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Comment Re: Addictive Design is just Good Design (Score 1) 61

It is against the mod rules to mod down you disagree with. I carefully take care not to fall into that trap.

Despite the fact that some idiots troll mod me - and make new fake accounts - which get mod rights removed instantly: I can mod nearly every day.

However I do not have anymore the 35 mod points I used to have 20 years ago.

I just looked at your number - yes, you have been here for quite a while.

Comment Re:Wow. People who don't have to work live longer. (Score 1) 70

Be that as it may, it really does come down to the wealthy having advantages in the USA that would cause a longer lifespan, and that includes not having access to decent healthcare options(short of emergency services) for those who are at the lower end of the economic spectrum. For many, it ends up being an issue of the culture where many have been raised not to go to a doctor when they are not feeling well due to the economic situation their family was in, or even their parents who were raised not to seek medical care.

Those who "come from money" will often be raised to seek medical care sooner than those who come from the lower end of the economic sectrum due to how they were raised. Call it class warfare, but that's life in the USA.

Be that as it may, My original thesis that the poor are not kept away from art, and you aer working your best to turn it into something that sounds suspiciously like the poor dying en masse in the streets. And the wealthy laughing at them. Sorry, mon ami, that isn't my argument, you'll have to take that up when you revolt and eat the wealthy. Then the poor will establish a new country of fairness for all, From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Do you want to talk about the relative access to art by income, or do you want to spout other stuff.

If so, reply with something other than trying to turn me into some sort of MAGA mouthpiece.

Comment Re: Trump also highly unlikely (Score 1) 173

Sorry I thought you were talking about Republicans.

Yet you characterized the Democrats extremely well with those words.

The lies, the unworkable ideas that are superficial, the demonization, etc ... they are tools of both parties. They are just targeting their manipulations at different groups. The goal for both parties is to attain and maintain power. Again, lots of theatre. And when away from the cameras they are all quite different.

Comment Anecdotally (Score 1) 59

I've made a number of observations on this, personally, and over the years have figured out some things that help them avoid me (or prefer others):

* High vitamin D. You're either getting this from sunlight secondarily or foods (eggs, fish, etc.)
* Garlic. Lots of garlic. This one's the biggest, and for me one of the easiest to address since it tastes good with food.
* No perfumes or scented deodorants. They love that shit. Avoid it like the plague.
* Generally low-carb diet (no crap starches).
* Sulfur. This one surprised me, but it's something we naturally need and don't usually get enough of in our diets. I found it out on a lark during a particularly buggy camping trip when a woman I was with (who wasn't being bothered as much, contrary to my experience that women are bothered more often) swore by it.

My wife also noticed a marked decrease in skeeter interest in her when she stopped being vegan.

Also anecdotally and related, because i know this comes up a lot in outdoor talks lately: ticks. They hate oregano and garlic oil. And neem oil, topically, mixed with lotion. I've had them climb up my sock and then fall off (seemingly intentionally) repeatedly when trying to get onto my skin after a diet heavy in garlic and oregano. It's at least as effective as DEET and sticks around longer.

Sweat also seems to attract them, perhaps due to it causing the odors to be more airborne.

Comment Re: Trump also highly unlikely (Score 1) 173

So if everything Trump does isn't based in reality, they aren't allowed to hate it for that sake? Do you LIKE people who like and cheat?

You misunderstand. They hate everything. Lie or truth. Bad idea or good. And of course, toss in some demonization while we are at it. That is what Fetterman is saying, and its what I often observe.

Comment Re:Disclosure Timing Drama Part 2.0 (Score 1) 17

The bigger challenge is how are projects going to discuss any not so trivial to patch issues? As long as the fix is encode this, duplicate that and only provide the copy to the caller, and what not, the situation is manageable.

  The moment we hit something where the fix likely means changing behavior and needs design discussion enough hints are going to drop that even in absence of patch file that would highlight the exact lines of affected code even a relatively low skill actor is going to be able to use AI to locate the specific vulnerability, and generate exploit code.

This will make discussion of anything of significant security impact impossible on any kind of open mailing list, issue tracker or forum nearly impossible. It is going to force a lot of projects to maintain a much smaller group of highly trusted contributors who have to look at all these issues themselves and cannot rely on community help.

This is really going to be mess for FOSS culture.

Comment Fire the DEI - DEI cannot do their jobs. (Score -1) 25

HR is the ENEMY within. They destroy profits just so they can virtue signal. Feminists are the scourge of Western Civilisation, which was built by White men. Now, the woke, here, will attempt to roast me, but, in doing so, they just prove my point about the woke. They're fascists.

Comment Re:GPAs are trash, yet companies still filter on t (Score 1) 127

If companies really did filter on that, it would be self correcting. Harvard would go from "All the Harvard grads that apply have excellent grades" to "Harvard grads used to always have great academic records, now most of them don't any more, let's hire grads from somewhere else."

But one does not go to Harvard to learn how to do a job, one goes to Harvard to meet the right people and their parents. And companies do not hire Harvard grads because of what they learned there, they hire Harvard grads because of who they know, and not what they know.

Harvard (and all the ivies) is the poster child of the old boy network.

Comment Re:quotas are BS (Score 3, Insightful) 127

Yeah, and what happens when 20% + 5 hand in A quality work?

Or everyone in the class has exactly the same grade? Is that a sign of an exceptionally good teacher with a small, well motivated class? Or a sign of an exceptionally bad teacher who has trivially easy tests?

In our effort to reduce everything to a simple algorithm with no human judgement, we fail to ask what actually matters.

How does the professor choose who gets the B? Give it to the student they personally like least, or to the one they like most to avoid looking unethical? It seems like forcing an unethical choice no matter what.

I'll get modded down saying it, but sadly, at Harvard, it will be based on ethnicity and expressed political ideology.

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