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  1. There are only two relevant questions: on Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    1) can you do the job better than the other candidates?
    2) can we teach you to be better than the other candidates for cheap?
    Anything else end being some sort of classism or sexism or racism or nepotism.

  2. Re:Lower cost with higher renewables? on Renewable Energy Reduces the Highest Electric Rates In the Nation (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    By avoiding citing that they're doing renewable energy at all, so the companies can't use it on the marketing to increase the price?

  3. Re:There is a quite easy way to kill win7 on Microsoft Will Now Pester Windows 7 Users To Upgrade To Windows 10 With Pop-ups (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't consider an OS that comes bundled with malware as a good OS.

  4. There is a quite easy way to kill win7 on Microsoft Will Now Pester Windows 7 Users To Upgrade To Windows 10 With Pop-ups (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Release another good windows.
    Worked wonders with windows XP.

  5. Re:Spreading division is profitable I guess on 'Captain Marvel' Smashes Box Office Record, Laughs Off Review-Bombing Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    Indeed.
    They just bomb because people assume that it was just a shitty writer, instead of someone scared to death to add any flaws on the character due the character's gender.

  6. Re:Spreading division is profitable I guess on 'Captain Marvel' Smashes Box Office Record, Laughs Off Review-Bombing Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    No, it have to have well written characters regardless of the gender, not some uni-dimensional "safe" mary sue/gary stu.
    There are better examples out there like well, wonder woman.

  7. Re:Count me in on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 2

    The best argument for DST got killed by better lamps.

  8. Identity politics are not helping those groups, if anything, it is just causing millions over millions of victims due this stupid attempt at simplifying an complex problem.
    We live on a world where "1%" equates to 70 million people.
    There's no space for "the blacks, the whites and the women" on such huge volume.
    And your opponents, those who perpetrate those problems, they're also on the same identity politics ride and causing the exact same issues, but with different parameters for the groups as you.
    So we should just set this system on fire everywhere, be you or be the sexist or racist people.

  9. Re: Does this mean.. on A 60 Minutes Story on Gender Equality Accidentally Proved the Persistence of Patriarchy (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you even have to make a program about women, the situation is already hell.
    You can't fix gender discrimination with more gender discrimination.

  10. Re: Does this mean.. on A 60 Minutes Story on Gender Equality Accidentally Proved the Persistence of Patriarchy (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The mere act of reducing people into their races and genders end up hurting a lot of people, and that's what those reports, and the political actions created by them end doing.
    You should ALWAYS judge people by their individual lives, even if its more expensive.

  11. In a way.
    At least they can celebrate "being like a vampire for not showing on the self-driving car's detection"

  12. Pixel counting on Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often, Study Finds (futurism.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the clothing counts a lot more than the skin, given they cover most of the body of people.
    Which means if you're a goth, self-driving cars are most likely to hit you.

  13. It will happen, but mostly because this way, only facebook will be able to decrypt the data, and that will fetch a premium value on it with the data brokers.

  14. Indeed.
    The key here is to be wise enough to do what need to be done, instead of holding so hard to your ideology you prefer to see people starve than cave in.

  15. That maybe would happen if the system lasted long enough, but it generally don't.

  16. Those examples are capitalist countries with social programs.
    Pure socialism will always fail because it don't handle the white elephant in the room, that is the part where humans are sadly programmed to form kingdoms, and unless you have a system that stops it (like capitalism does by promising everyone the chance to be the king but makes it horribly hard with competition), the system instantly collapse into some sort of kingdom, and those just suck.
    Just look at how your average joe think everything is handled by the president.

  17. Re:Does it matter? on Google Found it Paid Men Less Than Women For the Same Job (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And this is generally compensated by giving the better one a better title.

  18. Yes i agree, Trump is a great president. We should totally reelect him!

    *this message is not in any way sponsored or created by the republican party*

  19. From what? sorry, Trump edited your post and i can't quite understand it now

  20. He will control what everyone post if you give him the power.
    You, me, and tony the tiger too.

  21. Re:BUT!! on The Washington Post Decries 'Toxicity' in Videogames (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you want Trump to control what you can post or not?
    Because that's exactly what you're asking for.

  22. I don't think vehicles are the best application for this proposed supercap, as i doubt it has the same power density as lipo.
    But if this "coal" offer a really good power storage per dollar, you could make huge supercaps to help up with solar/wind.

  23. Re:Your free speech is not disinformation on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Still Aren't Doing Enough About Disinformation, EU Says (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What the tech companies, EU etc want is to ban people from saying certain things.

  24. Re:Your free speech is not disinformation on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Still Aren't Doing Enough About Disinformation, EU Says (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    On the example of the theatre, you can easily consider the shout something that is not speech, as well, you're screaming.
    And on the case of not vaccinating, its not the speech itself causing the trouble, but not vaccinating.
    And its way easier to just make illegal to not vaccinate your kids and keep tabs on what they took or not than creating a 1984 hell where all speech is monitored by the government.

  25. Re:Not surprised on YouTube Will Disable Comments on Nearly All Videos With Kids (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I probably would leave the comments on, but hand all the info for the FBI.