What are the homeless under the bridges pulling in these days? I'll need to know this before I formulate a complete response.

They are richer and therefore more intelligent, creative, hard-working, and wise than the rest of us. I for one am happy that they are not restrained by oppressive taxation and we lesser citizens can bask in the glow of their unhindered brilliance.

To be fair the rules are consistently referred to as "Obama-era net neutrality" in many of the news outlets. Obama also spoke out publicly in favor of the rules on more than one occasion. On the other hand I doubt this whole mess is much of a blip on Trump's radar, but it seems clear this wouldn't have happened had he not been elected.

You don't need a rocket, or an airliner, or a tall ship on the ocean. Go to any decent sized lake (say, 1 mile across) with a telescope, lay the telescope on the ground and focus on the opposite side of the lake. You'll notice that you can't see the feet of the people walking on the other shore.

My favorite release notes were for a bug fix in the NYT crossword app:

# Fixes
- Fixes a crash on launch for some users.
- Fixes a crash when some users try to log in.
- Fixes a crash when restoring purchases fails for some users.
- Fixes a crash for some users after logging in during the onboarding process.

# Fun Facts
CRASH has appeared as an answer in The New York Times Crossword eight times and BUG has appeared 15 times. No wonder SORRY has appeared 16 times.

K thanks

Ok, so because Suzie loaded up the Hertz inventory page and then went on a jog the rest of the world can't reserve a car? You can't just put everything in a transaction. The whole point of transactions and table/row locking is to ensure safe multi-client access to the same data. Manual refresh is a simple, clean way for Suzie to see how the inventory changed while she was out.

For any other confused Americans too lazy to google it, "whinging" is apparently a British form of the word "whining". The 'g' is not silent. To your point, the ceaseless whining is a major distraction and threatens to doom us all to 4 more years of this asshole, but I think it hinges much more on the candidate that gets put up against him.

Try Fry's Electronics if you have access to one, you can still get this kind of service/interaction there - YMMV of course...

Do you believe that public K-12 school is "coddling, hand-holding, everyone wins shit"? Conservatives always talk about the trickle down, how a rising tide lifts all boats, etc. This is always in terms of economic output, but why don't we apply it to education? Education at any level should be an entitlement. We have such a vast untapped resource in this world of deprived minds. "But who will dig ditches, clean the streets and serve us our McDonalds?" you might ask - this question is already being answered ominously by the rise of automation.

Ah, the "seriously, not literally" defense. In despair I tried to rationalize Trump using this argument as presented pretty well by Peter Thiel shortly before the election. I thought wow, maybe they're right, and maybe Trump really can buck the establishment and do some great things!

What a fucking farce. He's worse than I had originally feared. He is a brainless troll that has packed his cabinet with billionaires and is executing (ineptly, at least) the establishment GOP plan to a tee. Oh, and on top of it attempting to literally implement his bizarre campaign promises, e.g. the idiotic wall.

Completely disregarding the Russian conspiracy circlejerk - I absolutely believe the man is not of sound mind and therefore unfit for any public office, let alone the presidency. There is no other adequate explanation.

I can't help but notice that this comes out on the same day (nearly the same moment, in fact) as Trump's "yes I'm serious about the wall" EO (executive order). Even followed up by "we'll begin building the wall within two months." (Musk stated that [they] "Plan to start digging in a month or so") If it is some kind of commentary/joke, I'm not sure I get it... but hey what do I know?

Iiiinteresting... thanks for the link!

I agree with your sentiment to a degree, but the DeepMind/AlphaGo achievements are pretty astonishing IMHO.

"they couldn't secure financing for manufacturing and shipping the first batch of units"

If only we had a way to provide funding for products? We could set up websites that enabled people to post commercially unviable ideas, collect sales in advance, and then bullshit for two years about why they haven't shipped, promised features have been removed, etc.