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  1. le pen is NOT socialist on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Le pen is a far right party. FFS look up the "national front" they are a bunch of "immigrant go home" racist guy. That is the main base of her party, the main ideology of all FN guys : "foreigner go home". This is in no way shape or form a socialist party, they are a far right party.

  2. have YOU tried to read EULA ? on Consumers' Privacy Concerns Not Backed By Their Actions (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have. I do it on regular basis. But they are long, dense legalese. It takes skill (a good grasp of English) and time, a lot of time, to read those. What I do not is that I know roughly what an EULA looks like and I scan paragraph headers and see if I see something I don't expect with CRTL-F. You can be privacy minded, and despair that EULA are too long and unreadable. My fucking work contract with NDA and privavcy signing was shorter and more understandable than all EULA I read up to now. Real contract like buying a flat was more understandable. Those EULA are NOT done so that the user can read. They are done so that at best the software maker just remove as much liability as possible, or do hide dirty shenanigan inside a dense text and pretend one agreed to it. That is why I fucking like GDPR. EULA or not, go fuck yourself, show me what you save, and you better delete it now that I refuse you keep it.

  3. they are betting on people thinking natural==bette on De Beers To Sell Diamonds Made In a Lab (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    You know the type , same molecule, but they rather have "natural" one rather than the "artificial" one , artificial is for many people a scare word, denoting sonething of lesser value. As chemist when i meet somebidy like that i laugh my ass off. Disclaimer : i was involved in the process of making artificial diamond so i am definitily biased.

  4. They are not they dislike it on Legend of Loch Ness Monster Will Be Tested With DNA Samples (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Last time I was there I friended a few locals at a pub, and the gist of it is that they dislike all nessie stuff, and think it overshadow their region and its history. Basically if you talk to the local they will barely mention it, some don't even do (and if you DO mention it you get the "tourist idiot" stamp and they won't talk to you). There are a few selling trinkets but you speak to most local, you pretty much the impression Nessie's story is a plague. As for "100 of years" that is a load of BS. There is a few story here and there and some hint at a very small monster (human sized roughly) but in reality until start of the 20th century (about 1930-1940) you pretty much have zero tradition of it. It only exploded with the Surgeon hoax photo.

  5. And it nearly never happens to do anything because it mostly never impact seed/ovocyte and thus is almost never passed through. It does happen at a certain rate with virus and some phage but this is pretty rare, rare enough we can look at the DNA and have an estimate at how population diverged, including mtDNA and can evaluate how long ago the divergence was. If it did happen so often and so easily, we would not be able to do that and species would vary wildly among generation. it isn't the case even with hybridization. Overstating a case make the people distrust you. That is a good reason to not overstate the case that hybridization and crispr gene insertion are the same. Fundamental yes it is "just" DNA change, but fundamentally a kettle and a nuclear plant are the same too by that token and that is why equating both make the one holding that opinion look like tool, and certainly do not change anti GMO proponent opinion. If you want to change their opinion, educate them on the lack of risk. But stop pretending adding fish gene (the nuclear plant) to a plant is the same as hybridizing different variety of rye (the kettle). Only with true education on the real risk and by not pretending it is the same will you make people understand. But stating hybridizing and adding trans kingdom gene is the same is the best way to make you look like a fool.

  6. Nature edit gene every day with virus, horizontal and vertical transfer but generally it isn't a huge change such as injecting trans-kingdom gene, e.g. chicken gene into a plant and have it reproduce. By pretending it is the same you are actually giving ammunition to anti-gmo fanatics when they can rightfully point out that natural transfer do not allow in any time much shorter than evolutionary scale to allow such cross transfer as fish/tobacco (to give you an idea how frigging rare this is, we have barely one example such transfer with insect and conifers, see "An Ancient Trans-Kingdom Horizontal Transfer of Penelope-like Retroelements from Arthropods to Conifers").

