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  1. Re: Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    "Well regulated" does not mean that the fed has authority over an individual's right to bear arms. There are dozens of citations of what the founding fathers / authors meant by this but I'm too lazy to comb through them all for the best so here are two somewhat random ones:

    • Patrick Henry:“Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?” 3 Elliot Debates 168-169.
    • Thomas Jefferson:“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
    • George Mason:“I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.”
  2. Re: Certified Fresh = The Last Jedi on Why Don't We Care About The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of TV Shows? (digg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Though it is still small and growing I much prefer themovedb.org to imdb. IMDB has been on a downhill slide for quite a while and is now basically just a marketing tool.

  3. Re:And still on No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't kill you it just slowly decreases your intelligence.

  4. Look, it's ok to dislike Trump. It might even be the most reasonable reaction to the fellow but paying someone not to leak personal information about you cannot reasonably be called "money to influence a political campaign". This is just... ridiculous. Go after Trump on substantive things. There are real issues that need addressed and he's on the wrong side of many of them. Hit him there.

  5. Re:Netflix And Valve? on Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store 'Tax' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe that if your customer creates an account in the app (like via a "sign in or register" option) then you have to give apple a cut of the subscription. Same for in-app purchases. It's why for example Audible (owned by amazon) has you do all subscription and in-app purchases via a web browser.

  6. Re:Cause, or effect? on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a soft spot in my heart for trolls. I know things can seem difficult sometimes but don't give up hope. You have a lot to contribute to this world.

  7. Re:Wrong metric, shill! on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, anyone pointing to actual data is a na.zi.

  8. Re:Shooting the Messenger? on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    Were you reading about Molly Tibbetts by chance? Her story was mainstream news well before there was any knowledge the perpetrator was an illegal. In theory you are correct but the facts are simply that if you look only at native white populations in the US, crime per capita is equivalent to the safer scandanavian countries. Crime statistics are what they are and seem to track for races regardless of where they are re-located to across the globe.

  9. Re:Cause, or effect? on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1
    The world your comments reflect does not exist outside the prism of western culture but you are using this perspective to denigrate (however gently) that same culture. Let me give you a quick example.. we'll take Hungary. Hungarians in Germany vote overwhelmingly liberal / progressive however Hungarians that are German citizens can also vote in Hungary as well. In Hungarian elections, these same people vote hard right. What this means is that Hungarians (not hating on them I might do the same) will continue to vote progressive until unless or until they have a majority at which point they will vote hard right.

    The reason I bring this up is to illustrate that no culture or people anywhere but yours will voluntarily dispossess themselves in their own countries because it is in the end, every time, suicidal. It isn't ignorance of strangers that conservatives are reacting from. It is a deeper understanding of those immigrants than you have as those strangers inevitably themselves tilt themselves towards tribal nationalism.

  10. Re:Echo chambers are bad, m'kay on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of it just has to do with free flow of information also though. The historic gatekeepers in the media had a vested interest in some level of stability. This meant if homeless people were routinely attacking people in the subway that might get played down. If mobs of black teenagers were attacking people.. it was both played down and any specifics about race not mentioned. People are naturally tribal and when not being steered are bound to turn back to this.

  11. Re:Only in America on Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really think we evolved in such a way as to have so substantial a weakness to the sun that being outdoors 30 minutes a day is likely to kill us? Does that seem more likely to you than a lot of these studies showing the risk of melanoma to be bunk?

  12. Re:Great idea but won't change a thing on Google Releases a Searchable Database of US Political Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah but I think transparency is really all that is needed. If there is anything the 2016 election in the US taught us it is that political ads... aren't all that relevant. We live in a networked society now and it is our circles of peers and the information we share between us that influences us most. Jeb Bush spent like 120 million in the primary... wasn't even a contender. At one point it was noted that Trump had $1.2 million on hand vs Hillary Clinton's had $42.4 million. The total figures I've seen for Hillary say about 1 billion for her campaign.

  13. Re:Immigration brings lots of non-swimmers on Child Drownings In Germany Linked To Parents' Obsession With Mobile Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    Ah, quick link

    In 2015 alone well over 1 million net in Germany: "The office registered in 2015 under two million immigrants arriving in Germany, while 860,000 departed again." If anything I'd assume the "over 2 million since 2015" to be very underestimated based on that.

  14. Nah, we just need an augmented reality beach and pool app that gamifies child rearing.

  15. Re: Less qualifed men should WORRY on California May Become First State To Require Companies To Have Women On Their Boards (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... See the "agreeableness" and "neuroticism" section.

  16. Re:Not going to happen on Podcasting is Not Walled (Yet) (rakhim.org) · · Score: 1
    Alex Jones is... well he's definitely a character and I don't enjoy watching him even in a kind of passive entertainment, Jerry Springer show who kind-of way but the reason he was booted has to do with the influence he had on folks that followed him in the last election and his quite literal demonization of folks in power. From a democrat/progressive perspective, he is pushing positions identical to the very fringe russian propaganda / "fake news" the media is very concerned about. He basically casts the democrat and republican establishment as demon possessed child abusing aliens.

    That isn't the kind of message you want for your team during midterms.

  17. You are answerable to your shareholders. Negative news impacts shares... You're basically on a treadmill constantly being cranked by those trying to tank your price.

  18. Negative much? on Google Begins Rolling Out Android Pie To Select Handsets (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn the comments here are all crazy contrary and dismissive. I know Android may not be all we would want but it's a new release. It will have some nice new features and UI enhancements....

  19. Re:We neec to get Chrome away from Google on Google Has Made YouTube Slower on Edge and Firefox, Mozilla Alleges (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    I thought firefox supported this behind the "dom.webcomponents.shadowdom.enabled" flag but the bigger question is why Youtube chose v0 rather than v1 that everyone is working to support. Chrome itself has deprecated v0: https://www.chromestatus.com/f...

  20. Re:Long-term narrative on Russian Hackers Reach US Utility Control Rooms, Homeland Security Officials Say (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia does not wish to be owned by the same forces that traditionally steer the US, EU and most of the rest of the "in the club" world. Mostly the impetus is self preservation on from Putin and his inner circle mixed with a general sense of nationalist pride. This means that their actions tend to undermine the order that those forces seek to establish. Think of their wish to move a pipeline through Syria and all the crap fallout that has happened over the last few years in that country.

  21. Russian proxy always equals Russian hackers. Everyone knows that.

  22. Re:The CDC says almost 800k people... on Boston Dynamics Is Gearing Up To Produce Thousands of Robot Dogs (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate to break it to you... that's not dog poop.

  23. Re:No, I really don't. on People Like Getting Thank You Notes, Research Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The "information" is that they value and appreciate something you did for them. It is part of the whole grooming ritual most higher animals engage in to strengthen ties. In humans this takes the form of written and verbal communication.

  24. Re:In related news: water is wet. on New Zealand Firm's Four-Day Week an 'Unmitigated Success' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There was nothing to indicate they were as productive. Only a note that they "performed better" while working at the job. There were no numbers or way in which they measured productivity.

  25. Re:Performance improved on New Zealand Firm's Four-Day Week an 'Unmitigated Success' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    That part seemed a little unclear. I can perform at 110% but if I'm working half the time that isn't a net increase in productivity.