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  1. Re:the problem with this article... on This Is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Don't miss a valuable point.

    Investment for gains with no vested interest in the company/product's future, is how our markets became so corrupted that we have what we face now.

    In principle, HFT is very much alike the toxic practices that make rich people's numbers reduce, but put hundreds of thousands of REAL PEOPLE on the street and/or jobless.
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    If the markets aren't helping US all, and create massive instability and exploit, then WE shouldn't democratically accept that. To our misfortune, politicians are funded by the scum that trade human lives in fractions of seconds with no regard.

  2. Re:Someone explain to me... on This Is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Get this through your obviously misguided head:

    -wall street does *not* exist for the purposes of making money for those who play there

    -wall street exists for people to take ownership of businesses they have confidence in and feel will grow as a good investment.

    -making money is supposed to be a consequence of the business' positivity in the real world and how the investment played a role in that business.

    The markets, despite your confusion, or the claims made by the new wave of exploitative greedy shitbags, are to facilitate publicly available ownership of businesses that have real presence, employees, products, and consequences.

    Just because shitbags have turned the markets into exploits and dragged our leadership through bed with them, doesn't make their claims about what the market is for 'correct'. It just means that the oligarchy has persitent rhetoric and have established law to uphold it.

  3. Re:yes on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    The course I took did. We coded a small database and simplified code, etc. This was an entry level course in 1999. What do they do now? Describe some functions then pass you with an easy A?

  4. Re:Who gives a shit? on How Will Steam on GNU/Linux Affect Software Freedom? · · Score: 2

    Blowing mod points here....

    1) paid, non free, games that people actually enjoy is far preferable to the current swath of trash games available on Linux. Every time I say this, some fanatic links me to the same horded list of the same crappy linux games and says they are good. No. Not to people who *really* game.

    2) there are tons of peopl like me who have been dying for serious good games to come to linux so we can spend less time supporting microsoft and more on an OS we find valuable (linux).

    3) I don't know why people would have any fear of proprietary software becoming some looming threat to openness in linux. Its not like freware on wndows has compromised the OS. I think fanatics are seeing far more than reality in those projections. Vote with dllar, get more good proprietary games, linux userbase goes up, game devs interested in making the games, not manipulating the OS into proprietary world....

    Fear not, the DRM isn't a real problem. It's like the "first world problems" meme on quickmeme.com.

  5. Re:It's a long term policy on Will Real Name Policies Improve Comments? · · Score: 1

    And then another generation for employers to realize they are losing out on talent by applying prejudice and ending up with a specific subset of the population with a specific subset of less-than-ideal attributes.

    Everyone knows that the best form of management is management that works -- management that actually makes comprehensive judgement of its human resources and utilizes the individuals as effectively as possible. This means that Billy Bunkins on facebook may be a beer chugging lightly racist redneck -- but at work he is the king of fabricating product X, nobody can even come close to his quality and rate, and he is cordial to all coworkers regardless of race. A good management team will recognize that having Billy Bunkins is more valuable than applying prejudice and selecting less effective but less controversial people (when considering their private lives).

  6. Re:yes on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you understood things that might have exponential basis, or you made projections of some value based on the increase/decrease evidence in the past --- even if you didn't do anything on paper but just did fuzzy concepts in your head to get the gist of it --- then you did use it. Chances are that you did use, at least, algebra, and didn't notice.

    Here's an example of me using C Programming education in my current work, stem cell biology: In C programming you can take something complex, like a database, or some complex string of things, and you can OBJECTIFY it. And in this you simplify future treatment of that complex thing by calling it some name -- it is objectified. From that education the powerful method of objectification is made clear in my head. So now in cell biology, to speed up my thinking and make complex concepts simple, I objectify them. So, for example, I take a well designed and intricate process that takes several pages to describe, and I call it something like "XA-2", or whatever I want. At that point my conscious understanding of XA-2 has become baked into the brain, and to consider that process in even bigger concepts, I can logically apply XA-2 in my follow up experiments without trying to conceive each step every moment of the way.

    There are lots of hidden benefits to education. And there are lots of ways to learn.

