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  1. Re:Game theory is usually about dickheads on Rubio and Kasich Are Living Out a Classic Game Theory Dilemma · · Score: 1

    From what you wrote, it doesn't sound like you *had* studied game theory.

    Do you suppose that when a guys math skills are weak is it then more or less likely that his logic skills are also weak?

  2. Re:classic game theory does not apply here on Rubio and Kasich Are Living Out a Classic Game Theory Dilemma · · Score: 1

    classical game theory assumes adversarial agents

  3. Re:But... on Sorry, But Lasers Aren't Taking You To Mars Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    What works in practice is that you slow down by turning your motion, relative to your destination, into heat.

    Science, bitch. Now spare use your hand waving.

  4. a 32-bit add is a 32-bit add on both native and emulated hardware

    Hate to tell you this, but no...

    On x86 a 32-bit add also updates a flags register that is commonly leveraged. A full emulation of this register would be quite expensive on architectures that dont automatically track all of the same things.

  5. Re:Why is everyone in a huff all the time... on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it was just the family unit that was better off then, it was also the economics of the time meant the dollar went a lot further than it does today.

    The time of the robber barons? Yes, everyone did well, contrary to the recent liberal/progressive revisionism of the period.

  6. Re:so men = better sellers on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Louis CK says it best:

    Cell Phones And Flying

    Everyone has awesome amazing stuff, but thats not good enough..

  7. Re:Vote Hillary Clinton! Women Unite!! on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    1. Heavier use of benefits vs straight pay

    I would hope that these studies are totaling up the entire compensation package (wages, insurance, retirement funding, stock options, etc..) of each person.

    Otherwise they are worth less than I imagined....

  8. Re:Vote Hillary Clinton! Women Unite!! on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Now if only we could find rational actors to implement it.

    The amount of specialization in the economy is so high that even the irrational actors benefit from free trade. There is no reason to wait around for an economy full of rational actors.

    I realize that the progressive way is to only consider the relative gains and as such in their universe people need to be protected from their own free choices.... but really.. progressives have enough autism in them that they can't comprehend value.

  9. Re:That tired old lie on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    As to Ebay, it is not possible to identify the gender of a seller, unless they advertise it.

    I don't see how advertising it makes it possible either. If stating a particular gender increases profits, then you state the gender that increases your profits the most.

  10. Re: uhh maybe they're pricing their goods lower? on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    You have to understand that this is Feminist Science, not regular Science. In Feminist Science, veracity and rigor arent even understood concepts.

  11. Re:Feel the bern! on Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand On Encryption? (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    What he is saying is that he believes that he can find a way to violate the rights of the american people without violating the rights of the american people.

  12. Re:how would we know? on Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand On Encryption? (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 2

    I mean, who would vote for someone who looks like that?

    ...someone that has seen a recent picture of Hillary.

  13. Re:Have they checked systemd? on PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots 40 Bugs In the FreeBSD Kernel · · Score: 1

    I for one would like to hear more of the things that he wishes systemd would do to him.

  14. Re:Two character comments are good ... on PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots 40 Bugs In the FreeBSD Kernel · · Score: 1

    Because a "two character comment", a pair of parenthesis, would just be awful. Two character to document your intent, which hopefully matches your implementation, but if not may just save you.

    If you are documenting your intent then you are doing it wrong. As pointed out, code that is formated correctly (and consistently) should be the documentation of your intent. C and C++ are expressive enough that the source does not need to obfuscate the intent, and comments of the intent can disagree with the code so are really just unnecessary noise.

    Comments should document the variables and their inter-relationships. This works both when you are writing bland straightforward code as well as when you are pulling from a grab bag of clever tricks in the name of optimization. It is these variable comments combined with the code (aka intent) that allows the programmer to see the logic of it all, and you better see the logic of it all if you intend to maintain the code.

  15. Re:Can you work with an image? on John McAfee Offers To Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone For the FBI and Save America (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Its so much simpler than all this.

