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  1. No. Males have more mutations because they produce exponentially more sex cells, leading to more chances for mutation. That's by far the most driving force behind mutation rates.

    You're comparing a "how?" and a "why?" - they are two different questions. Evolution concerns the "why?", the mechanisms of evolution concern the "how?"

  2. Possibly, but what has this to do with the mutation rate?

    Thought that was spelled out pretty clearly. Males are inherently more disposable and therefore are the place in which most deviations from the norm will take place, yielding extreme wins and extreme losses from a genetic standpoint. As it relates TFA, this means males will be passing along more mutations.

  3. Not Reall Surprising on Fathers Pass On Four Times As Many New Genetic Mutations As Mothers, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Women are more valuable from an evolutionary standpoint than men because they take so long to reproduce, whereas a single male can impregnate hundreds of women at a time.

    This means that while males are largely disposable, there is also significantly less room for women to deviate from the norm without running the risk of losing viability for their immediate family. Therefore males will deviate from the norm much more.

    This is why males tend to dominate the ultra-high and ultra-low intellect while the bell curve for female intelligence is much tighter, and similarly why children tend to take after their father's in terms of personality and aptitude: that's the edge version.

  4. They can't bundle hidden things into easily reverse engineered tech.

    Never forger the rationale for consumer driverless cars:

    • There are ~1.3 million auto deaths in the US EACH YEAR - worst of all, these are random or disproportionately weighted toward the common easily-controlled tard.
    • This means if they cut the number in half (driverless cars could theoretically get damn close to zero) that leaves them over half a million people a year they can selectively remove from the population.

    Why would you want to remove political dissenters and unproductive members of the population in a messy way when you have the option to do it very efficiently, in a largely automated manner, and be praised for it while it's happening?

    Driverless cars are, just like most things globalists push, a form of population control - from demographics through individuals.

  5. You can learn coding in a couple of days.

    No, you absolutely can not. It takes decades to become a competent programmer. You might be able to learn a handful of core abstractions within a couple of days, you can only learn how to make scalable real-world systems on a budget/time-constraint with arbitrary levels of complexity of decades of trial and error. CS degree holders actually tend to be fairly shit at that because they have the complex side with none of the underlying understanding of why you do or do not do particular things in a given situation. Hell, most of them are taught in Java and they don't even understand why that's bad.

  6. Re: It's because of social justice activism on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The SJW counter argument to your argument is that the systems and hierarchies that are in place today were designed by white men to ensure that the dominance of white men is perpetuated.

    The systems and hierarchies that are in place today are the result of what works to make a productive society with excess to such a degree that it allows for domination on the world stage over all other nations. It doesn't even favor white men so the SJW argument you mentioned is absurdly wrong.

  7. Re:Background of Equifax IT execs on Equifax Says Almost 400,000 Britons Hit In Data Breach (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's not actually correct to burn the IT guys most of the time - especially at large organizations. They typically make sound recommendations which then get "haggled" into something between "secure" and "laughably insecure" - which of course is "laughably insecure." It's the people at the top who are responsible, the IT guy (CIO/CTO as well) just do what they can with the limited resources and ability they are given.

  8. Usually mice are afraid of the scent of cats, and steer clear.

    But toxoplasma gondii-infected mice lose their fear of cats, and are actually attracted to the scent. They'll seek it out and hang out close to cats, where they'e more likely to be eaten, thus transferring the toxoplasma to the cat, where it can continue its life cycle.

    That has nothing to do with this article, but I think it's really cool.

    Actually, that's pretty close to the topic of the article, it's just that the article is too politically-correct to say what else it causes: homosexuality. T. Gondii rewires the brains of mice to be sexually attracted to male urine, meanwhile most gays like cats. That's hardly a coincidence.

  9. Re: It's because of social justice activism on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    The only difference between an MRA and a feminist is what's between their legs - gas them both, do it together and you might be able to bet on the fight before they die.

  10. Re:It's because of social justice activism on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An unverified AC making bold claims... Excuse me if I don't take your word for it.

    It's entirely possible he just likes his paycheck. From literally every story about and leak out of Google they will hunt down and destroy the professional lives of anyone even so much as not stating what the AC said in a positive light.

  11. The parasite scream when you pull them off.

  12. Re:Of course they are statists on Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Just look at the Military Industrial Complex that lives and dies at the government teat. $400 hammers and $1200 toilet seats.

