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  1. Re:Screw github, gitlab, etc... on GitHub Free Users Now Get Unlimited Private Repositories (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Gitlab has a nice self-hosted open source project with federation and moderately-mature UI.

    Nobody is going to trust some kids' project when they get a .io and post as AC on /. trashing other open source projects.

  2. Re:How often can i be rolled? on LG Introduces Rollable OLED TV (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That screen's never gonna let you down.

  3. Also, and this is the reason why he got fired, that difference is minor and the author of the study he cited for it has said publicly that the conclusion it affects women's performance in or preference for engineering jobs is unwarranted.

    The average differences are quite small. The differences on the extremes are significantly pronounced - that's how this kind of math works out.

    You should go read the studies about the impact of gender-egalitarian policies on the career choices of men and women in Scandinavia. The results are not what the authors 'wanted' to find.

  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Politicians just haven't caught up to society - they're still threatening to send their thugs after people to lock them in cages for sharing science. Talk about a clash of Pre- and Post- Enlightenment cultures.

    #aaronswartz #pdftribute

  5. Re:It's not Apple's technology on White House Advisor Kudlow Says Apple Technology May Have Been 'Picked Off' by China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If you're familiar with the Chinese income distribution, why are you quoting the median, rather than the percentile and the nominal number of people, who have incomes well north of $30,000 per year, and can afford to purchase an iPhone? Most Americans would be surprised at the raw number compared with the number of US citizens at the same earning level.

  6. Non-"Buffering" 3rd-Party Players? on How YouTube's Domination of Streaming Clips the Market's Wings (wordpress.com) · · Score: 2

    OK, it's 2019. I still see most competitors to YouTube stutter, break up, and lag with terrible buffering - news sites, Vimeo, VLC even, etc. Network quality simulators have been around for more than a decade; in general the pipes are plenty fast even if not uniform in capacity, and the browsers all all plenty fast now.

    So, what gives? Is anybody trying? Is there anything available that can give even close to as good an experience as YouTube on a typical dodgy network connection? I'll encode the h.264 however it wants it and host it on a QUIC server if need be.

  7. Re:Tim Cook Reality Distortion Field on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If it costs $150 to replace the screen, and a new iPhone is $400, then maybe you wonder about what you should do. Maybe it's upgrade time. But when the new phone is $1,000, just get the screen fixed.

    If Apple has failed to predict this kind of behavior, it needs to hire better economists.

  8. Re: Do we even care? on Hackers Threaten To Dump Insurance Files Related To 9/11 Attacks (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Your "Gen Z" is going to be paying for the 9/11 (PNAC) wars for the rest of their lives given the current trajectory. They might just care about that if the hackers release history and economics primers as well.

  9. Re:I think the study came out last April on Stop Adding Cancer-Causing Chemicals To Bacon, Experts Tell Meat Industry (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You also learned that ascorbic acid will bind up most of it in the stomach too, then. Which is why most meat manufacturers add Vitamin C to their products.

    But that makes for a boring headline in The DaIly Anecdote.

  10. Re:Discrimination on As More Retailers Ban Paper Money, It's Making Things Awkward For Customers Without Plastic (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah - that's intentional. These businesses don't want "their kind" in their establishments. Requiring cards is a low-pass filter on the people they feel are beneath them. "The trash can take itself out", etc.

    "No cash" at s brick-and-mortar is a label that says "an elitist asshole runs this place".

  11. It's retarded to call the US nuclear environment capitalistic. Insurance for nuclear plants is explicitly socialist, which means that there is no economic pressure to invest in safer technology. In a free market, insurance companies would have stopped putting up with light water reactors thirty years ago.

  12. Docker, Docker, Docker! on Dev vs. Ops: The State of Accountability (overops.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's the thread where we talk about developers bundling ancient versions of libraries with vulnerabilities in their Docker images, calling Ops people obstructionists, and then blaming them for security failures. Also, people who refused to use CI, introduce breakage, and then try to cast blame while someone else fixes it.

