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  1. Re:White vs Hispanic on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You're regurgitating the mainstream view from 30 years ago.

    Look, I was taught the same thing, but if it is "genetic" then it is still apparently distributed equally among all peoples. Maybe it is "genetic" in the sense that each individual trait is distributed in the population in a "natural distribution," is that all you mean?

    Because the traditional view of it "being genetic" was that it meant the risks would be different in different populations, except that is clearly disproven by data. All the known genetic differences in risks in populations are from marginal risks. None of the major risks seem to be distributed differently by geography.

    And arguing against the data on Japanese-Americans is just daft. You won't change the results of the studies. Go out, search for data, and read, little one.

  2. The way it works is, if there is a problem you're required to disclose it, but unless the value of the home is really high there isn't any requirement to hire a professional to check for that stuff. If you knew there was a problem with the roof, or plumbing, or whatever, you're required to disclose that.

    So the headline is a lie; the majority of houses in the US have always been bought and sold without requiring an appraisal by a human. They simply haven't updated the dividing line between what is required and what is normally done anyways in awhile, and so that percentage that require it has been going up as home prices increase. This proposal would move the line so that there is a similar percentage on both sides of the line as there was last time they updated it.

    A clickbait in search of a story.

  3. You've got some... no, on your chin

  4. Re:After 10ms that information is no longer realti on By 2025, Nearly 30 Percent of Data Generated Will Be Real-Time, IDC Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You're mistaken; the act of collecting the data is not actually the data.

    Sure, if you mix up the verbs and nouns, what I said stops making sense. That will always be true.

  5. Re:After 10ms that information is no longer realti on By 2025, Nearly 30 Percent of Data Generated Will Be Real-Time, IDC Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever hear about an ice core, or an archaeological dig?

    What about astronomy?

    Or even, a low-pass filter?

  6. Re:and 99%+ of that data.. on By 2025, Nearly 30 Percent of Data Generated Will Be Real-Time, IDC Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that isn't the main function of the devices?

  7. Re:It adds up quickly on By 2025, Nearly 30 Percent of Data Generated Will Be Real-Time, IDC Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you collected it, it isn't real-time data.

    If nobody collected it, it might be.

    The computer inside an op-amp is operating on real-time data; a network switch is operating on real-time data. The controller inside a mouse or keyboard is operating on real-time data; but the desktop computer it hands that data over to is not.

  8. And yet, many do specify septic ("oh shit!") if financial restitution and police.

    I think you had it right the first time.

  9. No, if he wiped it that would be spoliation of evidence, which means that the Court would infer that it proved the things Intel says it proved.

    If he obstructed justice, that has nothing to do with Intel's lawsuit, and Intel's lawyers aren't the ones who handle that part.

    Don't get so easily distracted by squirrels.

  10. Re:Another way to look at it: on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Intentionally, or just whenever it runs the batteries down? Or did they just forget to implement that?

  11. Re:Tesla's Fault on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    So let me see if I have this straight. ... not the fault of Ford, Toyota, Chevy, Nissan, etc

    I don't know about the other brands, but a Chevy with lane assist would have stopped on its own, not ran from the cops.

    While you're busy waving your hands don't forget to notice the differences between the things you're saying are the same.

  12. Re:Not enough info to blame Tesla... or not on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Was there a thunderstorm? Blizzard? I find myself wondering what the weather had to do with what happened, or didn't.

    Easy. It was a shitstorm.

  13. Re:Not Less Capable on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    It only means your friends are stupid assholes. That's all it means. That's all you should hear when they say it.

    Anybody lumping motorcycles and bicycles together when talking about safety should be treated the same way.

    Being assholes may be a defense mechanism for dealing with the PTSD that comes with that job, but they're still assholes.

  14. Re:Not Less Capable on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Where did you go from "a single actual case that happened in the story" to "worst case?" You can fit the whole Universe between what happened, and what you understood from the story.

  15. They're willing to talk, but the trade dispute is about trade, not about willingness to talk. :)

    And Trump doesn't really need a coherent position, since the Chinese haven't been willing to "negotiate," only to "talk."

    His lack of coherency is what is slowing him down, thankfully, since most of his opponents are just as incoherent.

  16. It doesn't work that way. Modern factory farms will have huge die-offs if not well-managed, and well managed livestock won't spread disease at the rate that causes a big problem.

    If they are susceptible to biological warfare targeting livestock, they're already experiencing disease epidemics naturally. If they can prevent natural epidemics that are expected when you have that many animals in a small area, they're already preventing the sort of small-scale biological warfare that you envision.

