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  1. Re:Predicting the past again on 375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    ... good luck getting most of America back in the classroom.

    Especially if they have to pay for that retraining themselves. Especially if they don't have an income because their job has been automated out from under them.

  2. Re:Interesting Perspective on 375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Companies hire to meet demand. If they can't afford to hire enough to meet demand (which would suggest something is wrong with their business model, as more customers should automatically cover operating expenses), that opens space in the market for new businesses to come in and meet that pent up demand. Which means more hiring, which means more people making good money, which means more demand. Which brings us back to Companies hire to meet demand.

  3. Re:Definitive test... on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    Cats don't understand correlation? Do you have anything to support that? My own experience is that my cat very much does understand correlation. I've trained him to give me kisses at feeding time. No kisses means no food - which you might recognize as a correlation - so he gives me kisses every meal time.

    Granted, that's a single data point, so it's possible that my cat has an abnormally high intellect. But I doubt it.

  4. Re:There's a reason we don't train Cats on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 3, Funny

    My cat is a communist. He insists that I provide the food and shelter on the sole basis of me having a much higher income. And he won't shut up about Mao.

  5. Re:There's a reason we don't train Cats on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    they can't be trained because they're rather stupid

    How well can you be trained ? Would you be able to obey simple commands such as sitting on the ground, or fetching a ball, in return for being told you're such a good boy ?

    Ever seen people play sports? You're disproving your own point here.

    Not really:

    1) The people who play sports are the ones who enjoy playing sports.
    2) There is no correlation between Intelligence and desire to play sports in humans - if anything, it's a negative correlation.

  6. Re:They may have more cells... on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    I've mainly heard about it in relation to super small dogs like chihuahuas and pomeranians. In the case of chihuahuas, it's probably a really good idea for the dog's health if you live in a cold climate.

  7. Re:Social Complexity on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    Octopus intelligence - or, rather, cephalopod intelligence - seems to be fairly unique among animals. It seems to be related to the complexity of their bodies, and high level of computing power needed for proprioception and, in some cases, camouflage. I wonder if the distributed nature of their central (is that even the right word?) nervous system gives them some sort of computational advantage over single brains of a similar size, perhaps by freeing up their "main brain" from dealing with motor control of the limbs.

  8. Re:Social Complexity on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    He didn't claim that hyenas are related to dogs. He claimed that intelligence seems to be related closely to the social nature of animals, with hyenas being another example. Yes, he could also have used dolphins, or any other number of animals as examples. But hyenas work just as well, so I don't get what your point is.

  9. Twitter is not internet service. They do not provide internet service. The idea that they provide any service at all is debatable, but whatever service they do provide is NOT internet service.

  10. Regulating ISPs != Regulating the internet

  11. I hate it when someone changes the subject to avoid addressing the issue at hand, yes.

  12. So, Twitter is bad because they sometimes block content on their platform, and the solution is to allow the ISPs to block content on their pipes?

  13. Re:Time for another round? on India's Telecom Regulator Backs Net Neutrality (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure thing.

    No Blocking is discussed on page 83 (para 142) :

    142. Many of the largest ISPs have committed in this proceeding not to block or throttle legal content.507 These commitments can be enforced by the FTC under Section 5, protecting consumers without imposing public-utility regulation on ISPs.

    Weasel words. "Many" (not "All") have "committed" (not "are obligated"), and those commitments "can" (not "will") be enforced ...

    We also reject assertions that the FTC has insufficient authority, because, as Verizon argues, "[i]f broadband service providers' conduct falls outside [the FTC's] grant of jurisdiction" - that is, if their actions cannot be described as anticompetitive, unfair, or deceptive - "then the conduct should not be banned in the first place."

    Anticompetitive is a judgment call, and this essentially opens up a lot of what would otherwise be clear demarcations of what is acceptable and what is not to litigation. And when it comes to deep pocketed and well represented corporations versus consumers, only a complete fool would think the consumers have a shot in hell. Handwave away, but these arguments aren't the least bit reassuring.

  14. Re:Political Pressure on Comcast Hints At Plan For Paid Fast Lanes After Net Neutrality Repeal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Comcast is in favor of Net Neutrality? Then why have they spent millions to lobby for ending it?

  15. Re: GOP - Grand Ole Party NO MORE! on Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you mean to respond to someone else? What you posted has nothing to do with the topic in this thread.

    By the way, dailywire is about as good a source of news as the steaming pile my dog left on the lawn this morning.

  16. Re: GOP - Grand Ole Party NO MORE! on Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Never mind that the Governor of Minnesota is a Democrat, and would appoint a Democrat to fill his seat. There's no need for the supposedly leftist media to protect a leftist when his replacement would certainly be a leftist.

    The GOP, Fix news, and Roy Moore, on the other hand ...

  17. Re:These companies claim to want neutrality on 'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    My cousin is always talking about how much he hates to swim. But push him off a boat, and what's the first thing he does? He starts swimming.

    It's almost as though entities that want to survive have to do what their situation demands, even if it means a course of action they'd rather not take.

  18. ... the Republicans and conservative idealogy in general is about reducing the state's control and power over the Governed ...

    +1, Funny

  19. Even if you had a source for this opinion (and you don't, because it's false), it's irrelevant. It doesn't matter if they were the richest people who ever walked the earth before they were sold into slavery. Once that happened, everything that they had - every connection, every bit of wealth, every bit of culture, every bit of collective knowledge - was lost from them forever.

  20. +1, Informative

  21. Re:I can't even this morning on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think it is correct, that means that you implicitly have faith in the process that generated it. Once again, the key word here is "implicitly". One can absolutely implicitly believe something while not explicitly doing so, and that is what is going on here.

  22. Re:Data on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Better is defined as "more accurate". At least, it is if you want to run your organization well, rather than for the personal gain of the torturers. Which may be the point you're making ...

  23. Re:States Rights take another hit on FCC Will Also Order States To Scrap Plans For Their Own Net Neutrality Laws (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Beyond that, states typically are allowed to pass laws and regulations that are at least as stringent as Federal laws. If the federal regulations require water to contain no more than 15 ppb of lead, states are still allowed to have regulations that allow water to no more than 5 ppb of lead. They cannot, however allow drinking water to have 20 ppb, because that doesn't meet the federal requirement.

  24. In my observation, the main thing that Trump supporters like about Trump is that he does things that piss off the people they don't like. I guess to them, that's worth all the damage he's doing.

  25. Re:Data on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    But, as we all know, information gained from torture is unreliable at best. No, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I can get better information out of the data than anyone can get by torturing it.