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  1. Re:Jobs not important? on Illinois To Sue EPA For Exempting Foxconn Plant From Pollution Controls (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Given the factory will be in neighboring state I would say Illinois doesn't really get the benefits (taxes etc) and gets all the bad stuff as pollution doesn't care about borders

  2. Re:Hows that going to work? on Eventbrite Claims The Right To Film Your Events -- And Keep the Copyright (eventbrite.com) · · Score: 1

    Merchant agreement applies only to some. Parto of TOS:

    "1.3 What Else. If you are an Organizer offering events with paid tickets, Eventbrite's Merchant Agreement and Organizer Refund Policy Requirements are also applicable to you."

  3. Re:Mostly unskilled labor on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    You can take a piss how many times you want (I guess within reasonable limits), they don't really control it. But doing so makes your daily targets almost impossible to reach and you might get fired as underperformer. Most likely fast workers with some experience can work in pretty normal conditions and it just those slower/inexperienced ones that come up with such strategies to handle the requirements.

  4. Re:Hows that going to work? on Eventbrite Claims The Right To Film Your Events -- And Keep the Copyright (eventbrite.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Part of this paragraph:
    "You are responsible for obtaining, at your own cost, all third party permissions, clearances, and licenses necessary to secure Eventbrite the permissions and rights described above"

  5. forest at some poor country on Lyft Announces It Will Make All Rides Carbon Neutral (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They will end up planting trees at the other end of the world. This makes about as much sense as a mass murderer helping to feed some starving kids in Africa so he can claim he is a net benefit to humanity as he saved more lives then he took away...

  6. Nope: guilty forever as you cant prove that something does not exist.

  7. isn't removing social share buttons quite large website breakage for an average user? Such users wont notice lack of regular tracking scripts as they are largely invisible and useless for them, but sharing news/blog posts seems to be a pretty common use case for social media.and those buttons are the easiest way to do so.

  8. This system has been working for a long while. It had already went through massive data leaks in 2017

  9. Re:Malicious crock of shit on Say Goodbye To the Information Age: It's All About Reputation Now (aeon.co) · · Score: 2

    Technology provides us with the possibility of OBJECTIVE insight and provides framework for OBJECTIVE verification (with mathematics).

    Not really, since we need to establish facts first that we use to gain those insights. Average person is pretty much unable to establish facts about any non reproducible events - we need to rely on others to provide us those and rate their "truth" by their reputation and number of matching reports. Unfortunately if there are big players (eg countries) involved with their own agenda those methods become seriously insufficient.

    For example the recent poisoning in the UK: UK points at Russia and they point at someone else eg Ukraine. Both have some motive and potentially ways. How are we supposed to verify the facts in the absolute way? We can basically only choose to believe the side we trust more, in other words reputation

  10. Re:fcc? on FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites · · Score: 2

    But they need FCC approval before anyone in US is allowed to use their satellites. They can deploy them and then seek approval, but it generally increases risk as they may be left with unsalable services after spending money on production and launch

  11. I use goodreads site to track my reading and find some future reading. Quite pleasant way for tracking what you have read, tons of book ratings/reviews and easy way to discover more books by authors you like (especially useful for new releases). Even if I find book somewhere else I tend to check its description and reviews to check if its worth buying.

  12. Re:Oh no, not that! on Spotify Is Cracking Down On Users Pirating Premium-Like Service (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    And next you spend an hour restoring your playlists every time they ban your account. If you consider your time worthless, then definitely this is a good deal, otherwise I would reconsider.

  13. Re:American Companies Abide by American Laws on Supreme Court Wrestles With Microsoft Data Privacy Fight (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    If the system would require action from someone in target country to access the data, they could truthfully say they can't get the data. That person would have full authority to refuse obeying any command that is against the local law and in case of firing would win big in court.

  14. Re:Seems like a good idea, better loss figures on Amazon May Open Up To Six More Automated Stores This Year (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    You also need to handle:
    - people that put the product back on the shelve
    - people that put the product back on the WRONG shelve (by laziness or mistake)
    - people that pick up this wrongly placed product and complain its price doesn't match the one on the shelves
    - people that try to cheat system by putting something similar to the product on the shelve

    and probably a million other strange cases. Maybe amazon will suceed where others failed, but I wouldnt hold my breath.