    I find all the time I spent dancing in packed clubs to be extremely helpful in maneuvering through big crowds or dense traffic. I became experienced in carrying expensive liquids through heavily packed crowds that have unpredictable pulses in various directions --- in time I learned where to look and how to defocus my eyes to see the periphery and predict the movement of people to see when openings happen and closings (squished) may happen.... you get good at it and you push right through crowds that most people go really slow through.

    I find lots of learning from video gaming -- predictions and efficiencies, etc. This is why experienced gamers do well on new games whereas new gamers usually take longer to pick up on new games -- experience in analytical perspective in gaming contexts.

    If you can recognize how you've improved in some skillset -- even skillsets that are seemingly recreational -- you can translate/articulate those skills to other facets of life.

  7. Re:I wish Gore had won. on Spooky: How NSA's Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life · · Score: 1

    I agree completely.

  8. Re:Standard connectors? LOL you wish! on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth OR usb.

    Dumb.

  9. Re:Standard connectors? LOL you wish! on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    Here's your spoon. My first search, first result.

    Dock uses microusb or bluetooth. Has volume controls and more functionaity. Stfu. Keep playing dumb, dummy.

      http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005HY4UG4/ref=aw_d_detail?pd=1&qid=1343183369&sr=8-1

    Waiting for you to nitpick some insignificant point, like a 3rd party app component, as if apple's first party hardware and integration isn't through the same technological basis.... and also to keep distracting the blunt and obvious point I made about how apple could achieve the same things with industry standards.

  10. Re:Standard connectors? LOL you wish! on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    All you need for a speaker dock is a 1/8" plug, or 3 wires from a microusb connection.

    Tip, Ring, Sleeve.

    Now you can pretend that actual devices that even have controls don't exist, even though they do.

    Keep playing dumb. It looks natural.

  11. Re:Standard connectors? LOL you wish! on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    What about your post was supposed to refute my point?

    As I said before, everything in your initial claim is possible through the microusb. I have had smartphones that do line out, hdmi out, docking/audio, and more.

    The point was that everything apple will do is possible through the microusb port and your original point is not valid.

    Its not my fault your google search stopped when my point started to look valid. And I'm not here to spoonfeed fanatics.

    I know I'm replying to the finger you're keeping jammed in your ear, so we can end this. Bye.

  12. Re:Standard connectors? LOL you wish! on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    If your argument were true, smatphones with microusb ports (standard) wouldn't be capable of those same things. To your misfortune, many are, and whether or not they can is an option, not a limit.

    Try again.

  13. Re:Standard connectors? LOL you wish! on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    You forgot one projection...

    If they used a standard, people would applaud it and have little criticsm.

    I know you omitted this on purpose fanboi.

  14. Re:I wish Gore had won. on Spooky: How NSA's Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life · · Score: 2

    Fyi, Paul would urge states to make their own regulations.

  15. Re:The next question is... on Political Ideology Shapes How People Perceive Temperature · · Score: 3, Informative

    People with higher education, especially in sciences, tend to be more left/liberal/democrat/socialist. This is common knowledge.

  16. Re:Steps in a McDonalds experience on McDonald's Denies Prof's Claim Staff Attacked Him For Wearing Digital Glasses · · Score: 1

    Did you ever understand biochemistry from a more in-depth perspective, or just reference the high-school level basics in arguments?

    Natural metabolism is fat-oxidizing with low glucose-from-food/stomach-in-blood sourcing for energy. In a natural state, the evolved human species (and our primate relatives) have regular access to vegetables, some protein (animal/plant), and some/scarce fruits; none contain high levels of sugars, and most contain complex sugars that require extra metabolic processing beyond amylase (the enzyme in your spit that breaks sucrose into 1glucose/1fructose) This is why the most informed and healthiest diets exclude none of the basics, but are modeled more closely to what would naturally be available to us without farming/processing technology. Note: There is evidence that 'cooking' food has played a role in our evolution over the last 100k years, allowing for a shorter small intestine, but the advent of higher technology has *not* influenced our evolution.

    Glucose is the mediating energy source for the krebs cycle, but to maintain a standard level of that glucose, very little actual sugars from food is required. The rest are stored. Where does natural glucose for the krebs come from? Fats and proteins are converted at the cellular level in muscle/fat tissues to blood-soluble intermediates, travel to the liver, and there are processed to regenerate blood glucose. This is the conversion of the stored energy back to the required energy if/when the low rate of sugar-from-food extinguishes.

