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  1. Just be patient for PV to get cheaper until you can fill a desert with it. There's still lots of room for it to get cheaper.

  2. Do airplane pilots have a different definition of "full" we are supposed to follow now too?

  3. Re:I think they'll succeed even if they fail on Bloomberg's Inside Look At Tesla's Model 3 Factory (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon stands on top of its market, regardless if EV and self driving cars take off Tesla will only have a small part of the pie ... Amazon's money was better spent.

  4. Re:Every ICO tarred with same brush? on Shady ICO Issuers Are Taking 'Bags of Cash' To Border, US Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ether would have been better suited to crowdfunding, promising development milestones together with the coins for funding levels.

  5. Lets make some "libel" on Flight-Sim Maker Threatens Legal Action Over Reddit Posts Discussing DRM (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4

    FlightSimLabs (FSLabs) admitted to distributing remote hacking tools, intending to use them illegally. Any company who requires normal application software to be installed with admin rights is run by morons and anyone who actually installs such outside a VM is likewise. Especially after the company by their own admission proved themselves to be a criminal organization as well as criminally incompetent.

  6. This isn't going to end well on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's going to kill a cop or first responder in some completely moronic way soon ... don't own Tesla stock.

  7. A lot of people try, most fail.

    PewDiePie got in on the ground floor, so he gets way with relatively little effort. Anyone starting now needs some really special hook/personality, or a ton of work ethic though. Ye average nerdy gaming channel from people who didn't get their popularity right at the start has 1 guy pushing out multiple 30-60 minute vids a day while also twitch streaming multiple hours a day, 7 days a week.

  8. Yet isn't it curious how some languages can have no buffer overflow exploits at all.

    It's almost like some language features are inherently inferior, with only emotional appeals to a supposed equality and inertia forcing us down the same inferior path with the same inferior results for decades on end, the equality never materializing.

  9. Re:By design, not a bug on Valve Patches Security Bug That Existed in Steam Client for the Past Ten Years (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    To paraphrase Sadiq Khan, buffer overflows are part and parcel of programming in C(++).

  10. Re:Wierd, it's chicken, but why? on Russia Demands Apple Remove Telegram From Russian App Store (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple will MITM any app and when the US is on their doorstep with a national security letter.

  11. Re:Huge Ambitions With This Game on Star Citizen Video Game Launches $27,000 Players' Pack (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure Chris appreciates you helping the propaganda cause as they go whale hunting. I'm not sure the whales will be as sanguine in the end though, they're in it for slightly more than 45$.

  12. The minecraft mod predates DayZCherno+, let alone DayZ Battle Royale.

  13. Re:Can you steal something that is already stolen? on PUBG and Epic Games, Makers of Two of the World's Most Popular Video Games, Set To Battle in Court (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Based on Survivor Gamez streamer event, based on Hunger Gamez streamer events, based on last man standing game modes and the concepts from Battle Royale and Hunger Games, based on running man.

    Any way, you can't copyright game concepts in the US ... dunno about SK, but if the judges there are crazy enough to allow it they will have barrels of funs in the future.

  14. Re: Congratulations Europe on Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    We'll run the experiment and see, well not me ... but you maybe if you're young.

  15. Re: Congratulations Europe on Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Massive inbreeding and an inferiority complex. As long as they have to compete economically with whites they'll retreat into crime, fundamentalist religion and raping white girls. The low IQ ones will pull the high IQ ones with them into the abyss with them, in times of crisis the fundamentalists always win in Islam.

    I think the most likely future scenario is massive white flight to Eastern Europe, Canada, US, Oz, NZ ... followed by economic collapse in western Europe and an ISIS style hunt on the remaining whites not smart enough to escape in time.

  16. You should have a relatively good idea what algorithm COMPAS uses from the independent attempts at replicating it's result in your community.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

    When you have two wildly different approaches (human jury and SVM) produce nearly the same results and the same "unfairness" I feel rather safe taking as a working hypothesis that it is perceptional and actually a result of the underlying statistics when you purposely try to ignore race. If you want to bring false positive rates closer together, you'll have to include race into the equation. Although that will almost certainly lead to all else being equal whites being judged more harshly than blacks. You exchange one measure of fairness for another.

  17. You haven't made a point, you mention that no racism should be baked into the algorithm ... but you refuse to mention what an unbiased algorithm and it's result would look like. So I merely made a statement.

    I'll do so again. Compass is close to the best you are going to get without affirmative action (and with the current set of inputs). If the algorithm is unfair, it's because life is unfair, no possible way to "improve" it without just adding "if black, reduce recidivism likelihood".

  18. You don't have to be rich to get married, nearly three fucking quarters of black kids are born to an unmarried mother. If you think that won't have impact on criminal behavior you're dreaming. The culture of the average black is thoroughly poisoned (as is the one of the average white, but slightly less so). Blaming it all on systemic racism and poverty is silly.

    Regardless, any difference in recidivism rate will cause the imbalances seen in the Compas result. Pick your metric (false negative rate for instance) and pretty much the only way to get equal outcomes is to take race into consideration and use affirmative action. Any race blind metric, including one interpreted by humans with carefully scrubbed data to remove racial correlated data, will show the exact same "racist" results as Compas.

    So you can get "racism" or affirmative racism, take your pick.

  19. Re:Code enforcement, tiered pricing on Bitcoin Backlash as 'Miners' Suck Up Electricity, Stress Power Grids in Central Washington (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They could just ban any electronic way to exchange cryptocurrency through US companies (ie. banks and credit card companies).

    Then they wouldn't have to ban mining, because cryptocurrency would be dead.

  20. Re:Code enforcement, tiered pricing on Bitcoin Backlash as 'Miners' Suck Up Electricity, Stress Power Grids in Central Washington (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 0

    A free market would require full disclose of what you'd use it for with you signing away the right for them to come check up on that on premises. A free market would have them put down collateral which they would forfeit if they stopped purchasing electricity before the producer had some reasonable recovery on investments.

    A free market would fuck them up the ass to the point where they'd fuck off ... just let the monopoly do the same.

  21. Re:China wants to weed folks like that out on High School in China Installs Facial Recognition Cameras To Monitor Students' Attentiveness (theepochtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Importing more people from non-progressive, religious and classist societies will surely help.

  22. More harshly by some metrics, equitable by others. In the end comparing blacks and whites is apples and oranges. Blacks recidivism rates is fundamentally higher than whites and that has some unexpected impact on the statistics. You could arbitrarily force the false positive or negative rate to be equal by making race an input and using affirmative action, but that would degrade fairness in other ways.

  23. Re:easy solution - Shoot all non-pet cats on Are Google's Cat-Loving Employees Killing Burrowing Owls? (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The first time your plot of land was settled it was pristine nature. Just because we collectively decide at one point in time to point to some plot of land and designate it a preserve doesn't mean we can't change our minds later ... and that's no more wrong than your home occupying part of nature.

    Wolves are no longer native to my country, some people want them again to be ... but for the moment they are most definitely invasive, and oh my god do people whine if they are shot.

  24. Re:Can't steal something that doesn't exist on About $1.2 Billion in Cryptocurrency Stolen Since 2017 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You can steal a secret.

  25. Re:Bit of a blow to Apple's self image on Apple Signs Deal With Volkswagen For Driverless Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What's in it for Mercedes/BWM to deliver a small number of cars and earn some peanuts for customization?

    If it becomes a fiasco (most likely) they get a PR hit. If it succeeds (hah) Apple licenses it to everyone any way. Only way this really makes much sense is as a joint venture. Otherwise Apple should just buy the cars and modify them themselves.