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  1. Re:Because they do it at all on Girls From Progressive Societies Do Better At Math, Study Finds (sciencecodex.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In terms of evangelical conservative views, of course they make terrible wives and mothers, because they actually want to do something other than be in the kitchen or on their backs. Girls in those types of households are not going to do well at math because they are expected to learn specific roles, that do not include it.

    Personally I would take an engineering wife.

  2. Re:Still needs to be summoned on Tesla Model S Owner Claims Vehicle Went Rogue Causing An Accident By Itself (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Except in this case it required manual activation. If someone claims they set a parking break and the car rolled into another car, but you look and the parking break was set, and the locking mechanism was not broke, would you claim the car just released the break on its own?

  3. Re:Summon into back of trailer mode? on Tesla Model S Owner Claims Vehicle Went Rogue Causing An Accident By Itself (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Blocking the wheels defeats the purpose of summon mode.

  4. Re:Summon into back of trailer mode? on Tesla Model S Owner Claims Vehicle Went Rogue Causing An Accident By Itself (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an absurd conclusion from the evidence.

    you mean the evidence that shows the driver deliberately put the car in summon mode, which caused the accident? I believe that supports his claim...

    No, to prevent a more serious accident where broken bodies can't be unbroken. Your logical fallacies are classical libertarian.

    What more serious accident where broken bodies cant be unbroken? People would be picked up by this system, unless they are spider man hanging from something. You cannot remove all driver responsibility from everything.

  5. Re: Summon into back of trailer mode? on Tesla Model S Owner Claims Vehicle Went Rogue Causing An Accident By Itself (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Umm no. You cannot install additional sensors via a software update. The sensors in the car are fixed down low, it cannot see that high.

  6. Re:Sure, whatever... on Sue Googe Uses Google's Font To Run For US Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You must be fucking blind. The font Google uses for their logo is not the same as any other font.

    Thatnk you for yout thoughtful comment.

    Clearly you are not a designer or a font guy, so I will allow your completely asinin comment.

    Fact is, Google might have "tweaked" the font, but they did not originate the basice font.

    Simply a fact.

    Fonts are an art form, and there are many variations. Very few including Google's font are "original".

    Googles Font is original, an original work does not have to be based off non original works, or no works at all. Google may have just tweaked the font, but as far as anyone can tell that tweak is original. It has trademark protection, because it is original... Under your definition of original nothing would be original, and therefore nothing would be protected, because everything is currently based on something else.

  7. Re:Bullshit conclusion on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about "good habits". The brian does discriminate between good outcomes and bad outcomes however. Addition is not a habbit like brushing your teeth. You can stop brushing your teeth any time, but the brian has you continue.

    If you're presented with a situation that allows you to compromise against your better judgement (in order to avoid pain), and you compromise, that's still a decision - even if it isn't a good one. If that decision ruins your life over time, you may decide to change or seek help. That's also a decision. The rut is always easy, and it may not be completely our fault, but I do think we have a capacity to drive out of a rut or a program. Books are written about this.

    And what happens when you no longer have to make that compromise(in order to avoid pain), but still do.

    Stockholm is not about making bad choices to avoid pain of your victimize, it is actually becoming attached to your victimize so that that even after you are separated you still want to be in that situation.

    There is a vastly larger faction of humanity that benefits from the belief that there is free will. It is a hard concept to not have. It is like not believing in a deity and thinking about death. It takes a strong mind to be able to overcome the sense of dread that comes from thinking about dying and believing there is nothing afterwards.

  8. Re:Easier to prove conclusion wrong on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    How so?

  9. Re:Yeah, right on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    the color change was not instant, it was happening slowly, so it was not precognition.

  10. Re: Yeah, right on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    It actually does mention free will

    Conversely, recent work suggests that the relatively low-level phenomenology that is involved in intentional binding may influence quite complex views that people have about the world. Specifically, the degree to which intentional binding is experienced has been found to correlate with people’s high-level beliefs about free will (Aarts & van den Bos, 2011). Future work could explore whether postdictive effects of the sort we observed in our experiments might also influence people’s high-level beliefs about agency and, if so, how this influence might relate to pathologies that involve delusions of control, such as schizophrenia (Daprati et al., 1997; Frith, Blakemore, & Wolpert, 2000).

