Comment Re:What did they pay him? (Score 1) 18
Elon likes his rocket toys, and thus needs money.
Comment Re:Need a prescription. (Score 1) 32
That's a different problem, and I can't speak to it. But chickens could not be raised as they are without LOTS of antibiotics. (I happen to think the way they are raised is an abomination, but it's cheap.)
Submission + - Google invests $40B in Texas for cloud, AI growth (kxan.com)
alternative_right writes: On Friday, Google announced a $40 billion investment in Texas.
The funding was part of Google’s “Investing in America” initiative, which it said was to further American innovation.
“The investment will boost cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with the development of data center facilities, programs to strengthen energy capacity and affordability, and workforce training in the state,” the Texas governor’s office said.
Gov. Greg Abbott joined Google leaders and state officials to announce the investment.
The funding was part of Google’s “Investing in America” initiative, which it said was to further American innovation.
“The investment will boost cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with the development of data center facilities, programs to strengthen energy capacity and affordability, and workforce training in the state,” the Texas governor’s office said.
Gov. Greg Abbott joined Google leaders and state officials to announce the investment.
Comment Re:What did they pay him? (Score 2) 18
Doesn't Elon's pay depend on Tesla revenue? If for example BYD kicks Tesla's ass, Elon gets lackluster pay.
Comment Async bloat (Score 1) 66
Java's Mono library is a poor substitute for C#'s async/await keywords
The Async/await stuff is just syntactical bloat for most typical CRUD apps. I suspect it's there to help MS save on cloud costs, rarely helps devs.
Comment Re:Need a prescription. (Score 1) 32
"Vets and wholesalers who supply farmers should be shut right down."
Yes, but... if you do this expect the price of meat to go way up, especially chicken and eggs. Perhaps it's a price we need to pay, but expect that it would need to be paid.
Submission + - Did Hitler have a micropenis? (yahoo.com)
know-nothing cunt writes: Researchers have analyzed a sample of DNA believed to belong to Adolf Hitler, which they say reveals the dictator of Nazi Germany had a genetic marker for a rare disorder that can delay puberty, according to a new documentary.
The research, which took more than four years to complete, was led by geneticist Turi King, a professor at the UK’s University of Bath who is known for identifying the remains of King Richard III. King said she verified that a piece of material taken from a couch in the bunker where Hitler shot himself in 1945 was soaked in the dictator’s blood by comparing a DNA sample recovered from the blood with a confirmed relative of Hitler’s.
The most striking finding from the team’s analysis was that Hitler had a mutation on a gene called PROK2. Variants in this gene are a cause of Kallmann syndrome and congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, King said. In boys, these conditions can delay puberty and cause undescended testicles.
“Basically, they are characterized by low testosterone levels. You either don’t go through puberty or you go through a partial puberty... 5% of cases get associated with a micropenis, ” King said, referring to a small but normally structured penis.
The research, which took more than four years to complete, was led by geneticist Turi King, a professor at the UK’s University of Bath who is known for identifying the remains of King Richard III. King said she verified that a piece of material taken from a couch in the bunker where Hitler shot himself in 1945 was soaked in the dictator’s blood by comparing a DNA sample recovered from the blood with a confirmed relative of Hitler’s.
The most striking finding from the team’s analysis was that Hitler had a mutation on a gene called PROK2. Variants in this gene are a cause of Kallmann syndrome and congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, King said. In boys, these conditions can delay puberty and cause undescended testicles.
“Basically, they are characterized by low testosterone levels. You either don’t go through puberty or you go through a partial puberty... 5% of cases get associated with a micropenis, ” King said, referring to a small but normally structured penis.
Comment Excuse Card? (Score 1) 64
$230
My jaw drops, but then I split. Half of me remains smugly looking down on fuckwits, but the other half hears that Samuel Adams' Utopia, which costs about the same, is supposedly showing up in CostCos, and while I can't justify getting a bottle
No.
No, it would still be stupid to do.
Submission + - Is having children really cost-prohibitive? (washingtonexaminer.com)
sinij writes:
Many couples don’t believe they can afford to start a family. As the cost of living continues to balloon, this affects a couple’s ability to raise children comfortably. For those contemplating whether to have children, the mere cost of child care, which is an average of $15,600 per year, provokes questions of whether it is even feasible.
This is not just future generation's problem. Catastrophic lack of affordability for housing, healthcare, and childcare results in fewer kids, this in turn means that in 20 years there will be less adults working and paying taxes, in turn bankrupting social nets. So today's childlessness crisis will translate to tomorrow destitute seniors crisis.
Comment Re:Several THOUSAND (Score 1) 96
Exactly how many suppliers does it take to supply an indicator bulb???
That's a trick question.
Answer: None. In 2025, Everything's Computer.
Comment Re:Best of luck with that (Score 1) 96
Nah, it's not politically noble, it's self protection. It's avoiding the change of political strife meaning they can't sell the cars they make.
Given what's been happening, it's probably a wise decision. I expect the stress between the US and China to get worse. I hope it stays at "economic warfare".
Comment Re:Bad Move (Score 1) 75
I think the justification is that gambling should be discouraged....not that I think that this works, or that they are at all consistent.
Comment Re:Regulatory control (Score 1) 79
I would say under-regulation, or more to the point, mal-regulation. Unregulated markets inevitably settle into a worst case scenario given time.
In the case of residential property (which is what your link refers to), I agree that some of the regulations there are bad and need to be revised or eliminated. But they have nothing to do with the commercial space falling into squalor.
Comment Re:Thanks for the research data (Score 1) 114
Politicians with crazy blond hair are FUBAR machines.
Comment Re:You could tell a grade school kid (Score 1) 71
We don't really know. I would bet that you are correct, and even give odds, but not long odds. Anything over 10:1 and I'd feel nervous.
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