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  1. Donald Trump had his kids vaccinated: https://www.quora.com/Has-Dona...

  2. The move followed outbreaks of measles in Europe and parts of the United States, and local whooping cough and measles cases in Australia.

    There was actual harm done because of the sticky stupid of antivaccine activists, so of course their Board will purge in response. People who make themselves allies of the first Horseman of the Apocalypse (Pestilence/plague) do not belong in the healthcare business.

  3. What's in a name on YouTube Is Looking for Volunteers To Improve Its Site (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Early tests seemed to indicate the program's original name of "Youtube Snitches" was not very enticing.

  4. Re:Misunderstood notions on Sugar Industry Bought Off Scientists, Skewed Dietary Guidelines For Decades (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as "The paleo-diet".

  5. Bathory-style, is a fitting punishment for d'em blood-suckers.

  6. Sombrero party time on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    it's frighteningly easy to imagine how cameras with a slightly improved zoom resolution and face recognition technology could

    ...be easily defeated by wearing a sombrero hat, as humorously explained in the sci-fi novel "Fallen Dragon" by Peter F. Hamilton.

  7. Re:Sounds like bullshit to me. on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    How does one go get tested for CMV ? Do I just ask my GP, or directly at the blood bank ?

  8. "Solving" the problem centrally is meaningless, because you cannot know, for example, how much more I would enjoy an extra set of forks than you would enjoy a spare bicycle tire. Only the people involved in the outcomes can negotiate this directly, as peers, to determine a mutually-agreeable answer. An algorithm cannot do it in their place.

  9. Re:Bullshit. Read Ludwig Von Mises. on Maximizing Economic Output With Linear Programming...and Communism (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I see your Turing, and raise you multi-agent approaches.

    TL;DR: if you *can* solve the economic organisation problem centrally, then you can also solve it MUCH more efficiently using a distributed, multi-agent method. The free market is one such distributed approach.

  10. Re:Technology can't stop these on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    Can confirm. Here in France gun control started during Nazi occupation. In fact quite a lot of Vichy-era disruptive measures (urban code, nationalized retirement funds, corporative orders, etc.) were kept as they were or expanded upon after WW2.

  11. We're winning the War on Cholesterol on US Death Rate Rises, Health Officials Aren't Sure Why (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    35 years of widespread use of statins are showing their results. Depression, Alzheimer's, and generally worse health in old age.

  12. Re:Get ready everyone with anything on Google France Being Raided For Unpaid Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The deficit caused by these big corporations

    Haha, nope. However much money politicians get, they'll outspend it, because they benefit politically from it, because they (still) can borrow on the taxpayers' back, and because they don't pay the consequences themselves.

    Also, french here, and it's pretty transparent that the Ministère des Finances going after Google is little more than maybe-legal attempted extortion. It's a mediatic coup destined mostly for french voters, in preparation for the coming presidential elections next year - Hollande has been spending a lot on taxis, journalists, students and more, to ensure their loyalty, and now he's pushing for this as a rally attempt on his own left. This is his strategy to eliminate all competition in advance of the election.

    But it's a compromise: it favors the national scene over the international. France has lots of tax agreements with other countries where Google pays its taxes, and going after putative billions like this is seriously endangering those agreements, risking a major disruption of international business. French companies which do a lot of their business abroad could be the eventual victims of this hubris. We have our own tax shelters and fiscal niches, enough to call France a "tax haven" for specific categories of businesses and people, and other coutnries ho'd rather see Google's millions go to their own Treasury might take a hint.

  13. Re:I know how to type but I don't know what to wri on 'I Know How To Program, But I Don't Know What To Program' (devdungeon.com) · · Score: 1

    I know how to write but I don't know what to write

    I know how to walk but I don't know where to go

  14. Re:"Free will" confuses the issue on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup the paper is about agentivity. At most the research suggests that "free will" happens outside of conscious thought.

  15. Reverse-ageism here on Slashdot Asks: Have You Experienced Ageism? (observer.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm "only" 36, but only now finally coming to a point in life where reverse-ageism isn't so much of a plague anymore. You see, I'm cursed with looking younger than I am. Like, much younger. As in if I shave I can sneak into high school and not look out of place among the kids.

    For illustration, the last door-to-door salesman I saw asked me if my parents were home. Also my wedding was briefly interrupted by a nice lady who thought I was underage (I was 30 then). It's been slowing my career for more than a decade now. I'm systematically passed for promotion because I'll "get [my] chance later" apparently. As for leading projects ? It seems people who merely look older than me would object to being managed by someone who is actually older & with more experience but who does not look the part. While working in big corp I got confused for an intern several times (err no sir I'm the on-call engineer who's been maintaining your critical 30M-subscriber services the last couple years).

    Fortunately it's happening less often now. I think I'm finally at a point where I look still enough like the "fresh blood" but with the decade+ experience and accumulated references they think they need as justification (or future plausible deniability ?) for hiring anyone.

