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  1. Re:I didn't read TFA on The New Science of Evolutionary Forecasting · · Score: 1

    The difference, of course, is in demonstrating the predictive value of evolution, in a measurable and falsifiable way. Before, we could make pretty reliable predictions about unknown past events, which is good enough to be science, but sciences' main draw is in its utility in being able to understand how things will happen under any given circumstance.

  2. Re:tl;dr nature is BORING on The New Science of Evolutionary Forecasting · · Score: 2

    Luckily all you have to do to fix your pointlessly nihilistic philosophical problems is kill yourself. Poof no more boredom with the intricate mechanisms of reality. All done.

    The rest of us can keep pushing that boulder up the hill for whatever reasons happen suit us, no matter how absurd.

  3. Re:We've observed and created antiparticles on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    I love living in the sci-fi world the past predicted. Well, not the parts Orwell predicted, but you can't have everything.

  4. Re:We've observed and created antiparticles on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Did not know that. What kinds of medical imaging?

  5. Re:"Absence of observations" on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    It's not about sight. It's always about measurement.

  6. Re:This is sexist on ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source · · Score: 1

    "Why would there be self selection for jobs on women's rights"
    --an abject moron.

  7. Re:This is sexist on ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source · · Score: 1

    There absolutely was the accusation of a conspiracy theory there.
    "I can't prove to myself he exists" is directly implying the assertion that he doesn't and thus is fabricated. It's literally crazy.

  8. Re:Lie detector on Biofeedback Games and The Placebo Effect · · Score: 1

    If you can draw a comic book character, you can invent complex biofeedback machines that read 4 streams of hard data to yield a subjective determination on a subjective statement run through any number of mental processes.

    I don't see why one wouldn't give you all the skills for the other.

  9. Re:"Absence of observations" on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Come on man, I said "much". I'm aware of the history here.

  10. Re:"Absence of observations" on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the point was that we don't really see much sign of it in the stars above, not that we've never observed it at all.

  11. Re:We've observed and created antiparticles on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Not only have we created them, we have small stores at CERN and a few other facilities for experimentation on.

  12. "Absence of observations" on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    The summary makes mention that we haven't noted any substantial signs of this material, but how is that any different from, say, antimatter, which we know can exist?

  13. Re:This is sexist on ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source · · Score: 1

    Why would you need a group to help get more people who are already overrepresented into an industry.

    This. Makes. No. Sense.

  14. Re:This is sexist on ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source · · Score: 1, Informative

    Oh, no, I wouldn't say that's a problem for a reversed situation either. The society of male nurses is mostly male, for example, because they're specifically addressing concerns of male nurses. There's a natural and not-fundamentally sexist reason for that divide to have some degree of existence.

    People do have a need to be concerned with their own interests.

    You accuse me of hypocrisy, when the reverse you assert is entirely within acceptable bounds of anyone who isn't a tremendous misandrist. The fact that hypermisogynisic assholes run rampant on slashdot is gravely concerning.

    Now if it were, say, an industry, instead of a gender issues organization, that would be cause for alarm and serious work. The problem here is just sexist pretending to care about sexism. And nothing else.

  15. Re:This is sexist on ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source · · Score: 1

    "I don't care, but let me rationalize this out-of-nowhere accusation that makes no sense"

  16. Of course it won't be settled then on Two Big Dark Matter Experiments Gain US Support · · Score: 0

    We'll have more information about the gravity attributes and locations of dark matter, but no deeper insight into how it connects to the physics we DO understand. I'm not trying to be a naysayer, I'm positively thrilled that we're going to find out what we can, but until we can get up close, and determine exactly what ways dark matter interacts with all other forces, its underlying nature will be a bit mysterious.

  17. Re:This is sexist on ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source · · Score: 1

    So, now it's a grand conspiracy to fabricate fictional men in order to discredit internet commenters.

    Yep. That's sane.

  18. Re:This is sexist on ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And here come the MRAs with mod points, modding down facts because it's inconvenient.

  19. Re:This is sexist on ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source · · Score: 1

    NBA is granted permission to be gender segregated by the US congress. I don't really approve, but it is the law.

    We do have programs to work on gender ratios in Nursing, teaching, and Salons aren't exactly a career people aspire to, as if that were equivalent.

    The difference is feminists don't come whining about people trying to make progress in these areas because they feel threatened. They welcome the break in stigmatized job roles.

    MRAs, on the other hand, just love to pretend any attempt at social progress are an attempt to discriminate. And their whines pierce the vale of every single debate.

  20. Re:This is sexist on ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source · · Score: 0, Troll

    I forgot that "Marcus" was a female name. My mistake.

    Bald faced liars make for the best threads.

  21. Re:This is sexist on ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source · · Score: -1, Troll

    Unlike you, I actually checked their website. While they're overwhelmingly female in structure, you're absolutely wrong in your made up assertion that they don't accept men.

    Again and again, any time someone tries to work on the 90/10 problem in software development, someone pretends that each individual movement has some kind of bias, or doesn't allow men. It's never actually the case.

    And I always get modded down for calling sexists crying "sexist" on their bullshit. But I eat that negative karma every time, because you're wrong and I'm not going to let this bullshit fly.

  22. Re:Congratulations? on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 1

    This post: "human biology"
    One post ago "outer space alien"

    Huh.

  23. Re:Congratulations? on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 1

    No, that's just comics, man. Objectification is quite normal there.

  24. Re:Congratulations? on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your sexist beliefs have no bearing on what's believable.

    Guess what, magic hammers are less believable than physically strong women who drink.

  25. Re:Congratulations? on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 1

    No. But that's not what's happening. The most likely interpretation is that a female Asgardian is inheriting Thor's title in the "Ultimate" universe where they promised dead characters stay dead.