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  1. That private funding deal better be real on Elon Musk Says He's Considering Taking Tesla Private; Tesla Suspends Shares As It is Expected To Make an Announcement (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Otherwise Musk just committed a securities violation by lying about a potential private buyout.

  2. Larger files aren't a problem on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 0

    Everything is compressed, and with the network performance asymmetry between throughput and latency, having larger resources like big CSS files don't impact users' perception of performance very much, nor would keeping the size of those resources the same vs slower broadband connections of the past help performance very much.

  3. Proportional to oxygen consumption? on Air Pollution Linked To Changes In Heart Structure, Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    At rest the heart consumes approx 11.6% of the human body's oxygen intake. This percentage increases during exercise, including walking, an activity one would expect while outdoors and exposed to pollution.

  4. Paging Michael Dell on Apple Becomes the First $1 Trillion US Company in History (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, Michael Dell famously trashed the company with a killer quote. When asked what he'd do with Apple if he were in Jobs' shoes, Dell said:

    "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."

  5. Let's ban citizens from preparing meals in their households as well. What better to ensure the success of local eateries?

  6. It's simple economics - increasing the supply of money (via student loans) to buy a service while not commensurately increasing the supply of that service will cause the price of that service to go up.

  7. How does having 90 minute house calls scale? on Best Buy Is Thriving In the Age of Amazon (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see how Best Buy can compete in sales and esp profit against Amazon with that kind of time per sale stat.

  8. Affinity has Adobe shook on Adobe To Launch Photoshop for iPad in Strategy Shift (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Affinity Photo for iPad is an incredible app and cost $19.99, once.

    https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ipad/

  9. Keys' quietness will now match their brokenness on Apple Says New MacBook Pro Keyboard Won't Fix Sticky Key Issue (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Now when you press a key and nothing happens at least you wont have to hear it pretend like it's working.

  10. Wow, "paid employment". How gracious of them on The GNOME Foundation Is Hiring (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    And here I was thinking the bank would gift me my mortgage payments like how companies have been asking us to gift our time and skill.

  11. Lock them up! Lock them up! Lock them up! on Federal Facebook Probe Now Includes FBI, SEC: Report (apnews.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    And, lock them up!

  12. What is "raw computational power?" on New Snapdragon Chips Bring Dual Cameras To More Mid-Tier Phones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And what does it look like when it's cooked, ie how much faster will a useful algorithm be when implemented on it?

  13. Intel lost mobile due to power-per-watt on Intel Is in an Increasingly Bad Position in Part Because It Has Been Captive To Its Integrated Model (stratechery.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And that power-per-watt disadvantage vs ARM predates Intel's integration strategy and also their current process-size disadvantage. I don't see any evidence to the contrary in the linked story.

  14. I wonder if NAMBLA is cracking down on them too on Warner Bros Is Cracking Down On Harry Potter Festivals (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    I imagine the NAMBLA meetings are lightly attended when there's a Harry Potter festival in town.

  15. Life cycle of a modern Apple product on 8 Months After a Surge of Complaints, Apple Announces a Repair Program For Its Flawed MacBooks and MacBook Pros (theoutline.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1) Announce a revolutionary chassis redesign that nobody asked for, which was necessary to make the product thinner, which nobody asked for
    2) A few owners start complaining about a defect in the product. Other owners tell those owners to shut up and stop drinking the Hatorade or buy a Windoze product instead.
    3) The owners who told the original owners to shut up start complaining about the defect themselves.
    4) Apple tells owners there's nothing wrong with the product and that they must be using it wrong
    5) Apple releases instructions on how to owners can avoid the defect by buying a piece of plastic or an air blower
    6) More owners complain about the defect. Apple goes silent.
    7) A class-action lawsuit is announced
    8) More class-action lawsuits are announced
    9) Apple announces they a very few number of products are affected by a defect and will be fixed by Apple on a per-case basis

  16. Swift solves NIH - "Not Invented Here" Syndrome on Four Years On, Developers Ponder The Real Purpose of Apple's Swift Programming Language (monkeydom.de) · · Score: 1

    And ironically solves NIH by copying elements from nearly every other programming language in existence.

  17. Can she run a successful startup from prison? on Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Seeks Investors For New Company (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    With all that we know about what went on there's no way this woman doesn't serve time, no matter how many well-connected people she knows.

  18. Why not install POS terminals instead? on Senator Makes Amtrak Hire Ticket Agents Because 30 Percent of His State Lacks Internet (senate.gov) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If people can order burgers at a McDonalds POS terminal they can certainly buy train tickets from them as well.

  19. TSMC will be killing it in the 7nm space and with rumors of Apple switching to their ARM chips for future computers Intel is about to face a drop of some CPU business.

  20. Welcome to the real world, millennials on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 0

    Not everything is a box of snapchats.

  21. It was the professor, in the conservatory on Scientists Race To Find Who is Pumping a Dangerous Gas Into the Atmosphere (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    With the hairspray.

  22. When did software geeks become the Mob? on Oracle's Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring With Customers (lightreading.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Shakedown tactics like demanding payment for protection are straight out of the Mob's playbook.

  23. Who knew a device always listening might record? on Woman Says Alexa Device Recorded Her Private Conversation and Sent It To Random Contact; Amazon Confirms the Incident (kiro7.com) · · Score: 2

    You have to be six degrees of stupid to allow an always-listening device like Alexa into your home. I don't care how convenient or cool it is.

  24. Investigating price manipulation of fake currency on US Launches Criminal Probe Into Bitcoin Price Manipulation (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Next they'll be investigating homicides committed inside Grand Theft Auto video games.

  25. You're telling them about our backdoors? on Backdoor Account Found in D-Link DIR-620 Routers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Funny