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  1. Re:ARM based Macs on On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware (rogueamoeba.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The longer they don't update, the higher the percentage speed increase they can boast about with the new ARM Macs.

  2. Re:I still like my first computer... on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How long did it take you to get the 16K RAM pack? Slippery slop, man.

  3. Re:This is lies from Trump on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    There are some who believe that increasing supply creates dynamic and active neighborhoods that increase demand even further. Toronto is building high-rise housing faster then anywhere else in North America, yet demand has only grown. A tax on foreign investors was added, but prices have merely leveled off.

  4. Steve Smith of The Red Green Show?

  5. I got a security update for my (Bell Canada) PRIV a week or two ago.

  6. Re:How Quickly They Forget ... on Moon of Jupiter Prime Candidate For Alien Life After Water Blast Found (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. I forgot the not in the sentence.

  7. Galileo was purposely burnt up in Jupiter's atmosphere to prevent this very possibility.

  8. Re:How Quickly They Forget ... on Moon of Jupiter Prime Candidate For Alien Life After Water Blast Found (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The big news about this discovery is that we would have to attempt a risky landing to check for life there.

  9. Re:So who is to blame? on Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The head of QA. How many of tests on a track with mannequins did they do? Probably should have been hundreds or more.

  10. Re:Nefarious Plot on The Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies in Japan at 117 (kottke.org) · · Score: 2
  11. Re:I'm not saying he's lying, but... on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    What happens if you spend all the effort to investigate and find things are working reasonably?

  12. Re:A solution in desperate search for a problem on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Dramatically reduced habitat destruction from farming. Some habitats have been destroyed for so long, people don't ever realize that there was a diverse habitat there before.

  13. Re:YouTube is currently better... on YouTube CEO: Facebook Should 'Get Back To Baby Pictures' (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I see ads in the middle of YouTube videos all the time, probably about one every 10 minutes.

  14. Re:Most diffcult Problem first? on Robot Delivery Vans Are Arriving Before Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The easy problem has already been solved. There have been automated subways for decades.

  15. Re:Good on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    "There are many people who say that in meetings when the media isn't present he's laser focused on the topic at hand and grasps nuances that others miss."

    I've never heard this from anyone but partisans. Can you provide examples?

  16. Re:HTML 5 Support. on Firefox 58 Gets Graphics Speed Boost, Web App Abilities (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A browser is special case because they are used by billions of people for hours every day, so that 1% is bigger then 100% of most other types of applications.

  17. Re:Laptops and Thunderbolt 3 on PC Market Still Showing Few Signs of Life (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    A VHS cassette table is a lot bigger then an Apple TV. My 5 year old MacMini is about the size of an VHS cassette tape.

  18. Telling them apart on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    I expect a lot of humans wouldn't get 100% accuracy at telling species from the same order apart either. We have certain hardcoded advantages when it comes to our own species.

  19. I believe that feature was in OS/2 since they created the Workplace Shell for OS/2 2.0, several years before OS/2 3.0 (WARP).

  20. Re:And I would say, 'OK. You know, you will be' on Sean Parker Unloads on Facebook 'Exploiting' Human Psychology (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure Slashdot was one of the first websites to introduce "likes" for comments. Can anyone find Zuckerberg's old account?

    Select my dopamine hit below.

  21. Re:New Economic System on Andrew Ng Wants a New 'New Deal' To Combat Job Automation (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    That place is the post-scarcity world. There are many places where entertainment is cheap, like YouTube and free-to-play games.

  22. Re:New Economic System on Andrew Ng Wants a New 'New Deal' To Combat Job Automation (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing a creative person needs more then an audience.

  23. New Economic System on Andrew Ng Wants a New 'New Deal' To Combat Job Automation (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    Not just a new deal, a new economic system will be require as we approach the point where human labour is no longer something of value.

  24. Re:cpu-profiling of browser tabs on A Surge of Sites and Apps Are Exhausting Your CPU To Mine Cryptocurrency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Chrome reduces CPU usage of background tabs to 1% after 10 seconds..

  25. Re:More gentrification? on Toronto To Be Home To Google Parent's Biggest Smart City Project Yet (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    This is empty, former industrial land.