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  1. Two incidents. That's all you have? Why don't you count all the deaths resulting from prolonged coal mining and burning compared to the deaths from those disasters?

    Typical disaster blindness. You only notice the scary things and not the real killers.

  2. Re:Delusional drivel. on Australians Who Won't Unlock Their Phones Could Face 10 Years In Jail (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes you are. You're just not allow to cause the death of someone with self-defence using excessive force. That's not "for anything". That's literally for just one outcome. There are plenty of outcomes in self-defence that does not require death.

    Something is wrong with Americans. You guys keep trying to find an excuse to kill people to make yourself feel macho for having been wronged.

  3. Re:Delusional drivel. on Australians Who Won't Unlock Their Phones Could Face 10 Years In Jail (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they are also right of the Democratic party. They are the party of pro-white, anti-coloured immigration. The party of corporate tax cuts based on free-market voodoo. The party of climate change denial and the offloading of climate related economic and political troubles to later generations.

    And no, not even the 10% who own guns cares enough about guns to complain about gun laws. Requiring a reason, and a licence, to own a gun is not considered unreasonable among most of the 10%.

  4. Re:Mismatch in Expectations on Recruiters Are Still Complaining About No-Shows At Interviews (kyma.com) · · Score: 2
    It's not really that they're equating one for the other, but is just asking recruiters and employers to understand that they themselves contribute to the situation. The fact that you subtly used imbalanced language illustrates this.

    Many listings are semi-genuine

    vs

    Many applications aren't genuine

    You're already giving the employer the benefit of the doubt. To an applicant, there are no "semi-genuine" listings. So they should understand they contribute to their situation and should stop complaining about it. Don't want to be snubbed? Don't be "semi" genuine. There's no such thing.

    Without automation, the cost of responding to each application is quite high. Many employers don't have this. Employees should understand this.

    Do employers know what else has a high cost? Unemployment. Maybe employers should take a look at themselves and understand that it costs more for the applicant than the employer.

    Either party may provide *more* courtesy than what is described above. That reflects a higher standard in that person or organization, and the employee should recognize and appreciate it.

    It's always the employee who must appreciate it, but never employers. How about employers get over themselves and appreciate the applicants. Employers should have no right to complain if they don't provide the same courtesy they want.

  5. Re:Shoe on the other foot on Recruiters Are Still Complaining About No-Shows At Interviews (kyma.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never flaked out on an interview, either with a recruiter, or a company, and almost every recruiter I've worked with were at worst ineffective rather than useless.

    But if you bothered to look at other comments that last time a recruiter story appeared on Slashdot and this current story, you'd know recruiters and companies do flake out on interviewees too, and it's sometimes not the worst thing they've done.

    And just because they've "hand picked" you through a process that takes many "hours" (oh no, not hours!) doesn't give them an excuse to be a huge arse and not update you on the status of the application.

    And talking about the "process" that takes "hours", think about the real hours people do spend tailoring their CVs and letters for the specific job they're applying for. Because recruiters and HR put many questionable roadblocks in the way to excuse themselves for disregarding your application on a flaky premise.

  6. Shoe on the other foot on Recruiters Are Still Complaining About No-Shows At Interviews (kyma.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think it's high time people start talking about their experience with recruiters and how useless they can be.

  7. This is what all that stupid post-9/11 rhetoric gets you.

  8. Re:Nice Scaremongering on Climate Change Has Doubled the Frequency of Ocean Heatwaves (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    They didn't miss this data, dickhead. They've already collected it, you illiterate shit.

  9. Re:Nice Scaremongering on Climate Change Has Doubled the Frequency of Ocean Heatwaves (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    In case you haven't noticed, the people putting up solar and electric cars are not the same people mining/drilling and running power plants and shipping. There isn't some magical quota enforcement that forces one down when the other goes up.

    It's you who should be explaining your "reasoning" that the two are somehow linked in such a way.

  10. Re:Nice Scaremongering on Climate Change Has Doubled the Frequency of Ocean Heatwaves (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Uptake of solar and electric cars by themselves don't reduce carbon emissions.