    Don't work for a tech company where the CEO isn't an engineer.

  13. Re:Superheros on Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows of 2018? · · Score: 1

    One main difference between DC and Marvel is that DC characters tend to integrate their Shadow (Jungian) while Marvel characters really don't. They may misbehave but that's not "who they are", it's their failings.

    Deadpool *is* Marvel's shadow, all packaged up in one character. No need for even Tony Stark to actually misbehave onscreen - Deadpool will be fucking one minute and decapitating the next.

    He's an outlet for the absurdity of the other characters - and one that casual observers can probably skip.

  14. Re:Patent negotiation on iPhone Owners Irate After iOS Update Bricks Cellular Data (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    :chortle:

  15. Re:uhhhh does Indonesia have a shutdown, too? on US Geological Survey Unable To Provide Indonesia Tsunami Data Due To Government Shutdown (huffingtonpost.com.au) · · Score: 1

    'Cause Team America: World Police, that's why.

    PS Is the CIA still illegally fighting the House of Saud's war of conquest in Yemen for them during the shutdown or is starving Yemeni children critical to national security?

  16. Re:What they are and are not on The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun (citylab.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Precisely correct. The author is trying to apply classical Marxist (economic-group) and Neo-Marxist (race-group) theory to dollar stores and predictably finding oppression where it doesn't exist.

    I suspect the Marxist theorists from the 1940's had the same thing to say about five-and-dime stores, which were the pre-stagflation version of dollar stores. We had one when I was a kid and nobody there was oppressed either.

    Meanwhile, non-Marxist economics has pulled more people out of abject poverty in the past two decades than in all of previous human history. THAT's something to be joyous about on Christmas morning.

  17. Re:If our ISPs would let us on We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This is yet another reason we must demand that ISPs be given common carrier status.

    You're going to count on the same government that gave them a monopoly grant to protect your access to the Internet? When it goes against their interests of having everybody's content centrally-controlled?

    Good luck with that. The rest of us will be over on Starlink.

  18. Re:Glad it's not me on Logitech Disables Local Access On Harmony Hubs, Breaks Automation Systems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Somebody's going to end up hitting these guys pretty hard. Glad I don't have to deal with it.

    Every development plan that consists of "we're talking away features from your IoT device" needs to have "defending the class action lawsuit" in the budget summary.

    Gosh, if Logitech can't understand how to set up XMPP over TLS that tells me to stay far, far, away from any of their networking products.

  19. I saw some people on /r/datahorders who had downloaded a good percentage. Some archivist might spend the next couple decades stitching it all together. One presumes that Verizon would rather crush the drives than help the archivists.

  20. Re:Devil's Advocate / Semi-serious question on Tumblr Blocked Archivists Just Before Starting the NSFW Content Purge (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    It is quite clear that Verizon DID NOT authorize the archivists to archive the data prior to the mass purge, as evidenced by the imposition of the IP blocking

    How is that clear? How do you know that Verizon didn't make an honest mistake of auto-categorizing their traffic as a DoS?

    It seems to me they fanned out a bit to keep the Verizon IPS happy and kept some network engineers from having to deal with false alarms.

  21. using paravirt with Xen is a bit of a misfit when I've used it

    Xen pvh2 is almost done, and should remove the last technical reasons to use paravirt.

  22. ejecting the United States from SE Asia

    Why do you believe the US should be involved militarily in SE Asia?

  23. Wow, my goodness. Imma stop stereotyping shots of vodka as something manly Russians do.

  24. Re:Who or what to blame ? on 2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    HAD TO dump in the River? Wait, what?

    When I go to Montreal I notice huge funding for public art displays and potholes that can consume a subcompact car. This seemed, ummm, shortsighted before you mentioned dumping waste in the River. Jeeze.

  25. Re:Who is "Kylie Jenner"? on 2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If Snapchat is relevant to you, you've heard of Kylie Jenner.