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Comment Re:Alcohol producers are in trouble (Score 1) 110

Nonsense, it is nothing but flattery of Trump who makes clear that he is not a drinker.

This will be the only good thing I'll say about King Orange. He saw his older brother die from alcohol abuse and decided he would never drink. Whether you think that is a reasonable choice is irrelevant. He saw what happened and made the decision, and has stuck to that decision, not to drink alcohol.

Comment Re:with less? (Score 0) 53

I wouldn't call the datacenter required to run those Claudes in the Cloud 'less' than say 16 laptops that 16 devs would use.

Except you're not paying for 16 devs nor using 16 laptops. You're using one person on one machine acting as multiple people and machines.

Comment Re:Great news for septic systems (Score 1) 68

or else just accept the need to have their septic tank pumped every five years

Where my parents live, that is exactly what the township requires for homes built decades ago. When their house was built there was no sewage system and trying to put one in now is highly cost porhibited. The solution was a five year pump out.

Comment Re:TFA says, synthetic micro fibers (Score 1) 68

No love for wool? Silk? Other natural fibers like Hemp?

Wool and silk require special detergent to clean. For example, you can't use something which has the protease enzyme because it will break down the animal fiber.

As for hemp, we already use bamboo and modal in some clothes. These also require a slightly different detergent formulation.

Comment Re:US does not recognize Maduro's government (Score 2, Informative) 180

He VERY blatantly stole the election after losing in a huge landslide, and his own people hate him. I'm very glad the dictator is gone, now the rightful winner can take his place.

Cool. So Russia is next? Putin prevents any opposition candidate from running and steals the election by stuffing ballot boxes. Russia also has a lot of oil.

Comment Re:Maduro is charged with Narco-Terrorism (Score 3, Interesting) 180

Narco terrorism? Is that like importing 400 tons of cocaine into the country then getting a pardon? I thought the word was if someone sells drugs in your country you don't arrest the president of that country.

"A lot of people in Honduras asked me to do that, and I did it. I feel very good about it," Trump said. "If you have some drug dealers in your country, and you're the president, you don't necessarily put the president jail for 45 years."

Comment Re:Peace prize (Score 5, Interesting) 180

Because Obama had this reported. Unlike Trump who blocked reporting because he was killing so many civilians it was making him look bad.

As to those "extra-judicial killings", I'm guessing you're okay with all those extra-judicial killings of people in the Caribbean. Oh those, weren't citizens, so it's okay. The media isn't going to quibble about that.

Comment Re:Seems at odds with reality (Score 1) 42

I don't have mod points to mod you down, so I'll respond to your stupidity about "the press". The press reports whatever government report comes out about jobs and employment. Every month the press reports this.

Here is a report from the press two weeks about employers adding jobs. There aren't any numbers to report for Ocober because Orange Man had the government shut down so data couldn't be collected. In about two weeks the press will report on the December jobs numbers.

If you can't be bothered to read, don't post.

Comment Re:Our entire civilization is collapsing (Score 0) 71

Iran can actually fight back.

As Iran showed when Israel once again attacked its neighbors, just like Russia does, they can hurt you. While it's SOP to prevent pictures of hits on your territory to hinder retargeting, Israel was frantic to put restrictions in place when they realized Iranian missiles were accurately hitting their targets.

Further, Israel, in conjunction with the U.S., had a rapidly diminishing supply of interceptor missiles. Estimates indicated another few weeks and Israel would have exhausted their supply, leaving them open to unhindered attacks. That is why Trump pushed so hard for a ceasefire.

Comment He owns two tech stocks (Score 2) 55

While Buffett largely avoided pure tech for decades, Buffett long considered technology a blind spot, famously saying "I wish I had" bought Apple earlier.

In the third quarter of this year, Buffett purchased 18 million shares of Alphabet stock for $4.3 billion. He admits, he should have invested earlier:

"I had seen the product work, and I knew the kind of margins [they had]," Buffett said in 2018. "I didn't know enough about technology to know whether this really was the one that would stop the competitive race."

As he is famous for saying, invest in what you know. He didn't know enough about it and didn't invest until now. Either he saw the error of his ways or the incoming CEO took the plunge. Regardless, it will stay pay off handsomely for the company in the long run.

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