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  1. Encoding is not enough on Researchers Store Computer OS, Short Movie On DNA (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing special in encoding something with generic code. The real challenge is to make it transcribtable into something meaningful, so a cell could produce something. So far only viruses could do so after hundreds of millions years of trials and errors.

  2. That will kill it faster on Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Who need Twitter if they are not allowed to troll Trump? It is a political tool already.

  3. Cheap processed crap. Same dynamics could be seen in remote areas of Nepal, Tibet and North India.

  4. Continuous distraction on Social Media Are Driving Americans Insane (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It the same as to stay in the midst of a mob where everyone is shouting arbitrary bullshit. What would you expect?

  5. FYI Golang has a "modern" cryptography library in its core. PHP in 21th century. What a lunacy.

  6. The bug has been found with a modern diagnostic tool, such as clang-5.0 with all the warnings and sanity checks enabled. Anyway, this is really cool story.

  7. You don't have to be a CS professor to see it. Professorship explains why it took him so long to notice.

  8. I am too dumb to get it on Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How does a tiny random sampled "experiment" could tell anything at all about what would happen when a majority, leave alone whole population will start to receive free money? These are completely different dynamics. This sample group has no impact on the economy at all, while there will be inflationary impact when majority kicks in. Hipster's statistics-based "science". They even call it "experiment".

  9. of New Power to an Old Power is..?

  10. > 8x8 pixel images which it then turned into some pretty clear photos where you can actually tell facial features apart. This is bullshit. It is mathematically impossible to compensate such loss of information. They might use other images to reconstruct original form a pattern, but this, obviously, has nothing to do with reality if the other images used as sources of details have not been made at the same moment.

  11. Which is the absolute champion in vulnerabilities exploited by hackers, tracking, malware and every possible kind of crap, including banners, which is the only reason it is still exist and pushed by the browser vendors.

  12. What, no hookers SF? on Peter Thiel Thinks There's Not Enough Sex In Silicon Valley (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I know - they are too plain and simple for all these hipster snowflakes. This is a deadlock indeed.

  13. Re:How about imports on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    BTW, what about all the cows and pigs and chickens? They produce TWO greenhouse gases each! I probably know the answer - become vegans by 2045

  14. Self-deluded leftists and memes on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Why they does not even look around before proposing such progressive nonsense? Perhaps, because conforming to the image of a progressive eco-hipster is the main agenda of those "lawmakers"? Swedish economy is almost entirely rely on diesel engine trucks and buses. Thousands of small towns and villages are receiving its supplies by trucks. Almost every family own at least one non-electric car. There is no way to survive in Swedish rural areas without a car. There is simple not enough public transportation. So, what does they propose? To force all the people to buy electric cars? Without appropriate infrastructure? To build that infrastructure across whole country first? To force transport companies to switch to non-existent electric trucks and buses? To switch to over-hyped solar in a country which enjoys weeks of cloudy weather in a row and the sun barely seen on the horizon in winter month, with a third of territory in polar region? Dear over-progressive leftist environmentalists - wouldn't it be better to do some reality checks? BTW, who will pay for all required infrastructure?

  15. Competition? But that's good! on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Competition is one of evolutionary primary forces. Everyone will benefit in the long run.

  16. Not maintenance? on The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF am I reading? Hipster's "science" newsletter.

  17. Re:Volatility on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you never seen before so called hipster's science - chimeras made from poorly understood data processed by flawed statistical methods? Never seen any bullshit nutrition "science", disconnected from reality models in finance, sectarian, theology-like "physics"? Why should we not question validity of hipster's science? Should I explain how one keeps a position of an "expert" and high social status of a "scientists and researcher" by bullshitting naive idiots by dogmatic nonsense which fits the current social set of beliefs and popular memes? How peer-reviews has been done on the basis "he did really good job". Oh, there is some conclusions drawn from statistics, but all the current memes are in place. Flawed models should be chopped into pieces by rigorously checking its logic. One single contradiction is *enough* to throw all the thing away. There is already many bullshit hipster's pseudo-science based on fancy modelings and simulations.

  18. Re:Prepare for deluge of stupid on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Climate became more volatile (using a hipster's term) there is not a single doubt about that. Some changes occur as a direct results of human activities - smogs in China and India, there is no doubt about this too. Increasing average temperatures in the last decade is an obvious fact, but there is no proof of the causes, only correlations. The question did it happen before, are there similar abnormally warm and snowless Novembers and Decembers on record. If so, it will be difficult to prove any causal relationships at all. BTW, statistics is no way to establish and prove causality - correlation is not a causation.

  19. That makes sense. Do ability-testing based hiring, not based on the lowest salary an applicant would accept. Companies willing to pay more for tested top-performers would win. Imagine staffing of a symphonic orchestra on the criterion of a lowest wage foreign hire instead of testing candidate's performance.

  20. That is really a diversion on Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome, Reports Claim (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    Chrome 56 enables Flash each time it starts, even if I manually disable it That is quite bad, because it leaves my system vulnerable to a flash exploit (there are tens of them) and malicious code which steals history, cookies, etc, while I am thinking that I have completely disabled it. That is a fucking dirty trick. I could get tracked or even compromised by crappy sites, not knowing flash is auto-enabled. Thank you, Google. You are definitely did the evil

  21. There should be a startup on Ransomware Infects a Hotel's Key System (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    secure digital locks.com

  22. This makes sense on All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals · · Score: 1

    It means acute dis-balance and/or deficiency of some nutrients which organism is trying to compensate. It also could explain in part aggression in general - getting better nutrition no matter what, implemented as some hormonal pathway.

  23. Phenomena such as Non-Corrupt Government does not exist.

  24. Real talent is worth more than 100k

  25. Algorithms can do very little in stochastic environments in multiple adversary contexts.