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Comment Re:I think it may be a good idea... (Score 1) 84

Right. So pass/fail works just fine.

I had honours calculus, an algorithms course and formal logic that were the weed out courses. Something like half the students dropped each of them before the no penalty drop date and of the rest about 50% passed. Then they scaled the grades so if you did pass you pretty much got a perfect score.

Comment Re:this is real tragedy (Score 1) 74

They're committed to the bit that Kalshi and company are futures exchanges. If New York decided to shut down one of the stock, foreign currency, or commodity exchanges headquartered there it would actually cause a market emergency. If you want to pretend that Kalshi is one of those then you've got to pretend it with feeling.

Comment Re:But but but... (Score 1) 74

Huh. I thought these guys were all about States Rights.

Apparently that only extends to telling women what they can do with their own bodies?

Well ... Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’

Blanche lamented that the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict abortion are “taking longer than we want” but said the Justice Department was “working hand in hand” with federal health agencies and the White House “so that the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.”

“We don’t have complete victory yet, but we will have victory, and victory will be soon, and and and it will be permanent,” Blanche vowed.

Comment Re:Let's half-ass it forever! (Score 1) 41

As long as we keep fighting over each individual opportunity for surveillance instead of public surveillance itself,

Germany, similar to a lot of countries, seems to have general privacy laws that deal with photographing and publishing identifiable people.

In fact, that's in the first sentence of the summary.

Comment Okay, but ... (Score 1) 117

US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers

Aren't many (most?) video games about destroying things? How much of their training will be about *not* crashing or shooting down planes? I guess it could work if scores are based on successful landings and course changes? Not as exciting, but maybe just as satisfying? They will know that there's no save, restore or reset functions - right? :-)

Comment Re:NOAA will be defunded (Score 1) 106

And that crowd ignores that the other Noah was involved in the biggest climate / sea-level change event in "history." :-)

Not to mention he was a stable genius, able to somehow collect and pack two of all the species on earth into a small (by modern standards) ship, then feed and transport them all around the world without mishap.

Obviously, Noah was a Timelord with a TARDIS.

Comment Re:correlation? (Score 1) 64

I worked in an office for years and never had a Windows PC.

I've had a mix on my desk for day-to-day use over the years: DOS / Windows PCs. BSDi / 386BSD PCs, Sun 3/4 Workstations, SGI Indigo Workstation, various Linux PCs. The last two places provided Windows PCs for Office and Outlook, with X11 software for Unix/Linux server connections.

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