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  1. Growing up before smartphones on Study Links Decline In Teenagers' Happiness To Smartphones (pressherald.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, I grew up before smartphones and was still unhappy. Come to think of it, I've been mostly unhappy since I was about sixteen.

    How does being happy work in the first place?

  2. The Dumb is strong in this one.

  3. So in a way Great Britain joined long lost siblings under the Commonwealth? Isn't that nice of them?

  4. It seems obvious that someone with more relapses in the past will also be more likely to do it again. However, I will assume that at that point, a judge wont allow for bail anyway so if this is about people with three or less offenses on their record, I'd imagine that ONLY going by the criminal history is going to be inaccurate no matter who or what is looking at it.

    Isn't this more a case of bad data as opposed to bad programming? Because "no more accurate than an untrained person" implies pure chance.

  5. Re:COMPARE: on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Metal, it makes everything better.

    It's kinda like butter and cheese when it comes to meals :D. Or bacon! Mhhhmmm... bacon....

  6. Oh my GOD, thanks so much for pointing this out!

  7. Re:Propofol is great stuff on Scientists Change Our Understanding of How Anaesthesia Messes With the Brain (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds a bit boring.

    I wonder what the stuff was they gave me before removing a fistula. Felt like I was only half as heavy and all tingly. I felt less inhibited, sure, but only a tad less than when I am tipsy from alcohol.

    I just enjoyed talking about stupid stuff and found that funnier than normal, however I was clearly aware of that fact. And I believe (though can't prove it) I could have stopped if the situation had demanded it. Since I was lying belly-down on an operation. table of some sort, I just figured they probably wouldn't be needing my level-headed input right then :D.

  8. Re:Propofol is great stuff on Scientists Change Our Understanding of How Anaesthesia Messes With the Brain (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    I had one without drugs. Same experience as you. Some people just have different nerve responses I guess.

    Sucks to be that dude in that situation for sure.

  9. That should have been. a "Hah" up there... no insult was intended... except for the noob, of course :D.

  10. Hag, you Noob! I had to drive home and did it without any drugs! I think that was about my second one... the third I did put-under again because man, that sure was uncomfortable...

  11. Re:Jerks are not a protected class. on James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm getting tired of reading this bullshit. Yeah, you'd have a case if it wasn't for google ASKING for everyone's opinion on how the workplace could be made better (whatever you want to define as better).

    Damore said "Stop acting like we're all the same. Women have things to contribute, so adapt the workplace to their needs instead of molding it for a virtual template of a unisex humanoid that does not exist".

    He pointed out what was, in his opinion, a mistake the company made and how they could go about fixing it. Only problem was reality doesn't fit Google's alternate facts.

    It's a-okay for a car company to want to run according to other laws than those of physics however when you then notice that your sales could be better and ask for input and an engineer points this out, you either go "Well, guess we can't work according to cartoon physics any longer" or you go "Dude, thanks so much for wanting to help but that really doesn't fit into our dogma. Please consider either keeping this opinion to yourself in the future or we'll be glad to help you find other employment".

    Yeah, yeah... they're not required by law to act like that but god damnit, it's the respectful thing to do. Then again, respect and ethics are not things US culture is known for comprehending.

  12. More than a month of delay on SpaceX Completes First Launch of 2018: Secretive 'Zuma' Spacecraft (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    So in terms of comparable projects of similar magnitudes, it was way ahead of schedule then?

  13. Re:Yes on Would You Use a Smartphone-Style Laptop With a Three-Day Battery Life? (king5.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes! YES! HELL YES!

    I want a Nokia Communicator with usable screen ratio and Android OS.

    A 720 to 1080 AMOLED on the inside and epaper on the outside.

    Frickin hughe battery and antenna. THAT is what I want. I'll even wear that sucker in a belt pouch if I have to!

