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  1. Re:Government is a coercive organization on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, I mean, it's not like the army is made up of civilians who know how to use guns...

    Oh wait...

  2. Re:There needs to be testing and validation... on This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The code should be evaluated or the tool should be banned from court. The company doesn't like it? Too bad. They don't have to sell to the forensic lab/law enforcement market.

    Arguably, the program can be evaluated without the source code. Simply use known samples and examine the output. Do the results of the analysis match what was known about the samples?

    This testing would have to be performed by a neutral third party of course.

    Oh, like Volkswagen's Dieselgate?

  3. Re:Is this different than a human "expert witness" on This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, PBS Frontline did a special about the horrors of modern "forensics", titled 'The Real CSI'

    It's an eye-opener.

  4. Re:Affluent black neighborhoods on Apple Only Wants To Put Its Stores Where White People Live, Investigation Reveals (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't you get the memo? No matter what you do, it's racist. Tell me anything you do and I can tell you why you're a horrible, racist person.

    Give me six lines written by the most honest of men, and I'll find a reason to call him a racist.

    With apologies to Cardinal Richelieu

  5. Re:Cue the Musk haters in ... on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    You are a gentleman (or lady) and a scholar, thank you!

  6. (80% of U.S. freight routes are 250 miles or less)

    100% of US freight haulers don't have 8-12 hours to wait for their truck to "refuel"

  7. Re: Just Like Knight Rider, Eh? on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Yo, dawg, I heard you like justice...

  8. Re:Cue the Musk haters in ... on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 2

    "Someone on youtube commented that the batteries add about 20,000 or 40,000 lbs extra weight compared to a diesel truck. That will reduce the total capacity of payload these trucks can carry, won't it?"

    That's why they removed the large Diesel motor, the transmission, cooling, fuel and water tanks .....

    Parts which, collectively, don't even come close to weighing 10-20 tons.

    And that's just the batteries, how much do you think the electric motors, capacitors, high-voltage cabling, et al weighs?

  9. Re:Cue the Musk haters in ... on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Someone from the School of Journalism called and wants a source citation.

    Better hurry, before the rest of the students find out and beat him to death (I don't have a lot of faith in what passes for 'journalism' these days).

  10. Re:Part of the recent lay-offs? on Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder, what's the chance he was let go for being a shit employee?

  11. Re:To be fair.... on Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly well convinced that 99.9% of the people who claim the US is some racist hellhole have never experienced anything even resembling discrimination, let alone racism, in their lives.

  12. Re:To be fair.... on Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Racism is not tolerated in polite society, and nearly all of the racists you can still find are either the handful of nazi wannabes or they're tenured leftards in taxpayer-dependent institutions.

    Oh? You would be surprised.

    ... if you actually contributed to the conversation? Why yes, yes I would.

    Cite a source or STFU. The world needs less namby-pamby "what abouters," not more.

  13. Re:Needs to Stop on Google Wants Google Doodles Taught In Public School, Warns Kids They Best Behave · · Score: 1

    Maybe you're just scared of understanding :P

  14. Re:Not ready yet. on Self-Driving Shuttle Involved In Crash Two Hours After Debut (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    If fear would help, that can be added as a variable alongside all the others.

    Cool.

    So, how do you go about coding emotion?

  15. Re: Human reaction vs machine reaction on Self-Driving Shuttle Involved In Crash Two Hours After Debut (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Cash for Clunkers was an Obama-era program.

  16. Re:Solar chargers on Cities Are Scolding Countries at UN Climate Conference To Cut Emissions (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This would require somewhat of a change in the timing of when you charge. Instead of going home and charging your car overnight, parking spaces would have solar panel roofs-- you'd charge your car in the daytime (which, for most of us, would mean: at work.)

    OK, so who's paying to install the solar panels, and how do they charge people for using said solar panels?

    There's no such thing as a free puppy.

  17. "When you are strong, feign weakness; when you are weak, feign strength" was always one of my favorites

  18. Re:Needs to Stop on Google Wants Google Doodles Taught In Public School, Warns Kids They Best Behave · · Score: 2

    This lesson is to learn that method of long division. Not the underlying math, but the method.

    So, what you're saying is, in Common Core following the method that an authority figure demands you follow, regardless of how harmful it may be to your individual learning process, is more important than figuring out the correct answer.

    2+2=4.

    So does 3+1.

    To fail a student because they got to 4 by a different method than the "approved" version is counter-productive, assuming the concept is to produce a generation of intelligent people capable of critical thinking.

    Then again, perhaps I am conceptually mistaken on the purpose of public education...

  19. Re:Like "free speech" today on Google Wants Google Doodles Taught In Public School, Warns Kids They Best Behave · · Score: 1

    The Constitution only guarantees that the government cannot silence you.

    It does not guarantee you an absolute right to say whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want.

    So, if you're on my payroll and property, you follow my rules, or GTFO. When it's your payroll and property, you get to make the rules.

    Now shut up and get off my lawn (but feel free to speak up again once you reach the public street).

  20. Re:Needs to Stop on Google Wants Google Doodles Taught In Public School, Warns Kids They Best Behave · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... it is often poorly thought out and in some instances politically charged.

    Well then it sounds like a proper fit for Common Core schools.

  21. Re: Reasons not to use cryptocurrency on Someone 'Accidentally' Locked Away $300M Worth of Other People's Ethereum Funds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    He is right in theory (i.e. Congress could pass a law that empties all our bank accounts), however to consider such a thing in practice would completely cripple the economy, cause the banks to lose money rather than make it, and generally collapse society as we know it.

    Yes, Virginia, you can cut off your nose to spite your own face, but most people won't.

  22. Re:Reasons not to use cryptocurrency on Someone 'Accidentally' Locked Away $300M Worth of Other People's Ethereum Funds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL, yea, because all those goods and services produced by individual labor are so hard to see...

    Seriously, dude. You're using the product of labor right now to bitch about how you think the products of labor are ephemeral.

    A well placed atmospheric EMP could very easily destroy every last bit of "proof" that bitcoin mining has currently generated; but it would take a hell of a lot more force to wipe out the evidence of fiat-based production.

  23. Re:I'm not responsible for your kids on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Well in theory, they're just supposed to be getting their own SS investments back.

    I know it doesn't actually work out that way, but you seem to be under the impression that the elderly are expecting something for nothing, when really, all they're expecting is repayment (with interest, adjusted for inflation).

  24. Re:Here is a question I have... on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    When you're running code for the first time, do you present it with the most complicated input you can imagine?"

    That might explains why so much production software is bug-laden shite...

  25. Re:I keep telling people on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    It's gonna be like when computers decimated junior accountants

    When did that happen? My wife's firm just hired 3 more.