...Hobby Lobby didn't tell employees they couldn't use contraceptives. Hobby Lobby said they wouldn't pay for pills that cause the abortion of an embryo.

I think Slashdot has officially become a pump and dump vehicle for BTC manipulators.

Yea, but an ISP isn't going to classify itself as a cyber security threat to itself and then throttle itself.

As I pointed out elsewhere, it is common knowledge to traditional music makers that a vibrating bridge makes the banjo sound. That is why there are instruments like this:

http://www.gardnersdulcimer.com/data/Images_Additional/dulcijo3.jpg

Designed just like this:

http://gibsondulcimers.com/In%20Stock/Baritone%20Dulcimer%2047609/Baritone%20Dulcimer%2047609%20Front.jpg

Except, big surprise, they put a tiny drum head only under the bridge so that the bridge could vibrate and make a more banjo-ey sound.

Does it need to be written down? It wasn't like the banjo was accidentally made... it was designed that way. That is why there are all sorts of hybrid instruments, like the Dulcijo (dulcimer banjo), where the whole body is designed to be just like a normal dulcimer except for the bridge, which sits atop a tiny drum head like a banjo does.

Bridge+vibrating support for the bridge + vibrating strings = banjo sound has been no big secret for a long time.

It is neat he did math behind it, but the summary makes claims about how mysterious it was, and that sounds pretty ridiculous.

I don't care what the woo-woo conspiracy back story is, what the hell were the results and what prestigious peer reviewed journals were they published in?

You start with the presumption that he suggested men are being chosen over women and that women are competing.

He was actually suggesting that there are not women to compete with in many positions, and that without offering a handicap to positions they are competing in, diversity is a pipe dream.

I.e. if 70% of engineering jobs have 10% female applicants and the rest have 50%, all other things being equal, the mix may be 78% male, 22% female, from a completely non discriminatory hiring practice.

Not the fault of the company (driven by profit motives) for doing anything discriminatory or nefarious.

So given that I post lots of stuff but do not read stuff in the feed, that means I am the sole originator of lots of contagions?

Kindof badass.

There is very little rote memorization in APCS.

Vs the chances you back up already corrupted files and don't notice until you've aged off the good versions.

Well, as has been pointed out before, just because life appears to stem from one thing, doesn't mean there wasn't a "Second Genesis" (or multitudes of them, even happening today). However, those other lifeforms have to compete for the same resources as better adapted ones (per natural selection). And then there are things that are "arguably life" that seem awfully close to life and awfully orthogonal to the existing tree, like viruses.

But besides that, what amazes me is that we are not only the most intelligent life on earth (for some values of intelligence), but as far as we can tell, the most intelligent life to have ever developed on earth.

This seems odd, given that there are so many other intelligent life (but nowhere near our level) like cetaceans, some birds (which are descended from Dinos, which had a longer time to evolve in interesting forms- not like early, ratlike mammals, to boot), other primates, some species of octopuses, and I am sure I can think of more examples.

Maybe the trick is having a big brain and a body plan that is flexible enough to do many things, starting with a high metabolism. I would think that a therapod with human intelligence levels would have an awfully hard time building spaceships.

And the brain consumes a lot of energy, which is why human muscles are relatively weak and energy efficient (also for endurance).

In that sense, it is my opinion that life is probably common, but intelligent life is rare, maybe even extraordinary, and probably not inevitable for a planet or system.

But they also want to play at very high resolutions, very high refresh rates (120hz-144hz), and are often recording as well...

Well, a supercomputer is definitely not anywhere near as power efficient for mining bitcoin as a graphics card, let alone profitable mining hardware like ASICS, so at a minimum, he blew much, much more in taxpayer funded power/hardware wear than he profited.

They did this because Google and VZN were butting heads over whose fault the slowdowns were in several areas around the country (my area, Northern VA, was one of them).

Google supplied pretty damning evidence that VZN had some faulty hardware or was throttling and causing the issues, but VZN was still trying to shift blame to Google. After enough complaints and people leaving FiOS, the problems magically went away.

Because of the fodder it would give Comcast and AT&T.

Commercials involving slow Netflix (which that and YT are the biggest uses of bandwidth for most people) and placing blame squarely on Verizon or a Verizon lookalike is pretty persuasive when people are alreadying frustrated by their service.