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  1. I've worked at places that had videoconferencing teams of several people. If this thing manages itself 22k sounds cheap.

  2. Re:Slashdot moderators are garbage on iPhones Are Priced 'High in the Extreme' But They're Worth It, Says Apple Co-founder Wozniak (scmp.com) · · Score: 2

    you get what you pay for

  3. I sit behind a computer all day and need very little from a cell phone. How would this be a good value for me?

  4. Re:Quality doesn't matter when it's disposable any on iPhones Are Priced 'High in the Extreme' But They're Worth It, Says Apple Co-founder Wozniak (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    thank you for your useful anecdote

  5. Re:You must be joking on New Research Shows Humans Could Outrun T. Rex · · Score: 1

    Sweat glands and bipedal we can run down anything

  6. Re:Pharmacology on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    paracetamol isn't really a safe drug before it decomposes

  7. Re:Surprise: some medicines DO expire. on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    That's because it is in a solution. Any drug that is dissolved in something will decompose a lot more quickly. Same with epi-pen...

  8. Re:Original sealed container on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    This is part of the same initiative we have to continue using imperial measurement

  9. Re:Voluntary Contract on California Lawsuit Wants To Weaken Noncompetes (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One of the basis of contract law is that they are void if they require you do something illegal. IE if I sign a contract that makes me your slave it cannot be enforced.

  10. Re:The problem is still grid storage on Here's Elon Musk's Plan To Power the US on Solar Energy (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you guys even read the summary (forget TF article!) 100 x100 miles square for the whole US, like somewhere in Nevada.

  11. Re:The problem is still grid storage on Here's Elon Musk's Plan To Power the US on Solar Energy (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Nowhere in OP did anyone suggest putting panels in new England. And fuck new england anyway!

  12. Re:The problem is still grid storage on Here's Elon Musk's Plan To Power the US on Solar Energy (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in the Soutwest and two contiguous cloudy days is extremely rare...

  13. Re:WHERES MY FREE APP! 1 STAR RATING! on Popular Chrome Extension Sold To New Dev Who Immediately Turns It Into Adware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was a child my father worked in a App factory, he used to bring them home and that's what we ate for dinner!

  14. There will always be a fee associated with cards if there is any kind of fraud protection... is it worth the 2% (or whatever the charge is?) It's hard to say.

  15. Re:Good for China on Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    electric cars will make coal burning worse

  16. Re:Biases are reality based on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody claimed it was some kind of genetic thing vs culture. This doesn't change the reality either...

  17. Re:Political correctness for machines? on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Gravity is unfair to the obese... ban gravity!

  18. Re:New kind of therabpy, equivelent to Anti-biotic on 'Living Drug' That Fights Cancer By Harnessing The Immune System Clears Key Hurdle (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Did you even read what you linked to?

    “substance produced by a microorganism that is antagonistic to another microorganism’s growth in high dilution”.

    A bar of soap is a pure lump of alkali fatty acid salts so that throws the high dilution thing right out the window. Soap is not an antibiotic. It is a surfactant that causes the cell wall of bacteria to rupture.

  19. Re:Fake. Dendrion had this in 2012 on 'Living Drug' That Fights Cancer By Harnessing The Immune System Clears Key Hurdle (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    yes there has been previous similar therapies that had pervasive side effects like brain swelling that resulted in death

  20. Re:Three different sources, three different units on Iceberg the Size of Delaware, Among Biggest Ever Recorded, Snaps Off Antarctica (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to phys.org--

    It created an iceberg of about 5,800 square kilometres (2,200 square miles), with a volume twice that of Lake Erie, one of the North American Great Lakes.

    Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-...

  21. Re:Three different sources, three different units on Iceberg the Size of Delaware, Among Biggest Ever Recorded, Snaps Off Antarctica (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    how many library of congresses would fit in it

  22. Re:Hard to beat pen and paper on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    I find when I am doing a complex task it's easiest to print it out and do the same kind of thing.

  23. The turtlenecks thing made me ~shiver~

  24. Re:C'mon we can make it to 42%! on 41 Percent of Adults In the US Have Been Harassed Online, Says Pew Study (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Really it's the wrong headline. It should be "41 Percent of adults consider be called names online harassment"

  25. Re:Hard to tell whether they've done anything wron on Google Has Been Paying Academic Researchers Who Write Favorable Papers: Report (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that if some of the researches ended up writing unfavorable papers, the headline would still be true.