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  1. Re:Is anyone surprised by this? on Uber's 'Hell' Program Tracked and Targeted Lyft Drivers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The bizarre thing here is that most drivers work for *both* services.

  2. Re:Make America Great on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What exactly has he done wrong so far?

    Look at his cabinet and supreme court picks. Our shitty public education system became much, much worse. Harmless people are afraid to so much as enter a bathroom. Rampant racism. The fucking pipeline. Removing protections for animals, people with jobs, your privacy and mine, and enabling big business to fuck us even harder than before. Destroying even the limited progress we were making against climate escalation. Encouraging sex crimes and the nightmare that is coal. I'm curious in which universe 50% = 40%, because in mine it sure doesn't. Are you a sociopath, or just a troll?

  3. Re: My first? on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    DEC VK100 or PDP 11/04 depending on how you define "computer"

  4. Aye. One reason why I don't use voice interfaces. BK, evil as they are in so many ways, demonstrated only cleverness here.

  5. Re:Market failure on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Only executives and the rich have any real choice when buying tickets.

  6. Re:the 4 UA employees that wanted to fly on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This was United, so chances are good that the flight would have been delayed anyway.

  7. Re:Numbers on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That was an atypical experience; given the countries mentioned, it seems likely it was not a US airline. Those generally offer vouchers / coupons for $100-400 that are nearly impossible to realize any value from. I'd rather not spend the night sitting hungry in an airport.

  8. Re:Because it is profitable to do so on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    United has no shortage of airplanes, including in the 37-50 seat range. Dusting off one of those would have been the obvious choice.

  9. Re:Why do airlines overbook? on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I've yet to see those coupons offered at >$300, or without conditions that rendered them unredeemable.

  10. Re: Another way to avoid supplying proper offices on Staples Tries Co-Working Spaces To Court Millennials And Entrepreneurs (pilotonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, for work one tends to need a place that's open before 10am or noon, and of course spaces where one can speak are limited. Last library I worked out of had a "study room" that they reluctantly let me into, they wanted advance notice and had like a 2 hour time limit.

  11. Re: Another way to avoid supplying proper offices on Staples Tries Co-Working Spaces To Court Millennials And Entrepreneurs (pilotonline.com) · · Score: 1

    A restaurant would need to be open at 8am, have usable wifi and something I can order, and not be blasting dance music. That plus the fact that no restaurant would let one take up a booth all day

  12. I worked at a place with two-person offices with walls and ceilings. The walls were Herman-Miller panels and not super soundproof. The contractor next to mine actually was banging the HR secretary in there. Both were married to better people.

  13. Re: Another way to avoid supplying proper offices on Staples Tries Co-Working Spaces To Court Millennials And Entrepreneurs (pilotonline.com) · · Score: 1

    When I need something for a day, a lease like that really isn't feasible. I need somewhere I can drop in for a few bucks.

  14. Re: Another way to avoid supplying proper offices on Staples Tries Co-Working Spaces To Court Millennials And Entrepreneurs (pilotonline.com) · · Score: 1

    When the power is out, or your kid is home from school, then yes. Charbux finally offers useable wifi but the loud music prevents calls / meetings. Mind you I'd rather do without the fluff aimed at kids with stickers on their laptops they carried in a messenger bag while riding on their fixie.

  15. You first. Best guess is the OP meant "fabrication".

  16. Re: ATTN: Potential New Hires on Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination By US Labor Department (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Only a single guy who's never been married would assert that women avoid conflict

  17. Re: Trump 2020 on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Plans Fast-Track Repeal of Net Neutrality (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is true. Note how retailers got around the prohibition from charging extra for credit by raising prices and giving a discount for cash.

  18. Correlation != causation. Lets think this through. If a fully qualified black woman who is a perfect match for a given job will get paid 75% of a while male why the hell aren't all businesses hiring black woman and telling white men to pound sand?

    Easy, because as you touch on, there aren't enough of that demographic to go around in high-paying fields. Now, if you substitute "H1B" for "black woman", the answer is that it's exactly what they're doing.

    Not many woman who also want (or already have) families would willingly enter that type of work environment

    While my wives have never understood that I have a salaried job not a 40/week hourly job, I'm less convinced that the above assertion is unique to women. Men have families too.

    With regards to race playing a factor, the single parent household rate is higher with black women than white -- again -- signifying different career choices and motivations

    Careful there, you're into causality vs correlation territory there, and there are multiple, confounding variables in play.

  19. Yet in the dating and selective service arenas they act in exactly the opposite fashion.

  20. I too can provide cheap service by not complying with laws...

    So, just like taxis have done for decades?

  21. Re:People settled for the iMac. Old Pro was better on Apple Will Ship A Pro iMac Later This Year, It Won't Feature Touchscreen (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget, on some revisions, the two SATA ports in the optical bays too - I have an SSD plugged in there. Those aftermarket trays were interesting, but I always found them to be way more expensive than I could justify.

  22. Re:I'm shocked I tell ya, shocked! on Study Shows Laptop Batteries Often Don't Last As Long As They Say (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Think you meant "pare".

  23. Re: Why not? on Indiana's Inmates Could Soon Have Access To Tablets (abc57.com) · · Score: 1

    Look them up. They make even mainstream Android tablets look luxurious.

  24. Re:OK in Barstow, but ... on 'Dig Once' Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet To Much of the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder about the piecemeal approach, if only relatively short stretches are dug up at once, you end up with a set of disjoint fragments. Which -- let's face it -- will be different types of conduit over time. I would think stringing enough of a path together to be useful would be challenging.

  25. Listing Seattle as affordable is also ludicrous, it's fast becoming San Francisco Norte. I suspect Redkirkland was included in those calculations, given MS's compensation everyone there can afford a McMansion. The housing price inflation covers the whole region and hits hard those who don't work for MSFT.