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  1. You are denying that an open interval and a closed interval are different things.

  2. Re:Manufacturers will eventually lobby on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    They'll hire ACLU lawyers, be set free, join a gang, and go on fuel stamps.

  3. Re:Industrial accident on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The Obama administration is known to have placed anti-business, anti-industrial hacks in many bureaucracies. They've been running a war against companies they don't like. Even before Obama took office, he announced he intended to destroy the coal industry.

    Most environmental and safety concerns should be handled at the state level.

  4. Re:Industrial accident on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Your post confuses me. Do you mean "neutral", not "ground"? Was the machine miswired when it was installed, so that the case was hot? Was the case actually grounded, and if so, what else did the worker touch in order to be shocked? Was this an RF welder?

  5. Re: And so it begins... on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bad analogy. Never trust the labeling of a breaker. Always check that the circuit is not live.

  6. Re:Still want self driving cars? on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither humans nor computerized vision systems update every microsecond. 10 milliseconds is a representative number for a fast system.

  7. Re:Very simple on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? · · Score: 2

    Breaking code into small units results in excessive call / return pairs and consequent poor performance.

    Replacing comments with descriptive method names causes hard-to-read long lines.
    Comments have several audiences, including the original programmer, people familiar with the project who have to support or modify the code, and complete strangers who have to figure out what everything does. Descriptive names alone don't do the job, and having to read tests to understand the code means having to double the number of windows open at once to understand the code.

  8. Re:get rid of employer health plans on New Bill Would Allow Employers To Demand Genetic Testing From Workers (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Congratulations for getting to the historical root of the problem.

    I'd further like to see no tax benefit at all to having health insurance, but your proposal is a huge step in the right direction.

  9. make abortion illegal

    So much for your implicit claim to oppose human suffering,

    Democrats have no philosophical objection to socialism/communism, the primary governmental cause of suffering and death in the 20th century,

    This new bill, allowing companies to pressure employees into giving in to genetic testing, is naked evil, and the Republicans who are supporting the bill deserve any punishment that can be imagined. The Democrats who are opposing the bill nominally deserve praise in this case, even if they are only opposing the bill because they're opposing Republicans.

  10. Re:Not without a wage increase on New Bill Would Allow Employers To Demand Genetic Testing From Workers (businessinsider.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Minimum wage laws shouldn't exist - they're a violation of freedom, they cause unemployment, and they're a symptom of economic ignorance.

  11. Prior to Obama, health insurance wasn't forced on you by the federal government. The initiation of force against innocent people is always evil.

  12. Re:Yes those emails on New Bill Would Allow Employers To Demand Genetic Testing From Workers (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hillary deliberately set up a private email server to evade FOIA demands, which would have exposed her soliciting bribes and other felonies.

  13. Evidence of alien bakers.

  14. Re:How long till the eco human haters attack this? on US Wind Capacity Surpasses Hydro, Overall Generation To Follow (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't windmills tend to kill large birds, like hawks? Hawks kill kittens, domestic cats don't kill hawks.

  15. Re:Time To Invest In Infrastructure on Waze and Other Traffic Dodging Apps Prompt Cities To Game the Algorithms (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    In some cases, this is going to be a state highway suffering congestion in a city in the middle of a long commute. The city can't afford to provide mass transport that will mean anything for the long commute, the city can't rebuild the state highway. The city doesn't want to condemn and build over property near the highway to make access roads to handle the overflow traffic. The state doesn't give a damn about one city's traffic delays.

  16. Re:bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    ZFS is the file system. Stone tablet is the medium. Use ZFS on stone tablets.

  17. Re:This is a bit disingenuous ... on Pollution Responsible For a Quarter of Deaths of Young Children, Says WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Reading failure. The GP wrote "people saved by the pollution causing activities", not just 'people are "saved" by pollution' as you claimed.

    The problem you both are complaining about is context dropping.

  18. Re:This is a bit disingenuous ... on Pollution Responsible For a Quarter of Deaths of Young Children, Says WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not possible to live without polluting.

    A reasonable goal is to minimize the problems caused by pollution while maximizing the benefits of processes that inescapably produce pollution.

  19. I thought accidents were the #1 cause of children.

  20. Re:There are enough people in the world already on Pollution Responsible For a Quarter of Deaths of Young Children, Says WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There's some evidence that lack of exposure to filth at an early age causes allergies later in life. I suppose it's a matter of degree; minor exposure allows the body to learn to handle problems, major exposure overwhelms the young body and kills it.

  21. Nixon created the EPA to short-circuit the leftist environmental movement that was emerging as the Vietnam war wound down. They needed something new to protest about when the war was gone.

    Long term, the strategy backfired, as could have been predicted. Leftists took over the EPA and advanced their anti-industrial agenda.

  22. Re:50 cubits? That's one big ark on IBM Will Sell 50-Qubit Universal Quantum Computer In the Next Few Years (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Noah's computer, the Ark (TM), was 300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits. IBM is so far behind.

  23. Postscript on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms? · · Score: 1

    Don Lancaster has been promoting Postscript as a general purpose computing language for many years.

    I don't like it, I think it's slow and difficult to write. But if a machine has a postscript interpreter, it's another option.

  24. Re: North Korea unstable on The US Waged A Secret Cyber War Against North Korean Missiles (tampabay.com) · · Score: 1

    The US already has its ally, India, on the China border.

    North Korea's development of nuclear weapons makes it more likely, not less, that it will be considered too dangerous to allow N. Korea to continue to exist. Wise people do not let infants play with loaded machine guns.

  25. Re:Peer reviewed on Google's Featured Snippets Are Worse Than Fake News (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone who drinks too much beer is a peer.