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  1. Re:As an Artist... on AI-Generated Portrait Sells For Nearly Half a Million In Auction (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I hate to say it, but I suspect this just shows that the most important part of being an artist is marketing.

    Perhaps if you define "being an artist" as making the most money you can.

  2. So what's the problem? on With 5G, You Won't Just Be Watching Video. It'll Be Watching You, Too (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Just avoid the Blipverts.

  3. Re:But is it a bad code? on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    However, the statement could disturb atheists who might participate in the project

    Not if they have a functioning brain and read the whole thing. You yourself have provided rebuttal to the above.

  4. Re:Fuck! on Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your ex's wife doesn't talk to you either. Sad.

  5. Re:Fuck! on Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Brilliantly succinct. Bravo.

  6. No, it shouldn't exist. on Slashdot Asks: Should 'Crunch' Overtime Be Optional? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a sign of bad management and development. Then again, only an idiot would work much of it. Life exists *outside* the office, not in it.

  7. Re:Windows 10 is a big step towards locked down... on Latest Windows 10 Update Has Yet Another File-Managing Issue (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 1

    A talking toothbrush that fills cavities. Nice. I do believe you purposely 'misunderstood' the point so you could snark.

  8. Re:Dose? Concentration? on Microplastics Found In 90 Percent of Table Salt (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this because my sister does...

    You're a fucking AC. Your anecdote about your 'sister' and her laurels is meaningless.

  9. Re:Does it matter? on Microplastics Found In 90 Percent of Table Salt (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    You say retrospectively. Always a much clearer picture. Were you (with your functioning brain cells) leading a clarion call against those micro-beads when that was going on or are you merely using historical data to support your shout of virtue?

  10. Re:Does it matter? on Microplastics Found In 90 Percent of Table Salt (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Term is unfamiliar to me. Please define "geadubg ".

  11. Again, one needn't "advance" atheism. It's the default of no one at any time being able to prove the supernatural.

  12. Oh bullshit. Killing the nonbeliever has been modus operandi of religion for millennia. FYI: nonbeliever = wrong thinking.

  13. Not just humans. Both mammals and avians have shown empathy.

  14. Re: The Humanities are OVERWHELMINGLY left on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    All of them. Now how about a comment with more depth than a political snipe which is so broad it can be countered with examples from every side of the political spectrum.

  15. Re: Riiiight. on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Apples/oranges. Your degree/talent/field is middling in nature, hers is rarefied, AND your comparison is individual. Bluntly put, you're not worth as much as your wife.

    Now let's compare all STEM chemistry grads against all humanities musical grads. The stats don't look nearly as sweet for your point.

  16. Re:Riiiight. on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Re your last para: If I'm making the weapons (defending you), clothing and feeding you, creating everything you live in and everything you eat flows from my hands, then yes, shut the fuck up about what I'm doing. Serve me? Not really, just don't be in the way.

  17. Re:Absolutely agree on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The glasses you use when viewing historic academia are very rosy.

  18. Re:blind spots on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    why do we have gender roles and where do they come from is a reasonable topic to study

    On the surface, I'd agree with you. However, that isn't what "gender studies" does in practice. It burrows down into a "gender role" until it finds how that role is imstigated with malace aforethought by the "white patriarchy" to "prove" that that particular gender role is wrong .

    And maybe we'd do better with an expert who isn't a great fit than a mediocre team player.

    Or maybe, as has been found by others, you will inject someone with a vendetta who will tear your team completely apart.

    It is anything but a neutral field. So I, for one, will not defend gender studies.

  19. Re:just strip them of legal protections on Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook? (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody will be willing to pay copywriters and attorneys to review your material

    Yes they will, and they do it now. They're called algorithms. That's the crux of this issue: they weigh their algorithms. Don't weigh the algorithms and you're providing a public forum. Weigh them and it's no longer public. Tweak the system to actively hide users while fooling them into thinking they have posting abilities and it becomes propaganda.

  20. Re:just strip them of legal protections on Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook? (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also problematic that they censor user commentary. This creates a clear (although one sided) relationship with their 'authors'.

  21. Re:just strip them of legal protections on Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook? (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    saying something anti-social and destructive is allowed

    Liable is not. All three of those companies produce output that is not 'customer' created.

  22. Re:Graduate students on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    If we get HS kids used to starting school at 9 am, not 7 am

    So you missed the whole part about shifting the start from 9:30AM to 7:15AM? This is what happens when you view everything through radical agenda.

  23. Re:facing a 9:30 to 7:15 a.m. shift?? How retarded on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Not everyone gets to be a rockstar and live 5 miles from the office

    Get a city map. Study the layout as concerns where people live and where they work. Get back to me when you realize five miles isn't that far from work for most people. Hell, I now live in a tiny town and know people who live on one side and work on the other. Over five miles.

  24. Re:My first thought. on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Now both parents have to work...

    No they do not. It's a choice to live in a certain manner. You pare back the wants from the "needs". I was a single parent and went that world just fine. I dealt with stupid rules by basically saying in a courtly manner "I'm a single parent you imbecile, I can't."

    Having single parents, by the way, was something this algorithm obviously did not take into account.

  25. Re: Fucking barbarians. on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    How *you* as an adult get ready and arrive at work isn't relevant. Your second sentence shows this would not work re getting a kid to school. They don't allow 'dialing back' on the schedule.