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  1. Re:Remember this when they decide fake news... on Facebook Is Sorry for Taking Down a Photo of a Nude Neptune Statue (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not a very good example of "fake news". The Russia-hacking-the-votes narrative is people misinterpreting the story (about a subject most people know nothing about), but I never saw a news report that stated that Russia tampered with vote counts.

  2. Re:Meanwhile, in the Chinese Arctic Seas . . . on Obama Blocks Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Arctic Areas (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Your joke isn't as far fetched as you might think. There actually are people trying to use whales and other marine mammals as platforms for oceanographic research

  3. Re:Privatization of the public square on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: I Screwed Up and I Want Reddit To Trust Me Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are authoritarian features, not leftist, but people seem to confuse/conflate the two a lot these days

  4. Re:Cherry picking data, you say? on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    If that's so then why would the alternative news sources be any more trustworthy? They seem to have even more at stake to politicize and skew to their point of view.

  5. Re:Ob. xkcd on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you understand why we have protected groups like LGBT, and why alt-right(or any political standing) can't be one?

  6. It's the same analog signal coming out the usb plug, no need for another DAC which the phone would still have to have anyway for it's speaker

  7. You've made some errors in your assessment. No one is going to use micro-USB, it will be USB-C. I'm not sure if power both ways is part of this standard but it doesn't matter because the signal coming out is the same analog levels as a TRS plug, just on the pins of the USB-C instead.

  8. Re:Yeah, that'll be why its 400C on Venus on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    High humidity feeling hotter has very little to do with greenhouse effect. It's because sweat doesn't evaporate well enough to cool you off and because it's easier for condensation to form on cold objects which warms them up faster.

  9. Re:Wonder what the RNC is doing about now? on Guccifer 2.0 Releases More DNC Documents (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Could it be they get more positive press because they are doing more positive things?

  10. I think the courage exhibited here is from those still willing to carry these volatile phones. My cowardly ass would have returned it right away

  11. Re: AMD for the win! on Nvidia's New GeForce Experience 3.0 Requires Mandatory Registration (pcworld.com) · · Score: 0

    The fact that you calling them ATI cards totally nullifies your argument

  12. I agree that diversity for it's own sake is a questionable goal. However one problem with not counting is becoming blind to any real discrimination problem.

  13. "take a valuable good...and deliver it to third parties who are not in privity with the copyright owners" Sounds like they are making the argument that every turntable, tapedeck, and CD player should have been build and sold by the record companies. Phrase it that way and no one would agree with them.

  14. Re:Tensor Processing Units not new on Google's Tensor Processing Unit Could Advance Moore's Law 7 Years Into The Future (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, and if you want to be really pedantic even scalars are tensors of rank zero.

  15. I'm so confused these days... on Snapchat Faces An Outcry Against 'Whitewashing' Filters (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    When did the term "whitewash" start meaning racist and stop referring to censorship or covering up of the unsavory? The English language is great at coming up with new words,we need to stop repurposing old terms with well defined usage.

  16. Re:Get rid of the side mirrors on Tesla Updates Model S With New Front-End, Air Filtration System, Faster Charging (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The great benefit of mirrors is that they preserve depth perception, and furthermore you can move your head slightly to get a better angle to view something. In short cameras suck because of loss of parallax.

  17. You're the nural net on How 'Assassin's Creed' Or 'Fallout 4' Might Help Make AI Smarter (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    This is sort of the plot of game "Talos Principle". Interesting to see it happening in the real world

  18. Re:Serious question - why not just publish to publ on Should All Research Papers Be Free? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One reason I can think of is that journals offer a sort of legitimacy, both through peer review and having to uphold their own reputation. There's no reason this couldn't be done with open papers as well, but there would have to be some sort of organization to the process.

  19. Re:Wait, what? on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That would only matter if there was something creative about this film.

  20. Re:Future Guns on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    That kind of setup might make the most sense, but it's been used successfully by one franchise(the Predator movies) so now anyone else using it would be seen as a copycat.

  21. row to work on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Makes me wonder, how long until the bay is full of house boats?

  22. Re:Clean bottle? on In Germany, a Message-in-a-Bottle Found 108 Years After Its Release · · Score: 1

    We just use white vinegar in the lab to clean barnacle fouled instruments, it may take a little longer but works great.

  23. Re:Or let us keep our hard-earned money on Clinton Promises 500 Million New Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    That might be true if you lived in a bubble and your behavior never affected another person. I'm pretty sure this is not the case.

  24. Re:The national average is 15.9 students per teach on Melinda Gates: Facebook Engineers Have Solved One of Education's Biggest Problem · · Score: 2

    Your number seemed very low from my experiences, so I took a look at your link and found this:
    "According to recent studies, the difference between student-teacher ratio and average class size in K-3 is 9 or 10 students "
    So in reality it's closer to 30 kids per classroom.

  25. Re:A first: We should follow Germany's lead on 'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status · · Score: 3, Informative

    The term was first used around the time of the civil war, but as an official motto wasn't adopted until 1956. It's there to ward off "Godless Commies".