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  1. Re:Link to Original Report on Inside Look At Eastern European Vs. East Asian Hackers · · Score: 1

    Garbage in, garbage out.

  2. Re:Old wisdom on The Perils of Developers Hooking Up · · Score: 2

    ... and fish on the top.

  3. Re:Good to keep in mind on How the Critics of the Apollo Program Were Proven Wrong · · Score: 1

    A generation of kids grew up wanting to be astronauts or to build rockets:

    And then create a glut of unemployed aerospace engineers.

  4. Re:I eat organic food to avoid chemicals... on Scientists Say Organic Food May Not Be Healthier For You · · Score: 1

    On the other hand the human body needs trace amounts of copper; a lot of multivitamin tablets contain it.

  5. Re:Use of nonmainline version error on Science Wins Over Creationism In South Korea · · Score: 1

    a big thing when reading the bible is REFERENCE THE ORIGINAL TEXT

    Then why are you referencing a latin translation?

  6. Re:don't you know? on Science Wins Over Creationism In South Korea · · Score: 1

    Also, if you have a lot of trials that 6% doesn't look that bad either.

  7. Bill Gates and code on Do Tech Entrepreneurs Need To Know How To Code? · · Score: 1

    (And I *don't* count Bill Gates as an example. He was definitely an entrepreneur, but to me it appears that he skill as a developer is all PR and "theft". [I'm willing to concede that I have no evidence that he actually broke any laws. So theft is in quotes.])

    Bill Gates himself wrote several pretty succesful BASIC interpreters (among them the one in C64). Also he did a lot of code reviews, and was respected for his technical insights while being the CEO of the early Microsoft.

  8. Re:Devil's advocate here... on The UK's New Minister For Magic · · Score: 1

    If it only has placebo effect, it means it doesn't work. The control group always gets placebo.

  9. Insurance on BitFloor Joins List of Compromised BitCoin Exchanges · · Score: 1

    With the normal banking system your account is insured to about $40k-80k depending on laws of the country you live in.

  10. Re:Spoilers on Scientists Find Gene That Predicts Happiness In Women · · Score: 1

    Are the married woman happier than before?

  11. Re:Actual communism on Bill Gates To Develop a Revolutionary Nuclear Reactor With Korea · · Score: 1

    Do these communes last past the founder's generation? The children born in kibutzim usually moved out, and they transformed to corporations.

  12. Re:Actual communism on Bill Gates To Develop a Revolutionary Nuclear Reactor With Korea · · Score: 1

    Kibbutzim usually don't last beyond the founder generation, after that it tends to break up or is converted to a usual corporation.

  13. Re:My God on Bill Gates To Develop a Revolutionary Nuclear Reactor With Korea · · Score: 2

    First create actual communism, then we can discuss what it does require.

  14. Re:backups? on Scientists Store Entire Textbook In DNA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, but then you have to pay child support.

  15. Re:Java on Calligra 2.5 Office and Creativity Suite Released · · Score: 1

    1, KOffice (the father of Calligra) has been developed since 1997. 3-4 years is nothing, especially in the FOSS world. You should rather complain about why Calligra had to fork from KOffice.

    2, If you want a FOSS project that doesn't get forked every month, you need paid developers.

  16. Java on Calligra 2.5 Office and Creativity Suite Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Calligra has Krita and other graphics tools too, which are pretty unique. Also the true RMS believers always steered clear from OpenOffice because it depends on Java.

  17. Re:We need to politicize software development on Software Engineering Has Its Own Political Axis From Conservative To Liberal · · Score: 2

    Is P2P software is anarcho-syndicalist?

  18. Re:Wny not just tax trades? on Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software · · Score: 1

    I would be enought to tax them at 0.0001% each, it wouls still seriously discourage HFTs, as they work with very small margins, but high volumes.

  19. Re:Architecture on Scrum/Agile Now Used To Manage Non-Tech Projects · · Score: 1

    I think it can work if we only apply it to the process of designing the building i.e. getting constant feedback from the customer, instead of going out once and writing a full specification based on that. But maybe architects already do that.

  20. Re:Someone explain to me... on This Is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like · · Score: 1

    You ignored the masses of stop-losses triggered.

  21. Re:Someone explain to me... on This Is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like · · Score: 2

    A high trading volume facilitates this.

    HFTs don't trade in low volume market anyways, so the liquidity argument is bogus. On the other hand they add systemic volatility (see the Flash Crash).

  22. Chain reaction on This Is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like · · Score: 0

    Also, such bugs can distort the market price and trigger the stop-loss of other traders, thus creating a chain reaction.

  23. intern wage on Report Cites Highest IT Job Growth In 4 Years · · Score: 1

    You won't be paid as if you had 10 years of experience,

    Lol, you don't get paid as an intern AT ALL.

  24. Re:Impress a dictator day on ReactOS Presented To Russian President Putin · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Impress a dictator day on ReactOS Presented To Russian President Putin · · Score: 2

    That's exactly the kind of president that will stand up against the bourgeois imperialist Microsoft.