  15. The other side of this coin is that if your product doesn't change it will stagnate and slowly die. Any major change causes negative reaction from current users, but lack of such change may mean limiting chances to get new users (I don't say this is necessarily a case here as I haven't even seen this app).

  16. Re:Senior Discounts. on Tinder Must Stop Charging Its Older Users More For 'Plus' Features, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not necessarily. Seniors are mostly retired and have lots of free time during the day when others are at work. By getting them to come more frequently you are filling up time with few regular customers and so you are using your employees and space more efficiently.

  17. access restored on Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    apparently access to tv version was already restored: http://www.aftvnews.com/google...

    IMO it looks like a public trial of the blocking system to intimidate amazon in their talks.

  18. Re:Backdoor? on Adult Themed VR Game Leaks Data On Thousands (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely it uses common library with some company tools and this function comes from there. Still no authentication for such a function...

  19. Re:this kind of class action is useless on Intel Hit With Three Class-Action Lawsuits Over Meltdown and Spectre Bugs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you intend to make a serious claim you will have to exclude yourself from the inevitable settlement for lots of money to lawyers and 10$ off coupon for new intel cpu for the masses as the lawyers have no interest in pushing this past their payout. You can as well skip the class action part and sue yourself as its exactly where it will end anyway.

  20. this kind of class action is useless on Intel Hit With Three Class-Action Lawsuits Over Meltdown and Spectre Bugs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This kind of class action is useless as it gives nothing to people affected by this issue. The only ones to profit here are the lawyers and there isn't even the nebulous "correct their behavior" part as Intel will fix it next time anyway regardless of the suit.

  21. age of code on Which Programming Languages Are Most Prone to Bugs? (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 0

    Did they control for age of code? For older code you are likely to get more bugs as it becomes more likely no one exactly remembers how it works and the person modifying it introduces some logic error for a weird corner case. Theoretically tests should prevent this, but most projects lack this kind of comprehensive testing and usually just have main case scenario covered with perhaps some common special cases.

  22. Re:Possibly MUCH more serious problem... on Apple's MacBook Air-like Store Roof Wasn't Designed To Handle Snow... in Chicago (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Looking at the picture its rather not the issue. The roof is slightly sloped and not that large, so the snow just slides to the sides... and falls directly on the passing people below.

  23. Re:City of Titans on DMCA Exemption Sought to Save 'Abandoned' Online Games (techspot.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is a value in things being unsold: creating scarcity in the franchise. Most obvious ones would be annual sport games (eg fifa), where even 12yo version could give you a nice approximation of current gameplay (their changes are usually focused on current players with better graphics and gameplay itself only changes very slowly) .

  24. Re:Welcome to reality on Patreon Hits Donors With New Fees, Angering Creators (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. Patreon was newer responsible for covering fees, it was always on creator side
    2. Fees have two components: percentage of amount and fixed sum. In current system all payments are made together so the fixed part is paid once only. In new system all payments will be made separately so fixed amount is added to every payment. Basically for every extra pledge I make I waste the fee amount. For large pledge its largely irrelevant, but for small ones it means huge increase in costs
    3. Patreon takes 5% as their fee. Now that they don't offer payment aggregation service and so become the LEAST efficient way of supporting the creator, why should I give it to them? So far the cost of convenience was low as aggregation lowered the external costs, but now they will be just taking 5% on top of other ways to support for a "fanpage" and paywall system of questionable quality.

  25. Re:It used to be... on Lead Developer of Popular Windows Application Classic Shell Is Quitting · · Score: 1

    Open source isn't really relevant to lack of win32 jobs. They are actually disappearing due to move to web interfaces everywhere. Often even standalone apps get some webkit interface. If you were focused on developing commercial gui applications for linux you would have the same problem. Outside of things requiring high performance (eg games) and very complex stuff (that creators cant be bothered to rewrite from scratch) we are going to have browser only environment.

    I disagree on MS open sourcing the windows in the future. MS has a nice advantage here of games on one side (home) and legacy applications on the other (corporate). If all the new apps are os agnostic (web) they get nothing from open sourcing and only lose on the income of those two niches.