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  1. Re:If true thats great on Tim Cook Says Apple Can't Read Users' Emails, That iCloud Wasn't Hacked · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's like calling spam "free advice".

  2. Re:Nokia Lumia Windows Phone on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 1

    The headline says they're replacing "Window Phone" with "Windows", but this is totally wrong. They're replacing "Windows Phone" with "Microsoft Lumia", and dropping the Nokia name completely as fast as possible.

  3. Re:Great news on Massive Study Searching For Genes Behind Intelligence Finds Little · · Score: 1

    Tips fedora.

  4. Re:demography & culture on Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    As a man, I say speak for yourself, "sausagefest" does not offend me whatsoever.

  5. Re:Not exactly news for nerds on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Civ III. Civ V doesn't permit military stacks of death.

  6. Re:Legislating Technology on California Passes Law Mandating Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    That doesn't lock out USB connections.

  7. Re:Better to starve I guess? on China Pulls Plug On Genetically Modified Rice and Corn · · Score: 1

    I don't want to eat insecticides.

  8. Re:name and location tweeted... on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    What would a ruler want with an entire population of peasant women?

  9. Re:raise money privately? on Two Cities Ask the FCC To Preempt State Laws Banning Municipal Fiber Internet · · Score: 1

    Interesting thought experiment: how do you differentiate a non-profit competitor from a merely poorly run competitor that doesn't set prices to maximize profits?

  10. Re:Colorado has California over a barrel on Western US States Using Up Ground Water At an Alarming Rate · · Score: 1

    Why not pump from rivers instead of lakes?

  11. Re:Should the United States accept more foreigners on Western US States Using Up Ground Water At an Alarming Rate · · Score: 1

    The U.S. exports its water now, in the form of food. So your concern-trolling is disproportionate to reality.

  12. What about the NDK, which most apps use?

  13. Re:Economists on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 1

    inflation is expansion of the money supply

    Let's take this one example. In Macroeconomics 101, there is the formula: MV = PY

    M = money supply, V = velocity of money, P = price level, Y = real GDP

    So an increase in P (inflation) could be many things, not just an expansion of M (money supply). Even your knowledge of the model is wrong. How much more so your understanding that reality demands more complex models as the reality you're investigating is more complex.

  14. Re:Equating language to math is insulting on Math, Programming, and Language Learning · · Score: 1

    You did not code your argument in a series of logical steps to arrive at the desired result of demonstrating your conclusion that something here is "insulting". Perhaps that is because you believe such a thing is not to be done with a method of communication!

  15. Re:DoD on Preparing For Satellite Defense · · Score: 1

    Money spent on space used to be dual-use (civilian and military). Now it's single-use (military), and the civilian stuff is private.

  16. Re:We must not allow on Preparing For Satellite Defense · · Score: 1

    More population = more people to keep from starving

  17. Re:Oblig. StarWars on Harvesting Energy From Humidity · · Score: 1

    Makes as much sense as Lucas's claim that the robots flying around on Mustafar in Revenge of the Sith are "energy collectors", collecting energy from the lava. Because they are hot, I guess. So you want to collect ... the lava because it is hot.

  18. Re:Intelligence isn't always advantageous on Chimpanzee Intelligence Largely Determined By Genetics · · Score: 1

    As are their opposites for gene propagation. Or else aggression would hypertrophy, which it doesn't.

  19. Re:Genetics and heritability are not the same on Chimpanzee Intelligence Largely Determined By Genetics · · Score: 1

    For an associate professor, you're not so good with explaining concepts. What you need is an example of genetic variance in a population of sheep and an example of environmental variance, that fits with ordinary reality. As the influence of environmental variance approaches zero, the additional nuance of the environment's influence on genetic variation is insignificant.

  20. Re:Really good to know if you're Hamas on A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System · · Score: 1

    Wait, did you just imply that it's security via obfuscation?

  21. Re:sounds like North Korea news on Google's Experimental Newsroom Avoids Negative Headlines · · Score: 1

    In reality, it's the advertisements that serve the role of promising to make us happy.

  22. Re:Why yes, we should blame the victim here on Tor Project Sued Over a Revenge Porn Business That Used Its Service · · Score: 1

    You're making a political argument, to which there are political counter-arguments.

  23. Re:What we really need... on Blueprints For Taming the Climate Crisis · · Score: 1

    Actually, what we need is to sufficiently reduce the corruption of politics by money everywhere. But this is impossible.

  24. Re:'fight' climat change on Blueprints For Taming the Climate Crisis · · Score: 1

    > let's fight gravity! The analogy would be closer to fighting obesity.

  25. Re:US? on Blueprints For Taming the Climate Crisis · · Score: 1

    China's government is more corrupt than the U.S. government. This is true. Corruption of politics by money everywhere is the root problem.