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Comment Re:Material problems (Score 1) 377

The power-generating road is cool if they get it to a workable state, but why the LEDs? You're raising the cost for no reason. It may not increase the cost of a 12x12 box much, but it's got to raise the price of a 20 mile stretch by a decent amount.

The flashing crosswalk even without the rest of the stuff is actually brilliant and they'll almost certainly make some money there.

Comment Re:Net Neutraility? (Score 1) 316

He's not complaining about the taxes, he's saying his personal and company funds are indistinguishable, which means you're correct that the business isn't a corporation or LLC or he's doing it wrong. He's either a partnership or a sole proprietorship, which, for tax purposes, is pretty much identical to an S Corp. In some circumstances it would be beneficial to run as a C corp, but only if you retain profits inside the company. If you're taking most of the profit out as dividends, the taxes are worse with a C corp (you pay as the corporation, then you pay as an individual when you take the dividend).

Comment Re:For example (Score 4, Interesting) 261

For a year and a half I tracked every ounce of food I ate, recorded it in software I wrote, meticulously recorded calories burned on exercise machines (this is the largest source of error, but I did my best to compensate) and found the following:

Graphing my actual weight and my projected weight using (start weight - ((2660 - calories eaten + calories exercised) / 3500) will never be more than 3 pounds apart, even over a weight change of over 100 lbs, regardless of whether my caloric intake was from a tub of Crisco or from cucumbers dipped in virgin blood. Conclusion: eat whatever the hell kind of food you want, just keep the calories low, your long-term weight change will be the same. But it's easier to eat fewer calories, in my experience, if you cut out carbs. They make me hungrier.

The +/- 3 pounds fluctuates based on when you last peed, how much you drank and when, and how much meat is sitting in your colon pending expulsion.

Comment Re:Hours wasted in traffic (Score 1) 561

Another few seconds because lane merges were done earlier than the last possible moment...

Merging early allows the late mergers to speed to the front of the line, forcing all of the pre-mergers to wait for every single person who didn't feel like merging early to go. If you merge early, be sure to only half-merge to prevent the dicks behind you from cutting in front of everyone and causing a traffic jam instead of slightly slowed traffic. But this gets extremely complicated when there are possible exits before the choke point (in which case blocking someone from getting to that exit is a dick move). So just wait until you get to the front, then let one person go and get in behind them.

Comment Or what will actually happen. (Score 4, Insightful) 488

Transparent ceramic planes using super-expensive future technology that will take years and years to actually make work! It'll be awesome! You'll be able to see through the plane! Except for the fuel, seats, luggage compartments, probably the floor, A/C ducting, electrical conduit, the bulkhead separating you from the pilot, the bathrooms in the back...

Or I guess we could just make the windows a little bigger.

Comment Re:Probrem! (Score 1) 696

Stewart just comes across as an angry bitter man trying to be funny most of the time.

And succeeding a huge portion of the time. It's not your style of humor. That's fine. I personally don't understand how anyone could ever even smile while Two and a Half Men is on, but me, you, and those folks will just have to agree to disagree.

Comment Re:LOLZ (Score 3, Interesting) 696

It's not mandated. You're free to bring your own signs, but they'll have some if you're not funny. And thank God for that, because most people are not funny. Sadly, people that aren't funny and people that think they're not funny have a very small overlap on the Venn diagram, so we'll still be forced to read some very unfunny things.

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