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  1. Re:Google on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    They like to lie to themselves and pretend it's noble or better for the species in the long run or "lol, that's DECADES away," and a host of other things. They're all just excuses because deep down everyone knows the absolute fact of the matter: everything finite is inherently worthless. It's a tough pill to swallow, so much so that idiots would rather make up a plethora of excuses than simply take up biotech research.

  2. Re:Google on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    If overpopulation were that big of an issue we would just kill people for resources, same thing as has always happened and still happens. The only difference is a few billion could easily be immortal.

  3. Re:Hardly on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've actually looked into these pretty heavily over the years, they have more or less the same set of survival genes we have (things which don't make cancer pop up in under 30 years, things which don't lead to heart disease in similar timeframes, etc.) There's nothing groundbreaking in them aside from their paws.

  4. Re:Hardly on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Humans live about 40-50% the span whales do, they just seem abnormal because primates don't normally live that long.

    Also, we make things instead of [just ]swim and get fat.

  5. Re:Google on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate Google as much as anyone but there's nothing admirable about dying, you idiot.

  6. Hardly on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 0

    Naked mole rats live about 20-25% the span Humans do, they just seem abnormal because rodents don't normally live that long.

  7. One Line on AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is proof this is a fake. They ran their algorithm, got something almost sensible for the first sentence, and the rest was total gibberish but they needed to publish.

  8. Re:Excellent Investment on FBI Warns of Email Death Threats Demanding Bitcoin (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    wait, what's the remaining 40%?

    Autists.

  9. XBMC on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Build a Private TV Channel For My Kids? · · Score: 1

    Make a media center PC with XBMC installed on it, load the shows and movies up on there.

  10. Re:Good on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    The cell phone bill that gets $30/mo more expensive every year doesn't help, but this is the proper solution to net neutrality: it's a utility, treat it as such. Nationalize 5G and the ISPs will get scared and straiten out or get nationalized too.

  11. Re:Excellent Investment on FBI Warns of Email Death Threats Demanding Bitcoin (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    The one I was talking about was actually how the FBI runs about 20% of the exit nodes, more than enough to link the data together.

  12. Re:Correction on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Consciousness is just a state machine interacting with the outside universe. Oxidation states meet this definition. Hell, if you understood anything about biotech you would see it is all just chemistry wrapped up in such a mess of interactions that to call consciousness anything else would be absurd - if particles don't have it we can't have it because a system doesn't exceed the sum of its component parts. That said, what you might consider to be the signs of consciousness in biological system (at the molecular scale) is far more complex than an artificial neural network or any models of the brain we know of - so much so it makes all of computer science and logic more generally seem like a bad joke, and we already know that can engineer quite a bit.

  13. Re:Binary or a spectrum? on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Consciousness is the state of having complex enough patterns to be self-aware to some degree, which simply because a system cannot define itself will always lead the thing with self-awareness to see itself as complex, because from its limited perspective it always will be. By this measure particles are conscious if they are capable of interacting with the universe in any manner based on an internal state - atoms with different oxidation states would definitely quality, not so sure about electrons, photons would definitely qualify, etc. If subatomic particle decay is in any way not purely triggered by the surrounding environment (e.g. those halflives we think we have observed hold true) then subatomic particles would qualify too. You're seeing "consciousness" as too much more than it really is, it's just a state machine interacting with anything else. Throw enough of those together and you get people.

  14. Re:Excellent Investment on FBI Warns of Email Death Threats Demanding Bitcoin (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm as skeptical of the pee tape thing as the next guy (Although it would be goddamn hilarious if it was true), but wheres the evidence that /pol/ had anything to do with it. That would require them to have had access to the intelligence guy who did the report well before anyone really had any idea the guy was working on this project.

    /pol/ is about 40% intelligence agents and 60% Jews, as unbelievable as that may seem.

  15. Re:Excellent Investment on FBI Warns of Email Death Threats Demanding Bitcoin (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    /pol/ made up the pee tapes for the lulz, the Tor backdoor has been leaked by several people with source. You're free to look it up yourself.

  16. Re:Excellent Investment on FBI Warns of Email Death Threats Demanding Bitcoin (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    You're shill level is showing through your post, but it's actually been leaked by multiple people over the years, from the researchers themselves to Snowden and a few others. I'm not Google, but lucky you, you have access to that.

  17. Re:Excellent Investment on FBI Warns of Email Death Threats Demanding Bitcoin (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI has been known to have a backdoor into Tor facilitated by CalTech researchers for the entire span of its existence. The law is only applied to people the government can gain by applying it to, hordes of extortionists, drug dealers, Human traffickers, and the ilk are what make people want to pay for their services, not something they seek to eliminate.

  18. Re:Worst thing is... on Elon Musk's Boring Company Delivers $600 Flamethrower (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Your education system is designed to brainwash plebs, just like everywhere else - though it's "functional" from the standpoint that the British people are soulless nothings led by idiots who have grown complacent at their passivity. Your healthcare system consists of a bunch of office-drone-tier abominations waiting to check the box saying they can dispose of the corpse and clean the sheets. Your population is being replaced by Islamic terrorists. We'll keep the guns, now stay on your side of the internet and be grateful we let you on it at all.

  19. No competent developer would defile their mind with Python or Go.

  20. Re:Worst thing is... on Elon Musk's Boring Company Delivers $600 Flamethrower (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    It's actually legal is most states, because they either have no laws for it or require a license.

    Fuck off to the UK or something if you want a nanny state.

  21. Re:Violation of Washington State Constitution on ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US · · Score: 1

    State law doesn't trump federal law.

  22. Re:Violation of Washington State Constitution on ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US · · Score: 1

    A GPS involves attaching something to a car. To ban what you are suggesting would make any form of public photography illegal.

  23. Re:Violation of Washington State Constitution on ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US · · Score: 1

    Actually, the constitution has been suspended in every regard within 100 miles of every border (including coast.) It's still abided by for the most part, but it isn't actually enforceable.

  24. Re:Violation of Washington State Constitution on ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US · · Score: 1

    They're only using publicly available information (what can be seen by driving down the road,) it's no different from Google Maps (Hell, Google's analytics tech is probably far more invasive.)

  25. Re:Temp plates? on ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure (like 99.99% sure) police already have cameras on their car which auto-recognize nearly license plates and look them up to alert them to anything which has been flagged.