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  1. Re:Twitter is now arbiter of truth on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Provably false. Open up a restaurant and refuse to serve a particular set of customers. Se how that turns out for you legally.

    And Twitter is also prohibited from refusing service for those reasons (race, sex, age, etc.). If you have a restaurant that refuses to serve people who are neo-nazis (or for any reason other than being part of a protected class) it would be legal.

  2. Re:Silly Fear Mongering and Ridiculous Science on 2016 Will Be the Hottest Year On Record, UN Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Just look at these quotes from the article:

    > "The El Niño weather phenomenon helped push temperatures even higher in early 2016 but the global warming caused by the greenhouse gas emissions from human activities remains the strongest factor."

    (Oh of course)

    > "“As the El Niño wanes, we don’t anticipate that 2017 will be another record-breaking year,” said Dr Peter Stott at the UK’s Met Office. “But 2017 is likely to be warmer than any year prior to the last two decades"

    Got that? Take away El Niño and we're the hottest in... omg .... 20 years.

    On a geologic scale of millions, we're now down to forming conclusions based on a data set of ... 20.

    Please send these children back to their safe spaces where they can play with Play Doh and coloring books...

    You parsed that wrong. The quote was

    “But 2017 is likely to be warmer than any year prior to the last two decades"

    They aren't saying "we're the hottest in... omg .... 20 years.", they are saying "we (will be) hotter (in 2017) than any year (in our records) prior to 1997".

  3. Re:We lost. Let's take a breath and see what happe on Is Technology A Bigger Story Than Donald Trump? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    Trump will be our presodent. He has no political experience or record,

    When Barack Obama was elected, the only experience he had was community organizing and a few years as a junior senator.

    Obama also was a State Senator from 1997-2004. He also taught constitutional law for 12 years. Years as a Senator is what is known as "political experience". Donald Trump has none.

    The government is not a business. It has different goals and works in different ways. I don't know why people think it's a good idea to have a businessman run the country but here we are.

  4. Re:Trump's Failure on Is Technology A Bigger Story Than Donald Trump? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    You believe the media lie that Trump asked Russia to hack Hillary's email server, don't you?

    Of course, you also believed the media's lie that Hillary had a 90% chance of winning last week.

    "Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clinton’s deleted emails. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."

    Those are his own words, how is it a "media lie"? I love how Trump supporters vilify the "liberal media" for directly quoting him.

  5. "We estimate that undernutrition in the aggregate--including fetal growth restriction, stunting, wasting, and deficiencies of vitamin A and zinc along with suboptimum breastfeeding--is a cause of 3.1 million child deaths annually or 45% of all child deaths in 2011."

    A synonym for undernutrition is starvation. How do you interpret that sentence?

  6. And why do you assume that massive numbers of people are so helplessly incompetent that they'll allow themselves to starve to death? If you thought you might be in danger of starving someday, would you do something to prevent that? Do you think you'd succeed? If so, why do you want to imagine so many people are so inferior to you that they'll actually starve to death?

    Most of the people that currently starve to death are children (3.1 million children in 2013, according to this study). Yeah, they're pretty incompetent. Most of them don't even have jobs! The problem is that they haven't received their initial pair of bootstraps so they have no way to pull themselves up yet.

  7. Re:No one is flipping to the Russians...sheesh on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    > Let me tell you something. You take a look at Mosul.

    You did notice how all of the high value targets in Mosul were able to flee? There was no apparent attempt to capture these people on the run or hit them on the road or otherwise get them.

    Meanwhile we've got a nasty bit of urban warfare that hasn't even started yet and they're talking about a flood of refugees that are going to overwhelm what little resources they have set aside for that sort of thing.

    That's exactly what the strategy is trying to do, get the non-combatants out of the way before taking the city, it makes it a lot easier to conduct warfare. From this article:

    “What this shows is Trump doesn’t know a damn thing about military strategy,” said Jeff McCausland, a retired Army colonel and former dean at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.

    Robert Scales, a retired Army major general and former commandant of the Army War College, said the unfolding Mosul campaign is a course in Military Operations 101 that American and Iraqi armies have followed for years.

    A large allied force approaches the objective (Mosul, in this case) from multiple directions, establishes a loose cordon around the city, and peels away the outlying towns and villages, all the while opening an escape route for refugees and people who do not want to fight, General Scales said.

  8. Re:Good, then we can scrap that stupid f-35 on Air Force Says F-35 Glitches Mean the A-10 Will Keep Flying 'Indefinitely' (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Uhh, wrong. You should ABSOLUTELY factor in the sunk cost, especially if it reveals the fact that you've spent waaaaay too much and should scrap the project and start over.

    That won't give your money back.

    Correct, but it may prevent you from flushing more money down a rat hole.

    The problem is, that most times it won't. The reasons you are over budget without a complete product haven't changed, so if you attempt to "start from scratch" you are likely to make the same mistakes and assumptions as before and likely end up in the same situation (after spending a bunch MORE money). I have seen it happen time after time, it's not the product's fault that the project failed, it was the people involved. In the case of the F-35, if the project were scrapped now we would likely end up building several different models of plane to replace it at a much greater cost.

