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  1. Re:Of Mice and Men on Scientists Create Healthy Mice With Same-Sex Parents (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Others will make of it and use it however they will.

    Not in China though, same sex marriage is illegal there and you can bet this would be too.

  2. Re: 19 year old radical feminist in 1950 might lik on Scientists Create Healthy Mice With Same-Sex Parents (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of course that would have been around 1950, some 70 years ago. Reading her later writing and how she describes her early ideas, I have a feeling she probably wouldn't be all that pleased.

    It seems like you must be aware of this because you linked to her Wikipedia page that explains it. So I'm wondering what the purpose of presenting this information in such a misleading way is.

    It's been modded as "informative" which suggests that at least some people accepted it without checking. That's a great demonstration of how links are used to add credibility to a post, even though the link largely contradicts it. The existence of the link makes people think that the claim is properly sourced, so they don't bother to check.

  3. Re:Laughing out loud on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Says the guy who writes off socialists as totalitarians or fools.

    You are right about not unpeopling people, just a hypocrite.

  4. That's not the issue. It's not that they can't grow enough food, it's that if everyone eats lots of meat the planet can't sustain the number of food animals and the amount of methane that they produce.

    So either you are going to have to tell other people "sorry, I got here first and you will just have to do without meat, now excuse my while I enjoy this steak" or we all get together and find some other solution.

    Fortunately synthetic meat looks like it could solve a lot of these issues and be just as delicious, if not more so.

  5. Re:The question never asked on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It will be extremely difficult to avoid 9 billion by 2050 because a lot of those people are already alive. The fertility rate is actually reaching replacement rate already, countries like Bangladesh have gone from an average of 9 children per woman to around 2.2 now. 2.2 is replacement level due to untimely deaths.

    The reason the population continues to increase is that people are living longer. People born today can expect to live into their 70s, even in developing countries which will probably reach that level by 2100. So to get the population down we would have to lower the fertility rate below 2.2 and wait until the latter part of this century for it to have a major effect.

    The good news is that most of the population growth is in places where there is a lot of scope for sustainable development to support it, primarily Africa. At the current rate we are headed for 12 billion by 2100 which is sustainable with modern environmentally responsible farming methods.

  6. Re:Just wait until it is chasing you down dark all on Boston Dynamics' Robot Went From a Drunk Baby To a Nimble Ninja in a Matter of Years (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The quality of the vision system isn't all that important, what matters is that the robot is expendable. Cops shoot when they are worried about getting shot themselves. The robot can just wait, possibly even until it gets shot first, because in the end it's just a machine that can be fixed/replaced. It just needs to survive long enough to call for backup.

    You have to wonder why police aren't doing this already. Rather than sending the SWAT team in, stay well back and send a drone in. See if the suspect really has a gun, give them an opportunity to surrender. Even a simple wheeled vehicle with a camera and mic/speaker would be enough if they are worried about the noise of a flying drone.

  7. Re:Come on - that is not Ninja (or parkour) on Boston Dynamics' Robot Went From a Drunk Baby To a Nimble Ninja in a Matter of Years (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    This is a greater danger than killer robots. Care robots are a great idea in theory but in the hands of corporations will be abused. Every kind of addictive behaviour, any way to extra extra cash will be exploited if left unchecked.

    Before elderly care bots it will probably happen with sexbots.

  8. The EU didn't actually say that the manufacturer owns the data though. The merely declined to say explicitly that the data /cannot/ be copyrighted. So the question of if it can be copyrighted is still open, and in the EU databases and this kind of generated data generally can't be.

    The way this works is that someone objects to a relatively minor addition late in the day and it's not worth holding the whole thing up to deal with. Essentially they just kicked the can down the road a bit, allowing the possibility of a manufacturer going to court to argue the rather difficult position that such data can be copyrighted and should belong to them. In addition to the previously mentioned lack of copyright on databases, the idea that the manufacturer should own the data rather than the owner of the car will be a hard sell since generally you buy software and use it to make something the creation is yours, and the Terms of Service can't steal it from you.

  9. Re:AI really can't replace everything. on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, site blocked from my current location. I'll check it when I get back home and have my VPN to circumvent the censorship.

  10. Re:AI really can't replace everything. on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    To get recognition they need to.. make an accusation.

    Actually about a decade ago the rules were changed to make it much harder, and there have been continual complaints since that it's very difficult to get legal aid in domestic abuse cases now. In fact even before the change it was hard because of things like the "same roof" rule which required the victim to leave the home and stop living under the same roof as the abuser to be considered. That is now (as in the last couple of months) being reformed.

