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  1. Re:Optimism on New York Times CEO: Print Journalism Has Maybe Another 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Given what passes for "journalism", that might be a bit of an optimistic assessment.

    The New York Times belong in the same checkout lane rack as the National Enquirer and those hollywood tabloids. Big foot sightings, Russiagate "evidence" and gossips about a celebrity farting during a minute of silence at the olympics all provide the same level of factual information.

  2. Here's my algorithm on Hospitals May Turn To Algorithms To Fight Fatal Infections (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop putting lots of sick people in a same building. Hospitals are becoming like those high-density pig or chicken farm where the animals are injected with antibiotics because it's cheaper than cleaning their shit. Smaller clusters = less problems.

  3. Re:Wait...wasn't Watson doing this? on Hospitals May Turn To Algorithms To Fight Fatal Infections (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    I know buzzword bingo is nothing new, but it really, really feels like nobody remembers anything anymore.

    It's social erosion. Random technical words or concepts are appropriated by the mainstream media and systematically bastardized: coding, AI, algorithm, hacker, cryptocurrency, etc. It's like when grannies and fat chicks start wearing the same thing as hot chicks, it's a death sentence for that specific trend.

  4. Re:See: China on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Your reading comprehension is faulty.

    If that were lucm's actual problem it'd be a thousand times better than the reality.

    Anyone who ever told you that you're clever, funny or witty was lying or stupid.

  5. It's not racist to point out that white males are the only group that can be objectified and labeled without spawning a twitter lynch mob. It may or may not be accurate, but it's not racist in any way or form.

    People like you who associate anything and everything with racism are a social cancer that is going to ultimately desensitize people to actual racism. Feel free to maintain your current trajectory of virtue signalling and self-righteousness but fundamentally you're an impediment to social progress, nothing else.

  6. Re:See: China on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This will all even out over time. There are a finite number of facial types by race.

    If that's the case, then facial recognition will soon be useless.

  7. Re:The headline is garbage on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You do not get true innovation unless you have people that have not been there, and have not done that. These are the people that may have a different idea for achieving a solution, and that is where true innovation comes about.

    This has to be the most superficial and least intelligent idea I've read in a while, and yet just a minute ago I was reading Trump twitter feed.

  8. Re:The headline is garbage on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    But they have no clue how software defined networking has been implemented in VMware

    No surprise there, VMWare engineers themselves aren't too sure.

    Also by using the words "software defined" without getting paid for it, you identified yourself as a phony.

  9. ^ That implies that Ajit Pai should step down as his conduct has resulted in a situation which has already injured the quality of agency decisions.

    ^ That implies that you don't know what "implies" mean

  10. Of course no one will assemble a "diverse" set of images to train computers; white males are the only group that can be profiled and discriminated against without generating a flurry of enraged hashtags. So there we go. Use white males photos because nobody will be offended, and then blame white males because the AI trained on their images recognize them better; win-win.

  11. Re:Gotta wonder about this move on Google Fiber's Wireless Internet Service Is Leaving Boston (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ummm, or you just offer the service for a profit and stop screwing with the pipe... At the very least you sell your business unit to another concern who will do that.

    that's not how it works. There's all kinds of liability issues that make infrastructure salvage a loser, and these kinds of assets are essentially worthless from an accounting perspective because they are capitalized and exempt of depreciation. It's like trying to make a buck on what finds its way into the sewer because the company offers free coffee to the employees.

  12. Re:Gotta wonder about this move on Google Fiber's Wireless Internet Service Is Leaving Boston (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    I can't imagine how this makes economic sense.

    Just another win for net neutrality

    "Under the Massachusetts legislation, any company that violates Net neutrality would be subject to antitrust enforcement by the attorney general's office."
    https://www.bostonglobe.com/op...

    If they can't monetize the pipe, they give up. It's not sexy or romantic or virtuous but that's how business works. Cut your losses is the best answer to sunk cost fallacy.

  13. Re:Just what they're known for, oh wait on Walmart Teams Up With Kobo To Sell EBooks and Audiobooks (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not a usual Walmart customer but I'll probably have a look at this because both Kindle and Audible have become a shit show lately. Kindle is a landfill of low quality blog posts turned into ebooks and now Amazon is injecting ads in homepages and menus of their customers devices to upsell and cross-sell shit.

  14. Re:This may explain the Montana.gov timeout errors on Montana To FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There's 1 million people in Montana, and a total of 120 ISP. I don't think this is a death blow for the FCC.

  15. Maybe you should blame Muller. When he interviews Trump it's going to be a media circus, 24/7 non-stop.

    Clinton launched this idea as a hail mary to bury the embarrassing contents of the leaked DNC emails. I don't think they expected this to snowball that much, but for all intents and purposes I suspect Trump himself isn't too angry about this. Think of it; it's a bullshit story - after a year if there had been anything there it would have rocked the white house already - and it keeps the haters busy who otherwise would have been looking for something else to freak out about.

