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  1. Re:Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama did not think or act outside the box a single day in his pathetic weathercock life.

  2. Re:Trust, but verify on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You do not need a commitment to flick up an underground nuclear testing site. You just flick it up and, voila.

  3. Re:Camp Humphries on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Adding: one of the largest US _tank_ brigades in the world is in South Korea.

    Trump is cracking on China, America's enemy number one, and it brings the fruits.

  4. Re:Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not think the analogy is correct here.

    There is one unique quality in Trump is that he is willing to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box most of the time stupid, but without that some problems will just remain unsolved.

  5. Re:Bachelor's degree a waste of time for coders on High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    >When I was a co-op and finishing my BS, I was working as a programmer for a big company. One of the other guys there was a decent dotNET programmer and he was self-taught. One day, we all took about an hour to code up programs to brute force the answer to a riddle. He wrote his in C# or something and I wrote mine in PERL. Both of us got the right answer but mine executed in much less time than his. He just couldn't understand it. He had never been taught about speed.

    Hard to believe, isn't it?

  6. Re: This is about the 8th or 9th of these on A Study Finds Half of Jobs Are Vulnerable To Automation (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they did bother with Germans enough to help Hitler by ridiculous Versaille treaty conditions.

  7. Re: I'd prefer limiting laws to scientific ones. on EPA Proposes Limits To Science Used In Rulemaking (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I worked with such sanitized data. Geography is reduced to a state and time reduced to a year. That was definitely not enough to do science.

  8. Re: Antarctica mountains on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Or Lake Vostok.

  9. Re: Merit based employment is not racism on Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    "white math" is racist.

  10. >VoIP done right

    >VoIP done cheaply

    You seem to be posing two options.

  11. high quality audio conversations

  12. You said it like it is. Nothing to add here.

    Facebook is to share life events with family and friends. Nobody is interested in this except salesmen of campware and all other goods that could be peddled to people.

    Today my weather app shows me ads of things I browsed on Amazon yesterday. Now this is creepy, but I still do not care. I do not like that for now I can't block them.

  13. I did not let Facebook steal my private data because I did not give it away to Facebook.

  14. One incident - harbringer, two incident - trend, three incidents - national catastrophe

  15. >local LAN

    Now I read everything

  16. Also, Google Scholar search on this reveals only old articles, latest I have seen was 2014.

  17. https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...

    Insulin may be as important for the mind as it is for the body. Recent research has raised the possibility that Alzheimer's memory loss could be due to a novel third form of diabetes. Scientists have discovered why brain insulin signaling would stop working in Alzheimer's disease. They have shown that a toxic protein found in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer's removes insulin receptors from nerve cells, rendering those neurons insulin-resistant.

    Very strange abstact. In the beginning it implies that diabetes cause Alzheimer, while the last sentence indicates to the opposite.

  18. >Old people will eventually spend all of that money on some other medical condition

    Some of them. Some of them will just let it go and pass that money to the next generation.

    I wonder how do I prevent robbers in scrubs from robbing my offspring dry using my senile condition.

  19. > we believe

    No, we don't.

  20. what's wrong with digital on 'High Definition Vinyl' Is Coming As Early As Next Year (pitchfork.com) · · Score: 1

    Cheap conversion rate?

  21. > using a non-preferred pronoun with a transgendered person

    I always wanted to know how do you know. I know a cashier at a local shop who was going through transition. I was really confused on what to call them during that period: "sir or ma'am".

  22. Re: IT Workers on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    I wanted to say something sceptical abouy Dunning Kruger effect, but I am afraid I will be categorized as a subject of Dunning Kruger effect.

    I also never argue with both of psychoanalysts.

  23. yes on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    Moreover, they are underinvesting in anything that can pay me vast sums of money

  24. Re: Story missing important details on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything that is predicted to happen in 50 years will either be made nonsensically obsolete by unfathomable events in the future or it will happen much earlier.

    Obviously, 2001 Odyssey (meaningless pun intended) does not count as a prediction.

  25. Re: Story missing important details on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    I was actually wondering myself on how Waymoes handled that situation during their millions of engaged miles. I did not drive mullion miles, yet I have been in that situation many times, so there MUST be already data about this.