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  1. Re:Trump/Bannon economic nationalism is anti-capit on H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Especially the company of the person quoted in the article.

    A 40% increase in challenges leads to a 70% reduction in success?

    Sounds like exactly the type of mill that's skirting the law is what's being shut down here.

  2. Re: Never rely on defaults... on 'How Chrome Broke the Web' (tonsky.me) · · Score: 1

    I hate endless scrolling, so if that's what this is about, I agree!.

    Whenever I click a link on a products page of an endless scroll, add to cart, and hit back, I need to scroll back down with the slow loading and it makes me angry.

  3. Re: Never rely on defaults... on 'How Chrome Broke the Web' (tonsky.me) · · Score: 1

    It seems like a reasonable change to me.

    Scrolling performance often sucked major.

    Half of sites that didn't update for performance reasons in the last year? I'd bet that's around 1% of the web.

    In exchange the other ones all work better.

  4. Re:Here is a question I have... on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I think part of the idea of self driving car levels is that data can be collected in the "self drives good conditions" level when it's being human driven in bad conditions.

    Eventually there will be enough data that these aren't edge cases.

    An edge case for a person that will drive a million miles in a life time will not be an edge case for billions of miles of compiled data.

  5. Re:This is coming a lot faster than most think on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    If it really is safer than the generic "safe" driver, it could pay for itself pretty quick.

    My insurance ($500 deductible, comprehensive coverage) is around $150/month.

    Say the system, markup, and financing costs are $200/month for 60 months, if it cuts insurance in half it's only $125/month.

    If costs come down, and insurance on a new car (mine is 8 years old), or the owner is higher risk, or younger, I could easily see the system paying for itself over a 60 month lone, and then being a savings going forward.

  6. Re:True, but there is advantage here on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Why shouldn't your insurance be higher if the risk is higher?

    Like pay today's rates driving like today (manually), pay far less riding while the car drives.

    Insurance is a fairly efficient market, if being a passenger and not a driver is actually safer, rates will drop, but they won't increase the rates for manual drivers if it's not more dangerous (financially to them).

    In the end, I suspect manual driving will become less expensive to insure too, as bad drivers are less likely to drive manually.

  7. Re: This is coming a lot faster than most think on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    You don't think safe crash is a decision a computer can make?

    That actually seems like one they'd be able to make better than people. I'd actually guess they'd fall back on safe crash too often not too rarely.

  8. Re:"Not possible to be fair" on The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was not possible to renegotiate fairness aside (which arguably it is fair).

  9. Re:Patented on How Cloudflare Uses Lava Lamps To Encrypt the Internet (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's new?

  10. Re:Also known as LavaRand on How Cloudflare Uses Lava Lamps To Encrypt the Internet (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember reading about it in the 90s in an Economist column in the science section.

  11. Pretty sure it's not legal here (US) too.

    Or at least violates some signed statements about saving passwords.

  12. Maybe I used the wrong word, lane departure warnings are only a plus if they don't false positive an annoying amount and don't turn the wheel so you can't rely on them to make micro adjustments.

  13. I actually think Toyota is wrong here.

    I suspect that advanced level 2 (what we currently have) is the most dangerous. An aggressive alarm with a seconds long handover seems far safer than completely unatentive touching the wheel.

    I think the danger zone starts as soon as you combine adaptive cruise control and lane assist, and that the only safe option is to leave the wheel completely in control of the human until level 3 (which I think is safer than current level 2).

  14. Re: I can't complain... on Failure of Sprint/T-Mobile Merger Means a Missed Chance To Save $30B (kansascity.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm hoping cheap band 71 phones will be out by the time they (hopefully) add it to my area (I assume as a fairly urban area with nominally perfect coverage that will be late, but I hope they add some for the sake of the few restaurants I go to that seem to have 0 penetration).

    the 700MHz has notably improved coverage is some areas I go (eastern shore MD and Buffalo, NY), but it's still pretty weak there (on and off, and never good data). They are far better than 4 years ago though.

    The low band isn't just about range though, it should make a difference in the inside deadzones I encounter about weekly (fast 20/20 coverage outside, walk into the bar, dead), well, as long as they deploy everywhere with it.

  15. I assume they'll see the living room, I meant the risk that you become a target from what's in your living room is low.

    Unless you have quite expensive knick knacks.

  16. Electronics are relatively low value to steal.

    They quickly depreciate, and are relatively big. Sure, the crackhead will take them, but the real money is in jewelry.

    The risk of someone seeing your living room and targeting approaches zero, and the electronics wouldn't be the target.

  17. I think your off the mark.

    It's first wave of gentrifiers that want the convenience of Amazon, but package theft breaks 1%.

    examples 1 and 2 wouldn't even require the special lock.

    and are millennials the only generation that rented houses with friends in college? that seems unlikely.

  18. Re: I can't complain... on Failure of Sprint/T-Mobile Merger Means a Missed Chance To Save $30B (kansascity.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Sprint own enough low end to penetrate buildings (not rhetorical, I'm a TMO customer)?

    There are three places I frequent that I get a strong lte signal out front, but no signal inside.

  19. Re: Cue in Bitcoin deniers on Bitcoin Smashes Past $7,000 For the First Time (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh wow, 3 places in my county of 500,000.

    Pretty nice looking gloves (online retailer, with local factory), an asphalt place, and an African travel agency.

    I'm willing to bet more drugs are purchased with it than those three things combined (quite possibly even factory in global sales of the glove company that are BTC related).

  20. Re:Trading one problem for another on Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    But the CO2 in the building is relatively sequestered too.

    If 20 year old growth is cut to make a building that lasts 30, that's net extra sequestration.

    once equilibrium is reached (buildings taken down vs trees grown) there is more overall sequestered CO2 than if steel was used.

  21. Re:Should be expired on CBS Sues Man For Copyright Over Screenshots of 59-year-old TV Show (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Bug publishers have minimal incentive to publish unheard of public domain, I don't buy your premise.

  22. Re:I have 3+ passwords. on LastPass Reveals the Threats Posed By Passwords in the Workplace (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    My bank would require you have access to my e-mail or phone.

    My e-mail would require you have access to my phone.

    I don't think it'd be as easy as you think in general.

  23. Re:LastPass knows your passwords? on LastPass Reveals the Threats Posed By Passwords in the Workplace (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right, I was thinking of one way hashing, which would be pretty stupid for a password manager.

  24. Re:released without testing on Android Oreo Bug Sends Thousands of Phones Into Infinite Boot Loops (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe not use features exclusive to devices you don't own?

  25. Re:LastPass knows your passwords? on LastPass Reveals the Threats Posed By Passwords in the Workplace (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    I assume they're encrypted, but they can easily tell if they're the same. It doesn't say they have statistics in complexity, only reuse.

    I suppose this would mean that they're not salted though, or the same salt is used for every password in an account.