  16. snowflake

    Idiots like you who use "snowflake" as a generic insult are like fat girls who start wearing yoga pants; just ruining a good thing for everyone.

  17. Either way, Trump IS a motherfucking snowflake.

    He's not. You're corrupting the meaning of words in your quest for insults. Donald Trump is a liar, a ruthless businessman, and tacky as they come. But he's not a snowflake, or a nazi, or a dictator.

  18. Over a year after Clinton lost and with her being largely an irrelevance now, and you are still blaming them for the media's interest in POTUS's possible links to Russia?

    Yes.

  19. If you can't see the difference you should probably not vote

    There we go.

    Step 1: only allow people who think like you to vote
    Step 2: force people who don't think like you to wear a visible mark on their clothes
    Step 3: start sterilizing them

    You lovely tolerant liberals have started your journey to pure evil, and to the bitter end you'll keep thinking that you were right. What a bunch of self-righteous hypocrites.

    Used to tell people like you to go to hell, but lately I've started to wonder if we're not there already.

  20. NPR is probably the most unbiased and go-to radio news source

    I guess in the process of being an unbiased news source NPR forgot to report that the former NPR CEO confessed that NPR has a liberal agenda. And the guy doesn't talk about a conspiracy, but simply of NPR being a liberal echo chamber. See:

    When you are liberal, and everyone else around you is as well, it is easy to fall into groupthink on what stories are important, what sources are legitimate and what the narrative of the day will be.

    https://nypost.com/2017/10/21/...

  21. In the same post you manage to say:

    the whole "snowflakes" thing was nothing more than a construct for discrediting others, and justifying dismissing their statements out-of-hand to begin with

    and:

    a right-wing "snowflake" as most people would put it does exist. [...] As of this post he runs the white house.

    You can't have it both ways. Next time only pick one of two conflicting statements if you want people to take you seriously.

  22. What about infowars? They provide factual, unbiased news. Such as this:

    When the Obama/Hillary 16 years in the presidency were completed, the U.S. middle class would be destroyed. The U.S. population (what was left of it) would be reduced to a status of enslavement, starvation, death, and disease.
    When the Obama/Hillary 16 years in the presidency were completed, the U.S. would have no borders, the Constitution would be revised to remove the Bill of Rights and all fundamental U.S. freedoms, and the population would be disarmed by the repeal of the Second Amendment.
    When the Obama/Hillary 16 years in the presidency were completed, there would be no electoral college.
    Future presidents would be elected by a majority of the popular vote, giving control to large states like California, New York, and New Jersey that can easily be overrun with illegal immigrants voting for the traitors and their anti-American conspiracy.
    If illegal votes were not enough to make sure the Democratic Party traitors dominated all elections, George Soros would be allowed to install voting machines to make Democratic Party voter fraud easy to achieve electronically.
    When the Obama/Hillary 16 years in the presidency were completed, the U.S. military would comprise a very small percentage of the U.S. budget, with transfer payments making sure excessive taxation redistributed income to minorities and illegals sure to vote for the Democratic Party traitors.
    U.S. military bases would be closed worldwide, beginning in Germany. Russia, China, and rogue states including Iran and North Korea would no longer need fear U.S. military reprisals for their evil expansion.
    Only “Project Mockingbird” PRAVDA-like mainstream media willing to be controlled by the CIA to disseminate the Obama/Hillary traitors’ anti-American ideology would be allowed to survive.
    All other news would be censored, with Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other Internet giants unleashed to eliminate from “Social Media” even the most private or coded communications patriots might attempt.

    https://www.infowars.com/treas...

    Interestingly I've heard the other extreme in some mainstream media, like Donald Trump being a puppet of Russia, which is obviously impossible since even his own party can't control him.

  23. Re:Slow to post on Rupert Murdoch Pushes Facebook To Pay For News To Guarantee Quality (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    What's his point? In 2018 nobody would read shitty news sites and see their crap ads or promote murdoch's political agendas without social media.

    Correct, except it's not just murdoch's political agenda, it's also the clinton agenda which currently dictates headlines in mainstream media (case in point, russiagate).

  24. Re:Fox "News" on Rupert Murdoch Pushes Facebook To Pay For News To Guarantee Quality (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Meh. We have yet to see right-wing snowflakes in real life; meanwhile they're a dime a dozen on the liberal side.

  25. At this point most news organizations have lost credibility. They're all biased and dishonest. CNN, NYT, WaPo, FoxNews, it's all the same problem; the things they report and the way they report them, it's always driven by politics.

    And it goes beyond just the actual news; the moderators on their comment threads are also biased, the op ed they promote are biased, and as we saw with Keurig even the ad selection is biased.

    These news providers should package their crap and sell it on build-your-echo-chamber.com or something similar. Which is essentially what Facebook is so maybe Murdoch has a point.