  9. Re:Eleanor Roosevelt. on Rich People Pay Less Attention To Other People, Says Study (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2
  10. Re: Sociopaths gonna sociopath. What's new? on Rich People Pay Less Attention To Other People, Says Study (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs once remarked that mediocre people focus on other people, while smart people focus on ideas.

    He may have said it, but it certainly isn't his quote. It looks like the quote comes from Charles Stewart in 1901:
    "Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas."

    http://quoteinvestigator.com/2...

  11. Re: Oh noes!!!!11111 on Women in Computing To Decline To 22% by 2025, Study Warns (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Am I missing something? That article was about the number of pull requests at GitHub that were accepted, it mentioned nothing about your statement that "Studies have shown that female programmers write more efficient code on average than male programmers". If you are going to be that dickish in your reply, you should at least post something that supports your argument. Just because a pull request is accepted does not mean it is more efficient and a self-selected group (GitHub users) is a poor source for meaningful statistical data.

  12. Re: self-driving or assisted driving ? on All Tesla Vehicles Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Accidents do happen but life goes on.

    Not for everyone, sometimes life doesn't go on following a collision. Which is why we need self-driving cars, to avoid deadly auto accidents.

  13. Re:A vote for Dem validates the tactics of the DNC on Verizon Workers Can Now Be Fired If They Fix Copper Phone Lines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    write in a name of a politician that you respect.

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  14. Re:It's a bit expensive...And for what? on Sandpoint Town Square Home To First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation (newatlas.com) · · Score: 2

    To prove a couple idiot's from Idaho with no engineering experience can't design roadways. At least that's my takeaway.

    If you're going to call people idiots, you should at least learn how an apostrophe is used.

  15. Re:Magnetic strip? on French Banks Offer Credit Card Numbers That Change Every Hour (thememo.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a variable CVV. Its utility is to make it difficult to do a card not present transaction (generally an online purchase) without the physical card. You complain that it doesn't address physical card theft, but is most places that isn't a problem. The bigger problem is somebody stealing a bajillion credit card numbers from Target or a server who copies card numbers, expirations and CVVs from every card for a few months then uses the gathered data to either clone those cards or use them online. This scheme seems to address that issue as long as the card processors force all their customers to validate CVVs.

  16. Re:Timely, too on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    You can tell when something's gone up and down because of the tags., If something has "Score: 2 insightful" it means someone modded it up (to gain the "insightful") and someone else modded it down.

    Why not just click on the score and see the exact moderations done to the message? I don't think it lists in what order they happened, but you should be able to figure it out by the final score.

  17. Re:James Bond Did It... on Implication of Sabotage Adds Intrigue To SpaceX Investigation (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I could picture Musk stroking a white cat in his underground lair.

    Something like this? Looks like it's in a private jet but close enough.

  18. Re:Fear is a good thing for business on Oscar Winners, Sports Stars and Bill Gates Are Building Lavish Bunkers (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    $1,000,000 puts you in the top 0.5%.

    That link refers to annual income, not net worth (which is what the discussion was about). Like the parent said, every million will get you about $30k-$40k in income, hardly in the 1% for income. To be in the top 1% for net worth, you need about $7 million.

  19. Make egress filters mandatory. No ifs or buts. Make it law.

    Make it law that I can disconnect any user who isn't egress filtering and is sending me shit.

    Make it a law where? If it's just in the US, or just the US and the EU, then the law does no good. It would need to be a worldwide law, good luck getting such a law in every country.

  20. Re:"it was used for children's writing exercises" on Computers Decipher Burnt Scroll Found In Ancient Holy Ark (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    In a thousand years we will be still serving God, and you will be at the bottom of the lake of fire. This is of course of your own choosing. There's still hope for you, you just have to repent.

    Why would an omnipotent being need somebody to "serve" him or "glorify" him? Can't he serve himself?

  21. What the hell are mooncakes? on Alibaba Engineers Fired for Mooncake Hacking (wsj.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Would it have killed them to put a picture of a mooncake in the article? Am I the only one who doesn't know what the hell they are talking about?

  22. Re:Fuzzy math in my opinion on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Another option is that if a company produces a lot of money with just machines, then the government need to tax heavily that company for one of two things: to decide to hire some people, or to collect the money for them to pay the people with intellectual or artistic based professions. And, to make a cultural revolution increasing the quantity of people on that area instead of promoting jobs that could be easily improved with machines.

    But if the people who would make the laws to "tax heavily that company" are basically owned by that company (or at least "very good friends" with the company owners) then why would they make such a law? In the US, unless the campaign finance and voting laws are changed this will never happen -- the rich will keep getting richer and the poor will keep getting poorer.

  23. Let's talk about the name! on Elon Musk Says Tesla New Autopilot Features Would Have Prevented Recent Death (fortune.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Cue the endless discussion on the "Autopilot" name, rather than any discussions of the technical merits of the system or its implementation.

  24. Re:Take a long walk off a short pier on University of California's Outsourcing Is Wrong, Says US Lawmaker (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    He started with cd /

    Yeah, and that's the only command that executes. The /usr/bin/rm (which on my machine is in /bin), -rf, and * are all just arguments to the cd command which if given multiple arguments attempts to change directories to the first argument. You would need a semicolon between them to execute both desired commands.

  25. Re:Sick enough for memeory lapse but not for POTUS on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn, there really needs to be a "-1 Wall of copypasta" mod.