  7. One does not exclude the other on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    His comment is more a general comment about the inanity of those stupid controversy. People just discovering the mystery of audio compression BFD - yay ! One can care & comment on the inanity *in general* of such non-troversy, without being interrested into that particular yanny/laurel one.

  8. Are we sharing the same rock ? on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    Stupid social media controversy is stupid. "Do you hear yanny or laurel ?" my answer : "it is blue and gold" ;).

  9. *shrug* on 'Yes, Pluto Is a Planet' (sfgate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The classification does not change anything truly, but frankly the IAU kerfuffel DOES have a point : People want to keep Pluto out of sentiment. When you point them there is then more than 100 planet to add if Pluto is a planet, THEN they go back to the "but-this-is-what-i-learnt" BS defense. The IAU definition might not be 100% good, but some of the objection to it are stupid. Like the one it does not apply to other solar system. That one is frankly stupid , change the grammar to "its star" and bam, problem solved (and frankly when I read the definition the first time I read it that way too). I think that simply a lot of people cannot emotionally let go of that pluto-named TNO and will do anything including CT about not giving credit. Pretty much avoid recognizing that Pluto as a planet was pretty damn only an accident due to detection as opposed to a real definition. Just looking at the ecliptic should give IMO a hint.

  10. GDPR is like a great filter which tells me who is breaking my privacy and who won't. Say you close off to EU customer because of GDPR ? Great I know you were breaking my privacy and selling my data ! Good riddance !

  11. completely false on 70-Year-Old Former Volkswagen CEO Charged With Fraud Over Emissions Scandal (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Germany do extradite its citizen and there are treaty for it, supplemented by EU wide treaty. In fact here is the german/us one : https://www.google.com/url?sa=...
    What it does not allow like many other EU country, is to extradite if there is a death penalty. Either the target country has to give up the death +penalty, or never apply it. I think winterkorn is safe from death penalty , so if the offense is valid under german law (and fraud is) extradition is not off the table.

  12. Driver == meat on The Pentagon's Ray Gun Can Stall Cars (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Firstly a human driver and a peace of meat are not that different - except maybe for some parts like eye and lens/vitreous humor which I can't imagine reacting the same to heat as muscle. Secondly 300 kW means nothing. is it 0.1 second exposure (30 KJ) or 10 seconds exposure (3 MJ) that makes a difference. Then you have got to examine the quantity and the part of the body it affects. Then use 1/R2 laws to determine how much energy there is at a distance, and angle, to examine exposure. 3KJ in your eye and 3KJ in your upper arm muscle won't have the same effect. Basically I can imagine situation where this is not harmless and could have long lasting vision damage but not much else. Would probably run afoul of some convention on blinding weapon.

  13. +5 good explanation on EPA Proposes Limits To Science Used In Rulemaking (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I was thinking of the result, but if the bill also require patient confidentiality to be broken then it is definitively intentional shenanigan from the industry parts. The points taken up by the UCS are very valid.

  14. Before saying it is good or bad : example ? on EPA Proposes Limits To Science Used In Rulemaking (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I mean I usually suspect the industry to want to hamstring the EPA, after all it forces them to take into account externalities, which they could otherwise ignore and cut corner. But what sort of research would be private and have an impact ? Before deciding either way I would need example. I am no friend of "trust us we were told that XYZ is bad for you" (The only counter example I can think of is military research, but I guess that would be exempt).

  15. Depend on their tech level on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    We are pretty sure there was no other modern civ, because otherwise we would have had evidence of coal mining, oil reclamation, all sort of stuff which would have been exploited, but we find no evidence of. We can be reasonably sure there was no iron age using civ (and metal generally), for the same reason, the mining would have left trace, if only in where we would expect to find metal ore and don't find it - because it has been mined. Now orogeny/subduction could have created some at plate separation, but the rest of the continent ? Doubtful. If you go to lower tech level, like stone age civ ? There is no way whatsoever to know. Feel free to speculate about dinosaurus civ.

