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  1. When science gets it wrong, it's still wrong.

    That and people keep claiming science is all about fact/truth etc when it's nothing of the sort. It's about best explanation of the day.

  2. Amazon gets large plot of land on Long Island.

    I guess Bezos plus minions care less about sea level rising, and hurricanes etc.

  3. So, lynch Trump the younger... on Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress (go.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Who didnâ(TM)t deliberately set up a private email server and spread classified and top secret documents like it was confetti to swathes of people without clearance.

    Itâ(TM)s zero about right/wrong, correct process, even the law. Itâ(TM)s about being as big a set of hypocritical assholes as is possible, always trying to outdo the other guy.

    If Trump junior deserves censure, Clinton deserves to be subject to the penalties for unauthorized disclosure of classified information. In the United States this is a crime under the Espionage Act of 1917. Those who are found in violation of this crime against the government face broad and wide-ranging criminal sanctions. The bollocks that she didnâ(TM)t know etc never flew.

  4. The Canadian government will probably spare no expense in making copious supplies of marijuana available, even if you live 500 miles from the next human being.

  5. Why is this even noteworthy?
    If Ms Clinton can do the email thing so epically and deliberately wrong, with classified etc info flying about with nairy a care, then this Trump spawnâ(TM)s acts arenâ(TM)t worth much more time than it took to make this comment.

  6. Not that Amazon would tell the truth on Virginia To Produce 25K-35K Additional CS Grads As Part of Amazon HQ2 Deal (loudounnow.com) · · Score: 1

    But, I am fairly sure they have zero intention of hiring any of these (imaginary) CS graduates.

  7. If it can be done wrong on California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    You can be sure that California will do it. You're more likely to see sanity out of Trump than CA.

    That and like him, they'll claim it as the biggest success ever.

    If they're going to stop the DST changeover they should revert to standard time, NOT DST.

  8. Re: Selectively morality at its finest on In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the concept of selective morality is entirely lost on you.

  9. Squeak long and loud when you are outraged at A, but are completely blind to (if the same principles behind outrage at A are applied) B through Z and more. Honestly, if these people claim to be smart, well, they should just give up now and go get a job flipping burgers.

  10. It matters not on Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Why?
    Because the outraged will end up building something even worse - being blinded by their outrage.
    Because those who do actually care will be replaced by someone who doesn't - one of the purposes of outsourcing/H1B.
    Is there no hope? Probably not - the world has reached critical mass of evil + idiots.

  11. They will probably notice that Linux is a better host for Linux VM's.

  12. Years ago... on Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    I got to attend a seminar at MIT on AI. It was pretty cool, especially then ending... "We've only got one problems left to solve in AI... We've no friggin' clue about how the brain works!"

    I spoke to him later and asked him what he meant. He said, "Essentially we're at best scratching the surface of what the brain does and how the brain does most of what we think it does. And we've not made a lot of progress since the heady days of the 1980's."

  13. CO2 isn't pollution either.

    For pollution see all the stuff that is man-made that has been introduced into the atmosphere.

  14. 1. Post WW2 when veterans decided California was nicer than [insert where they came from here].
    2. When a ton of people descended upon California during and after "the Summer of Love" aka hippie invasion.
    3. The state and federal governments screwing up immigration epically.

    Add in the "food pyramid" effect - basically the bottom of society is a lot larger than the top.

  15. Well, if Twitter is equitable... on Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Then probably 50% or more of Twitter users should be tossed off the platform. It's just a cesspool. Much as any form of social media is, and this going back to the heady days of usenet.

  16. CS done right is expensive. Given that education (the teaching bit), has been slowly but systematically gutted since the hey day of the 60â(TM)s, it beggars belief that if CS is to be an area of effort that it will be funded in any meaningful manner.

  17. Agile? on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, mostly bitter and twisted and perpetually outraged, not agile in any sense.

    Churn is a much better term than Agile.

    Agile = Let's not know what we are developing or bother to understand the business or system rules, let's just "make product" and jump with joy (or other emotion) when nothing of consequence has been produced.

  18. Following up... on Does Google Actually Make Us Dumber? (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 2

    And look what happened in that wee rant... I'm doomed!

  19. Well said on Does Google Actually Make Us Dumber? (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    I would add that since I moved to California I have become less and less literate. I know this to be true. Yet, most of the (Californian) people I know think I'm amazingly literate - that I speak and write well, and understand pretty much everything I hear or read correctly. What hurts the most is that the type of "high level" communication (written or oral) is about that that might be expected from the of a brain-addled 7th grader, not people with a post-graduate education.

  20. The problem never went away. It is simple... on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    Programmers and Program Designers still do not understand the objectives or how the âoereal worldâ works. Meaning that they donâ(TM)t get the problem and donâ(TM)t have any idea what a proper solution might look like. Which explains handily the opening assertion.

  21. Nothing said about the nature of the jobs or the wages for them. Nothing about the cost of health and accommodation. Nothing about the numbers of people that are no longer counted as looking for work.

    So, things are clearly looking up. There are even concerns over wage inflation. Translation, research worth less than a used happy meal.

  22. I've been wondering about AP CSP on The College Board Pushes To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement · · Score: 1

    AP is supposed to college level, but according to teachers I know, there're bucketloads of sophomores that take the class, and pass it.

    Apparently the other course is harder, but again tons of sophomores pass it.

    Obvious conclusion, it's bollocks that these courses are "college level."

  23. With them as the gatekeepers on The College Board Pushes To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement · · Score: 1

    Epic play. If they succeed then it's probably the beginning of the end for state control of education.

  24. Re:Everyone but trump on Trump Is Looking at Plans For a Global Network of Private Spies (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This word credible, I do not think you know what it means...

  25. Re: CIA Director doesn't trust the CIA? on Trump Is Looking at Plans For a Global Network of Private Spies (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, so Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Napoleon down to Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, various Caesars, Alexander the Great etc (not forgetting a raft of near east and asian nut jobs. Yup, they're all down to being Christian, or not.