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  1. Re:Common Sense calling - Women have babies on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming [wikipedia.org]

    Can I blame someone for their poor job skills ? If so, then I can blame them for their poor negotiation skills.

  2. Re:What? Government misapplication of stats? on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The articles mistakenly assume that the rate of police bias should be equivalent to the rate of crime bias, but that's nonsense.

    Suppose an officer sees 1000 people in a day, 100 that match a crime bias, and 900 that don't. The officer stops 10 people per day. Should he pick all 10 from the first group. or 1 from the first group, and 9 from the other ?

  3. Re:What? Government misapplication of stats? on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The racial bias in police behaviour would not be there if there wasn't a racial bias in crime.

  4. Re: Pay gap is real, but exaggerated on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    They would need to show it to a government representative, not you.

  5. The progress that has been made in the last 5 years is bigger than in the 15 years before that, despite general computing speed only increasing a little bit.

  6. only 100% self driving vehicles will actually solve any traffic problems.

    Not even 100% will do that, unless you have some sort of token system that determines if you're allowed to enter the freeway at all. Otherwise, as soon as the number of vehicles exceeds the road capacity, you get traffic problems.

    And even when you're under, but close, to road capacity, it means that small mishaps can cause delays. For instance, if it starts raining, the increased braking distance would force more space between cars, and cause traffic to come to a stop.

  7. I had a fitbit for a few months, but the heart rate monitor was bad (too high, too low, or not displaying at all), and the band started to come loose from the actual watch part. Total piece of crap.

  8. Re:Pay gap is real, but exaggerated on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "do you meet the qualifications and are you of the sex that is currently at under 50% representation for the job category?".

    Forget programming jobs. Sounds like it's time to talk to the garbage collectors here in town, health care, and primary education.

  9. Re:Common Sense calling - Women have babies on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And when she told them that she would quit unless she would get the same pay as her male co workers, how did they react ?

  10. Re:Sounds dangerous on Boeing Expects To Save Millions In Dreamliner Costs Using 3D-Printed Titanium Parts (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    SpaceX is also planning to replace the aluminium grid fins by titanium. The aluminium ones have to be replaced after each landing, because they get so hot during descent that it damages the metal. The titanium ones will be more expensive to make, but that cost can be spread out over multiple uses. Plus they save labor cost from not having to replace them.

  11. Re:And what are we getting? on Boeing Expects To Save Millions In Dreamliner Costs Using 3D-Printed Titanium Parts (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    At least it will be cheaper.

  12. Inspired is the correct term, even if there are differences. And differences aren't bad, the brain is most likely sub-optimal because it is severely limited by the materials and process it has to work with. I'm sure that we can do better with artificial networks.

  13. The part of a good Go player's brain that recognizes whether a position is good isn't Turing complete. It's just matching patterns.

  14. The computer is better because it picks a small number of good moves to plan through, not because it picks a lot of them.

  15. Re:This should lead to more concern about AI on Google's AlphaGo Will Face Its Biggest Challenge Yet Next Month -- But Why Is It Still Playing? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So, chimps are not intelligent, because they can't explain a Shrek movie ?

  16. Bigger hack on Russian Arrested in Spain 'Over US Election Hacking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The biggest hack to support Trump was to put Hillary forward as a candidate.

  17. Re:hold it - which humble people? on If Humble People Make the Best Leaders, Why Do We Fall for Charismatic Narcissists? (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    Or, somewhat harder, point to a humble person who'd make a good leader.

  18. Re:Colour me unsuprised. on Airlines Make More Money Selling Miles Than Seats (expressnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a credit card, but all charges are automatically paid off at the end of the month. I get the convenience without the interest.

  19. Any good programmer can learn to program in COBOL given enough financial incentives.

  20. Re:Hey GM, how about that EV1? on Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The vision is the substance.

  21. Re:An excuse for every season on 'Unprecedented' Bleaching Damages Two-Thirds Of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The corals are just pining for the fjords.

  22. In order to use the memory, you're going to need to include a bunch of other electronics, like an RFID tag. And if you already have the electronics, you may as well put conventional memory in there.

  23. Re:Venus and Mars are alrghit tonight on There's an Earth-like Planet With an Atmosphere Just 39 Light-years Away (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    We can live on 1 out of 3 earth like planets in our solar system. Not too bad.

  24. Were those assholes liked by their superiors?

    They didn't have superiors.

    So to advance, most women have to take a less abrasive tone,

    Or start their own company, and hire a bunch of abrasive women for 90 cents on the dollar, and blow the competition away.

  25. Microsatellites on ARCA Plans 2018 Launch For Revolutionary Single-Stage Rocket (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    So, exactly how big is the microsatellite market ?