    To be fair, those are really good hammers and toilet seats, not necessarily in quality but in standardization. The thing about the military is: they hack shit together A LOT. What ends up happening is that hammer might just happen to fit perfectly between some components of an HMMWV to pry them apart while nothing else does, or that toilet seat might fit perfectly to support a satellite dish when the mount for it fails or you might be able to melt it down very quickly or burn it for 3 hours of fire. Well, you can't just use a different hammer or a different toilet seat from the cheapest vendor because the designs might be different and the materials might be different. What if that hammer has to insulate against a certain voltage and be tested to show that it does? (hint: they do)

    Mil specs are all about reproducability - and just as critical as all the stuff above is "what if the vendor goes bankrupt or their manufacturing plant gets nuked?" Well it's the most powerful military on Earth, being SOL isn't an option, this means vendors have to hand over their designs, all of them from the conception and R&D of the product up through manufacturing techniques, spec sheets and CAD drawings to the military so that they can give it all to their competitors and ensure they have multiple sources which are all exactly the same. This means a company doing military work very often doesn't own their own stuff, they (except in very rare cases like a complete F-32, all the components of which still fit the above) give up the rights to be the sole beneficiaries of their own R&D work, and that has a massive overhead in itself (not that the standardization and reproducability isn't a royal fucker.)

  13. Re:Why keep calling it fake news? on The Fake News Machine: Inside a Town Gearing Up for 2020 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Just call it 'lies'.

    They've been called liers so often and so aptly that they rebranded the word "lie" (think the show "Lie to Me" and such,) much as they did with "regulate," "global warming," "extremist," "youths," etc. Politicians and media manipulators have to create new weighted terms or reuse terms in incorrect contexts to create new meanings to sway opinion. Once the reality sets in the public mind in greater force than the lie it loses impact and they once again need to change it. The natural reaction to a weighted term is typically what they want it to be, but after they see "this group is actually pretty non violent" or "this group is actually much more violent" then that is what the new term becomes and it becomes worthless for manipulation.

  14. Fakes News Exposes Written By Fake News on The Fake News Machine: Inside a Town Gearing Up for 2020 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    What a time to be alive.

  15. N. Korea only exists because of China. MacArthur had the fucking N. Koreans almost off the map but the Chinese had to come in and save them and prop up the Kim regimes.

    It is 100% China's fault that North Korea exists and pulls this shit. All they have to do is pull the rug out and N. Korea falls. Un wants to be the shit, China is perfectly capable of neutralizing him.

    China wants to be a World power? Well, it's time they learn the burdens and responsibilities.

    Otherwise, China can go fuck themselves.

    You're being way too naive about things. North Korea is China's first strike option, they've been propping them up for decades for that specific purpose. To think a people composed mostly of slave laborers and cult-tier followers is capable of engineering a nuke, let alone a nuke-capable ICBM is beyond absurd, especially given Iran has been trying for decades with relatively minimal interference from the outside world compared to North Korea, and failing miserably at it.

    In truth the entire country is hopelessly brainwashed, even the Kim regime, as they believe they could actually nuke the US and China will come to save them, when in actuality they are just being propped up as a part of a much longer game, wherein they pop off a nuke or two to devastate the US economy, then China comes to the rescue by "allying" with the US to quell North Korea, then either backstabs the US directly with military force, or indirectly by maintaining their manufacturing stranglehold.

    Right now what we have is things coming to a head: Trump's America First moves are driving manufacturing back to the US and away from China - which means China gets less foreign R&D to take for themselves (which was the whole point of their rare-earth metal monopoly, in that they could sell finished goods at equal cost to a small fraction of the raw materials in order to get foreign designs without the R&D overhead,) and they are just about caught up on technological advancement, meaning there is never going to be better time for them to make a move because it only gets harder to do so from here on out. This is why China is feeding North Korea nuke technologies (oh, you thought they were just blitzing through 100 years of rocket science without help? lol) - it's because they've spent decades in this gamble and it's finally time.

  16. False Assumptions on Boffins Fear We Might Be Running Out of Ideas (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They're assuming everyone with a degree has valuable input, even after the massive push to popularize STEM in an attempt to drive down labor costs therein. The fact is the number of intelligent people, rating intelligence as the peak of whatever is current (because tech gets more sophisticated all the time and you need more brainpower to tap it, even if the average intellect rises - which I tend to doubt is much more than an artifact of teaching things which fool the tests,) is relatively fixed.

