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  1. GMO on Scientific Breakthrough Increases Plant Yields By One Third (wsu.edu) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wait until anti-science folks realize this is GMO.

  2. Re:Great, but on Scientific Breakthrough Increases Plant Yields By One Third (wsu.edu) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    industrial processing to make it edible and hormone-like effects abound....

    Uh, you mean it has to be cooked? Edamame is a delicious dish of straight soybeans........
    Also, every food you eat affects your hormones......

  3. This can and should cause an explosion of options and new opportunities for economic growth, innovation, and human flourishing in general.

    Really?

  4. Re:Outlawing poverty does not make it cease to exi on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    How's about they just start mandating that businesses provide a certain amount of parking?

    How does that at all relate to housing?

  5. Re:Naive [Re:The source isn't important] on Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Mark and Luis – digital created a fake craigslist jobs post for women who want to apply to jobs one of Trump’s organizations.

    lol

  6. 9) And weirdly, during the last debate a fly landed on Hillary's face [heatst.com]. That's not a problem or even especially interesting, but the fact that it landed, walked around and she never flinched or even notices [youtube.com] is creeping out a lot of people.

    That will affect the election close to zero.

  7. Re:Naive [Re:The source isn't important] on Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's my favorite email. It's older, but from Debbie Wasserman Schultz herself. Don't know how I'd react in her situation. but it makes me laugh.

  8. Re:Outlawing poverty does not make it cease to exi on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What I see is that most of San Francisco is not at risk of liquefaction. Cool map, btw.

  9. Re:Not enough affordable housing? on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    San Jose, like San Francisco and the rest of the SF Bay Area, doesn't want to allow enough new residential units to be built each year,

    Like every other place. Every place from giant cities to small country-side towns wants no change in their town.
    We have some kind of weird neurotic attachment to things never changing. Even if it's that incredibly ugly old brick building down the road, don't put people in it.

  10. Re:Certainly not a "first-world" production on In Samsung's Town in Vietnam, Workers Confident of Riding Out Note 7 Storm (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    the "sprawling industrial town" in the Pho Yen area might be some kind of planned "illuminati" grand experiment in economics.

    I'll be honest, I'm not even sure what that means.

  11. Re:To be not leaning one way or the other on Ken Bone May Have Violated FTC Guidelines With Uber Tweet (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    It means you hate all the candidates.

  12. I'm just waiting for the fact-checkers to start fact-checking each other. I'll start a fact-checker-checker website. The whole thing will implode.

  13. News is entertainment, not news.
    If it were news, it would be boring.

  14. The moment I saw that Microsoft bezel under the infotainment system, I knew it was trouble.

    I literally decided against buying a Ford for this exact reason. At least, waiting until they got rid of it.

  15. No, that's basically what they are doing. There are multiple exchanges. Ideally, the order will go out on all of them at once, but of course, there are millisecond delays. HFT sees the order come in on one exchange, then jumps quickly to the next exchange and makes the deal first.

  16. That's not AI, that's front-running.

  17. What can our modern 'AI' do? Deep Mind isn't even turing complete.

  18. The drug doggies of the 60s on Baby Boomers Don't Have a Stronger Work Ethic Than Later Generations, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pretty sure when people talk about hard working generation they say "the greatest generation." The Baby Boomers were those slackers who listened to the Beatles, did drugs, and ran up credit card debt.

  19. Re:You would think science could help on Can We Really Stop Climate Change By 'Capturing' Carbon? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    And nobody claims that global warming is a threat to life on Earth.

    James Hansen does.

    Nobody (who has an actual clue anyway) is worried about the end of the world here

    James Hansen does, and he might be the world's most prestigious climate scientist.

  20. Re:Alas, they got it backwards. on Climate Change Doubled the Size of Forest Fires In Western US, Says Study (time.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a vicious cycle!

  21. What was 2016? I couldn't find the data.

  22. Here's the raw data, the article itself is behind a paywall. Choosing 2015 is kind of cherry-picking for the headline, since in 2014 there were only 3,5 million acres burned.

    There's a fairly strong correlation between temperature and wildfires, so, this finding seems reasonable.

  23. Re:Teddy Ruxpin ++ on Talking 'Sofia' Robot Tells 60 Minutes That It's Sentient And Has A Soul (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That sound you hear is the sound of AI winter coming closer.

  24. Re:Didn't ANYBODY Check Wikileaks?! on Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The full context isn't very good, either. "I'll call some lobbyists to get this done." Really? How about, "let's call in some experts who can figure out a good path forward." Or how about, "I'll talk to the other senators, and convince them that this is a good idea." Delegating to lobbyists is about the worst thing you can do.