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  1. Re:Then leave Silicon Valley on More Than One-Third of Schoolchildren Are Homeless In Shadow of Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I'm in Europe. My home town was bombed many times in WWII, the church had to be partly rebuild I believe pretty much everything else is newer.

    So it all depends. :-)

  2. Re:No problem here! on Is Your Internet Connection Free From Bufferbloat? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    So what OS did you use ? Did you enable fq_codel or similar ?

  3. Re:Forget BB, the plethora of ad-serving sites... on Is Your Internet Connection Free From Bufferbloat? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    You really think it's just ads ?

    Here is the Bufferbloat demo from 2013:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  4. Re:Second to announce being first. on Finland Set To Become First Country To Ban Coal Use For Energy (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the US going to stop messing around in other countries with their military, the NSA spying and CIA ? That actually sounds very tempting. Maybe we will pay for a wall, maybe even a dome. ;-) That would put a lot of people in the US out of work. What I'm always surprised by is how the people in the US care so much about keeping manual labour jobs instead of getting more and better education and thus actually have a chance of getting a bigger paycheck.

    After we take all the resources and the money from the US that you still own all the other countries in the world, their should be more than enough money to build that dome. ;-)

    Here is a question: as many know, the US makes a mess of the middle east with their military forces because of natural resources. Why would they need to do that if there are enough natural resources in the US ? Have you ever thought about that ?

  5. Re:Steve Jobs rather than Tim Cook? on Survey Says: Elon Musk Is Most Admired Tech Leader, Topping Bezos and Zuckerberg (teslarati.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I read a site where a guy regularly writes about user interface design... make that most of the time: rants about user interface design. ;-)

  6. Re:Why is this guy still talking on Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I had actually posted an other comment as a reply to mine, but it seems to have gotten lost.

    It was something like: I should add this: one of the problems with the modern time is that through technological progress governments are now also competing with each other for the favours of the large international companies and smaller ones. In the hope it will help boost their country. In certain countries, like the US, this goes even further and leads to government capture where companies get (in)directly involved with creating the rules.

    Which fits very well with what you mentioned.

  7. Re:Steve Jobs rather than Tim Cook? on Survey Says: Elon Musk Is Most Admired Tech Leader, Topping Bezos and Zuckerberg (teslarati.com) · · Score: 1

    I know who Jonathan is because I've read about him before, he's the most important designer at Apple.

  8. Re:Why is this guy still talking on Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Greed is great way to fuel progress, but only when contained within a set of rules which makes sure it doesn't destroy everything around it. Like rules which make sure companies deal properly with toxic waste.

  9. Re:Steve Jobs rather than Tim Cook? on Survey Says: Elon Musk Is Most Admired Tech Leader, Topping Bezos and Zuckerberg (teslarati.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't certain of celebrities get even more popular after their dead ? It's like people see a TV report on what they've done and understand what has been lost. Also Steve Jobs was already very popular. Tim Cook was hardly known by the general public in comparison.

  10. "it was because we're well aware of how much the world's shit stinks. You fouled up our end with it"

    Do explain, I would love to know what you are talking about.

  11. Where their not a lot of problems with printers failing in elections in the US a couple of elections ago ?

  12. "with some of the greatest freedoms"

    What are you talking about ?

  13. Re:Second to announce being first. on Finland Set To Become First Country To Ban Coal Use For Energy (newscientist.com) · · Score: 2

    If Trump really goes that way I predict economic sanctions against the US by all the other countries around the world.

  14. Even a PRIMITIVE system that's only capable of "stay in the current lane, follow the car in front of you if the lane becomes ambiguous, and maintain speed while braking if necessary to avoid a rear-end collision" on limited-access roads would be a net improvement over what we have today.

    Actually, those systems already exist today and even yesterday, because they've been around for years already.

  15. Re:Live by the media hype die by the media hype. on Elon Musk: Negative Media Coverage of Autonomous Vehicles Could be 'Killing people' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Google has already shown that automated driving is safer (not counting some conditions, because they don't test in regions with ice, because it will loose effectiveness for certain sensors).

    The 'problem' is with the user. We are now in limbo land between manual and automated. If a car only supports automated you'll have a whole lot less problems.

  16. Re:nausea, vomiting, etc. on Soylent Halts Sale of Bars; Investigation Into Illnesses Continues (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    People

    Look up soylent green

  17. Re:This doesn't prove what they were hoping to pro on Doctors Perform Better Than Internet Or App-Based Symptoms Checkers, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Your IV example is not a good example, that is actually something people are working on, here some quick list of some links:

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    https://web.stanford.edu/group...

    http://www.yissum.co.il/techno...

  18. Re:Well... he has a point on all fronts. on Why Linus Torvalds Prefers x86 Over ARM (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    of course it's a pain for an open OS like Linux to deal with

    Microsoft has the exact same problem.

  19. Re:When did "The Matrix" become a religion? on Tech Billionaires Are Asking Scientists For Help To Break Humans Out of Computer Simulation (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    My guess is, they expect this other reality to be far more advanced and they don't need money anymore.

  20. Re:When did "The Matrix" become a religion? on Tech Billionaires Are Asking Scientists For Help To Break Humans Out of Computer Simulation (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole idea of breaking out is silly.

    When you see a simulation run in a way you don't want to, what do you do ? You shut it down.

  21. Re: What's wrong with this? on Senators Accuse Russia Of Disrupting US Election (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The raw hate and fear of a clinton presidency is like the fever dream of someone who has been mainlining rush limbaugh and glen beck for a decade.

    Totally agree. Even the Pope said journalism/media (if you can call it that) can be terrorism too. A word like that might already be overused and he might be stating the obvious. But very few people with his reach have done so. But he's right terrorism is about creating fear at a large scale and at least some media does that too.

  22. Re:What's wrong with this? on Senators Accuse Russia Of Disrupting US Election (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    (I posted a comment but it seems it got lost, because it doesn't exist anymore. So this is actually a shorter version)

    OK, so let me be clear I'm in Europe. So I might have it wrong, but I'll give my perspective.

    I totally agree things like ISIS are a total fuck up. I'm just saying, you have a 2 party system and both parties and their candidates suck.

    It's a history of fucks ups, something like 40 years of them, the parties don't seem to matter at all.

    My perspective is: the system is currently fundamentally broken. And I see to few people in the US trying to fix it. I haven't done even hours of research, but maybe something like Wolf PAC might solve your problems. It might be a small step and it will take a long time, but at least people would be doing something.

    I wouldn't be surprised that the problems you are having now with racism and protests are just a small in comparison to what is coming if this graph is to be believed: http://i1.wp.com/andrewmcafee....

  23. Re:What's wrong with this? on Senators Accuse Russia Of Disrupting US Election (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    I'll just quote the Anonymous Coward that got scored to 0:

    "a candidate for president negotiating with a foreign leader against american interests."

    I think this would be bad if they made a deal, don't you ?

  24. Re:I don't get it. on Apps Are Devouring the Open Web (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    "and the much smaller one still gets a lot of software development."

    And they can't compete because they don't get the apps.

  25. Re:Mobile needs to improve browser on Apps Are Devouring the Open Web (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1