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  1. Switch hardware is extremely overpriced. You could get or make similar tablet for under $100 easily. The only purpose of this would be to play the games also but it canâ(TM)t do that.

  2. Seattle is the worst place to live on Seattle To Remove Controversial City Spying Network After Public Backlash (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Honestly, it is just horrible. Seattle is the worst run city in the country. Taxes/costs are insanely high thanks to the city council and the county voters who don't realize everything they keep voting yes on raises their property taxes and sales tax. The problem is they vote on programs like light rail that won't be done for 20 years and "safe injection sites" for heroin users. The homeless problem is Seattle is huge now because of all the money spent on homeless. Crime is going up, drug use is going up, homelessness is going up, police don't to do their jobs and are assholes, and there are protests every week blocking traffic for some bullshit reason. The city council blocked the deal to build a new arena and bring NBA teams back. You might say but hey that's like any other city, but Seattle you get the pleasure of paying five times as much for property and home prices and property taxes for the privilege of living in this mess. It's no wonder Amazon is moving their headquarters from Seattle. Sure they say they are just opening a "second" headquarters but we all know the plan is to move most business out of super expensive shit hole.

  3. Let advertisers choose where they want to advertis on YouTube Suspends Ads on Logan Paul's Channels After 'Recent Pattern' of Behavior in Videos (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I donâ(TM)t know why YouTube thinks they have to police the entire video library the same so all advertisers can advertise on all of their videos. All they need to do, like any tv show on cable tv, is let an advertiser exclude a channel or type of you tube channel. All this demonetizing everything so basically only childrenâ(TM)s shows or those YouTube arbitrarily allows get the most money is crazy. Treat people like adults and let people choose what they want to watch, advertise on, and make for videos.

  4. I'm already convinced. Put this up everywhere.

  5. This will work! on The World's First 88-inch 8K OLED Display (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... as a monitor. Because no videos will be in 8K!

  6. It probably just spams "This guy is a fake, don't listen to him" or some garbage.

  7. Something Stinks about this Article on Republican's 'Net Neutrality' Proposal Called 'Bait and Switch' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Either a new bill is fair and includes Net Neutrality or it isn't. That doesn't mean all bills on the subject will be horrible. I don't get the give up mentality by this writer. The point is to make a law about Net Neutrality so we don't have votes made of 5 people making important decisions, but congress. Hell you could make it an amendment to the constitution, it might be that important.

  8. I know that is a huge list of violations where the people were protected but they were all protected before Title II was in put in place in February 2015. There are other acts that protected against all those things and those other acts are still in place.

  9. The title makes it seem like something bad happened. Nothing bad happened. He knew exactly what the service was before he ordered it so why regret it based on on paranoia?

  10. They need this but instead of access to your house it needs to access a large lock box.

  11. Stupid Article on Reporter Regrets Letting Amazon's Delivery People Into His House (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nothing happened worth regretting. He pretty much just doesn't want to give amazon control to his lock because paranoia but that's the service he signed up for!

  12. Seems like the new normal is cover the accusation as a scandal and don't cover the follow-up result. Good on Slashdot for keeping up. I hope this happens with the rest of the 'scandal' stories.

  13. Questions on Steam Ends Support For Bitcoin (polygon.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why does a transaction take so long and why does it cost $20? If someone is only transferring $5 American dollars worth of bitcoin would it still cost $20 in transaction fees?

  14. Honestly, we need a real YouTube competitor and an Amazon competitor. With these giants blocking out each other, it is perfect for other parties to grow as competition. The real problem will be when Google blocks smaller third party sites from YouTube because it has a deal with Amazon.

  15. DUH on Vidme To Shut Down On Dec 15th 2017 · · Score: 2

    Vid.me had more ADs than the superbowl. It's basically a big advertisement site with a few videos. Not nice ads either, often the popups that claim your computer has a virus, or despite having popups blocked, still pops up ads in the background.

