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  1. FAKE NEWS! on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's clean, safe, and too cheap to meter.

  2. In Like Flynn on Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump (nbcnews.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The so-called President is having Russian troubles of his own. I wonder how this plays into the Snowden saga.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

    http://www.businessinsider.com...

  3. Re:Still work to do on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure they don't just cook their zucchini in a very bacony pan or something?

    Nope, it's a vegan restaurant. I'm a meat eater, but my daughter is vegan (aren't they all?) and she took me there on her last visit to Houston. Now, it's my go-to stop for lunch.

    Further, if you think zucchini has no flavor, you need to get acquainted with some Italians. Tell them you never had cucuzza (aka, "googootz"). You can thank me later.

  4. Re: Isn't this illegal? on Republicans Are Reportedly Using a Self-Destructing Message App To Avoid Leaks (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just stop the crap over President Trump's "botched" raid in Yemen. Please tell me that you are smart enough to realize that raid was planned during Obama's tenure, not Trump's. Yes he approved it but the military started planning under Obama.

    It is being reported that the way the military sold Trump on doing this botched raid is by saying "Obama wouldn't do it". So, it was a matter of Cheeto Benito wanting to look tough in his first days in office and ended up getting people killed.

    If it had happened under Obama, the House would be holding Benghazi-style hearings.

  5. Re:Isn't this illegal? on Republicans Are Reportedly Using a Self-Destructing Message App To Avoid Leaks (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Baloney. The Presidential Libraries acts of 1978 and 1986 allow government records to be transferred to Presidential Libraries, but they do not require presidential communications to use only government channels, or even to be recorded at all.

    Bill, that's just not true.

    "The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978, 44 U.S.C. 2201–2207, is an Act of Congress of the United States governing the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents created or received after January 20, 1981, and mandating the preservation of all presidential records. The PRA changed the legal ownership of the official records of the President from private to public, and established a new statutory structure under which Presidents must manage their records."

    Further, courts since Nixon have upheld this provision of the law. Presidential records must be preserved. As Sean Spicer would say, "period".

    Now, presidents have issued executive orders attempting to countermand this provision (Reagan, Bush I and Bush II), in an effort to circumvent it and to keep their evil-doing secret for as long as possible, but as recently as 2007, the courts have said, "Nah, fuck that". If you want to keep something from the public, you better classify it. That's how we got to the point where so much of what our government says and does is classified. The recent discussion of Trump's horribly botched raid in Yemen is an example of this. We know the target was missed, we know 30 civilians died (including an 8 year-old girl), we know that a Special Services soldier died and an aircraft was lost, but when asked why the administration was calling the raid a great success, the answer was, "It's classified".

  6. Re: What Political Ambitions? on Jeff Bezos Talks About Music Streaming, and His Political Ambitions (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't. Electors are based on the number of Senators and Representatives. Representatives are allocated based on population.

    So much for "consent of the governed".

  7. Re: What Political Ambitions? on Jeff Bezos Talks About Music Streaming, and His Political Ambitions (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    in key districts

    "Key districts" is part of the problem. Why should votes in South Dakota be worth more than those in San Francisco? Why should votes of black people in North Carolina be worth less than those of white people in Kentucky? Why should the votes of the most productive parts of the country be worth less than those of the least productive parts?

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

  8. Re: What Political Ambitions? on Jeff Bezos Talks About Music Streaming, and His Political Ambitions (billboard.com) · · Score: 0

    If the data is accurate, why does it matter the source?

    You might want to ask Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan that question.

  9. Re:Fahrenheit 451 on This Blog Is Republishing All the Animal Welfare Records the USDA Deleted (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, history is for losers when the history is full of lies.

    "Trump's raid on Yemen was actually a great success, but the left-wing media doesn't want you to know that."

  10. Re:More information on This Blog Is Republishing All the Animal Welfare Records the USDA Deleted (vice.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Translation:

    "We better take down anything that might implicate corporations because they might get mad."

  11. Fahrenheit 451 on This Blog Is Republishing All the Animal Welfare Records the USDA Deleted (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    First, disappear all the records. History is for losers. Information is sad.

  12. Re:And speaking of that has anyone tried golden ri on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    was there nuance I missed ?

