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  1. This is four competitors who each hold siloed data about their members trying to create a giant datapool, where the each volunteer information into it and then pull information out. So all of them can serve more targetted ads. It's the admission of these four companies that they're not competing on selling ads on third party sites (Google pretty much owns that), they're selling ads on their own. Which means they all get better ad targeting and higher payouts.

  2. While I find what you're saying plausible, do you have any sources you can point to.

  3. Re: Relevancy on China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Until someone builds a sufficiently strong ICBM shield.

  4. Re:Unfortunate on Magic Leap Finally Demoed Its Headset And It Is 'Disappointing' (digg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how screen size relates to sensor input.

  5. Re:It actually doesn't on Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans' Trust In Local News (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Sweden is only ahead of the US in that list because, get this, they have very low government debt due to actually having taxes and a great economy. It's not the best argument. But what can I expect from someone who says 23 (Norway), 25 (Germany), 71 (France) are higher than 18 (US)

  6. Re:streaming video on Sprint Follows Rivals By Complicating Its Unlimited Mobile Data Plans (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    You cana download the videos at home before you leave.

  7. Re:Grammar Nazi on Python Language Founder Steps Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's my fault. I should have included "(sic)". It wasn't my error, but in the letter I was quoting!

  8. Re:Unfortunate on Magic Leap Finally Demoed Its Headset And It Is 'Disappointing' (digg.com) · · Score: 1

    The Hololens didn't suffer from sensor error, jitter or lag. It did suffer from a $3,000 price point and a too small FOV

  9. Re:Meanwhile in Perl land... on Python Language Founder Steps Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile in Perl land, the founders have tried to step down multiple times, but nobody could read their resignation letters.

    That's not true. The resignation letters included the phrase "and whomever reads this inherits our responsibilities" so everyone pretends they don't understand.

  10. Its probable that area would have been jammed anyhow.

    Except for the presence of Uber/Lyft had people pull right up to attraction rather than park 1 mile away and take the free shuttle buses. It was built with the assumption that people would do that, and the streets don't support attendees' traveling there directly and instead only support the shuttle buses (and a small percentage of VIPs/people with special needs). But they're public streets, so what can you do?

    To answer my own question used to be: "what can you do" was "don't put parking close by and instead run shuttle buses".

  11. Re:Law of Unintended Consequences on Killing Rats Could Save Coral Reefs (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What will happen once we kill all of the rats? The problem is nobody knows or has thought to study what might happen if we kill off or poison the rats.

    The islands continue like they had for millennia until we introduced the rats

    Furthermore, how can scientists definitively say for certain that rat droppings are the cause of the dying coral reef.

    They're not saying that at all. Please RTFS. All the information didn't even require clicking on a link.

  12. Re:good news for us on Killing Rats Could Save Coral Reefs (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm relieved, I thought humans were responsible for the damage done to the coral reef.

    Who do you think introduced the rats to the islands?

  13. Re:Sure, this'll "Make America Great Again", LOL on Walmart's Newly Patented Technology For Eavesdropping On Workers Presents Privacy Concerns (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why their supervisors? You can have a computer monitor their work speed and quality. And why electro-shock them? Then they know where the line is. Better to give them push-style notifications that they're falling behind and need to catch up or get terminated, etc. Psychologists show that kind of stress is far more motivating than shock-collars.

    Unrelated note, guess how Amazon runs it's warehouses.

  14. Same for me, on Chrome 67. Perhaps it's only enabled for new installations for now?

    Given the number of users Slashdot has, and the sampling bias in reporting bugs, it seems far more likely you and the GP are just still part of the 1%.

  15. Since the pages can communicate to each other (and presumably access information on each other as allowed by the JS spec), is this just about protecting people from Specter, etc?

  16. You should tell that to literally every Uber I've ever been in. They drive around a bit between propping someone off and picking up the next person. They don't pick up people off the street, but on Friday nights they drive close to the bars to be the next ride hailed. Or otherwise try to predict where the next hailers will be.

  17. Re:So? on 'RSS Has Already Won' (brianschrader.com) · · Score: 1

    Until you reminded everyone it existed. Quick, to marquee up the internet.

  18. Getting drunk drivers off the road is a good thing, but that's irrelevant to the question of burning fuel.

    As for "going to congested areas", well, we're really going to have to disagree. I've seen the horrible traffic jams caused by Uber/Lyft pickups in congested areas, the 30 minute (each way) crawls through the 1 mile per hour traffic to get to/from the drop off points.

  19. I would expect that to limit their economic growth at some point

    I don't know why it would. I mean, "don't do your job well and the police will beat you for 30 minutes" is a pretty excellent motivator for their workers... or even the bosses.

  20. Re:C++ is great on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 1

    I completely grant that macro and templates, unless very simple, are usually the wrong tool. And miserable to debug. Just like (unless working on extremely performance demanding code) fiddling with low level memory management is overkill. But C++ has automatic memory management structures.

    On weak typing, I still don't understand the benefit at all. But it's a wash. C++ has auto and JS has type declarations managed via IDE.

    I have a lot of issues with JS when it comes to multi-person collaboration. Maybe you can explain what I'm doing wrong. I'll start with one off the top of my head (and if the conversation continues, I'm happy to supply more): JS fails completely, as compared to C++, in the inability to use header and source files to break circular includes. On large projects, that seems to be a vital requirement. Especially if you have multiple files of utility structures/functions, some of which rely on one another.

  21. Re:the vc market on VC Market Is on Pace for Strongest Year Since Dot-Com Era (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And real estate. China buys a lot of foreign real estate.

  22. Sure, and then the person giving you a ride is going to cruise til they find another gig. Or at the very least (assuming it's waiting for them) to have to drive to pick up that person and to get home

    It's possible that with shared rides it'll even out, or even be a positive. But I doubt it. The overhead when you're not in the vehicle is too damn high. It's the same reason Lyft and Uber have been shown to increase congestion.

  23. More than that. They're sinking money into companies that increase the demand for oil, since Uber drivers use more gas than driving yourself.

  24. Re:Judges, not legislators on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    judges don't (and shouldn't) make the laws

    Judges do enforce people's (and company's) constitutional rights. And if a judge (say, this one) believes all net neutrality regulations are unconstitutional, then the legislature will have trouble passing such laws.

  25. Re:He likes the color blue, too on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, since he believes Net Neutrality legislation is unconstitutional, he'll vote to overturn it.