Iggymanz claimed that fossils didn't last more than a million years; it was in response to that. We also have found plenty of fossils of uncommon species, so that objection is bogus as well.

The idea that there was a prior civilization on earth that killed itself through climate change is on the level with believing that the earth is a flat disk resting on the back of a turtle; it is utterly preposterous.

Hard to cheat in MMOs that way, most processing is done server side. And even then it only applies to PvP MMOs.

At a glance, that site doesn't seem to be very conclusive. I'm sure it looks conclusive to believers though. Clearly you can draw graphs a lot of different ways.

Yeah, imagine that! Exaggerated messaging on climate. I guess there's a first time for everything.

All this graph massaging is counter to the original point that the "models fit the data". Apparently, whether "the models fit the data" is an extremely complex question with a somewhat ambiguous answer.

Hence my original point:

Average blue team flag waver has no more clue than average red team flag waver. Blue team believes what blue team captains say, based on blue team member's emotion and self-regard. Red team similar. Not much of it has anything to do with science.

Regardless, all the name-calling and general assholishness on climate seems guaranteed to produce zero meaningful change. One side pushes and the other pushes back in defense. If you want to actually accomplish something, then you're going to have to heal some of the divide in the country. Not likely any time soon.

End to end encryption is fine, but Google (for once) is doing the right thing by having a telco standard instead of an over-the-top app sending God-knows-what.

Would I like to see end-to-end encryption? Yes. I'd like to see SS7 issues fixed first. There are plenty of E2E secure messaging solutions out there and I can't see why RCS is worse than MMS as a solution for enchanced SMS service.

At the very least, this is a fully interoperable system, not tied to Google, Inc or any specific carrier.

That's a Good Thing.

The PC will always be relevant on the desktop, despite 10 years of the modern smartphone (and 8 of the modern tablet) we still have a vast array of applications from image, video and audio editing and composition along with CAD, CAM, CAE, BIM, simulation, 3D modelling, etc. applications that just don't work in a smartphone/tablet formfactor.

The desktop is mostly dead for things like simple web browsing, email and general social networking as well as doing tasks like taking audio notes or the most basic video composition. Smartphones and tablets have become the core device for personal computing while the desktop PC remains for professional computing.

Yes! that's what the whole principle of adversarial learning is based on.

Why is the ratio even important?
If no one told you the resolution, could you even tell the difference between a 16:10 and 16:9 screen?
1920x1200 or 1920x1080? 16:9 is only 10% smaller.

If it can spot face swaps and flag them, it can be used to train the face swap algorithms to make them better.

If YouTube wants to be less interesting, it's their perogative to do so. My seven year old nephew watches a lot of it. It's safer for him to do so now. Also, YouTube is becoming something he will outgrow in a few years. Much the same way Facebook is where your aunt can keep up with what you're doing.

" Keep it unhacked and be able to play new games that come out that require the latest Nintendo updates"

Uh, no, because Nintendo can't update the hardware because of burnt fuses in the firmware chip.

So, if Google/YouTube had some point of view, or points of view, that they wished to either promote or demote... how do we know if they are protecting us or harming us? I do data science sorts of things as part of my job. I know that very, very minor tweaks to algorithms provide quite different results.

Well, as long as they haven't nuked my '80s retro videos, then I'm good. Ah, Leah!

"All new games released from this point will probably patch your Switch for you."

I mean, even reading the fucking summary states that this is purely hardware and no software can fix it, because it's locked down and can't be modified due to burnt-out e-fuses.

They do what they must for a piece of that valuable US/EU/Five-Eyes market.

No different than US tech companies vis a vis China. Just look at how Google is assisting the Chinese government with it's digital tyranny over the population. Just a different authoritarian regime's security service to have to make happy in order to compete with the competition.

Strat

Not when the guy with fewer votes wins.

A phone with real updates that work, from a company that stands behind it could kill Android and take the market share that Apple doesn't want (the part that won't pay a premium for the chic-boutique, namely, 'the rest of us'.)

Apple has for decades defined themselves by 'owning' the top 'slice' of the market, and don't want the rest of us. If Microsoft can solve the Android security problem, with the Upgrade infrastructure they have built on Windows 10, they could own the market again.

Probably not gonna happen, but interesting to ponder.

I linked to the actual study itself. The PDF of the study. And it basically completely contradicted your position.

You keep linking to click bait articles.

Link to your study. And I'll then quote the other study that debunked it if that is even required.

You have no case. Arguing with people like you is like arguing with flatearthers. Evidence is irrelevant. You just go to "i'm right dot com" and cite your priest as if that means anything.

I cited the ACTUAL STUDY. I provided a direct link to the PDF. I then quoted its conclusion. It concluded there was no racial bias.

Get rekt.
Try again.