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Re:MoviePass database exposes 161M records on Thursday August 22, 2019 @04:42PM (#20772176)
We need a GDPR equivalent in the US. That's the only way this will change.
Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:12AM (#17362820)
I'm way too invested in Chrome Sync to change browsers at this point.
Re:The War on Waze on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:53AM (#16929806)
Until you find something else to be up-in-arms about.
The silicon itself gets effectively no wear and the board is actually better because it doesn't get heat-cycled as much.

The fans are in a bit worse shape, but those tend to be easily replaceable if they fail.

That's a nice word-salad you got there.
One of the biggest flaws of democracies is that they strongly incentivize policy makers to follow short-term gains over long-term goals.
Re:BMW's Apple CarPlay annual fee is next-level gouging on Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:29PM (#16199507)
No Honda or Toyota is going to drive anywhere near as well as the equivalent BMW. Even considering modern BMWs.

Pay to play.

Re:Automakers: Don't Ask Customers What They Want on Monday December 11, 2017 @09:18PM (#15902551)
KIA/Hyundai have asked customers what they want for a couple years now and their cars are some of the best in their respective segments.
Re:Apple Buys Shazam to Boost Apple Music on Monday December 11, 2017 @07:14PM (#15902011)
Personally, the only person I know that uses Apple music instead of Spotify or GPM works at Apple.
I'm guessing that pay scale would cover base salary, but not necessarily equity/bonuses?
I'd laugh in the face of anyone who asked me to work more than 40 hours for more than 2 weeks a quarter.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:40AM (#15719930)
Still to see if it can do it over and over again like the sports cars it's billed to compete against.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:39AM (#15719921)
You don't use AI for that, you use a bunch of sensors and adaptive power or braking vectoring. Calling some heuristics "AI" is a massive stretch.
Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance on Friday September 29, 2017 @08:16PM (#15370352)
Is there a plugin for it to use Chrome sync? I'm way too invested in Chrome sync to lose it at this point.
Re:Street View of 80s NYC on Monday September 25, 2017 @07:00PM (#15334880)
New York has really come a long way.
Re:KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka on Monday August 28, 2017 @08:45PM (#15121340)
Fun fact: KSQL is the code of the airport closest to Oracle HQ (San Carlos airport).
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Re:Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded? on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @05:30PM (#14649644)
Because it's an important tool for Machine Learning, which makes money from that (of which there's plenty going around right now) flow into it.
That'd go against Trump's business interests though. So I think it's highly unlikely.
Re:SoftBank Takes $4B Stake in Nvidia on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:03PM (#14414848)
Except most of your examples don't make "the same thing" as the companies you're comparing to.

For the ones that do, like nVidia or Google. The technologies are orders of magnitude more complex now than when they took over their competitors.

Re:CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @09:03PM (#14252213)
That's where the real money is.
Re:Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat on Thursday April 13, 2017 @06:01PM (#14111244)
That's like comparing the stability and speed of a Chevy Cobalt and a Kia Rio.
Those very deep pipelines are the reason NetBurst was very good at some tasks but not so great for general use. They made branching mispredictions be really expensive as a pipeline flush would result in a large number (~20 IIRC) cycles to be "wasted".
Re:Apple Said to Work on Mac Chip That Would Lessen Intel Role on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:00PM (#13545755)
Apple does not have an x86 license.
Re:Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:13PM (#13476691)
The only worthwhile "Smart" TV feature is having Google cast built-in.
That'd be a legal hot-mess for Facebook.
Re:Maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure on Thursday December 01, 2016 @05:09PM (#13084032)
Agreed. A city proper is definitely not an isolated social and economic "unit"; therefore limiting comparisons to it will not give you the information you really want to make decisions.
Re:Oh right, about those LEDs on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @11:36AM (#13072117)
The company the author refers to in the article is not Chinese.
Re:GPUs for Google Cloud Platform on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @05:19PM (#12962833)
I wonder what kinds of cores will be available and whether that will be visible. Optimizing your code for a particular GPU architecture can have massive performance differences, much more so than for GPUs.
Re:Why Twitter Must Be Saved on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @05:24PM (#12904503)
Twitter's not going to go under. It just won't grow to FB/GOOG/AMZN/MSFT size (at least not under their current strategy), and that's not necessarily a bad thing.

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