SuperFerret
Re:The cognitive costs of air pollution
on Monday November 18, 2019 @01:07PM (#21566547)
Rural America says Hi!
Re:Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unco...
on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:55PM (#21518095)
It's bad because it doesn't work. Your hypothetical is just that, hypothetical. Doesn't work in practice. Also, violated due process.
Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon
on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:57AM (#21409514)
Yes bad ideas are criticized and good ideas are celebrated. That's the way it's supposed to be.
Re:In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course
on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:36PM (#21273033)
You can ask to be paid to make the soup and then let others take it for free. Or to make it more apt. I can ask for money to build an unlimited soup dispenser and then let others take soup from it for free.
Re:Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @10:34AM (#21125728)
> Imagine if the US suddenly had a dictator
Not so hard to imagine these days.
Re:Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire from Fact-Checking
on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:46AM (#21124251)
They have 5 good minutes per day.
Re:The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism
on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:27PM (#21051923)
In principal you're right. People can also use technology to manipulate others. So we could create technology to encourage and manipulate being mindful and having empathy.
Re:How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’
on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @01:57PM (#21008070)
There is no such thing as an unlimited supply of fish. Even if there were as many fish in the middle of the ocean as near the shore we would deplete it quickly.
Re:The American Brain
on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:19AM (#21006321)
The "artificially generated speech" is really interesting. There's no reason why it can't happen on the other side of of the bell curve. Global right wing movements are a good example.
Re:New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Stan...
on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @09:37AM (#21005267)
GraphQL has nothing to do with graph databases.