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  1. I'm using it. on Amazon Launches Web Browser For Fire TV (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Major problem with it is the input, and if you have solution to that, be it bluetooth keyboard or a TV with cool remote like LGs, well, where is the issue?

    I actually... listen to music like that (radio swiss jazz site). My TV is also capable of switching off screen, while playing audio.

  2. Re:Alec Baldwin on Newspaper Obtains James Damore's Complaint Against Google (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    This part:

    it is not anywhere near as hard as if you are the first woman to come forward against a well-connected man and how you as the accuser are going to be put on trial.

    and:

    men's inhumanity to women

    in the light of how game of thrones male actor had to apologize for saying men are also being oppressed, is rather ironic.

    Women reporting such troubles are accepted and listened to, unlike men, who are laughed at and silenced.
    The "inhumanity towards women" is a made up BS, that contradicts actual research, that shows that both men and women are biased in favor of women (women more so).

  3. Re:bah on Newspaper Obtains James Damore's Complaint Against Google (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He clearly stated that on average women are more neurotic and less able to deal with the demands of engineering jobs. He claims that this is due to biology..

    He did mention women were more neurotic and there are scientific papers that agree..

    But most of his memo was about interests, not abilities and even in interests part, he mentioned that there was a big overlap.

  4. Re:Extremely interesting piece in the Economist on Newspaper Obtains James Damore's Complaint Against Google (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It appears that more women attempt suicide, but men are somewhat more effective at it, choosing on average more violent means, so more men die as a result.

    Not sure what conclusions we should draw from that.

    People simply "attempting" suicide, are seeking attention, people actually committing it, death.
    The difference is quite substantial. And, quite notably:

    ...separating intentional suicide attempts, from non-suicidal self-harm, is not currently done in the United States, when gathering statistics at the national level...

    Also, the same person can attempt suicide multiple times.

  5. Re:If you want to prove that, try "quotes" on Newspaper Obtains James Damore's Complaint Against Google (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Majority of scientists in certain fields being leftists is not a conspiracy.

  6. Re:If you want to prove that, try "quotes" on Newspaper Obtains James Damore's Complaint Against Google (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Could you please cite the part in which he called his colleagues "biologically handicapped"?

  7. Has anyone figured why they dropped support on Google Slashes Prices of Its USB-C Headphone Dongle Following Minor Outrage (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    Has anyone figured why they dropped support for good old audio out port?
    Apple did it to sell overpriced accessories, but what are google's motives?

    PS
    If other manufacturers follow this idiotic move, "having analog audio out socket" will become top point in my "phone must have it" list, above OLED screen and SD card.

  8. Re:Whaddya mean there'll be no lines? on Missouri Considers Hyperloop Route Between St. Louis and Kansas City (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    With that logic terrorists could easily blow high speed trains passing by at 330km/h.
    Note that if done in advance or afterwards it wouldn't be as deadly and would be discovered very quickly.

    Basically as with railway.

  9. Re:Whaddya mean there'll be no lines? on Missouri Considers Hyperloop Route Between St. Louis and Kansas City (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    People keep asking about guns as if it were canons. You could fit 20 guns int 2-3 large bags, what is the deal?

  10. I get why Apple does it, but why Google? on Google Unveils Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL With No Headphone Jack (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple is going to make money on forced accessories, what on fucking planet earth is motivation for google????

  11. Also takes lives of about 1 in 40

  12. Young women earn more than men (US big cities) on Former Female Oracle Employees Sue Company For Alleged Pay Discrimination (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The research, completed by the Department of Sociology at Queens College in New York, showed full-time female employees in their 20s surpassing same-age males in cities like Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, Dallas and New York.

    In Dallas, these women earn 20 percent more than men, while in New York City they earn 17 percent more.

    https://www.reuters.com/articl...

    Is this enough to claim young men in Dallas and New York are being discriminated, or "it is more complicated"/

    And even more complicated (the same source):

    The study suggested those gains might be based on the fact that women get married later in cities than in rural areas. Women marry the latest in New York, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

  13. It wouldn't change jack shit, not to mention that any organization could do it without google's help, although not for free.

