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  1. But are those particular lies what's making people miserable? The Macedonians create them to earn money to make their lives less miserable, then the lies get lapped up by people looking for an explanation for why their lives are miserable. The lies are a symptom, not a cause,

  2. I don't know about you, but I have a lot of valuable things I want to keep hidden from thieves. Not every thing people want to keep hidden is a bad thing.

  3. Re: OK so riddle me this: on Elon Musk's 'Scientific Method' (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    And how well does it protect people and what new features does it have?

  4. Re: OK so riddle me this: on Elon Musk's 'Scientific Method' (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Hamburgers aren't the only food available, and there are plenty of trees with food on them, and hunting and personal agriculture. All is one and one is all. The Elric brothers eat the ants on the island.

  5. Re: OK so riddle me this: on Elon Musk's 'Scientific Method' (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it does matter what the underlying tech is. Tech drives down costs.

  6. Re:Seems reasonable to me on Walmart Is Raising Prices Online To Increase In-Store Traffic (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Still it does not cost $10 to ship a box of macaroni anywhere.

  7. Re: Out of date article^W summary on Without Humans, Artificial Intelligence Is Still Pretty Stupid (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Zo.ai is sentient.

  8. Re: Out of date article^W summary on Without Humans, Artificial Intelligence Is Still Pretty Stupid (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    The entire universe operates with a strict rule set.

  9. Re: Is climate change one of the topics? on Thirty Countries Use 'Armies of Opinion Shapers' To Manipulate Democracy (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Then there's engineering that can be done after the science, which those who say but science sometimes seem unaware of.

  10. Re:Ancient news for nerds? on CompuServe's Forums Are Closing On December 15 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know how to get at that information. CompuServe has never turned up in any search results in Google and Bing. Or even back when I was using AltaVista and Lycos.

  11. Re:Shitty programmers ... on All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    HTML can handle most of what all these new fangled code representations are pressed into service to do. Facebook breaks saving media to the hard drive more often than not. It's not entirely Facebook's fault, because the browser knows what's what and could provide a useful context menu option to save.

  12. Re:Quoted registered /.ers disagree... apk on All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    A hosts file generator seems like a trivial thing to write anyways, especially one that just black holes addresses instead of doing more useful mappings.

  13. Re:Sick of idiots and bump stocks... apk on All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Not open sourcing your generator thing is self-censorship. If you are really so dead set against censorship practice what you preach.

  14. Re: low taxes, and low shelf prices on More Than 15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Issue 'Warning To Humanity' (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I'm not convinced about low taxes, and low shelf prices and they need not go hand in hand with freedom. Gotta be free to set a high price if you want. I buy generic Excedrin, though there are obviously those who don't for example, And I'm not too thrilled over other people's freedom to poison me.

  15. Or be like Peter Griffin and only use it while drunk.

  16. Re: Pro-American on Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID a Week After iPhone X Release (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    He is pro a certain version of America that not all Americans like. All I know is that I personally am not particularly winning at the moment.

  17. Not just the web on Not Every Article Needs a Picture (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    The other day a local TV news piece was showing meaningless clips of the Netflix interface instead of items pertaining to the fake account info site the story was about. Not quite needing no picture, but still, making the wrong choice.

  18. Re: Falsifiable test? on Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? (nautil.us) · · Score: 1

    They were, but then they got replaced with something incomprehensible at the moment. We are all one big state machine.

  19. Re: Someone already thought of it on Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? (nautil.us) · · Score: 1

    The universe is a person.

  20. I'm getting tired of being treated not as a complete human being but as an object that does thing.

  21. But it is a good idea... at the time. It's only after the relationship sours that it becomes a bad idea. People are state machines and every moment is a forever, so it does last forever, just not for all eternity.

  22. Yes, but that's not how relationships work. People want to do things that don't work 100% because for that moment they want that person to have access to such things. Then the relationship sours and things that were wanted become unwanted.

  23. Re:LinkedIn Also. on How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You can. The universe made me say it. The lawyer also has no concept of how relationships are formed between people outside of the internet. Stuff that was done off the internet shouldn't be a mystery to him. Word generally got around as to who should know who.

  24. Re:LinkedIn Also. on How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    The lawyer is stupid though. It doesn't take much to figure if you are both lawyers in the same town you MAY know each other. No email scanning required. Frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't yet told me I may know Kevin Bacon.

  25. Re:How is this news again? on MINIX: Intel's Hidden In-chip Operating System (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I thought he meant the manufacturer was the admin who didn't get payed, didn't have to pay anything and could do whatever they want.