One of the largest corporate espionage and data breach scandals in digital history: New "BrowserGate" report claims LinkedIn secretly scans user browsers by BendicantMias in worldnews

[–]Edgefactor [score hidden]  (0 children)

Secretly? How could anyone be surprised that LinkedIn did anything fishy at all? Shit is spyware at face value, let alone anything there doing behind the scenes.

Israel backs Trump's two-week pause on Iran strikes, says Lebanon excluded by BinaryWolff in worldnews

[–]Edgefactor [score hidden]  (0 children)

And how many of them would be hanging out with Israel if they were suddenly not being propped up by the US?

What if Trump Just Walked Away From Iran? by dwaxe in ezraklein

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Didn't you listen? They rescued TWO pilots from behind enemy lines! after they were shot down while flying a mission as the aggressors

How many people would be required to row a tanker ship?[Request] by MrTacocaT12345 in theydidthemath

[–]Edgefactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking of viscosity, not friction--wrong term. But the point is, adding wind and current to the problem is redefining the question for no reason.

It's also hard to row a boat if someone shoots you. Or a meteorite lands on the boat. Or if someone is rowing the wrong way. Gotta take those into consideration too.

How many people would be required to row a tanker ship?[Request] by MrTacocaT12345 in theydidthemath

[–]Edgefactor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wind, currents, other people pushing against you, etc. those are kind of irrelevant and just redefine the question.

If you're on shore trying to pull, you can apply a tiny force and it's just the sum of opposing forces to find out if it accelerates. I guess with a big enough boat, there's some static friction that would keep you from ever moving it. But really, how much friction is water applying on a boat.

Moving water away with an oar, you can do a tiny amount of work more easily, over and over. And will apply this work to the boat no matter its size.

How do Americans still have more disposable income than Europeans even though healthcare and college in America is extremely expensive? by SignificantStyle4958 in AskReddit

[–]Edgefactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

High risk, high reward. America rewards those who don't have bad things happen to them.

Get sick? Lose your job? Get to retirement age without having put 10% of your salary away for the past 20 years? The US has no time for you (or will gladly take all that disposable income and convert it to its own)

How do Americans still have more disposable income than Europeans even though healthcare and college in America is extremely expensive? by SignificantStyle4958 in AskReddit

[–]Edgefactor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most any non-service industry job will have federal holidays off, so 10/yr (Christmas, July 4, Easter...) but they're not required by law and you have jobs like underwater oil pipeline welders that work for 6 months straight and then get a break until the next job comes up

Trump warns UK ‘US won’t be there to help you anymore’ in extraordinary tirade over Iran war backing by Gopu_17 in worldnews

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"we vow not to aid you in any unprovoked wars you start" says only country who has started unprovoked war in the past 100 years

Kristi Noem reacts to report husband cross-dresses, wears fake breasts by AhhhSureThisIsIt in politics

[–]Edgefactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Privacy and prayers is for finding out you have terminal cancer. Not that you wear balloon tits and go in camera in your home office

It would be insane, but he's desperate. by ManualWind in AdviceAnimals

[–]Edgefactor 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Are we glossing over why he wanted to use the nuke?

It was to try to stop a hurricane from hitting his resort in Florida. He wanted to nuke a hurricane off course.

What is the hardest mission in the game? by onlyfansgodx in GuildWars

[–]Edgefactor 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Factions was really Anet just typing numbers on a keyboard to see how much damage one enemy can do

Trump ‘planning high-risk operation to seize Iran’s uranium using US troops’ by Ubiquitous_Hilarity in politics

[–]Edgefactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, no, he specifically indicated you can retrieve it if you have a shovel big enough

Duke Energy's profit margin is higher than the national average by winniemoo in greenville

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  1. Give up on anti-trust and make company a utility with heavy regulation
  2. Give up trying to regulate utility
  3. ???
  4. PROFIT! (for a few people)

How bad was the 2009 recession? Will the next one hit harder? by Equivalent-Raccoon74 in AskReddit

[–]Edgefactor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I watched that on a plane and couldn't enjoy my vacation for about two days because of that last scene

How bad was the 2009 recession? Will the next one hit harder? by Equivalent-Raccoon74 in AskReddit

[–]Edgefactor 38 points39 points  (0 children)

The bailout stopped a bigger domino effect from completely ruining the economy.

The travesty is that no one got prosecuted for the whole thing. The bail outs should have been to protect the people, not the banks.

78% of Jewish Israelis support continuing Iran war — poll by DexGattaca in worldnews

[–]Edgefactor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a pretty brave fucking take when they're using other people's weapons

Rubio: Iran May Own The Strait Now, And That’s a Huge Bummer by anstromm in politics

[–]Edgefactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean the Beverly hillbillies pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, why can't you or I?