    Prevent the device from being able to write the invalid attempts count to wherever it writes it. Now try all 10,000 combinations, power cycling as needed. Thats the way hardware guys are thinking about it.

  16. Re:Not the same as the rest of us .. on Windows 10 To Be Installed On 4 Million US Department of Defense Computers (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, the DoD will be getting the source code.

  17. Re:Don't see the problem on Congressman: Court Order To Decrypt iPhone Has Far-Reaching Implications (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0

    Technically they have.

    Lets see if you got the use of the word 'technically' right here.

    They've asked for a system to remove the passcode limitations to allow brute force attacks.

    ..nope, you didnt get the use of the word right.

  18. Re:They aren't ordering Apple to decrypt it on Congressman: Court Order To Decrypt iPhone Has Far-Reaching Implications (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.


    Last I checked, the State isn't Apple and Brute Force isnt a Back Door.

  19. Re:Don't see the problem on Congressman: Court Order To Decrypt iPhone Has Far-Reaching Implications (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0

    Cooperating fully would mean implementing a backdoor

    I wonder who you think that this is cooperating with that is also pertinent. The judge has not ordered Apple to implement a back door.

  20. Re:"most heated arguments in anthropology" on New Study Shows Mystery 'Hobbits' Not Humans Like Us (phys.org) · · Score: -1

    Lots of closely-related species can breed, but the offspring are usually sterile.

    No shit sherlock. Now how do you get from this knowledge all the way over to, and I will quote him, "...the concept of species as lines distinct enough not to interbreed was drilled into us pretty heavily at school"

    I swear most humans dont seem to process information even remotely correctly, let alone seek out accurate information. Maybe I'm not human.

    As far as your definition of species, "Species are generally considered to be separate if they can't breed to create FERTILE offspring." You seem to be leaving out over half the biomass of the planet, which reproduces asexually.

  21. You say more wealth but the trend is to invest capital for more automation as it becomes more affordable and generic.

    ...which doesnt support your argument, and it doesnrt even touch on the two plain simple facts you are are pretending to be refuting.

    The plain and simple facts are (a) that if we have more goods and services then we are richer than if we have less goods and services, and (b) Robots can't produce as much goods and services as Humans + Robots.

    Thats it. Try to refute these facts against and you will just look like a fucking rationalizing partisan again. I know that you don't want these basics to be true, but they are un-fucking-deniable.

    Maybe you can save your feels by instead taking the stand that less wealth is better. That might work... what doesnt work is claiming that 1 is greater than 2, which is what you have done twice now.

  22. Re:Keen to hear? on UK Gov't Launches Public Consultation On Porn-Site Age Checks (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the choices you get...

    You have about 150 million choices in America.

    You are voting for evil. That makes you a supporter of evil. Stop making excuses for supporting evil. There is only one accepted excuse for supporting evil, and thats 'I like evil!'

  23. Re:"most heated arguments in anthropology" on New Study Shows Mystery 'Hobbits' Not Humans Like Us (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    but the concept of species as lines distinct enough not to interbreed was drilled into us pretty heavily at school...

    So they never once brought up Horses and Donkeys, and how they can interbreed to produce Mules, and Hinny's?

  24. Re:I can see it now... on Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple should go ahead and build the fastest supercomputer in the world, and then bill the San Bernardino justice department, and then say "Still working on it" for the next 500 years.

  25. Re:save consumers $300 million a year in electrici on New Energy Efficiency Standards Take Effect This Week In the US (nrdc.org) · · Score: 1

    How much is preventing more than 1.5m tonnes of CO2/year being emitted, plus the other pollution, worth?

    You ask a question as if its a rational argument. Its not... its hand waving bullshit.

    1,5 megatons of co2 per year is 1 / 20000th of global emissions.

    Pour 4 cups of water. Now remove 1 drop of water. Whats that worth, asshole?