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  1. The Friday next to thanksgiving... on Workers at Amazon's Main Italian Site To Hold First Strike on Black Friday (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Italians have their busiest shopping day on their Black Friday holiday, just after eating all that Tacchino arrosto ripieno.

  2. Re:Socialism friendly quotes by tops NSDAP officia on Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community · · Score: 1

    Anti-fascists are the only smart group right now, as they are the primary group fighting against Russian territorial grabs. Russia needs to focus on North Korea or they will just get Vladivostok nuked and face Siberian revolt for independence using fascist techniques

    TFTFU

  3. Re: Just Take Ownership Of Being A God Damn Man on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    He posted it on a forum about diversity open to debate his ideas. He could have been corrected the diversity committee that I assume are experts in sociology . But he was not, so he was fired.

    Everybody can see the true:.
    It's supposed that google only hires the best. The best int tech X is usually biased to men.
    The only reason google can have a male/female ratio higher than the average tech company if because they are discriminating against men, either by hiring mostly women for non tech positions and by "lowering the bar" wen hiring women on tech positions.

    Demoore argues that having a higher retention of the little amount of women that are up to the bar is a better policy than lowering the bar and attributing to sexism the conflicts that originate from incompetence.

  4. Re:Not surprising on All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Failures on supercomputers are usually hardware and not software related.
    Take cosmic rays: you'll have one double bit flip on memory per day on 75000 DIMMs http://www.fiala.me/pubs/paper...
    Titan has 18688 nodes.
    As the amount of nodes increases, the time to first failure gets lower and lower. I heard that next gen supercomputers will have jobs maximum time reduced from current 1 day to 4 to 6 hours.

  5. Re:Easy to detect... on Uber Drivers In Lagos Are Using a Fake GPS App To Inflate Rider Fares (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Uber is a credit card service. Denounce fraud and you'll get your money back or go to a dispute. Uber gets charged for each refund so it's bad business for them.

  6. Re:Qualcomm is in the toilet on Qualcomm Board of Directors Unanimously Rejects Broadcom's Unsolicited Proposal (qualcomm.com) · · Score: 1

    s/GSM/GSM+HSPA+LTE+5G/

  7. Re:Qualcomm is in the toilet on Qualcomm Board of Directors Unanimously Rejects Broadcom's Unsolicited Proposal (qualcomm.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? What's the alternative for a GPS+GSM MODEM+general-purpose CPU SOC?

  8. It's sucks, peripherals are emulated (something like Xiwi). I think they're using containers for the android environment so it's not a single cohesive system.

  9. I don't blame the Africans, on Scientists Prove Emoticons Are Not Universally Understood (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I mislabeled both.
    wide eyed (0_0) looks far from a deadpan face :-|
    And (T_T) looks more like a whoosh face than a crying rivers face.

  10. Totally disappointed on 'Tetris' Recreated In Conway's 'Game of Life' (stackexchange.com) · · Score: 1

    These guys made something awesome, but didn't upload a youtube video of it.

  11. Re:Yes and no... on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 1

    But if she can guarantee that all the boxes are checked, the company shouldn't be liable for any fuck ups. Even if your security is a clusterfuck as long as it complies the needed requirements and certifications there shouldn't be a problem.

  12. Re:He gave them a pass on PewDiePie Is Inexcusable But DMCA Takedowns Are Not the Way To Fight Him (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on how much Jew you were.

  13. Re: In other words on Facebook Enabled Advertisers To Reach 'Jew Haters' (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Some versions of history propose that the Jews where not expelled by the Romans, but choose to leave.

  14. Chromium is FOSS, the only ethical argument for Firefox it (still, kinda), maintains the market respecting standards.

  15. It's the main use I give it.

  16. I'd go with: 13% of US citizens are thin foil hat nutjobs. When job automation reduces the job market the salaries will be pushed down, which will reduce the investment on job automation and push the unemployalipse further away.
    Also, the biggest field currently being targeted by automation are drivers, and autonomous cars won't be a thing for the next 10 to 20 years. And all existing transport floats won't be phased the day after the autonomous vehicles get regulated, so there'll time for the old dogs on the field to retire.
    Job automation should worry the Alpha Generation.

  17. Re:Sci-Hub Onion on Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    ISP blocking may be done not only at DNS level.

  18. Re:Who has the copyrights? on Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think the "logic" is that they own it as they had some "experts" check it(for a cheque)..

    Most journal reviewers don't get paid for their work. They own it because you cede the copyright.
    In fact, the writer pays for the curation, editing process and reputation of the publisher.

  19. Re:Who has the copyrights? on Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    You cede to the journal publication rights. Because of that you may only find drafts of papers on arxiv.

  20. You can download chunks sequentially.
    If you factor the time required to find a viable DL vs buffering the first 5% of the video, torrents are a more reliable / faster alternative.
    Not being a webapp is what pushed torrent users away.

  21. Re:Anyone tried Firefox on Android recently? on TechRepublic: Mozilla 'Is Desperately Needed to Save the Web' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a 'Read Mode' that automagically identifies the main content of typical webpages (wordpress and wikipedia) and show's it alone.

  22. Re:It's actually simple on Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you VPN all your traffic, blocking your geolocation won't achieve much.

  23. Re: While these guys are nutters.. on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    People choose religion and sexual orientation. It's ok to make no jews or no gays business?

  24. Re:Just as ignorant as educated males see it on Ask Slashdot: Female Engineers, Could You Please Share Your Thoughts On the Google Memo · · Score: 1

    The averages where used to point to the pools of candidates as the reason of the imbalance.

    The issue is that the pool of engineers is small, the pool of competent engineers is smaller, the pool of female engineers is also small, so the pool of competent female engineering is ridiculously selective.

    So you have a company famous for filtering out candidates by IQ, sorry, by "solving puzzles". That will tile the already male dominant field to the male side (because of poblational IQ distribution variance). It's obvious that'll give you less women coders than the field average.

    So this guy is claiming google is lowering the hiring bar for women to balance the field. If true all the people "not competent enough" that you hire are token people. That generates the feeling that all women don't deserve that position because, if the selection bias is true, a lot of women won't be up to the standards hold to everybody else. Then google tries to alleviate this with "behavior training camps".

    The guy says that increasing the competent female retention rate is the answer instead of lowering the bar only for women.

  25. Iv'e seen some videos from a different angle that may tell a different story.

    The is a possibility that the car was hit first after which the driver made a stupid maneuver and rolled (slowly) over somebody. Then a mob surrounded him so he panicked and escaped.

    The images aren't that clear, and even if true that doesn't excuse the driver, but it how how what you consider "peaceful protesting" may spiral out of control.