  16. what about bank card on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Here in Europe we have bank card (e.g. called giro card - they are not CC, maybe you call them debit card?), they are accepted *everywhere* (they obey a standard) and they use chip and pin and cannot be copied by the staff. All your problem can be pointed back to your own reluctance as a country to adopt modern banking practice.

  17. fat chance on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    "where our location is tracked 24/7/365" so you don't have a mobile phone, or take the time to switch it off when not making a call, and never receive call ? Because if you do , you are tracked 24/7/365 much MUCH better than if you were paying cashless.

  18. I repeat and ask on Senate Confirms Climate Denier With No Scientific Credentials To Head NASA (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What fucking conversation ? Would you pretend there is a conversation to be had with flat earther ? At some point you have got to admit there is no conservation possible, as the other party already rejected the basis of reason completely. If they were merely misinformed it would be something else. But this is willful rejection of reason. There is no conversation to be had.

  19. anti science reached too high on Senate Confirms Climate Denier With No Scientific Credentials To Head NASA (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at some point you have to point out that flat earther are completely wrong. There is no "two side" of the coins for some stuff, there is 96% + scientific, against a few denier, denier which keep touting the same debunked stuff. Once people start putting denier it is beyond politic , it is simply across the aisle against science. And before somebody attacks me "blah blah you are practicing religion blah blah there is no consensus in science blah blah" they are free to present peer reviewed article showing climate science wrong. But until somebody has anything valid, peer reviewed , reversing the null on global warming, then what we do have as consensus *IS* what we should base policy on, until consensus is reversed or falsified. Would you accept somebody denigrating vaccination at the head of a medicine comity , and would you give the same objection when pointed out the consensus is that vaccine help fight infectious illness ? No ? Then Stuff you when you refuse the same to climate science.

  20. bild.de went one step further on German Supreme Court Rules Ad Blockers Legal (faz.net) · · Score: 1

    It is a german tabloid. They added a script (possibly server side) so that if you have an ad blocker they don't serve the page (well they serve the page then show a blank page with "why I don't see that page").

  21. Because there are more GOPer than DEMs on Cloudflare: FOSTA Was a 'Very Bad Bill' That's Left the Internet's Infrastructure Hanging (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They have the reign of power of all houses THEREFORE they are responsible , no matter what the other party vote.

  22. all ISM have a failure built into them on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    even capitalism. This is a question of degree and moderation rather than go to the extrem "-ism". A ultra capitalist free market society with no rule would be as terrible as russian communism, if not more. That is why bloody socialist countries exists today and work well no matter what the popular belief in the US is.

  23. You are american, right ? on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    "That is why socialist countries routinely murdered insane numbers of people, because they took out a crucial part of human morality." see this is where you stray away from facts. 1) russian communism was more dictatorial than it was socialist but we could argue for days on that 2) what IS NOT arguable : Sweden hasn't murdered a lot of people and did not took a crucial part of humanity. See the problem is not socialism per see, even the US do practice some form of socialism (e.g. medicaid) ,no society can do the ultra capitalism/no socialism/everybody for itself and survive. The problem is a degree, and whether the "elite" (read those who have the political reign) take over and abuse the system for itself or not. A Sweden , Danemark, and other countries show : socialism do work.

  24. heck look at those post on coin forums on German ICO Savedroid Pulls Exit Scam After Raising $50 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of those EVEN after the scam is revealed, responded to a user which told"hell am waiting it is on a legit exchange - and I was right", the answer was "yes but you risk missing a 667% markup" ==== this is the type of "easy money" thinking which taken people taken for their money. Stupid.

  25. Practically no risk on German ICO Savedroid Pulls Exit Scam After Raising $50 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I mean let us be honest, most if not all people which were taken have no resource to search for somebody like that world wide. And with 50 million, even washed down to 25 million, a team of 10 person can live a well financed live anywhere in the world without worry. The probability from a mafia guy being taken out of his money, is very low : mafia probably are the one organizing some of those scam to begin with. So i would say vigilant justice won't happen.