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  1. Re:This is a bit disingenuous ... on Pollution Responsible For a Quarter of Deaths of Young Children, Says WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    While the article doesn't make clear, but I suspect most of these deaths are in 3rd world countries that aren't industrialized where unchlorinated water and indoor wood fires are common and are much worse then pollution caused by industry.

  2. Doomsday Scenarios on AI Scientists Gather to Plot Doomsday Scenarios (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is one of my favorite doomsday scenarios: Friendship is Optimal.

    It is similar to, but better in my option, then The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect.

  3. Re:some things should be trivial for any expert on Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process (theoutline.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Experts know that it is almost always better to use the sort from the language's library, and if they can't then they would look up the code for Quick sort and use that.

  4. Re:Be entertaining on In Twenty, Fifty Years, 'We May Be Entertaining AI', Says Netflix CEO (barrons.com) · · Score: 1

    In most cases, enough people watch it to satisfy the creator's desire to be entertaining.

  5. Most people, to one degree or another, have a desire to entertain others. Once automation has replaced all jobs, the human drive to entertain and be creative will be able to fully flourish. It may come to the point where the supply of entertainment will exceed demand and AI will be developed to consume, praise or even criticize what people produce. By that times people will be so used to dealing with AI, maybe they will be able to accept AI as their audience, as difficult it is to imagine now.

  6. Re:Wow I've just had a crazy Idea!! on LG's Latest Battery Is Also a Phone (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Carrying a external battery connected via USB is vastly superior to swapping batteries.

    - Don't have to reboot to swap.
    - Cheaper and easier to find
    - Same battery can change any device
    - Much larger sizes available.

    The main advantage of a removable battery is that it is easier to replace when it is worn out.

  7. Re:For the US, not for a political party on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    It's one thing to want change, but there are an infinite number of ways to change and most are worse or nonsensical.

  8. Whay hasn't this always been done on How UPS Trucks Saved Millions of Dollars By Eliminating Left Turns (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    I would have thought that the first or second generation trip planning software would have weighted against left turns when it was written decades ago. It's pretty obvious change and would be simple to add to the algorithm.

  9. Re:No one tests software on a slow connection on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    It's closer to lunch in this timezone.

  10. Re:No one tests software on a slow connection on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    My transit prediction webapp, TransSee should work fine on slow networks. All that bandwidth sucking still just means more work for me to create it.

  11. Re:Communism on 'Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones' (ycombinator.com) · · Score: 2

    "Your purchasing power is directly tied to your productivity."

    Wages and productivity became decoupled in 1973. Almost all the money from productivity growth since then has gone to the top 10% (half going to the top 1%).

    This happened about when Noe-liberalism took hold under pro-business Presidents like Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama (and Canadian and British counterparts).

  12. Re:Communism on 'Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones' (ycombinator.com) · · Score: 1

    The lack of legitimate investments opportunities is due to the fact consumers have had all their money sucked out, so there is nothing left to do but trade high-end real estate and derivatives among the millionaires. It not because of specifiable "regulations".

  13. Communism on 'Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones' (ycombinator.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "deemphasizing investment rounds"

    "making something people want"

    "creating lasting value"

    "sustainable businesses"

    Sounds like Communism to me.

  14. Better one state's surveillance, then badly self-administered servers where the data is available to every state's surveillance and any script-kiddies who come along.

  15. I would have assumed to delay was to encourage people to buy albums twice, once they they can get it right away and then again to fulfill there irrational desire to the reto.

  16. It may need to be change when the kernel is updated. Its the testing that's the real hurdle.

  17. No. The main think making updates hard is the device drivers have to be updated and tested.

  18. Connecting with people on Facebook Has a Team That Handles Mark Zuckerberg's Page (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "A Facebook spokeswoman said the company's service is an easy way for executives to connect with people."

    Having your staff post on Facebook for you doesn't technically meet the definition of connecting with people.

  19. They presumably try do peer reviews on security software to reduce the chance of sabotaged code from getting through.

  20. Back before development was professionalized, was Christmas a period of rapid change as kernel hackers finally had time off work to really dig into Linux?

  21. The main things stopping it is the willingness for the software supplier to release a ARM version. WIn64 was wide spread years before most closed source software supported it.

  22. Re:so who originated this venerable function, anyw on David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The unix utility more was written in 1978, according to Wikipedia.

  23. Re:Better be ready to be beat up when layed off wo on Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Our current system will fail when automation gets to the point where nobody needs to do anything.

  24. The Charter of Rights is close to the strength of the 1st amendment.

    The main difference is section 1 of the Charter which is "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society." The allows us do things like limit political donations.

    We also have a hate speech law, but it is applied only in extraordinary cases and most prosecutions go allow the way to the supreme court.

  25. Just remember to always bring your mass spectrometer when you go shopping.