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  1. Re: Feel-good nonsense on Coders' Primal Urge To Kill Inefficiency -- Everywhere (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For nearly all code you should write the simplest implementation, selecting ease of reading, security, and maintainability over speed. After your program is nearly done and you begin profiling then start optimizing. People are notoriously bad at guessing where bottlenecks will be and what causes them.

  2. Re: Sure they can move it out of China on GoPro To Move US-Bound Camera Production Out of China (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    China imports 1.8T and Mexico 430B. So Chinaâ(TM)s 20% is 360B and Mexicoâ(TM)s 40% is 172B, so China imports almost double from the US compared to Mexico.

  3. What if I paid using masterpass?

  4. Please make a Macbook body with iPad display on The 'Post-PC Era' Never Really Happened... and Likely Won't (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    I would be very interested in a macbook body with an ipad as a display, detachable of course. Unfortunately the issues of touchbar, no ports, and no replaceable battery are huge downsides, that I see Apple never changing, even though it would increase their notebook sales.

  5. Where is half a TRILLION going? on Trump Ups Ante on China, Threatens Duties on Nearly All its Imports (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    So assuming all the tariffs are enacted, where is the 467 billion spent? Because if you say to support K-12 education, SS, or the environment then great, if you say to buy more billion dollar warplanes and to start a star wars program, then FU.

  6. Re: Trust us,,no one is listening to you! on Saint Louis University Is Outfitting Student Living Spaces With Thousands of Echo Dots (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesnâ(TM)t say anything about it being managed by SLU. Only that it is a dedicated system, which I read to mean amazon is managing it as usual on a private server that is running only SLU queries.

  7. Re:Yes, yes! on Nvidia Is Giving Up On the Cryptocurrency Mining Market (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Totally agree, the notion of wastefully burning energy to verify transactions is absurd. What if bitcoin didn't crash, and people kept mining and mining more and more, until it was basically the only way to make money, and every single person was mining. Eventually it causes so much pollution it is what kills off all of the animals, destroys the environment, and ends civilization on earth. Might make for a good drama, it clearly illustrates the conflict between greed and the environment.

  8. Xbox One X Still Trounces Them on AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chinese Consoles (anandtech.com) · · Score: 0

    What's most eye opening is the stats on the Xbox One X, it still has more horsepower than all of them. Although the cores are clocked a little slower, there are double the CPU cores and almost double the GPU cores, and 50% more memory. On paper it's the winner.

  9. For what? on Apple Removing iOS and Mac Apps from Affiliate Program (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no way this is substantial income loss for Apple, affiliate commission was dropped to 2.5% last year, added to that a small percentage of their sales are from affiliates. It seems ignorant to royally screw over some of your biggest fans and cheerleaders. News, review, and download sites have built their entire presence to champion the app store.

  10. Why such a short drop test if unbreakable? on Samsung's 'Unbreakable' OLED Display Gets Certified (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Drop it so it reaches terminal velocity onto a diamond surface (it's hard). Hit it with a sledgehammer. Run over it with a really big thing. I love how they use the term unbreakable in quotes. It's like using the phrase "almost definitely"...

  11. Re: The attack: DNS rebinding on IoT Security Flaw Leaves 496 Million Devices Vulnerable At Businesses, Report Says (crn.com) · · Score: 1

    Until the intern at Evil Corp reads your post and uses it is default instructions for their next IoT device...

  12. It's a great start, 1 billion for that group is such a small number though, for Bezos alone it's less than 1% of his net worth. Why not invest 1 billion EACH, then another 1 billion EACH giving away free solar and wind installations for schools, libraries, and parks, get the ball moving faster...

  13. So it's ok to kill people in every state except Arizona? Ridiculous! If you aren't operating in Arizona then you shouldn't be operating anywhere.

  14. Wait until the Millennials find out the AI hype is overblown and they will have to work! [gaspy woke emote]

  15. Re:30% IS FUCKING ROBBERY on Fed Up With Apple's Policies, App Developers Form a 'Union' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised a liberal entity such as apple doesn't have a reverse tiered payout ratio. So the top 10% of revenue earners get say 60% of their app revenue, then its a sliding scale down to where you are in the store, so then the bottom earners get 95% of their revenue. This would seem to make a whole lot of sense as it there is a huge incentive to make a new app and start out.

