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  1. Re:How Many Saw Biased News? on Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And it never crosses your mind that the people ignoring the wrongdoing and saying "BUT BUT BUT, maybe this thing happened 30 years ago to someone with the same name or maybe not?" have less than honest intentions?

  2. Re:This is why renewables aren't the answer on Mathematical Formula Predicts Global Mass Extinction Event in 2100 (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Weird, people keep telling me that I oppose nuclear power. I don't think I do, but whatever, I guess crazy conspiracy guy knows better.

  3. Sorry to burst your ego bubble, but shitposting on forums does not have the kind of effect on the real world that you think it does. Good luck with the keyboard warrior thing, though.

  4. Re:Call it Machine Learning on AI Just Made Guessing Your Password a Whole Lot Easier (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    This. I was studying various machine learning techniques over a decade ago and everyone involved talked about them as being under the umbrella of AI. Any divergence of terms happened so long ago that it's not worth recognizing anymore.

  5. Re:Don't get too excited on Volkswagen To Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models By 2030 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... commonly referred to as a micro hybrid. The car needs to use electric power for certain things which would normally run via serpentine belt while the engine is off. So it is using electricity instead of gasoline, just not for propulsion.

  6. Re:What about if he donated to the wrong ideology? on Drupal Developers Threaten To Quit Drupal Unless Larry Garfield Is Reinstated (drupalconfessions.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't see any mocking in that link.

  7. Re:Fake news on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    They were applying to be, and I quote "social welfare organizations", which cannot engage primarily in political activity. Then all these "Tea Party" this and "Patriot" that organizations popped up trying to funnel money into political causes masquerading as "social welfare organizations". So many conservative organizations were doing the same thing, and using the same words to describe themselves, it made them very easy to find. Just an example of bureaucracy being efficient for once.

  8. Re:Fake news on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    They were filing as non-political non-profits. They were not allowed to engage in political activity, but they were organizations whose expressed purpose was to support political candidates. Not anyone's fault but theirs that they got caught.

  9. Re:Ridiculous taxes and exemptions will do that on Norway Says Half of New Cars Now Electric Or Hybrid (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    You're claiming that plants are a permanent carbon sink?

  10. 538 had Trump with about a 30% chance to win on election day. It's like rolling a dice, seeing a 5 or a 6, then proclaiming that anyone expecting 1-4 are morons.

  11. Re:The end is near? on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a strawman. Most environmentalists have no issue with nuclear power. It just seems that nobody (regardless of environmental concerns) wants it in their backyard.

  12. 0.1% of 6 billion is 6 million, not 60 million. I'd guess their IT dept was probably in the 100 person range, sounds like you worked for a very small one or had a limited view of what "IT" encompasses.

  13. Re:You lied on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    These articles don't say what you're suggesting. I didn't see anything in them predicting that more hurricanes would be hitting the US specifically. They predicted stronger hurricanes (which has been happening) and more hurricanes (which has been happening), but I didn't see anywhere saying "more of this will happen in the US". Generally they just say, correctly, that warmer weather produces more storms.

  14. Re:Just what kind of fake news have you been watch on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They were not registering as political organizations. They were registering as 501(c)(4)'s, which are social welfare organizations. They are allowed to engage in political activity, but it cannot be their primary focus. Many of these organizations were created exclusively to engage in political activity. They were breaking the rules, it's not anyone's fault but theirs that they got caught.

  15. Re:It is ALL fake news on Study: Most Students Can't Spot Fake News (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    "Oversampling" is a polling method for getting a lower margin of error among one of the subgroups in a poll. For example if you're extremely interested in whether 18-30 year-olds support a policy at a 49% rate or a 51% rate, and a 3% margin of error is too much, you might oversample that age group. It does nothing to the overall results of the poll, just makes the margin of error smaller in one of the subgroups. Try to learn a few basic things about how the world works before claiming that everything is "rigged".

  16. Re:And Obama once again is a blatant liar on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So you wouldn't call it racism if someone is up for a parole hearing, and they are denied because an algorithm was tuned to deny black people? The article has a reasonable point, even if it has a shitty title. Or let me guess, you're one of those "race realists" who just happens to feel that whites are superior.

  17. Re:Hello Trump apologists on Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    And you think this has anything to do with net neutrality? This is whataboutism at its worst.

  18. Re:So that makes it OK then on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    So the DNC shouldn't have any opinion on who gets appointed to which office? I don't see anything in the emails like "he can get this office... if he donates another $100,000"

  19. Re:Cars Are Not More Expensive--BS!!! on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1
  20. Re:That's not "net neutrality" on Europe's 'Net Neutrality' Rules Fail to Ban BitTorrent Throttling (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be awful. It's natural for real-time data like a phone call to have higher priority than a video stream that's buffered far in advance. To not prioritize different protocols would be irresponsible management of the network.

  21. Re:In an emergency, people follow the Leader on People Will Follow a Robot In an Emergency - Even If It's Wrong (gatech.edu) · · Score: 1

    I heard that when the robot broke down, it started repeating "We need to dispel this myth that Obama doesn't know what he's doing..."

  22. Re:I don't have a problem with... on Edward Snowden Calls For Google To Side With Apple On Encryption Debate (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    When you're rate limited to 1 guess per hour after a few failed guesses, 6 or even 4 digits is plenty.

  23. Re:icehouse earth on Last January Was the Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly In Recorded History · · Score: 1

    rotational swing on the galaxy

    I almost laughed myself do death reading this. You should really put a warning at the beginning of your post.

  24. Re:They Lie on Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean · · Score: 1

    This is disingenuous and you know it. It's like pointing back at that one oddly warm day back in February and saying "it hasn't gotten any warmer since then!".

  25. Re:"That hasn't worked out so well" on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Care to elaborate on that?