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  1. Re:Minnesota law review on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    But if Mueller finds evidence of criminal behavior by Trump and turns it over to Congress, and if the House chooses to impeach Trump and if the Senate convicts him, then he'll be removed from office -- and can be indicted and prosecuted. This allows the investigation to be as non-political as possible, by placing the political decision of what to do about whatever the investigation finds in the hands of Congress.

    W.T. actual F? Congress is apolitical? Bwhahahaha. It's the definition of a political body. Chances of the house actually doing something with Mueller's evidence, is slim to none. A special prosecutor was appointed for the reason to find the truth regardless of political climate, but GOP don't want the truth.

  2. How much to start a VPN on Pornhub Launches VPNhub, Its Own Virtual Private Network App (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    At one point I thought VPNs would cost a lot of money to start up and run, but there are so many and the prices are so cheap. I think I paid something like $15 for 3 years of VPN service?

    Having servers in all these regions can't be cheap. Having staff to look after them can't be cheap, and having to purchase the bandwidth can't be cheap. So how do they stay profitable?

  3. Re:How do you spend $23 Billion? on Amazon Spent Close To $23B on R&D in 2017, Outpacing Fellow Tech Giants (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    I think a lot of it salary. Engineers, QA, etc, all get categorized as R&D at my company for tax credit purposes.

    The equipment they need is also a part of it I think.

  4. If you read reddit on Demand For Programmers Hits Full Boil as US Job Market Simmers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    if you browse /r/cscareerquestions there are a lot of people (young without much prior experience) looking for work, and can't even get interviews. I really don't know why some people "make it" and some don't, but rest assured, if the market was really that great, these people wouldn't have any problems.

    In a way that's probably good... we don't want a repeat of 1999 where everyone with HTML on their resume got a job, but it really does suck.

    The more quality people entering the workforce the better. They create new products, features, and innovation that create more demand for programmers to maintain. They create products that spin up new ecosystems which create jobs.

  5. Re:The slump is internal manipulation on Bitcoin Watchers Running Out of Explanations Blame Slump on Moon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the drop across all coins today is from bitconnect's demise? It's a Ponzi scheme using crypto and its creators cashed out. Maybe that spooked people about the soundness of other coins?

  6. Re: Naked time! on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A real woman on slashdot? Nah. Most likely a cross-dresser.

  7. Goodbye $ from viral videos on YouTube Toughens Advert Payment Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not good for people hoping to monetize a viral video, or a video they hope will go viral. This is because a lot of videos with millions of views actually have far fewer followers on the creator's channel. For example, a cute cat/animal video that was shared millions of times, or something that went viral on social media, a 4k demo clip, whatever. The creator got lucky and caught a viral moment on video but chances are low that such moments can be captured reliably again, or the creator targeted search terms and made videos for those search results. Either way, once the viewer got what he needed, he moves on.

    This policy change definitely favors vlogs and channels that can create a following over a long period of time over infrequent but popular uploads.

  8. Anyone care to comment on the performance hit after the patch? Is it obvious, measureable?

  9. Math checks out on The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    23 billion visitors, totaling 4.59 billion hours (275.4 billion minutes), which means on average each visitor only spent 11.97 (~12) minutes per visit.

    That checks out, considering it takes like 5 minutes before finding something I want to fap to.

  10. Apparently that's insignificant now on NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen (reddit.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like the bitcoin value is unfazed despite this hack. Trending at near $14000 now.

  11. I hope they didn't put it in Mt. Gox on The Winklevoss Twins Are Now Bitcoin Billionaires (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because you know, that would be sad.

  12. I haven't read the article, but I assume a file hash won't prevent the abuser from resizing the picture, changing a pixel on the image which will change the hash completely. Unless of course Facebook does something like scale and rotation invariant pattern detection and hashes off of those.

  13. Re:Tomato juice pro tip! on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This describes me perfectly. I get the bloody mary mix (minus the alcohol) on flights and I have always thought it's the best thing ever, but I never get tomato juice or bloody mary mix otherwise.

    Also, the part about crying more on planes is totally true. I watched a documentary about the Arlington Cemetery and the changing of the guards and had to look away to keep tears from falling from my eyes. But now I can care less about the Tomb of the Unknown and the soldiers guar... hold on brb.

  14. Re:Aaaaand .. they're already pissing people off on Two Ex-Googlers Want To Make Bodegas And Mom-And-Pop Corner Stores Obsolete (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    VCs throw money at whatever they could and see what sticks. If they fail they still can recoup some of the losses through a sale or ownership of IP. But if they win and turns into a billion dollar idea then their initial investment paid for itself many folds.

    Anyway, I think this idea sucks. Non-perishable is going to severely restrict what kind of stuff they can sell. Milk used as an example in the summary but you can't keep it in one of these boxes.

  15. Re:Complaints, complaints [Re:Here's the link to T on As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's bad enough that millennial assholes think that it's a crime if everything on the internet is not free, free, free. Reporters shouldn't be paid, they should work for the love of it. (and for the "exposure").