  16. Good riddance on Malaria Has Been Eliminated In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even a passing interest in genealogy will teach any European how massively deadly malaria and influenza have been for their grandparents and great-grandparents. Malaria has killed half of every human being ever, it used to kill millions out of every generation in Europe even in the XXth century, until large-scale efforts at drying out swamps and massive DDT campaigns successfully curbed mosquito breeding to a point where the parasite couldn't spread and renew its carrier pool anymore.

  17. Re:This must be why paternity tests are illegal on Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations · · Score: 1

    Surely if cuckoldry is so rare, then there is no need for these laws.

    Hmm, it seems you are confusing actual cuckoldry, and suspected cuckoldry. The stated point of those laws is to address complications from the latter, not the former.

    As for my country's stance on those tests, it stems more from a rejection of genetic testing in general as an invasion of privacy, than specifically paternity issues. For instance, it's widely believed in France that 23andme's services are illegal (even though they're not). The Loi n2007-1631 du 20 novembre 2007 which covers the use of genetic markers only bans the identification of someone else from their DNA without a court-issued mandate, but some people have taken to interpret it as a ban on any form of genetic testing.

  18. Re:Apple still has the nuclear launch codes on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    The nuclear option then would be open-sourcing iOS.

  19. Re:So, Lamarck was right! on Viral 'Fossils' In Our DNA May Help Us Fight Infection (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Will the changing environmental stimulus or direct human intervention over long periods of time ultimately result in changing human external and internal characteristics.

    That's the frigging point.

  20. Re:SJWism as an acquired a contagious mental disor on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    Well it's a pretty convoluted train of reflexion, I'm afraid not much of it is sourced. As I mention in my other replies here I was gang-beaten one evening of last century, and healed from that with cognitive behavioral therapy. Following on that I solved anxiety-caused back pain using the research of Dr John E. Sarno (good insight about the probable physiological mechanisms of somatization), and later on I had to confront a couple of people with narcissistic personality disorders (in a professional setting) and wanted to learn more about what make them tick. This led me to current neuroscience of the brain and especially the roles of the amygdala and the various parts of the cingulate cortex - how they manage the perception of threats and rewards to ourselves and to others. I've also been active in a support group for children of narcissistic parents and quite a few of us have noticed strong parallels between the more rabid/crazy of SJWs and the many stereotypical antics of Ns. And now I have a vivid example of a SJW 'cranked to eleven' in my transgender sister and her immediate entourage, who was raised in the same family and environment as I, as an enlightening comparison point.

  21. Re:SJWism as an acquired a contagious mental disor on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is, I'm the one who got gang-beaten, not her. I healed from the trauma rapidly. And then she transitions and develop that unhealthy mentality to the point where she gets 'triggered' over a word. The interpretation I posted above is mostly derived from observing our opposite evolutions, enlightened by running through the process of healing from that sort of damage.

  22. Re:SJWism as an acquired a contagious mental disor on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's done over the internet so the "receiver" of the stimuli is in a safe an controlled environment. It is the perfect setting for desensitization. So, quite to the contrary, getting SJWs all riled up over perceived threats jut by discussing topics that make them uncomfortable can be therapeutic to them.

  23. Re:SJWism as an acquired a contagious mental disor on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check this out.

  24. Re:SJWism as an acquired a contagious mental disor on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    Or maybe I'm just not (that much of) an asshole.

  25. SJWism as an acquired a contagious mental disorder on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When so many people started talking about the importance of "trigger warnings" and how they had developped "PTSD" from encountering divergent opinions from theirs, I just shrugged and. When my younger brother transitioned to female and started raving hard about all things Social-Justice-y, I was stupefied. When she started talkign about her anxiety attacks over the mere mention of the word "rape" (she has never been sexually assaulted nor witnessed any rape except on TV), I started digging into the science of anxiety fits to see what there really was about it.

    It turns out that one can indeed teach one's own brain to develop PTSD over any kind of stimuli at all. All you need to do is to foster a sense of being threatened every time you encounter the stimulus of your choice. For example, you start thinking about people trying to beat you up, of menacing predators pouncing, of natural disasters closing in on you, whenever the stimulus is there. You can also jsut go and read detailed testimonies of aggressions - the more expressive and vivid, the better. You then reinforce and validate this self-inflicted perception of threat by expressing to other people how you feel threatened by the stimulus of your choice, and have the other people agree with you. Basically, this retrains your amygdala into stimulating your cingulate cortex so that it activates the limbic axis for fight-or-flight response. With enough practice, you can push yourself deep into somatization, and develop identical symptoms to that of genuine PTSD-sufferers, to the point where you will have nausea and dizziness just from thinking about the stimulus.

    The interesting thing is, it's the kind of the reverse of desensitization therapy for actual PTSD: if you have a rape victim with severa agoraphobia, you can slowly train their amygdala into NOT stimulating the cingulate cortex and thus not triggering panic attacks by desensitizing them to open spaces or the outside, until the link between "outside" and "being attacked" ceases to exist in the brain.

    That, IMO, is how SJWs make themselves sick, and make others around them sick, with an acquired mental disorder.