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  1. It's Davos, so it won't be us commoners. on Who's Going To Benefit From the Tech Revolution? · · Score: 1

    Given that robotics has attracted Davos, their intent is to use it to subjugate humanity.

  2. A pretext for carrying out SJW's will? on Google Exec Says Isis Must Be Locked Out of the Open Web (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The question remains whether they will stop at terrorism, but to enforce the will of certain left-leaning interest groups.

    Facebook already censors (yes, it's not just a government thing, Virginia!) in this way to enforce the leftist narrative in Germany.

  3. Harassment == The SJW's favorite smear. on What Spotlighting Harassment In Astronomy Means · · Score: 1

    The SJW ideology defines harassment as something that can only can happen to them, never caused by them.

    If there are universities that reject the SJW ideology, let them thrive, and all others fail.

  4. The SICP isn't some holy book of CS. on The President Wants Every Student To Learn CS. How Would That Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Just because one was lucky (or Asian, given MIT's non-merit preference) enough to be admitted, doesn't mean it is some end-all-be-all to CS.

  5. Selectivist places like MIT != CS arbiters. on The President Wants Every Student To Learn CS. How Would That Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Given their own issues with overly favoring diversity, I'm not sure that their publications are the best arbiter of CS.

    That, and trying to push LISP doesn't do well.

  6. They prioritize diversity candidates. on The President Wants Every Student To Learn CS. How Would That Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Given current policy, they would make sure that only "sufficiently diverse" people would benefit. They wouldn't want any white males to have any chance of succeeding over a diversity candidate.

    If they really wanted more people in CS, they would kill offshoring and guest worker programs with fire, from orbit. More individuals would be motivated to complete a program with a higher chance of an actual career.

  7. Again, a few people. on Building a Laptop Enclosure To Last (makezine.com) · · Score: 1

    Versus the multitudes that can buy the parts for Thinkpads and the like, that is something more in tune with nomenklatura.

  8. Re:Greater disservice if done with integrated vide on Building a Laptop Enclosure To Last (makezine.com) · · Score: 1

    For another thing, the integrated video is very fast today, actually better than many graphics cards and is not a drain on the CPU at all considering it sits on some hugely fast internal bus and fairly accesses the memory controller (or L3 on Intel).

    For both Intel and AMD, integrated video can only manage to beat low-end graphics cards within the same generation. Throw large, GPU-bound loads on it and then it will be quite clear why dedicated GPUs exist.

    Integrated graphics was deemed good enough for PS4 and Xbox One.

    Only if you forget that their CPU's were significantly faster than retail equivalents. While AMD sold them a fast APU, the Rest of Us (including myself) could only get a lesser A10 7850K.

  9. Greater disservice if done with integrated video. on Building a Laptop Enclosure To Last (makezine.com) · · Score: 1

    If that recent machine has integrated video, you're doing a greater disservice for the same reason.

  10. Context means nothing here. on Building a Laptop Enclosure To Last (makezine.com) · · Score: 1

    Invoking context doesn't get you a pass. It's just some piece of nothingness that benefits only a few people.

    On the other hand, having user-upgradable machines available to the masses is a good thing.

  11. Only by their self-declared accounting. on Apple May Owe $8 Billion To the EU After Tax Ruling (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In reality, the EU disagrees and sees Apple as being $8 billion + (interest and penalties) short.

  12. Or just build it in a Thinkpad enclosure. on Building a Laptop Enclosure To Last (makezine.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy to maintain, hard to break, and plenty of parts for everyone - not just the nomenklatura that snagged these Heirlooms.

  13. Harassment == The SJW's favorite smear. on What Spotlighting Harassment In Astronomy Means · · Score: 0

    The SJW ideology defines harassment as something that can only can happen to them, never caused by them.

    If there are universities that reject the SJW ideology, let them thrive.

