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  1. Re:The Humanities are OVERWHELMINGLY left on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    How 'bout _neither_.

    If someone constructs a false dichotomy between Stalin and Hitler, just kick HIM in the balls.

    The real problem is 'Stalin' isn't as socially unacceptable as 'Hitler'. He should be. Young Communists _should_ be treated just like young Nazis. WTF is wrong in that family to start.

    Finally the comparison should be between the crazed, bad shot, Bernie bro with an rifle at a softball game vs. the Nazi 'playing death race'. Your comparison is fairly called cherry picking.

  2. Re:Change gives, change takes away. on 150 San Franciscans Explain How Tech Money Changed Their City (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Jumped straight from the 'summer of love' to 2005.

    Skipped the hippy failure/70s heroin and tech living in San Jose for 50 years before it came to SF.

    SF was already unaffordable in 1990. Don't kid yourself, it's always been the home of bankers, trust funders and young gay professionals. Techies are pushing out the low budget trust funders mostly, bartenders have been on BART forever.

  3. Re:Thought most STEM workers went to college on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    We had to take a humanities focus area (3 courses in one 'focus area') in addition to our regular humanities coursework.

    Turns out every engineering student had run the same algorithm...best ratio. Hence the psych department had made themselves the only 'not eligible for humanities focus area' department.

    Best not to stick your dick into crazy. (psych major==crazy). But we were kids, didn't know better.

  4. All cattle is 'grass fed'. They die without ruffage. The good beef is also fed grain.

  5. Re: Laughing out loud on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, count it as two data points. GGP says 50% you say 0%.

    Average the two and you match about my experience...25% fully batshit.

    Anybody who listens to Joan Baez _is_ batshit.

  6. Re:Who's Ethics? on Mozilla Challenges Educators To Integrate Ethics Into STEM (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It remains unethical to let a sucker keep his money.

  7. Re:There are some great ones and mostly not so gre on Movie Commentary Tracks Are Back (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Spinal Tap 20th anniversary edition.

    The two main actors, in character, talking shit about everyone in the film, 20 years on. It's as good as the original was.

    Also: 'Fight Club', the story of the line 'I haven't been fucked like that since grade school'. Was first 'I want to have your abortion'. The suits heard the 'grade school' line, asked to go back, but no.

  8. Re:Stop eating meat? on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Human waste is used as fertilizer for animal feed, and vice versa. It's a bad idea to use shit to fertilize food for the same creature.

  9. Your lawn lets off ultrasonic screams as soon as you fire up the mower. Before you start cutting, the grass is screaming in fear and agony.

    Vegetable rights!

  10. They're _much_more_delicious_ when supplemented with corn, don't believe the derpers.

    They don't need it, but I do pay extra for prime.

  11. Re:Laughing out loud on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They're called 'watermelons', green on the outside, red to the core.

    It's common among the deranged greenies, less so away from the lunatic fringe.

  12. Re: Laughing out loud on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    To turn your anecdote into a data point, we need to know how batshit and bipolar you are.

    'Never met any remotely like' sure sounds like bullshit. There's a % in every population, 'no worse than any other group' is a huge stretch in my experience. Given the known number of _batshit_ eating disorder people that take on veganism/vegetarianism as cover.

  13. Re:Honesty, Openess, and Truthfulness on Mozilla Challenges Educators To Integrate Ethics Into STEM (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    As far as life is concerned, everyone who plays knows up front that deception, manipulation, lying, and opaqueness are apart of the game.

  14. Re:Yeah, no on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Try and get a teanager to split wood these days.

  15. Re:The cost of operating a coal fired power plant on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    'Black lung', the disease that underground coal miners got before dust control? That's not where MSNBC get their numbers, wouldn't be big enough.

    It amazes me to see people that criticize Fox, cite MSNBC. It's like they have no self awareness at all.

    Fracking is older than Hillary. It was just discovered by Greenies and declared satan about 10-15 years ago.

    They used to do _explosive_ hydrofracking, basically drop dynamite down the bore.

  16. Re: Not gonna happen on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    40 years worth of construction, so about 10% of British houses?

  17. Re:The data set was flawed on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. You cannot just assume your desired result. You SHOULDN'T anyhow. By the time someone is job age 'inherent' is academic, the only question for employers is are they actually less competent, as they sit there.

    There is a mountain of contradictory data, apparently including the training set used by Amazon.

    Even if you do _assume_ equivalence, you should check your assumptions at the end, to see if your results are invalid because you worked with a bad assumption. (e.g. was it good enough to say Sin(Theta) = Theta.)

  18. Re:Honesty, Openess, and Truthfulness on Mozilla Challenges Educators To Integrate Ethics Into STEM (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't play poker under those rules.

    Life is more poker than chess. Accept it.

    If software is free, you are not the customer, you are the product. Everybody knows that.

    If you expect the things you ask for, you are a sucker.

  19. What business context is 'Cleveland steamer', 'Space docking' or 'Felching' appropriate for?

    Don't look those up...

  20. Fuck walled gardens.

  21. Re:The FBI seems to be part of the problem on FBI Director on Whether Apple and Amazon Servers Had Chinese Spy Chips: 'Be Careful What You Read' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Peter principle corollary: The older the organization the more of it's staff will be operating at their level of incompetence.

    Sometimes the right move is just to let the old one run (in quarantine), while building a new one. Then shut down the old one and set all their employees to 'no rehire'.

    The FBI is past saving, only the political operatives/appointees are not at their level of incompetence. Only a few though, thank dog, or we'd be truly screwed.

  22. From your bold assertion upthread: 'Math as it exists is written in a specific unusual language, which is definitely not even "mainstream English-speaking American culture".' That language is called 'math'.

    That's a long way from being able to say 'culturally biased', which IS a big old stretch, even for the language part of the SAT.

    Math testing is not culturally biased, except against 'feeling culture'. Which IT SHOULD be biased against.

  23. Re:Why so low? on More Than One Third of Music Consumers Still Pirate Music (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure...Copying 'the collection' takes a couple of days though. Better since USB3.

  24. Math is written in 'math'.

    Which isn't anybody's native language.

    I'd do a whole lot better in a Chinese math course than a Chinese lit course, but that's not a fair comparison to English speakers of various backgrounds taking the SATs.

    Math is biased against irrational cultures, I'll give you that. SJWs are generally bad at math.

  25. Re:They are planning ahead ... on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything projected as taking place after the current politicians are dead is propaganda, not just in China. See also: Banning IC cars etc.

    As you say, in 30 years, they're 'worn out' anyhow. Optimistically, they will reuse the transmission line.

    Over their life, for all thermal power but nukes, the cost of the plant is tiny (about 2%) vs the cost of the fuel.