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  1. Re:Wait for it; wait for it on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "Nature is not an idiot" Nature is not intelligent in any form, brilliant or idiotic. Don't project attributes.

    "it may be for a reason" It is. Nature doesn't scrap out an entire complicated process to 'try again'. That's part of that projection I mentioned.

  2. Re:preliminary findings on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The spread of C4-capable grasses may have been the main trigger for the ice ages.

    No. Ice ages go back way before grasses.

  3. Re:Call it hacking on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Far easier and safer is to not hyper clean the surrounding environ. Small clue - in the 1800's there was no irradiation and no "hyper-sterile environment" and people died like crazy from disease (immune system failure) in far, far greater numbers than they do now. It's not so much cleaning up the food delivery chain as it is promoting that every surface in our environment needs to be swabbed constantly that's the problem.

  4. Re:Call it hacking on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Big exaggeration on the black walnuts. It's about 30 years.

  5. Re:Methodology is completely backwards. on Economists Calculate the True Value of Facebook To Its Users in New Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The two approaches don't seem all that different.

    You mean other than the direction of the money flow?

    Also, your example is faulty. Refusing to pay for keeping FB does **not** mean you're "some amount richer". It means you have exactly the same amount you started with and don't have FB. If you try the pedant game of 'if you don't spend it you have more', no, no you don't.

  6. You do understand a goddamn *script* from a friggin' game don't mean shit re real life, right?

  7. Re:Btw the court records show they knew illegal on EPA Proposes Rule Change That Would Let Power Plants Release More Toxic Pollution (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    People have learned to spot vague but important sounding bullshit titles.

    Also implicit ones like "PROTIP".

  8. Re:Don't get, please explain on Here's What 2019 Holds For Paint.NET (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hell, I use Gimp. It's not experienced friendly either.

  9. Re:Algos != intelligence, artificial or otherwise. on Artificial General Intelligence is Nowhere Close To Being a Reality (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Checkmate minimizes future freedom of action, because the game is over.

    Not true. The loser doesn't get to play another game. Checkmating the loser allows that.

    Ability to escape may be one facet of intelligence, but hardly the only one, or even an important one.

    Emphasis mine. Yeah, convince the fruit fly you plan to feed to your spider it's not important. Pedantry cuts both directions.

  10. Re:Algos != intelligence, artificial or otherwise. on Artificial General Intelligence is Nowhere Close To Being a Reality (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no. Rocks don't and can't "formulate an effective initial response" to any situation, novel or otherwise.

  11. To be pedantic, it may 'discover' the cure, but it wouldn't know it.

  12. Previous ages? You mean like just a couple years ago when I'd have arguments here against supposedly intelligent people who thought that the brain was exactly the same as a binary logic circuit?

  13. I would argue that the chimp, dog and even reptile can do a lot more than pattern matching. All of the above have displayed planning, for instance. In other words: AI isn't even as smart as an iguana.

  14. OK - all of the "Artificial Intelligence" you hear about in the news is really fancy pattern matching.

  15. Re:literacy counts. on Artificial General Intelligence is Nowhere Close To Being a Reality (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm curious. Name one thing at this level of complexity that was developed w/o definition.

  16. "and do work today" Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

  17. Very funny today. Well done.

  18. Re:Want to know why it bugs you? on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude/tte; my PC has a PS/2 port. What the hell are you talking about?

  19. Re:Men? on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    It certainly couldn't be men used as the control group, because the study is not about abuse by gender so that makes no sense.

    Emphasis mine. It seems, however, the linked article directly disagrees with you:

    a joint effort by human rights researchers, technical experts and thousands of online volunteers to build the world’s largest crowd-sourced dataset of online abuse against women

    The study is exclusively about abuse towards a gender.

    The study is not making any claims that would be validated by using a control group of male subjects.

    True, which was exactly why men were excluded by conscious decision. You're dancing around the fact that it provides claims in a partial vacuum by selection bias (small group and hand picked as pols/journalists) and no base to compare against (other than a women's skin tone competition, ie: intersectionality).

  20. Re:Men? on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow. Horrible, circular logic. The study was only about women because the study was only about women.

    No, the study was about bad tweets and they focused on those directed at women, culling those directed at men. Both men and women are people and both sets tweet. But intersectionality dictates you only focus on the group you wish to promote/protect/whatever and ignore the rest because it will reduce the impact of your conclusions. This is a conscious decision.

  21. Re:Wait... Dollar Tree? on The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    indicate something about the state of the American economy and its deteriorating middle-class

    As opposed to people simply being cheap (like me)? I can certainly afford to get canned goods at a grocery but I can get that $4.59 can of chicken pot pie stew (same brand - Campbell's - looking at one I got from the kitchen) for $1.59 at my local dollar store, so I do (a couple of dozen at a time). You're making a leap dictated by your bias.

  22. Re:Dollar Tree near me has a snack aisle on The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Context. The discussion is about stores. Take that leap of faith and assume it's a store.

  23. "Uncle Tom"? on 'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    What a racist remark.

  24. Re:Prime is idiotic from an consumer economics pov on 'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    I often find the last leg delivery service (it usually seems to be a homeless person in a van)

    So AC, where you live, FedEx and USPS deliver using homeless people? Right.

  25. Utter bullshit, AC, utter bullshit. on 'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    "Most of the time a letter you sent me ends up in someone elseâ(TM)s box."