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  1. Re:Here's one on Some Hopeful Predictions for 2018 (nbcnews.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You and all your buddies were swearing that Trump would, without a doubt, be impeached in 2017, too...

    A simple lie. I've been saying the end of his second year since day one, and have even corrected a few people who made earlier estimates. The investigations and trials take time.

    yet here we are, with the "Russia collusion" narrative weaker than ever,

    The day after news broke that a Trump campaign aide knew the Russians had dirt on Hillary weeks before the email hacks went public? With 4 aides arrested and 2 pleading guilty? What color is the sky in your universe?

    and even more evidence that it was the Hillary-and-DNC planned hit job from the get-go.

    They didn't make Trump's campaign contact the Russians or publicly request more email hacks, and there's nothing wrong with paying for opposition research.

    Still, go ahead and wish all you want for it to happen in 2018. I'll just be laughing at you again when you repeat yourself in 2019, too.

    It might run a bit into 2019, but I will stick to the same estimate I've always had: late 2018.

  2. Here's one on Some Hopeful Predictions for 2018 (nbcnews.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Trump will almost certainly be impeached before the end of this year. Between obstruction of justice (which his lawyers are scrambling to keep him from committing more of), Russian collusion and rampant violations of the emoluments clause, there are many blades hanging over his head.

    The only downside is that when Pence takes office, he will bring about what will be known as The Year of Jim Queer.

  3. Re: Great, I work with lowlife pervs on Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Excellent, you're one step closer to realizing that the concept of "virtue signalling" is just a means of labelling opinions you disagree with as trivial and dishonest. Now it doesn't even have to benefit the speaker!

  4. Re: Wrong approach, kill the nazi faggots on A Reporter Built a Bot To Find Nazi Sock Puppet Accounts. Twitter Banned the Bot and Kept the Nazis (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself. I disapprove of all forms of ethno-nationalism, even Israel's.

  5. Re:What? on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually the Lamborghini example is wrong for a different reason. For a rich man to own a Lamborghini, some poor people will have to walk, and it has nothing to do with the number of cars produced per year.

    The greatest value any person can really produce over the course of a year is somewhere around 200k per year, and a corporation will pay an employee about half of the value they generate at most. A person may be paid more than that in high cost of living areas, but that's about the peak value of a human's productivity. To boost pay beyond that, you have to take credit for other people's productivity, and their pay along with it. So a person who makes very good pay and saves up well may be able to afford a Lamborghini without massively harming other people- most of Lambo's cars are relatively cheap. But let's look at a more expensive 7-digit supercar. It should be nearly impossible for a person being paid fairly to afford such a thing - if you ever see a young person or a person with a nice house in such a car, clearly the productivity of other people has been misattributed to them so that they can afford it.

    So for that person to drive a 7-digit supercar, many other people will have to drive used cars instead of new ones, and some poor people will have to walk rather than drive a cheap beater. But people deal with an inability to own a car much more easily than they do with having no prospects for a love life.

  6. Zero people have been killed by antifa so far. Here's how many people were killed by neo-nazis and associated white nationalists since 1995:

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...

    Not very law-abiding to murder people, is it?

  7. Re:I think people just like saying "blockchain" on Blockchain Brings Business Boom To IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not the same thing:

    https://stackoverflow.com/ques...

    However blockchain technology is still overhyped, because private blockchains are just inefficient databases. There's no good reason to use them where there is no trust problem between peers, so there are only a few niche industries where a blockchain would be helpful, such as digital notary services.

  8. Re:I'm looking for a good alternative to Slashdot. on How Climate Change Deniers Rise To the Top in Google Searches (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There's nothing unscientific about calling someone a denier. Or a conspiracy theorist, my preferred term.

  9. Re:I'm looking for a good alternative to Slashdot. on How Climate Change Deniers Rise To the Top in Google Searches (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you think this article is a politics article rather than a science article, you might be looking for a place like Free Republic, or InfoWars.

  10. That's getting pretty deep into the reasons for certain positions they hold. They still feel nationally humiliated, they still hate Jews, they still want to establish and expand white ethno-states and you can bet that if they took control of a country, they'd quickly get to work on acquiring lebensraum, which is really just a facet of their ethno-nationalism. Their positions and goals haven't changed, even if the perceived grievances fuelling them have.

