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  1. Re:Repurposing Macs significantly harder than win/ on Apple Forces Recyclers To Shred All iPhones and MacBooks (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does anyone need to tell her anything? Sounds like she knows. Which is why she switched to Windows and away from the MacOS ecosystem...

  2. Re:How does brain work? on A Big Problem With AI: Even Its Creators Can't Explain How It Works (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The person failing to understand is you. Making your text bold does not make you more convincing (it probably makes you less convincing).

    First of all, it is entirely feasible to understand how something works but not be able to recreate it. For instance: we understand how our hands work mechanically but we still struggle to make an equivalent facsimile. For consciousness it would likely be computational power and manufacturing techniques that would prevent us from recreating it.

    Second of all, Your bolded statement is irrelevant in regard to your original statement that because we don't understand how the human brain creates our consciousness necessarily means that we cannot emulate it. That is just false. We could observe how each part works and emulate it based on a black-box approach. For another example: if I didn't understand how a wing worked nothing prevents me from copying an existing one. That's how we learn.

    Would it help you understand if I wrote in all caps?

  3. Re:How does brain work? on A Big Problem With AI: Even Its Creators Can't Explain How It Works (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    There's definitely at least one person here that doesn't know what they're talking about.

  4. Re:I see this as a good thing on A Big Problem With AI: Even Its Creators Can't Explain How It Works (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    And still have no idea if what they reply with is true or accurate. Congrats, I guess?

  5. Re:CA$3 to CA$5 per ride? on Canadian Town Picks Uber For Public Transit (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really no. In my city I think the bus is up to $3.25.

  6. Let me just look up the national registry of bump-intos.

  7. Re:Traffic Normalization on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    At any sort of speed a bicycle simply doesn't go (which is why they aren't allowed on major four-lanes). A motorcycle lacks safety, cargo and passengers. Weather puts an end to both of them. If cars and trucks weren't a "scalable packet size" then their use wouldn't dominate person and goods transportation.

  8. Myself and millions of others love their games so it seems like an effective strategy.

  9. Re:This is a wise move on Germany Plans To Fine Social Media Sites Over Hate Speech (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The only time speech is dangerous is when it is used by the people that also control what is defined as "hate speech". Which is why "dangerous" speech will never technically be "hate" speech.

  10. Re:bah on How To Close the Gender Pay Gap By 2044 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Even with that said, the overlap is greater than most people want to believe. The reason that no women at all exist in professional football leagues is that it's against FIFA rules

    That's disingenuous enough to be considered a lie. That overlap is negligible to non-existent. The only person "wanting" to believe anything here is you. The speed, power and endurance advantages athletic men have in that sport make a huge difference.

  11. Re:No subject on How To Close the Gender Pay Gap By 2044 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    If food and water determine my role in being alive am I really free to make my own choices as an individual?

  12. Re:Microsoft is good once again on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    it's just a rebranding of the compact framework with some additional supported platforms

    When one of the supported platforms is now Linux it's a pretty big deal. The people that are interested in web applications but like to work in a programming language that doesn't suck no longer have to be shoehorned into Ruby or, heaven-forbid, JavaScript.

  13. Re:Give Apple a monopoly on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Any software important enough to justify people switching from Windows to Mac or vice-versa isn't going to run in a damn browser anyway so your point is moot. Native applications are never going away with JavaScript webapps to replace them- that's just asinine.

  14. Re:Uh...yeah! on Laid-Off IT Workers Worry US Is Losing Tech Jobs To Outsourcing (www.cio.in) · · Score: 1

    *Corporations are persons.

    Not a corporation is a person. A corporation is many persons- which should be fairly obvious.

  15. Re:Yay, more elecromagnetic fields on Disney Develops Room With 'Ubiquitous Wireless' Charging (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    You should apply your brilliant scientific methodology to the practice of injecting live viruses and mercury into infants and toddlers. You could start a new movement!

  16. Re: So now under Trump... on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem confused- allow me to explain. In proper legal systems evidence is gathered to show guilt. Investigations are performed to find guilty people involved in crimes.

  17. Re: Probably should have focused more on Firefox Fail: Layoffs Kill Mozilla's Push Beyond the Browser (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I've written a few shitty languages that have been less destructive than javascript. But I don't have to write something better than javascript since it's already been done many times.

  18. Re:Actually, there are a few cases smoking benefit on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I have seen many people quit smoking by using vapes. I could probably throw a water bottle at 3 from where I am currently sitting.

  19. Re:The point on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Canadian here, Tonnes of people go to the native reserves to get cigarettes here because they are prohibitively expensive. Now the government gets no tax and the people get unregulated and less safe cigarettes. But hey, the tobacco companies report less sales so the system must be working.

  20. FCC regulations state the opposite. Regulation in question

  21. Re:It IS hipsterism (if that's a word) on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd need that for cassette too with, most likely, considerably less sourcing options.

  22. Re:I'm all for protecting the consumer on Amazon Just Got Slapped With a $1 Million Fine For Misleading Pricing (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Then don't show it. You often end up paying more at Amazon.ca than at a brick and mortar yet the item is marked as 50% off at Amazon. It was clearly meant to be misleading.

  23. Re: Stop already with tying every disaster to GW on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 1

    It's raining now; all my beliefs are crumbling. End-times confirmed.

  24. Re: Stop already with tying every disaster to GW on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 1

    If the climate is warming then why is it currently snowing?

  25. Those were taken.