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  1. Re:Well that's wrong on Lyft Says Robots Will Drive Most Of Its Cars in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    You're ascribing human limits (finite field of view, need to shift attention) to the machine that may well have a 360 degree field of view and faster reaction time.

  2. Re:Complete nonsense on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't long distance high way driving an easier problem to solve than short range taxi service? https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

  3. Re:Patch Hillary on iOS 10, Released Today, Is Causing Issues For Some Users (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    It is pretty much best case scenario if Hillary beats Trump and then has to abdicate due to health.

  4. Re: Shocking! on Sugar Industry Bought Off Scientists, Skewed Dietary Guidelines For Decades (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some of the prominent creationists here are from Australia. There are also some prominent creationists in Turkey that have adapted fundamentalist Christian creationism for Islam. The anti-vaxx movement in Australia has also been bad in the past, not sure about now. Culturally perhaps the US and Australia tolerant dissent more than some others? Maybe there's a sociology thesis paper in there somewhere...

  5. It is funny... I used to drink diet pop and a light yogurt in my packed lunch, but frequently needed a snack in the afternoon. I switched to regular pop and regular yogurt and was fine and therefor ate less. Eventually then I cut the pop out, but when I do have one we've gone to the sugar cane varieties and the fullness they inspire also curbs snacking.

  6. I get the impression sometimes that those accountants are asking for more credits than you're owed in return for shouldering the risk if you get an audit.

  7. Re:purchase online and go to store for groceries? on Amazon Will Open 100 Retail Stores (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah there's an hour window, and they text you with when they'll be there and everything, so it isn't too bad. I think we just live too close to the grocery store for it to be worthwhile for us. We've got a grocer and a farmer's market both a half mile away so if I need something right away I just go get it, and if I don't need it right away it isn't worth the premium.

  8. Re:purchase online and go to store for groceries? on Amazon Will Open 100 Retail Stores (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    They do groceries now with AmazonNow in some markets... we tried it out but the prices for anything perishable are (justifiably, I suppose) extremely high, so we never remember to check it for deals on non-perishable stuff we might appreciate getting on short notice. You also have to be present when the delivery comes.

  9. Re:Goodbye Tax Free Amazon on Amazon Will Open 100 Retail Stores (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes if you have a 'fulfilled by Amazon' purchase it doesn't get taxed, because the Mom & Pop vendor doesn't have a state presence but keeps their inventory at Amazon's warehouse somewhere.

  10. Re:Embrace, extend, extinguish? on Amazon Will Open 100 Retail Stores (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they see it as marketing for their branded hardware... the books, movies, and video games they started with are the same wherever you buy them. Without holding a Kindle some people will be less likely to buy one.

  11. Re:Biggest effect will be on nearby Best Buys on Amazon Will Open 100 Retail Stores (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Good to know! They didn't used to do it this way but I stopped dropping by there back when they wouldn't match so I'd no idea. The last thing we got there was a "buy online, pick up in store" deal which was surprisingly terrible: they couldn't find the item, and then found the last one out on the rack, having been opened and returned. So they discounted it, but I was still there far longer than I'd have expected.

  12. Re:Hold their value... on Microsoft To Launch At Least One Surface All-In-One PC Next Month (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was used with an embedded system? We have some old crappy barcode scanners and they cost just as much as nice new ones because if you haven't upgraded to the new ones it is because you can't be bothered with the expense of updating your back end and will pay the same price for the old hardware.

  13. Why would they know we're here? If they did know we're here, what would motivate them to visit?

  14. Kinship predates humanity, not just history. And packs of wolves or troops of monkeys still conflict with one another.

  15. And most people interact with CSVs with Excel, botch it all up, and paste it into their Word document for their report.

  16. There's not really anything in biology that can be measured with enough accuracy to have 20 significant digits... the 'rounding errors' there are smaller than the inherent noise in the data.

  17. Re:It was user error, not a spreadsheet problem .. on 20% of Scientific Papers On Genes Contain Conversion Errors Caused By Excel, Says Report (winbeta.org) · · Score: 1

    You aren't going to send a publisher your raw data in its original format... Excel is a super common way to transmit a subset of data from a database. There are new standards coming out next year for file formats for some sorts of studies. It should alleviate the issue some.

  18. Excel is in the standard system image provided by IT, and laboratory software is, as a rule, pretty terrible and can have annoying licenses. I'd much rather use Excel than the software that comes with the equipment. If we do anything often enough for it to be worthwhile, we're lucky enough to have software developers that will code it up in C#, but for piddly stuff Excel is more flexible and easier to use than dealing with procuring, licensing, and training everyone on anything else.

  19. Re:Games for multiple consoles but not PC on Sony To Debut Two New PlayStation 4 Consoles Next Month, Says WSJ (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I meant more in terms of games that are available only on a single platform ie Xbox One or Playstation 4, but not both. Everyone else is already writing their games for multiple performance scenarios.

  20. Re:The console advantage. on Sony To Debut Two New PlayStation 4 Consoles Next Month, Says WSJ (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Are console exclusives written anymore without ownership or heavy incentivization from the console manufacturers? If the software writers are going to go cross platform anyway, it probably isn't a great deal more effort to code in some PC-style performance settings hardcoded to the different console revisions. Certainly it is easy to do a few performance settings for different Xboxes versus Xbox and Playstation both, and yet most do the latter anyway. Console peripherals like controllers can add up to a lot, so that they'll be portable across version updates would make it more attractive to update consoles, as well.

  21. Banning passing the costs? on Massachusetts Will Tax Ride-Sharing Companies To Subsidize Taxis (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do they ban the passing of the costs to drivers or passengers? Or is the point just to prevent it being a line item like the taxes and fees on a phone bill so that voters don't get mad about seeing it?

  22. Ahead of the curve? on Microsoft Wants To Pay You To Use Its Windows 10 Browser Edge (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So is this how the economy will work when robots take all the jobs? Because otherwise I don't see how this makes sense.

  23. Re:Next up for debunking on Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets (time.com) · · Score: 2

    I had similar thoughts watching the primary... "is this a false flag operation? or does he just not care?"

    I don't think he cares either way if he wins or loses: there'll be a ghost written book either way that'll sell millions of copies. When Sarah Palin stepped down from office to go make a bunch of money with books and TV shows, it certainly made financial sense.

  24. Re:Next up for debunking on Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha! Thanks for the laugh... no mod points today.

  25. Furthermore, if you prove that chemical A is dangerous, but the company wants to use it, they could change it very slightly and then now it is chemical B. Chemical B may be biologically equivalent in the manner that A was dangerous, but it isn't A anymore, so unless they wrote the ban broadly then now we are just getting cancer from B instead. If they did write the ban broadly, perhaps now chemical C is illegal but was actually benign. It isn't an easy solution.