  16. Re:but as you work into masters and higher Irv Tow on Why Do Employers Require College Degrees That Aren't Necessary? (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Irv Tower?

  17. Degrees are Useless Now on Why Do Employers Require College Degrees That Aren't Necessary? (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's an example you can do something without giving up and that's it. They teach you almost nothing useful for most of college. Required basic classes and electives make up the majority of your schooling. Anything below masters is just a slightly better High School Diploma.

  18. AMD killing it right now on First AMD Ryzen Mobile Laptop Tested Shows Strong Zen-Vega Performance (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    They make equal or better parts for cheaper. Intel and Nvidiaâ(TM)s only option has been to lower their prices by hundreds to compete. This shows you how much those companies have been trying to screw you. It will be interesting to see if AMD can keep pushing the pace.

  19. Re:Stop using Excel? DOUBLE DOWN on it. on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know how you can write everything so wrong. You must have had a piss poor programmer because excel has FAR BETTER calculation verification than R, python, or Matlab, that can quickly show every step visually on spreadsheet so you know exactly what is happening to the numbers. Also it is extremely EASY to modify excel, that's the whole reason it's widely used. You can even record a macro and it spits out the code for you if you want to replicate a process.

  20. Depends on Tax Decutions on The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So anyone who doesn't work for the university but goes there has to earn $80,000 a year and pay taxes on it. Really, there should just be a tax deduction for paying tuition instead. I thought there was already, but I could be wrong, so they still shouldn't need to pay taxes on that. Depends how they write that.

  21. Advertising is hardly an issue on Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of the Web: 'The System is Failing' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Regulate advertising and you still have to deal with biases in "news" which are far more persuasive than online advertising. I honestly don't know how Trump won with the way the news portrayed him but I'm pretty sure online ads weren't a source of success. If anything an advertisement is a reason not to believe what something is saying because you already know there is an inherent bias. Enough diet pills have made false promises about losing weight that anyone of voting age knows they can't be trusted. News on the other hand tends to lend some credibility or used to, and when they favor a candidate or party it is extremely obvious. They don't even hit it, they are blatantly editing things the way they want them, using language to describe something in an opposite way for different candidates, taking quotes out of context. If you are an expert at anything, when the topic you know extremely well comes up, not even a political topic, you realize the people in the news know nothing at all and are misrepresenting things. With politics it's even worse. Fact checking websites are even worse because they purport to be experts but do nothing different than news agencies. Nothing.

  22. How the HELL do they make money??? on MoviePass Reveals Annual Subscription For $6.95 a Month (slashfilm.com) · · Score: 2

    Does anyone know how it's is conceivable that this is a sustainable business model? They don't even get a discount ticket price from the theater! Please tell me. If I pay them $90 for a year. I can see a movie every day? For that $90 in income this company might pay out to theaters $12 * 365 days a year for a total of $4,380. Even if I only see a movie once a week, they make $90 income but pay out $624. I really want to know how they make money. This seems like a complete scam!

  23. College in America is Simply Bad on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It can't be because college has become a shit hole where people don't actually learn anything useful. In zero classes did they ever teach things you will actually use in your life, instead it was all theories. Real Estate class? Never taught anything about property taxes or purchasing a home, but love to talk about city layouts. Business class? Taught company structures and basics of working in an existing company but not how to file the paperwork to create your own, or set up accounting for your own business, or how to file taxes or understand tax laws for your business. Science classes? Yea, thanks for teaching me how the inside of a cell works but not how basic nutrition affects a body. Now the world is full of a billion conflicting opinions on what is healthy. Arts classes? Thanks for teaching me that skill doesn't matter, just throw some garbage together and describe it with very emotionally charged words so people think hard about it.

  24. No, that websites data bubbles suck. on Comcast's Xfinity Internet Service Is Down Across the US [Update] (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It always says that if you zoom out on the map. The person writing this article must never have visited that website before.

  25. Re: The advantage of consoles on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Blocks 322,000 Cheaters (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    2.2 m is the concurrent players. There is way more than that overall playing.