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  1. Re:Finally! A plan that makes sense on Trump's Infrastructure Plan Has No Dedicated Money For Broadband (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Unpatriotic lies. If it's not an app, it doesn't exist. If it doesn't exist, it can't be taxed. If it can't be taxed, it can't lobby. If it can't lobby, it can't make campaign contributions.

  2. Re:Bitch, bitch, bitch on Trump's Infrastructure Plan Has No Dedicated Money For Broadband (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Where were you when Obama was running up the debt the tune of a trillion a year, hotshot?

    Not that you're wrong, but why are you only choosing to be right now? And why do I think you'll go stealth next time a Democrat is in the White House?

  3. Re:Definition on Countries that Are Most Highly Invested in Automation (ifr.org) · · Score: 0

    That doesn't answer the question. Is one robot arm a robot? What about one with a welding attachment and another one with something else at the same station running off a common program? It's probably more meaningful to estimate capital cost or maintenance cost vs human salary, but that would count less sexy capital equipment like CNCs and automatic canning machines, so you won't be able to have the click-baity headling about the robots putting us all out of work.

    TLDR version: industrial increases productivity. Has for centuries (plural).

  4. Re:Translation on Bill Gates: Tech Companies Inviting Government Intervention (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a good rule to live by, actually. Kind of like "don't shit where you eat."

  5. Re:Hate speech on Bill Gates: Tech Companies Inviting Government Intervention (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Baloney. "Hate speech" is and has been a cudgel used by people who want to silence someone they don't agree with, usually for pointing out something the silencer doesn't want placed under scrutiny.

    Jordan Peterson is a case in point. Reading through the accusations against him, you'd think he's Hilter, Mao, Stalin, and Satan in the flesh. And all that for the crime of pointing out that there are two genders and government has no authority to force you to believe otherwise.

    The price of your freedom is my freedom. And also the right of the Klan to hold an occasional rally. Deal with it, cupcake.

  6. Re: Wait a minute... on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Court rulings are not right by virtue if being court rulings. They are right by virtue if being right, only if they're right. A rather infamous court ruling held that black people couldn't be citizens, and another held that segregation was A-OK.

  7. Re:Thought Police on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes they are. In some African countries, by other black people.

  8. Re:Wait a minute... on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Equality under the law means that no animals get to be more equal than any others. If you think that line if thinking is racist, then you've got the problem, not me,

  9. Re:Child but not Teen proof. on Researchers Are Developing An Algorithm That Makes Smartphones Child-Proof (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you leave your teen alone with a credit card? With the keys to the liquor cabinet? With your gun?

    No? Then why give them a device with your financial and/or email credentials stored on it?

  10. If that's true, you're a horrible parent and your child will grow up incapable of deferring gratification or paying attention to anything for more than a minute or two at a time. Children that age should play with blocks and toy cars and dolls alongside other children, not with Narcissus’s mirror.

  11. Re:Why not a middle ground? on Rejoice: Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone Looks To Keep the Headphone Jack Alive (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because adapters are stupid and clunky in general, and the lighning adapter on my wife's iphone in particular doesn't work properly half the time.

    Now I ask you, why the hell would I need to waste my time going to the store and spending money on a replacement, which may or may not actually fix the issue, when I can buy a phone with a headphone jack and not have to worry about that particular nuisance?

  12. Re: By "offensive" they include moderate conservat on YouTube Will Remove Ads, Downgrade Discoverability of Channels Posting Offensive Videos (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Despots often declare their favored opinions to be "facts" while deeming contrary information to be "lies." Strong free speech laws remove government entirely from that arena.

    This isn't government, it's a popular private service. However: if culture is downstream of politics, it should emulate our laws about the sanctity of the soap box in the public sphere. If culture is upstream of politics, then if we value legal protections against government censorship, we ought to model that attitude in our private culture as well, for if it goes down, government censorship will be the next domino.

  13. Re:Brain Drain on Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Rick Santorum hasn't held an elected office in twelve years. He lost that office after the people of Pennsylviania, the same people that voted for both Trump and Obama, had enough with his theatrics. The grandstanding over Terri Schiavo's body is what did it for most people. I lived in PA at the time, and I voted for him out of spite for the Dems, but I held my nose doing it.

