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  1. Re:Time to rethink carbon emissions on Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "The current rate of warming is much faster than during the MWP"

    Except in Europe ... and in China and Japan and Russia. But of course the civilized areas of the world with the best historical records are the outliers and all those other areas pull the handle of the hockey stick flat. It's kinda funny how Trump accused China of being behind a climate change conspiracy, when their science is mostly anti hockey stick.

  2. Re:Climate change on Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We used to think it was quite warm in the medieval warm period and quite cold in the little ice age.

    But then we suddenly learned the global temperature was as flat as the handle of a hockey stick.

  3. Re:Since when on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I know it when I see it, a Muslim ain't it.

  4. Re:No need for backdoors on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Not allowing white genocide is not an option.

    So the only alternative is freedom dying, so we can let it proceed without too many trucks and cars of peace incidents upsetting the natives. Onwards to the brown pacified total surveillance future.

  5. Re:No need for backdoors on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The dogma is not taken to be divinely inspired.

    Even in a country like China the communist party has passed resolutions criticizing parts of Mao's leadership, it only took decades. In Islam we're millennia on and it would still earn you a death penalty.

  6. Re: Machines replacing bank tellers? on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The economy is a product creating machine, to allow full employment all the products which can be created at full employment have to be consumed ... ever more product.

  7. Re: Machines replacing bank tellers? on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that's why we need truly independent nations and absolute sovereignty. Every nation should be able to determine how to assign the wealth within it's borders. No more "free trade trade agreements" which are really just "property" protection agreements for the international homeless elite.

    End ISDS's.

  8. Re: Machines replacing bank tellers? on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The robot owners also have deeds on pretty much all the land, they control all the robot armies, they have international treaties which say all taxation has to be approved by international tribunals run by themselves. They will have the full legal title on the entire earth and the military hardware to back it up, you'll get what they want you to have ... be it a shallow grave or a ghetto they magnanimously let you live in.

  9. Re: Huh? on The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    We also have a choice to become communists, the outcome for most won't be any better ... but we'll drag almost everyone down with us.

    So maybe it would in almost everyone's best interest to not let it come to that.

  10. I prefer to take the capitalist point of view. Chrome exploits are more profitable when sold to criminals (state aligned or free market ones).

  11. Re:Con or Confirm on John Goodenough's Colleagues Are Skeptical of His New Battery Technology (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If he hadn't been so fucking atrocious in citing previous research there would be no controversy about the plating type lithium copper battery, there's a ton of recent research on it. Pretending all that research doesn't exist might have been done for patenting reasons though.

    Development of an Easily Recyclable “Lithium-Copper Rechargeable Battery"
    The Development of a New Type of Rechargeable Batteries Based on Hybrid Electrolytes
    Lithium–air and lithium–copper batteries based on a polymer stabilized interface between two immiscible electrolytic solutions (ITIES)

  12. A central absolute authority like the pope can reform a religion unilaterally, worked out well for Catholicism. Less well for Shiite Islam.

    Still, I'd take it over Sunni religion ... defined by adherence to schools of Shariah jurisprudence a millennium old with little room for reform.

  13. Oh yeah, with those wonderful family reunification and immigration laws they are the epitome of multiculturalism.

  14. Christianity by it's very dispensationalist nature allows separation of church and state even while all the politicians are devout Christians, which the "we Americans" who founded America generally were in the early days.

    Forget that you are a jew for a moment and take an honest look at history. Christianity stood at the basis of classical liberalism, civilization is Christian centric.

  15. They have an alternative, invade and sponge off western Europe ... for as long as it lasts. Couple of decades at best until white flight sets in and it all goes to shit.

  16. Re:yeah, tax the robots on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what it's all about, tax the middle class.

    Avoid the top creditors who more and more make their money from holding the traditional feudal income generating assets. Land and debt. Neofeudalism ahoy, locked in by your friendly neighbourhood international "trade" agreements.

  17. Re:Package management? on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    That's more because of cargo cult and copy paste programming.

    It always amazes me how bad programmers like me can throw shit at a wall without any real in depth understanding and have it stick.

  18. Re:The cloud on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since small businesses make up most of the economy I hope we don't run out of small town IT guys.

    The professionals seem comparatively completely fucking useless.

  19. Without a retarded internet architecture we wouldn't have DDOS's either. The most popular programming languages, OS architectures and the internet almost all seem to designed to be abuseable. Retaining fundamental design flaws we knew about decades ago.

    It's only now with Apple forcing privacy and security down their competitor's throat simply to be able to compete that things are improving (I fucking hate Apple, but they do provide some value).

  20. Most of that code has been written after we discovered what a stupid fucking language C was.

  21. A little, but maybe it has been kept extra vulnerable intentionally?

    There has to be some actual reason why we're still using C for internet facing code two decades after we know it's dumb as fuck to do so. It's so much more comforting to think that it's because of a conspiracy and influence peddling by three letter agencies pulling strings than to assume we collectively are utter incompetent fucking morons.

  22. Re: On our way... on US Suspends 'Expedited' H-1B Visas (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly my point, luxuries.

  23. Re: On our way... on US Suspends 'Expedited' H-1B Visas (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    What do I need some burger legal search for? Burgers aren't even relevant for shaping modern civilization.

    Europe pulled itself up by the bootstraps, foreign nations made their food and drink taste a little better and gave them smokes.

  24. Re: On our way... on US Suspends 'Expedited' H-1B Visas (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    The resources Europe gained abroad during the colonial eras were almost all luxuries, not the necessities for building a technological civilization. Gold, spices, cane sugar, tobacco etc etc ... not the stuff you need to build universities and steam engines. Whites are what they are because they had the privilege of luck. We won the genetic lottery, we won the geographic lottery, we lucked out with the plague creating a shortage of labour and creating the middle class etc etc.

    Modern civilization is a fluke, a fluke to be cherished, a fluke to carry as a gift to other nations ... not to be squandered on moral relativism and self destructive white guilt.

  25. Re:Well, that's one thing on US Suspends 'Expedited' H-1B Visas (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Institutional investors and lower level employees are left holding the bag, so pensioners and working stiffs care what happens after that ... so basically no one important.