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  1. Re:Fraud for traffic? on Amazon Offers Whole Foods Discounts To Prime Members (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is Amazon doing this more fraudulent than other stores taking phone numbers to verify their loyalty account rather than expecting customers to memorize an obscure membership number?

  2. Re:eNeuro on Scientists Transfer Memory Between Snails (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    The difference between snails and slugs is morphologic, not taxonomic. Even "sea slug" is not a taxonomic category. They're all gastropod mollusks, with a spectrum of shell sizes.

  3. Algorithms don't spring fully formed out of aether on NYC Announces Plans To Test Algorithms For Bias (betanews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People decide what variables to put in or not, what data to test on or not. Using an "algorithm" doesn't eliminate subjectivity, it removes it in the sense of setting it at a distance where it is out of people's minds even though it's still there.

  4. Re:This is definitely not a first on Researchers Create First Flying Wireless Robotic Insect (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    The first example has neither onboard controller or onboard sensors, so it is not a prior example of the category
    The second example uses a wired power supply, so it is not a prior example of the category
    The third example uses a bird style flight which is aerodynamically distinct from insect styles of flight, so it is not a prior example of the category.

  5. Re:Flying? on Researchers Create First Flying Wireless Robotic Insect (newatlas.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Fluttering wings hard enough to momentarily leave the ground is impressive, yes. But don't spoil it by trying to call it flying."

    Fluttering wings hard enough to leave the ground is the actual definition of flying.

  6. Re:Governemnt helping big tech companies on H-1B Visa Alternative 'OPT' Grew 400 Percent In Eight Years, Report Finds · · Score: 1

    "American tech workers thinking they're worth more than they are"

    I was unemployed for a year and a half, in which time I saw my old job advertised to me at the same salary I had been making.

  7. Re:And one year after that... on Boston Dynamics' SpotMini Robot Dog Will Go On Sale Next Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Running dog capitalists, indeed.

  8. Re:Shouldn't that be... on US Appeals Court Rules Border Agents Need Suspicion To Search Cellphones (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    "everything else is tacked on to the president... why not this"

    Because the incident that lead to this case took place on February 2, 2016.

    It's almost as if it isn't universal to just blame everything on Trump, as some people actually pay attention to who could be responsible for the policy in question.

  9. Re:Slightly better than a screen-scrape on Glassdoor, the Iconic Job-Hunting and Reviews Website, Has Been Bought For $1.2 billion (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    "[D]oing useful things that make people remember you later" makes you popular with the people the job seeker used to work with, while the job seeker needs to be popular with people they have not yet worked with.

  10. Re:Sounds like Japan on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "The only real job security is to be so valuable to the company that replacing you would clearly be a large net loss. " ...in the timeframe where the person making the decision would be held accountable for that loss. If the benefits are front-loaded and the decider is moving on before sufficient costs accumulate, there is no incentive to fully account for those costs.

  11. Re:Analysts wrong by less than 1% on Apple Beats Sales Estimates Amid Reports of Poor Demand For iPhone X (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish these news stories would include the companies' guidance from the beginning of the quarter along with the analyst estimates.I have trouble finding the guidance figures after the fact.

  12. Re:Do as I say, not as I do on Facebook Fires Employee Who Allegedly Used Data Access To Stalk Women (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In late capitalism, failure to monetize is the true crime.

  13. Copyright restricts nothing that is not distributed.

  14. Analysts wrong by less than 1% on Apple Beats Sales Estimates Amid Reports of Poor Demand For iPhone X (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the impressive part.

  15. Re:Misleading headline on Apple Beats Sales Estimates Amid Reports of Poor Demand For iPhone X (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    "Apple revenue rose 16 percent to $61.1 billion in the fiscal second quarter. ... Analysts expected sales of $60.9 billion"

    $61.1 billion is larger than $60.9 billion.

  16. Who saves bookmarks any more? on Bookmark Syncing Service Xmarks Closes For Good On May 1 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't bothered saving bookmarks in over twenty years. Any hostname I can't memorize I just use a search engine for.

  17. Re:CoC smokers on Go Programming Language Gets A New Logo and Branding (golang.org) · · Score: 1

    I wonder what language community is most accepting of the ineffective and unproductive.

  18. Re:Isn't surprising on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "That hasn't happened since Reagan became president however."

    Stop lying.

    Here are examples of prison sentences that I easily found , one from during the Trump administration and one from the Obama administration.

    http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-...

    https://www.washingtontimes.co...

    I quickly bored of trying to filter by each individual president, but this is enough to refute the "hasn't happened since Reagan" claim. In fact the turning point was in 1986, or not until 3/4 of Reagans's tenure had elapsed.

  19. Re:What would Delaware leverage? on Could We Fund a Universal Basic Income with Universal Basic Assets? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    "And yet the UBA or UBI or really any radical expansion in the welfare system would encourage people to join just to suck at the tit."

    Clearly, if giving people UBA or UBI would disincentivize productive labor, stealing from people regularly would incentivize it.

    "It gets worse than that too because our agency in our republics is directly related to our economic logistical utility to the society."

    Looks like you've assumed an ideal frictionless market.

    "The UBI and UBA concepts argue that large portions of the population will be of no value. One must hope that doesn't happen because if it does and the situation sustains throughout time then it is inevitable that they'll suffer extreme tyranny and possibly genocide."

    The impoverished suffer that anyway, so at best this argument is neutral with respect to UBA and UBI.

  20. Re:It's absolutely ridiculous and dehumanizing on Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    "If you have decades of experience, you have referrals;"

    You have referrals mostly from a) the people that just caused you to be looking for work, b) people who failed to hire you when they had a chance to, and c) people who never offered you anything in the first place. If a hiring manager calls your references they are at least going to fish for the reason why you are on the job market. These people have decisions to justify so that they look good if they find themselves looking for work and they lose nothing by throwing you under the bus.

    But I'm not bitter.

  21. Re:We voters were way ahead of you ... on 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality' (500ish.com) · · Score: 1

    Pwning the cons... by giving them everything they wanted.

  22. Re:About time on FDA Wants Medical Devices To Have Mandatory Built-In Update Mechanisms (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why does every damn commenter have to go off on a "connected to the internet" sidetrack when the article mentions no such thing?

  23. Re:How about blocking? on Chrome 66 Arrives With Autoplaying Content Blocked By Default (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    OTOH, on a crappy but unmetered connection downloading but NOT playing is useful to prefetch more than the play would naturally buffer.

  24. " the vast majority of managers top out at building powerpoint presentations"

    Hardware engineering is 50% powerpoint, therefore engineering managers come from the top 50% of engineers.

  25. Re:Because of Climate Change? on Ocean Current That Keeps Europe Warm Is Weakening Because of Climate Change (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Global warming to own the libs.