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  1. Re:Proof the EU is Working on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If Spain wasn't in the EU, their clever youth would still leave the country for a better career abroad - but Spain wouldn't get anything back.

    Except that that would have their own coin and wouldn't be forced to adopt stupid destructive economic policies that never worked at any time in any country - not that that stops corrupt sociopaths like Blair and Rajoy, I suppose.

  2. Re:Free to move - how free is that? on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That (money to move out) and ever increasing xenophobia - oh, I forgot, the English elders are the only xenophobes in Europe, that's the new party line, sorry.

  3. Re:This fixes a UI failure on Microsoft Removes the 'X' From Windows 10 Update Leaving No Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I know what you're saying, but .NET and Java are interpreted too, you know. I can't advise you, but C++ isn't going anywhere.

  4. Re:Users Just Expect Computers to "Work" on Samsung: Don't install Windows 10 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Because that never happened with Linux or SSH... All software has bugs, even long standing ones. How many and how bad are the relevant questions.

  5. Re:Bottle of wine to Lapland analogy is wrong on Estonian President Expresses Desire For More Digitally-Integrated Europe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The choice of Algarve for portuguese wine isn't terribly inspired either. I didn't even know we made wine down there.

  6. Re:Works fine on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, not going to agree with your new comment. At all.

    But it wasn't a dig at you, it was at who you were replying to: " try passing an actual function as a parameter in a strongly typed language. Or get a function back as a return value. Better yet, get back a runtime specialized function as a return value." are perfectly normal things to do in haskell or scala, which are definitely strongly typed.

  7. Re:Works fine on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention actual, real functional languages.

  8. Re:Wow, they really are stuck in the past on Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To 'Damage the US Economy' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I still haven't read the book, but haven't neo-keynesians realized that stagnation is even better for them since they can just gain more than anyone else from interest and rents (and by rents I don't mean the renting a home kind of rent)?

  9. Re:Time to do some work! on YouTube Is Guilty Of Criminal Racketeering, Grammy Winner Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    That is how capitalism works for christ sake.

    That's how capitalism is sold, but never how it worked.

  10. Re:PhB.B.B.B.B.B on Microsoft's New AI Mistakenly Identifies Photos, Ignores Hitler (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish they'd stop calling this stuff A.I. it's simple pattern recognition.

    AFAIK, so is human intelligence, that's why you spent years being a useless drooling slob.

  11. Re:1/2 of /. readers say AI will take their job on Microsoft's New AI Mistakenly Identifies Photos, Ignores Hitler (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm reminded that about half of Slashdotters are afraid that AI like this will put them out of a job soon.

    Then you can't read. No one is saying that it'll be soon, but if you've been looking at the fast pace of improvement in the last decade you would realize AI is going to have massive social and economical implications.

  12. Re:wow, they have a real accountable democracy on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As an aside, the eurozone hasn't had an 8 year recession, a recession requires two subsequent quarters of negative growth and the eurozone was only in that situation back in 2008 and 2009 when every other large western economy was. I think you're confusing recession for low growth, which is the actual problem.

    You're right, recession is a meaningless political term, not an economic one. I meant stagnation, probably even secular stagnation.

  13. Re:wow, they have a real accountable democracy on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "Under the deal, up to 4% of Iceland's gross domestic product (GDP) will be paid to the UK, in sterling terms, from 2017–2023 while the Netherlands will receive up to 2% of Iceland's GDP, in euro terms, for the same period"
    Meanwhile, not going bankrupt and making the money worthless. Seems to have worked out reasonably well for everyone. At least, much better than the ongoing 8 year eurozone recession..

  14. Re:Traditional early adopter killer app on NVIDIA Creates a 15B-Transistor Chip With 16GB Bandwidth Memory For Deep Learning (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it could learn to categorize it and learn your preferences very fast, so it's not out of the question...

  15. Re:Let me tell you how it is... on Stephen Hawking and 150 Royal Society Scientists: Brexit Disaster For UK (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There are some good reasons for brexit, but it has nothing to do with Cameron's intentions, or Johnson’s for that matter. On the contrary, their posturing might help fuel the chaotic end of the union, which will not help England in the least.
    It might be more wise to back those who would reform it rather then hope to be on top of the ashes, although who knows at this point.

  16. Re:Parent is ignorant of monetary theory on Stephen Hawking and 150 Royal Society Scientists: Brexit Disaster For UK (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Even if it were true, then you're agreeing that it is good for Germany and bad for everyone else.

    Scratch, for German's big business, Germans were fucked too in lost wage increases.

  17. Re:Faithfully? on Scientists Have Discovered How To 'Delete' Unwanted Memories (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    When I'm nearly asleep, I have vivid recollections of past dreams to the point where I truly believe some things have happened in the past. Not only that, but often dreams build themselves on past dreams like a continuous universe.
    As soon as I'm awake I realize that it's all fake, and soon after that I forget all about it unless I really focus on it. It's fascinating, but I don't have much of a clue on how to explore it.

  18. Re:The next RSS on Firefox 44 Arrives With Push Notifications (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    What's nice is that most sites just run wordpress or similar anyway, so you can just mess with the url a bit and get a feed link to plug in your reader.

  19. "n the meantime Google released TensorFlow, which will have taken away a lot of the potential market

    Did it? While one on the main researchers on NN keeps working on Theano, not to mention everything else that exists, I have my doubts.

  20. Re:This could cost jobs. on Microsoft Releases Its Deep Learning Toolkit On GitHub (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Newsflash: there's not enough need of that to occupy that much of the population, and with a missing middle class current capitalism doesn't work anyway.

  21. To be fair, it's a lot faster with a GPU.

  22. Re:Balance on Stallman's Legacy Halts At Hardware (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    And you had a small group of people fixing it instead of multiplying that for every product that needed the functionality.

  23. Re:Income inequality has *RISEN* under Obama?!?!? on Why Do Americans Work So Much? · · Score: 1

    If people didn't loan, the banks would close the next day and the economy would collapse.
    I also find it cute that you think rent is borrowing and yet ignore where the money to buy a home outright comes from.

  24. Re:I'm calling bullshit on this on When Hacking Vigilantism Infringes On Free Speech (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Then I'm sure it's firefox's fault for connecting to facebook servers on almost every single internet page, then. Quite a weird bug.

  25. Re:Trump is only canidate making sense... on Chrome Extension Offers Trump-Free Browsing (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Still much better then stupid austerity (that's a pleonasm right there).