  14. ‘If you were a man you would be going to pri on Google Conducted Hollywood 'Interventions' To Change Look of Computer Scientists (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Judges literally saying: "‘If you were a man you would be going to prison today’
    http://www.crimeonline.com/201...

    This (same crime in same circumstances getting wildly different punishment) is justified by 'correlation to testosterone"?

  15. race gap vs gender gap (incarceration) on Google Conducted Hollywood 'Interventions' To Change Look of Computer Scientists (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because whites have a get-out-of-jail-free card based on skin colour,

    Could you explain, why race incarceration gap is a problem, while gender incarceration gap, which is times bigger, is not?

    Maria Curie is the only human to ever get 2 Nobel Prices in different sciences, hardly a good example of oppression.
    Noether's work was not overlooked, neither was Vera Rubin's.
    Hedy Lamarr wasn't even a scientist, yet even she received great support from that weird guy you could see in Movie "Aviator".

    Girls do better in math on average, than boys do, but if you only look at top performers (700+ points) boys outnumber girls 2 to 1. Nature plays with male genes more wildly, than with female's, so there are naturally more male idiots, but also more male geniuses, many of them asocial, like this dude:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  16. Not thousands on 201 MPH Pod Run Wins SpaceX's Second Hyperloop Competition (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    Musk actually mentioned that it is not aimed at super long distances (to compete with aircraft), but rather for shorter ones, when the whole "get to airport, through security, onto plane, lift off, landing" is too much of an overhead.
    It was several hundred of kms, not much more.

  17. Since when we are able to grow large ones in lab? on SLAC Experiment Proves It Rains Diamonds On Uranus and Neptune (cosmosmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when we are able to grow large ones in lab? Link please.

  18. Re:Sad on Elon Musk Backs Call For A Global Ban On Killer Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The British started using proximity fused anti-aircraft artillery, with projectiles that made their own decision of when to detonate, in 1940.

    If wikipedia is correct, they come up with that idea as a written letter to defense department in May 1940, but didn't really use it (couldn't really produce it, let me put it this way)

    But it wasn't until 1944 that this kind of weapons was actually used:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  19. Hans Blix in Kim Jong-il's Palace on Elon Musk Backs Call For A Global Ban On Killer Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Kim Jong-il: (in English) Hans Blix? Oh, no!
    Hans Blix: Let me look around, so I can ease the UN's collective mind.
    Kim Jong-il: (in English) Hans, you're breaking my balls here, Hans. You're breaking my balls!
    Hans Blix: I'm sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me see your whole palace, or else...
    Kim Jong-il: (in English) Or else what?
    Hans Blix: Or else we will be very, very angry with you. And we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.

  20. Facebook also hosts figures as Mylo Po on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook also hosts figures like Milo Yiannopoulos
    https://www.facebook.com/myian...

    Are they going to ban it too?

  21. Re:Just as ignorant as educated males see it on Ask Slashdot: Female Engineers, Could You Please Share Your Thoughts On the Google Memo · · Score: 1

    From being treated like a secretary to having her comments dismissed...

    Do you seriously mean that this only happens to women?

    Do you know that actually 3 persons have died in Charlottesville clashes? (gender of the other two should be easy to guess)

  22. Except that's a lie on Blizzard Starts Drive To Recruit More Women and Ethnic Minorities (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except that's a lie, as Australians have found out, on the opposite, using blind recruitment reduces chances of women and minorities:

    Blind recruitment trial to boost gender equality making things worse, study reveals
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

  23. Re:Who is blaming victims? on An Image Site Is Victimizing Countless Women and Little Can Be Done (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that's coming from this kind of discussions:

    (judge said, don't get too drunk, others said, it's rape victim blaming)
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-3...

  24. Re:Don't pose nude on An Image Site Is Victimizing Countless Women and Little Can Be Done (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know, frankly.
    But I'd say it helps as much as "don't leave valuable items in a car".

  25. Re:VP of Diversity, Integrity & Governance... on Google Engineer's Leaked 'Gender Diversity' Essay Draws Massive Response (medium.com) · · Score: 1