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  1. Re:WTF Are you Serious? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 2

    Yep. If you sub-vocalize code, you're doing it wrong.

  2. Roujin Z is the only safe way to travel.

  3. Re:France Media Chronology Law on Going After Netflix, Cannes Bans Streaming-Only Movies From Competition Slots (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Bingo!

    This is good PR. They don't want the streaming French customers to suffer because of the evil theater monopoly. And next year, Netflix will ask for an exemption (derogation?) and get more free publicity that way.

  4. Re:think of the children ! on The FBI Defends Deploying Malware From A Tor Child Porn Site (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We protect the ones who cannot protect themselves.

    The rest is intellectual masturbation.

  5. Re:What's to stop companies from launching elsewhe on California Seeks To Tax Rocket Launches, Which Are Already Taxed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The East coast (e.g. Maine) is not an option because you want to launch the rocket slightly to the west, so that the Earth will rotate underneath it allowing coverage of all longitudes.

    Really? There's a way to make a near-polar orbit that follows the Earth rotation? I'm not even sure tilting east or west will create a different precession and change the "stellar azimuth" at which the orbit crosses the equatorial plane.

  6. Re:Plan to succeed or plan to fail... on Most Millennials Have an Unrealistic View of Their Retirement Prospects, Analysts Say (hsbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So roughly half of the people who reached adulthood died before 65. That was my point.

    Erm, right. Sorry for the confusion.

  7. Re:Plan to succeed or plan to fail... on Most Millennials Have an Unrealistic View of Their Retirement Prospects, Analysts Say (hsbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, they dropped dead much earlier than that.

    Only 53.9% of men and 60.6% of women made it to 65. https://www.ssa.gov/history/li...

    Well duh, they dropped dead before reaching their 20s.

    Straight quote from your link: "Life expectancy at birth in 1930 was indeed only 58 for men and 62 for women, and the retirement age was 65. But life expectancy at birth in the early decades of the 20th century was low due mainly to high infant mortality, and someone who died as a child would never have worked and paid into Social Security. A more appropriate measure is probably life expectancy after attainment of adulthood."

    And then they show of all the 21 yo men alive in 1915, 54% of them reached 65 yo (in 1960). Those had 13 more years of life expentancy. So it's retire at 65, drop dead at 77 for that cohort.

  8. The camera moves on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "The only way to completely avoid this is to have a perfect model that is right all the time."

    Far from true. Many pathological interpretation will solve themselves as the camera moves.

    For instance, a pedestrian could blend into the pole behind. Half a second later, the perspective has changed and the pole is behind something else.

    So the "tiny change" must hold true as the camera moves, or it won't cause failure.

  9. Re:Geeze, use scientic notation already! on Google's AlphaGo Will Face Its Biggest Challenge Yet Next Month -- But Why Is It Still Playing? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia says 2.08168199382×10^170 positions, but the same position could have multiple ko. This means the best move can be illegal and you'd have to evaluate 2 moves in those cases.

  10. a computer that can plan out a million moves ahead...

    Even if a computer was "human enough" to know which 10 moves are the best, it takes a million moves to plan your next 3 moves.

    Good human players feel way deeper than that.

  11. Re:The Other Side of that Dark Coin on Net Neutrality Is Trump's Next Target, Administration Says (fiercetelecom.com) · · Score: 1

    So, blocking Netflix was pro-consumer?

  12. Re:Junk Science on 'Extreme and Unusual' Climate Trends Continue After Record 2016 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a Chinese hoax.

    It's a Chinese boat.

  13. Re:My how times change. on Ask Slashdot: How Does One Freely Use Bitcoin In the Land of the Free? · · Score: 1

    All currencies are pyramid schemes.

    The question becomes how strong is their backing.

  14. Re:so non dealer service or not paying for softwar on Self-Driving Cars Should Be Liable For Accidents, Not the Passengers: UK Government (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So doing an jiffy lube vs paying dealer price for oil changes = unauthorized changes?

    Right, so jiffy lube is software.

  15. Well.... you were arguing whether being rich was enough... your words. You have a confusing form of logic, buddy.

    Right... as if

    The OP was making a point about "weird guys ... get a product out the door". Someone missed the forest for the tree and perverted the point into "being rich".

    You are defending reductionism.

  16. If you were an apolitical entity betting on who'd become rich, you wouldn't factor in their IQ, or their academic performance.

    We're talking about getting shit done and being successful. Why are you stuck on "being rich"?

    Is Linus Torvalds yet another "Exception that proves the rule" that only rich people can be successful?
    Would having 2 eyes be another such "Exception that proves the rule"?

    As if you needed to have your own billion-dollars company to be successful. That's pretty warped and sad at the same time.

  17. Seems to me lately only weird guys with personality disorders like Jobs, Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg can both raise the money [and push the right people just the right way to get a product out the door.]

    I don't think it is their wierdness that made them succesful It is that they were BORN rich. They went from being very rich to being super rich. Being born rich is the key qualifier for success.

    You dropped "get a product out the door" as if you believed being rich was enough. There's enough rich failures to show the opposite.

  18. Re:Coding achieves the "expand your mind" objectiv on Disney Thinks High Schools Should Let Kids Take Coding In Place of Foreign Languages · · Score: 1

    Please go find any random middle aged person whose only exposure to foreign language was their 2 year requirement in high school and ask them how much Spanish, French, German, etc. they remember?

    First, they learned different cultures and improved their understanding of the world. You have to think in Spanish to speak Spanish properly.

    Second, they read more and learn new words. Maybe enough to know capitols are buildings, principals are people. Something programming will never solve.

  19. Re:What The Fuck?? on Smart Electricity Meters Can Be Dangerously Insecure, Warns Expert (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't know, but I think he forgot to take his pills.

  20. Re:America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, the swing states wouldn't hold that much power otherwise.

    The electoral college has negative reinforcement. Being "fair" with proportional makes you weaker.

  21. Re:Random jackass whines about nonsense on David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Since Page Down and Space-Bar scrolling do the same function, it would be pretty ridiculous if they were each implemented with separate code in the browser.

    Yeah, I assumed one didn't need to be a genius to get that.

  22. Re:Random jackass whines about nonsense on David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Besides, we already have the page down key.

    No we don't.

    They both have the same broken behavior. You missed the forest for the trees.

  23. Re:Compared to bananas on Radiation From Fukushima Disaster Reaches Oregon Coast (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Just playing devil's advocate here, but can the human body metastasize cesium as well as potassium?

    You don't drink seawater.

  24. Re:Four hard problems in programming: on 'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, true hungarian notation. The other use case being suffixes such as _raw vs _validated.