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  1. Won't they need to provide some information to shareholders?

  2. I seem to say this a lot but Planet Money had an interesting overview of open offices

  3. Re:Open office planform is a bad idea on Panasonic Designed Human Blinders To Block Out Open-Plan Office Distraction (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    Its still the darling of design, but its been known to be fucking terrible to anyone who does actual work.

  4. Re:We asked and they ignored our request on 'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used By Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think a government should be able to tell people what they're allowed to do internally on their own computers and their own storage. If you don't like that people remember all the information that you constantly go out of your way to give them, then stop sending it! It's the sender's responsibility, not the receiver's.

    People aren't giving them information. If you go to a website, you don't expect them to also give Facebook, Google, Twitter, Medium and 973 advertising networks access to that as well. The purpose DNT is really about these third parties tracking you around the web.

  5. Re:He found an Acorn on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it has significant implications for e-commerce.

  6. Re:He found an Acorn on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    You should listen to the Planet Money episode 857 - The Postal Illuminati, the idea of the treaty was based on the idea that message flow would be roughly balanced. The part that isn't a good look is that postal flow has been imbalanced for a very long time, but until recently it was benefiting the USA.

  7. Re:There goes Aliexpress... on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    Planet Money covered this topic a little while ago, while the imbalance has been tipped against the USA lately for a very long time USA was taking advantage of the postal treaty and was shipping far more out than it was receiving.

  8. Why would the kubernetes package manager make a device for email...

  9. The DNT kinda got fucked over by Microsoft because they released MSIE with it... enabled by default, which defeated the purpose of an opt-in mechanic.

    They did, but no one was ever going to honour it without being forced to which is why we need legislation.

  10. So you lose your right to protest as soon as you got paid to work on the project?

    Yes actually, you're complicit

    (and of course, not all of those complaining actually worked on the project, but that's another point you blissfully ignore via intellectual dishonesty)

    Oh I see you're just a cog then so its fine? Man up. Really stand by your principles and don't work for sleazy companies.

    What a boot licker you are. So quick to find reasons to ignore the messenger rather than discuss the message.

    More like I have the balls not to work on these projects, or for the companies creating them.

  11. The point is they shouldn't have worked on it in the first place. Amazon has no other use for facial recognition than to sell it and all the potential customers would use it for sleazy privacy invasions.

    These people want to pretend they're standing up for an ideal, but only after they finish taking a shit on it, and are running around shouting without even wiping their ass first.

  12. Re:What else... on Amazon Worker Pushes Bezos To Stop Selling Facial Recognition Tech To Police (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    They also partner with retailers - https://www.fool.com/investing...

  13. open-source rules on MongoDB Switches Up Its Open-Source License (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Would these be the imaginary rules that MongoDB investors thought up when they realized their company wasn't a unicorn? I don't see how AGPL would prohibit a cloud provider from spinning up hosted instances of a server.

  14. What else... on Amazon Worker Pushes Bezos To Stop Selling Facial Recognition Tech To Police (thehill.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    is Amazon going to use it for now that they've built it? Sell it to a sleazy retailer who wants to track & identify people entering their stores? This is a discussion that the employees working on it should have had beforehand, are they going to return their salaries or is Amazon the only party who needs to operate altruistically?

  15. The problem is that developers at many companies are abusing the APIs. Quite frankly they should have continued with the change, the number of browser users who actually use the apps & games are in the minority compared to the number of browser users who are constantly bombarded with trash.

  16. In Fairness.... on 99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality, Independent Analysis Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Form letters have long been a popular method for political causes. Though I personally believe there were a significant number of fake submissions too.

  17. Excluding Chromebooks on It Was Flat Sales That Helped Microsoft Become America's #5 PC Maker (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems odd, they perform an identical role to Windows PCs or Mac PCs

  18. Re:There are some great ones and mostly not so gre on Movie Commentary Tracks Are Back (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're a fan of Futurama you should really listen to their commentary

  19. Re: DuckDuckGo is liberal biased on Pro-Privacy Search Engine DuckDuckGo Hits 30 Million Daily Searches, Up 50% In a Year (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    You mean the economy he inherited from the previous government and is proceeding to ruin?

  20. Just Imagine... on Does Amazon Owe Wikipedia For Taking Advantage of The Free Labor of Their Volunteers? (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What they must owe the Linux foundation following this hare brained logic.

  21. Re:Come on - that is not Ninja (or parkour) on Boston Dynamics' Robot Went From a Drunk Baby To a Nimble Ninja in a Matter of Years (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The old video also seems quite a bit more impressive where it walks over rough terrain stabilizing itself, oth we don't know from this video whether that is the only log the robot can jump over and the only stairs it can mount.

  22. Re:Miners need to be seized on The Cryptocurrency Industry is 'On the Brink of an Implosion', Research Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Energy Star already do this?

  23. App... on Plex for Linux Now Available as a Snap (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember when we had the time to type out the full word? Pity we're all so busy now....

  24. From the sound of it the scale here is pretty large, its not hard to imagine these aggregate into a few suppliers which sold in volume enough for independents to assume it was legitimate.

  25. I was wondering if they might actually be the source of parts for independent repair shops.