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  1. FTA about exactly this on 'Cards Against Humanity' Gives Out $1000 Checks (nbcchicago.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    FAQ: I’m poor and I’m mad that I didn’t get any money.

    "Our bad. We had to guess how much money you had with limited data. The US government actually knows how much money you have and has trillions of dollars to redistribute. Why don’t you get mad at the US government?"

  2. to remember.

  3. mod oops on Steam Ends Support For Bitcoin (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    posting to fix accidental mod.

  4. Seems like a play on "Tales from the Crypt" to me on Cryptocurrencies Aren't 'Crypto' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Because good headlines need to be short and clever.
    For those who don't remember or know Tales from the Crypt:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. Re:He's confusing free speech with Net Neutrality on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Criticizes Companies That Oppose His Efforts To Repeal Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    No, it doesn't. It's almost like you don't understand the principles at all.

    "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" Pai seems to be working for the owners of the big ISPs, not the american people.

  6. Re:10000 on Bitcoin and Ethereum Prices Are Surging Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren't sales of private property are reported on Schedule D?

  7. Re:AI Question Regarding Murder on An Inside Look At the First Church of Artificial Intelligence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if the AI thinks so, it may exercise preemptive self-defense.

  8. Looks like we're all about to be bitcion miners on Researchers Run Unsigned Code on Intel ME By Exploiting USB Ports (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    ... for a botnet.

  9. Trend of monthly averages in a pic on Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  10. It sounds targeted at VR.

  11. Not Seti@home, Folding@home? on Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of 40 Old Galaxy S5s (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not cure cancer instead?

  12. Re:We Already Knew That the Universe Shouldn't Exi on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    Gravity wells are negative energy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Of course it's a problem for rockets on Japanese Metal Manufacturer Faked Specifications To Hundreds of Companies (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    They are engineered to the limits of strength-to-weight, and they don't fail gracefully.

  14. Re:Ecology Always Wins on Carbon-Emitting Soil Could Speed Global Warming, Warns 26-Year Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Before denialists complain on economic costs they must recognize...

    Stop right there. I think you do not understand denial. Climate deniers deny the very thing you say they must recognize. They refuse to acknowledge the danger. Consider the Fuck That Gator man.

  15. Re:Ecology Always Wins on Carbon-Emitting Soil Could Speed Global Warming, Warns 26-Year Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    There is nothing arable about previously frozen dirt. It will take decades for it to become fertile from the repeated decay of generations of migrating organisms.

    This does not square with what I've read about some modern farming, namely: http://www.drkelley.info/2015/...

    Hasn't science invented something to make infertile land fertile? Aptly named fertile-izer?

  16. Re:I'm a pessimist about all of the self-driving t on GM Exec Says Elon Musk's Self-Driving Car Claims Are 'Full of Crap' (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Also, as to answer the question of how humans do it with "two cameras": logic. We don't have "stitching errors" in how we build up a model of the world around us from visual data because our brain constantly processes everything around us through the prism of "does that make sense?" But whether something "makes sense" or not is an AI-hard problem.

    You'll find a million human visual logic errors on google images under "optical illusions." Was the dress white and gold or blue and black? Then there's the hot road mirage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M0FcpQWh5E). My broader point is that people don't see perfectly either, but if machines always drive sober, without texting, and not sleepy, they could eventually do better than the very low bar we are setting.

  17. Guy doesn't get evolution on New Book Argues Silicon Valley Will Lead Us to Our Doom (sandiegouniontribune.com) · · Score: 0

    If he was a paramecium, he'd be arguing against multicellularity on all the same points.

  18. Re:This is what happens when you can't raise taxes on A 'Netflix Tax'? Yes, and It's Already a Thing in Some States (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Frankly, companies that pollute the environment should be 100% financially responsible for cleaning it up.

    They are quite adept at having the responsibility stop at a shell company holding no money. Bankruptcy law gets in they way after that.

  19. Mobile network latency is terrible on Maybe Americans Don't Need Fast Home Internet Service, FCC Suggests (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Three times worse than cable internet. Matters for gaming.

  20. What's a pledge from VW worth? on After Emissions Scandal, Volkswagen Pledges Charging Stations Across The US (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not inclined to take them at their word after what they did.

  21. Headline seems a bit irresponsibly worded... on New Research Shows Humans Could Outrun T. Rex · · Score: 1

    When you consider the number of people that think humans and dinosaurs co-existed, I wish this educational opportunity had not been squandered.

  22. Vive's recent sale threatened Oculus's long-term strategy of harvesting your data. Oculus wants everyone to have a Rift, and not because of the profit on the hardware. Here's the privacy policies compared: https://www.vrheads.com/vr-and...

  23. Me three. Here's a breakdown of the privacy differences: https://www.vrheads.com/vr-and...

  24. I heard one Trump apologist explaining his divorces are good, because they show you can get divorced and not screw up the kids. Do you agree? Trump says he could shoot someone and not lose voters. I'm starting to wonder...

  25. Re:Bye bye, Middle East on World's Cheapest Energy Source Will Be Renewables Within Three Years (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel" -Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...