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  1. Re:Theory on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    It's whatever you label the slot for "Recognized as the closest approximation for 'observed reality' possible until a superior alternative to fallible human sensory perception becomes available".

    Most people just round over the gap and say Fact.

  2. Re:Self learning classroom learning on How Fine-Grained Will New Credentialism Get: Credit For Watching a TED Talk? · · Score: 1

    This. I definitely recognize the (greater?) worth of nonclassroom learning, and I'd love to stick it to the overpriced diploma factory, but reality outweighs optimism. It's too impractical, and just isn't implementable.

  3. Re:Be prepared to wipe your phone at any time? on Porn-themed Android Ransomware Takes Your Picture Before Asking For Money · · Score: 1

    > (Score:2, Informative)
    Alright guys. Society's hygiene standards are varied and mostly superfluous; I'm not here to tell you to shower every twelve hours. But there is a line, it's called "sanitary", whereafter actual consequences follow.

    I don't mind most stereotypes and stigmas, but much like disease control I want everyone to keep an eye on that breakpoint.

    So anyway, depending on your use, you might want to check the phone before you start.

  4. Re:They should know better on NASA To 'Lasso' a Comet To Hitchhike Across the Solar System · · Score: 4, Funny

    *furiously makes addition to bucket list*

  5. Re:Get some competition, watch that rise. on Municipal ISP Makes 10Gbps Available To All Residents · · Score: 1

    This. My kneejerk to "50mbit for $45/mo" was "that's not so great", but I'm in a googlefiber city. When that got greenlit and deploying, our ISPs started busting out all kinds of deals, pricebreaks, and upgrades.

    Capitalism can't "work itself out" when consumer selection isn't the driving force, and muscley corporates are.

  6. Re:Non linear... on Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind · · Score: 1

    While that surely lines up with the physics formula of a moving fluid (and resulting blade RPM) my gut's takeaway from skimming TFS figured it also meant baselines, ie anything below N force won't turn blades at all, or certain electrical/circuit bits don't open/flow until certain breakpoints. IANAengineer.

  7. Re: And we care because...why? on Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming · · Score: 1

    The number 100 forcibly limits genders, the old boys' club has put an arbitrary ceiling on how big a portion is possible to represent in the 100-centile structure.

    Fractions should be represented by number-neutral pictures, and anyone not doing so violently shamed.

    Trigger warning: The word violence is totally gonna come barreling through this post, doing like 40 in a 35.

  8. Re:Three Seashells on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    You could interpret a captive rhino as one less hunted. It's oversimplified, but grow 1000 farm trees and that's 1000 wild ones not getting chopped.

  9. Re:Major disconnect from layers on Why Do So Many Tech Workers Dislike Their Jobs? · · Score: 1

    No, that's the definition of chance, luck, random, statistics, etc.

    Like, a disturbingly accurate definition. As if some twit a few decades back hijacked it and wrote "insanity" over the label with a marker.

  10. Re:Classic problem of tech culture on Buzzwords Are Stifling Innovation In College Teaching · · Score: 1

    orz
    *collapses to hands and knees in despair*

  11. Re:commentsubjectsaredumb on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    There simply isn't room for 4,999,999,999 musicians. Or robot repairmen, to address the guy that... actually doesn't seem to have showed up in the tree at all. Yet.

    The primary, almost exclusive export of Prolevania is labor. And when that is worthless, Prolevania will dry up, save for a few drops of musician tourism.

    No one is visiting, no one is buying their export, not when Robokistan is giving it away.

  12. commentsubjectsaredumb on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 1

    Show me where a licensed professional made a "EMHS syndrome" diagnosis.

  13. Re:Moronic on Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 · · Score: 1

    All the more reason to not assume 100% perfect use everytime forever.

  14. Re:commentsubjectsaredumb on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    I described the two-tier system as the endgame, but it's already here in nascent form, it's just resolving as the money gravitates and the contrast sharpens.

    The proles can grow potatoes, sure. The year's yield is worth about $5, competitive with robo-made. That can acutually buy lots of soy beans or gray shirts on the prole market.

    They can also spend the year building furniture or washing cars or stocking shelves, for roughly the same annual yield.

    The federal basic income is $120/yr for every human citizen.

    When labor is worthless, the money does circulate in the prole market, but inevitably bleeds upward, much like a country with zero exports.

    If not for the few drips of tourism (lucky proles who get to provide 1%'ers services like prostitution and make $10 overnight) the pool would actually drift towards absolute zero, which makes for more amusing math and curves if you're into dark humor.

