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Re:Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry on Friday April 05, 2019 @01:00PM (#19584577)
Because you can’t look at these beliefs in a vacuum. Someone who’s against LGBTQ rights isn’t against it for the hell of it, they have some underlying reason such as religious ideology. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with religion, but when you believe that a man and a man together is unnatural and a sin against nature, then I have to wonder what other backwards regressive medieval beliefs they hold as well.
Re:Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:14AM (#19580691)
Diversity is great! Putting someone who advocates for not using AI on an AI ethics board is diversity. Putting someone who advocates for more/less/self regulation is diversity.

Putting someone hostile towards the LGBTQ community and LGBTQ rights? That’s not diversity. That has no place in 2019.

Does this really work?
Re:Sci-Hub and Alexandra Basic Information on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @02:37AM (#19561266)
Haha yeah. I’m also a researcher at a big uni and I do have legit access to every relevant journal for me. If I need a new paper I do a google scholar search first, and if it doesn’t say “pdf” but instead wants me to jump through hoops to log in and download then I just hit my bookmarklet to get it from scihub.
Re:Warp – Mobile VPN on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:56AM (#19551422)
Anyone know how roughly how quick this is rolling out? Signed up last night and am #200kish.
Re:What Finally Killed AirPower on Saturday March 30, 2019 @03:45AM (#19528342)
The difference is with a sock I need to consciously put it in and take it out. Getting a text message with the phone at an angle so I can read it doesn’t matter to me because I still need to pick it up and carefully line it back down to respond.

Yes it takes less than a second but you know what’s even more effortless? A wireless charging mat that I can just set my phone onto.

Not sure what’s so hard to understand about this.

Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card on Monday March 25, 2019 @04:11PM (#19486321)
I get Amazon Prime Video in Holland.
Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card on Monday March 25, 2019 @01:44PM (#19484716)
Didn’t say. The card number will be unique to each device though.
Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card on Monday March 25, 2019 @01:42PM (#19484690)
In the stream they seem to suggest that it’s “private” in the sense of

1. Apple doesn’t get any information (it’s all done on-device) 2. The data GS gets (and probably needs to keep, for auditing/paper trail) they “will never sell.” This probably means they have some kind of special agreement?

Not sure what MasterCard would get though.

Re:The New iPad Mini on Saturday March 23, 2019 @04:48AM (#19469643)
I think it’s more like there are three tiers:

There is the budget tier with the 2018 regular “iPad.” It uses old hardware but is otherwise relatively cheap and capable.

Next step higher are the iPad Air and iPad Mini. They use current generation hardware and support all the same things the regular iPad does. Pick the Mini for something smaller, or the Air for a regular sized iPad. Bonus with the Air is that it can be used with a Smart Keyboard, so if you wanted an iPad Pro + Smart Keyboard combo before but couldn’t justify the $1000+ price tag then now’s your chance to get in with something a bit cheaper.

At the top end there is the iPad Pro in two sizes. They don’t have TouchID, have FaceID, and support Pencil 2 and USB-C. The non-Pros all support Pencil 1 and Lightning.