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  1. Re:How Many More to Go on Facebook Takes Down Fake Account Network Used To Spread Hate In UK (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    it isn't the company that will receive my personal information.

    But don't the authorities then have to give that information to the website owners?

    "Remove this person from your website."
    "What person?"
    "We can't tell you. That's private."

  2. You can transfer ownership of cryptocurrency offline by giving someone else the wallet file

    Okay, I don't understand this. What if I gave someone a copy of the wallet file? We both have identical wallet files. How does the system figure out who really has the money?

  3. And they're no true Scotsmen, either!

  4. Re:Seven percent less likely means correlation on Decade-Long Study: Measles Vaccine Doesn't Cause Autism, Even in High-Risk Kids (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So they can spread measles in the "school of their choice?" No thanks. No school of any kind until you vaccinate.

  5. Yes, it's highly effective and lifetime. But it's not 100%; nothing ever is. Vaccine effectiveness varies from vaccine to vaccine. For measles, it's about 97% if you get the booster.

  6. Re:Godzilla on How 'SimCity' Inspired a Generation of City Planners (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, it was to imitate Paris. And Paris did that so that the army had nice long firelanes for their cannon when they were suppressing riots.

  7. There is also the fact that there is a small percentage of people (couple of percentage points) for whom the vaccination doesn't "take". This happens pretty much at random and is difficult to test for. If everyone is vaccinated, they remain safe, as there's nobody to catch the disease from. But every person who is not vaccinated increases their risk.

  8. Re:Seven percent less likely means correlation on Decade-Long Study: Measles Vaccine Doesn't Cause Autism, Even in High-Risk Kids (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "The right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins."

    I'm still on the fence about calling CPS on people who don't vaccinate their kids. But not letting the kids into school, hell, yes. Your right to not vaccinate definitely doesn't include your right to propagate measels into public schools.

  9. you 'COULD' just delete your account.

    No, you can't. Oh, Facebook gives you a "delete" button, but it actually doesn't delete anything. One of the things that makes me happy that I never joined Facebook and never will.

  10. Re:How are they measuring this? on Is The Attention Economy Dying? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll have to admit, that wasn't the clip I was expecting.

  11. Re:Obviously Chinese Fentanyl on Tristan O'Tierney, Square Co-Founder, Dies at Age 35 (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Say what you want about the Nazi; at least he knows how to turn on the monospace font.

  12. Re:Addiction to what? on Tristan O'Tierney, Square Co-Founder, Dies at Age 35 (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Might as well face it - he was addicted to love.

    Or addicted to spuds.

  13. Re:Have trouble believing it's really that short on Shared Scooters Don't Last Long (substack.com) · · Score: 1

    Logically, they would. The evidence is overwhelming that they do not.

  14. Re:Have trouble believing it's really that short on Shared Scooters Don't Last Long (substack.com) · · Score: 1

    The point he should make is that ownership brings an incentive to use relatively gently. If you own a car, you're not going to slam it from drive to reverse at 60 mph, because that's your investment you'd be trashing. But a scooter that you have no responsibility for? Pffft. Take a club to it, throw into a lake, what do you care? It's not costing you anything.

  15. Re:The right to be wrong on Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This has been judged to be a direct result of the vaccine.

    The use of the weasel passive voice is typical, and damning. "Judged" by whom?

  16. "set the parameters of what you want to build" on Dry.io Wants To Democratize Software Development Using AI (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They make it sound like that's the easy part.

  17. Re:I can speculate what happened here. on IBM Apologizes For Racial Slurs On Its Recruitment Webpages (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The story is about IBM, but the post you replied to was about Nintendo. You weren't clear about what "this" referred to.

  18. ...you're a woman's man, no time to talk.

  19. Re:I can speculate what happened here. on IBM Apologizes For Racial Slurs On Its Recruitment Webpages (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You do realizae that Nintendo has non-English-speaking development teams without outsorcing, right?

  20. Re:smart on The UK's Health Service Told To Ditch 'Outdated' Pagers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, as others have pointed out, it sounds like an ideal app for what they're currently using. It's very cheap (maybe not as cheap as it used to be due to the lack of competition, but still much cheaper than any proposed replacements) and extremely reliable (in an application where reliability is the primary requirement). About the only reason anyone is coming up for retiring it seems to be, "But it's so OLD!"

  21. all I see is recycled ideas.

    Including this one; Stanley Schmidt did it back in the 1970s with his "Lifeboat Earth" series of novels.

  22. Re:My grandparents generation were in combat on Microsoft Workers' Letter Demands Company Drop $479 Million HoloLens Military Contract (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, this board could use a new metric, TTT, "Time To Trump." It could replace Godwin's Law.

  23. It's probably better than New Etherium, anyways.

  24. Re:My grandparents generation were in combat on Microsoft Workers' Letter Demands Company Drop $479 Million HoloLens Military Contract (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    since WWII was directly caused by WWI

    The European Theater, yeah. The Pacific Theater, not so much.

    you could say that WWII was completely avoidable.

    Heck, they didn't even have to avoid WWI to avoid WWII in Europe. If they could have just avoided bungling the peace process at the end of WWI, that would've done it.

  25. Re:Political correctness caused the damage on Inside Elizabeth Holmes's Chilling Final Months at Theranos (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, you said Trump! [then the sound of several NPC heads exploding]

    Why do Non-Player Characters care about Trump?