For some items, the shipping cost outweighs any savings from manufacturing overseas. There are other things to look at too: cost of regulatory compliance (i.e. how many pounds of paperwork to prove you aren't hurting the environment), tax rates, etc.

With lower taxes, less regulation, and the cheaper shipping, it could be cheaper to manufacture in the US.

Why should Trump be tied to a prison toilet? He isn't under investigation for criminal activity.

macOS has more CVE findings released that Windows 10. Why would using macOS as a base be more secure?

Hillary didn't lose the primary. Both Trump and Hillary won their primaries. That's why they were the Republican and Democrat candidates during the main election.

If you want to find out more of why Trump won, read Scott Adam's book Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter.

I'm not sure why this is a huge scandal now. The information about what Cambridge Analytica did has been out for over a year. They're not the first political group to data mine Facebook either. The Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns were both in direct contact with Facebook, and from what I've read the Trump campaign only used them during primaries. Beyond that point, the RNC was able to provide him with better data.

Hard drives are quite slow for normal computer usage, and should be discouraged. I watched a computer boot Windows 10 to the desktop in 2 seconds while using an SSD. The spinning rust does have valid use cases, and places it excels. However, running Windows with a nice experience on standard applications isn't one of them.

How is this insightful? It's not even true.

Minimum wage in the US was originally $0.25/hr in 1933 (declared unconstitutional in 1935 and reestablished in 1938). If minimum wage kept pace with inflation it would have gone from $0.25 in 1933 to $4.64 today.

If you're working 40hrs/wk at federal minimum wage, then there are a lot of budgeting guides on how to live on the $1,000/month. The what I saw wasn't as detailed as I would like, but there's obviously people doing it. There are also gas stations all around me that start at 50% higher wages, but you'll have to at least be ambitious enough to be a better cashier than the ones at Walmart and McD's. If you have more ambition than being a cashier, it wasn't long ago that Mike Rowe was advertising jobs for CAT mechanics that started at $60,000/yr with training and no experience required.

I have my icons on home screens arranged in folders. It's faster that way, and the larger icons (compared to my computer start menu & quick launch) are good for my imprecise thumb. Your benchmark on a desktop being good is that is provides the same level of productivity as a poorly configured phone?

Problem 1: It's a single-tasking UI (not even my phone is as limited as Win8)
Problem 2: The icons are not well organized (I expect KDE will fix this, where Microsoft never has)
Problem 3: It requires more clicks/touches/actions to launch common programs vs my quick launch, which makes it objectively worse than my quick launch (hard data here!)
Hard Data 2: Windows 3.1 had something close (or at least much closer) to a full screen launcher, Program Manager which was a full window launcher. The transition away went MUCH more smoothly. In fact, Windows 95 still supported the Program Manager from 3.1, but I don't remember hearing of anyone using it or wanting it back.
Hard Data 3: You can get a start menu style program launcher for Android. Apparently people do want it back, even on a mobile screen.

I couldn't find a citation for Google having spent $28 billion so far. There was some sort of $20-28 billion cost projection for KC, but it was based on ignoring what Google said it costs to go with numbers closer to industry norms. Google said that building their own networking equipment isn't that difficult, and in return they get much better and cheaper equipment. I don't know of anyone else doing it, but then again, Google has a bigger customer facing network than anyone besides L3 (i.e. AT&T, Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, Verizon, etc.).

If you were rolling out a new service that you wanted to succeed, and had people bending over backwards to get your service, why would you start someplace difficult?

I'd begin by saying the correlation between formal education (usually the only kind actually measured) and intelligence is a lot looser than people realize, so pooling them together creates some rather meaningless data. Most of the dumbest statements I've heard are from people with Masters and PhD's, and some of the tests of people's intelligence were clearly written by someone either pushing an agenda or acutely mentally deficient for the task. Yale Law professor, Dan M. Kahan, was conducting an analysis of the scientific comprehension of various political groups when he ran into a shocking discovery: tea party supporters are more scientifically literate than the non-tea party population.

Yale Law professor Dan M. Kahan was conducting an analysis of the scientific comprehension of various political groups when he ran into a shocking discovery: tea party supporters are more scientifically literate than the non-tea party population.

Congratulations on getting a product out in only 18 months that includes so many security holes that people were finding 13 per day. While not a good accomplishment, it's still quite a lot of work to create quite the impression. Unfortunately, it's not a good impression. It gets worse when you watch your programs break with security updates. Java was at least becoming more secure under Sun.

Java 8 may be the most vibrant and advanced release ever, but the language is still horribly limited and any benchmarks I've been able to put it under run slowly while being a memory hog. The number of top severity CVE's (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) still showing up in Java 8 also is staggering.

We already have some public financing of elections. The republicans and democrats have ensured that no one else can have it, and they keep pushing a remarkably similar agenda for all the disagreement they show us.

The standard in TFS is "high quality" video. 1Mbps upload isn't for video conferencing isn't high quality video, especially since it's real-time, single-pass encoding. With 4k TV's being so cheap ($340 on Amazon), I wouldn't really call 4Mbps a high quality video stream either, especially to watch something with high-motion like Football. The change won't force them to upgrade, just limit what they can keep marketing as broadband.

Shouldn't I get 6Mbps upload then? I'm not sure how many people have heard of webcams, but Video goes both ways now.