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  1. Re:this doesn't solve any moral dilemmas on Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The lab.

  2. State dependent. Here they require a photo id. Oddly, no one seems to have problems getting one, despite the agitation otherwise.

  3. Re:Dot-Matrix Printer Malfunction on Robots that Paint Have Gotten Pretty Impressive (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Only in a degraded and essentially meaningless manner.

  4. Re:Start with classical paintings on Robots that Paint Have Gotten Pretty Impressive (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Went to link. No, they do not "seem to have done that". You are overly impressed.

  5. Re:Post Modernist on Robots that Paint Have Gotten Pretty Impressive (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, I guess it might impress someone who likes motel lobby art.

  6. Post Modernist on Robots that Paint Have Gotten Pretty Impressive (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    No wonder they can do it. The lowest rung of art production.

  7. Re:Maybe its time to admit... on New Book Paints Different Picture of Workplace Behavior At Google and Facebook · · Score: 1

    From the CSA survey itself:

    "The CSA Study involved conducting a Web-based survey of random samples of undergraduate students at two large public universities"

    "we relied on both recruitment e-mails and hard copy recruitment letters"

    "The Campus Sexual Assault (CSA) Study code that, when entered with their CSA Study ID# at a separate website, enabled them to obtain a $10 Amazon.com gift certificate. "

    “Another limitation of the CSA study, inherent with Web-based survey, is that the response rates were relatively low,” the researchers said.

    Yeah. No possibility of self-selection bias or fraud in the survey responses.

    Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post, who fact-checked the CSA study, pointed out that similar studies from 1997 produced different results based on how the questions were worded.

    Bureau of Justice Statistics data indicate that in 2012 the rate of rapes and sexual assaults was 1.3 per 1,000 Americans ages 12 and up. Thus, one should conclude, the 1 in 5 number is bullshit.

  8. Found the mind reader.

  9. The reason diversity matters is it provides an attack vector for some.

    What are your views on the **highly** non-diverse hiring practices of the various basket ball leagues?

  10. Don't quote a poem as if it's law. That's much like people insisting "God works in mysterious ways" is part of the bible.

  11. It *is* legal to immigrate.

  12. Re:Good for you sir! on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    call the local police on these people too

    Agreed. However, you have no idea if poster *does* report other illegal activity.

    laws you didn't know existed

    Heh. You negated your point. Illegal immigrants know it exists, hence all the sneaking over the border.

  13. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    police require a warrant to obtain cellphone tower records

    Not what this is at all. It is perfectly legal for authorities to follow you around with a notebook. More like what this is. I don't like it either, but you need a better argument.

  14. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    A car in a parking lot is not a person. That car might be driven by anyone. This is not private information any more than someone walking around, snapping pictures and later collating the information. It's just automated. You'll have to make a stronger case that this is 'person tracking'.

  15. Re: Cannot be climate change on All-time Heat Records Are Being Set All Over the World (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it can. Or rather, it can show us what climate we as humans consider optimal.

    No it cannot, as 'optimal' is subjective.

  16. Re:Cannot be climate change on All-time Heat Records Are Being Set All Over the World (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're using very very low tech civilizations for your example. They didn't just all lay down and die, ala Serenity. They migrated. Now we don't have to, although some see that as their option.

  17. Re:I am a game developer. Arenanet made a big mist on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And when enough customers leave that the game caves, how much do you think pomposity will be going for on the open market?

  18. Re:I don't think you have to walk on egg shells on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh bullshit. My mother was a secretary in the '50s and she was nowhere near beautiful of the face and sported 240lbs. Don't craft your outlook on life from friggin' cartoons.

  19. Re:NO, it was not the result of a Reddit witch hun on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    As a guy who's played games since Zork and before, I see online gaming as worlds or games and worlds don't have plot lines.

  20. Re:NO, it was not the result of a Reddit witch hun on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Did she formally issue a position on something on the clock?

    You can remove your goalposts and take them home. Business and life don't work like that. My ass, if you found out a friend of yours was backstabbing you at someone else's house that you would ignore it.

  21. Re:Yes, "mansplaining" adds information on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    getting criticism that a man would not have

    You left out "she thinks".

  22. Re:Is "mansplaining" a pejorative term? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Consider this: Her "expertise" is in crafting the written word. Now.... How well did she craft her responses?

    From here it doesn't look like she's much of an expert.

  23. Re:Is "mansplaining" a pejorative term? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Would it have started if the person who tweeted wasn't a woman?

    Not in the same tenor, but yes. That happens all the time.

  24. Re:Is "mansplaining" a pejorative term? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Recent activities suggest they don't really wait for social acceptance any more than say antifa rioters do. Both are build on a foundation of "Look at me, I'm important!".

  25. That's a longish term for a censor.