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  1. Re:No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Which is why short sellers are generally a lot better informed than long buyers

    You misspelled "degenerate gamblers" there.

    Being risk-prone does NOT guarantee nor even imply risk-awareness.
    In fact, it generally correlates with various mind-debilitating addictions - from adrenaline to cocaine.

  2. Re:Just imagine... on Russian Scientists Upgrade Nuclear Battery Design To Increase Power Output (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Strange that for his last 20 years no patents appear in the public records.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    There ya go.
    Don't forget to put on your tinfoil hat while browsing that Wikipedia page or lizard-people will read your mind and steal them patents.

    You'll quickly notice that it is all outdated and that most of his later year "inventions" are nothing but junk.
    E.g. That "vertical takeoff and landing heliplane" had a single and comparatively tiny propeller - but it had biplane wings, AND they were fixed and in line with the propeller, tilting along with it.
    Now... ignoring completely the tiny amount of vertical liftoff that such propeller would be able to provide (think V-22 Osprey)... consider what happens to the angle of those fixed wings and of the entire "heliplane" as it tries to lift off vertically.
    I.e. He lacked fundamental understanding of how the wing works and how it lifts the airplane.

    Also... from even cursory reading of the patent, it is quite clear he didn't really understand engines or the concept of efficiency of said engines.
    He envisions his "APPARATUS FOR AERIAL TRANSPORTATION" being lifted by "turbines" working under "excessive overload"..."with the object of meeting the abnormal power requirements in the starting, landing and other. short operations" - while "motors will be operated at their normal rated capacity" only during "descent and alighting, as well as rising in the manner of a true aeroplane".
    I.e. He thought that engines are designed to achieve maximum efficiency while working at lower outputs - while at the same time providing the infrastructure for much higher outputs.

    He though that an engine designed for a compact car only needs a bit of hardening and the fuel supply and exhaust system of a truck - and it could produce the same amount of force as the engine of a semi-truck.

    But the best part is where he envisions his flying "apparatus" being propelled by a STEAM ENGINE.

    "In Figure 3 this apparatus is. diagrammatically indicated by 17, and may be any one of a number of well-known types, producing pressure by internal combustion of a suitable fuel or by external firing of a steam boiler.

    Tesla was a genius.
    But he also clearly had mental issues and was often way out of his depth outside his narrow area of expertise.
    That's why his "death ray" turned out to be hokum just like his "new form of energy violently opposed to Einsteinian physics" or his mind-reading device which would work by photographing the eye.

  3. Stop trying to make sense of it... on Uber Facing Ban In Turkey After Erdogan Backs Taxis (sbs.com.au) · · Score: 2

    Turkey is also blocking Wikipedia and blaming a candy manufacturer for fomenting a coup.

    Basically, you're arguing that a double rainbow and a new star appearing at the birth of Kim Jong Il doesn't make sense from meteorological OR astronomic point of view.

  4. No he didn't. You're either dumb or a Nazi... on Zuckerberg Grilled At Angry Facebook Shareholder's Meeting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    At this point in time you no longer get to say that you're simply ignorant.

    You are either too stupid to understand written text on a page or screen, or spoken language in a video...
    OR... You are so ideologically bent on supporting Nazis - which makes you a Nazi.
    Or both... that's a highly probable possibility as well. Nazis ARE immensely retarded, out of sheer necessity of their ideology.

    Oh... and one more thing... just to underline your utter retardation...

    Micro-targeting of voters was used by Obama against Hillary.

    Really? In 2008? Do you even calendar, boy?
    Facebook had around 100 million users in 2008 - GLOBALLY.
    Might as well target pets.com users for all the good it would do you at that point.

  5. Are you stupid? Are you aware that not are there a lot of non-govermental non-supported non-controlled corporations in China?

    Maybe. I sure feel like I am after reading that.

  6. Re:make them out of monkey poop on De Beers To Sell Diamonds Made In a Lab (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Might as well start with refined graphite, add 1 milligram of ashes, and turn that into a diamond.

