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  1. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    Actually, we're learning that as often as not, it's fake news.

  2. Re: White Leftists Whine, China Creates Superhuman on Ethicists Advise Caution In Applying CRISPR Gene Editing To Humans (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The entire debate isn't relevant anyway. Just look at the time frame involving inception to public use of 3D printers. Same will happen here. In short order this will not be a high-tech lab activity.

  3. Re:Without even reading the $500 billion plan... on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Think rock salt on an ice covered sidewalk.

  4. Re:Neckbeard Bigly on Ending Emails With Certain Variation Of Thank You Vastly Improves Response Rate, Study Finds (inc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Context. Everyone, left and right, are getting sick to death of PC and Trump blatantly ignored it - mocked it. Being polite and civil never works in the middle of a fight and the PC crowd had stepped from annoying to confrontational to open conflict years ago. I sincerely hope the PC culture continues to implode like a domino spiral.

  5. Re:Wikipedia has a comments section? on 34 'Highly Toxic Users' Wrote 9% of the Personal Attacks On Wikipedia (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Ironic, as bad moderation (article edits) are what we're discussing and Wiki has no problem securing people for.

  6. Re:And what IS "Magic Leap"? on Magic Leap CEO Defends His AR Company After Leaked Photo (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    First working phrase of that link: "... building technology that "augments" human vision with digital imagery,..." (emph mine)

  7. Re:Opera used to handle this nicely on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's a site you really want, disable JS, then enable one secondary at a time until it displays what you want and save.

  8. Re: Eating glue on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kindergarten

  9. What is anti-aliasing if not providing data that's not actually there?

    It's providing data not recovering data.

  10. Re:"...which begs the question..." on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    You lost me at Sanskrit. Give me a couple words in Sanskrit still in common use.

  11. Re: So now under Trump... on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    A key point you seemed to not have notice is the distinction between abstract and reality. Violence impinges on reality, prayer does not.

  12. Re:Why link your name to Armenian genocide anyhow? on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 2

    He's been in less then a month and he has alienated a significant percentage of the voting public.

    Bullshit. What he's done as Pres has nothing to do with it. They came in feeling and screaming their alienation from the moment he was selected nominee and haven't abated since. If he had instead done other things these last two weeks, they would have *still* felt alienated.

  13. Re:So now under Trump... on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    And their goal was picking a fight. Which happened.

  14. Re:Irony on Anonymous Takes Down 10,613 Dark Web Portals (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cmdln Daco gave you the biological reason, here's a moral one: What is happening to these children is equivalent to someone, say you, being taken and tortured and forced to perform sexual acts. My guess is you would very much want someone to intervene and then punish. So do the children. I would also add that it's not a panic at all but a cold decision that the law looks at those people especially dark because the children are incapable of defending themselves and many times of even speaking out.

    I believe you're laboring under the assumption that someone who supports the idea that you shouldn't be tracked needlessly across your web travels must also support people directly harming children or providing cover in digital form for those that do. This is not the case.

  15. Re:Maybe train the American kid first on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How nice of you to set up a dichotomy composed entirely of straw.

  16. Re:A degree in the humanities is only useless on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The current crop of humanities students belie your hypothesis.

  17. Re:Could it be, you're stupid? on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Charter schools won't set up in poor areas because the potential administrators know they won't succeed.

    Which explains the number of successful charter schools in poor areas.

  18. You are correct - it isn't *the* answer. But it is *an* answer and anyone wanting to remove it from consideration needs have their motivations checked.

  19. Re:Maybe train the American kid first on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Taking the class and learning English are two distinct activities. Many of the posters here who apparently don't understand plain sentences, let alone complex ones, have college degrees.

  20. Re:Everything is Math on 'To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics' (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    No, he just likes AKB48.

  21. Re:The Romans didn't do mathematics on 'To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics' (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    No, wrong.

  22. Re:The Romans didn't do mathematics on 'To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics' (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    Um, no. You are highly misinformed.

  23. Re:Atl-math on 'To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics' (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    Natural language is a much better model of reality than math.

    Unless you want to know what your actual acreage is.

  24. Re: How much effort on 'To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics' (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 2

    How much effort was put into helping him understand the concepts behind which operator to use?

    Why is it incumbent on him to even give a shit? Personally, I'd let the co-worker flounder. He's had plenty of time in life to learn. More likely, he's just lazy. Not like it's difficult to slap a sticky on the wall that says "package volume takes multiplication".

    So we know too little about how people work and fail to work to adequately address the situation of what people can and cannot do.

    Untrue. We *can* be adequate about it, just not perfect. I'll wager that even *you* will tell at a glance that this guy is not going to be doing any significant math.

  25. Re:who wants boring stress jobs? on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    For average people, programming or tinkering with computers are boring and stressful jobs.

    So if the employment prospects of other fields are dimmer, Americans will rush back into engineering.

    Those two statements are rather at odds, nonetheless, you can also make the other jobs dimmer in relation to engineering by removing a superfluous lock-out of US workers in that field.