Re: Change to video call

And if you or the other party are on a PC (Linux, Mac, Windows, anything with a browser) then you're SOL, because as far as I can tell there's no web client for Duo and no expectation to get one.

Ridiculous, how dare you plebeians libel our foremost technology elite. It's MIT, of course what they're doing is utterly novel and deserving of fawning media coverage.

(https://puretechltd.com/technology/purerobotics-pipeline-inspection-system/)

Blockchain is about a distributed ledger. There's no fucking point for education or employment bona fides to be recorded that way. MIT is the central authority for granting MIT diplomas. Employer X is the central authority for validating job history at Employer X. Each organization has its own private key, signs a digital diploma or job history object, and publishes the public key so those signatures can be validated.

But I ENJOY refinancing every 6 hours, you insensitive clod.

Keyboards obsoleted by the Kegelboard.

Typical, idiotic comment. Phone manufacturers don't care that a vast majority of consumers DO want those features, if those manufacturers can tacitly agree not to provide them on any flagship device then consumers have no choice, and by eliminating features that extend the life of devices all manufacturers benefit as consumers replace devices more often.

Increased sexual equality and decreasing importance of marriage in Western countries have strengthened actual monogamous relationships, at the expense of nominally monogamous marriages (avoid social stigma, requiring a breadwinner when one partner is excluded from the workforce, etc.) that lack emotional connection and lead to partners straying. This means there is less need for sperm competition to ensure heirs, therefore the selection pressure is on lower sperm counts and redirecting those resources elsewhere.

If you think TCP/IP's packet integrity is perfect protection, I hope you are not a professional developer of networked software.

That's still 20 years earlier than we'll have truly autonomous long distance taxis.

Amazon has a few good years for that phone brand, the nerds won't be pissed off until they release the Prime 4.

That argument makes no sense. This planet cannot sustain 7 billion people, especially as more and more try to mimic Western lifestyles. It doesn't matter a whit if the population isn't going to double again. It doesn't matter a whit if the population doesn't grow at all. Seven billion is too many. Four billion is too many if we want everyone to enjoy a Western standard of living.

This a Jon Katz story? Slashdot trying to relive its glory days? Glad to see Junis from Afghanistan was able to leverage his Commodore64 hacking into a Q&A job in Silicon Valley.

Sociopaths are running nearly everything. A Samsung CEO isn't content making tens of millions of dollars a year; he needs to make billions overnight, like the Zuckerbergs and Brins. So who cares that 90% of startups fold, and that 99.999% will never see the fluky success of the big IPOs. Who cares that there's no logic or skill behind those flukes; no revolutionary ideas, just being the lucky SOB with the right incremental idea at the right time with the right suckers. Who cares that startups are lean because they have to be; they can't afford highly specialized market analysis teams, a trained sales force, diverse domain experts, scientists and engineers with proven track records--everything that a larger company can do to actually understand the marketplace and build products that actually solve customers' needs. Let's waste all those specialized resource, flatten all the hierarchies, throw all the ingredients into a big blender and produce homogenized slop. No evil waterfall planning here!

Shifting goalposts. D-Wave's critics indeed spent years claiming that the machines were hoaxes and offered no quantum effects. Understandable, as extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and D-Wave was found wanting for some time. Other critics claimed the entire field of quantum computing was fraudulent--this was a hobby horse of cranks and conspiracy theorists, but unfortunately CS attracts a fair number of those. Google's validation of D-Wave's current technology shuts down both those camps of critics.

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