    That's basically what they do.
    Description above is short and doesn't go into details.
    They DO purify the sample and try to use actual "source material" - but most of the diamond is made from added graphite.

    http://www.businessinsider.com...

  7. Re:Traps, fines, abolish the stations on Are Google's Cat-Loving Employees Killing Burrowing Owls? (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not that they'll move on, so much as that they will start congregating at the new feeding station.
    Also, it's not that they are eating owls. They're eating baby owls.

    Recently I watched a local cat climbing a tree and then sitting there for quite a while with sparrows literally teasing it perching mere centimeters out of its reach - resting on a twig which clearly can't support a cat's weight.
    And they don't even have the talons or beaks of owls. They don't need it.
    It's clear to them and to the cat that they're safe there, though the cat could theoretically catch one of them - at the cost of certain injury and probable death.

    Cats understand risk and reward.
    The point is to move that low risk reward away from baby owls.

  8. Re:Glass diamond? on De Beers To Sell Diamonds Made In a Lab (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't wear a hammer around your neck, do you?

    A lot of white incels and white trash do. In the form of a "Thor's hammer".
    Because something-something-white-power. It's also a popular tattoo in such circles.

    The hilarious bit is where Thor is also a fertility god.
    So what they are tattooing and hanging around their necks is quite literally a stylized penis.
    He ain't the god of hammers...

  9. Re:make them out of monkey poop on De Beers To Sell Diamonds Made In a Lab (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They mix the ashes with a LOT of graphite.
    So, technically it's made WITH trace carbon from the ashes, not OF.

    https://www.cremationsolutions...

    They also do it with hair, pets' ashes...
    My guess is they'd have nothing against using monkey poop if the customer is willing to collect and incinerate it by themselves.

  10. Re:Traps, fines, abolish the stations on Are Google's Cat-Loving Employees Killing Burrowing Owls? (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The feeding stations should be removed.

    Which would make the cats even more dangerous to local wildlife. While cats do hunt when well-fed, they hunt even more when they need to hunt to eat.

    I believe that there is an implicit "...from the designated owl-nesting area" attached to that "should be removed." bit.
    Maybe a cat got it.

  11. Re:Traps, fines, abolish the stations on Are Google's Cat-Loving Employees Killing Burrowing Owls? (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not a question which species is a more efficient killer but which one is more endangered.
    So unless those "cats" are actually code for releasing tigers into parks...

  12. I personally find that Cpl. Josh Ray Person puts Jordan Peterson's pussy redistribution theory into its proper perspective.

  13. There ya go...
    All you had to do was click on the link... right there... in that original washingtonmonthly.com article.
    It's like... the first link in the article. Really weird how you missed it.

    Disclaimer: I hereby declare that I am not responsible for any incels rage-killing people on account of not getting any pussy or, following Peterson's ideas stated below, deciding to practice some of ye old traditional forced monogamy through the ye old traditional practice of ye old kidnapping of "brides".

    From TFA:

    Recently, a young man named Alek Minassian drove through Toronto trying to kill people with his van.
    Ten were killed, and he has been charged with first-degree murder for their deaths, and with attempted murder for 16 people who were injured.
    Mr. Minassian declared himself to be part of a misogynist group whose members call themselves incels. The term is short for "involuntary celibates," though the group has evolved into a male supremacist movement made up of people - some celibate, some not - who believe that women should be treated as sexual objects with few rights.
    Some believe in forced "sexual redistribution," in which a governing body would intervene in women's lives to force them into sexual relationships.

    Violent attacks are what happens when men do not have partners, Mr. Peterson says, and society needs to work to make sure those men are married.

    "He was angry at God because women were rejecting him," Mr. Peterson says of the Toronto killer. "The cure for that is enforced monogamy. That's actually why monogamy emerges."

    Mr. Peterson does not pause when he says this. Enforced monogamy is, to him, simply a rational solution.
    Otherwise women will all only go for the most high-status men, he explains, and that couldn't make either gender happy in the end.

    "Half the men fail," he says, meaning that they don't procreate. "And no one cares about the men who fail."
    I laugh, because it is absurd.