    You can't push everyone into STEM because it's hip and trendy and expect them to produce jack shit, what we have is the same rate of advance and more people in STEM, not more people in STEM who happen to be ineffective, those people were always destined to be ineffective.

  17. The fact it's shiny and shiny things are the oldest currency for the oldest profession. Gold has remarkably few uses when you account for how much we have vs how little it takes even for our most advanced technology. it is a physical thing which is a base element with only 1 stable isotope (it can be neither created nor destroyed at any practical energy level,) it is a finite thing which is really difficult to inflate the supply of, and it's relatively easy to confirm the existence of in a sample. Bitcoin on the other hand requires a massive technological infrastructure to support (image shit hit the fan and the economy collapsed, go ahead and assume you have electricity, how long until the last bitcoin-capable computer dies? Maybe 20 years given modern planned obsolescence? How about the shorter term where you have some multi-month division in the internet, not even a fullscale collapse, how long until everyone's blockchain becomes corrupted by double spending? Given the number of hackers using it probably not more than a few days to a week. It excels in being useful for nothing else and thereby not competing with anything for it's finite supply (save perhaps someone trying to create an absolutely massive rainbow table, which is probably the intended use of bitcoin, but that's about it. Moreover it has a serious drawback over cash or gold: it is infinitely traceable. If someone knows who gave them one they can track down every single person who owned it before them, and before you start screaming "muh crypto" just think how cheap it is to beat someone with a wrench, cut off their finger, or scoop out their eyeball with a spoon - all computer security is a joke when it comes to anything more than securing a terminal from someone who happens to be walking down a hall, physical security is the only real security in communications and physical possession is the only real possession when it comes to money.

  18. Yeah, like ransomware! Bitcoin and all the other cryptocoin fuckers can just die. Stupid assholes.

    While I completely agree Bitcoin are just an idiotic concept, so is debt-based currency. Currency lacking a tangible backing is just all around stupid because it is in essence an abstraction for a quantity of Human labor and nothing more. Though at least debt-based currency has a whole host of Labor dedicated to it (not just wallstreet and bankers in general, but people who will stomp your shit in if you counterfeit it as well.)

  19. Re:Times have changed on The Washington Post Pans Apple-Sponsored School Reform TV Special (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I heard about it a bit earlier, frankly it should have been banned from broadcast. Jobs'-ex-wife entire bit is making school more lovey-feely and dropping all the STEM courses (you know, the stuff you actually need to do anything of use for society.)

  20. Re:Mandate that SSNs are not proof of identity on Equifax Breach Provokes Calls For Serious Data Protection Reforms (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue is that impersonating someone is already a crime so they never bothered with the password side, the result of a failed login is typically 10+ years in prison so nobody in their right mind did it. More recently people who take the identities of others haven't been held responsible, and instead the people who had their identities stolen ARE punished for it in the form of either being held accountable for the debt (banks too lazy to track it down and file charges so they tell the person they should have been more careful and pay up) where it either stops there or the person then invests months of time dedicated to getting the charges dropped and repairing their credit score. Just make identity theft enforced in every case instead of selectively based on whether or not the person who's identity was stolen has the time/money to pursue it and be done with it. If they're foreign abusers then fuck it, blacklist the whole country - but in most cases that's not the case, from the experiences I've had with identity theft it's always people in American cities doing it.

  21. Re:Donald Trump playbook on Equifax Breach Provokes Calls For Serious Data Protection Reforms (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    But when it comes to Equifax, this comparison hardly applies because Equifax are not evil, they're merely incompetent

    Are you joking? They were the datamining scum-of-the-earth bastards before Silicon Valley even invented the term for it. Their entire business is founded upon the notion of putting people into indentured servitude via debt.

  22. Re:Donald Trump playbook on Equifax Breach Provokes Calls For Serious Data Protection Reforms (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're reading the Democrat playbook backwards: accuse others of doing what you already have a monopoly on because you both need a fallguy AND the commoners are too dim to see beyond "this other guy was accused first."

  23. Re:inb4 Microsoft on Why Oracle Should Cede Control of Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering you basically said "a notepad is better than Excel because you can draw on it," yes that was an argument. You compared a very minor portion of the .NET framework only even relevant to UI designers to the power of a library - actually that example I gave is a bad one, because UI isn't even programming.

  24. Iris scans and PKI for everyone!!! Actually, I'm okay with it.

    More likely it will be an excuse to give everyone chips.

    And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark

  25. Re:inb4 Microsoft on Why Oracle Should Cede Control of Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    WPF is a very minor part of the .NET library.