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  1. Or is your "better" solution to just suck it up and keep on taking it?

    No, a better solution is to figure out a way to stay useful. Striking is counterproductive, because it makes you less useful, and will only speed up adoption of robots who don't strike.

  2. Re:Population on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The US topsoil is getting thin, and aquifers are being depleted.

  3. Re:Good thing the world embraces GMO rice then! on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It isn't enough, but it would have given a lot more time to deal with the problem

    We had plenty of time, but nobody cares about dealing with problems until it's too late.

  4. Re:Point? on Robot Worries Could Cause a 50,000-Worker Strike in Las Vegas (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just because there's no good solution doesn't mean you should try a shitty one.

  5. Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand on A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works (variety.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The new trilogy should have been about the Rebels' new government hunting down the remnants of the Empire and cleaning up the galaxy.

    It should have shown the Rebels slowly becoming a new Empire.

  6. Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand on A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it

    I don't hate it. Don't love it either. After the watching the stupidly boring Force Awakes movie, I have lost any remaining interest in the franchise, so I'm not planning to go see it.

  7. Re:Even though this problem happened before... on Newest NOAA Weather Satellite Suffers Critical Malfunction (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you used Bush as your ruler, you were designing it wrong

    Everybody knows the proper unit of scale is a banana.

  8. Pretty soon, people will be making fake revenge porn by putting the face of their ex-friend on the naked body of someone else. It will look good enough to embarrass the victim, and impossible to detect using Facebook's filters.

  9. Re:Then don't arm them on UK Military Fears Robots Learning War From Video Games (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Just don't do it at all, problem solved.

    You'd feel better if only your enemies use this technology ?

  10. Re:Sharing Deep-Fake porn should be Sexual Assult on The US Military is Funding an Effort To Catch Deepfakes and Other AI Trickery (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    how does the average person verify that what they are hearing that person say are things that person actually said, and not clever forgeries designed to mislead people?

    A public key signature by the person doing the talking ?

  11. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't agree at all. I actually think its impossible to cancel out all of earth's effects

    An exact cancellation may be difficult, but it should be fairly simple to cancel out 90% of the earth's magnetic field, and see if the "EM effect" also reduces by 90%.

  12. Re:Thrust is coming from interactions with the Ear on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    we have to figure out how to heat the planet.

    Not "we". Somebody else.

  13. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The forces are to small to be useful for getting into orbit.

  14. Re:Sigh. on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    burning piles of cash in a startup that has a completely unworkable business model

    If your fund manager can't spot companies with a completely unworkable business model, you have bigger problems.

  15. Re: Summary is wrong... on New Toronto Declaration Calls On Algorithms To Respect Human Rights · · Score: 1

    We don't know the algorithm and learning data, but we do have the questionnaire about the defendant, which has no question about skin color or race. It's in your own link above.

  16. Re:Summary is wrong... on New Toronto Declaration Calls On Algorithms To Respect Human Rights · · Score: 2

    You're not answering the question, so I'll give you a hint: it would not help at all.

    If the code and data is proprietary, you have no way of knowing whether the Toronto Declaration was followed. And even if you have a good reason to assume it was not, then there's no legal recourse anyway, because it's all voluntary.

  17. Re:Summary is wrong... on New Toronto Declaration Calls On Algorithms To Respect Human Rights · · Score: 1

    The algorithm and data set are proprietary, though, so nobody gets to examine them.

    And exactly how would the Toronto Declaration help in that case ?

  18. Re:Sigh. on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Everyone from employees to suppliers to the taxpayer loses out from such things.

    But they all win if the business turns out to be a success.

  19. Re:Sigh. on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Could it be that the real money maker here is selling that data and not selling the stupid passes?

    Apparently not.

  20. Re:FUCK Amazon, and everyone who shops there too. on Amazon Offers Whole Foods Discounts To Prime Members (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You probably don't vote, either, do you?

    Depends. Often I do not, simply because I can't find any candidate that I like. The attitude is called 'realism', by the way. I'd rather focus my limited energy on things were I can actually make a change.

  21. Re:FUCK Amazon, and everyone who shops there too. on Amazon Offers Whole Foods Discounts To Prime Members (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It might slow down progress slightly.

    What you're seeing now *is* already slowed down slightly.

  22. Re:Summary is wrong... on New Toronto Declaration Calls On Algorithms To Respect Human Rights · · Score: 1

    a "Declaration" can be more vague and aspirational.

    Even more reason to ignore it.

  23. Re:FUCK Amazon, and everyone who shops there too. on Amazon Offers Whole Foods Discounts To Prime Members (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon will, like a parasitic vine, choke the life out of most if not all alternatives, and once that is done, do you think Amazon will continue to give you reasonable prices ? If you do think that is going to happen, you are more naive than most young children.

    You're naive if you think that not shopping at Amazon is going to make a difference.

  24. Re:Metric Handicaps on New Toronto Declaration Calls On Algorithms To Respect Human Rights · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For example, someone who is disabled in some way, and can do the job, but is therefore a little slower than other employees

    If someone can't do a job as good as another person, they shouldn't get preferential treatment just because they are part of a recognized protected group.

  25. Re:Summary is wrong... on New Toronto Declaration Calls On Algorithms To Respect Human Rights · · Score: 2

    Why not just "it's against the law" ? We already have laws against discrimination.