  11. Re:Yeah, right on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    It shows that decisions can and are being made without any sort of free will at the short time frame, and provides a path to recognize that other factors other than free will may, or probably are, leading someone to rob a bank. Our brain processes a massive decision tree. It is great to think that we are in control of it, and sucks if we are not.

  12. Re: Old news on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    If it exists then explain Stockholm syndrome, subliminal messaging, and all the ways people end up behaving completely counter to their previous behaviors with no rational explanation.

  13. Re:Not a new idea on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    If you dont/cant recognize the influences then you cannot have free will. If my influences made you chose an option, without know knowing it, then how can you say you made that decision freely?

  14. Re:Methodology seems dodgy on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    because it then becomes a guesssing game,where as allowing the circle to be seen and change, allows you to see where the decisions are coming from.

  15. Re:What does the test have to do with free will??? on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not a mater of "predicting the future", the change was already happening, just extremely slowly. When given very little time the brain's short circuited other paths and made the decision, where as the longer the time given allowed it to go down other paths. This shows us that the brain is making decisions not based on a consciousness but on a subconscious one.

  16. Re:Bullshit conclusion on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 2

    We already have been and are treated like a machine. If free will exists then why is it so easy to reprogram us, stockholm, and the like.

  17. Re:Bullshit conclusion on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Except in all those cases we are looking at the prior behaviors of the individuals to predict those things. What questions were asked, what were the past patterns.

  18. Re:Easier to prove conclusion wrong on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually what it shows is the ability to short circuit the process when you have less time, bypassing parts of the brain that gets it wrong. That you can get it wrong does not imply free will.

  19. Re:Bullshit conclusion on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    A monkey with no free will and a high intelligence is still going to do better than a monkey with a low intelligence, because the capacity to aquire and apply knowledge and skills has nothing to do with free will, but learned behaviors.

  20. Re: Let's just get the makers vs takers out of the on VC, Entrepreneur Says Basic Income Would Work Even If 90% People 'Smoked Pot' and Didn't Work (techinsider.io) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Except you are confusing this and welfare. It is not the same thing. It is also not "free" it is basic. Everyone gets it, even those who work. There is a lot of overhead that could be saved in managing welfare systems by doing something like this.

  21. Re:A hot I worked for did this once on UK Hosting Provider 123-Reg Accidentally Deletes Customer Sites (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I am sorry, I was trying to be a bit funny and serious at the same timet. We named our customer data partitions /vs{#}. What she did was do a rm -rf /vs* deleting all the customers data, the OS was perfectly fine.

    I probably should have stuck to the serious part of it.

  22. A hot I worked for did this once on UK Hosting Provider 123-Reg Accidentally Deletes Customer Sites (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In that case a "rogue script" meant that they were trying to prove that anyone could be an administrator so gave a sales person root access who promptly ran rm -rf /*.*.

    On top of that their were no daily backups as promised for that server, because they would not invest money in it.

    ait.com

    Ahh those were some of the worst days of my life, but learned a lot fixing other people's mistakes.

  23. Re:Should of also gone after loan abuse with schoo on Government's Fake University Trap Results in 21 Visa Fraud Arrests · · Score: 2

    First of all profit != profiteering. The latter means to make an excessive or unfair amount of profit. No one is attacking profit that I see.

    As for CSU, it is not about profit there, it is about only getting a 1.4% raise and a 1.6% raise out of the last 9 years.

    As for gender studies, while probably not a good degree, it is still vastly better than Trump U, it is an ok degree to go into social services work.

  24. Re:Should of also gone after loan abuse with schoo on Government's Fake University Trap Results in 21 Visa Fraud Arrests · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That is not exactly what happened. People with degrees shows that they know how to learn something. It is proof, evidence. It does not mean the person without the degree wont do better, but they dont have proof that they can succeed. If you owned a business who would you hire, the kid off the street, or the kid with a degree for the position, pay and everything else being the same. If you said the kid off the street then I dont think you are being honest.

    And to be clear I did not get my degree until 34, for the field I was succeeding in since the age of 22.

  25. Re: Should of also gone after loan abuse with scho on Government's Fake University Trap Results in 21 Visa Fraud Arrests · · Score: 1

    How is it BS? As an antedote the conservatives of my state just hired an university president who is fairly unqualified other than being a board member of university of Phoenix after talking about all the great things the school did with her. She was also the Bush appointee that pushed the terrible no child left behind on everyone, and helped start the destruction of the education system.