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Comment Re:No shit (Score 2) 122

What was your comparative experience in a performance-oriented EV?

Manually working a gear lever and the sound of exhaust might seem like "can't live without it" features. But if you haven't experienced driving with almost no lag between throttle and power, NO power pauses for gear changes, and having access to all the car's torque & horsepower instantly, at any RPM, you might want to try it.

Comment Re:They will coexist (Score 1) 129

Somehow despite the obvious outcome

Explain, exactly, the terrible "obvious outcome" of two parties freely negotiating the give & take exchange of something each side has an excess of and the other side needing a supply of? Explain how you draw an unbroken line between free markets to, "warlord ruling the fiefdom" ...

Comment Re:They will coexist (Score 1) 129

Government regulation is what stops companies putting lead sugar in your food or ethylene glycol in your wine.

Explain to me why a company would want to harm the people who it needs as customers? Why would a company harm the people who it relies on to buy its products?

Government, on the other hand? Oh yes; plenty of historical examples of government eliminating the nuisance of people by the thousands or millions.

Comment Re:Crypto's for fools and scammers but... (Score 3, Insightful) 30

When you refuse the law, you refuse its protection.

I see. And when there are so many laws, literally libraries full of them, that it is impossible for one person to know them all, and a system thousands of years in the making, in which the application and interpretation of law is challenged before guilt and punishment are ruled, do you still think "refuse the law, refuse its protection" is not a drag strip road to Hell?

Comment Re:obvious.... (Score 1) 407

> So if you're the CEO of a non-profit that is generally aligned with LGBTQ causes ... then you really shouldn't be donating to an anti-gay marriage campaign.

I'd argue that if a person has strong opinions, anti or pro, on specific social issues then they shouldn't be a CEO of any company that is related beyond-arms-length to those issues.

The job of a CEO is to be the *Chief Executive Officer* of the company. They're not there to be an activist. The only place for them to take a side is in deciding if one position or another is beneficial to the operations of the company.

Comment Just poor project management (Score 5, Insightful) 93

Just poor project management, honestly. Set a deadline for when all work must be submitted. Schedule an overlapping task to review the incoming work which extends (guessing) an additional week past the work-submission deadline to review the high-volume latecomers, which should be expected and planned for.

Comment Re:Just one question... (Score 4, Insightful) 117

USB wasn't intended to connect two PCs together. That's the reason for the differently shaped cable ends in first generations; to prevent people from trying to do that. Done carelessly between 2 live PCs with a sketchy non-compliant cable is a smoke & fire event.

Later generations of USB can do it if the hardware is proper, but you can try that first on your own PC, not mine.

Firewire, OTOH, did have intent to be able to link 2 machines. Apple Macs, with Firewire ports standard on every model, had a feature where they could be booted with no UI and behave like an external drive connected to another Mac. Two Macs could form a 400 Mbps network over a cable too. Not all PCI Firewire cards supported this ability, however. I exploded a card in a Windows PC connecting it to a Mac.

Finally, you have to ask, "why bother" with chasing 80 Gbps speeds. Almost no storage device in a common PC can send or receive at that speed. Maybe a M.2 PCIE drive or maybe transmitting directly to or from RAM. But just like USB 3 and USB 2 before it the bottleneck is the storage which usually can't read, and certainly can't write, at those speeds anyway.

Comment Re:So... (Score 2) 37

Isn't this just private / public key pairing that has been around for decades? What *they* (the websites) have is the public half of your key pair. That doesn't give them any more power than having your password on file. In fact, it maybe makes them less dangerous, because if their database of passwords is stolen, people who use the same password elsewhere are put at risk. But a stolen database of public keys is just that; public keys, which are intended to be shared.

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