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  1. Only if the Medium was Reasonably Negligent on Grindr Harassment Victim Asks: Are Tech Companies Immune From Product Liablity Laws? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If a person throws a rock at another person and injures them, the rock is not sued, the person who throws the rock is sued. If a third person had fabricated the rock, let's say out of concrete, then that third person is not liable, because, for one thing, they have no reasonable way to prevent the main offending party from throwing the rock.

    For example, suppose a person were walking up some steps and slipped and injured themselves. It turns out, it was icey, and the person who owns the steps did not put salt on them (a reasonable precaution), in which case the owners of the steps would be responsible, as they have the reasonable ability to prevent an injury, which it is reasonable to expect might happen in icey conditions, and did not do so.

    Let us extend that to the internet web site. How can a dating site reasonably protect people from misuse? If there were a reasonable standard to guarantee people's identity through the website then the website could be considered negligent if they did not implement that reasonable and common standard. There currently exists no such reasonable and common was to guarantee a person's identity online, and so the website has no obligation to protect from fraudulent use.

  2. Was the energy transmitted in digital packets near the rats or were the cellphone radiation sources analog broadcast sources?

      If digital, what was the nature of the digital packet?

      It is conceivable that a digital non-stochastic regular pulse could cause more damage to organic systems which are used to bathing in stochastic (random) levels of radiation.

  3. 21st century pet rock on The Bitcoin Boom Reaches a Canadian Ghost Town (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a 21st century pet rock. Something that doesn't make -anyone- better off, but is a drain on resources...

  4. The "12 charges" is a farce and here is why on Special Counsel Mueller Charges 12 Russian Intelligence Officers With Hacking Democrats During 2016 Election (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the Chargees to the Charges are in Russian, and are unlikely to appear in court, then it is similarly unlikely that they will defend themselves against the charges. Which means that whatever Rosenstain stuck out there is just a floater for public news and comment. He could claim space aliens hacked the DNC server with the Russians and there is no one to argue otherwise. Hence, it is a farce.

  5. And what are the training rules on YouTube Says Computers Helped It Pull Down Millions of Objectionable Videos Last Quarter (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    And what do you suppose the training rules were that Youtube used to train its AI 'reviewers' with? I am going to bet there was more than a little politics in the mix

  6. Vikings in North America on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Until people knew to look for Vikings in North America their presence was invisible, and that was less than two thousand years ago. Go back even fifteen thousand years and how would anyone know where to look for ancient civilizations?

  7. Really? No kidding? on Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Take an Alexa, stick some wheels on it and a motor and voila, home robot. Who's surprised?

  8. Widescreen laptops rule for one simple reason on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    With a widescreen laptop, you get a numeric keypad. With a numeric keypad, you can play Nethack efficiently. What more can be said?

  9. Re:Food deserts on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like in Europe, in America the "poor" get welfare. That is not the point.

  10. Re:You can build them - Simple Economic Answer on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    If the community you would sell into is poor, and by law your are forced to pay people a minimum wage to maintain a supermarket that is above what that community can bear, you cannot be profitable and sell in that community. FDR was successful in forcing all businesses in communities that could not afford to pay his Washington D.C. declared minimum wage out of business. Hence food deserts.

  11. Re:Food deserts on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    But Germany has only had the minimum wage for a few years. And are there not large poor communities in France like Marseilles? Have you visited those communities and checked the ready availability of fresh produce?

  12. That Goldman Analyst is an ignoramus on 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' Goldman Sachs Analysts Ask (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    According to fundamental economic principles, if a person is productive (means, produces goods and services for the community, and in return gets money from the community), and a disease inhibits that productivity, then the cure of said disease would lead to the increased production (wealth) that the involved society would enjoy. The Goldman analyst was using a myopic analysis which simply looked at the immediate gain from the individual drug, rather than the big picture. Combining truly curative measures with long term productive relationships with the patient, or with a life insurance policy, would be a superior strategy. Also, doctors could sleep a little easier at night and Hyppocrates would not have to spin in his grave (as much).

  13. Re:The Guardian has insight on this on Firms Relabelling Low-Skilled Jobs As Apprenticeships, Says Report (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish I had moderator points to mod you up... It's true- if you have a lot of money you can sit out an unpaid/underpaid internship at a desirable company whereas most stiffs take whatever they can get...

  14. Think about the Ferriers! on Automation To Take 1 in 3 Jobs in UK's Northern Centres, Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Think of the thousands of Ferriers, Coolies, ditch diggers, barrel makers, rope twiners, potters and etc and etc that have been put out of work by this Newfangled technology! What will people do for a living?

  15. How come you got 2 points for that response?

  16. Petroleum Engineers are some of the best paid engineers out there. If America paid everyone to reskill into becoming a Petroleum Engineer then Americans would be much better off.

  17. Swatters should go to Prison on Call of Duty Gaming Community Points To 'Swatting' In Wichita Police Shooting (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    The irresponsible use of 911 is like firing a gun in the general direction of someone - if someone is subsequently killed, manslaughter is the minimum charge; if someone is not killed, reckless endangerment of life or attempted murder should send them to prison...

  18. Here is the argument for bitcoin: It is mathematically finite and thus cannot be externally inflated away in value. Thus it makes an ideal currency.
    Arguments that the bitcoin has swung so high in cost to be impractical for daily transactions are met with - "But the bitcoin is infinitely divisible into small and useful chunks."

    However, the same can be said of shares in Apple or Google- there is a single, finite corporate entity, which may be arbitrarily subdivided and then used as a mechanism of exchange. However, in the case of Apple or Google, the stock is phsyically productive, rather than destructive and wasteful. Bitcoin is superfluous.

  19. Re:Best thing for a young family... - try eviction on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    When that lovely tenant you rented to fails to pay their rent, and invites their friends over for late-night parties that keep you awake, and you realize that you have to file 6 months in advance of evicting them (renter protection), and then when you do evict them you had better call the sheriff to stand by while you drag all their stuff out to the street, you find out how lovely and fun being a landlord is..

  20. The CDC needs the phrase 'Science-based' on Trump Administration Prohibits CDC Policy Analysts From Using the Words 'Science-Based' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The CDC needs to differentiate between their completely speculative and politically biased communication, and that politically biased communication which appeals to a scientific study, and hence is 'science-based'. I suppose they could switch to the boolean opposite, which is 'horseshit based' for everything they publish which does not directly conjecturally apeal to a scientific study for backing.

  21. Consider damage caused by non-stochastic pulses on Don't Keep Cellphones Next To Your Body, California Health Department Warns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The energy pulses emitting from a cellphone transferring digital data send data in non-random pulses. The regularity of pulses may themselves be a contributing factor in cellular damage, as, outside of neutran stars, few things in nature pulse with digital regularity, and certainly not within a few inches of a living cell.

  22. Bitcoin and UBI on Steam Ends Support For Bitcoin (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the riches of Bitcoin can be used to fund Universal Basic Income

  23. Perhaps UBI could be funded by bitcoin. They both provide the same fundamental basic value.

  24. 2% target inflation nixes that on The Compelling Case For Working Less (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as the goverrnment finds virtue in people working 40 hours a week and incititing it by knowingly inflating away their earnings and taxing the rest people will continue to be on the long hamster wheel.

  25. Why Only 3 Major Credit Bureaus? on While Equifax Victims Sue, Congress Limits Financial Class Actions (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    Why are there and have there been, only 3 major credit bureaus in America? Is there some reason why there are not 5 or 6 or more? What gives?