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  1. But his parents did. Do you really think the kid found the hack? Or maybe he got a little assistance?

  2. Re:"Free will" confuses the issue on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Subjects were given a very quick preview of the color before they had to pick one. The experiment looks more like subliminal advertising; I suppose the subjects thought they were guessing when in fact they had been tricked into selecting the correct answer without realizing their choice had been biased (hence what they thought was a free will choice wasn't). Not exactly groundbreaking science.

  3. Re:Statistics will kill us all within a 1000 years on Global Catastrophe, Even Human Extinction, Isn't All That Unlikely (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1
    That was GP's point:

    when extrapolated to century-scale it comes to a 9.5 percent chance of human extinction within the next hundred years.

    The author doesn't understand statistics enough to extrapolate fud coming out of the Global Challenges Foundation.

  4. Re:Not difficult to cancel on The Future of Shopping: Trapping You in a Club You Didn't Know You Joined (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Just dispute the charge, the company won't fight it.

    And file a complaint against the bad company.

  5. Re:More taxes, spying, and problem-causing. B Clin on Bison To Become First National Mammal Of The US (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Why, what did he do?

    He changed the banking laws, bringing on the housing bubble. We all know how well that turned out.

  6. Re:Open source satellite software? on Design, Hardware, Software Errors Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Some is available. But keep in mind that "civilian" space programs are usually thinly disguised military projects, so much of what's really happening is not made public.

  7. Re:Bison bison bison on Bison To Become First National Mammal Of The US (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those are both the same species: Bison bison. The third qualifier (bison or athabascae) indicates a subspecies. The bill seems to include both subspecies, as it refers to the common name of "North American Bison".

  8. What if Intel is right? on Intel Cuts Atom Chips, Basically Giving Up On Smartphone and Tablet Market (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2
    FTFA:

    Intel doesn't view tablets as a standalone market any longer, with form factors quickly merging.

    Maybe Intel is right. The market for phones is saturated (Apple knows this) and low profit margin. Tablets are a passing fad. The future is somewhere else.

  9. Re:mythical anyway on Freshly Minted Unicorns Now a Rare Sighting In Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Since nobody else really answered the question, it refers to the "b", which some people apparently think looks like a little unicorn head. As in $1b "valuation". I suppose that's more politically correct than calling the boners, which is what the company founders get when they think their company is worth $1b.

  10. Re:VC Valuation != Worth on Freshly Minted Unicorns Now a Rare Sighting In Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Warren Buffet would disagree. But then, what does he know about investing?

  11. VC Valuation != Worth on Freshly Minted Unicorns Now a Rare Sighting In Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The number of startups worth at least $1 billion has doubled since 2015...At the same time, the number of such companies accepting "down rounds" or exits with lower valuations is now up

    Some venture capitalist making a long-shot bet on a start-up doesn't make the company "worth" anything. Valuation is a completely meaningless term in the absence of revenue and net profit to support it.

  12. Re:The even more obvious flaw is the 2-p system on Half Of Americans Think Presidential Nominating System 'Rigged' (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    A multi-party system is far more prone to secret deals and gridlock. As soon as a party needs to form a coalition to win, everyone who voted for them is disenfranchised by the deal that's cut.

  13. Re:growing women safety issues ... on India Makes It Compulsory For Phones To Have a 'Panic Button' (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    You just outdid GP in terms of the most-boring-pedantic-comment-of-the-year. But GP is correct, there is a growing awareness and concern; the issue itself has been a big problem for a long time.

  14. Re:Worse than the earnings decline in my eyes ... on Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade (go.com) · · Score: 1

    It does (usually) make the stock price go up because Earnings Per Share go up; but there's really no reason the price should go up since all the company did was move money from one investment to another.

  15. Re:Has he stopped amd thought about... on Your Media Business Will Not Be Saved (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Has he stopped and thought about the fact that his two sites (Verge and Vox) may just be shit sites?

    Exactly. Both are warmed over reincarnations of Daily Kos, which died because it sucked.

  16. Re:Node.js sucks on Node.js Version 6 Released With LTS (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 0

    printf? You're doing it wrong gramps. Get a real IDE and learn how to use the debugger.

  17. Node.js is a good tool on Node.js Version 6 Released With LTS (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There aren't any perfect tools for web development, but Node is probably the best we have. Far better than languages designed for server side like C/C++ or embedded programming like Java.

  18. Without Steve Jobs on Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade (go.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple is living on borrowed time. They need to come out with something disruptive, but all they can do is incremental upgrades.

  19. Campaign app? on Symantec: Cruz and Kasich Campaign Apps May Expose Sensitive Data (go.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone actually install those things? I can't think of any reason I would want one on my phone.

  20. Social security pays $2000/month

    Only if you paid a lot into it first, or if you are unable to work. The benefit is far less for people who can work but don't.

  21. Closer than who thinks? on From Uber To Eric Schmidt, Tech Is Closer To the US Government Than You'd Think (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is anyone surprised that tech companies are a big part of the military industrial complex?

  22. No more than Oprah giving Obama free publicity and a few million dollars eight years ago.

  23. She isn't a billionaire, and never was.

    You start a company. I'll give you a dollar in exchange for 0.00000001% equity in your company. Voila! The company is valued at $1b, and you are a billionaire. Not.

  24. Re:Litmus test that you're in a tech bubble on Report: Feds To Ban Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes For 2 Years (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Has it been revealed how much capital they actually raised? A $9b "valuation" probably means they raised a couple hundred million. No doubt a big chunk of that went straight into her own bank account.

    so secretive nobody even knows what their actual product is or whether it even works

    Their product was well known (quick blood tests that used a tiny amount of blood). But everyone knew from the start that it simply didn't work. A college freshman designing a new way of testing blood that the big labs couldn't figure out how to do? Really?

  25. It's an election year on Obama Forms Commission To Bolster US Cyber Security (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obama has what? Nine months left? This commission is nothing but a publicity stunt to try and make it look like his administration actually did something in the eight years they had.