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  1. Re:Amazon is totally screwed on Inside the Unrelenting Scams of the Amazon Marketplace (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Fulfilled by Amazon are subject to commingling. Fraudulent products in the same bin as equivalent to the real thing. Innocent sellers get penalized because they are the seller of record when the fraudulent product gets to the consumer.

  2. Re:Why would you buy that anyway? on Logitech Disables Local Access On Harmony Hubs, Breaks Automation Systems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    "Tested."

    And they don't even say it passed?

  3. Re:Tell the truth on Logitech Disables Local Access On Harmony Hubs, Breaks Automation Systems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You forgot this part;

    We also want to decide when EOL is, because we need to be able to force you to buy new hardware when we need the cash

  4. You underestimate the number of underserved rural customers. It could be profitable without taking away a single customer that already had true broadband.

  5. But it's so hard to program with wireless controllers.

  6. Re:Not really a big deal anymore on Samsung Kills Headphone Jack After Mocking Apple (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Which you inevitably never have with you when you need it.

    Leave it attached to your headphones.

    Which doesn't allow charging and using it for music at the same time.

    This does require a more expensive adapter, but also makes for a strange use case. Using it for music while charging doesn't really sound like a headphone use case. There are a lot of other inexpensive ways to cart off music to speakers from a fixed position. Chromecast Audio is one. And then the phone doesn't have to be next to the speakers.

    Which uses more battery.

    You're using an offboard DAC instead of an onboard DAC. I'm not 100% sure it has to use more electricity.

    Which almost never comes with the device, meaning more $.

    Is that really common? Every phone I've seen with no headphone jack does come with one. Even Apple includes one and they like to overcharge for the most basic of accessories.

    Which is more weight and complexity when using ultra-light/thin wired earphones.

    Phones are heavy. Either the thing goes in the phone or the thing goes outside the phone. The weight isn't terribly different.

  7. Maybe, except the "open door" status has been censored.

  8. Re:Not really a big deal anymore on Samsung Kills Headphone Jack After Mocking Apple (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    It probably has USB-C to 3.5mm audio adapter and you can keep using your existing headphones, knowing that the new phone is slightly more water resistant than the old one and that you don't need any more batteries.

  9. Re:Dont care about app UI on Samsung Kills Headphone Jack After Mocking Apple (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Android has a new DisplayCutout API for this. It's usually in the notification area, so it only affects apps that block that.

  10. Re: Dead INCEL asshole on Vine, HQ Trivia Co-Founder Colin Kroll Found Dead of Suspected Overdose (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    This is a pathetic attempt at trolling right there. How many incels do you think have GFs?

  11. Re:Is all screen time equal? on Screen Time Changes Structure of Kids' Brains, NIH Study Shows (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    I dunno. We've had books for a LONG time that read the same as e-ink. We just don't have a large body of work on people who spend all day reading.

  12. Re:limits with reasons on Tesla Model 3 Modded To Run Ubuntu (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They have to leave limited interconnectivity. Most infotainment systems behave differently depending on whether the vehicle is in drive. And they usually need to know is the engine is running or if you're draining the battery.

  13. Re: limits with reasons on Tesla Model 3 Modded To Run Ubuntu (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The last time I had a bad O2 sensor, the car practically disabled itself and wouldn't go above 2nd gear.

  14. Re:Doom ? on Tesla Model 3 Modded To Run Ubuntu (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just as long as it doesn't use the steering wheel and pedals for input

  15. Not just infrequently used. If I set up a computer for a client or reinstall Windows, I want to hand it back fully patched. To do that, you have to hit that button.

  16. Re:Burning bridges is not good for the resume on In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless their next future boss is also a similar millennial and wouldn't call the references on the phone. I mean, having them written down is good enough. Probably.

  17. Re:Sterilize my wallet on Neurosurgery Could Spread Protein Linked To Alzheimer's, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Or at least cauterize it so nothing else comes out.

  18. Re:Recycling is fine, as long as like new on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Also perfectly fine. And "Like New" isn't treated as new by Amazon when browsing, so that is perfectly reasonable all around.

  19. Re:It's not the professor. It's the schools and on Sting on Amazon Booksellers Aims To Weed Out Counterfeit Textbooks, But Small Sellers Getting Hurt (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    But yeah, don't blame the profs.

    Unless they're a textbook author.

  20. Having an inflationary component to it does not mean it results in inflation. To say otherwise would be splitting hairs. Inflation is an overall systemic effect, not a contributing factor.

  21. Re:Recycling is fine, as long as like new on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's not the complaint. It's fine reselling it. But reselling it as *new* is fraud.

  22. Re: Never Going to Work on Ethereum Thinks it Can Change the World. It's Running Out of Time To Prove It. (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I did state that I am only talking about 1 element did I not?

    Go look up the definition of inflation. It never describes one element. It talks about entire systems.

  23. No, that's not a straw man argument. You're just oversimplifying it.

  24. and does not change even if the "overall" effect of an economic result was deflationary.

    If the economic result is deflationary, then the value of the currency goes up. You can't just put the currency in a bubble and say that it's inflationary as long as no humans interact with it - it doesn't exist outside of human interaction.

  25. Enemy combatants aren't afforded civil rights by the Constitution, their rights are afforded by conventions of war.

    And when was the last time there was a declaration of war in the US? 1942.