  15. Re:commentsubjectsaredumb on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    Anything commoners offer each other, the robots provide/made cheaper. Liquid assets gravitate upwards, it's inevitable.

    It's already happening. Where does your paycheck go? John Everyman? It goes to mortgages, insurance, cars, medical bills, taxes, corporate-made products and services, it goes up.

    One illusion is "John's getting a cut from Walmart" - his job exists because it's a net upwards flow.

    It's not a conspiracy or anything, I'm not whining - I drew First Worlder at birth, I'm in the Golden Billion. But I'm pointing out the natural creep that will happen to any given economical scenario - influential powers will obviously flourish slightly more for pretty much any conditions, moreso in malleable conditions. My generation won't be hosed by the endgame ahead, but I have no idea what 2050-2100 is going to; if Bobby's generation revolts, it'll be hilariously one-sided.

    I have no solutions, even giving out basic income will cause a curve to spike on anything vaguely luxury past necessities. The money will be in catering to other 1%'ers, not competing over the shit-margin scraps the proles spare on robo-made five-cent gray shirts.

    The baseline will probably be a hair better than terrafoam though.

  16. commentsubjectsaredumb on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's jobs? Great! I was worried that the 5,000,000,000 work-aged people in the 99% would struggle to find things the 1%'ers want done. Apparently each rich guy needs a city-sized army of artists and musicians for each of their mansions.

    It's hilarious to see people in denial about this coming to a head, when it's long since started.

    Bobby McGuy is 18 and trying to pay for school instead of suckering into the predatory scam of student loans, because he knows he's fucked if he doesn't get exclusive education (which, by definition, not everyone can have). He's healthy, ready to work, an optimized subject on a silver platter, and there's nothing for him to do unless he undercuts the robot's $2/hr. He's worthless. If, IF there's anything for him to do, 4,999,999,999 others want to do it too.

  17. Re:The Wire on In Baltimore and Elsewhere, Police Use Stingrays For Petty Crimes · · Score: 1
  18. Re:He has a point on Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    >implying you'll be safe from terrorists

  19. commensubjectsaredumb on Now Google Must Censor Search Results About "Right To Be Forgotten" Removals · · Score: 1

    Data is contagious. Google's bots crawl data.

    Like the copyright mafia, they're learning the hard way that it's pretty hard to maintain exclusive control over an unconcious, intangible, not-a-thing-but-a-mental-construct that has to be controlled everywhere in the universe at once.

    "They" not necessarily being Google, who are probably more aware of the futility.

  20. Re:Could have its uses on Now Google Must Censor Search Results About "Right To Be Forgotten" Removals · · Score: 1

    You know I STILL don't know who they are. Athletes? Musicians? Rock stars? Actors? Artists?

    At any rate, godspeed to you anonymous masses.

  21. commentsubjectsaredumb on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 1
    If I may go full pedant a moment,

    >better serve customers
    >cause printer incapable of serving

    PRspeak or not it's wrong, because they literally block the device from the "serve" verb.

    If I may speak as a layman, they're twits who should fuck themselves with rusty garden tools, while Robin Hood hands out the scumprofits to their customers/employees.

  22. Re:Thoughtcrime! on Two Arrests In Denmark For Spreading Information About Popcorn Time · · Score: 1

    "Conspiracy to commit" is illegal. It short-circuits freespeech.

    EVERYTHING short-circuits freespeech, you fuckwits. Shouting "Fire" in a theater is perfectly legal - endangering human life is not, and the 1stA doesn't grant new, override powers.

  23. commentsubjectsaredumb on Revisiting How Much RAM Is Enough Today For Desktop Computing · · Score: 1

    Unless you can reverse years in a time machine, the answer is perpetually "More".

    Even without games, even if devs are careful, bloat is inevitable. Fire up youtube and MS word at the same time on grandma's machine and you're hanging with every click.

  24. Re:Sorry Jeff on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's childishly easy to dangle "expected" over someone's neck. Then let them go when their "priorities are clearly not in line with the company's mission".

    Threats are perfectly good substitutes for policy, when execution is arbitrary.

  25. Re:Get Self-Employed on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 1

    If you don't like poverty, stop being poor.

    Oh man, we had no idea. We should all do that, then everyone will be rich.

    The ultimate laugh is that OP has probably complained about shitty ISP service, or other "simple"-to-beat monopolies.

    Go die. And get a third world country on your next ovarian lotto draw.