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  1. Re:Take care of the homeless on San Francisco Passes a First-of-its-Kind Tax on Big Businesses To Help the Homeless (recode.net) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Cheaper to turn them all into Soylent Green

    Just to be clear, you're saying the preferable thing would be to kill people because the act of killing them is cheaper than anything else, and cost is the most important measure on which you'd base your actions?

  2. Re:I will vote on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, things are generally good enough for you. Lucky person.

  3. Re:There'a a very simple reason for the trend... on Childhood Obesity Linked To Air Pollution From Vehicles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There is this perpetual challenge that humans have to combat the desire to believe or need that problems only have one cause.

    It's emotional and intellectual. Consider yourself an excellent example of the problem.

  4. Re:and ... and ... on Childhood Obesity Linked To Air Pollution From Vehicles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't know where you got your hard on for "nobody is personally accountable these days and the problem is always that" but it's not emotionally healthy or mature and says a lot more about you than any supposed wisdom you think you might have.

  5. Re: This is one step, not the goal. Someone got co on Microsoft Working on Porting Sysinternals To Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone here is dumber for having read your theory.

  6. Re:And yet.... on English Has the Scientific Edge -- For Now (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Less and less science too. Funny, that.

  7. and he cant be, or there would be a much bigger fuss being made

    Iron tight logic there.

  8. Re:I don't get it... on Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    what has happened

    Nothing. You've been sold a lie as the cause of whatever you perceive to be problems (in an age of a healthy economy and low unemployment to boot.) You think you care, but you don't have a clue as to what your problems are or what's causing them. You just want an "easy" solution that populists can sell you.

  9. Re: Definition of suprise? on One of the World's Largest Organisms is Shrinking (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Wow, the courage you have to declare "it's so obvious" after something is researched and concluded is commendable. If only we all had your 20/20 hindsight. You're very smart.

  10. You could have just said you don't know what ux designers do.

  11. Re:...feels wrong... on 99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality, Independent Analysis Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It doesn't mean 99% of all people were in favor of a certain side of an issue, just that 99% of the people who left a comment with the FCC felt about the issue. I don't think there were many citizens against net neutrality who were concerned that the repeal of net neutrality was not going to occur.

  12. Re:Information free content on Rivals ARM and Intel Make Peace To Secure Internet of Things (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying security via obscurity additional complexity/costs/number of tools is what will prevent the NSA's of the world from spying on IoT devinces?

    Uh .. you sure you want to claim that this is a cogent argument?

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

    People worked for those people dumbass.

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

    You should look into the engineers that enabled them.

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

    Look, I deal with all that dumb technical debt you do, but you're still an idiot incapable of recognizing that software requires good designers. We don't get good designers, and think that beyond that, we don't get good designers who can design for social science, heading off or making less violent the kind of legislation or policy that comes in later.

  16. Re:Translation on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The translation is there's a balance - you don't want your engineers to be incapable of empathy or ignorant of history, in the sense of not caring about hurting people.

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

    You're not well adjusted enough to work in anything, let alone opine on how subjects of study are important to society. Just another emotionally stunted person grasping at simple personal rules for simple personal worldviews.

  18. Nothing in this thread is evidence of anything and it speaks to the quality of your noggin that you think some kind of argument with supporting information has been presented by anybody here.

  19. I already perfectly explained why you cannot be presented with information that will change your mind. You are a racist. No handwaving involved.

  20. Re: Is this news? on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No reason is sensible to you because you have already prejudged all reasons to be non sensible.

  21. It didn't fail the install - it just hadn't been installed yet (and still isn't, even tho I leave my PC on and connected 24/7.) Not all installs are handed the update at the same time, ignoring for the moment that many installed PCs are not on or connected to the internet all the time (or even at all for some people.) So out of the 7 million installs of Windows 10, only a small minority had received the update before Microsoft halted the roll-out.

  22. Uh sure, if every single Windows 10 install installed the update. Redo your math with 699,999,999 installs, because my machine didn't update yet. (Your post features what I would call a rush to bad faith math.)

  23. Re:Bloomberg! Bloomberg! Bloomberg! on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no evidence of this but... if you were writing those stories, why wouldn't you?

    I suspect one wouldn't because it would be a massive financial risk by one who doesn't have massive amounts of money to lose (aka some journalists)

  24. That's okay. You can not care, it was still something they were obligated to disclose as determined by law. You can assume transparency, and we should - but it should also be stated by companies what their products do since we're beyond the point of being able to manually verify these things ourselves. That's not an unreasonable requirement from consumers of any kind of product.

  25. The key to being smart is knowing that when something doesn't make sense, it's a mistake that you're making or some information that you're missing.