    It isn't enough to feed the animals a bunch of medicine, you have to actively identify, segregate, and destroy affected animals. If you don't have the sort of regulatory environment to enforce that, you will have epidemics that periodically destroy the local industry.

  17. Where is the lovely part of Baja that is over 50 miles from a coast?

  18. No other civilized country allows non-citizens to own real estate... except for the US

    Most countries allow foreign ownership of land.

    That's insanely derpy. Just go and do a web search on what countries a foreigner can buy land in. I know you're allergic to looking up your claims to check, but just try it. It will be funny.

  19. Of course he DID cave by limiting his hand, and of course he could not really possibly have already removed the tariffs by now anyway so using that as evidence he didn't cave is typical Shanghai dishonesty again.

    It is widely being reported that way, but the details say he actually gave a "cease-fire" as a 90-day ultimatum to meet all his listed demands; no new tariffs if a deal is made within 90 days. Well golly, if a deal was made, at any time, there would not be new tariffs. So it isn't really much of anything except a delay of announced tariffs to see if a deal is really close. Which it probably is not.

    Everybody is running in circles trying to figure out what their "side" is supposed to echo, and few even seem to have noticed the details of what happened. ;) Or what didn't.

  20. It doesn't "literally" mean "an uncovering," it literally means that the genital covering-skin has been pulled back, or is absent. A very specific uncovering.

  21. Re:It's not only chips on TSMC, a Company Few Americans Know, is About To Dethrone Intel (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They still play Lather on the radio, but not many people realize it is only about the drummer turning 30, and the band deciding he's still human.

    Don McLean certainly thought it was the end of the world, but the world moved on, even so far as the video to Madonna's cover of the song.

  22. Re:What could go wrong? on IBM Aims To Meld AI With Human Resources With Watson Suite (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What the fruit is good for is exactly the sort of off-topic thing that is not part of the semantics that AI techniques seek to improve upon.

    What a fruit is good for would come up when evaluating the semantics of some verb, or a noun representing the state of something that consumes fruit.

    The reality is that it doesn't understand semantics, syntactic or logical, or attempt to. Keywords are not a good enough linguistic representation to even attempt to encode semantics.

    That's in addition to the lack of unrelated understanding that gives humans spiritual feelings of superiority over machines. (and even other animals, somehow)

    Humans don't often even notice that their concept of "what a fruit is good for" is defined backwards from some sort of situation where they had a successful pattern match, and not actually part of their thinking process during directed thought. Or that, computers have an easy time maintaining a list of verbs that go with a noun. The hard part isn't connecting them, the hard part is having a semantic understanding of "fruit" in the first place! Which word spelled f-r-u-i-t is it, exactly? And are there mistakes? That is well beyond the capabilities of current algorithms; and sadly, they don't try very hard to solve it. Instead they just want to do something nice and easy like stuffing more examples into a barely-directed self-modifying learning algorithm. Interesting idea, of course, but they don't even have ways of testing the output to measure for semantic understanding, so they only can make marginal improvements that are guaranteed to contain the same main flaws as past keyword systems.

    Humans have not even succeeded yet at writing a "semantic dictionary" for humans so it seems a long way off to teach computers about it. But it is about linguistics, not about being able to identify verbs likely to have a stated adjective near them.

  23. Re:Tired of all the winning on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    People from the bay area with "lots of equity to spend" do not move out of the bay area to retire in the foothills overlooking the central valley.

    That is so absurd and stupid you should be embarrassed.

    You should visit the Bay Area some day. And don't claim that you have, you'll look worse, not better.

  24. Right. You didn't talk about cryptocoins. The story is about that.

    See this page of comments? Did you ever wonder why the comments come in pages? Did you ever wonder why they have different words at the top?

  25. Re:White vs Hispanic on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a large volume of hand-waving when you didn't even respond to what I said.

    If you had the same information, but your comment was responsive to the information in my comment, it would be a discussion.

    Instead, you regurgitated a bunch of stuff that you presumably understand was irrelevant and so small as to disappear into the margins of what I talked about. You can wave your hands about not believing decades worth of studies, or not believing it is possible that there are Japanese-Americans who eat a traditional Japanese diet, but that's just moronic.

    And you even wave your hands and claim that Japanese-Americans do actually have magical DNA even though I pointed out that studies show that they do not. Go out and read, little one. Find a library and read. The studies have been done, repeatedly, and they are clear about this!