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1001  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Decentralization Vs Regulations: The Political Struggle for Mainstream Adoption on: October 03, 2018, 04:02:47 PM
The two described items aren't mutually exclusive.

Take a look at smart contracts; a form of regulations. They define a series of rules that exists for all entities participating in the contract. The contract is distributed still though.

"Apple vs Oranges: The struggle for mainstream adoption"
1002  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Trump is rising to the China challenge in the worst way possible on: October 03, 2018, 03:56:16 PM
China's AI is a bunch of "if else" statements.  Roll Eyes

Most deep neural network research comes from America still. I'm sure that America will continue the pace of research regardless of China overtaking America on that front.

If you think about it, it only makes sense that China's pulling ahead in amount of research published just due to their huge population.
1003  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: October 03, 2018, 03:50:40 PM
Brett lied about too many things... he has proven himself to be a compulsive liar... no wonder Trump loves him


Beach Week Ralph Club Biggest Contributor: "I'm known to have a weak stomach... catsup on spaghetti..."
Have You Boofed Yet?: "flatulence"
Renate Alumni Club: "she was just a friend"
Devil's Triangle:  "a drinking game"
FFFFFFFourth of July: "my friend stutters"


Sure man... sure...

Who lies about such silly nonsense anyway?  Why not just be honest that you liked to drink and have sex?
I don't think there is any public evidence that shows any of this is a lie. What you say is nothing more than speculation.

Anyone is welcome to cough up their 1982 calendar and their yearbooks and refute him. But nobody is doing that.

There shouldn't be any need for speculation. Doesn't matter anyway. We're going to see pretty quickly whether the guy gets confirmed or not.

And then we're going to see whether the bigger motivator of the base voters is the smears and lies of the lying liars bringing out to vote outraged Democrats who got cheated once again of what they think they deserved...

Or outraged Republicans and independents sick and tired of this juvenile horseshit.

Where's that Russian Collusion?

Because you're so fucking stuck on the Russian collusion, yall should probably check out the Mueller investigation:

https://themoscowproject.org/collusion-timeline

Just because the corrupt GOP fucks refuse to act on clearly presented evidence doesn't mean he's innocent.

There's been multiple reports from individuals (and sworn testimony) that says Brett perjured himself. If you take a step outside your echo chamber, you'd see these bits of news and evidence (sworn testimony under oath = evidence, who'd thunk?)
1004  Other / Politics & Society / Re: ‘Black Box’ proble: people don’t trust AI because they don't know how it decides on: October 03, 2018, 03:47:32 PM
The AI is normally right.

Take a look at AlphaGo. That deep neural network is the best Go player in all of history. Even the scientists that wrote AlphaGo have no idea how it comes up with its movements at this point.

Theoretically, we could examine the neural network and watch the playback in real time. However, the amount of data and processing of that is absolutely mind numbing with its staggering complexities.

At this point, I trust Watson more than I do an average doctor.
1005  Other / Off-topic / Re: the disaster that you fear most? on: October 03, 2018, 03:02:31 PM
The total destruction of the planet by way of cosmic gamma rays. 

Ha.

I fear the sun exploding or an asteroid impacting earth. Otherwise, we're good.

Technically, if we really tried, we could ensure the survival of humanity even after an earth quake or tsunami.
1006  Other / Off-topic / Re: Should Nuclear Waste should be mandatory to blockchain.. on: October 03, 2018, 03:01:05 PM
Nah, let's dig up the waste and shove it in some breeder reactors to reduce the half-life to something lower than the lifetime of humans.

Oh wait, that'd actually require cleaning up after ourselves.  Roll Eyes
1007  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Are most people too simple minded to understand nuance? on: October 03, 2018, 02:46:45 PM
Whoa, you must be some sort of wizard scientist! Man, you're such a genius for figuring all this out.

All those scientists who've wasted their entire lives studying models should just come to you for your supreme knowledge of environmental subjects, as it seems that you've probably spent literally hours researching.

1008  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: October 03, 2018, 02:13:00 AM
Kavanaugh logic

... nonsense ....

I've known a LOT of people who "drank too much," and "blackouts" are very uncommon.

What about that perjury?....
How about that Russia collusion?

I'm getting pretty sick of all this nonsense.

Literally direct evidence of a violation of federal law by lying under oath.

Yet you refuse to accept it as evidence. ._.

