Comment Re:Are they making anything? (Score 1) 36
Comment Uber has been pushing Uber Eats at me hard lately (Score 1) 36
Comment Re:In A Surpise To Only The Stupidest Of People (Score 0) 46
Comment Re:Charge an excise tax on leaked data (Score 1) 46
Comment Re:Who (Score 2) 46
Comment I've wondered about this (Score 1) 46
Comment Re:Good grief (Score 1, Troll) 222
Are you fucking stupid? Names actually are useful, which is why we propers nouns at all.
Jesus fuck the supporters of Trump really are a pack of morally compromised halfwits.
Comment Re: The long-term impact of this on the US (Score 2) 194
I suspect you were just asked to be nice, and through a combination of spectrum OCD and insufficient cognitive therapy, you decided somehow you were being asked to do something wrong.
So you helped elect an ignorant sociopath. Congrats on that. Maybe you should have attended more of those cognitive therapy sessions.
Comment Re:The long-term impact of this on the US (Score 1) 194
The US has enjoyed amazing economic success since WW II because it recognized that there's no better investment not just in terms of monetary ROI, but societal ROI.
And the ROI is really, really impressive. Each dollar in the NIH budget gets returned as about 5 (depending on the study) in increased GDP. To my knowledge, there is no other billion-dollar scale investment that has consistent, long-term returns like that.
Congress knows this fact. They commissioned many of the studies showing it. It is difficult to believe the Executive Branch is not aware of it. If we really wanted to be America First, rather than reducing the NIH budget, we'd be promoting another run of annual increases with the intent of doubling that allocation in real dollars over the coming decade. Contact your congressional representatives today to advocate for the idea.
Comment Re:"Broadly available" is a stretch (Score 1) 90
Comment Re:Can they pass the knowledge of London? (Score 1) 28
Comment I am SHOCKED! (Score 1) 64
Comment Re:Couch change (Score 1) 64
Comment Re:A bit early in the process? (Score 2) 64
He was over-leveraged and didn't manage risk well. In other words, he was a terrible fund manager.