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  1. Re:Sanity Check on Scientists Crowdfund The Theory of Everything (cphpost.dk) · · Score: 1

    I know. I did. I'm rarely wrong.

  2. Driving software... on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    As well as driving the car, perhaps the software can choose an optimal time to leave so as to spread the traffic out as much as possible. Jams tend to happen where people all do the same thing at the same time (like go to work).

  3. Re:Sanity Check on Scientists Crowdfund The Theory of Everything (cphpost.dk) · · Score: 1

    There's one born every minute.

  4. Re:Sanity Check on Scientists Crowdfund The Theory of Everything (cphpost.dk) · · Score: 0

    If it's correct it's worthy of a Nobel Prize and that's worth more than they'll raise on Kickstarter. So we can conclude from the fact they haven't published that it's a scam.

  5. Re:Administrative punishment WTF? on Researchers Release Profile Data on 70,000 OkCupid Users Without Permission (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to follow up the citation. I heard it here. Gad Saad interviewed by Dave Rubin.

  6. Re:Administrative punishment WTF? on Researchers Release Profile Data on 70,000 OkCupid Users Without Permission (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    People like you will be arguing which is the correct gender pronoun to use when the Mullahs nuke us.

  7. Re:Administrative punishment WTF? on Researchers Release Profile Data on 70,000 OkCupid Users Without Permission (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    You're joking aren't you? Educational institutions are overtly political, especially in the social sciences. Researchers identify 44:1 as being left liberal.

  8. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think basic necessities are immune to wage/price inflation?

  9. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's as simple as that. Wage inflation tends to lead to price inflation for example, wiping out the relative gain from the rise. The bottom line is whether the amount of money circulating is broadly similar to the level of productivity. It's why you don't pay everyone £1,000,000 a month because, hey, capitalism depends upon consumerism.

  10. The consumer pays through higher taxation. Nuclear is heavily subsidised in France isn't it. In fact the sector is almost wholly owned by the government.

  11. Re:Thats really cheap on Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To understand Germany's energy use, just look at this graph. 75% of it is fossil fuel based. The idea that it had so much renewable it had to pay people to use it is ridiculous and simply a function of the bureaucracy, not the reality.

  12. Re:Thanks Microsoft on Microsoft Unlocks Framerates For Smoother Gameplay On Windows 10 (pcper.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think Windows 10 reports back "everything you type, speak or do", no.

  13. Re:Thanks Microsoft on Microsoft Unlocks Framerates For Smoother Gameplay On Windows 10 (pcper.com) · · Score: 2

    It's more like 70 million on steam alone.

  14. Re:"Historically", uh? on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Eric Hobsbawn the Communist you mean? Strange.

  15. Re:"Historically", uh? on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's kind-of funny though, isn't it. One of the reasons no democracies have been replaced by repressive Soviet-style Stalinist regimes is because of US actions during the Cold War, something it doesn't get enough credit for. Indeed, something it is criticised for from the left.

  16. Re:good for them on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at how many conservative politicians pretend that climate changes is a complete myth

    You seem to have fallen into your own trap here. It's not a complete myth because it's trivially true, climate is always changing. However whether or not you think it's mostly mans' fault and the consequences are going to be catastrophic is up for debate. Except of course it isn't ,reallyup for debate because of the liberal bias both in the media and academia.

  17. Re:good for them on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I have absolutely no idea why you were moderated "troll". Slashdot is increasingly ridiculous.

  18. Re:Inconsistency. on Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe (typepad.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    A set of axioms is complete if, for any statement in the axioms' language, that statement or its negation is provable from the axioms (Smith 2007, p. 24). A set of axioms is (simply) consistent if there is no statement such that both the statement and its negation are provable from the axioms, and inconsistent otherwise. In the standard system of first-order logic, an inconsistent set of axioms will prove every statement in its language (this is sometimes called the principle of explosion), and is thus automatically complete. A set of axioms that is both complete and consistent, however, proves a maximal set of non-contradictory theorems (Hinman 2005, p. 143). Gödel's incompleteness theorems show that in specific cases, it is not possible to obtain a formal system that is effectively generated, complete, and consistent.

  19. Inconsistency. on Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe (typepad.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your language is inconsistent.

  20. Get a life will you. Vulkan is cross-platform.

  21. Multi-GPU is here now. It's supported by Vulkan and DirectX 12.

  22. It's less niche now we have DirectX 12 and Vulkan, which allows the developer to pipe command streams into each separately, rather than the driver having to guess how to divvy up the work.

  23. Re:Strange irony on 'Boaty McBoatface' Polar Ship Named After Attenborough Despite Less Votes (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In what way was the name inappropriate, except insofar as it concerns the utter humourless pomposity of bureaucrats and scientists?

  24. Re:what at dick on Government Could Ban BBC From Showing Top Shows at Peak Times (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The Tories aren't going to sell it off, so your premise is false from the start.

  25. Re:ITV still exists? on Government Could Ban BBC From Showing Top Shows at Peak Times (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not say that is it, it's saying that the competition is unfair because the BBC doesn't have to live or die by its programming, yet it still chooses to compete with commercial television and radio for some bizarre reason.