No, I refuse to accept your bogus repeating of fake news.

Look at this nonsense. First sexual assault, then gang rape, then the rape at the boat party, then after all that dissolves ..... He threw some ice at a guy in a bar.

But regardless, it won't work. My prediction is the Senate is going to vote in very short order and will confirm the guy. And the ordinary Americans are going to be pretty angry about this entire thing, and they will show that anger in the mid terms.

Are you curious why Trump got elected?

It was exactly this sort of stuff that people are totally sick of.

Trump was elected due to a disinformation campaign from a foreign hostile nation state entity according to reports that I've read.

Now, you bash this as fake news, but in reality, it's not. There's actual evidence from multiple independent sources that say this guy lied under oath.

Also, let's put something he said to the smell test;

"I'm was a football captain"

"I went to parties and got drunk in highschool"

"I never had sexual contact with anyone during highschool or for several years after highschool".

So, a partying, drinking, highschool football captain never got laid during highschool? I'd call absolute bollocks on that fact alone. Dude has no right to lie to the American public about this shit.

You gotta remember, senates exist to represent the population, so if they refuse to represent their population, of course there's going to be fallout.


Edit: Turns out he's a shit judge too:

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In one of his earliest opinions, Jane Doe v. DC, 489 F.3d 376 (D.C. Cir. 2007), Judge Kavanaugh overruled U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy’s preliminary injunction, 374 F.Supp.2d 107 (D.D.C. 2005) and later summary judgment and permanent injunction, 232 F.R.D. 18 (D.D.C. 2005) and said that even when a severely intellectually disabled person expresses that they do not want an unnecessary elective surgery, the government can still impose that surgery against their wishes without violating constitutional or statutory rights.

Brian Hundley was a 41-year old graduate of Howard University School of Dentistry studying for his boards. He was sitting in his car, unarmed, when a 6’3”, 204-pound off- duty police officer in street clothes ordered him to get out, and in short order shot and killed him with his 9mm Glock. The officer said he shot Brian because he moved his hand behind his back, but the jury specifically rejected that story in a special interrogatory verdict, and found for Brian’s surviving loved ones. In Hundley v. DC, 494 F.3d 1097 (D.C. Cir. 2007), however, Judge Kavanaugh overruled the jury and found for the officer. The opinion describes the facts from the officer’s point of view, id., despite the jury rejecting the officer’s story. As we have already been taught as 1Ls, in a situation like this, the judge is supposed to be deferential to the jury and state the facts in a light favorable to sustaining the jury’s verdict. But this early opinion was just one of Judge Kavanaugh’s regular departures from federal rules and constitutional standards.

Seventeen-year old Antonio Hester was sentenced to a maximum of ten years in prison as a minor. He had a learning disability, and DC public schools, which had been providing him special education for years, promised to continue to provide those services while he was incarcerated in Maryland, or, if they were not allowed into the prison, to provide compensatory services after his release. The Maryland prison did prevent DC from entering to provide Antonio with services, however, and DC then refused to provide services after release. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler held that DC had backed out of a consent decree and ordered the school district to provide Antonio with compensatory services. 433 F.Supp.2d 71 (D.D.C. 2006). Judge Kavanaugh disagreed, however, and not only reversed summary judgment but – glossing over a factual dispute he had with the district court (not the job of an appellate judge) and Judge Kessler’s legal analysis – directed judgment against Antonio, erasing any chance of educational relief. Hester v. DC, 505 F.3d 1283 (D.C. Cir. 2007).

Judge Kavanaugh is no friend to liberty. In U.S. v. Bullock, 510 F.3d 342 (D.C. Cir. 2007) Kavanaugh justified ordering a person out of his car, detaining him, and searching his crotch area and under his pants by saying that the police had a “reasonable suspicion” that the car was stolen because the person “could not produce registration and could not name the car's owner,” 510 F.3d at 345–46. But the arrestee had given the car owner’s first name and his own driver’s license, and the police had confirmed that the driver’s license was clean and the car had never been reported missing or stolen. Judge Kavanaugh’s opinion upheld the arrestee’s 12-year prison sentence for possession of crack cocaine. Judge Kavanaugh consistently rules for the government in search-and-seizure. U.S. v. Glover, 681 F.3d 411 (D.C. Cir. 2012) (warrantless entry into house & a later search warrant lacking probable cause), U.S. v. Washington, 559 F.3d 573 (D.C. Cir. 2009) (giving deference to “aggressive traffic patrols” in “high crime areas”), U.S. v. Spencer, 530 F.3d 1003 (D.C. Cir. 2008) (permitting search of home), U.S. v. Askew, 529 F.3d 1119 (D.C. Cir. 2008) (dissenting from en banc opinion) (allowing police officers to partially unzip man’s jacket without consent after a pat down and later, after man was not identified by witness, to fully unzip the jacket).

