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  1. Re:Speaking of TV shows on Researchers Study "Harbingers of Failure," Consumers Who Habitually Pick Losers · · Score: 1

    That implies they care about anything more than short term profits.

  2. Re:I hate Uber but... on Carnegie Mellon Struggles After Uber Poaches Top Robotics Researchers · · Score: 1

    If there is a skills shortage, that means wages are not rising sufficiently. Nobody here has taken Econ 101, apparently. Here is the definition of an economic shortage: "In economic terminology, a shortage occurs when for some reason (such as government intervention, or decisions by buyers not to raise prices) the price does not rise to reach equilibrium."

  3. Re: But why? on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1

    Facts cannot be sexist. They are either accurate or inaccurate.

  4. Re:Well done! on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 2

    The plot makes more sense than The Phantom Menace.

  5. Re:Yes. on Google 'Makes People Think They Are Smarter Than They Are' · · Score: 2

    At elite universities, it's pretty standard for all exams to be open book, because what they're testing is not something you can just copy from a book. But then again, I went to school before the internet became big.

  6. Re:What about the race of the escapee? on Racial Discrimination Affects Virtual Reality Characters Too · · Score: 0

    'We devils should', not 'us devils should'. The way you know is you say 'we should' and not 'us should'.

  7. Re:Yes meanwhile.. on Google Quietly Unveils Android 5.1 Lollipop · · Score: 3, Informative

    Samsung Galaxy S5 got Lollipop yesterday.

  8. Re:Good news on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    You like Titanic and Avatar more than Serenity, we get it.

  9. Re:Wait, what? on Study: Belief That Some Fields Require "Brilliance" May Keep Women Out · · Score: 1

    American immigration policy was extremely restricted several decades ago, only letting in doctors and such. That probably has more to do with it. It's more Asian to never study (because school is a joke and boring and easy) than to study hard.

  10. Re:Ha on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    Or beer.

  11. Re:His legacy is 2% on Finding Genghis Khan's Tomb From Space · · Score: 1

    It's not like Khan was his family name and people called him Mr. Khan.

  12. Re:Wait. Are gov't regs good or bad? on Court Orders Uber To Shut Down In Spain · · Score: 1

    What? No, that's not the point. The point is government is supposed to regulate the abuse of monopoly power, not create monopoly power with regulations.

  13. Re:I don't get it on Is a "Wikipedia For News" Feasible? · · Score: 1

    99% of the useless noise in commentariat debates about controversial topics is *distraction* which attempts to censor descriptions/observations/facts by simply changing the topic to a whataboutism or some other kind of distraction.

    A wiki that gave a place for every point to be made would fundamentally solve this censor-by-distraction problem on internet forum debates. It would have to be refuted or confirmed on its own merits, without changing the topic with a distraction, thereby fixing 99% of the problems arising from bias.

  14. Re:so waitaminute... on Auto Industry Teams Up With Military To Stop Car Hacking · · Score: 1

    Car hacking is real, they can make a journalist's Mercedes in Los Angeles accelerate so it crashes into a tree and explodes. Hypothetically.

  15. Re:AI researcher here on Alva Noe: Don't Worry About the Singularity, We Can't Even Copy an Amoeba · · Score: 1

    > How can you have emotion or desire without consciousness?

    You can't, emotion and desire are subjective experiences by definition and consciousness is subjectivity or subjective-experience itself.

  16. Re:Boy toy on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How does the lack of interest in something that geeky boys like in any way fall under the responsibility of those geeky boys, who have no influence over what non-geeky boys are interested in? It obviously does not, and that is why claims that it does fall under their responsibility sound absurd to us geeky boys.

  17. Re: Because she had a big impact on peace on eart on 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay · · Score: 2

    Libertarians in practice are just conservatives without the context of history and social forces.

  18. Re:Webmail on Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory · · Score: 1

    Writing walls of text without paragraphs is called lacking literary manners. The people I know who do it are the intellectual equivalent of obese people.

  19. Re:WRONG!! on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 1

    It seems to have backfired though, after Rantic was outed.

  20. Re:Emma Watson is full of it on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 1

    There's more to the value of labor than how much education someone has. I know it's hard for you to imagine what those other factors could be, but just because you can't imagine something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

  21. Re:Emma Watson is full of it on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 1

    Slaves don't have opportunities to work as non-slaves. What on earth are you talking about.

  22. Re:All too often on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    We never know what anything is (noumena), we only know what it does (phenomena).

  23. Re:If you're not smart enough to realize this is B on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Good point. The article mis-labelled as "others have fallen for the Wave hoax" doesn't mention anything about anybody actually falling for it.

  24. Re:defined by mainstream media coverage on Snowden's Leaks Didn't Help Terrorists · · Score: 2

    The "conversation" before Snowden was establishment voices calling people like us tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists.

  25. Re:Common sense on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 1

    It's quite dogmatic to simply assume that there is no more to non-dogmatic critical thinking than common sense, or that common sense itself is not often dogmatic.