Comment Re:Let's call it what it is (Score 1) 45
Yeah, I was going to suggest an alternate headline: "Why the fuck does Coinbase have 4000+ employees?"
Comment Stock Market Insanity (Score 3, Funny) 37
Daily active users rose 35% year over year to 132 million, while hours engaged climbed 43% to 31 billion hours
You only grew by just over one third last year!? Failure! Sell sell sell!
Comment Re:So security cameras = bad? (Score 1) 131
Everyone's fine with security cameras...
I'm not so sure that's a true statement.
Comment Re:Yeah (Score 1) 303
Jon Stewart used to say that he has a shoebox full of photos that guarantee he would never be elected president.
Comment Re:Yeah (Score 1) 303
TBH I can't even think of a "reality TV star type" who is clearly associated with Democratic or liberal or left wing politics at the moment. At most you have a few celebrities who'll give their support to a candidate, but who don't generally discuss politics outside of that.
I think the closest the Democrats have would be comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (generally similar to Al Franken, as you mentioned).
Comment Re:Welcome to the dictatorship! (Score 1) 303
George Washington was the commanding officer of a street party? That's an interesting way of putting it.
Comment Re:Free market (Score 1) 108
Username checks out
Comment Re:Hit and run will be interesting (Score 1) 67
That only works if it can do duckies and bunnies.
Comment Not New (Score 2) 127
There were surveys nearly 20 years ago that found that the most well-informed viewers of television news were people watching The Daily Show. If you can find a video of Jon Stewart's reaction, it's pretty great (basically "We make shit up" and "We air between South Park and fighting robots").
Comment Re:The underlying issue (Score 1) 152
If you like the current Gnome layout, you'll find plenty to like about MacOS.
The parent post's criticism of MacOS applies equally to Gnome. Gnome has been mimicking the MacOS UI for years now. It's why I use KDE.
Comment Re:Sounds like a good problem to have (Score 1) 149
The last 15 years when Apple hasn't had a real mass consumer machine except for the mac mini have been kind of an exception.
If you're talking about a span of hundreds of years, a span of 15 years may be an exception. A span that's one third of the company's existence is not.
Comment Re: the only reason (Score 2) 118
Just to clarify, it's because Slashdot does not support Unicode characters, only basic ASCII.
Comment Re:Robot philosopher? (Score 1) 94
I'll see your story about robots raising children and raise you Isaac Asimov's The Naked Sun.
Comment Re:About damn time (Score 1) 65
No, it is different than Bitcoin. In this case, "gambling" means "receiving a specified amount of money if a specific event occurs" (for example, receiving $1000 if Team A wins today's game). Buying Bitcoin doesn't meet the "specified amount of money" part of the definition, and "the price goes up" generally wouldn't be considered a specific enough event.
Bitcoin would fit the common colloquial definition of gambling, but not this specific legal definition.
Bitcoin would fit the common colloquial definition of gambling, but not this specific legal definition.
Comment Re:What Mama Pajama Saw (Score 1) 120
Regardless of anything else, no one should need a constitutional amendment to do this. This can just be a regular statute law.
If it were a regular law, a state court could potentially invalidate it for violating the state constitution in some way.
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