  14. Not accepting the premise of his argument. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    There are no shortages of claims made by professional victims, but they do have a shortage of facts. These claims only survive with the assistance of administrative action (e.g. Reddit, Tumblr, Fark, Twitter's abuse department) and fall flat anywhere else.

    Such advocacy can only serve as a shibboleth - that Perens wants to declare his alignment with professional victims. He isn't starting with facts or logic.

  15. XKCD 1357 == Today's Godwin. on Twitter Says It's Beating the Trolls (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If one has to cite XKCD 1357, then one has automatically lost the argument. Using that comic means that one's argument cannot survive scrutiny without administrative defense.

  16. They already did with Adam Baldwin. on Twitter Says It's Beating the Trolls (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    They already have.

    Adam Baldwin is not a troll, but he is a well-known personality with conservative beliefs. As a consequence, Twitter's abuse department considers him an enemy of the highest order.

  17. Twitter's abuse department gives them cover. on Twitter Says It's Beating the Trolls (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The individuals that run the abuse department at Twitter are well connected to the various SJW causes.

  18. So that's what they call narrative control. on Twitter Says It's Beating the Trolls (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    They're not beating alleged "trolls", they're just trying to remove counter-SJW narrative messages. Twitter protects abuse and doxxing if it supports a leftist cause (e.g. BLM), while removing anti-leftist content of the same caliber (e.g. Sarah Nyberg's acts of child abuse).

  19. Expect lower quality hardware. on Fujitsu Spins Off Its PC and Mobile Divisions (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As Lenovo bludgeoned ThinkPads and HP's moves eviscerated entire product lines, Fujitsu's spin-off will also reflect a lower quality product over time.

  20. They are U.S. profits, no matter what domicile. on Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They are not U.S. profits. The U.S. has no right to tax them uuntil and unless Apple does something stupid, and converts them into U.S. profits.

    Then the U.S. would have no problem assessing a tariff to offset (and possibly penalize) such re-domiciled U.S. profits.

    Like Steve Jobs told Obama in Feb 2011, when Obama asked what it would take to manufacture Apple products in the U.S. ("Why can’t that work come home?") -- the answer is: “Those jobs aren’t coming back.”

    Crank up the pain high enough and they will. Then again, I don't think either of them like America enough to see it prosper.

    “Our economy is in deep trouble,” said billionaire and self-professed Fabulist Jeff Greene in an interview yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We’ve had a realistic level of job destruction, and those jobs aren’t coming back.”

    What says they cant, even under the weight of a hyperpower like the US? If anything, the Davos folks like Greene are the kind that hate Americans and would do anything to destroy the country.

  21. You're a political creature. Live with it. on Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Calling it "political crap" is just snark that reinforces the arrogance of Apple.

  22. It will fail due to various Anti-US issues. on White House Expected To Announce Big Computer Science Push · · Score: 1

    The easiest way to succeed is to repeal the 1965 Immigration Act alongside the removal of all guest worker capable programs.

    Not only does this code push not want to put all citizens forward, it would only end up being of benefit to diversity candidates (like prior efforts). Individuals that fall outside of some form of "diversity" would largely be locked out.

  23. Chipotle: If SJW's ran a restaurant on Chipotle Plans To DNA Test Produce After E-Coli Outbreaks In Nine States · · Score: 1

    The food's trendy, but it's toxic on contact.

    (Laughing at mods that blew their modpoints on the first round)

  24. Immune to hacktivists as well as politicians on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 1

    Despite the group's apparent distributed-denial-of-service attack, which aimed to take down a web server by flooding it with fake traffic, the Trump Tower website was up and running by 11 a.m. and the alleged damage might not have been apparent, to visitors to the page, because a cached version of Trump's site was programmed to hold the fort in the event of an attack or maintenance issues.

    Trump's campaign saw something like this coming and defeated it like about everyone else that's faced him so far.

  25. Chipotle: If SJW's ran a restaraunt on Chipotle Plans To DNA Test Produce After E-Coli Outbreaks In Nine States · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's trendy food, but it's toxic to anyone handling it.