    "You're laughing about them," he says, giving me a disappointed look. "That's because you're female."

    But aside from interventions that would redistribute sex, Mr. Peterson is staunchly against what he calls "equality of outcomes," or efforts to equalize society.
    He usually calls them pathological or evil.

    He agrees that this is inconsistent.
    But preventing hordes of single men from violence, he believes, is necessary for the stability of society.
    Enforced monogamy helps neutralize that.

    In situations where there is too much mate choice, "a small percentage of the guys have hyper-access to women, and so they don't form relationships with women," he said.
    "And the women hate that."

    And that's just one part of the interview.
    You should read the part where he confuses Jungian bullshit, fairy tales, metaphors and reality when he starts talking about dragons, swamps and witches.
    And here I thought he was illiterate only when it comes to statistics. Turns out he's illiterate even in his own supposed field of expertise.
    Probably why he now lives off of what he can beg for through his Youtube channel from clueless gullible idiots who buy into his bullshit.

    I'm sorry... Did I say clueless gullible idiots? I meant "divine loci of consciousness".

  14. Sounding like buthurt teen a part of the "plan"? on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Cause this time he didn't just manage to sound like his usual Creutzfeldt-Jakob incoherent self.
    He also managed to sound like a teen or a twelve-year-old tweeting "You don't break up with me! I'm breaking up with YOU!" at a porn star he's been having an imaginary Twitter romance with.
    And at the same time, begging to be taken "back".

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri...

    But the most hilarious part is when the White House gift shop web site crashed under the weight of the global schadenfreude.
    Thanks to millions of people going there to see the commemorative "challenge" coin being discounted after the cancellation of the summit.

    There goes that Nobel peace prize all those Republican brown nosers tried to sign him up for, I guess.
    That's IF they've managed to spell Norway correctly this time.
    That W... very much like an M... all them straight lines...

  15. Re:Compensating on US Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Focusing on individual trees is the hard way to approach the problem. If you think about the ecosystem as a whole then it is pretty obvious that mature forests are carbon neutral. Sure there is new growth but that is offset by dead old growth decomposing. The biomass of the ecosystem remains about the same.

    That is NOT true.

    Process of decomposing is FAR FAR slower than the process of growing.
    Walk through a forest sometimes. You'll find dead branches decades old. Meanwhile, a tree will regenerate such a branch within years.

    Similarly, you'll find several layers of dead leaves one on top of the other on the ground - with new leaves on the trees.
    And that's WITH various forest critters munching on said leaves.

    Meanwhile, them "individual trees" and their individual branches and root systems ADD UP rather quickly.
    And while it varies between the species, tree's grow rates keep increasing for hundreds of years before even starting to tapper off.

    Hint: If the biomass remained the same, those old, wide, multi-centennial trees wouldn't exist.

  16. Re:Compensating on US Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Where actually would the "sequestered CO2" go to?

    Branching and branch and tree girth. Also, root system to support all that. Trees grow in three dimensions.

  17. This is Apple... So clearly they are holding it wrong.

  18. Re:Blind hiring on Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure humans are biased and a "mathematical" way of finding the best new candidate would be nice but even the idea of comparing to an existing workforce is god awful - the best new employee you hire is often the one that is different from your existing team because new ideas and processes tend to promote efficiency.

    "Mathematical" sifting of candidates is biased against the future.
    That's the point of interviews - for the employer or a "boss" to try to figure out the future potential of hirees based on accumulated experience of working with people, not just based on their "scores".
    Otherwise, why bother with interviews? Just look at their grades and maybe give everyone a standardized test.

  19. Re: Blind hiring on Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    explicitly programmed... and yet they still don't hire 50% black, 50% Asian and 50% whites.

    And I think I know why...

  20. Re:Elite aesthetic concerns vs. regular humanity on Google Joins Apple in Condemning the Repeal of the Clean Power Plan (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Breathing clean air is an aesthetic choice?

    OK, clearly you can't help thinking with and talking through your bottom hole, but maybe you should stop trying to breath through it?
    Or try harder, by sealing all other orifices on your body with super glue?

