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  1. Re:We'll never run out of douchebag futurists on Ray Kurzweil Explains Why Technology Won't Eliminate Human Jobs (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    And don't forget the 50 million or so on welfare.

  2. Re:Nope on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com) · · Score: 2

    I think it was a combination of 2 TNG Episodes, with a McFarlane twist. The one where the monosexual "woman" fell in love with Riker, and the tribunal which decided whether or not Data was a person.

    Updated, of course, for Seth's humor, bad acting, and the utter chaos of how our culture is handling transgender issues.

  3. Re:Nope on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    I actually liked last Thursday's episode. It was a classic morality play, but that's what made Trek good. It reminded me of the Next Generation Episode where Data-as-Person was on trial.

  4. Re:Please just don't just be SJW propoganda on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the constant anti-divorce morality story line? Or maybe the "transgender is idiotic" morality story line?

    Every episode so far has had major morality story lines, even if they were ripped from STTNG or STOS.

  5. Re:Please just don't just be SJW propoganda on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Orville seems plenty multicultural to me. Perhaps it's because you just don't understand the cultures?

  6. Re:Nope on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    That's still pretty damn monocultural. North American Humans dominate Star Fleet.

  7. Re:Nope on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My new favorite Captain is Ed of the Orville. He's closer to Trek than either CBS or Paramount has been in decades.

  8. Re: You have to look at the source on Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? (acolyer.org) · · Score: 1

    Nobody, in my experience, does any offline testing. Thus my current sig line (your mileage may vary 5 years from now)

  9. Your GPS is even worse. Either that, or you flunked basic geography.

  10. EditorDavid needs his GPS fixed

  11. Re: Less useful than I had hoped on Stack Overflow Launches Salary Calculator For Developers (stackoverflow.com) · · Score: 1

    See current tag line (mileage my vary if you are a lurker who comes across this post in five years)

  12. Re: Less useful than I had hoped on Stack Overflow Launches Salary Calculator For Developers (stackoverflow.com) · · Score: 1

    I see you are a firm believer in continuous bugs

  13. Re:Remember NAFTA! on Trump's Officials Suggest Re-Negotiating The Paris Climate Accord (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet, by definition, they simply aren't. Neither production nor consumption of GHG can be measured directly, without error. "With a calculable error" makes anything they measure complete estimate garbage. Indirect measurement is just made up numbers, with no reality whatsoever.

    Like I said, sociology, not physics. Just like the rest of "climate science"

  14. Re:That's easy, it would get a participation troph on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 1

    Best answer above.

    Realistic answer: Modern train tunnel construction standards require escape hatches every mile. All it needs is an escape hatch in the front or back of the train, and passengers can just walk along the tube to the next escape hatch.

  15. Re:Remember NAFTA! on Trump's Officials Suggest Re-Negotiating The Paris Climate Accord (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    None of which are mandatory, and none of which are actually MEASURABLE. You can estimate emissions but you can't put a measuring device on every tailpipe and every smokestack and every nose in the world.

    Like I said, it's the difference between sociology and physics. Physics deals with what we can *actually* measure, not estimates gamed for a pre-determined conclusion.

  16. Re:It's because of social justice activism on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I was just pointing out that in this case, the rules are going to cost Google a ton of money. AS PREDICTED.

    If I wanted to build a futurism think tank on the blind spots of feminism, James Damore would be a top must hire.

  17. Re:Remember NAFTA! on Trump's Officials Suggest Re-Negotiating The Paris Climate Accord (msn.com) · · Score: 2

    I can't find a single goal in the Paris Accord that I would consider measurable. But maybe, I'm too much of a physicist and not enough of a sociologist.

  18. Re:It's because of social justice activism on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And the sad thing is, James Damore warned them this would happen; that to retain women, you need to pay them 26% more to cover the extra time off. And then he was fired for perpetuating gender stereotypes.

  19. Re:OH! WOMEN! on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And, as James Damore told them, the appropriate pay for women is 26% more than for a man.

  20. Re:OH! WOMEN! on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems to me somebody warned them that they needed to pay women more.....and then got fired for perpetuating gender stereotypes.

  21. Re:Trump was right on The Fake News Machine: Inside a Town Gearing Up for 2020 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And then decided not to vote for either Hillary or Donald, and instead voted 3rd party. I can't see anything bad about that reaction, as the major parties were both posting fake news.

  22. Re:The key with businessmen like Trump on How Techies Rescued Food Stamps (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Good examples- of course, that was all *before* the federal government did the Article I Section 8 power grab in 1873 restricting the money supply to a government monopoly.

  23. Biometric id for voting would also help immensely. Use two separate firewalled databases- an authentication database and a vote recording database- with biometric passwords only even for admin and a paper backup of the vote recording database.

  24. Re:An ideolog's wet dream on A New Way to Learn Economics (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    If anyone seriously believed that would be the case, they wouldn't have voted for the bailouts.
     
    Thus the Tea Party Revolution of 2010.

  25. Re:Leftist on A New Way to Learn Economics (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no science either behind globalization and climate change- I should know, I was once a marxist (hence my low-uid login name).