    Clearly.

  13. Re:Still work to do on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Have they figured out a way to prepare it that doesn't taste like crap and hippy sweat? That would be news.

    Tell you what, take yourself to the Green Seed restaurant on Almeda St in Houston and order the Big Tex quinoa burger. It's got this toasted zucchini that tastes like bacon and is goddamn delicious. Seriously, if you've never tasted quinoa made well, you've got to try it. I'll offer a fully money-back guarantee if you don't like it. Get it with an order of sweet potato dill fries. On me.

    Seriously, are people who live on ramen noodles and hot pockets really complaining about the taste of quinoa?

  14. Re:And speaking of that has anyone tried golden ri on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's the GMO rice with vitamin A precursors. Sounds like it should have a different taste than regular rice.

    It tastes OK, but the additional arm it's grown on my back makes sleeping inconvenient. However, it's nice to be able to type and scratch my ass at the same time.

  15. Re:Managers and engineers on Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Replaces 600 Traders With 200 Engineers (technologyreview.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Among other less tangible things, my trading provides something very substantial and immediate to "the world" -- a stock, option or payment for the person on the other side of the trade.

    So, your added value to the world is only to another parasite who doesn't produce anything. Great.

  16. Re:When they count noses on There Are Now Twice As Many Solar Jobs As Coal Jobs In the US (vox.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why do you have to ask? That information is right there in the summary, unasked for.

    Wait, you mean we have to read the summaries now? You're one of those fact-nazis, aren't you? Always trying to supply actual information where it's not wanted.

  17. Re:Yes, that's why they bought Hull Trading. on Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Replaces 600 Traders With 200 Engineers (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you ask Steve Jobs to dig a ditch?

    Steve Jobs ran a company that produced something.

    What does Goldman Sachs produce?

  18. Re:Managers and engineers on Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Replaces 600 Traders With 200 Engineers (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    By the way, what makes you think that I don't have a job? Lots of retail traders have jobs, apart from trading.

    What does your trading produce for the world? If you're day-trading stocks, which I doubt, you are producing some infinitesimal amount of liquidity for the market. In other words, you're producing nothing. If you're trading derivatives, (more likely), you're just a parasite. Doing harm. A tumor on the economy.

  19. It's providing data not recovering data.

    That's my point. Data "provided" by probability is still data. Otherwise, noise reduction wouldn't work.

    Nothing in the article said anything about data recovery. The whole, "once data is lost it's lost" argument is a red herring in this context. It's based on a concept of "data" from computer science rather than from actual science. ; )

  20. Re:Yes, that's why they bought Hull Trading. on Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Replaces 600 Traders With 200 Engineers (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    No. It's just arbitrage, which has been happening for centuries. It has nothing to do with any markets "tanking."

    Just because something has been happening for centuries doesn't mean it's a good thing.

    Arbitrage is the very definition of making money off the productivity of other people. In an age of margin investing, it's poison for society.

  21. Re:Yes, that's why they bought Hull Trading. on Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Replaces 600 Traders With 200 Engineers (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    These are bankers and investors

    In other words, "people who don't produce a goddamn thing".

  22. Re:Managers and engineers on Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Replaces 600 Traders With 200 Engineers (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please! I am a small retail trader. I benefit substantially from the HFTs by enjoying tighter spreads, quicker fills and better closing prices.

    Why don't you get a job and become one of the makers instead of one of the takers?

  23. Re:Stupid on Google Brain Creates Technology That Can Zoom In, Enhance Pixelated Images (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You will get smacked down if you try to feign knowledge in those domains because those of us who know our shit have zero tolerance for bullshit

    No, once information has been lost it's gone. No amount of time or frequency domain analysis will restore it.

    https://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.007...

  24. I see you still don't actually know what a Fourier transform is.

    What is anti-aliasing if not providing data that's not actually there?

    http://www.sci.utah.edu/~csche...

    When used with the BBM equation, it can do predictive error-correcting. I know this because I am friends with both of the "B"s in BBM.

  25. 100% guesswork done with a computer. You cannot 'enhance' information that simply does not exist.

    Of course you can. Scientists use the Fourier transform equation to do this every day. It's not "guesswork".