Well Zuck already censors it, are you suggesting he should continue to be the supreme arbiter for what 100s of millions see every day on their feed? Social media needs to be censored and regulated in exactly the same way as Film or TV or medicine. Preferably by each countries government.To be honest, the Chinese might have the right idea in banning it. There needs to be some variation in the gene pool.

Seems like another of the Social Media trends is for passive-aggressive types to constantly slip in digs on political issues that don't meet their carefully crafted idea of how society should be run.

The IANA provide reserved names for testing to avoid this type of situation. https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain-names.xhtml

.test should be fine even if you are pedantic about naming a dev domain. There is .example and example.com/org/net as well.

The MI5 is a great phone and has a very stable LineageOS ROM. Not sure how good the LineageOS ROM for the 5s is, and there is no official MI6 ROM yet. But you can still by a MI5 for a 65% discount on a Samsung flagship or 75%+ discount on an iPhone. You do have to create a "MI Cloud" account to unlock the boot loader, and wait a couple of days for them to enable your account for unlocking.

Not sure I trust their MIUI ROM with my data.

Looking forward to that Mars mission finally getting under way so we can send all the libertarian nut jobs off-plant to create utopia, along with their half read copies of Atlas Shrugged.

"When Goldman Sachs realized in 2006 that ther real estate market was no good and wanted to leave while they still could they had a problem? It is not liquid or fast/easy to move. Buying real estate is not liquid or easy either. So let's say you're a banker who is loosing money FAST in a crashing stock market."

Wasn't part of the problem they did get out fast? They just cooked up the financial instruments to do so and sold them to as many suckers as they could find (like Deutsche Bank at the time).

Personally I get the feeling we are close to the "shoe-shine boy giving stock tips in 1929" stage with Bitcoin. Half of my office are taking about "Crypto" trading, many are actively trading. I hear questionable advice thrown around daily. None use Bitcoin to buy anything, they want to get rich quick.

"Trade Crypto" adverts are popping up more frequently on public transport as well...

If your business is not viable while treating employees humanely then it should not be a business. We might as well go back to slave labour.

As far as I know the CUSTOMER pays VAT not Amazon. Also businesses can reclaim VAT on any business-related goods or services. This is the case in the UK at least. Based on that VAT should have little effect on Amazon or any other business, apart from raising the cost to consumers of their product or service.

Their employees just get hit twice from income tax and then VAT when they spend their salary!

If sales tax in the US is applied to business-to-business transactions then that has a much greater effect than VAT.

That's fine for anyone willing to die for their cause. Admittedly hostage taking and murder raises the stakes slightly, compared to a few broken bones and lashes from a rubber hose that could be explained away. But if the footage is that important and it falls into the wrong hands someone is going to get hurt.

They don't go there for an emotional conversation with the serving staff, but they do go there to be served (by a human)."Automated" restaurants will have have front of house staff still, but they will be able to cut the cooks and chefs by 50% or more.

It will be like a lot of factories in developed countries are already. A skeleton staff making sure the machines are running and hitting reboot when something goes wrong. The box of cereal you buy creates more jobs at the retail end than production, and the customer has no idea there are now only 10 jobs back in the factory.

I doubt it, he/she sounds like one of those BBC "haters" that spends all day on their site using the comment system to inform everyone how shit the BBC is. The definition of a love-hate relationship.

Yup, its certainly a poke in the eye. Now we just have to wait for it all to be restarted again with another name, I dont think the replacement will take 10 years to negotiate. They already have a final draft, it's just a case of waiting for the the political climate to be favourable again.

Actually the first version of the Uber platform was an outsourced job in PHP, according to one of their lead developers in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The founders saw a business opportunity and kudos there, but they are a "tech" company in the vain of Facebook -- more a fancy website rather than any real contribution to computer science.

As for the rest of the video, I'm not sure what the hell they are doing with that crazy infrastructure and the number of developers they have hired. Some people are getting played for fools in all this, probably the investors with money to burn in this case. It has the feel of the US banks selling all those junk securities to the Europeans and anyone else stupid enough to take the bate pre 2008.

Seems like this is ability should scare governments into action. Say Uber gets their wish and is the only taxi company in the world. Uber drivers in your country/district decide to try their luck and go on strike. Now Uber decides to check the box in the their web console to turn off all jobs in that area to show drivers who is boss, suddenly your country has almost no taxies.

Sounds like a banking "too big to fail" situation to me.

Currently most of the UK apart from London hipsters would be very happy to see the back of Uber, they can pull the plug now for all we care.

If you watch the advert linked in TFA it's entirely parents filming their kids. The only people i know using snapchat are teens and adults that still behave like teens and have no interest in kids or a family. I guess asking teens to drop $100+ on toy glasses is a bit much, so they needed another angle.