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  1. random guessing is not 50%

    Random guessing is 50% in this case, as the skill being measured is the skill in differentiating between the control group and the study group.

    Measuring this skill seems a little unusual to me.

  2. Re: This sounds like nothing on Elon Musk Says He Has a Green Light To Build a NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    People also seem to ignore his initiative in battery production when speaking ill of him. Opening that factory is a benefit to mankind in ways too profound to properly describe.

  3. Re:Will get security updates on Windows 10 Will Cut Off Devices With Older CPUs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isnt a hardware support issue.

    When a piece of code asks what hardware its running on and refuses to continue to run when it doesnt like the answer... thats not a hardware issue... thats a software issue.

    This isnt about supporting hardware at all. Its about sabotaging it.

  4. The "backed by government" is an important facet of a currency.

    When Germany joined the Eurozone, few Germans switched to using the Euro. It wasn't until the German government began requiring that Euro be used to pay taxes that the population switched.

  5. Re:This is the sort of testing the Feds should do. on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates (propublica.org) · · Score: 0

    The government didn't start the employer sponsored healthcare system, the market did.

    Bullshit. The employer paid tax subsidy was started during WWII as a trade-off with the unions that were resisting wage controls.

    Not only wasn't it market-based, it was a payoff that codified harming workers.

  6. Re:Hi, actual Oregonian here, everybody calm down on Oregon Passes First Statewide Bicycle Tax In Nation (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you seriously just say that the poor buy used bikes?

  7. What could possibly go wrong?

    With their dollars in hand, the people will fund this creation.

  8. High sugar levels in blood lead to high insulin levels. High insulin levels lead to quick transportation of fat into the fat cells (and conversion of sugar into fat).

    Also don't forget that regularly high insulin levels leads to insulin resistance, also called type-2 diabetes.

    The problem with all these "food health" studies is that they have such a bad track record within my lifetime. More attention needs to be paid, results need to be verified.

  9. Re:Lenders Hate This One Weird Trick! on $12 Billion In Private Student Loan Debt May Be Wiped Away By Missing Paperwork (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    It is not a technicality and there is no moral dilemma.

    You are not arguing that you do not owe money. What you are arguing is that you do not owe them the money.

    Suppose you dutifully pay off some of this note and then a different lender that has documented proof turns up. The best thing that can happen from here is that you get your money back minus an astounding lawyer fee. Other outcomes include not getting your money back. You still owe the whole note to the real owner of your debt.

  10. Re:cap studen loans / imcome based pay back with on $12 Billion In Private Student Loan Debt May Be Wiped Away By Missing Paperwork (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    most students do not need to go to Yale/Harvard/MIT

    There is a very high correlation between going to an "Ivy League" institution and significantly better future outcomes.

    Looks to me like you are masking your opinion, pretending it to be what other people "need."

  11. Re:Free Speech? More like compliance with court... on Free Speech vs Billionaires: Netflix Streams A New Documentary About The Gawker Verdict (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know about in Russia, but when a Judge in the U.S. gives you an order, and you don't do it, thats a pretty big deal.

  12. Re:Moving the goal posts doesn't eliminate them on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly how does C help you talk to the hardware?

    Even BASIC could peek and poke, read and write directly to hardware ports, and so on. C is not special here.

  13. What do you think is the right fine for someone that is actively violating a court order in a flaunting and public manner?

  14. Gender issue narrative in the announcement. on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Notice how within the mere announcement of a female Doctor Who, the people doing the announcing have pushed a gender issue narrative.

    This isnt in response to anything public. The public didnt know yet. The announcement is telling us that the producers are insisting that there be this "controversy."

  15. Re:Ada on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This will come up again and again. Every generation will need to be taught about Ada.

    This guys beginning premise is wrong. People dont use C because its "getting down to the bare metal and working at mach speed." C is not a "bare metal language" so that cannot be the reason. The reasons that people use C mainly stem from it being based on a simple yet expressive-enough abstract machine.

    C isnt the ideal language for its purpose. The issue is really that none of the other languages are suitable upgrades. Many of those other languages can greatly help with "security" .. truly they can .. but they are not based on a "simple yet expressive-enough abstract machine."

    Now Ada as used in practice is the language if you are looking for formal proofs about the algorithms expressed. Not only does the Ada abstract machine lend itself to formal proofs, there is a whole mature ecosystem of analysis software for Ada already there and being used. Quite a bit of military contract stuff has to be done in Ada.

  16. Re:Working on it ... on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    All these file system features take time to execute. Journaling, error correction, scanning all your data for the nsa, and so on.

  17. Re:Quote from president Minsky Snapdragon on Elon Musk Warns Governors: Regulate AI Before It's 'Too Late' (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    The missing years are called The Lost Years. No further explanation is needed at this time.

  18. Re: Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    but as you know a label does not mean it describes the contents correctly.

    The label is advertising. The label flags the base of support for the party. If you get to lead the "National Socialist Workers Party" its because you got Socialists to put you in that position. Hitler was a creation of the left.

  19. Re: Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Where the heck does this come from?? Every single iota of non-biased information I've ever seen points to the opposite. Eg Wikipedia:

    You don't lead the "National Socialist Workers Party" for multiple decades without the left.

    What it became and who was responsible are two different things.

  20. Re:Doesn't Sound To Different on WSJ Op-Ed: The Post Office Is Delivering Amazon's Packages Below Cost (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 0

    The similarity to "Net Neutrality" begins at the U.S. borders.

    What you pay to have a letter delivered overseas, more often than not the foreign government gets nothing from the postal fees you paid.

    There is an agreement that as so long as the mail going a particular direction isnt disproportionately more than the mail going the opposite direction, that its a wash. The handling of U.S. mail within France is paid by the French, the handling of French mail within America is paid by the Americans.

    The economics of the internet has the same feature. Its called settlement-free peering. If the data going from network A to network B and vise-versa is about balanced, they consider it a wash and neither side wants compensation.

    It breaks down when Netflix comes along, as no matter what ISP Netflix chooses the network that provides for Netflix will lose its settlement-free peering status because the core tenet of settlement-free peering is violated. Its not a wash. If Netflix paid a fair prices for the data its pushing, its ISP could afford to pay settlements instead of trying to claim its the others networks fault that none of them wants to expand their links to them.

  21. Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Proof by example.

  22. Re:What is the target for these? on AMD Threadripper 1950X Trounces Core I9-7900X In Multithreading Benchmark (pcper.com) · · Score: 1

    There is always someone that stresses the single-threaded performance, how most software is single-threaded....

    Everything that I run that I have to wait for, is either multi-threaded, or bottlenecked on the ssd speed. All of it. I really don't dont give a crap about single-threaded performance.

  23. Re:The Down Side on Netflix Shows Are All Worldwide Hits -- Until They're Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For subscription services, the value of having a "gotta see it" hit:

    very high

    The value of a second one:

    not so much

    Likely they dumped the most expensive shows, hits or not.

  24. Re:Why is Russia considered an enemy? on Congress Seeks To Outlaw Cyber Intel Sharing With Russia (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    And video of some of the Ukrainian genocide after the overthrow:

    From liveleak

  25. Re:Why is Russia considered an enemy? on Congress Seeks To Outlaw Cyber Intel Sharing With Russia (onthewire.io) · · Score: 0

    Some news you Americans missed:

    U.S. accused of trying to incite a civil war by the Ukrainian government in 2013
    (use googles/youtubes closed captioning)

    That was about a year before we kicked off the overthrow.