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Comment Re: An endless supply of nuclear waste. (Score 2) 101

No, it isn't any of that. You guys keep changing your argument like you change underwear, and the reason for that is quite simple: You fear what you don't understand.

Some modifications causes the plant to produce its own pesticide, which clearly has a potential for harm if it ends up in the edible parts

That's called Bt, which is a protein toxic to invertebrates. Bt crop has an abundance of it, and you've probably eaten plenty of it already, even if you've never been within 1,000 miles of any GMO food. With the exception of rsilvergun, most people aren't invertebrates. Humans in fact gain nourishment from it, much like any other protein. I already know where your head is going, "OMGWTFBBQ pesticide bad! It's not safe until at least 1,000,000 years has past since it's discovery to evaluate safety!" That's more "I don't understand, therefore bad!" thinking. Just because chocolate is highly toxic to dogs doesn't mean it's going to kill you, and you're way more related to dogs than you are any invertebrate. This has been studied to death. Bt has been known about since the 1910s.

Greenpeace keeps changing their argument against Bt crop. First they said it contains too much Bt. After they handily lost that argument, now they say it doesn't produce enough. There's no good reason to engage with them on this or any other topic really. Greenpeace should be treated the same as any other religion.

Moreover, our understanding of genetics is pretty limited at this time so it's not possible to predict all of the side effects of any particular change.

I'm going to be pretty blunt: This is a very dumb, incredibly uneducated take. This is so false that almost the exact opposite is true. Proteomics has advanced a lot in the last 5 years alone, nevermind the last 25 when this whole debate began. Moreover, if you make a single, specific, known change to a nucleotide sequence and observe exactly what protein it yields, how is that unknown? It's just total nonsense.

But you know what yields an incredible amount of unknown mutations... Every. Single. Time? Natural reproduction. It's honestly mind bogglingly stupid that you guys even make this talking point.

Comment Re: Secular (Score 1) 117

Trump himself was a Democrat until about 5 minutes before he decides to run for the Republican nomination. His whole family were Democrats and donors too. His cabinet has Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr, both Democrats until Trump.

Trump has really turned the Republican party quite blue, both in terms of staff and economic policy.

Comment Re: An endless supply of nuclear waste. (Score 3, Insightful) 101

What is "green"? During all of its effort to shutdown nuclear plants, Germany tried to replace them with Russian gas. Not only an incredibly stupid (and easily foreseen) strategic blunder, but if the goal is to reduce carbon output, it seems to be exactly the wrong direction.

Though you guys always want to kill off anything that you don't understand, which not only includes nuclear energy, but also GMO crop, which increases crop yields, thus reducing the landmass and carbon required to produce the same amount of food.

Greenpeace seems to be the opposite of what it claims to be, as do you.

Comment Re: Oh noes (Score 1) 66

I think many really donÃ(TM)t realise the number of jobs on the line

If you really want to preserve jobs, why not just ban the automated switchboard? Bring back the old days of needing people to manually connect callers. There aren't even enough people in the world to do that job. By your reasoning, unemployment should totally disappear. You'll pay a lot more for phone calls, and you'll wait longer to make them, but at least you got more jobs right?

Comment Re: Actually, all these horses are the same color. (Score 1) 224

The debt isn't even needed to begin with. I meet people all the time who did basically the same thing I did: Decline the student loans when offered them, go to schools with low-cost tuition. Rely on FAFSA for school expenses (it more than covers both books and tuition if your school charges reasonable rates, even giving you the surplus back as cash.)

You know what all of us have in common? None of us were wealthy going into college, but we all make pretty good money in our careers. A girl I dated, who was a recent graduate, told me that where she went only a few years ago, people were often using their student loans to buy new cars. Not used cars, new cars She, just as I, never understood why people do things like that. Not only are we making more money than those people now, but we don't have any debts either.

If you can't afford Harvard without going into debt, then don't go to Harvard, even if you're accepted there. It's really not going to do you any favors. Would-be employers couldn't care less where you went, they care only about your skillset.

It's probably also worth mentioning that universities weren't meant for vocational training, but somehow we've turned them into that, which is a big mistake.

Comment Re: AI is a fraud until they get the I(intelligenc (Score 1) 147

His workplace probably does key escrow, and he's complaining because it's deliberately rotated, and if he doesn't use the machine for over so many days, (or whatever their policy is) then he has to manually enter in a new key. He likely also doesn't know that this feature has to be deliberately configured in a pretty drawn out process just to even work at all.

Comment Re: Rust is great but... (Score 1) 53

Declaring variable types is running in circles. You know how to use C without types?

What languages are you still using that don't have implicit typing? Java 8? C# 3? Do tell.

And my scripts are more than 100 lines.

Which is even less than I was assuming, but ok.

I write full applications, I just use AI for the smaller scripts.

Oh...wait...You're the guy who wrote the macos calculator. It all makes sense now.

Comment Re: Rust is great but... (Score 0) 53

And maybe you won't believe me, but my stuff works fine and without bugs.

There's a massive difference between the 500 line scripts you write, and projects like this. What you're doing, simply put, does not scale to this level. Period. There's a reason why, even in languages like python, tools like mypy exist.

This is why I like Python, because it can get straight to where you are going without running in circles.

In other words, every time you've tried to go outside of python, you find yourself running in circles. That's not a problem with other languages.

Comment Re: Rust is great but... (Score -1, Flamebait) 53

You're that idiot who can't even get python right despite years of experience with it. The only person in the world you have any room to call inept is angelosphere. Any idiot can write a multithreaded application, but having them actually work at scale is a whole other matter. You wouldn't understand the reason for that because, as you already openly admitted to, you rely entirely on fixing bugs only after your ship has already sunk.

Comment Re: Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clon (Score 1) 56

What I like best is that it says right in the definition of fascism that it's a hard right ideology, but he wants to call me a fascist when I'm so far left of left

What I like best is that you admitted that the only difference between you and any other fascist comes down to a totally meaningless distinction. Other than that, you quack like a duck, walk like a duck, eat like a duck...

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