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  1. Re: "Whatever the Navy ends up doing..... on It'll Cost $1 Billion To Dismantle America's Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. If Trump gets a second term somebody (probably China or North Korea) will get rid of it for nothing.

  2. The carriers still have military value.

    Is that actually true? Installing an alternative power plant might cost more than building one from scratch, or buying a second hand one.

    Wouldn't cost much to knock holes in the side for oars, I suppose. Or install masts, matey!

  3. It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it.
    It's life, Jim, but not as *we* know it, not as we know it, Captain.

  4. Re:Larger number of nuclear reactors on It'll Cost $1 Billion To Dismantle America's Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it possible in the case where there are fewer reactors that they're bigger? And therefore the 1/X number of them each contain X times as much shit to be cleaned out?

    Leaving aside that they may be wildly differing designs anyway.

  5. Re: "Whatever the Navy ends up doing..... on It'll Cost $1 Billion To Dismantle America's Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2

    Why? What fundamental axiom dictates that the cost is proportional to the number of reactors?

    Shit scales in all kinds of ways. I don't know which apply here, but unlike you I know that I don't know.

  6. Re:Just turn it into a pre-school on It'll Cost $1 Billion To Dismantle America's Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's tragic.

    An unwanted child of unsuitable parents that goes delinquent can generate huge ongoing revenue for Prison Inc. before finally going too far and facing ol' sparky or lil pointy.

  7. Re:Maybe they can short sell a tiny violin on Short-Sellers Sue Tesla After Musk's 'Going Private' Tweets (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Short sellers also engage in market manipulation.

    IANAL but I suspect it's considered a little bit more serious when it's an insider - like the CEO - doing it.

  8. Re:What happens when the AI hires all white people on Artificial Intelligence is Coming for Hiring, and It Might Not Be That Bad (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to have totally missed that being hired isn't just about being smart - there's cultural factors plus having connections.

  9. Re:End so it begins - normalization of censorship on Facebook Now Deletes Posts That Financially Endanger, Trick People (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    a nice thing to do as a thought project with a few beers in a pub

    Looks like that's what you've been doing - that was the only coherent part of your post. The rest looks like Joe_Dragon wrote it.

  10. Re:What happens when the AI hires all white people on Artificial Intelligence is Coming for Hiring, and It Might Not Be That Bad (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    While most East Asians are Chinese, I think it's a bit unfair to just ignore Koreans and Japanese. You had heard of them, right?

    Also, it's about immigrants which introduces large numbers of confounding factors. What about the large number of people who are ethnically Asian but grew up in the USA, are maybe third generation or more?

    Finally, it's about ease of being hired. That doesn't necessarily mean they're smarter, as anyone who's dealt with Wipeno will attest - maybe they just have better connections.

    Did you actually read it or just post the first thing Google threw up?

  11. Re:A tool is a tool ... on Blockchain Hype May Have Peaked, But IBM is Still a Believer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    identical plastic-wrapped quasi-edible sandwiches

    Hipsters aren't going to pay a tenner each for those.

    Hang on, maybe they would if the packet had that lumberjack shirt pattern background and a picture of a vinyl LP on it. The ingredients could be like the track list!

  12. Re: The future on Blockchain Hype May Have Peaked, But IBM is Still a Believer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Plastics only kill fish. They have no power over terrestrial creatures!

  13. Re:A neural network is a dumb filter on Artificial Intelligence is Coming for Hiring, and It Might Not Be That Bad (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole thing is hype. How many organisations even hire enough people to produce a decent training set?

    A couple of countries' armed forces, Indian State Railways, and maybe the UK NHS.

    What's that, they could share them? ROFLMAO!

    What's a training set? You aren't using AI. Hype, like I said.

  14. Re:What happens when the AI hires all white people on Artificial Intelligence is Coming for Hiring, and It Might Not Be That Bad (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Confucius also say, just because eyes are round does not mean they are open for seeing.

  15. Re:Not A Bad Thing At All. on Artificial Intelligence is Coming for Hiring, and It Might Not Be That Bad (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If she copied and pasted that would be an improvement. She often introduces spelling, grammatical or factual errors that aren't in the original article.

  16. Re:A tool is a tool ... on Blockchain Hype May Have Peaked, But IBM is Still a Believer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Try living with people who:
    a) can't take one slice out without disarranging all the rest and
    b) can't close the bag properly.

    In warm weather it goes dry as a board in hours. Recently we've been throwing away more than we eat, it really pisses me off.

    It doesn't really take that long to cut a few slices unless you're an ambisinistrous doofus.

  17. Re:AI is an aggregate of human bias on Artificial Intelligence is Coming for Hiring, and It Might Not Be That Bad (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    AI is no more impersonal nor objective than the human beings who program the models.

    Which human that programs the models?

  18. Pro: If you have a dedicated space force, it stops the other branches arguing over who owns space.

    Cons: You now have one more branch involved in all the arguments about everything else.

    What's the fucking rule about what aircraft the army can have again? Fixed wing or armed but not both, unless it's got an odd number of engines or it's a Wednesday and it's raining?

  19. Re:What happens when the AI hires all white people on Artificial Intelligence is Coming for Hiring, and It Might Not Be That Bad (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They'll replace it with another one, because yellow people are actually smarter.

    Nah, I'm joking. The other answer is correct.

  20. When the bombardment stops ... on Blockchain Hype May Have Peaked, But IBM is Still a Believer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    While I am sick to the back teeth of "blockarsechain this, blockfuckingchain that" and am glad to see the back of it, I'm left with a feeling of apprehension.

    Because as sure as little green apples evolved as a way of encouraging animals to disperse the seeds and provide them with a source of fertilizer, there'll be something else.

    Answers on a postcard, please...

  21. Re:A tool is a tool ... on Blockchain Hype May Have Peaked, But IBM is Still a Believer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    the best thing since sliced bread

    Am I the only one who thinks that saying is stupid because sliced bread isn't all that great?

  22. Re:I think we could make electronic voting secure on Georgia Defends Electronic Voting Machines Despite 243-Percent Turnout In One Precinct (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well there's the all-or-nothing nature of the electoral college in most[1] states; that means that even if they're 49-point-a-lot-of-nines% of the electorate, those who voted for the other candidate might as well have stayed home.

    Then there's that fact that the electoral college members can ignore the vote anyway.

    [1] Aspies, shut up already. There's what - two that don't with about three people between them.

  23. A blockchain stops you changing things afterwards but it doesn't solve the "garbage in - garbage out problem". If I frig the voting machine at source so a random 15% of votes for Commie Bastard go to Fascist Twat how does a blockchain help?

    If you can name one of these "difficult to detect attacks" on paper systems that can't be countered by proper chain of custody and scrutineers I'll be impressed. Can the Russkies rearrange ink remotely with satellites? Does Trump have swarms of highly trained mites that only eat Democrat votes?

  24. Of course, even if you did put the hours in they could still claim it doesn't work[1] and use that as an excuse not to pay. Seems it gives them a second way to screw you over.

    [1] Which might actually be true, but that's another can of horses.

  25. Bean-counting asshole: I've noticed you don't type very much.
    Me: That's because I think a lot before I do it.