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  1. No RTFA? on White House To Host Tech Giants For AI Meeting (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The White House on Thursday plans to convene executives from Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel and 34 other major U.S. companies as it seeks to supercharge the deployment of powerful robots, algorithms and the broader field of artificial intelligence.

  2. bu twill they teach him to "code"? on White House To Host Tech Giants For AI Meeting (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama did important things like learn to use a kiddie programming language to write "Hello World". And he did it before his tee time that day.

  3. Not really "knowledge of psychology", more like Marketing 101.

  4. Re:Ftfy on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Python is kind of a bitch to read, hell to de-facto, difficult to code review...

    You don't indent your code? I pity whoever has to support it.

  5. Re:WHERE'S THE ALL CAPS STUDY? on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not all caps. What we NEED is a study of the RANDOMLY capitalized words that liberals are so FOND of using.

    It was COMICAL to see them using it on each other it in the HACKED emails from DNC.

  6. Re:please, do not break a language on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    not really:
        you can indent if you like

  7. Re: Lots of them. on Ask Slashdot: Do Citizen Science Platforms Exist? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it's a silly question. When you feel the need to qualify the word "Science" with "Citizen" you are admitting that it's different.

  8. Whitespace is relevant on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Python programmers know this.

  9. Re:Not so simple... on Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If people...

    That's a big "if", especially when you look at how many crashes are caused by drivers texting and/or drunk.

    It's like saying people should assume drivers will jam on their brakes because pedestrians have the right-of-way.

  10. You have it backwards on China Plans $47 Billion Fund To Boost Its Semiconductor Industry (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The US still invests plenty in technology. This is in response to the US crack down on Chinese engineers working on high tech projects and sending the technology home. Now China will have to try and develop it themselves.

  11. Re:Objectively what is fake? on Facebook Exec Admits 'No Real Understanding' for the Scope of Fake News (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    There's a fundamental error in your argument - that people want to verify something they have read in their echo chamber.

    People get their "news" from biased or known fake news sources because they want to hear what they already believe: Trump colluded with the Russians, Clinton ordered the hit on Seth Rich, Bush was dumb, Obama wasn't a citizen. They're all absurd stories, can't be verified, and people keep repeating them because that's what they want to hear.

  12. Re:My startup on 'Biology Will Be the Next Big Computing Platform' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I would, but I'm busy with my "Twitter for Crispr" company.

  13. Re:Who cares about "amateur" status on 60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. He was hired by the patent office as an expert to testify in court on things like inertial navigation. The legend that he was a humble clerk is just that, a legend; at that point in his life he had a PhD in physics was was well known internationally.

  14. the usual suspects on Cyberattack Crashes Tennessee County's Website on Election Night (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Burchett said the county is hiring Sword & Shield Enterprise Security, a local company, to investigate the crash.

    I'm guessing they won't find the culprit, but will offer their services to protect the county's nice little website from this happening again.

  15. Re:"Maths"?!?! on 60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    English, even harder.

    Not in England.

  16. An SJW can't make that distinction. If it doesn't adhere to his definition of correct, it's disgusting ;^)

  17. Summary is dense too on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They compared concrete to plastic, but most of the weight (about 85%) in concrete is sand and rock. Although even with that the world uses a lot of cement.

    Rather than looking for alternatives I'm guessing this is a plea to make the manufacture of cement more environmentally friendly (green energy for the heat, capture the CO2, etc.). That would make far more sense than trying to find an alternative to concrete.

  18. The most ludicrous of these two flaws is the first, which basically allows anyone to access the router's internal settings by appending the "?images" string to any URL, effectively giving anyone control over the router's configuration.

    Sounds more like a backdoor

  19. Twice the strength of what? on Graphene Makes Concrete Twice As Strong While Reducing Carbon Emissions (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    It appears they're comparing reinforced concrete to unreinforced concrete. Of course it's much stronger (that's why most concrete is reinforced, duh). The study would be more useful if they compared graphene to traditional (iron or steel).

  20. Re:As opposed to.... on Lightning Struck Her Home. Then Her Brain Implant Stopped Working. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And what exactly is a person supposed to do when they're watching out during a thunderstorm? Hide behind the toilet with the dog?

  21. Re: Meanwhile at a REAL car manufacturer... on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    They paid the loan back, on schedule. The main reason GM went into bankruptcy was because Obama and Pelosi wanted to show how tough they were against big business as part of their "Green economy". What better target than the car makers? That strategy backfired though because the one hurt worst was the UAW.

    But your comment is irrelevant, what matters is that they're doing quite well now.

  22. Re: Fast follower on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
  23. But be sure you don't wear that Hawaiian shirt your girlfriend gave you where anyone from the community can see it. From the CoC:

    It applies to all of your communication and conduct in these spaces, including emails, chats, things you say, slides, videos, posters, signs, or even t-shirts you display in these spaces.

  24. Re:Fast follower on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    there's few people waiting for a Bolt, while Tesla has half a million people waiting for the Model 3.

    GM sold all the Bolts they chose to make last year, an order of magnitude more than Tesla sold Model 3's.

    GM is still in what Musk likes to call the "capex" phase of electric car production, that's true.They won't ramp up production until the cost of production justifies it.

  25. Re:Fast follower on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    But Ford, GM, etc could bring an EV to market within 18-24 months

    GM sold over 20,000 Bolts last year. For now they're holding back on production, but they'll ramp up marketing and production at the time of their choosing.

    GM's total production averages over 57,000 vehicles per week and does so with a nice profit margin.