    A quick google for the graphs you mention turned up nothing. Do you have a link?

  11. Re: I thought searches were supposed to reflect re on Microsoft Tackles 'Horrifying' Bing Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, most of the child rapists in the UK were second or third generation, i.e. born in Britain and British citizens. The fact that they were mostly Asian and Muslim has been discussed on major TV programmes extensively, and in newspapers and in Parliament and at the inquest into what happened.

    What upsets people is that these discussions don't consider the fake news reports, so they think things are being covered up.

  12. You could make the same argument about most foods. Why spend time combining ingredients and preparing stuff when you can just eat each part individually or throw it all in a blender?

    Clearly there is a demand for things that are delicious.

  13. Re:Lack of censorship was the only... on Microsoft Tackles 'Horrifying' Bing Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Bing is heavily censored. They even operate in China, that's how good their censorship tech is.

  14. Re: I thought searches were supposed to reflect re on Microsoft Tackles 'Horrifying' Bing Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually it's because they weren't immigrants, they were the children of immigrants, some third generation, born in Sweden. Unless their religion was a particular factor in their crime is irrelevant, same as when Christians and atheists commit random crimes.

  15. Re: I thought searches were supposed to reflect re on Microsoft Tackles 'Horrifying' Bing Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft decides. It's either that or go back to the 90s when search results were total crap, which is clearly not what most people want or Altavista would have been the pinnacle of search engines.

  16. Re:Try writing better searches on Microsoft Tackles 'Horrifying' Bing Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So you want to search for "anti-Semitism" to get these results, not "Jew". Or maybe "anti-Semitic conspiracy theories" if you want to read about, say, Cultural Marxism.

  17. I was thinking of alcohol minimum pricing. It's worked in a few places.

    I don't see why synthetic meat would not taste great too. The best beef is from cows that live a life of luxury and little stress, and synth meat doesn't have a brain to get stressed...

  18. Re:AI really can't replace everything. on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So how come it's only women that make the accusations? If it's so common why don't the fathers do it too?

  19. I dunno, worked okay with junk food taxes in some places.

    But really the better solution is synthetic meat. Lower environmental impact, fewer antibiotics and other additives, and eventually should be a lot cheaper.

    Picard was right.

  20. Re:Cue the next disaster on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What stage is this again? We had denial, then we can't do anything about it anyway, then we can do something but China won't, and now it's down to wild conspiracy theories...

    Is this the last step? I hope so.

  21. I changed my voicemail greeting to "hi, I don't listen to voicemail so text or email if you need me". If someone leaves a voicemail then I know I definitely don't want to talk to them.

  22. Semantics and legalities. It's still collecting data and allowing for the refinement of algorithms. Just over a hundred times more data.

    Teslas have far fewer sensors than Waymo vehicles, so they collect vastly less data. No lidar, for example.

    And collected data is not a very good metric. Is the quality/utility of Tesla's data as good as Waymo's? Considering that they don't even look for many types of events and don't collect a constant feed from every camera it's very likely that they are missing lots of stuff that will be vital to reaching full self driving.

    There is very little reason to think that Tesla is anywhere near Waymo on self driving. They originally announced a cross country run for 2017 which never happened, and now Musk is saying 2022 for it to arrive. Meanwhile Waymo has cars driving under full computer control without direct human oversight or anyone behind the wheel ready to take over.

  23. They can clearly detect when third party parts are used in order to disable functionality. Yet for some reason they can't just have a little flag displayed somewhere that says "third party parts used, warranty void".

    Instead of dealing with the fraud themselves during the warranty process they shifted the burden on to the consumer by disallowing repairs with third party parts.

    And in any case in many places they can't disallow warranty repairs because the phone has some third party parts, unless the failure is due to those parts. Similar to how using a third party air filter can't invalidate the warranty on your car unless they can prove that the air filter is/caused the fault.

  24. Re:Does someone still believe their research? on More Than One Third of Music Consumers Still Pirate Music (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They could probably detect ripping if they wanted to. I use an app called 4k Video Downloader to rip videos and audio from YouTube. By default it opens 3 HTTPS streams, but I configured it for 5 to speed it up. Rips at maximum speed, usually many times playback speed.

  25. Re:How exctly? on Google Appeals $5 Billion EU Fine In Android Case (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU has decided that providing those services in exchange for having the Play Store installed is fine, but requiring the bundling of Chrome and Google Search and making them the default is not.

    I don't know if they are right, I haven't examined the situation in detail, I'm just explaining it.