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  1. Re:Not so subtle on Microsoft Researchers Offer Predictions For AI, Deep Learning (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    They only thing I know here is that you got triggered by the word 'Women'.

  2. It's adorable that you actually think any of that is going to happen.

  3. Re:Not so subtle on Microsoft Researchers Offer Predictions For AI, Deep Learning (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They did, if you read the entire sentence. Part of the second one help too with the whole 'context' thing.

    I know, it's a tough thing to read entire lines of text when you've obviously got a chip on your shoulder. That's a hard weight to carry.

  4. Re:Not so subtle on Microsoft Researchers Offer Predictions For AI, Deep Learning (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it's a fact that the 17 people they polled were women?

    Are you that insecure? lol

  5. Re:Retail and Driving on Amazon Unveils 'Self-driving' Brick-and-Mortar Convenience Store (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what the suggestion here is.

    Are we trying to say we should halt innovation because little Johnny can't get his ass through a 2 year degree program that costs next to nothing? There's tons of financial support for Community Colleges, lack of money isn't a valid excuse.

  6. Re:Fighting nebulous "hate speech" will kill them on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Approximately 30% (about half the actual turnout) of the voting population voted for Trump, for starters. So we're already at less than half.

    The idea that all of that 30% are 'nationalist nutters' and internet trolls if why the left has such a problem. Keep labeling everybody who disagrees with you as a 'deplorable' and see how far that gets ya.

  7. Re:Fighting nebulous "hate speech" will kill them on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think internet trolls and the 'alt-right' are 'half their customers' you've got an awfully inflated ego.

  8. Re:Obama is a pussy on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    It's twitter. They don't need the fucking government in order to operate their services.

  9. Re:"Hate speech" is protected by the 1st Amendment on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wait, twitter can control my citizenship status now and right to free speech?

    Where the fuck have I been?

    Oh wait no I'm fine, you're a god damn lunatic. Pretty sure I can just go to reddit, facebook, or fuck, here, if I want to exercise my right to call you batshit crazy.

  10. Re:That Einstein's name? Albert Einstein on Theory Challenging Einstein's View On Speed of Light Could Soon Be Tested (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No, because relativity is more about the measurement of the speed of light being constant between observers in different places/states regardless of how fast/what direction you're moving relative to each other. I don't recall ever reading about an observer in the future and the past being a consideration, but I've been out of the loop for a while.

    So unless this article is claiming that two observers in the initial universe would measure two different speeds of light I don't see this overturning 'Einsteins View' of the speed of light.

  11. Overturned? More like explaining an edge case. on Theory Challenging Einstein's View On Speed of Light Could Soon Be Tested (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    c as a constant is derived from Maxwell's equations, held as invariant in a vacuum.

    If that were true everywhere we wouldn't be looking at trying to find a GUT.

    Would not in the least surprise me that relativity doesn't hold at the beginning of the Universe, considering I can't imagine Maxwell's equations used in that derivation being true there either.

  12. general impression that marijuana is a safe on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen this as reported by any credible media source.

    In fact any serious article I've seen generally at least mentions the health risks from abuse and mental impairment when driving/operating machinery, at a minimum.

    Maybe they needed to add that bit in to make their research appear novel?

  13. You might have missed it in High School, but Constitutional questions aren't decided by a 'majority of Americans'.

  14. Listen, if you find yourself to the right of Anthony Scalia, there's something wrong with your definition of 'patriotism'.

  15. Re:well they are independent contractors. on Uber Drivers Demand Higher Pay in Nationwide Protest (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If they could do that they wouldn't be out protesting, now would they.

  16. Re:Why won't Democrats support the outcome? on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well Trump won, and is hinting at voting fraud still. So there's that laughable moment from our Commander in Chief.

    But your suspicion would be incorrect, I'm not a Democrat. If you really think there's problems with the election system due to fraud seems to me you should, you know, do an audit. It's common sense.

    If you really think there's millions of illegal voters out there, you should probably audit that too.

  17. Re:Why won't Democrats support the outcome? on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Complacency is what kills Democracies faster than anything else I've ever seen. We already pay these agencies to audit and monitor elections, that's the entire point of them existing.

  18. Re:Why won't Democrats support the outcome? on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    We live in an age where you don't 'go to the press', the press finds the story and pushes it out there as soon as they can with as little hard facts as possible.

    I don't disagree in principle that it'd be better to keep this stuff under wraps until you're certain, but that's just not reality anymore. Were in the age where I'm reading in the news about whatever thing Trump decided to put in twitter every other day as if it's important.

  19. Re:Why won't Democrats support the outcome? on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's your justification? It's never been proven so let's not give a hoot?

    I wouldn't even call this a 'serious concern', somebody pointed out some strange data and is asking people to take a look to confirm it. The only ones crying about this seem to be on the winning side.

  20. It became 'fake news' when you decided to read this article, and imply 'Clinton is a sore loser'.

    We're at the point where it doesn't even matter if you post fake news, because people are just going to make shit up and spread it around like it actually happened anyways.

  21. Re:Doesn't matter on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've seen this said before where it's 'WOW look at all those red counties' which discredits the fact that a whole ton of those counties are just 'slightly' red.

    The popular vote was split, it's going to look that way in a whole lotta places. Thinking the election was a 'wash of republicanism' is misunderstanding what those result maps actually mean.

  22. Re:Why won't Democrats support the outcome? on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So what you're saying is if there's a hint of voting fraud we should as a nation just say 'fuck it' and not take a look?

    Cause that's pants on head stupid.

  23. anti-vax is across both schools of political thought, it's not a 'liberal' or 'conservative' idea. It's just fucking stupid, and we all have stupid people in our midst.

  24. Re:Google's results are dependent on the searcher! on Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not at all surprised as to who this article appeals to.

  25. Re:"Solar eliminates the pollution, of course" on Tesla Runs an Entire Island on Solar Power (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Longer than the barrels of diesel fuel anyways.