Non-IT News Thread

[mlnews]

Sometimes it was Congress looking a bit foolish while questioning Zuckerberg.

[mlnews]

Irish judge requests that the EU court determine if Facebook can routinely ship user data to the US.

[mlnews]

End of an era, as AmEx, Mastercard, and Discover end the need for signatures, with Visa following right behind, later this month.

[mlnews]

High definition vinyl records are coming. Better sound, longer lasting.

[momurda]

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

High definition vinyl records are coming. Better sound, longer lasting.

Still worse than cd

[scottalanmiller]

None of it is as good as lossless audio files. Who works with physical media today!

[momurda]

wav(cd) is lossless.

[scottalanmiller]

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

wav(cd) is lossless.

That's a thing? Still annoying to have a media.

[mlnews]

Goldman Sachs admits that curing patients is not a sustainable business model.

[mlnews]

Russian woman embalmed alive during a surgery.

[mlnews]

Investor group calls for Zuckerberg to resign or be removed from at least one of his roles stating that he "doesn't understand how a large, global, and publicly-held company is run".

[coliver]

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Goldman Sachs admits that curing patients is not a sustainable business model.

Who is this news to?

[scottalanmiller]

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Goldman Sachs admits that curing patients is not a sustainable business model.

Who is this news to?

The news is that they announced it as a major investor.

[mlnews]

NASA mulling deep(er) space manned mission sooner than expected.

[mlnews]

Facebook mobile device microphone eavesdropping is, believed at least, a myth, according to The Verge.

[scottalanmiller]

DW just said that the US has launched a strike on syria.

[JaredBusch]

Interesting review of Isle of Dogs

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-isle-of-dogs-gets-right-about-japan

[scottalanmiller]

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

Interesting review of Isle of Dogs

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-isle-of-dogs-gets-right-about-japan

That looks really interesting in trailers.

[JaredBusch]

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

Interesting review of Isle of Dogs

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-isle-of-dogs-gets-right-about-japan

That looks really interesting in trailers.

And reading that review from a native Japanese speaker makes it even better IMO.

[scottalanmiller]

CNBC warns of overlooking Gen X leaders in organizations who are often the more driven and more technological compared to the generations fore or aft.