Comment FFS (Score -1, Flamebait) 85
3D printing is great stuff all by itself. No need to associate it with the Climate Change scam.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 0) 1032
Didn't do too well in math?
Comment Re:The author went to college in the 80's (Score 1) 1032
"This guy is simply a sociopathic asshole who is just being provocative to get page views."
That's about all the jobs that are left, after outsourcing/offshoring, automation, various financial implosions, jobless "recoveries", etc.
That's about all the jobs that are left, after outsourcing/offshoring, automation, various financial implosions, jobless "recoveries", etc.
Comment Re:Lies, Damn lies and Statistics (Score 1) 216
Is any news not written by PR/marketing/advertising agencies these days?
Comment Re:How to fix the pause! (Score 1) 639
Why make bad science even worse by adjusting the actual data?
Because this is a political issue, and there are hundreds of billions of dollars, careers, emotional investments, self-flattering moral superiority positioning and reputations at stake.
Because this is a political issue, and there are hundreds of billions of dollars, careers, emotional investments, self-flattering moral superiority positioning and reputations at stake.
Submission + - Obama-RNN—AI generated political speeches. (medium.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Obama-RNN is an experimental neural network AI system to write political speeches, mimicking president Obamas style and content. The results are astonishing and at time highly entertaining.
Comment Re:Professional trolls (Score 1) 184
Correct, and PP is wrong. But upmodded wrong posts (and downmodded not-wrong posts) are common these days and I blame it on the trolls and moderation groupthink.
Comment Re:other people's money (Score 1) 413
You give a man something to do? Where they can be appreciated and respected?
Phoney, make-work jobs for benefits recipients (soon to include you and me, post automation revolution)!
Phoney, make-work jobs for benefits recipients (soon to include you and me, post automation revolution)!
Comment Re:A few things here... (Score 1) 272
I am reminded of tax breaks for Tesla buyers...
Comment Re:You know what would REALLY motivate kids? (Score 1) 208
Civil and Environmental Engineering are also hard to offshore
If they are greenfield, labor-intensive large projects, no they're not. Cheap foreign workers, sophisticated engineering software and reliable internet make offshoring easy. Often western engineering firms will set up branches in India or China for just this purpose, bypassing western qualified workers. Of course it's easier to do during a recession and they just don't re-hire the laid-off when the economy picks up again.
If they are greenfield, labor-intensive large projects, no they're not. Cheap foreign workers, sophisticated engineering software and reliable internet make offshoring easy. Often western engineering firms will set up branches in India or China for just this purpose, bypassing western qualified workers. Of course it's easier to do during a recession and they just don't re-hire the laid-off when the economy picks up again.
Comment Re:Not news, not for nerds, doesn't matter (Score 1) 231
So I take it you'll be voting Republican?
Comment Supermodels (Score 0, Troll) 268
I stopped reading at "Climate models show..."
ESA Satellite Shows Sudden Ice Loss In Southern Antarctic Peninsula 268
ddelmonte tips news that the ESA's CryoSat spacecraft has detected a sharp increase in the rate at which ice is being lost in a previously stable section of Antarctica. In 2009, glaciers at the Southern Antarctic Peninsula began rapidly shedding ice into the ocean, at a rate of roughly 60 cubic kilometers per year (abstract). From the ESA's press release:
This makes the region one of the largest contributors to sea-level rise in Antarctica, having added about 300 cubic km of water into the ocean in the past six years. Some glaciers along the coastal expanse are currently lowering by as much as four m each year. Prior to 2009, the 750 km-long Southern Antarctic Peninsula showed no signs of change. ... The ice loss in the region is so large that it has even caused small changes in Earth’s gravity field, detected by NASA’s GRACE mission. Climate models show that the sudden change cannot be explained by changes in snowfall or air temperature. Instead, the team attributes the rapid ice loss to warming oceans.
Comment Re:When Nixon did that... (Score 1) 276
When democrats fuck up it's because they're "only human", "improving", "evolving", "normal people with flaws" etc. When anyone else fucks up it's because they're evil and should never be elected. Haven'y you figured this out yet?
Comment Re:Oh shut up (Score 1) 776
There's no reason why men should be considered as the only sex to be able to exhibit these traits w/o detracting from their identity as male or female.
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-- this post brought to you by the letter ' t ' in LGBTt (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, transsexual)
Never before have a commenter's sentence and sig gone so well together.
