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  1. Re:Count cards on In New AI Benchmark, Computer Takes On Four Top Professional Poker Players · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should work out that there not all card games are blackjack. There are no revealed cards that are then hidden before a reshuffle in a texas hold em game, so there is nothing to count. Seven card stud, as one example, would be a poker game in which there are such cards - but such a small number that all the player's (well or the ones who can actually play) remember them.

  2. Re:No, This Is Important for People to See on Wellness App Author Lied About Cancer Diagnosis · · Score: 1

    The "water is wet" was for a different claim and thus irrelevant. Again words mean things, as does punctuation. You can't just randomly stick things together to build your strawman.

  3. Re:No, This Is Important for People to See on Wellness App Author Lied About Cancer Diagnosis · · Score: 1

    "but the nutjob, true believers in psuedo-science" - those words mean something. Maybe try not just skipping over them?

  4. Re:Ehhh What ? on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: 1

    And just how closed is this garden of yours you are claiming to be a closed system.

  5. Re:I guess he crossed the wrong people on Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal · · Score: 1

    Sure but that's irrelevant to the argument that " I just don't want to eat a food that manufactures its own pesticide".

    "I think there might be some bad knock on effects to introducing such plants into the ecosystem" is a different argument entirely than "I'm scared of eating things that make pesticides even though I eat them everyday but I'm not informed enough about basic biology to realize it".

  6. Re:I guess he crossed the wrong people on Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal · · Score: 1

    All plants manufacture their own pesticides. That's why they still exist. We happen to be immune to some of them, and hence we call some plants edible.

    So yes everyone is just fine eating food that manufactures its own pesticide.

  7. Re:"exploit" on Exploit For Crashing Minecraft Servers Made Public · · Score: 1

    Apparently you don't.

  8. Re:Larger landing area on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    That's how you do it. A suicide burn or "hover slam" is the best option otherwise you use too much fuel. You want to burn as late as possible - the ideal would be a full throttle burn as low as possible that puts at 0 velocity at exactly the touchdown point, but of course you won't pull that off.

    They also want to be "off target" until very late since if it engine fails you'd rather it hit the water not the landing platform at very high velocity.

  9. Re:Headache on Acetaminophen Reduces Both Pain and Pleasure, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    Where's the conflict?

    He claimed that orgasms could both treat a headache or induce a headache depending on the details of the headache. And then that caffeine and aspirin can also treat a headache - which is clearly true for most people aspirin helps for those with a caffeine withdrawal headache caffeine will help too.

    How does any of that conflict?

  10. Re:case study on smoking twice as much on Cannabis Smoking Makes Students Less Likely To Pass University Courses · · Score: 1

    Reducing by 100% is not the opposite of increasing by 100%.

    I just can't see someone who smokes one joint every Saturday night changing to two joints every Saturday and that causing their grades to drop to literally 0.

  11. Re:DIfferent thinking to gravity on Supernovae May Not Be Standard Candles; Is Dark Energy All Wrong? · · Score: 1

    That the sun that planet orbits doesn't get closer and closer would be a pretty good indication that the "everthing is doubling in size" explanation for "gravity".

  12. Re:MORE pot perhaps. candy and soda aisle length m on Cannabis Smoking Makes Students Less Likely To Pass University Courses · · Score: 1

    Candy is an impulse buy and something that children will whine and beg for in a checkout line. I don't think pot is really that similar. Plus if it isn't legal chances are you still only gave to walk 30 feet - we are talking about a location where it is available legally for some people. I recall cigarettes and alcohol being easily available in high school because there was always someone old enough to get it and resell it.

    I also doubt that smoking 5% more is going to drop your grades by 5%. Smoking double isn't going to drop your grades by 100% after all.

    If they have the numbers then they have the numbers (I haven't actually read the study or methodology or anything) I'm not trying to say they are wrong. I'm just saying I don't find it "not surprising".

  13. "This, they argue, is not that surprising." on Cannabis Smoking Makes Students Less Likely To Pass University Courses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I find it quite surprising.

    Sure being a pot head is going to have a detrimental effect on your grades.

    But given my experiences with university in a place where marijuana was not legal I can't believe there are enough students who would not smoke when it is illegal but would when it is legal to swing the overall grade by 5%.

  14. On the bright side on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 4, Informative

    At least he didn't just take 8 bullets to the back.

  15. Re:regulation? on 3D Printed Guns Might Lead To Law Changes In Australia · · Score: 1

    Making money isn't the motivator for the state and thus that is completely irrelevant.

    Australia has no 2nd amendment equivalent and no history of a need to violently overthrow its own government (they used their words so to speak, and will again if the bulk of the people ever decide to go the way of a republic) and thus far less opposition to prohibition of firearms - with a bunch of exemptions.

  16. Re:These days... on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    No. You just can't read it would seem.

    "like that" as in "One wants to get paid as much as possible, the other wants to acquire something for as little as possible."

    You may notice that was the quoted text. Examples of cases like that that do not result in individual negotiation. No contradiction. Just a counter example to the original claim that the former implies the later.

    I want to pay as little as possible when I buy toothpaste. The supermarket wants to get paid as much as possible. And yet we do not negotiate on an individual basis to determine the price. Maybe your supermarkets are different?

  17. Re:These days... on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 0

    You just have comprehension problems.

  18. Re:Hauled? Forced? on Google, Apple and Microsoft Squirm As Global Tax Schemes Scrutinized · · Score: 1

    You claimed they were not hauled or forced. Whether the answers were correct/accurate/truthful/what the askers wanted is irrelevant to that claim of yours.

  19. Re:Hauled? Forced? on Google, Apple and Microsoft Squirm As Global Tax Schemes Scrutinized · · Score: 1

    Most people consider "come and answer questions or go to prison for 6 months" to be forcing you to come and answer.

  20. Re:Wrong profession on Prosecutors Get an 'A' On Convictions of Atlanta Ed-Reform-Gone-Bad Test Cheats · · Score: 2

    They clearly aren't smart enough, for the low bar that is wall street.

    1. They are teachers.
    2. They got caught cheating in tests in the US.
    3. They didn't take a deal but instead went to trial and got convicted.

  21. Re:Sad on 'Revenge Porn' Operator Gets 18 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    Whether he "fails at business" depends on what the probability of him being caught was and the probability of various sentence options.

  22. Re: I do not understand on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    How did he "lose"?

    He got to be President for the maximum amount of time currently allowed. He got to make a mint (not that he's short a buck to start with) on the speaker tour afterwards. What did he actually lose?

  23. Re:AND they stole Halo from the PC world.... on Microsoft Considered Giving Away Original Xbox · · Score: 1

    Halo was going to be a Windows and Mac release: http://www.ign.com/articles/19...

    Of course it would have been a different game anyway...

  24. Re:they don't make it easy on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    None of my questions were "hard". 3 were the street, city, and county and somewhere i had lived - and the correct options where all for one address. And the other question was what bank did you open a credit card with in 2005. So anywhere I had something shipped from that I paid via a credit card had all the answers in that one transaction.

  25. Re:Only mostly dead? on Attempted Breach of NSA HQ Checkpoint; One Shot Dead · · Score: 1

    It's "living dead" not "un dead" - the zombie lobby will be up in arms at that non-PC language.

    Actually maybe that's what the article is claiming. The living dead zombies were attacking the NSA but they are now dead dead since luckily an agent on duty new to aim for the head.