sued.

Comment Re:It should be very, very simple... (Score 1) 53

Given that: a) Hawkeye's decision would be final if appealed to; and b) Hawkeye can now determine its decision in real time, it makes sense to just have Hawkeye call everything. They haven't got it perfect first time around, and people expect too much. There have likely been far fewer incorrect calls than back with humans and challenges. One time they had the system inactive during a point, and the solution is just to have the system active the entire match. If there was video evidence of a call it got wrong, I'm sure we'd have seen it by now. Another teething issue is making the call clear to a hearing impaired player. Some kind of lights would work for that, kind of like how cricket now has stumps and bails that light up in top flight T20 competitions.

Comment Not surprising it's more toxic (Score 5, Insightful) 85

As Glyphosate is not toxic (apart from repeatedly swimming in it and guzzling it by the pints daily) to mammals.
The whole reason it's frowned on is because Lawyers got involved, and because scientists couldn't say "Without a doubt, Glyphosate does not cause cancer" it got marked as a carcinogen. There again, scientists will never say "without a doubt", as there is always room for doubt in anything but the most settled of science, after decades or centuries of analysis. The data shows Glyphosate as being safe, and it being "extremely unlikely" that there is any connection between normal exposure to Glyphosate and cancer. It's one of the safest herbicides around, if not the safest for mammals. So it's no surprise that anything that is used instead is more toxic.

Comment Re: Go BRICS! (Score 4, Informative) 126

It does, but there's a slight issue with that. In terms of the world's largest economies by GDP the BRICS countries rate as:

#2: China
#4: India
#10: Brazil
#11: Russia (sanctions not withstanding)
#17: Indonesia
#28: United Arab Emirates
#38 South Africa
#42: Egypt
#44: Iran (again, despite the sanctions)
#66: Ethiopia

Now it's not like these countries are doing absolutely nothing to mitigate things, but it would be really interesting to see some numbers on exactly how much of a proportionate contribution they are making to "fund mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in poorer nations" when even lowly Ethiopia still has over 130 poorer nations to choose from.

Comment Re:lol bullshit (Score 1) 63

"Netflix Says 50% of Global Users Now Watch Anime"

Bullshit. Netflix is lying and anyone with 2 working brain cells to rub together knows it.

I'm happy for people to watch anime but don't tell me half the planet is consuming it FFS.

50% of global Netflix users != half the planet. Unless I missed where the entire planet became Netflix users, that is.

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