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  1. Treaties sound like a hell of a party.

  2. Trump's entire world view revolves around who is superior and who is inferior. So no, I don't think he can.

  3. Re:Another PATENTLY RETARDED and SUPERFLUOUS promi on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    So now the Army, Navy, Air Force AND Space Force will all have satellites.

  4. Re:Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Generally the way it works is there are general disorder classifications. It isn't that one is a disorder while the other is not, but that one might fall under a more generic category while something else might be different enough that it deserves its own. So you probably would not have 'peanut butter eating' as a disorder, but 'eating' might, while 'eating non food items' gets another category.

  5. Re:Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The real debate is not 'is it a problem?', but 'is it a distinct problem that requires its own classification?'. So the question is really about it having unique attributes that help in diagnosis or impact treatment methods.

  6. Re:Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You forget that the people who say this have no particular interest in other people stopping, only their own sense of superiority. It is a method of dealing with anxiety, not a proposed solution, kinda like rich people saying that the problem with poor people is they don't make enough money.

  7. Old News on Was the Stanford Prison Experiment a Sham? (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    I keep forgetting that people still take the Stanford Prison Experiment seriously. It has been known for a long time that the actual events did not live up to the pop-culture image of them.

  8. On the other hand, the reason wester union has this fund is that they were caught knowing these scams were going on but were raking in the fees. So this is coming out of their profits.

  9. Re:He doesn't deserve it back on After a Decade, 77-Year-Old Gets Back $110,000 Lost In 'Nigerian Prince' Scam (kansascity.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, as the saying goes.. democracy is the worst form of government except for all the other kinds.

  10. Re:So... on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Because there is always one best way to do things, regardless of scale or domain! Everyone who is not using the blogger's specific preferred process is simply denying the inevitable. We have consulting services to sell damn it!

  11. To say there is no excuse assumes the alternative is so obvious as to not need a reason.

  12. Re: Dell / hp / others all do specs bumps / price on On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware (rogueamoeba.com) · · Score: 0

    95% of people will not know the difference, nor notice it in their general use.

  13. Unless you have a video card that doesn't support it, it is still a perfectly good OS. OS upgrades tend not to give users all that much outside 'some new hardware you buy needs it'.

  14. Re:Welcome to the Modern World on Bitcoin's Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Smaller the pool, the easier it is for wealthy parties to manipulate it. I wish I could remember the actual events, but I can recall years ago in class we went over case studies of firms or even individuals able to manipulate the currencies of small/poor nations. Cryptocurrency, even all the coins put together, is still well within the range of what well financed individuals can screw with and fleece other investors.

  15. Re:It has no intrinsic value on Bitcoin's Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Question is, are they they same people? Ok, probably a lot of them are.. techno libertarianism tends to define a lot of ethics based off what benefits the speaker and it is every else's fault if it doesn't.

  16. Re:a currency built on malware and stolen power on 5% of All Monero Currently In Circulation Has Been Mined Using Malware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    People who dream of being currency traders? As far as I can tell that is all the various alt-coins are good for.

  17. Re:Is github itself open-source? on Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers · · Score: 1

    The tricky part tends to come from the complexity of such contracts. When you have experts on writing agreements vs laymen who's skills are mostly technical, it is real easy to arrange things so that people do not get what they think they are getting.

  18. On the other side of it, the US also broke its word during the Bush Jr years. Both the US and DPRK have shown themselves to be untrustworthy when it comes to treaties, both will violate whatever they like when it serves a domestic agenda.

  19. When you have an ally on one border and two quasi-superpowers on the other, yeah, you worry about destabilizing.

  20. I doubt banks really care about 'new currencies', but do care about fraud and reversed transactions.

  21. Re:NN is not what you're being told on Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it isn't just bandwidth costs, but legal ones. Under NN, Netflix/Facebook/whoever only really needs to negotiate with the ISP they get their access from (plus any they want to put in additional dedicated connections),.. without NN they have to negotiate with every little ISP that wants to make accessing their customers difficult. That is a lot of deal making and a lot of contracts to keep together.

  22. Re:No worries... on Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the big reasons we did not see the abuses net neutrality was designed to address was that the larger ISPs did not want to make long term plans like that until they felt confident that that rules were going to be consistent for the next few decades. So yeah, as long as things are still in flux, they are unlikely to move on much of it.

  23. Re:Advice on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The people giving advice for the last 60ish years have managed to not have a cold war go hot and have avoided the massive destabilizing catastrophe that a DPRK collapse would entail.

  24. Re:We know who they mean on FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies To Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims: Gizmodo (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, the differences is NYC and CNN often publish retractions. Fox tends to buckle down and defend its falsehoods even harder.

  25. Re:Is github itself open-source? on Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually you can. Not all shares are the same, and VCs have been known to write deals that buy out their type of share but not the employee ones. Even owners have been known to get caught in this type of legal trick since VCs know the technicalities but a lot of startup CEOs are unfamiliar with how the rules work, so they are easy to fleece.