    But now, when the New York Times actually is giving away their content for free, the millennial assholes are complaining that they are not getting enough content for free.

    Wait, what? Someone (anonymous) with no self-identification whatsoever complains about NYT and you somehow lump that person with millennials and proceeds to bash the entire group. You could have replaced millennials with another and it would have made just as little sense. But it's fashionable to bash millennials and blame them for everything so you got upvoted. Mods need to do a better job at moderating.

  16. VPN help? on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I already surf with a VPN most of the time. Will this protect my privacy, since the VPN will only see me connected to the VPN so there isn't much to disclose there. Now, I'm now worried that my VPN will sell my history.

  17. You know truck drivers? Yeah, probably the last middle class job that pays well without requiring a college degree is going away really soon.

    2.8 million people drive trunks in America. What's next for them once Otto passes trials and can legally operate?

  18. Re:read the polls on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    So much this. HRC doesn't care about the law, much less a piece of document that has no legal status whatsoever. Is there a law about secure communication while holding a public office? Yes, and she broke that law. Is there a law saying the candidates must follow through with their party's platform agenda? No. She can't even be bothered with following laws in the public office, what makes anyone believe that she will actually follow through with that promise once in office?

    Also, does anyone think the Clintons are real-life Underwoods? Both couples are southern democrats drunk with power. Both wives that have been more than just first-ladies. Yes, I know House of Cards was originally a British series.

  19. Re:Another sign NASA is circling the drain ... on The Flight of Gifted Engineers From NASA · · Score: 3

    There is rarely a better job than the federal government, if you can get in that is. Rather than take the best and brightest, they have a black hole of a job portal called usajobs.gov. Think about applying to private sector jobs is painful? Try applying for federal jobs. Jobs are posted six months ahead so you just sit there wondering if you made it to the next round. And it's kind of like applying to college. You don't know why you got rejected because the skills they are looking for are not very well defined.

  20. Re:Technical People on The Billion-Dollar Website · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agile is not about not needing requirements. It's about the fact that any complex project will have requirement changes and the project and the people on the project need to deal with those changes quickly. It's like that saying, "the only constant in the world is change." Rather than avoiding change and try to spec out everything in advance (which cannot be done), embrace it and deal with it so it minimizes disruption.

    There are meetings to gather requirements, but those meetings are two-way; you also present and let clients play around with whatever you have and gather feedback and incorporating those feedback into the next iteration. By the time you deliver the product, there shouldn't be any surprises to the client about how the product behaves. Both parties are happy with their experience.

  21. is auto a mistake in C++11 on Interviews: Ask Bjarne Stroustrup About Programming and C++ · · Score: 1

    The auto keyword in C++11 makes writing code a hair faster but makes maintaining code much harder. It was seen as a great feature so programmers don't have to write out long and messy template class declarations, but I feel that it makes code maintenance a nightmare. Instead of knowing exactly what is being returned, the code that abuses "auto" makes the maintainer have to track down the function signature and then find the return type. Coupled with less than perfect (and much worse compared to C# and Java) IDE support for source code, it kills productivity. What is your view on the auto keyword?

  22. cute company name does it all on Xiaomi Arrives As Top Smartphone Seller In China · · Score: 1

    In case you didn't know, xiaomi means "little grain of rice" in mandarin. Everyone loves rice!
    Apple = cute fruit that cannot possibly offend anyone

    Brilliant!

  23. How many affected are H1-Bs? on Microsoft CEO To Slash 18,000 Jobs, 12,500 From Nokia To Go · · Score: 2

    During several rounds of layoffs I experienced in 2009, all of the workers laid off were non-H1-B holders. H1-Bs have better job security than their American counterparts (until they get their green card). I won't be surprised that the 18,000 are going to be either Western European or Americans. Hey at least in Western Europe they have better social services and losing your job won't be the end of your health care and other necessary services. America? Fuck it, you are out on the streets if you didn't save like a hawk. In this economy, finding a job will be very difficult, especially with that many hitting the streets at once.

    Get rid of the dead weight and retrain the rest. You won't ever need H1-B to fill any jobs if your workforce is always trained and on the cutting edge.

  24. Re:It will never work on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    Girls like to find good mates, like we all do. Is sitting in front of the computer all day and only interacting with socially awkward nerds through IM going to help them? No. Is being a part of a marketing team working on a big marketing project and meeting with clients and co-workers going to help them? Much more so than the former. Making money isn't the end-all-be-all measure of work satisfaction, especially for women. Men are deluded to think that money==power==pussy, but it's much more than that to most women. Otherwise most of us would have incredibly hot wives and girlfriends.

  25. the same companies on Judge: $324M Settlement In Silicon Valley Tech Worker Case Not Enough · · Score: 2

    are also heavy users of H1-B visas which also depress wages. I say fuck them all. But I don't know how to actually go about fucking them over.