  16. Re:idiots on Fed Up With Apple's Policies, App Developers Form a 'Union' (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are correct that most smartphones are Android, however you are gravely mistaken about mobile economies. Apple accounts for over 65% of all mobile revenue in the world, the reason is simple, Android users are poorer, and more likely to root their device and steal everything. I'm not saying this is good or bad, they are simply facts.

    https://techcrunch.com/2018/01...

  17. Great if no ID required on Ticketmaster Hopes To Speed Up Event Access By Scanning Your Face (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow this is great, so if I buy my ticket with cash, bitcoin, or a temporary credit or debit card, all I need is my face when I buy it, and all I need is my face when I claim it, right?

    Note the implication here is that now nothing is tied to the ticket except my face, not my name, address, real credit card, ID, or anything. This would actually be acceptable, unfortunately I'm guessing this is not the case...

  18. Perhaps he meant what he said, if you canâ(TM)t afford, or if you are poor. You will have priority if you are on social welfare...

  19. Study funded by Hotel Council on What Airbnb Did To New York City (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    "Wachsmuth’s research was funded in part by some avowed foes of home sharing—the New York City Hotel Trades Council—and was cosponsored by housing and tenant advocacy organizations."

  20. Re: This is the way it's supposed to work on Uber Challenges Study Suggesting Its Drivers Earn $3.37 Per Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I think Uberâ(TM)s business plan is to use people as a bridge to when Uber owns self driving cars, until then the whole ride âoesharingâ economy is total BS. At the current price level fares are simply not high enough to pay people well enough to support themselves and maintain their car.

    Just look at traditional cab companies before uber, they were no âoegolden ticketâ to mass riches, most were barely scraping by, that was the minimum fare to pay people and maintain the vehicles.

    No one driving for uber is making money when all costs are factored in. Either they are simply cashing out maintenance on their car or sucking down shareholder losses.

    After they eliminate the driver cost and maintenance cost of gas vehicles uber will transition to even lower fares displacing many markets. Vehicle ownership will change, drivers will be for the rich, mechanics will close in mass, dealers will fail, auto parts stores will merge.

  21. Re: Funny quote from the article on Meet the Tiny Startup That Sells IPhone and Android Zero Days To Governments (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They must not have anything too great since the US government repeatedly tries to force Apple to implement back doors.

  22. Re:finder / non store apps / root to be removed ne on Apple Still Aims To Allow iPad Apps To Run on Macs This Year (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Xcode has been a store app for quite some time.

  23. What about crashing it into the moon or mars? Or setting it at some kind of permanent orbit? That is a lot of metal that could be used for spare parts and such. Is it just too much fuel to do that?

  24. Re: The Bitcoin challenge on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes this is exactly the thing I say. I had many bitcoins once upon a time. I sold them for a few hundred. I think omg what if I had them still, well I wouldnâ(TM)t, for the exact reason I sold them then. I would have sold them at 100, 500, 1000, how on earth could I have not sold them at 10000? As the stat states 97% of them are being infinitely held by people who will never sell them! The rest are speculators...

  25. Re:"I want repaired processors for free" on OpenBSD's De Raadt Pans 'Incredibly Bad' Disclsoure of Intel CPU Bug (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    What if they replace 1 billion $1 dollar processors? Because if you manufactured a processor from 10 years ago with todays technology, it would probably be in the $1 range... And they wouldn't even have to replace them for free, just give me an option, I would gladly pay $50-$100 to have a drop in replacement of my sandy bridge that used 20% of the power and probably didn't even need a heatsink that is manufactured with the latest technology, but they won't, because they know I'm forced to upgrade to a latest offering, and buy a new cpu, motherboard, power supply, memory, etc They hardware isn't not even what annoys me, it's the reconfiguration and reinstallation of all of the software, for little to no speed improvement...