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  1. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In actual reality, you have a problem with the truth and said reality. The moderators just pick up on that.

  2. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    For example, he says that women are on average more neurotic

    Actually, he quotes well-established and absolutely solid science that says that "women score higher on neuroticism". That is a bit different from your statement. And it happens to be a verifiable fact. Your whole wording screams "lie" when seen in comparison to what he actually said.

  3. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    And there you have outed yourself as an anti-reason fundamentalist. This argumentation is not valid in anything a bit more complex and the questions this is about are pretty complex.

  4. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Damore's memo was just misogynist bullshit.

    Not by any halfway sane and rational analysis. In fact it was very far from it. Sure, he gave rational and fact-based arguments (i.e. "valid" arguments) for some things that a specific faction of the population does not want to hear, but it is you giving propaganda-lies as a non-factual response. The truth hurts and many people cannot deal with it. You are just one more example of that.

  5. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The person one before is not an atheist. He is a nihilist and that is a religious stance.
    (In actual reality, he is just an evil sadist troll, because he does not care about consent of his victims.)

  6. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much. But it gives the "Emotion first!" people a pseudo-justification for their completely ridiculous reaction. You know, those people that want "safe spaces" at a place of learning and growing, were anything should be happening except that you can comfortably stick to your established misconceptions. Anti-reason and anti-understanding is on the raise. And, if not stopped and firmly put in its place, it will kill society.

  7. Definition of "microbes go rogue": The designer fucked up badly due to small skills, big ego and management pressure. I.e. the normal way things happen these days of pseudo-skills.

  8. Management will decide "they are not needed" on Scientists Develop Kill Switches In Case Bioengineered Microbes Go Rogue (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    And they are "too expensive" and after the technology has become somewhat widespread, it will be done without the safety mechanisms. And guess what? Nothing will be happening to the guilty, just as today.

  9. "Lying with Statistics" v2.0 on Study of 500,000 Teens Suggests Association Between Excessive Screen Time and Depression (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So while there does not seem to be a direct argument that there is a causal relationship where "screen time" causes depression, the lie is implicit. First, the "screen time" is called "excessive", i.e. "bad". Then the direly needed warning that correlation is not causation is noticeably absent. To make this worse, it is not called "correlation", but the far less well defined term "association" is used.

    This is just another example manipulative writing. That is indeed bad, because it obscures reality and replaces it by the preconceptions of the author about what must be "bad" (and hence everything must be either proof the author is right or must be ignored).

  10. Re:Being trendy has a cost on Microsoft and GitHub Team Up To Take Git Virtual File System To MacOS, Linux (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Problem detected between keyboard and chair....

  11. Windows sources are a huge, bloated mess. They think everybody has that or wants that.

  12. And now they want to kill Git on Microsoft and GitHub Team Up To Take Git Virtual File System To MacOS, Linux (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    And make it MS Git: Incompatible to itself, always changing interface, only runs well on Windows. Seriously, the comment about version compatibility in Git should be a huge red flag.

  13. Re:Obama had 2 years of Blue Dogs in the Senate on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh these poor politicians, all so powerless...

  14. Re:Sure.... on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And fail. You forgot grants not originating from the US.

  15. Nice one!

  16. Re:Teaching Assistants on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

    One of the best lectures I ever had was done by a French professor with really bad English (the TA was not much better). But: He had selected an excellent book, and was handing out excellent exercise sheets.

  17. Re:Teaching Assistants on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    If that was the problem, then the US is doomed. A "bad accent" TA cannot hold anybody competent back.

  18. Indeed. And most are too smart to go into politics in the first place. But the best and brightest can make a lot of money nonetheless, if conditions are right.

  19. You do not even understand how distributions work. Guess your name will not be found among the "best and brightest".

    The fact of the matter is that the best and brightest of a country (which is a small number of all people) will search opportunities abroad of a) things at home are not good and b) there are attractive opportunities abroad. Traditionally, the US got most of their best scientists and engineers that way, because US education sucks and US society seems to do its very best to discourage the smartest kids from developing their skills. Guess that parasitic arrangement will stop now.

  20. Re:Sure.... on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Many of these people will be on a grant. So, yes, it has nothing to do with education cost. It is not all Trump's fault though, Bush did some preparation too and Obama did not do enough to counteract.

  21. Re:So, Google, Apple, MS, Facebook... on The Brutal Fight To Mine Your Data and Sell It To Your Boss (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Fortunately, in Europe this is a criminal act.

  22. Buying smart-home devices at this time would be really dumb. They are insecure, unreliable and overpriced. The only thing they will do for you is cause problems.

  23. Re:Is encryption at rest really that important? on Following Equifax Breach, CEO Doesn't Know If Data Is Encrypted (techtarget.com) · · Score: 1

    And you are clueless about databases and about data exfiltration _and_ actual IT security. But you have a big, big ego to match those small skills. (Usually, the latter causes the former....) Pathetic.

  24. Re:Airport "security" is not about security on US Airports Still Fail New Security Tests (go.com) · · Score: 1

    You have a point. The really bad thing is that these people make it much harder for their children to ever be self-sufficient adults. It already started with turning colleges and universities into "safe spaces" instead of places of learning where your assumption get challenged and you come into contact with new ideas. If this is were it goes, the price for society will be very high.

  25. Re:This keeps getting proven again and again on US Airports Still Fail New Security Tests (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Incidentally, the original definition of "terrorism" is a government that rules by fear.