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  1. Re:Think of the Children Hysteria on YouTube Videos Could Get Demonetized If They Have 'Inappropriate Comments' · · Score: 1

    Pretty much. What is ironic is the that there are reported early videos of the fellow himself driving around asking girls if they want to be in a sex video... I doubt he verified their ages before accosting them this way. They guy couldn't make it on YouTube as a creator so... generate some media hysteria to get advertisers to react and Youtube to overreact about a problem they were already working on in the background.

  2. Re:False flags galore on YouTube Videos Could Get Demonetized If They Have 'Inappropriate Comments' · · Score: 1

    This was already a common tactic to take down channels that have live streams. Very difficult to moderate the realtime stream and several youtubers have lost their channels due to such comments.

  3. Re:The laws of thermodynamics apply everywhere on Montana Legislator Introduces Bills To Give His State His Own Science (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    50-60 million civilians died in WW2 with many of them Germans even after conflict was supposed to be over. Communism in the 20th century, 61 million in the Soviet Union, 78 million in China, and roughly 200 million worldwide.

  4. Government workers were guaranteed back pay. I would have assumed most of them owned a credit card to float a month or two...

  5. Re:When is reg. YT going to open the whole world? on YouTube TV Opens To the Whole US (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Well that's what they get for burning down our capital. #neverforget

  6. Re:The Neantherdals Were Way Ahead of Us on Ancient Climate Change Triggered Warming That Lasted Thousands of Years (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The aliens that designed us in their image were around. It's just the stock primates they used as a canvas that weren't quite here yet.

  7. Re: Algorithms and bad statistics on AI is Sending People To Jail -- and Getting it Wrong (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty huge swath of the US though when you consider that currently only 3.9 out of 100,000 or so in the US will commit murder.

  8. Re:Should be easy to defend on Oracle Systematically Underpaid Thousands of Women, Lawsuit Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? You would only need to google something like "study Men and things women and people" to get myriad results to support this. It is observable in every culture. Even setting this aside, you still would need to ignore iq distribution in which men have a wider curve giving them more in the higher IQ range.. I'm not trying to be an ass but you'd need to be living under a rock to believe what you posted.

  9. Re: Should be easy to defend on Oracle Systematically Underpaid Thousands of Women, Lawsuit Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not? Certainly most men I know are more disagreeable and willing to jump ship especially if single. I don't think many would argue that women are not more risk averse. It isn't even then about negotiating. My management knows that I expect certain things and that I'm fairly comfortable leaving if I don't get them. This isn't anything I've formally "negotiated" it is simply evident when you interact with me.

  10. Re:Death of journalism resulted in fake news on In an Attempt To Tackle Spread of Fake News, Facebook's WhatsApp Puts Limit on Message Forwarding (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What you described sounds exactly like what we observe on network news shows now. This reminds me a bit of the protestant revolution... It is very tempting to pretend that priests or the talking heads are somehow elevated and more worthy of trust. That isn't really true. I don't think anyone would argue that they are in some way better or more honest people. They are in most cases more intelligent than the average person on the street but NOT more intelligent than say the average youtuber say that becomes moderately successful at providing their own analysis and commentary online.

  11. Re:Way to warp the news on Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet (wsj.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Agreed. When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail. I have trouble even imagining nuclear reactors safely run in "developing" countries like those in most of Africa. Just the thought of peppering Africa with such reactors is terrifying.

  12. Re:Such a huge $2 price hike on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm still thinking they just did that in anticipation of Disney playing hard ball with the marvel properties which were already pretty pricey. I don't mind the increase if it is able to fund new content I'm interested in.

  13. Re:True for all medical conditions on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I double cancer rates correlate to much else but intelligence and personality when it comes down to it. Conscientious smart people are going to have dramatically different diet and lifestyles than the poor which tend on average to be neither of those things in the US.

  14. Re:Let's translate from supply side to demand side on Natural Gas is Now Getting in the Way; US Carbon Emissions Increase by 3.4% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Doesn't every organism consume endlessly until it is itself consumed by something else consuming endlessly?

  15. That does seem crazy small. Looking at my work inbox I have 1680 unread emails. This doesn't count folders beneath the main inbox... possibly I'm not doing everything I can to be responsive to my end users.

  16. "Social science" is nothing more than elaborate mental contortions you must learn to in order to attempt to avoid or explain away the most glaring evidence available in the field when it is treated as a science, namely that of group differences.

  17. This is something to be proud of in China on Huawei Has Suspected Ties To Front Companies In Iran and Syria, New Documents Reveal (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Chinese see getting away with this as an admirable trait. If you get caught you lose face but... setting up a situation like this is like chum in the water to chinese businesses.

  18. Re:Let her decide on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Should I Buy For My First Employee? · · Score: 1

    She's non technical and he isn't in the same city... no IT department, I'd go with the chromebook if it meets their needs.

  19. Re:Sorry, but border security is more important on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems to have worked well for Israel deterring illegal African "immigration"... but not the US? picture of israel's southern wall

  20. Re:Fundamental Problem: Too Many People on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If there is such an agenda why are we currently boosting population growth in Africa? Without western aid the population would be a fraction of what we will make it in 20-50 years.

  21. Re:Call it hacking on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The area of Brazil in which Zika originated was near the same location where they were experimenting with the modified bugs. Radiolab did a series on this a while back https://www.wnycstudios.org/st... ... not that I think there is a causal link

  22. Re:Consequences... on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Deconstruct a nation's culture, replace its people's and watch it fall.

  23. Re: Hate to sound like this but.... on Chinese Scientist Says He's First To Create Genetically Modified Babies Using CRISPR (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Well to be fair, objective facts are some of the most racist things you can utter today.

  24. Re:Twin study chance missed on Chinese Scientist Says He's First To Create Genetically Modified Babies Using CRISPR (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes had they been identical this would have been a valuable approach. Obviously this has been happening under the radar in other countries for a while but what concerns me about this is that CRISPR has been shown to result in unintended "edits" or mutations. I can't locate the more interesting link I was reading yesterday but for instance

  25. Missing a golden opportunity on Amazon is Teaching Alexa To Speak Like a Newscaster (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What they really need to do is giver her one of those awesome mid-atlantic accents from 1920s radio. This would be awesome as like in the 20s this seeped in to popular culture and people actually started speaking this way. Can you imagine a generation of kids brought up speaking all old-timey?