    The glucose levels available in junk food are so high that almost all of it goes to storage: the liver/pancreas will maintain glucose levels very effectively and rapidly convert to fat storage. This means that had you chosen a healthier diet with more micronutrients and fiber, less sugar/glucose, the available proteins/fats in that diet would easily suffice and likely generate less 'stored energy' (aka fat body), while not flooding the blood with spiking glucose.
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    We really like sugar because without technology we would not find sugar-rich sources of energy in the wild as frequently as we now have available with grains/cane/processing/etc ---- so we have evolved not only to have an acute sense of smell for sugars, but also a heightened sensitivity to sugars in edibles, a natural response to drive a primate with limited access to 'stock up while its available'. Sugar drives appetite, protein/fiber/fat satiates.

    But since our modern tech lets you stock up whenever you want, and you don't appear to understand metabolism beyond the simple krebs/citricacid cycle (yeah I know it looks complex, but that is actually a small component in a very complex system), maybe you could take some notes here and live a healthier life? I hope you don't get defensive regarding this post, however pedantic I may 'sound' as text on a screen, and will feel driven to further understand nutrition, metabolism, and biochemistry to better yourself and your family.

    Cheers

  17. Re:Steps in a McDonalds experience on McDonald's Denies Prof's Claim Staff Attacked Him For Wearing Digital Glasses · · Score: 1

    I have 2 kids. They aren't habituated (I think you missed that part of my point) to junk food and usually don't really like it.... unless there is a toy...

  18. Re:there are signs on McDonald's Denies Prof's Claim Staff Attacked Him For Wearing Digital Glasses · · Score: 1

    Great story! Loved it.

    Also, new englanders (when outside of natural habitat) turn on the heavy new england sauce when they wanna flirt with girls. It's hilarious.

  19. Re:Steps in a McDonalds experience on McDonald's Denies Prof's Claim Staff Attacked Him For Wearing Digital Glasses · · Score: 1

    To build on that point, retards were criticizing so-called "san francisco libraghls" for banning McD from putting toys (incentives) in unhealthymeals.

    If you ask any parent out there whose kids don't notice 1-3, they will agree tht 1-3 has been replaced in the child-mind with "I want the toy!"

    Take any kid that isn't solely habituated to fast food, take the toy out, and chances are they want to eat something else that is highly likely to be healthier.

  20. blame statisticians! on Chicken Vaccines Combine To Produce Deadly Virus · · Score: 1

    It is the sole duty of a statistician in science to prove nonabsolute with a "confidence" that makes it seem absolute.

    In this case it would appear that th vaccines contained virii/particles that were "statistically not replicating" but were actually doing so (else no recombination could have even survived).

    Statisticians give confidence, but that confidence should always be heeded and with caveat.

  21. Re:Tablets are great on Windows 8 Mail Leaves Users Pining For the Desktop — or Even Their Phones · · Score: 0

    And just like every other attempt to copy good ideas they once dissed, microsoft will fail again. Even windows itself is based on copying and it was only so highly profitable through antitrust acts they are too scrutinized to pull off now.

    Sell sell sell!

  22. Re:So you're telling me on Windows 8 Mail Leaves Users Pining For the Desktop — or Even Their Phones · · Score: 1

    That's because everything google does is half baked.

    Do no evil? Do nothing well! (Except search)

  23. Re:So you're telling me on Windows 8 Mail Leaves Users Pining For the Desktop — or Even Their Phones · · Score: 1

    Sort by author. I bet your life that you can't.

    Basic feature, not present. Ooh! Dat google logo make noise an I can clikkit!

    Google made a moog dedicated web audio interface.... gmail still lacks basic features. Trash company. Nacho cheese quality products for the "always owned chinese products" low expectation generation.

  24. Re:Great on Rethinking How Congress Pushes Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    Our judges are from the same law schools, and they are all good friends... what now?

  25. Re:Holy funding, splatman! on Ouya Android Console Blows Past Kickstarter Goal · · Score: 1

    99 bucks is so little money nowadays. I would gladly shell out 200 for a way better version of the same concept.

    I think this will be for casual gamers. Nothing about this idea sounds like immersive graphics and physics. Sounds more like an android Wii.... meh.

    More power, please. Gamers that use their systems and hang around like blockbusters far more than popping bubbles.