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  1. Employees shouldn't embarrass their companies.

    Damore didn't.
    Those who published an edited version of Damore's statements (on an internal server) made in response to a direct question are the asshats who embarrassed Google.

  2. Isn't excluding people based on their thoughts and ideas precisely juding people by the content of their character?

    Good god, of course not.
    Thoughts and ideas are protected speech. Bad actions (like committing crimes against others) is what indicates bad character.

  3. you can see pretty clearly how he created a situation where Google had no choice but to fire him

    Well, you can, but nobody else does.

  4. Re:Regarding the right to not be offended on Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says He Does Not Regret Firing James Damore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Creating a shitstorm that forces the CEO to cut their vacation short is generally solid grounds to be fired.

    So who "forced" him? Nobody.

  5. Re:Yes to the "Vampire" block for coughs and sneez on Why You Shouldn't Stifle Your Sneeze (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well duh.

    Why would I dry my hands with a banana?

  6. Re:Comprenension != Parsetree on AI Beats Humans at Reading Comprehension (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A truly intelligent system would reply "What the fuck is a pound?"

  7. Re:AI Beats Human at Reading Comprehension on AI Beats Humans at Reading Comprehension (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Just to be clear, this was sarcasm, right?

  8. And of course, ISIS would never disobey the U.N.

  9. Re:Safer than humans on Americans Still Deeply Skeptical About Driverless Cars, Says Poll (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is driver education, driver training, and the testing/retesting of drivers.

    If people drove as carefully on the road as they do during a driver's ed program, there wouldn't be any accidents.

    BUT THEY DON'T.

  10. Re:They're perfect for the city on Americans Still Deeply Skeptical About Driverless Cars, Says Poll (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It'll use the standard response to danger: hit the brakes and hope for the best.

  11. Re:Talk about a captive audience on GM Will Make an Autonomous Car Without Steering Wheel or Pedals By 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    By the time you realize that there is a problem, AutoUber will have already dispatched a replacement from nearby.

  12. Especially if you let them use bus-only lanes.

  13. I suppose I have been over-estimating how hard it would be to make a safe self-driving car. After all, they can achieve arbitrary safety levels by going arbitrarily slow.

    How could a car sitting parked by the side of the road cause an accident?

  14. Most tire of the same dross spewed out by style manuals and their ilk.

    Yeah, the truth is so boring.

  15. Re:Citations are abused on The Science That's Never Been Cited (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    It's most visible in the publications of the "fake" sciences, such as political analysis, sociology, and economics

    FTFY.

  16. Not all of us are sociopaths, though.

    No, but most military planners are.

  17. Fighting against oppression by targeting military units and attempting to capture territory and strategic assets is a whole different thing.

    Do you not think the victims of "collateral damage" are terrorized? Of course they are, and that is a principal goal of any effort to "capture territory".

  18. It'll be interesting to eventually find out who is doing this.

    Maybe they already know. In any case, the answer will almost certainly be classified so as to not give others any ideas.

  19. Also everytime you go to the doctor do you take a healthy person with you and when the doctor asks you to say "aaaah" do you then say you won't believe him that your throat is red until he checks the control group?

    If you claim to be doing medical research, that's exactly what you must do.

  20. On /. you always need a controll group. Because without it is oooouuuu not science!

    You're fucking right it isn't.

    Obviously without the placebo group we never would know if the real chutes realy work ...

    And that is 100% correct. But unless you are a homocidal maniac, you would use dummies instead of real people.

  21. Re:It's the population increase on The World's Astonishing Dependence On Fossil Fuels Hasn't Changed In 40 Years (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't there any problem.

    I don't you speak English good.

  22. Re:Damn, Slashdot is messed up... on Google's AI Built an AI that Outperforms Any Made By Humans (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    What is all the snark about?

    Being tired of seeing these hyperbole-drenched summaries of common project status reports.

  23. Re:This all sounds impressive... on Google's AI Built an AI that Outperforms Any Made By Humans (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody knows how or whether human brains create intelligence. The closer we look, the less likely that seems though

    Where else would it come from?Unless you are an aficionado of superstition.
    Which any regular reader of /. knows you are.

  24. Re:One of these things... on 375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    As supply rises, so will need for more jobs.

    Yeah, more jobs for robots.

    Certainly none of the new jobs generated will go to the 150 million Americans with below-average intelligence.

  25. Re:Creating new 509 million jobs on 375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Or pay people to not have more children, which is the opposite of the current situation.