    And if you think the craziest thing about Ron Paul is creationism...well OK.

    Bottom line: people vote for extremists all the time. Sometimes polar opposites. Life isn't binary, but most American elections are.

  14. Re:Emigration easier now on Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    So you can't cite any? Or say anything without making up whole new insult words? WTF is a 'fuckstick' exactly? Is it some sort of sex toy?

  15. Re:Brain Drain on Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Anti-science? Remind us again how many genders there are.

    Anti-knowledge? Remind us who exactly has been chasing academics down with baseball bats?

    Anti-immigrant? Plenty of immigrants consistently vote for border enforcement and deportation of fence-hoppers.

    Try again.

  16. Re:My experience with Chinese grad students on Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    No, for all you know it's the opposite of "ignorant," which is to say "well-informed." Probably through first-hand experience.

  17. Re:My experience with Chinese grad students on Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    For the purpose of my argument, which was to assert the limited yield from these sorts of recruiting efforts, I have just the right number of categories. I don't understand why you'd be agree about it, AC, unless I've struck a nerve with my less than flattering description of people (plural) I've met, worked with, and watched operate over several years.

  18. Re:massive cluelessness on Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    How much does this kind of trolling pay? I bet it doesn't pay that much, otherwise it would be of higher quality. It might even include some copy-paste talking points instead of silly word games.

  19. Re:massive cluelessness on Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    So arms sales a few years in and arms embargoes to combatants are having our fingers in the war? OK. Sure. Hell, I bet there's an Intel or AMD chip somewhere in the North Korean satellite launch control room. That's tantamount to building their missiles for them with our own hands! Ditto for the Iranian nuclear program.

  20. That's because in the US, who's in government is largely inconsequential. Our society is dominated by private decisionmaking rather than public policy. So long as the windbags do anything egregious or intrusive or otherwise offensive, they will get reelected. Whether it's democrats or republicans in office in DC or the state capitol doesn't really affect where you can live, what jobs you can work, or whether the supermarket is stocked with food.

  21. Re:education in the U.S. should be USA first and n on Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Experience is the education. Experience of life among engineering students and engineering professors prepares you to experience the rest of your life among engineers.

  22. Re:Emigration easier now on Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Evidence?

  23. My experience with Chinese grad students on Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    here in the US at a top-5 engineering program about 8 years ago.

    A third of them are bright and chipper but too obsequious to learn well. Embarrassed to ask for help, and all too quick to waste time praising your intelligence when they do. Go off to nowhere for weeks at a time, and then present a bunch of nonsense because they didn't acknowledge the limits of their own knowledge and just threw everything at the wall. We all have these limits, but most of us from here who make it to research-heavy grad schools have the good sense to ask questions based on those limits instead of trying to hide them and hoping for the best.

    Another third is here on vacation. They've got connections back home, which is how they scored their spot abroad, and they view grad school as subsidized playtime to take trips and go shopping instead of buckling down and working. They've already got a sweet lined up back home, and their stint in the US is a box to check off. Not just Chinese, I've seen some Indians fall into this category too. Not many Americans. Americans don't tend to go to grad school for vacation.

    The last third is comparable to the bulk of American students. Some are better than others, some are worse but they're there to work.

    So whose more likely to bite on the shiny back home being offered at these recruitment events? Probably not that last third.

  24. Re:massive cluelessness on Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Ukraine, Syria (start to about 2015-6), the India/Pakistan wars over Kashmir, whatever the hell is going in CAR right now, Uganda civil war in the 90s, in fact just about all the wars that aren't Iraq or Afghanistan we've got nothing to do with. Try harder.

  25. So lemme get this straight on Facebook Hired a Full-Time Pollster To Monitor Zuckerberg's Approval Ratings (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    A guy who made his billions tracking what people like and don't like had to hire a polster to tell him if people like him. But not just like him, more specifically whether they like his facebook posts.

    Just plain wow. And also: who the hell actually uses facebook?