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  1. Misleading Slashdot Summary on Elon Musk Teases Reddit With Bad Answers About BFR Rocket (reddit.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He made those answers but ALSO responded in full detail to the same questions.

  2. I thought bitcoin had every transaction tracked how it flows from wallet to wallet for anyone to check. How is it non-traceable besides the fact a name isn't tied to the 'account number?' When you cash out, don't you have to use a real name or is there markets that people just trade cash for bitcoin without any name required.

  3. Please Stop this Merger on Sprint, T-Mobile Could Announce a Merger By Month's End (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't need fewer options. This will hurt consumers so much.

  4. What does this have to do with technology? on Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up With Depression (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What is slashdot now? Politics and psychiatrist stuff appear too often. I get some people in technology are depressed but why put articles about it on slashdot. Everyone in technology eats also but I wouldnâ(TM)t want to see articles on recipes here either, thatâ(TM)s just me.

  5. OFCOURSE on Would a T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Hurt Consumers? (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    There is Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint right now. Only 4 options for 320 million people in the United States. 4 may not seem quite like a traditional oligarchy but the competition among them is already so little and even among them T-mobile is the only one pushing competitors around with cheaper pricing for better offers. When is the last time you watched a sports with only had 4 people playing? We are lucky even 1 out of the 4 of them gets half decent ideas. In my opinion for the current size of the United States we should not let any merger happen between even the top 20 companies in an industry.

  6. No is forcing you to buy an apple, what's the whining about?

  7. WHICH IS IT? on Ancient Tablet Reveals Babylonians Discovered Trigonometry (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    They were first or the invented an "they also figured out an entirely new way to look at the subject."

  8. Too Much Cringe on Feeling Bad About Feeling Bad Can Make You Feel Worse (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    The Slashdot title alone is cringe because no shit Sherlock. The paper is claiming if someone has gotten over a negative thing then they have less negativity than someone who hasn't. A toddler could tell you more of anything means more of anything, including more negative means more negativity. Also, what the hell is this doing on Slashdot, there is nothing at all technology related.

  9. A San Francisco station is reporting Trump policy is making some people upset? I'm -shocked-.

  10. Cyber Documents on Congress Asks US Agencies For Kaspersky Lab Cyber Documents (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Congress better be careful, cyber documents contain twice as much internet as regular documents.

  11. Re:Mental illness on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The people currently serving made the transition after joining the military, not before. They would have been rejected through the process.

  12. Mental illness on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    People with mental illness were already prevented from joining the military before this so this is really no change. A group with a 40 percent suicide rate and people expect us to put guns in their hands? I can see post transition and post operation trans participating but while make a transition is just too crazy. Also in my life 99% of every trans person I have met is or was addicted to drugs.

  13. Look at the Study on Having a Woman On Your Team Ruins Your Chances For VC Funding (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    People are already talking about correlation etc, but the study tells a different story than the slashdot summary. The study shows that companies with woman on the executive team were 15% of all companies in the sample (Table 1 and 2). It also shows that companies with woman on the executive team made 25% of total funding dollars across all industries (Table 5). It also shows that companies with woman on the executive team received an average valuation of $73 million those without woman received only $49 million (Table 8). In fact the only fact supporting the summary was that companies with woman as CEOs received a valuation of $40 million investment versus male CEOs who had $54 million on average. It is important to note there were only 119 companies with woman as CEOs while there were 3554 with males CEOs, a much larger sample. Obviously each individual company with a woman CEO effects the average valuation greater for their sex and you can decide for yourself if that makes the number less relevant or a good measure.

  14. Honestly this sounds more like something CNN would run. "Republican party hands out toy with Russian writing on it! Our anonymous source says Trump himself ordered the spinners in order to distract youth from the Russian story! He is either incompetent or colluding and this is a potentially impeachable offense, if found true. We'll be sure to keep you up to date with 16 hours of coverage analyzing this scandal today but first our completely un-bias reporter will update you on how these silly toys may actually be death traps. We will answer the question, is Trump trying to kill your children?"

  15. I didn't update but the update made me unable to search contacts. Meaning I HAD to update or else couldn't search contacts. Not a big deal but maybe this was one of the problems?

  16. There's an obvious reason on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's because colleges are the most left leaning places in America. I'd bet more American flags are burned at American colleges than in Russia and all middle eastern countries combined. It's not that republicans hate education.

  17. Bad decision after bad decision on Reddit Is Testing Country-Specific Home Pages That Highlight 'Geo Popular' Content (ndtv.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just more bad news for reddit. It used to be open and free and now it's only good if you ignore the main pages and go directly to a subreddit.

  18. This is the IQ Test Argument on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    This argument has been done over already hundreds of time with IQ tests. Some people say IQ tests are objective tests of knowledge and logic skills and other people say different races weren't as likely to learn certain knowledge or be good at things like pattern recognition. In the same way, an algorithm depends on factors determined to be important by a human even if race isn't one of them. If an algorithm is factoring say acceptance of a loan. Things like property value, income, single/married, debt, ability to have guarantors all seeming are objective but are often correlated with race. That said, it doesn't make it 'racist' because all of those factors are great to look at for a mortgage. If someone programmed an algorithm to take into account a factor irrelevant to the end goal (a mortgage) then that could be racist.

  19. Or you know.. just don't log in an you can see everything.

  20. Nothing more obvious on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is too obvious to former students. It's college though, like the real world if you don't put effort in and fail it is your own fault and your own money and time you are wasting, unless you are a socialist getting college for free.

  21. High cost is holding it back. on The Oculus Rift Still Isn't Selling, In a Worrying Sign For VR (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Some have called be useless or a luxury, but so is most of consumer sales. The difference is VR is not just expensive but rediculously expensive when you factor in you need great PC to go with it. What exactly would someone pay $900 for when the processing is all done on something you have to buy separately? I can get 65" 4K tv for $900, but basically a 5 inch screen for one person with 4K costs the same. I know it's different types of screens but the value proposition for VR is just not there. Many products have failed because they weren't at the right price point. VR is actually incredible, the problem is the incredibly high price, even at $400 it's a stretch.

  22. Inflation will quickly stop only the rich from bei on Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    They will never change this rule to adjust the limit of the "rich." Over time they will depend on this funding and inflation will make this a tax on everyone and it won't be as long as people think.

  23. Re: Biggest Surprise on China Tells Carriers To Block Access to Personal VPNs By February (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if it is technically possible. The way Chinese government works is they make massive amounts of things illegal but only enforce the law when they want to shut up a dissident. The pro democracy journalist will end up with 10 crimes and 10 years behind bars while a regular joe never gets prosecuted.

  24. Correcting the misinformation! on Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump's Election Committee Over Voter Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    First, this is a bipartisan committee not just the administration. Second, only a few states are refusing to provide publicly available information, not 44. Third, the federal government has much more data on people than this basic voter information from your tax returns. All they want to do is confirm the voters informations on matches the information they already have to find any issues. What they are doing is not difficult, all it will tell them is if a more in depth investigation is needed.

  25. EU trying to take money from American Companies on Google May Face Another Record EU Fine, This Time Over Android (itwire.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does anyone think it is a coincidence all these huge fines in recent years are against American companies. EU wouldn't do this to their own companies like they do to Apple and Google and other American companies. Now they are going after a literally free product with a fine. That is amazing.