    As for the summary, it is taken from the Nature link, which provides a source for that 3.5C figure.

  11. Re:Nice Scaremongering on Climate Change Has Doubled the Frequency of Ocean Heatwaves (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    The term doesn't matter. As the summary states, the data has been around longer. So no, your claim that "new term = new study" is complete bullshit.

  12. Re:Easy when someone else is footing the bill on A Community-Run ISP Is the Highest Rated Broadband Company In America (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    He's probably from the USA. Only libertards in the USA thinks the country was magicked into existence the day they became self-aware and since then everything is just taking away what is rightfully his.

  13. Community, commune, communism. on A Community-Run ISP Is the Highest Rated Broadband Company In America (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can't have communities in charge of stuff. That's communism, that is. And the community making people who use the community's resources pay their part of it is violence, I tell ya. Violence. How dare communities not provide things for free(loaders)?

  14. Stickers are for children on Putting Stickers On Your Laptop is Probably a Bad Security Idea (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Stickers are for children.

    But if political stickers can get you detained while crossing the border of a country, then the border patrol is wasting taxpayer money on a power trip frivolous harassment.

  15. Re:It makes sense, it's like scalping on Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    And who should one kill with said gun? And is it worth losing your own life over some stupid game?

  16. Re:No classes, No goto on Julia 1.0 Released After a Six-Year Wait (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 1

    How about you learn to break out of needing classes for everything? Just because you're a shitty programmer who can't make head or tail of a different kind of programming doesn't mean all languages need to cater for the lowest common denominator. Not everything needs to be "object oriented" so idiots like you can understand it.

    If you don't think coroutines aren't a form of goto, then maybe consider you need to learn more. goto is a limited and poor form of flow control for "jumping" in an out of certain execution states. Coroutines have better semantics for control flow that are much better for expressing the idea of "jumping" in and out of certain execution states. If you can't learn to use coroutines, that is literally your fault.

  17. Re:No classes, No goto on Julia 1.0 Released After a Six-Year Wait (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 2

    As other people have pointed out, Julia already has things specific to it that fit the role of classes, that have mathematical analogues, without being like classes. And given that you have all those other features, like coroutines which are a better form of goto, why are you whining?

  18. Re:No classes, No goto on Julia 1.0 Released After a Six-Year Wait (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 1

    Until branches of mathematics starts using classes and gotos in their theorems, they probably aren't useful in a language for doing mathematics.

  19. Re:"History proves that peace only comes through s on VP Pence Lays Out Trump's Vision For Establishing a US Space Force (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And Sun Tzu also warned about spending too long and too much on them military. Economic strength is a much more powerful than military strength.

  20. Increase spending on VP Pence Lays Out Trump's Vision For Establishing a US Space Force (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Increasing government spending is alright if libertarian governments do it, apparently.

  21. No, there definitely are people who still claim climate is not changing. Some of those threw a snowball trying to make that point. And the people who voted for people like that snowball thrower do believe climate is not changing.

    People like you are pretending not to know they exist because they are embarrassing allies on your side.

  22. Re:Follow the lead of the USA on Planet At Risk of Heading Towards Irreversible 'Hothouse Earth' State (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    From your own link:

    the Environmental Protection Agency reports that the U.S. reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 2 percent in 2016.

    You may want to consider it's not 2016 now, with a different policy approach to the climate.

  23. Re:XKCDs timeline is quite horrific looking on Planet At Risk of Heading Towards Irreversible 'Hothouse Earth' State (vice.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Remember, Bernie Sanders told Vice in an interview that massive immigration is a Koch brothers plan.

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-...

  24. Re:XKCDs timeline is quite horrific looking on Planet At Risk of Heading Towards Irreversible 'Hothouse Earth' State (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Funny how you have no sources for anything in your last paragraph.

  25. Re:Abuse on Vint Cerf on Differential Traceability on the Internet (acm.org) · · Score: 2

    Where's your source on this? Most sites I've read says not anyone can request ownership information.