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Comment Sabotage??? (Score 1, Insightful) 90

Not sure how allegedly stealing data and talking to the press is sabotage???

sabotage /sabtäZH/
verb
verb: sabotage; 3rd person present: sabotages; past tense: sabotaged; past participle: sabotaged; gerund or present participle: sabotaging

        1.
        deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct (something), especially for political or military advantage.
        synonyms: vandalize, wreck, damage, destroy, cripple, impair, incapacitate

Comment Re:finally somebody else uses Antarctica argument (Score 1) 646

Not sure what economic value Antarctica has in light of its complex political situation. Mars is at least a new frontier with the opportunity to do all sorts of economically productive things. Plus the added benefit of getting away from all these disgusting earthlings, worth SpaceX's 300k price of admission right there.

Comment Stupid paranoia forces this (Score 1) 119

As a parent, you suddenly learn that due to various overdosing in the past, nothing is recommended for young kids. So parents see their kids in pointless agony over teathing or toddler colds, etc and find nothing at the store for them. Except for homeopathic crap. If you won't sell what works, people will find something else to try.

Comment Re:*Citation needed - Plural of anecdote is not da (Score 1) 289

I am sick and tired of this claim being made endlessly without any evidence. As a parent and a person who grew up on a computer, I fail to see how its worse than books. In many cases, it's better than books because it allows two-way engagement that books. Sounds like a bunch of Luddites.

Comment Youtube kids needs more work (Score 0) 41

As someone whos kids watch a lot of youtube kids this is a good start. Next, let us select the language of videos. My kid gets quite upset at foreign language programming and as a parent, I am unable to really tell if it's appropriate. Next, for god sakes let us set the video quality! Mobile data isn't free and most parents use hotspots not devices with sim cards, making the 'No HD on mobile data' option useless. Even when my kids had a tablet with a radio the No HD on mobile data still ran 480p that ate data for breakfast.

Comment Dunning–Kruger effect (Score 3, Insightful) 458

Tech people are really good at falling victim to the Dunning–Kruger effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... They equate their highly specialized technical abilities or "smarts" with being at the upper end of the cognitive spectrum overall. Where in fact, they are unable to baseline a "smart" person, so they assume they are one, because of their success in a very limited area. This is reinforced by people telling them how smart they are. Where in reality they understand a somewhat simple topic that the person giving the compliment lacks an understanding of.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is not just in tech, most people who are less than average overall assume they are at the upper end of the spectrum. This is entirely caused by a lack of a real point of comparison, they are ignorant of what they are ignorant of and no one dares tell them differently. They then feel they have authority to speak on topics where they have no more expertise than the average fifth grader. A great example of this is a genetics professor I once had given a lecture (in a high-level genetics class) about computer security. He was repeting a perspective that had recently been published in the media. He spoke with complete authority on the topic, but due to my lifetime in security, I know everything he was saying was sensationally fake. He lacked the perspective to understand that he wasn't smart in this area but claimed his high-level knowledge in biology allowed him to be an expert in every possible field. This is the exact same force at work...

Comment Re:Petty. (Score 1) 461

The UK just wanted a divorce. But her husband the EU is so angry that he will scorch the earth to try and assert his endless dominance over her. She's gone, let her go. Make a fair split of the property and debts and accept that your obsession with total dominance over her is why she left. If this were people, she would have log got a restraining order long ago.

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