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  1. Re:Goods and services must be produced on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    You are grossly over estimating how much basic income is supposed to be. People in my country right this moment have access to the dole, and could stop working in order to receive it; they don't because their current standard of living is higher.

    Its called basic income for a good reason. The current situation would not change very much with its implementation other than creating a stable floor on which people can risk new enterprise.

  2. If you give the anonymous mob what it wants - attention - expect more of them. The social, near primal need to 'group up' in response to threats from women does them no favors online. If the mob targets a man, he will whine and complain and give them only so much attention. But he will never paint a target across all men and say 'look what we have to deal with[as men]'.

    You might want to stop dragging every other woman into bullshit you caused yourself as an individual, because you'll never outnumber the anonymous mob.

  3. Re:Works for people too on Australian Experiment Wipes Out Over 80% of Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy on the cultural bolshevism. We know what happened last time.

  4. Re:Already resolved on Anti-Amazon Graffiti Increasing In Seattle (with Photos) (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    You may be wondering about cows vs sows.

    GET OUT OF MY HEAD

  5. Re:I've been using Tivo since 2000 on Only 39 Percent of Viewers Choose Live TV As Their Default Option, Says Study (deadline.com) · · Score: 1

    Skipping over a boring segment

    Since the rise in reality shows, its been a bit more than 10 to 20 mins here. Some might say the entire genre.

  6. Re:The good ole BBS days on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    They can have my real name, street address, blood type and color of my piss this morning if they make their password rules as flexible as they were in 2001.

  7. Re:More Coffee - Less Sugary Soda on Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Do you have some sources for that increasing evidence?

  8. The first or... just another in the line of consciousness that evolves sporadically only to accidentally kill itself soon after.

  9. Re:But it worked fine in Kerbal Space Program on Uber 'Neglected' Simulation Testing For Its Autonomous Vehicles, Says Report (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    KSP engine is unity.

  10. >"I don't see it destroying jobs grim reaper style," he said. "People are really inventive at creating new things for humans to do for which will pay them a wage. Leisure, travel, social care, cultural heritage, even reality TV shows. People want people around them and interacting with them."

    Those things are usually in the realm of entertainment media. The technology already exists that leverages what they do, its not a traveling band of minstrels that have to make do with a small stage, per town. Its internet pipes, and a few clicks on OBS. The 'people want other people' jobs are not enough to sustain an economy, and most people are only capable of low skilled, defined parameter jobs.

    The robot is also getting better; they are not just the 'arm in the dark' that has to be painstakingly measured to do the exact thing they want. It can see what its doing now, within a margin of error. Once it makes business sense to install these, and remove the human, they will do so. And the other companies competing in the same market will be forced to do likewise.

  11. Re:Still curious on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Gambling is supposed to be fun

  12. Why A console on Atari Launches Linux Gaming Box Starting at $199 (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would any retro gamer want a console?

  13. If I head out there, I might meet someone else. I simply can't take that risk

  14. Re:So many things wrong with this, where do I star on Google Assistant Will Call Businesses For You Via 'Duplex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    2. More depersonalization of your interactions with other people.

    3. More excuses to avoid interactions with other human beings.

    Were these supposed to be negatives?

  15. Re:How can it not be safer? on Sorry Elon Musk, There's No Clear Evidence Autopilot Saves Lives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If i recall correctly, the turning semi crash had the brake fail. The system - or the human - would have resulted in the same accident. The fire truck can be squashed in a patch. The freeway divider was due to incredibly faded lane markings. These things can be fixed easily, unlike humans that still cause far more fatalities no matter how many 'patches' we apply to them.

  16. Re:Something is seriously wrong on How Will Automation Affect Different US Cities? (northwestern.edu) · · Score: 1

    If you don't have a job, you don't have a place in society. You're not contributing. This is very destructive to the human soul, and people will start killing themselves because they don't know why they're alive.

    Contributing to what? My bosses vacation plans? The 'economy'? I don't think I would kill myself over something so petty.

  17. Re:Everything is possible! on Wind and Solar Can Power Most of the United States, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    With solar being that 20% figure, how good is molten salt towers by comparison? The CSP mirror things.

  18. Offensive to our advertisers.

  19. Whats important to learn here is the computer system in control of the car is taught differently. If a human makes this kind of error, we have a legal punishment system and just hope it doesn't happen again. Except it does, frequently. More 'care' is taken, but it seems we have some hard limits. But software cannot ignore updates. If this kind of error occurs, and something was noticed, it will never go unnoticed again, for any model. They are a slave to the update.

  20. Re:Communist videos? on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You still don't understand what communism is. And you likely will never even bother, just parrot what you've heard. Its not the same as failed dictatorships. But of course you'll believe anyone that tells you they're communist or socialist, instantly and without question.

  21. Re:Communist videos? on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    even though the nazis were amateurs compared to the communists/maxists when comes genocide, repression and subjugation.

    Our capitalist benefactors are weathy with the current status quo, and have paid quite a large sum for that line you spout. Communism is their biggest threat after all. They have successfully copied the evil from corrupt dictatorships onto that threat, the prediction of communism from marx.

    Better dead than red, right?

  22. All this tech on Self-Driving Cars Are Being Attacked By Angry Californians (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    We are busy trying to prevent human collisions with this tech. Seems like they're not ready to give up just yet.

  23. How much is there to match? on Matching DNA To a Diet Doesn't Work (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We like to think nutrition is wildly more complex than it really is these days. You have so many food options and recipies, its hard not to think in simpler terms. But all food, in terms of weight loss efforts, can be categorized by 4 groups.

    Carbohydrates, 4 kcal/gram
    Fat 9 kcal/gram
    Protein 5 kcal/gram
    Alcohol 7 kcal/gram

    That is all food. Every recipe you will see, anything from a vending machine to to highest michelin star restaurant. Of course, this ignores micronutrient content but the good thing about humans is we get sick of eating the exact same thing, so deficiencies in those are hard to come by.

    The problem is over consumption of those 4 things. If you consume more kcal per day than you need, you will store the excess as fat. There is no other reason. What caused this over consumption is heavily debated, but the more something is argued the less it really matters, because food is not capable of mind control.

    What I guess as to the original control of kcal consumption, pre-obesisty epidemic, was even simpler: money. Food budgets were strict, they had to account for what you needed, not what you wanted. Food became insanely cheaper with refrigeration and other preservatives, meaning even if the food budget remained exactly the same, or even lowered, the new kcal values able to be bought were orders of magnitude higher than necessary.
    Nobody ever had to know what kcal or their TDEE even was when food budgets were tighter.

    Now that we do, we see all around us the people that attach mass to themselves haven't realized that yet. Buy a food scale, look up your TDEE online, and do some basic math or continue your gluttony.

  24. Re:Doom and Gloom? on China Reassigns 60,000 Soldiers To Plant Trees In Bid To Fight Pollution · · Score: 1

    Because I understand the science. If I'm the fugitive gas, CO2, and I get caught by a tree and held, it is temporary. The tree will fully mature, stop adding carbon to its body, start getting eaten by bacteria or termites and then I'm cut loose again. Thats not sequestration.

    Iron fertilization of the ocean to grow phytoplankton is a far better use of their time.

  25. Re:Trading Cards? on German Authorities Are Considering a Ban On Loot Boxes (heise.de) · · Score: 1

    Trading cards are of limited flexibility and scope. They're also physical, and production is far lower, so their range of exposure is very low. Loot boxes can show up in basically any game, for nil cost. That makes them far more pervasive.