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  1. So what? on AI Can't Reason Why (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Ask Jesus, heâ(TM)ll tell you the best slaves are the ones who donâ(TM)t ask why. We are building AI to do our work for us, if we follow that philosophy we should be glad it doesnt start asking uncomfortable questions.

    We have no idea how sentience arises, none whatsoever. The idiots who claim its from some complexity level are wrong. Robots can imitate us at 1000x the speed but they cant attain conciousness with any present or currently foreseeable technology.

  2. Do you realize some people voted for trump because they agreed with only some of his views? For example, you may have disagreed with trump on all the social issues but still needed a tax cut so you vote for him. Second, just because people didnt agree with your viewpoint before doesn't make it wrong. A lot of people used to think the earth was flat .. nowadays a majority think its spherical. Yet nobody believes the Earth was flat and is now round.

  3. Re: I can't even imagine... on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Socialism is capitalism where government officials are the capitalist. Check every country that attempted socialism.

  4. Re:996 on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If there is nothing to buy whats the point of the public even having money, and how does the public get money without business/commerce?

  5. Junk food is a junk term. Furthermore, there is zero evidence the food traditionally thought of ad junk food is bad for you. Extreme quantities of ANY food is bad. There obviously can be apecific ingredients that make certain foods worse than others, how about simply remindig people to reduce their intakes of those specific ingredients?

  6. OK so? on 'Yes, Pluto Is a Planet' (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    I am going to visit it on the spaceship âoeI dont give a Fuck!â

    That said, it really would be an awesome place to visit. Desolate, but awesome.

  7. Re: Those pesky migrants on One of the Milky Way's Fastest Stars Is an Invader From Another Galaxy (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Lighten up dude. It adds flavor to the title unless you are an idiot to take it literally.

  8. 996 on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If it wasnt for 996 the luxury of pushing back against in now wont exist. The Chinese are not starving and the global economy better today and we have nice toys thanks to the fact that they were cheaper than western manufacturing.

    I am not saying they need 996 at the same time they have to respect that it was needed.

  9. Re: I can't even imagine... on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cares that a few contractors and construction workers had reduced employment because of it right?

    Who needs money nowadays anyway?

  10. Re: I can't even imagine... on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Dude are you that slow? Its obviously not the full $1B but a data center doesnâ(TM)t build itself. A data center doesnt run itself.

    Those two guys who screwed this up for a town probably ruined a lot of lives.

    Idiots need to ask themselves what the impact on jobs will be before they go doing asinine things. I feel sorry for the people who wonâ(TM)t have jobs because of this.

  11. Donâ(TM)t on AV1 Beats x264 and Libvpx-Vp9 in Practical Use Case (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    Basically I want a royalty-free format that everyone of importance (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Edge) gets behind. Performance is a secondary concern.
    Its still up in the air whether Apple will support this. Its true they joined as a founding member but they havent saif anything. They could just be spying for all we know.

  12. Why is it congress business whether or not facebook is regulating hate speech? Facebook shouldnt be told what it needs to do in that regard. Government has no right to tell facebook whether it should or shouldnâ(TM)t prevent hate speech. Eventually givernment will force facebook to only put pro-government stuff everything else will be declared fake!

  13. If Apple could afford testing it back in 2005, they sure as hell can afford it now. Or, they could so what Microsoft does and have their customers test it for them.

  14. Umm on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    We dont know how beaming down works, so how the heck can we assume that it would destroy conciousness? I mean, walking might destroy conciousness in that case .. but we know it doesnâ(TM)t. I think. Donâ(TM)t F with my head.

  15. Re: Not surprising. on Largest US Radio Company iHeartMedia Files For Bankruptcy (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    AM radio is still popular. Most of the Trump drones have to tune in to download the latest update or patch.

  16. Re: She should have done what Musk did on SEC Charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes With 'Massive Fraud' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yo, Muskâ(TM)s stuff works. Maybe delayed by double his estimate, but it works.

  17. Re: LOL on MIT Plans To Build Nuclear Fusion Plant By 2033 · · Score: 1

    People like you were saying the same thing about airplanes and rockets. Thank goodness the inventors kept trying.

  18. JunoCAM on NASA Spacecraft Reveals Jupiter's Interior In Unprecedented Detail (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    JunoCAM, which is a seriously downgraded camera system (there is barely a zoom on the lens), almost wasn't even included on this mission since NASA felt visual observations were unnecessary and wouldn't provide anything useful scientifically. Just imagine we could have had even better visuals than this if a larger more sophisticated camera was included. Oh well.

  19. What? on 'Java EE' Has Been Renamed 'Jakarta EE' (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Yeah oh boy that was a tough choice bro .. Jakarta EE versus "Enterprise Profile" ??? wtf.

    Seriously though, who the heck voted for Enterprise Profile? Trekkies?

  20. Re: Lack of imagination on 'Automating Jobs Is How Society Makes Progress' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Well with some of the imagination you prescribed humans can do the job of a jet engine. Build a giant kite-plane and a pulley system driven by bicycles with gears so as to multiply the speed. Have 1000 men on bikes pulling a rope across a system of gears such that the kite-plane moves about two miles. Then have a system of airborne kite-attachment hooks to detach and attach to the next relay of cyclists and so on coast to coast.

  21. Re: bloody revolution on 'Automating Jobs Is How Society Makes Progress' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Is inequalty by itself a problem? If you have a decent income that can pay for most of your needs why do you care if someone else is living larger? It seems more like jealousy and envy.

    Now if your argument was that people donâ(TM)t have enough money for their needs .. then we can talk about it being a problem. But if people have enough money for their needs, why does it matter how much better someone else is doing .. especially if thwy got their money by contributing a product that added value to society.

  22. Societyâ(TM)s job on 'Automating Jobs Is How Society Makes Progress' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want income even though you canâ(TM)t add value, forcing companies to hire you and have you on their payroll thereby preventing them from automating is the worst way to get it.

    Its better to get your income by taxing the company. Forcing them to hire you is the same as a tax, except its worse because it reduces their production output â" which in turn increases the price of their product. The cheaper a company can be productive, the more income they have that can be taxed. Also, more goods and products can be on the market cheaper. This increases the value of your basic tax-funded income because you can buy more things.

    TL;DR: If you need money, get it via taxation not by degrading industrial output by forcing people to hire you.

  23. This, like Qualcomm's version is Fake 5G. 5G hasn't been locked down yet. It hasn't even been submitted to IMT yet.

  24. You guys, the same idiots who said bakers have the right to refuse service to gays, are the ones now saying Google should be forced to let declared mysognists stay on there staff? Unless you are a racist, you cant be against affirmative action while saying companies dont have the right to hire or fire who at will.

  25. Easiest way to explain why: on Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Prefers Clusters of Small Engines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Weight of Rocketdyne F-1 engine on Saturn V (moon rocket): 18,000 pounds, thrust:1,500,000 pounds

    Weight of Merlin 1-D engine on Falcon 9: 1,000 pounds, thrust: 190,000 pounds

    The specific impulse of a Merlin engine is 282 seconds, the specific impulse on an F-1 engine is 263 seconds.

    TL;DR:
    18 Merlin engines weigh the same as one F-1 moon rocket engine but only 8 of them are needed to provide the same thrust.