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Comment Modern Journalism (Score 1) 113

I forgot who pointed this out, but every time you hear a journalist get something incredibly wrong, keep in mind they are also covering politics, legal cases, business, education, health issues, etc...

I noticed it in the 1990s when computers became a thing, and found that most reporters barely had a rudimentary grasp on what they were or how they worked. You could make an argument that they needed some time to get up to speed on new technology, but nowadays, when you do some basic research on Google or Wikipedia in a few minutes, getting basic facts wrong is inexcusable.

Comment Size Matters (Score 1) 215

The later full seasons of Seinfeld had around 22 episodes.
A full season of 24 was, obviously, 24 episodes. The first season of Person of Interest had 23 episodes.

A full "season" of Stranger Things is 9 episodes. So was Severance. The Rings of Power, which is probably the most expensive TV show ever made, had a paltry 8 episodes.

So yeah, there is a *lot* more old TV to watch.

Comment Re:Why on earth do they need a roadmap? (Score 1) 99

I'm a little surprised that even back in the 1950s they didn't make the electric, given that they run on a track.

Most of the track-powered rides are indoors, so the live rails don't get wet. They solved it on Test Track by mounting buss bars underneath the track surface. I'd imagine this is what they'll probably do with Autopia, so it's going to involve digging down and building a platform for the whole ride.

Comment Re:how much of this is business culture (Score 1) 182

People will die and it is because capitalism does not reward people who go above the call of duty to prevent loss of life.

And neither does socialism. Whilst under Soviet control, Aeroflot had five times more fatal crashes per mile flown than any other airline in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Commercial Unix (Score 1) 62

I consider modern BSD to be closer to the traditional commercial UNIX releases than Linux, as they consider the base OS as a single release instead of a bunch of independent packages (kernel, glibc, coreutils, svsvinit, e2fsprogs, sed/gawk/grep/patch/make/etc....)

Comment Usefulness (Score 1) 29

My friend put AirTags in his bags and stroller when he flew to Europe last summer, which came in handy when they shipped all his kid's stuff to the other side of the country. He pulled up to the lost luggage counter knowing which storage room his stroller and luggage were in before they were even scanned in by the airport's tracking system. They were put on the next plane to Europe and caught up with him later that evening.

Comment Re:Not exactly (Score 3, Insightful) 82

The government rolled it, built a new city 85% of the way and let private companies do the easy part (throwing up the frame and spackle) and get fat profits from it.

LOL, no. Read about Levittown. Housing became more affordable because Levitt figured out how to mass produce homes, and did so in an area with no zoning restrictions. The only subsidies were a few hundred dollars from the GI bill.

If you wanna have some *real* fun go look into how our food supply works. It's more centrally planned than anything the soviets ever did, we just don't talk about it because we're worried dumb Americans will dismantle the system, which is working quite well thank you.

You mean all the subsidies going to US farmers, and protectionist tariffs, so we have some of the highest grocery prices in the world? Yes, I agree with that. California and the federal government subsidizes almond growing, because California has little extra water laying around, and almond growing uses a lot of it so it gets expensive. Which, to me, means almonds are a poor crop to grow in California.

I am for free markets. That crap is anti-free-market.

Comment Coupons (Score 5, Interesting) 82

You have a lemonade stand. At your stand, you sell lemonade for $1 a glass. The government announces that they are giving everybody a $0.50 coupon you can turn in to a lemonade stand, and the lemonade stand can hand it in to the government to get $0.50.

If you were a lemonade stand operator, you could keep prices the same, or raise prices $0.50, as you know everyone will have an extra $0.50 to spend on lemonade.

This happens with subsidized housing. This happens with the mortgage tax exemption. This happens with government contracts in general. This happens with student loans. If you want something to be cheaper, you make it easier to make more of it and you don't dump gobs of money into the market.

Comment Dark Fiber (Score 1) 49

From what I've read, when they laid the original fiber optic cables, they were bundles of hundreds of individual fibers. They are using a fraction of those. If they need more bandwidth they can rig up more parallel fibers, but they haven't had to as newer gear keeps getting faster and faster. More efficient use of existing fiber infrastructure is nice, but there is plenty of fiber capacity available if it's needed.

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