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  1. Lucky you can handle this in a pedagocical manner on Kids Praised for Being Smart are More Likely to Cheat (ucsd.edu) · · Score: 2

    Last week, my son approached me with a conclusive proof that P=NP. At first I thought it couldn't hurt to give him a little praise for that, but I luckily managed to get a hold of myself and instead told the little moron to fuck off. As a father you have to be an unpleasable demigod to your kids, an existential monument they can never even dream of catching up to, although they are obliged to try relentlessly, and the responsible parent I am I have no problem to embrace this role to its fullest. ...

    that and I don't like show offs.

  2. India bankrupted by rogue dolphins on Google's New Payment App For India Transfers Money Via Ultrasound (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    So long, and thanks for all the cash!

  3. I Downloaded an App. on I Downloaded an App. Suddenly, I was a Rescue Dispatcher. (houstonchronicle.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Suddenly, I was a vietnamese callgirl.

  4. I searched realDonaldTrump for tornado jokes. on What's Causing The Hurricanes? (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    But I couldn't find any. Is he out of shape?

  5. ...all the people who claimed they had a gaydar were right?

  6. Just because films don't have to be 100% realistic doesn't mean you get away with every type of irrealism, especially if it is unexpected. Making a fantasy movie where say a dragon appears in New York is ok, but you still expect everything else (cars, cellphones, building physics, people etc.) to behave as expected, unless you hint the viewer to expect otherwise. And if you hide your political ideals in the part of the movie that is considered "normal" by the viewer then pointing to the genre of your movie becomes a fig leaf argument.

    And showing a "happier" version of reality can actually do harm if at the same time you aggressively lobby for this reality in actual reality and use dubious methods to achieve it.

  7. You know you've reached the summit on Google Takes Blame For Internet Disruption Across Japan (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    if you can claim responsibility for everything bad that happens on the net and everyone believes you immediately.

  8. Re:They're surprisingly well organized on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the notion that "not all muslims/christians/jews are evil" usually results in the left to do nothing at all or only something against the most criminal ones. This is pretty much the spear counterpart to the rightwing variant where the notion that some people of a group are evil will lead to the condemnation of the whole group.
    Of course, the leftwing version of this fallacy is seen as more sympathetic as the consequences are born by their own demographic.

  9. By clicking this article, you admitted that you care about clinical depression which means that you are clinically depressed. Off with you to google's blues offender list!

  10. The general lack of resistance on Microsoft Will Never Again Sneakily Force Windows Downloads on Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    has convinced them to do it in the full open.

  11. If a single person can divide a country with one or two statement, there is a good chance the country was divided to begin with.

  12. Does the quality of the movie on Biologists Use Gene Editing To Store Movies In DNA (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    correlate with the deadliness of the virus? If yes, we should quarantine Transfomers 5 at once.

  13. What if reality is biased? on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Make the AI ignore it or feed it a subset that gives it the 'right' experience?

  14. What I find funny on Google May Face Another Record EU Fine, This Time Over Android (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    is how Google never gets rapped over for their privacy violations and secret data farming. Only through cartel laws.

    Feels like Al Capone getting canned for tax evasion.

  15. I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream on Artificial Intelligence Can Now Predict Suicide With Remarkable Accuracy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    About time we started with the implementation.

  16. Not made that experience on If Humble People Make the Best Leaders, Why Do We Fall for Charismatic Narcissists? (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    This may be true in regard to the U. S. presidental election, but at least in my country (germany) pretty much every vote from the last years was some kind of humility/cosmopolitarism contest. Not quite south east asian level but jovialism and/or arrogance have become pretty much a death flag.

  17. Rotten Tomatoes Blames Hollywood Producer For Convincing People Not To See His Movie

  18. Now for the interpretation on Misophonia: Scientists Crack Why Eating Sounds Can Make People Angry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Now all we have to do is to interpret this discovery. I think there are two socially sensible options you can choose from:

    1) Manners are a form of insanity. If you don't like people smacking during lunch it's your own fault.

    2) Manners are a form of insanity. If you smack while eating you are hurting mentally ill people and should be ashamed of yourself.

    Happy voting!

  19. Re:Not sure what to think.... on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Manning is not a poor little patient in a remote asylum where he can be shielded from reality and reality can shielded from him. He is a highly public figure, a symbol for a lot of people who are dissatisfied with their self-image and therefore want to force their vision of themselves on the world. If we continue to repeat their vision for them, although we have good reasons to believe that they don't reflect reality, just out of a misplaced politeness, then this vision becomes reality while our own, objective reality becomes outlawed.

    I wouldn't even mind calling Manning a "she" in a personal conversation if I didn't have the feeling I was only doing it out of fear for getting zerged by angry activists.

  20. I've invented a robot that separates clean clothes and dirty ones and shreds them into neat piles. You can buy the licence on a piece-produced basis.

  21. Re:Don't move to Canada, liberals. on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Identifying people who prefer small, close-knit societies to large, overcrowded, anonymous cities as "childish" is exactly the kind of arrogance that cost you the vote.

  22. why did they even bring it up in the first place? Why not wait until they have examined everything and THEN report? All it does it make Comey look like an idiot or a schemer who changes alliances quickly.

  23. I welcome it on Pokemon Go Doubles Nintendo's Stock Price (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefulls it helps them recover from the low Wii U sales and enables them to provide many more enthralling games in the future.

  24. Proposition on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    How about raising the incomes of those who actually do work first? If you are so good at analysing where their employer rips them off then you should make that info available or support a bill that makes it available.

  25. Making the calculation on Nintendo Is Launching a New, Tiny NES For $60 With 30 Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How does this compete to buying a Wii and downloading those games via Virtual Console?