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  1. Re:it doesn't matter on Planting GMOs Kills So Many Bugs That It Helps Non-GMO Crops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm against GMO's until the owners of said GMO's stop trying to sue the shit out of farmers for incidental cross pollenization of crops

    No one has done that. You're a victim of propaganda. If you're talking about Bowman v Monsanto, it wasn't incidental cross pollenization.

  2. Re: it doesn't matter on Planting GMOs Kills So Many Bugs That It Helps Non-GMO Crops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The worst is people who favor organic fertilizer without thinking. That shit makes people sick. Literally.

  3. it doesn't matter on Planting GMOs Kills So Many Bugs That It Helps Non-GMO Crops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It doesn't matter how many studies there are that show the good effects of GMO, people will still oppose them, and mostly for irrational reasons. Furthermore, they will ignore the times when natural foods are harmful or when non-gmo has ended up with poisonous foods. Again, for mostly irrational reasons.

  4. God will save them. Or natural selection will intervene, anyway. (They're the same thing right?)

  5. Re:What else would you expect? on How Amazon Became Corporate America's Nightmare (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    . For instance, Bezos and other managers at Amazon take a 2-day call center training class annually

    Wow, that's actually kind of amazing.

  6. Re:What advantage does this have for me on Bitcoin's Highly Anticipated 'Lightning Network' Goes Live (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose there's privacy, but I get pretty good privacy from my CC company (albeit lousy privacy from the Credit Agencies, but those are different companies).

    fwiw you shouldn't expect Bitcoin to be anonymous. Even if a transaction currently can't be traced, the record is public forever (by design) and in the future new techniques may be found to trace bitcoin ownership (as has already happened).

  7. Re:Beyond the hype on Linus Torvalds Slams CTS Labs Over AMD Vulnerability Report (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    With UEFI, you already shouldn't trust a used computer. That stuff is heavily insecure and difficult to detect.

  8. Re:try the double-reversi test on Microsoft Announces Breakthrough In Chinese-To-English Machine Translation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's good because the tool found in that link has trouble with idioms and also has trouble distinguishing want/will/can. Almost every sentence I tried had problems, sometimes simple problems that shouldn't even be hard.

  9. Re:Correlation? on Extreme Winter Weather In the US Linked To a Warming Arctic (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. This study didn't show that the two effects were connected by climate change. It only showed that they happened at the same time.

    Future research might show that they were both caused by climate change. Or not, we don't know, that's why it's future research.

  10. Re:Correlation? on Extreme Winter Weather In the US Linked To a Warming Arctic (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a tenuous connection. Today it was sunny in Tokyo but rainy in Stockton. They're on the same planet, but there isn't much of a connection.

    Maybe this climate event is of similar tenuousness. Watch them make a prediction based on this data and see what the result is, and that will strengthen the confidence in a connection.

  11. Re: Aren't you talking rubbish? on YouTube, the Great Radicalizer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    At least the overtones window is widening. Free speech is a good thing. The more people can participate, the better.

  12. Clearly you don't have any evidence otherwise. Right now Google is winning the AI race, Facebook has a decent the, and Microsoft just keeps making jokes. No good AI research has come out of there sinc e clippy.

  13. Microsoft AI has mostly been a joke so far. They want people to use their cloud platform, though.

  14. Musk has never been involved in any company that hurt consumers by pretending not to be a bank in an attempt to avoid regulation. Never. Really!

  15. Re:Um... on Google Maps Apps Add 'Mario Kart' Feature (wlwt.com) · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Trump supporters don't know what these words me on Reddit Admits Russian Trolls Got Into Website During 2016 Election (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They are very much NOT leftist, NOT liberal, NOT progressive. Those words have all become meaningless,

    They were meaningless a century ago, if not more. Political parties are all about choosing a side and helping "your side" win. Partisans have a bad name for that reason.

  17. Imagine having to obey Singapore's littering laws in the United States.

    Sounds good to me!

    You then discarded it in a public area in the United States.

    What a jerk.

  18. Maybe because the people running the site don't want to worry about being extradited, or arrested every time they enter an airport.

  19. Re: Yes, I would work. on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they underestimated our greed to get more stuff. If you ask most people if they'd take a 50% pay cut in exchange for a 20 hour work week, most would say "No."

  20. Re: yeah forget that on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh? With people like you, maybe it's BETTER if the robots take over. Be an optimist.

  21. Re: yeah forget that on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's such a negative thought. I don't like your negativity.

  22. Re: Yes, I would work. on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How did you manage to swing a 20 hour work week?

  23. Re: yeah forget that on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Many weavers starved as they did not have skills in tending the new machines

    That's a lie, and you made it up. Potato farmers starved to death, yes.

  24. Re:Automation is good on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  25. Re: yeah forget that on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Cultural/moral progress didn't change this state of affairs. Technological improvements did. Labor tools and techniques greatly increased our productive capacity, to the point where it was tenable to built a city entirely on paid labor provided by workers who chose their profession. Once such things were possible, only then did the moral potential of humanity found its expression.

    That's kind of a depressing thought. Morals follow money.