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Re:Krugman: Debt Is Good on Friday August 21, 2015 @11:28PM (#10101402)
Krugman is a specialist in the field of licking a certain kind of bottom.
Re:The Slow Decline Of Adobe Flash Player on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @03:26PM (#10081546)
Lies such as?
Re:Why Aren't People Using Smalltalk? on Monday August 17, 2015 @09:58PM (#10077199)
The only appropriate answer to the IDE part is this:

JEREMY CLARKSON: You mention that you rent a garage.

JAMES MAY: Yes.

JEREMY CLARKSON: How far away from your house?

JAMES MAY: I don't know. Seven miles?

JEREMY CLARKSON: You rent a garage seven miles from your house! How do you get there?

JAMES MAY: On... on my folding bicycle, obviously.

JEREMY CLARKSON: You are mad! Clinically insane!

All is left for you is to learn why resistive losses on the order of about 30% are necessary for the (unbuffered) electric grid to function at all.
Re:Invited to the U.S., Foreign Workers Find a Nightmare on Friday July 24, 2015 @02:10PM (#9943985)
I knew a few guys on H-1B who switched. The only downside is that the clock is not restarted, but since the H-1B timer is 6 years and GC takes about 3 years, a worker who's not a complete idiot has plenty of time to shop around.

Hiring H-1B for cost reasons is not possible. It is not allowed to pay less than market price and the government audits it. My first H-1B job paid $75k in '97 dollars (e.g. north of $120k now) and it was more than typical market value. Full bennies, too.

Re:Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @12:30PM (#9923445)
After Alice Goffman, a publication with this kind of journalist involvement has to be seen with a certain suspicion.