keganunderwood | 7 years ago | on: Auto makers are figuring out how to monetize drivers’ data
From what I understand if you work at a gas station, you get a phone call and they tell you to change the price on the sign, right?
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keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines
ZTE apparently paid bonuses to 30+ people even though that were involved in some kind of violation. I bet Wells Fargo well also pay the CEO and the board very handsomely.
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery
>My Nexus 7 has a pop out cover, yet when it fell in a stream of running water, it never even shut down. Opening it revealed only two small drops of water.
Plus, battery contacts don't corrode from a short exposition to water (otherwise, so would the headphone plug).
I have a Nexus 7 as well and I have no idea what this pop out cover means. Can you please help me understand? Thanks
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: Simple blood tests may soon be able to deliver news about your cognitive health
Sorry for off topic but it is a difficult topic and goes beyond Wikipedia. I read on hacker news the complaints that many (even peer reviewed) studies are never reproduced because there is no incentive to reproduce/verify someone else's work. Also, I've read that the "sugar lobby" may have been behind previous studies linking eating fatty food with obesity. Given these facts, how do we create guidelines that allow original research?
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities
If one person owns all the land, they (or someone they authorize) can boot anyone unwelcome. This makes life much simpler because you can sidestep a lot of issues and focus on what this really is: a pilot project.
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: Intel to Develop Discrete GPUs, Hires AMD's Raja Koduri as Chief Architect
That's scary of that's what is required of a ceo. You would either need to be an oracle and predict where the industry will go or you'd need to make the industry go the direction you're taking the company.
keganunderwood | 8 years ago
In my opinion, you don't even need Marx for this. Even Jeff Bezos reportedly said "your margin is my opportunity". So if some product is expensive without being scarce, it is probably being "protected" by likely unethical means (like copyright?) or an oligopoly (unions?) that keeps prices artificially high.
Sorry if this missed the mark completely. Would love to learn.
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: An Open Letter to Intel
Why can't Linux use gpl v2 or later? Because Linus doesn't want to?
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: The Sticky, Untold Story of Cinnabon
This is interesting. I don't have a routine of what I eat for breakfast. I just improvise every morning (: do people usually eat the same thing every morning?
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: Why Do We Still Commute?
We could still work from home and have time where we meet our coworkers? I read somewhere that gitlab is trying out something like this. I'd love to learn wrist they conclude from this experience.
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC
Don't forget the English who recently promised Scotland so many things before the referendum and conveniently forgot them once they eeked out a narrow victory. Democracy isn't just about going out to vote. Easy to say but I feel like a hypocrite as well.
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20%
I'm OK being "instantly" terminated as long as you pay me for the duration of the notice period.
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: The Exercise Pill
Or sugar because apparently we don't need fructose in our diet at all.
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: Twitter employee deactivates Trump account
Sorry but nobody is for small government. Nobody is for a balanced budget. It is a farce.
We all have two piles: a. Things we want the government to do b. Things we don't
If you're for a balanced budget, you'll oppose current tax cut plans and demand government cut spending. The problem is of course where do we cut spending? Find me a dollar of "waste" and I'll show you someone who benefits from it. Can we please stop pretending?
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate
I was one of the people who went ape over uac. It wasn't that uac showed up too much. It is that the devices were not capable of it. I think I've been vindicated by the subsequent lawsuit which revealed the vista capable vs vista ready fiasco. I mean literally the screen would go blank and there'd be no indication for up to about three minutes when a uac came on an hp Compaq laptop...
Think about it this way. I've never seen anyone complain about full disk encryption on an iPhone 6 or later. Do the same on a Windows machine with 5400 rpm spinning rust...
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: When did the golden age of The Simpsons end?
I still have great respect for the Simpsons. I think future American TV history will have a special place for the Simpsons.
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: The Downside of Full Pay Transparency
I think the point is that most of us believe we are better than average at salary negotiation and that is not true. I won't hide my bias. I abhor wall street journal and articles like these don't do any favors. However, articles like these are horrible even if it showed up on my New York times. If the WSJ thinks salary disclosure is harmful, will they also advocate that public employee's salary should be confidential as well? What a bunch of bullocks.
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: How many URLs/Websites are blocked in India? Government gives different answers
I think someone mentioned that politicians in India enjoy wide freedoms due to generous libel laws as well.
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: Why do people keep giving Magic Leap money?
> The article suggests investors think of them as an intel, not an apple.
So like Intel in the sense that they are a chip fabrication/mass manufacturing company that happens to design chips? Or the new Intel that wants to "add more value" with things like face detection in Windows hello?
keganunderwood | 8 years ago | on: Date/Time Inputs Enabled on Firefox Nightly
No, push back against insane requirements. Why do we want to style input? Bill them for a custom solution if they want a custom solution.
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