  14. Re: Trojan horses on Yes, Your Amazon Echo Is an Ad Machine (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3

    Hate to burst your bubble but that argument is by no means championed by millenials. In fact, whenever our rights get carved up again, it's usually the baby boomers I hear spouting that hogwash. Less so gen x.

    Then again hating on millenials is so much easier than confronting one's own failings...

  15. So you prefer left-wing totalitarianism to right-wing totalitarianism. Got it.

  16. There's easter eggs that a developer threw in on his own, which management usually doesn't want on company time, and then there's somewhat nutty, somewhat nerdy CEOs who tells you to do something awesome.

    The latter is official code that gets, hopefully, the same scrutiny as the rest of the project.

    I don't think changing the imagery on the dashboard and the soundeffects of certain actions is in any way dangerous.

    In fact, I think Tesla should think about making the cars moddable.

  17. What is more shocking? on Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I am unsure what rattles me more... that a politician would lie or that a republican would lie about the Obama administration...

  18. Re:It's a forced upgrade on Microsoft Disables Word DDE Feature To Prevent Further Malware Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Then that someone is incompetent and deserves all that is coming.

    By your logic, nothing could ever get phased out, no matter how bad it is.

  19. Re:Repurposed... on Can Intel's 'Management Engine' Be Repurposed? · · Score: 2

    Quite right, however if it's not your own machine you're using to mine BTC, then you have neither the cost of hardware nor power to contend with.

    And since we're talking about a separate computing system on the mainboard, 99.9% of the users probably wouldn't notice anything strange.

    Imagine a botnet of a few dozen thousands of these mining for you.

  20. Sooo more or less like the US operates? Just a little less dishonest about the fact?

  21. After, I think?

    Never been a fanboy so I don't care what the influences are. I just enjoy the more hard-rock albums as opposed to the thrash metal.

    And I think your take on this is interesting. For me, Metallica gives me vibes of thoughtfulness... Emo I have yet to associate with them. But to each their own :).

  22. Re:Actually they EXPECTED corruption. on ISP Disclosures About Data Caps and Fees Eliminated By Net Neutrality Repeal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And here I though the biggest wrench a US citizen could throw was electing third party. If enough people did it, that is.

    I keep hearing that a third party candidate doesn't have a chance... so that would be where I'd start changing stuff.

    Of course, we're talking US society here, where black and white is the norm. It's the norm in mainstream media (still don't get how Star Wars is so popular) and even in political rhetoric. And it isn't even new. It goes at least as far back as the world wars.

    You're either for us, which is for America, or you're against us, which is against America seems to be the catchphrase for both parties. That there are not enough people who would go "That makes no sense at all" is rather disturbing.

  23. I think this assumption in the Bad category directly contradicts the point you made further up: With the UBI, I could get me a 100$ Chinesium smartphone, but if I went to McDonald's and worked a few hours, I could buy something from Lenovo.
    If I worked some additional hours on top, it might even be Apple or Samsung.

    Either we do reach for the shiny or we don't. People need to discuss where the cutoff point lies and how the population fits into those categories.

  24. That certainly is one way to look at it. You shall permit me to think they have a form of intelligence you just lack the imagination to recognize... Or lack the form itself altogether.
    I bet you wouldn't get Metallica songs either. Some things just speak through the atmosphere they create, man. If you keep looking for direct in your face meaning in everything, you might miss the most profoundly moving experiences altogether.

    That being said it's still JJ Abrams and Tarantino might manage to get Uma Thurman in there so there is enough scary potential here. I'm kinda left feeling like Fry or Brannigan when they were told they'd be killed by snu-snu.

  25. Not surprised on More Young People Are Becoming Farmers (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, you look at open space offices, the daily grind, lack of job security, the housing market and voilÃ, farming keeps looking better and better. With the whole bio/organic trend, you don't even need to treat animals like crap and all the newfangled technology makes the hard labor much more bearable than a few decades ago.

    It ain't for me but I do get it.