getting a call from a headhunter. She'll say something and it will be completely unintelligible because some asshole next to her will be screaming his head off on the phone, or doing "team building" exercises. And at that point I'll politely tell her, "Sorry, but I only work with professional organizations. Please don't call back, I've blacklisted you."

Not that I was interested to begin with.

So does that mean they sold China one or zero? That doesn't make any sense. Now you're going to have to cite your sources or I call BS.

I know. Sorry, I read the paper.

I'm not a physicist, either. Maybe someone can clear these questions up for me.

The paper cites neutrinoless double beta decay as one of its six observations, but from my understanding this phenomena has not yet been observed, and experiments that have claimed to observe it have not been "disputed", but unambiguously discredited.

Also - from my understanding - previous theoretical work stipulated that the FTL component would only be found in internal reference frames via quantum interactions, and the neutrino itself would not and need not travel FTL.

No it doesn't. Don't use Java.

Far from showing weakness, this study seems to demonstrate a creatively brilliant algorithm. These are very, very strong results. I am deeply impressed.

Text recognition in white noise can be fixed with virtual saccades.

Aside from adding "human" sensibilities (do we only want it to only recognize objects in real, photo-realistic settings, and not drawings / art?), I would say it's good to go.

Because prosecutors have a conflict of interest.

Many would ruin their careers or lose their jobs by doing this.

Just discovered this yesterday - the real lyric is: "Kýrie, eléison, down the road that I must travel".

What the hell does Kýrie, eléison mean? It's, "Lord, have mercy" in Greek.

And all these years, I liked the song because it had a frickin' laser in it.

We need more songs with lasers.

I reserve the right to use 'he' as a neuter pronoun when code is involved.

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OK, you got me. I posted before seeing the very bottom of the article, and I'm totally sexist for assuming it was a dude.

Hey at least I read it.

to use a spell checker, too?

They set up the experiment to cause cooperation to fail. They tried for that particular result, and got it.

"Intuitive sense" sounds awfully wishy-washy considering they just pulled the models out of their asses.

Title should read "Game Theory Analysis Shows How Evolution Can Favor Cooperation's Collapse".

Max Von Sydow: It's not ready.
Harrison Ford: (looking old and resigned) It's ready enough.
(plays the lamest trailer, ever)

could someone please explain to me then why reviews like these aren't a major scandal all by themselves?

you should read a little about how grand juries work.

Just read the first few pages. Trust me, it's worth a few minutes of your time.

on how various sectors of the US work force did and did not protect itself from stuff like this.

The US population has no meaningful control or oversight over trillions in military funding.

You can bet your ass that the US is first in quantum computing.