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  1. Re:The worst amongst us. on Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    This is a whole other level of delusion.

  2. Re:The worst amongst us. on Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    We are currently ruled by some of the worst people of our nation.

    Not remotely as bad as Hillary and her pedo-cannibal cronies.

  3. Enough With The Trump Bashing on Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    What's Bill Gates' daughter look like?

  4. Re:Don't Negotiate on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Have the state hold it in a trust the company controls toward the public good or similar and reaps the benefits of (most corporations of that scale donate to charities to save on taxes.)

  5. Re:Don't Negotiate on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, even if that were the scheme, as soon as the state pays me back my money, what would keep me from leaving?

    You don't get it back until the next year and you get charged it for existing even a day there.

  6. Re:crypto-coins? on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a moron, there are no extant post-quantum cryptocoins.

  7. What is also true is that the three laws were conceived of over the course of a few minutes as a plot device in a short story.

    Well shit, if that's your beef you might as well throw out all of modern engineering:

    • Salesmen promise the world.
    • Engineers have to back them up and say "yep, we can do this" because they need the job.
    • Engineers finally see the spec, bullshit something together, and have a functional product in the customer's eyes while they die a little inside.
  8. Iain Banks, there, I said it. (Not touching the fact he didn't actually solve the problems.)

  9. /thread - This is such a great response I'll even disregard the in-feasibility of codifying those laws.

  10. Re:What? on AI Can't Reason Why (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    What you are describing is the problem of imperfect information, which is well described by microeconomics.

  11. Re:What? on AI Can't Reason Why (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    No it wouldn't. There are solutions to imperfect information.

  12. Re:What? on AI Can't Reason Why (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The computer wouldn't even need that information, this is a basic microeconomics problem and a computer could easily solve it today. Interesting that some "journalist" writing for something named The Wallstreet Journal doesn't know this.

  13. Re:What leverage? on Fed Up With Apple's Policies, App Developers Form a 'Union' (wired.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Tell me about Apple's leverage, again?

    Apple users are universally fucking retarded and will do what Apple says, they could release anything on the app store themselves - the app store exists to let their more creative retards put things out for karma, not to make money in itself. That said, app developers are also universally retarded so there may be some overlap in the two communities, but what really matters is if they compose enough of the retarded Apple user demographic to show lost sales of Apple products. My hunch is that, being retarded app developers and retarded Apple users, they will simply virtue signal while being rejected from the app store and spending every last cent they acquire on Apple merchandise, some might even fund a Kickstarter to dig up Steve Jobs' corpse so they suck his necrotic cock again.

  14. To add to this: it compresses code dynamically with the use of reading frames and introns. It compiles into more things than you can even represent the state of with every quantum state in the entire known universe used as a single bit, it uses dynamic indexing structures we still don't fully understand in the context of Okazaki fragments, it is capable of dynamically rearranging build outputs without actually changing the code, different environments will execute it in different ways and usually still get the same result, it has fault tolerance and repair mechanisms that make ECC RAM look like child's play, it has all the instructions to build itself along with all of its supporting hardware, it demonstrates extreme recombination and can generally copy and paste from other organisms without issue using products of its own code, etc. The one thing that would really exclude it from this category is that it's hard to call it just software because it directly synthesizes the building blocks for the hardware which run it, but since that hardware comes at the bootstrap phase from the prior generation it could be argued that it is just software since you can't for instance replace the genome of a bacteria with a chicken and get a chicken.

  15. Re:The Windows Kernel FTFY on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Sophisticated Piece of Software Ever Written? (quora.com) · · Score: 0

    "It has to support over a billion different" security bugs

    Honestly, I'd consider Windows in the running for this reason alone (seriously.) They have rolling backdoors which change with each update such that they always have a way into client machines without usually letting a "bug" sit in the wild long enough to be exploited by other parties (at least, when you consider that they always have multiple backdoors in multiple layers of the OS.) It's a pretty sophisticated method, so much so most people will probably chalk the idea that it exists that way (it does) up as a conspiracy theory.

  16. Re:Copy Pasta on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Sophisticated Piece of Software Ever Written? (quora.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    why am i here?

    Because God hates you.

  17. Re:Just jump off the edge on California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen (undark.org) · · Score: 1

    America is currently more economically prosperous under Trump than any other time since I've been alive. If the commies had their way we'd have Hillary or Bernie in office right now instead of Trump. To suggest Commifornia policies are good economically is flat out absurd - they are good at consolidating labor away from the other states, not at producing anything. Commifornia is the definition of a parasite, producing nothing but taking much from their host nation - even to the point of pushing cancerous policies.

  18. Re:Don't Negotiate on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more in terms of refunds - e.g. the corporation pays heavy taxes, if they stay they get it all back (the state invests it for a year and takes the interest,) if they leave they don't get it back.

  19. Re:Just jump off the edge on California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen (undark.org) · · Score: 1

    So tired of this dumb stat. It is also the most populated state... duh. BTW if California secedes the USA will still be number 1 economy in the world.

    And as an added bonus we could invade to free the patriots while eradicating the commie scum, it's win-win.

  20. Re:Just jump off the edge on California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen (undark.org) · · Score: 1

    Try being a libertarian. We get beat up by both sides; social conservatives and socialists alike.

    That's because Libertarianism is just as bad as Communism - both are idealistic extremes that can't function in reality, useful only as examples of a philosophy. It takes a mixture of philosophies to build a functional society.

  21. Re:Just jump off the edge on California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen (undark.org) · · Score: 1

    They are #1 at consolidating jobs outside their state to inside their state and spewing liberal propaganda, nothing real. They have a net drain on the economy, so being pro-Commifornia is being anti-America.

  22. Don't care about interesting, I care about being RIGHT.

    You don't get that option with that stance, the most you can obtain is to be interesting while being wrong.

  23. Re:Don't Negotiate on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You can impose a very large tax with deductions in the future, effectively an exit tax.

  24. Re:Don't Negotiate on Amazon Threatens To Move Jobs Out of Seattle Over New Tax (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Legality doesn't matter if they can make Amazon waste billions in legal defense. Large corporations do it on an equivalent scale to the little guys all the time, they deserve a taste of their own medicine.

  25. Re:Just jump off the edge on California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen (undark.org) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Commifornia is what you get when hardcore liberalism is allowed to flourish.