I once used a Mamiya 645 1000s camera with a huge viewfinder, and now use a Fujifilm X-T3. While the Mamiya certainly had a very large bright viewfinder to focus from, the screen resolution and the viewer magnification of the X-T3 is bright and sharp enough to see if my focus is good.

Having said that, X-T3 has other advantages which a mirror does not have. First, the X-T3 can magnify the screen so I can fine tune the focusing even further. Second, I can show a histogram to see where the exposure is while evaluating the shot. Third, don't have to worry about mirror slap vibration for show shutter speed shots.

I don't know, mirrors are good for focusing, but I've seen bad DSLR viewfinders and mirror-less. But I'm warming up to mirror-less with the newest iterations and using it exclusively now.

It's as though we're living in the episode "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" thanks to Facebook et. al.

I can certainly understand these video card companies jacking up prices. They sell their cards for D dollars, then scalpers immediately clean out all inventory and resell every card they get for 2 or 3xD. Card makers like ASUS aren't in the charity business to support a middle layer of scalpers, I'm sure they would like that money instead.

Using Earth Explorer, what gov't ortho data set has higher resolution than Google, if you don't mind me asking? The DOQs available seem to be much lower resolution as far as I can tell.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes... About time someone articulated what this overused talking point about California having the 5th largest economy means...

If you look at a pie chart (2008) of what makes California's economy so large, manufacturing and information both make up 16% of the GDP. What makes up California's largest segments of GDP? Real estate and government services (all totaled about 50%). I wouldn't exactly go around bragging about California's economy when it's based on just it's location or propped up by the federal government. And yes I live in California and I can see with my own eyes what businesses are located here.

Just blows my mind on how people are.

Where exactly did you get these statistics? Just curious...

This is what happens when people like the ones now running Slashdot turn lots of things into an "us vs. them" contest, just to push our primitive part of our brain buttons and get more mouse clicks.

Why cannot natural gas and renewables co-exist? Why does natural gas need to be "kicked to the curb"? The whole premise of this article title is so immature.

> Wow, all cash offers for a house is pretty baller. I don't think the average tech-monkey could swing that.

That's because probably the person offering all cash is not a tech-monkey; that person is a real estate investor who already has rentals and is buying houses like Monopoly houses to turn the property around to rent. Seen it and heard about it from real estate people elsewhere in CA. This is probably the underlying reason housing prices in CA is through the roof and so hard to get in general. Fewer and fewer people owning more and more of the property.

If DC became the 51st state, I wonder how much software would break due to the change (kind of like the Y2K issue)?

How exactly did you what all of those people knew? Did you go there and ask each individual there?

Everyone knew that?

They get 25 billion while a passenger whose FLIGHT WAS CANCELLED by the AIRLINES will not get any refund for a non-refundable ticket(*). No, instead "we'll hold on to your money for you" for up to 2 years. Um, a lot can happen in two years and this whole virus issue may not fully blow over in that time. Fucking assholes. We're not even talking about all the other things (charging for just about every thing possible) the airlines have been doing.

(*) Yeah I get the logical disconnect with refunding a non-refundable ticket, but the airlines are NOT holding up their end of the bargin!!! I can see if _I_ want to cancel and get rejected, however the underlying assumption is _THEY_ will provide a plane to fly on, which is NOT happening now... THEY are not holding up their end of the bargin, so I should be able to cancel.

Like Beer, the Internet is the cause of and the solution to all problems.