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  1. Re:It isn't just Google on Google Will Require Temp Workers Receive $15 Minimum Wage, Parental Leave (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a little confused by H1Bs making that little. I'm not allowed to bring in H1Bs at the company I work at for less than the AVERAGE rate for the job type. So the discussion has to start at the Average. (And to be honest, all of our H1Bs are probably equivalent to a Google SSWE-type position, they have have plenty of experience, most with Masters or PhDs, often from American schools at that.)

  2. This is a Federal Court district for the State, but like all Federal Court Judges, they are nominated by the President and the majority of the judges in the Court have been nominated by either Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. These are all jury trials and the jury pool (near Tyler, Marshall, and Texarkana) is what's conservative. That isn't changing.

  3. Re:What's the deal with the Eastern District of Te on Apple To Close Retail Stores In the Patent Troll-Favored Eastern District of Texas (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3

    They aren't. Federal Court Judges are paid strict salaries that are set by law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. Re:Qui-Gon Jinn turns and says: on Turns Out Mitochondria Can Come From Fathers Too (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    This particular thing isn't NEARLY as extraordinary as it seems as the discovery is just related to people with doubled organelles, a rather rare condition. (That in many circumstances leads to early death and infertility.)

  5. Re:Qui-Gon Jinn turns and says: on Turns Out Mitochondria Can Come From Fathers Too (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody ever knows for sure. Recombination is a thing with all of the DNA except for Y-DNA and mt-DNA. Even in this circumstance they didn't find mt-DNA recombination. (Finding that would make this 10000000000x bigger discovery.)

  6. Genesis is not describing all people on Earth. It's about the history of the Israelites and the story of how they came to be. If you're really bothered by the name Mitochondrial Eve, you can easily just go with mt-MRCA instead. It's more common in genetics articles anyways.

  7. This is totally not evidence of a need to re-write mtDNA genetics. It is going to still only matter for the rare people with heteroplasmy. It's of limited scope.

  8. Re:Lol on 20 Top Lawyers Were Beaten By Legal AI (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    Software like this is likely just a tool to be used BY Lawyers to make boring, difficult tasks like this easier.

  9. Moving to ANY mail server (with IMAP) with your own domain would be the way to go. This guy's script works just fine to the transfer: http://oskarhane.com/transfer-... I personally use a setup that's fairly similar to mailcow: https://github.com/mailcow/mai...

  10. Consider the possibility that Bloomberg is not at all aware that the story is fake, but that doesn't preclude the idea that the story is still fake.

  11. Re:It's the real-estate agents on As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    East Cut is the huge renaming project for the area. There's almost no possible way locals wouldn't know what the fuck is up unless they just avoid the freaking signs everywhere. Google didn't invent this shit, the City and local Business Owners did. It even has a website: https://theeastcut.org/

  12. From what I've seen, Toronto's housing prices aren't actually much better than SF. Average home price is like $1m. Average home price in SF is only $1.35m. The Bay as a whole is more in line with other urban places at $825k NYC is $680k, but that's the entire city. Manhattan is $1.35m, but Brooklyn is only $788k (and all the tech people I know live here.) Seattle is $765k. But for sure some of the smaller tech centers have better prices, though many of those have sky rocketed in the last 10 years. Even Oakland County, Michigan has gone up a lot.

  13. Re: Most important Ubuntu desktop metrics on Ubuntu Makes Public Desktop Metrics (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    As an aside, a LOT of Engineering software does in fact run on Linux though, some of it exclusively. CAEPIPE a competitor to Caesar does run on Linux. There has also been a lot of pressure on CADWorx to port to Linux as I know some orgs would like to move their engineers to A LInux platform. I for one am not suggesting that it needs to happen either. In my world, people use all three major OS together without any issues.

  14. Re:Edge is good browser on Edge Beats Chrome in Battery Test, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Edge still misrenders are more pages than Chrome. It's also sometimes not all the way compatible with HTML5 pages because of it's different JavaScript core. (Safari and Firefox both suffer from the same issues.)

  15. Re:Millions of Android devices ... on Edge Beats Chrome in Battery Test, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They use the Blink engine from Chromium on Android and WKWebView on iOS. This is so that their web browser provides 100% compatibility to the native platform.

  16. Re:Whats Stoping all the others? on Android Wear Is Getting Killed, and It's All Qualcomm's Fault (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Mediatek was at least supposedly making a chip. Of course that was 2015. :D

  17. Samsung and Apple own the market. on Android Wear Is Getting Killed, and It's All Qualcomm's Fault (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Samsung and Apple are selling far more watches than Android Wear. Both make the chips in their watches. Samsung is the other big ARM player in the Phone Market, but in this case their watch chip isn't designed to support Android Wear, so of course nobody is using it. Mediatek was also supposedly working on releasing a chip, but it never panned out (probably because the Android Wear market never happened.)

  18. Re:Nightmare before Christmas on American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take Off The Holidays (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And in fact my friend over at AA claims it was some issue with the human input aspects that cause the issue rather than a simple code update bug.

  19. In a horizontally scaled application, it can be important to how responsive the horizontal scaling is. A big enough issue that we're now using resumed images instead of actually booting them.

  20. Re:IQ measures your ability to test for IQ on League of Legends Rank Predicts IQ, Study Finds (plos.org) · · Score: 1

    Generally the areas they do not test are areas that are either hard to test or have a low repeat-ability. Again like the GPP said, it's because we can predict that people with high IQs will generally have a high aptitude for most of those areas as well.

  21. Re:Overly specific on Facebook Exec: 'Just Not True' That We Listen To Your Phone's Mic (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't really speak Spanish, and outside of visiting the local taco truck, I don't ever say any word in Spanish, BUT I can tell you, if I call ahead to order some tacos before I drive over there ... FB now shows Spanish ads. And it's only Facebook, no other application does it. The way that they deny it SURE makes me suspect something is up there.

  22. The only medications that cause ACTUAL weight gain (not increased appetite) are certain psychological ones. They however affect LBM rather than FM and only 5-10 pounds. Thyroid issues do not cause you to get 100 pounds. Corticosteroids generally cause a degree of weight loss as your body gets rid of some water due to the inflammation. In general people with autoimmune diseases lose weight rapidly, to the point in some cases of dying of complications of malnutrition rather than the autoimmune disease itself. There is not a magical disease that causes excess weight gain. The closest you'd get to it is a tumor.

  23. While Body Fat and Muscle carry different risks when overweight, most of the heart related stuff is independent of the tissue type, so actually being 28 BMI is still elevated risks. Being tall is also an elevated risk.

  24. Re:Linux. on Windows 10 Will Cut Off Devices With Older CPUs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of the machines got Android 4.x ported to them. For those machines, it might actually be the best option.