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  1. Re:Well, duh... on Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Do NOT underestimate the penguins! At least they had the brains to not vote a half baked encryption law into existence.

  2. Re:Maybe they are right this time on China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me quote the obligatory: Freedom is nor free

  3. Re:Wha?? on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Just hoping/waiting for WebAssembly to give access to the DOM so we can start writing web apps in decent programming languages.

  4. Re:Good ... on Video Games Won't Be Part of the Paris Olympics (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, I know someone who got a concussion while curling

  5. They have too many Pointy Hair Designers

  6. Re:Hey, I Needed Negative Mass for my Alcubierre.. on Bizarre 'Dark Fluid' With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe (theconversation.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anybody got any advice on how I can collect a material that starts to run away faster and faster as I get closer and closer to it?

    TIA!

    It's called a woman

  7. We just have to raise the interest rate of the universe then

  8. Re:Future Business Case Study on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And we're not even talking about the bladder size of the passengers. Most of them needing a pitstop before even half of the battery has been used.

  9. Add translation to that and I may be able to figure out what is being said in Chinese during the next call to Shenzen. The chinglish that is being spoken on those calls is undecipherable anyway.

  10. Re:Business opportunity... on 'The Supremacy of Japanese Cars Has Been 40-Plus Years In the Making' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Good idea. I'd happily drive an electric carbon-fiber Charger.

    I see what you did there

  11. Re:You need permission to update your OWN software on Apple Reportedly Cuts Over 700 Apps from Chinese App Store (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Then stay in America. Unless you are brave enough to suffer imprisonment

    The incarceration rate in America is four times that of China.

    You mean the incarceration rate as reported by the Chinese government? Sounds very trustworthy.

  12. Maybe they could get street addresses by next election...

  13. Re:What I really want... on Gmail Smart Replies and the Ever-Growing Pressure to Email Like a Machine (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    How you doin?

  14. Also the weather here is very nearly as good, we just don't have oceans.

    Um. Depends on your definition of "Nearly". A lot of Californians would not find themselves in agreement.

  15. Re:Simple fix on CO2 Emissions Rose for the First Time in 4 Years (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Naw, I watched Idiocracy when it first came out, so I knew what 2018 was going to look like. I also know what 2100 will be like too. Well maybe the Kardashians won't be around by 2100 but I can still hope.

    I am waiting for skyscrapers being fixed with ropes

  16. Re:No political interference on the science? on China Expands Research Funding, Luring US Scientists and Students (npr.org) · · Score: 1
    Chinese is even hard to learn for the Chinese. All based on rote memorization. It's not a very structured language.

    There is not a chance that Chinese is ever going to be mastered by the rest of the world.

  17. Re:Of course, there are some drawbacks on China Expands Research Funding, Luring US Scientists and Students (npr.org) · · Score: 2
    Well the "official" imprisonment rate is lower.

    Given that people are disappearing left and right in China the real imprisonment rate is probably much higher. Like with all totalitarian regimes.

    Or maybe it's just "re-education". Like the nice tourist camps the USSR used to have in Siberia.

  18. Re:Reynholm Industries on Robyn Denholm Takes Over the Reigns of Tesla From Elon Musk (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Do you speak Italian?

  19. Also, Young Frankenstein comes to mind.

    Walk this way...

  20. Re:And then there's the actual harm - to the GOP on Suspicious Packages Spotlight Vast 'Mail Cover' Postal Surveillance System (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    No bombs sent to Democrats even got close to them, or went off...

    Oh, ok. The bomb maker was incompetent. That makes it a non-issue then.

    We prefer bomb makers that have their bombs go off

  21. Yeah it's the end of the road.

    I think we have witnessed peak China.

  22. Re:College bubble is gonna burst on MIT Plans College For AI, Backed by $1 Billion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    College is a waste of time and money for many people. But those people don't go to MIT.

    Nope, they go to Harvard, Yale, or other Ivys where legacies or kids with rich parents can get in no matter how inept they are, get an easy degree handed to them, then go on and either go into the family business or "start their own business" with millions of dollars of their parents' money and using their parents connections.

    And it's for people who like beer.

  23. In that case:

    ? Forth in it done have should he saying You're

  24. Re:depending on your definition of working on DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Self driving cars work today. But they aren't necessarily less likely to drive off a pier than your average senior driver.

    I think we need a double blind study to confirm that hypothesis.

    Can you spare a couple of grandparents?

  25. Re:No. It is not making enough *cheap* batteries on For Now, at Least, the World Isn't Making Enough Batteries (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Adiabatic CAES. Batteries are for portable things; compressed air is for grid.

    So, basically we're going to run the grid off unicorn farts?