  11. I'll be safe as long as I don't get singled out at a nazi rally. Your kind are pathetic pants-pissing cowards unless they're in a group, after all. They'll probably off themselves with pills out of fear rather than face combat, just like emo pansy Hitler did in the end. Maybe you should get it over with early.

    But first I will watch you sink back to political irrelevance.

  12. They're neo-nazis most specifically, but I find calling them nazis for short to be acceptable. The fact that they exist today inherently means that they're neo-nazis anyway.

    There are vanishingly few differences between neo-nazis and "classic nazis" and whether they have a national party card in their wallets makes no practical difference whatsoever. So your semantic argument amounts to nothing but pointless ultra-pedantry.

  13. Re: Wrong approach, kill the nazi faggots on A Reporter Built a Bot To Find Nazi Sock Puppet Accounts. Twitter Banned the Bot and Kept the Nazis (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    All nazis are, by definition, white nationalists, and all white nationalists are, by definition, racists. So you can't be a nazi without being a racist (whoda thunk!?).

  14. Re: all i want to know is ... on Web Trackers Exploit Flaw In Browser Login Managers To Steal Usernames (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Came here to say this, If these ad companies were harvesting passwords, the punishments need to be dire. People need to go to jail, people at the top.

    Also, I've always thought that browser-integrated password managers were an inherently terrible idea due to the potential for exploits like this, so it's good to be proven right again.

  15. Shielding if you get a partner of size to be on top?

    Possibility of conceiving an X-men superpowered mutant?

  16. Re: Another "great" article on The Lower Your Social Class, the 'Wiser' You Are, Suggests New Study (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    If you're rich enough, you can afford proxies to handle purchases for you to avoid retaliation for your assholery. See: Donald Trump and his secret fast-food gofers.

  17. Re: Another "great" article on The Lower Your Social Class, the 'Wiser' You Are, Suggests New Study (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The end of next year, most likely.

  18. Re: Another "great" article on The Lower Your Social Class, the 'Wiser' You Are, Suggests New Study (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    It does make people successful in the economy's book though, and that's the book that keeps track of who can afford what. Our economic system is completely indifferent to assholery or suffering.

  19. How to tell if you've interacted with, and likely been indoctrinated by, Russian propaganda: If you're still reading this then it means you care whether you have, so you haven't. If you don't care whether you did, then you did.

  20. Re:Overpopulation in Africa, the Middle East, & on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's either starvation or actual contraception, which the right can't get behind because it would upset the "every sperm is sacred" crowd. So they ignore the contraception option...

  21. Could throttling down even save power? on Apple Hit With Class Action Lawsuit After Admitting To Slowing Down Old iPhones (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, the most computationally power efficient way (as in flops per watt-hour) to control ECU throttling is to stay at the lowest speed when idle, and immediately throttle up to the highest speed when there's any meaningful demand on the CPU. This is not only the most efficient method, but very nearly the fastest, having a vanishingly slim performance disadvantage vs. locking the CPU to the maximum speed at all times. All the desktop OSes control frequencies this way by default.

    So is Apple actually extending battery life by avoiding the maximum CPU speed? It will reduce heat production and peak power draw, but if you had two phones with equally worn batteries running a video transcode task, and one had normal throttling control and one had worn-battery throttling control. the one with normal throttling control should get more seconds of video transcoded before the battery runs out, even if its battery might run out first.

  22. Used responsibly, age-based targeting for employment purposes is an accepted industry practice and for good reason: it helps employers recruit and people of all ages find work

    As long as those are the ages they're targeting...which aren't all of them...because that would be kind of the opposite of targeting.

    Facebook's going to get in trouble for this.

  23. Re:I'm not saying it's bad, but it looks bad. on A Federal Ban On Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's really my opinion on it, but my sources are everywhere outside of the American right-wing reality distortion field, including the US Congressional Budget Office.

  24. I'm not saying it's bad, but it looks bad. on A Federal Ban On Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    First you pass a tax law to initiate a massive and hilariously unsustainable wealth transfer to the 1%, then you approve research into potential pandemic-causing bioweapons...it looks bad when you do these things together, see where I'm coming from?

  25. Re:What if the algorithm is provably right? on New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms (propublica.org) · · Score: 0

    Is congruence with observed reality a defense against charges of racism?

    No, that's why society has collectively decided that scientific racism is wrong. We've decided to give each person a fair chance regardless of the statistical averages around traits that person has no control over. So the ethical thing to do with your theoretical "correctly racist" prediction program would be to never use it for making real decisions.