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  1. Re:Now hold Trump accountable for TREASON on New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    You are right, that is a good article. Americans see Russia from their own self-centered view, but Russians are mainly concerned about themselves and their own problems.

  2. Re:Color me purple and pink! on Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How exactly, do you know this divide isn't escalated largely by these actions, and how do we know it's ONLY 47 accounts?

    That's a very trollish question there. Show the evidence or you yourself have become the troll.

  3. Re:Color me purple and pink! on Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The only way this ends is with the realisation that both sides are as bad as the other and that we all have more in common than we do with

    You can say that again. The different parties are much more alike than they are different. Each party thinks the other is led by Hitler. We are so similar that politicians need to use very small things to try to divide us (like abortion).

  4. Re:Has the world gone mad? on Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the Flat Earth guy plans to test his theory scientifically. He's completely nuts, but he's still less crazy than either of these.

    He plans to make money off donations and then accomplish nothing but spending it on himself. He's a scammer who is not nuts at all.

  5. Re:Now hold Trump accountable for TREASON on New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Nah. They see (correctly) that the US is the most powerful country by far, and that the US is also somewhat schizophrenic, with actions that don't make sense and aren't consistent. They are trying to adjust themselves around that reality as best they can.

  6. Color me purple and pink! on Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Russians were trying to divide the country? That's awful! It could be worse, imagine if our own politicians were trying to divide the country! Oh, wait.

  7. Re:Now hold Trump accountable for TREASON on New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Oh? How do you think Russians see it?

  8. Re:No Magic Left on Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    With a market cap of $900 billion, that's not going to happen any time soon.

  9. Re:Kim's securing Bitcoin to subvert embargoes on US Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' For WannaCry Ransomware Attack (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    US intelligence agencies are known to lie. They've lied since they were created. Never was there a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. After Iraq, you would expect people to know it, but it is worth repeating: "Do not trust the FBI/CIA/NSA. Look at the evidence and evaluate it for yourself."

  10. Re:I would like to believe that. on US Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' For WannaCry Ransomware Attack (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    We are living in strange times when we call The White House "Not trustworthy".

    The only thing strange about it is that people have woken up to it.

  11. Re:Now hold Trump accountable for TREASON on New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms (propublica.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't care if Trump goes to jail, but as an American, I don't consider Russia our enemy. From a practical standpoint, we stand to gain more by working with Russia than working against them.

  12. Re:Capability Based Security on 'The Year That Software Bugs Ate the World' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Android is a capabiilities-based security system.

  13. Re:Millennials having kids on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    but I've rarely heard a blanket "we need more regulations" statement

    "Those banks need to be regulated to hell." You will very often hear it when a (mindless) liberal and conservative programmer get together: "We need less regulation!" "No, we need more regulation!"

  14. Re:Millennials having kids on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The key with regulations are that some are good, and some are bad. Every regulation has a cost, and for good regulations, the benefit outweighs the cost.

    The goal is to make good regulations, and get rid of bad regulations. The only way to do that is to consider each regulation on its own merit.

  15. Is there any functionality that is even lost here? I would honestly be surprised if more than 5 people in the entire world are affected by this.

  16. The smell of ancient keyboards on A Book Recommendation for Bill Gates: The Story of PLATO · · Score: 2

    I love looking at old-style keyboards. They have so much variety and uniqueness, before the monoculture that we have now took over. (I'm not interested in superiority or inferiority, just the artistry that went into the different keyboards. Core memory is just as great).

  17. Re: Infuriating on Stolen Car Recovered With 11,000 More Miles -- and Lyft Stickers (sfgate.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    10k miles on a new car, and not a single oil change. What a way to ruin an engine during the critical break-in period (pun not intended) yeah, the car is forever fucked

    If it had synthetic oil, then the car is probably ok. Some synthetic oil can take you 15k miles before needing a change.

  18. Alot of people, like myself, are anti-GMO

    You should probably consider that you are driven by emotion and propaganda. Because that's how it looks to the outside world.

  19. Value is food, materials, information, useful work. Dollars/bitcoins are unreliable media for exchange of value, not the value itself. Creation of $300B in bitcoin won't help the world to feed one more mouth.

    I agree with you 100%. And yet.......

    Somehow I wish I had bothered to mine a few coins back in 2010.

  20. Re:How about stability? on 'State of JavaScript' Survey Results: Good News for React and TypeScript (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We can't develop stable software if the platforms lifetime is shorter than the time it takes to get a product to market!

    This is extremely frustrating.

    GUI frameworks are an old, well-studied area of programming. If you do a little research, know the history (obviously people aren't doing that, Alan Kay calls it "Pop culture programming"), you can get a good framework from the beginning. There is no reason to have breaking changes more often than blue moons.

  21. Re:get doors offline idiots! on Lock Out: the Austrian Hotel That Was Hacked Four Times (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The doors weren't online, the computer that was writing to the keys was online. That should have been offline too, but whatever.

  22. Flynn was convicted for not following this advice. Poor fool. Not that I feel sorry for him, but if you talk to a federal agent, one slip of memory is all it takes to end in jail like Martha Stewart.

    Seriously, there's a reason you don't talk to cops.

  23. How do you get it then, if it can't be mined?

  24. Re:Don't Roll Your Own Crypto on A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built To Outperform Bitcoin (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also, 1% inflation is "good" for the economy. If the main currency were deflationary, as bitcoin is, the economy would crash

    Please note that the economy would only crash because expectations of inflation are already built in (ie, loans and bonds are sold with the expectation of inflation). If there were enough time to adjust, then it wouldn't be a problem. One of the longest periods of deflation in the US was also a period of strong growth (although it caused problems for people who had borrowed money).