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  1. Depends on distance and size of the TV on Sharp Announces 8K Consumer TVs Now That We All Have 4K (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    At my normal viewing distance, some chart said I'd need to have an 80+ inch TV for 4k to make a difference over full HD. The announced 70" 8k TV might be useful as a monitor if it's bent in a 180 degree arc.

  2. Federal minimum, 2,2 million on Higher Minimum Wages Bring Automation and Job Losses, Study Suggests (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    According to the bureau of labor statistics,

    Together, these 2.2 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 2.7 percent of all hourly paid workers.

    So, around 1% would lose their jobs and the rest will have have a 15% rise in pay. Spending that should create some jobs, obv.

  3. I'm a big fan of Melattica

  4. Re:Uh Oh... on Tylenol May Kill Kindness (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    When a quarter of the population is taking it, worry about politics instead.

  5. Squirrels spread their attacks conveniently on Are Squirrels A Bigger Threat To Our Critical Infrastructure? (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Squirrels are just a cost, not a threat. They don't coordinate to attack all at once like a hacker group or hostile country would do. They'll never take out the whole country at once.

  6. Is "Fuck You" a question? on Interviews: Ask Martin Shkreli a Question · · Score: 2

    n/t

  7. False advertising regardless on Apple's Use Of 'Sapphire' in iPhone Camera Lens Questioned in New Tests (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they imply it has hardness 9 like sapphire does and it only has 6 that's false advertising. In practice that's the difference between being scratched by sand or not.

  8. The police know they're wearing cameras on Police Complaints Drop 93 Percent After Deploying Body Cameras (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ..but would 90+% of the population realize this before filing a complaint?

  9. Since the summary says nothing about NVMe, here's a Wikipedia link

  10. Re:Example Not a Problem on Amazon's Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Looking at amazon.com there doesn't seem to be anyone else calling their product "bed bands". There are thousands of different "sheet grippers" though, some looking similar to "bed bands".

    Tbh, this looks like someone just unable to compete. You can't call it counterfeit if it's just a similar product not using your brand name. Counterfeit = trademark violation.

  11. Re:Quantum holonomy on Scientists Crowdfund The Theory of Everything (cphpost.dk) · · Score: 1

    Added on october 8th, 2015 by user "Jespergrimstrup". Likely the reason for "This article may contain improper references to self-published sources".

  12. Probably junk on Scientists Crowdfund The Theory of Everything (cphpost.dk) · · Score: 1

    The researchers have few citations other than their own and apparently can't get funding from anyone who would know enough to judge whether their work has any merit.

  13. Weight? on New Metal Foam Armor Obliterates Bullets To Dust On Impact (discovery.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article is kinda pointless if it doesn't mention the weight of the armor, which is kinda the whole point.

  14. Re:Battery vs range? on Electric Bike Company Lets Users Create Replacement Parts with 3D Printers (3ders.org) · · Score: 1

    You're probably right. 25Ah seems reasonable while 25kWh would be far more than expected and weigh 300+ lbs.

  15. 60 miles in summary, 50 on website on Electric Bike Company Lets Users Create Replacement Parts with 3D Printers (3ders.org) · · Score: 1

    Just noticed there are differing numbers. Small enough to be irrelevant, I guess.

  16. Nice looking personalized stuff, not saving money on Electric Bike Company Lets Users Create Replacement Parts with 3D Printers (3ders.org) · · Score: 1

    Even the summary says "personalize and get the most from". Heck, if 3d-printing the stuff was cheaper than what the manufacturers do, wouldn't the manufacturer do that and sell a cheaper bike?

  17. This has a 25 kWh battery and 50 miles range (urban) with a 2kW motor. A Tesla Model S has an 85 kWh battery and 265 miles range. The Tesla gets over 3 miles per kWh while this gets 2.

    How does this work - I'd assume a low power motorcycle would draw far less energy than a car?

  18. 74m at that speed is just 3000km on How Astronomers Used the First Concorde Prototype To Chase a Total Eclipse (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The Sahara is wider than the US

  19. Re:You've made your point...now shut it down. on IoT Security Is So Bad, There's a Search Engine For Sleeping Kids (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    SHODAN is an artificial intelligence whose moral restraints were removed from her programming by a hacker in order for Edward Diego, station chief of Citadel Station, on which SHODAN was installed, to delete compromising files regarding illegal experiments and his corruption. She is a megalomaniac with a god complex and sees humans as little better than insects, something which she constantly reminds the player of.

    No moral restraints, megalomaniac?

  20. Re:String theory? on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, weakly interacting massive particles are a candidate for dark matter, some supersymmetric theories naturally include such particles and string theory requires supersymmetry.

    Not much of a link, but afaik about as much of a link as it's possible to get between string theory and experiment.

  21. "eerie" average faces... on Averaging Inanimate Objects Together Produces a Very Human Face · · Score: 1

    2spooky4me Usually average faces are considered attractive, not eerie. And of course they're just called eerie in the Slashdot summary, not the article.

  22. More interesting to see what the face looks like on Averaging Inanimate Objects Together Produces a Very Human Face · · Score: 2

    Essentially, this method should show what kind of traits look like faces to us rather than what real human faces look like. It's exploring properties of the psychovisual system of humans, not properties of face detection algorithms or statistical human faces.

  23. Roughly what I would have written on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Although I was unaware Java had those labeled jumps. Funny, given that I've been a Java coder the last 15 years.

    A Stackoverflow answer had a decent example of where they could be used; a straightforward nested loop that quits when it finds something. Especially with foreach that doesn't look too bad.

    search:
    for(List<String> names : groupNames) {
    for(String name : names) {
    if("joe".equalsIgnoreCase(name)) {
    break search:

    Horrible? Maybe if the average coder hasn't seen labeled breaks before...

  24. You misunderstand on Study Questions Scientific Dating Method Used For Lunar Impacts (wisc.edu) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's no such claim in the article or summary. The moon rocks don't have the full surroundings available to make sure it wasn't just existing zircons knocked about by an impact rather than formed in that impact. Evidence from the moon is being used to time the late heavy bombardment. So we're no longer sure the evidence we found on the moon is good enough to narrow down the timing as much as we thought.

  25. Re:Holy crap, under 4 pounds? on Dell Brings 4K InfinityEdge Display To XPS 15 Line, GeForce GPU, Under 4 Pounds (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Moar liek four thousand pounds, I think