you say this as though we haven't been privatizing everything for the past 50 years.

when did we agree that private ownership failed? what do you think we've been trying economically since the 1950s?

my personal theory is that liberTARDianism is just blowback from the government trying to convince latin america that selling their natural resources to US corporations is a good thing actually LOL (and btw you don't have a choice, we'll change your government if you don't).

the truth is usually all of those things. sometimes it is even interesting.

lol "the only true capitalists are trust fund kids and their drug-dealers!â

you are right though, in that poor libertarians and rich libertarians have all of about zero anything in common and would absolutely loathe each other if they ever met.

they both demonize the government but they both hate the government mostly for not getting out of the way and "letting them" (lol) destroy the other group and thereby magically fix everything.

this magical belief persists even in the face of facts. for example, even when ROONNNNNNNN PAAAAUUUULLLLLL (pbuh!) said "IP is good for capitalism and society. Microsoft and Apple are pinnacles of achievement!", slashdot poorbertarians went on thinking he would abolish statist IP regulations and the UN. they kept believing this after he had the UN confiscate his supportersâ(TM) website for breaching his trademark!

eh, whatcha gonna do? but, if you have an ideology prioritizing private capital and you're poor, someone is probably taking advantage of you. on the plus side, you're poor so it probably doesn't matter anyway.

i imagine there is the same "opportunity" for europeans to participate in the free labor market as illegal immigrants have in the US.

specifically: paid peanuts with no benefits for hard menial labor. if you want to work without "da gummint" interfering, there are always options. i could use a new shirt anyway, and that's five cents that can go to an asian child.

1%? that's the problem. those are rookie numbers!!! let's bring that number up for great worker justice! when life gives the proletariat lemons, they should make lemonade. the black death did wonders for worker pay!

here, have fun!

https://www.kaggle.com/c/chess

nah, Elo is a compromise between predictive power and transparency/intuitiveness and it is mostly for maintaining a rating of players over time, rather than "predicting who will win" any given match.

ML can trivially beat Elo at one-shot prediction of chess games even using nothing but past match data. I have trained such a system, as have many others; it is not difficult, but it would really suck for a scored rating system.

apart from a few corner cases which most orgs account for one way or another, your change in Elo after a match is intuitive. an accurate ML system would give you a different score whenever any of the ML inputs changes; why have a "score" at all, if your "rating" changes depending on whom you're playing against?

That's exactly why I should be able to choose one that disables the porn habit!!

Learn economics and freedom, nerd.

Mac OS has been getting less and less reliable since about the same time they stopped calling it Mac OS X.

bullshit. some apps have gotten buggier and resource-hungry because they're mashing the mobile and desktop environments together, and yes, that sucks, but the OS itself (and the other apps) are fine.

also, like, you (as in you, drinkypoo) have been bitching about Mac OS X for as long as there's been Mac OS X, so this new talking point really just feels hollow.

haven't heard about time machine fuckups, do you have a link to anything other than the obligatory "mAKe sUre tHE cAbLe iS PLuggeD IN" page every company has?

Just choose a provider that doesn't throttle, but remember that I do not want to subsidize your 20GB/hour porn habit. That's Freedom!

So, uh, we imprison children for their youngest years and teach them to write, all so they can vomit some shit that will be graded by a computer anyway because we're afraid to just sort people by IQ in the first fucking place, and then forget most of it because we don't really have much use for literacy beyond obedience anyway.

Why not just, like, stop doing it entirely instead of cutting corners?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Knowing in real-time what people are saying to their friends about shows and movies, and having that correlated with the ad profile Meta has on them already? Fucking gold mine.

i was unaware of this work of Lem; thank you!

It is not exactly a secret that Philip K. Dick was psychotically paranoid and addicted to stimulants. He reported a lot of people to the authorities for various things, occasionally even true, though this didn't accomplish much but adding to his own file lol.

For another case, a great Polish science fiction writer named Stanislaw Lem was a great admirer of his work and even published an article titled "Philip K. Dick: Visionary among the Charlatans." Philip Dick reported him to the FBI as a communist spy trying to infiltrate American science fiction.

Economic efficiency is TRUTH and that's better than facts.

We honor the heroes who gave their lives and their passengers' lives, to test the cost cutting measures valiantly proposed by Boeing in these troubled times! There is no need to devalue their heroism with your so-called "facts" and "analysis", you ghoul.