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  1. What they REALLY need to do on Ebay Weighs Selling Off Businesses After Pressure From Activist Investors (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I just found out yesterday that they also own Proxibid, who does auctions but with a "soft ending." If anyone bids within the last 2 minutes, it resets the end date to 2 minutes and starts counting down from there again guaranteeing the highest price. In other words no sniping. I assumed the ONLY reason ebay wasn't implementing this is it was patented by them. NOPE. They own them. Their revenue would probably go up by 10% minimum if they implemented this and the sellers would be a lot happier. If they want money, do this!

  2. the only detail you need to know on Facebook Is Working On a New Cryptocurrency For WhatsApp Payments (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    When you hear the phrase "new cryptocurrency" it will be hacked. The end. It is going to be hacked with a >50% attack because it will be too small to prevent random miners from out-processing the rest of the network and forging false transactions. Use an existing, established currency or don't bother because it won't work.

  3. I have a solution on Australia's Hottest Summer Beats Previous Record by 'Large Margin' (brisbanetimes.com.au) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a tried and true Australian strategy for counteracting this. Put a tax on the temperature.

  4. Oh look, an SJW hiding behind an anonymous post. I've NEVER seen that before. Fuck off with your sexist man-hating.

  5. Brie Larson - I hate white men. If you're a white male, fuck off and don't see my movie and don't come to any press events (paraphrased)
    Everyone - leaves an honest answer to the question "do you want to see this movie"
    The Media - OMG TROLLZ!

  6. The obvious cause on IBM Apologizes For Racial Slurs On Its Recruitment Webpages (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is what happens when you go to India of the Phillipines for your web development project and yell "okay, who's going to do this for the cheapest?" Tada, "localization problems" to put it politely.

  7. They're not trolls, they're not reviews, and it's not a bombing campaign. Brie Larson said she doesn't want white males seeing her movie or coming to her press conferences and said if they do she will purposely ignore them. She's a racist, sexist, SJW piece of garbage. The movie isn't out yet so the "reviews" are actually responses to the question "do you want to see this movie" which oddly enough makes them 100% accurate and genuine answers. Don't believe the lies. A stupid far left liberal nutjob ruined another movie with her racist statements. THAT it what's going on here, the end.

  8. This is why we don't need 600+ different cryptocurrencies. Someone with a fairly small ASIC farm can target a tiny blockchain and >50% it (that's the real name, not 51%) and steal everything.

  9. Let me tell you about Frontier on Frontier Demands $4,300 Cancellation Fee Despite Horribly Slow Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm from Wisconsin and Frontier is a garbage DSL provider with ancient infrastructure who charges roughly double for internet because they operate almost exclusively in small towns and rural areas. They have a HORRIBLE reputation for customer support, fixing things, billing, etc and they don't care. Everyone hates them and nobody in their right mind renews a contract with them at this point. They're basically TDS too where they no longer want to be an ISP but they can't just cut off customers so they tend to do zero marketing and get zero new customers.

  10. Realistic though on Norwich's Fortnite Live Festival Was a Complete Disaster (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    I bet the entire event had nonstop 12 year olds talking shit with audio chat in person though. That's real.

  11. you know what's cheaper? on Netflix Cancels The Punisher and Jessica Jones, Ending its Marvel Shows (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should invent Netflix-Man and not pay a licensing fee. Genius!

  12. The AI would simply generate a report inquiring how it's even possible for a human to post THAT MANY MEMES. It just doesn't seem possible.

  13. All their products in the last 5 years have been defective garbage, they're still abusing patents and stealing other people's work, they're still abusing a monopoly, they still lie to their customers about defects until they're sued, they're still violating right to repair laws, and every time they release some overpriced, underperforming, stripped down garbage you should short their stock. Just a little insider secret for all you investors out there.

  14. You know what this reminds me of? on Tesla 'Dog Mode' Will Stop Pets From Overheating In Cars, Elon Musk Says (nzherald.co.nz) · · Score: 2

    Remember the stories of the self driving cars where people sent their dogs to go get drive through fast food. They trained them to pick up the money in their mouth and hand it over to the person in the window. Epic.

  15. what a bunch of idiots on Twitter Still Can't Keep Up With Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Ooh build AI and have human moderator and...wait, just go to Google, type in terms someone would if they wanted to bot subs for money, buy the service, target a dummy post, ban every single account that interacted with the dummy post. Done. 100% kill rate.

  16. oh wait on Please Stop Using Internet Explorer, Microsoft Says (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, that's right, it's supported until January 15th 2020 so deal with it and keep patching it.

  17. If ever there was a legitimate time for Trump to order a drone strike on a location it was then and there.

  18. absolutely not even close on Is the iPhone SE the 'Best Minimalist Phone' Right Now? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the Samsung J7 is. It has 8 cores, insane battery life, great graphics rendering, and it's like $240.

  19. the other side of this on YouTube To Curb Conspiracy Theory Video Recommendations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They're also actively suppressing any video that says that transgender people have a mental disorder and need psychiatric help NOT surgery even though all studies, statistics, and health professionals overwhelming support that fact.

  20. Re:a bunch of racist excuse-making on AI is Sending People To Jail -- and Getting it Wrong (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Good thing the US provides free lawyers to those who qualify based on income then.

  21. a bunch of racist excuse-making on AI is Sending People To Jail -- and Getting it Wrong (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    The US is less tolerant of crime and better at catching it than other countries. That's why we have more people in prison. Black people commit more crimes so they go to jail more often. Those are facts. Get over it. There isn't some stupid national conspiracy to put non-white people in prison more. They just simply commit more crimes period. Fix it or shut up about it all being "the system's" fault.

  22. The fact that it kept flying without stopping or changing course means they definitely found memecenter.com and just didn't bother

  23. Who cares about the dollar amount. It's just a percent of FB's valuation in all likelihood. It sounds like a high number but to FB it's not. What they should do is either fine them exactly 6 billion and use it to fund the wall, which would be hilarious, or force Mark Z to cut off his left arm.

  24. Do it up big! on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They failed in their quest to cause a black hole formation or an unknown particle/quark reaction similar to a nuclear detonation so it's time to scale it up, boys! If Britain is trying to blow up all of Europe, they might as well too.

  25. This is Patrick Soderlund fault on Battlefield 5's Poor Sales Numbers Have Become a Disaster For Electronic Arts (seekingalpha.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He literally said if you don't like the inclusion of a woman with disabilities (very inaccurately) on the front line then you're ignorant and shouldn't buy the game. So nobody bought the game and he took a big bonus and quit. They also added in mission where the French are seen as racist against black people, which is completely and utterly inaccurate to those two groups actually working together during the war. Then they took a special ops mission and replaced the actual heroes with women and claimed it was historically accurate. This disgraceful lunacy in the twisted version of reality that these SJW assholes live in is so vast it can crash and entire project/company/product. Every SJW and far left liberal nut job needs to lose their job after this wonderful public display of how crazy these people are.