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Comment Obvious and stupid (Score 1) 16

I just do not understand how so many people are so freakin' STUPID.

They have abandoned their privacy, thinking nobody cares about them. But it has gotten so cheap to spy on people that you can spy on everyone, aggregate the data and suddenly everybody cares about the data.

Every doorbell camera like this should come with a large warning (bigger than the doorbell camera) that says:

"Thieves WILL access this camera and use it to figure out when you are on vacation. Your ex boyfriend will access it and see who you are dating. Connecting this device to the internet is a dumbass thing to do and definitely NOT secure."

Comment Re:Leave Meta alone or face embargoes on all trade (Score 1, Interesting) 39

Given the US current economy and the GOP prospects for the coming election, the absolute worst thing Trump could do for the GOP is to enact new economic measures.

If he messes up enough he will be impeached again. Just takes a few more democrats in the senate.

Comment So *NOT* vaccines. (Score 1) 51

How does a society treat its citizens, specifically parents and children?

Autism -- is human psychology being maladaptive because of this situation. Parents aren't there for their children to imprint-upon. The psychological distress is real. Depersonalization is a result.

This depersonalization happening during acute childhood development phases, exacerbates the problem of social disengagement.

People should be treated as people, not chattel.

Submission + - How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Journalist for Days Over 'Stolen' Plates (thedrive.com)

sinij writes:

The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM, not 34 10 DTM. But when the police report was created and the plate was entered into Flock’s system, it was just recorded as 34 DTM.
Still, he warned me to drive straight home, park the Range Rover, and leave it there. If I were to cross into the neighboring town, I’d probably get flagged again and go through this entire ordeal again with a different set of officers. His parting words were ominous: “You’re lucky we’re in Plymouth. If you were in Minneapolis, they definitely would’ve come at you with guns drawn.”


Comment John Deere hates capitalism. (Score 3, Insightful) 80

They either do not understand the idea of a 'fair market' or hate it so much. They know they can't do the repairs cheap enough or fast enough to earn their customer's continued service. So they try to lock in the repair costs.

Then they lie about in court.

I would not worry about what happens in 2038, there is a good chance we will get better consumer production laws starting 2 years from now.

Comment Definitely a good idea. (Score 1) 1

There a lot of people that want to work less than the standard 8 hour+ routine. Parents often it very difficult to arrange their child's schedule to fit their work schedule.
Some less-able people that can work 4 hours a day but really need a break after that. People trying to get a degree part time.

Comment Re:Languages or intelligence? (Score 1) 100

Nope. It does not say that your best bet is to learn as a child. In fact I would say that the later learning not working points the real effect:

Selection for people with better brains.

It strongly implies that learning languages does nothing, but that those lucky enough to be born into a household where learning languages as a child is common or easier are also lucky enough to have less deterioration later in life.

This implies that good parents that provide a stable home life when the child is young, give good nutrition, establish strong learning habits end up having less deterioration.

To see if the learning languages had any effect your would most likely need siblings studies where one child learned two+ languages and the other learned only one.

That data would indicate what you and the reporters are implying, but it does not exist in this study.

Comment Languages or intelligence? (Score 2, Informative) 100

One of the many problems in science is the mistaken belief that correlation = causation.

That is, people the fact that more men then women are CEO's does not indicate men are better at business, instead it indicates that men are favored by the people that select CEOs.

Here are several other possible explanations for the survey results:

1) Intelligent people are both more likely to learn multiple languages and more likely to age better because they take better care of their brain, or it could be that the same trait that makes them smarter also protects their brain. I.E. Smarter people get less brain deterioration and smarter people learn more languages.

2) The brain's very first bits of degradation occurs at a very young age (before 30) and that same degradation makes learning new languages unpleasant and/or more difficult. I.E. later brain deterioration prevents you from learning languages at an early age.

I am not saying these are true, I am saying the idea deciding to learn a language will protect your brain is NOT supported by the data, at least not anymore than my 2 suggestions.

Comment Re:Predictable (Score 1) 153

I hope you are being sarcastic. it was 30% of children off the Social Media, NOT 30% have a positive effect. Children off social media was the method, not the reason for the law.

The desired positive effect was to protect the children from 'cyberbullying', and to disrupt child pornography.

This article had no results listed. They did not mention any reduction in cyber bullying nor any reduction in child pornography.

Comment Re:We don't need so many PhDs. (Score 1) 148

Interesting hypothesis (not theory, theory = proven), lets test it out.
Internet search results: ( https://streamlinedai.app/blog... )
2% of people have a PHD.

Hm, that sounds low, not high. Especially as PHDs are not just for academia.
Internets search results ( https://academiainsider.com/wh... )
20% of people with a PHD stay in Academia.

Sorry, the real world seems to disprove your hypothesis. PhD's are not 'too common', nor do they stay in Academia. They go out into the real world and use their knowledge to change the world. Hopefully for the better.

Comment Predictable (Score 3, Interesting) 153

Surprise surprise.

The foolish attempt to save the children by taking away everyone's privacy and the children's freedom is thwarted by the children subverting their laws.

If you want to save the children, do not try to save them, instead protect us ALL by changing the algorithms to push people toward truth rather than the shocking.

Comment 100% battery is a bad idea in general (Score 1) 110

I know of no battery chemistry that excels at 100% charge. If I were the battery makers, I would set it up as battery can be charged to 125% with that number being equal to what we call 100% now. The range is already much less important than the lifetime of the battery, especially considering that it takes far longer to get a battery that last 20% than it does to get the first 30%.

My understanding is that the best hybrid vehicles try to keep the battery charged at between 45% to 60%. That has enough power to give the ICE the extra boost necessary for higher speed maneuvers such as passing, and/or low speed travel when the ICE is turned off. But at normal speeds it lets the ICE work at it's high efficiency low rpm range without even bothering to charge the battery.

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