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  1. Re:I can tell you on Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, if none of what you do earns any income, people will say it isn't work.

  2. Re: Pretty obvious on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's pretty obvious that you just enjoy being contrarian and have no real content to add.

  3. Re: Why have a government on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That is one of the beliefs behind some people's desires for smaller government, the Right under the definition that has the appearance of being somewhat historical. Note my use of one and some.

  4. That seems to be what it generally means now... on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That seems to be what it generally means now, but what gives you any indication that is what it means historically? I asked Reddit to explain what was so wrong with Fascism, my way of asking what are the essential characteristics of Fascism without giving away that the way it is used these days gives me no indication of what Fascism actually is, and they came up with alternative definitions of Left and Right: https://www.reddit.com/r/expla...

  5. A more basic question on Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How do we measure the economics of the situation?

  6. Re: genetic confusion on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There are two sets of traits that are genetically necessary for human reproduction. Most of the characteristics for those traits are encoded on X and Y chromosomes. I am not sure what traits that are required for reproduction are contained elsewhere. Also, the traits encoded on those chromosomes include traits not necessary for reproduction. So, no it isn't as simple as people make it out to be. And I avoided the terms sex or gender in this analysis on purpose.

  7. Re:What do words mean? on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Words are generally vague. I like to say that I like my dictionary descriptive rather than prescriptive. Sometimes I deal with what people say as if words have more of a black and white meaning than I actually acknowledge they do, though. The problem is that the situation can get out of hand as depicted in the Tower of Babel situation, where attribution to God aside, people's definitions got so distant from each other that they couldn't collaborate, and that sort of stuff needs to be reined in.

  8. Re: The funny thing about protection... on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't really care for the content of that post to be protected, but I know that if I start drawing lines, it will only encourage people to draw lines that endanger speech that I think should be protected.

  9. Re:limitations of the platform on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I was writing a lengthy response that contained observations and conjectures about social media, when I hit upon one important factor. For some reason YouTube and Twitter seem to have sort of "media darlings", and that factor more than any other seems to indicate whether harassment happens.

  10. Re:problem with censorship on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, nobody said they have a problem with censorship.

  11. Re: your discontent on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    You just don't like that I poke fun at AC's like you.

  12. Re:Kabuki on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    What does Japanese theatre have to do with anything?

  13. Re: Left and further left on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I recently came to learn what Left and Right used to mean, and when that definition is applied, the main difference between what the so-called left and right is what they want the government to tell the people they have to do. Right apparently used to mean that a person didn't want the government telling people what to do.

  14. GitHub attempts to autodetect. on GitHub Commits Reveal The Top 'Weekend Programming' Languages (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    My repositories that contain QuickBASIC language code for compilation with QB64 are tagged Visual Basic by GitHub.

  15. Re:Pig in a poke... on Valve Is Shutting Down Steam's Greenlight Community Voting System (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    That's all very well except everyone is selling a pig in a poke. And sometimes it's actually a cat.

  16. Re:Ellison needs to read a copy of Moby Dick on Oracle Refuses To Accept Android's 'Fair Use' Verdict, Files Appeal (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ellison logic: Cliffs' notes is classical unfair use.

  17. No, that's not the problem on TeraHertz Transmitter Can Push 100Gbps+ Wireless Speeds Via a Single Channel (ispreview.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The problem when a torrent is stalled for days is that nobody connected to the torrent has the necessary pieces and who knows if someone with the whole thing will connect to seed to everyone.

  18. Whatever you want to do that involves light, i guess, not just Li-Fi. Why so short-sighted?

  19. Re: Poor to be you... on Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Entertainment is the only thing to be taken seriously.

  20. Re:I know what was really written... on First Gene Drive In Mammals Could Aid Vast New Zealand Eradication Plan (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    ...but what went through my mind was, so now we're going to have mosquitoes that shoot lasers from their eyes... Great!

  21. Re:Other things not to eradicate on First Gene Drive In Mammals Could Aid Vast New Zealand Eradication Plan (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The things that populate the Raimi-Tapert universes, like the Hercules and the Warrior Princesses.

  22. Re:But Lefties Love Immigrants on First Gene Drive In Mammals Could Aid Vast New Zealand Eradication Plan (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I just went through a whirlwind education of what Left and Right used to mean and the scary thing is that both the liberals and conservatives are pretty far to the Left. The only real disagreement they have is what the government should tell the people they have to do.

  23. Re:That's right, first problem and the answer is.. on First Gene Drive In Mammals Could Aid Vast New Zealand Eradication Plan (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    So, if we were to do this and the mice get to where we don't want them, your idea of what will happen is that nobody will do anything about it and those populations will collapse as well. No, say, doing something else to eradicate the unintentionally affected population and then let unaffected regions move in and repopulate? Or something else? I don't know, but at least I'm more imaginative than you.

  24. You criticize the people who say, "But what if something bad happens?" But something bad happening is actually quite besides the point. Yes, something bad will happen, we will learn from it, something new bad will happen... eventually you do get to the gorillas that will die in the winter.

  25. I think so, Brain, but I don't see how any of the books I saw Amazon have under "Featured" in their "Science & Math" section will help matters.