  21. Re:Blind hiring on Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On the other side of that...
    If you are forced to talk to a bot at an interview - might as well keep on looking for a job.

    Cause a company won't use a bot on account of a "more just" hiring process.
    They'll use a bot cause it is cheaper and more efficient to buy or rent a software tool than to hire another human tool.
    Which is what they are looking for. Disposable tools, needed to solve their current problem. Not employees.
    They want things, not people.

    Also, it indicates that the company is held afloat on bullshit and buzzwords.
    Cause it's clearly not running on the strength of its teams - or someone running a team or working in a team would be interviewing you, to see how you fit into their team.
    Unless the teams and the company are also run by chatbots. In which case at least the daily meetings would be more productive.

  22. Re:Who's coordinating this? on NYT: Lynchings Around the World are Linked To Facebook Posts (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    The Tea Party, or people happy to affiliate with them, currently control the Presidency, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court (with more nominations likely), and many state Governorships and legislatures. They are running the country.

    You speak as if you'd love for the Occupy Wall Street folks to have taken over the government.
    Even though we all know that there's only one major party which has no scruples or morals and is willing to take any fringe loon into their ranks just to stay in power.
    We're not gonna name them but it's The Party Formerly Known As The Republican Party.
    You know... before they took side with fucking Nazis! Now they should probably be called Nazi Party Lite.
    Or Diet Nazis. The New Nazi Taste?

    All of which has led to so much "winning" that they are breaking all records with the number of people who are leaving the current government - even given as much leeway as possible in order to make the lists more comparable to earlier administrations. Like not counting various people who've served for "insignificant time".
    And we can all agree - insignificant service is the key attribute of this administration.
    So even in such an unfair comparison - they are beating all other administrations in recent history.

    Meanwhile there are still literally hundreds of unfilled key positions.
    And that's while they control EVERYTHING in the government.

    So much winning...

  23. South's unemployment is above average on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    The South has lower unemployment than the national average.

    According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US national average unemployment rate is 4.1%.
    From that same source, average unemployment rate for Southern states only, comes out to 4.18%.

    For the average to be below the national, more than half of the Southern states would have to be discounted, concentrating only on Tennessee (3.4), Virginia (3.5), Alabama (3.7), Arkansas (3.8), Florida (3.9) and Texas (4.0).
    Of the rest, only Oklahoma and Kentucky are at national average, while the remaining 50% of Southern states average out to 4.55%, with their range spanning from Maryland (4.2) all the way to West Virginia (5.4).

    And that's seasonally adjusted. With raw data, average unemployment in the South is higher, at 4.35%.

  24. No you haven't... on To Protect AI From Attacks, Show It Fake Data (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been doing ot for ages.

    But your dyxlesia might have been doing ot.

  25. Re:Wait, I don't get it on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Does not really work, as poking is enough in most cases.

    So needles are just a placebo then?

    That is actually done. But not as "test" but as therapy.

    If "therapy" - why not cure? If it actually works, curing the patient would be evidence of it working. Not "therapy".
    Everything can be a "therapy". Jumping up and down on a trampoline and drinking a bottle of Jim Beam can both be "therapy" for anything from toothache to cancer.
    Neither is cure for either, though. Though Jim Beam has measurable effects with dulling of pain and increased sensation of not giving a fuck.

    That is not what a double blind study is about. The subject has to be convinced that it gets the real thing.

    Ummm... That phrase... it does not mean what you think it means.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    In these double-blind experiments, neither the participants nor the researchers know which participants belong to the control group, nor the test group. Only after all data have been recorded (and, in some cases, analyzed) do the researchers learn which participants were which.

    because that would "encourage" 'negative placebo effects'

    Good thing then there's no such thing as a "negative placebo".
    Term for "negative placebo" IS placebo.
    Same goes for "green placebo", "blue placebo" and other flavors of placebo including but not limited to "fluffy placebo".

    Also... that's not how double-blind trials work. Or studies. Or statistics. Or science.