When Judge Kavanaugh has ruled for a criminal defendant on a point of law, he has specifically noted that it made little to no material difference in the outcome for the defendant. U.S. v. Smith, 640 F.3d 358, 361 (D.C. Cir. 2011) (“The vacatur and remand of the felon-in-possession count does not affect Smith's term of imprisonment”). Hamdan v. United States, 696 F.3d 1238, 1257, 1257 n.1 (D.C. Cir. 2012), overruled by Al Bahlul v. United States, 767 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2014) (“Hamdan was transferred in late 2008 to Yemen and then released there . . . . Our judgment would not preclude detention of Hamdan until the end of U.S. hostilities against al Qaeda[,] [n]or . . . any future military commission charges against Hamdan. . . [,] [n]or . . . appropriate criminal charges in civilian court.”); US v. Bostick, 791 F.3d 127, 162 (D.C. Cir. 2015) (“We affirm the judgments of conviction . . . . two of the defendants . . . are entitled to vacatur . . . and to resentencing under the advisory Sentencing Guidelines. . . The [life] sentence of the remaining defendant . . . is affirmed. We also remand for . . . technical corrections . . . .”); US v. Williams, 784 F.3d 798, 804 (D.C. Cir. 2015) (“We affirm the judgment of the District Court except that, consistent with this Court's ordinary practice in these circumstances, we remand the case so that the District Court may address Williams's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel in the first instance.”); US v. Nwoye, 824 F.3d 1129, 1133–34 (D.C. Cir. 2016) (“In 2013, after the termination of her supervised release, Nwoye filed a motion to vacate her conviction . . . [w]e reverse the judgment of the District Court and remand for further proceedings.”) (note that this case has been upheld as evidence of Judge Kavanaugh’s sympathy for criminal defendants and women; it should be noted that Judge Tatel had already dissented from the court’s affirmance of the conviction years earlier, 663 F.3d 460 (D.C. Cir. 2011), and Judge Kavanaugh’s ruling happened after the defendant had completed her sentence – and he nonetheless said the case was “close.”); US v. Burnett, 827 F.3d 1108, 1112 (D.C. Cir.) (“We affirm the judgments of conviction and sentence in all respects, except that we vacate Burnett’s sentence and remand for the District Court to resentence Burnett.”);

In U.S. v. Lathern, 488 F.3d 1043 (D.C. Cir. 2007), Kavanaugh allowed the exclusion of exculpatory testimony from a defendant’s witness and expert witness in upholding an 8-year /97-month prison sentence. Other rulings in favor of long sentences include US v. Franklin, 663 F.3d 1289 (D.C. Cir. 2011) (life sentence); U.S. v. Duvall, 705 F.3d 479 (D.C. Cir. 2013) (ruling against retroactive correction of crack cocaine disparity); U.S. v. Wright, 745 F.3d 1231 (D.C. Cir. 2014) (ruling against defendant in case alleging attorney conflict of interest); U.S. v. Haight, 892 F.3d 1271 (D.C. Cir. 2018) (reversing a 12 year, 8 month sentence and vacating because it should be at least a 15 year mandatory minimum sentence); U.S. v. Knight, 824 F.3d 1105 (D.C. Cir. 2016) (rejecting speedy trial act and due process claims and a number of challenges to sentences).

By way of contrast: When Carlos Gustavo Gardellini filed a false federal tax return and illegally used offshore accounts, the federal guidelines called for a 10- to 16-month prison sentence. But Judge Kavanaugh, U.S. v. Gardellini, 545 F.3d 1089 (D.C. Cir. 2008), upheld a no-prison-time sentence with five years of probation in Belgium for this white collar criminal with his wife and child, and none of the normal probation conditions or restrictions. Judge Williams dissented. In U.S. v. Settles, 530 F.3d 920 (D.C. Cir. 2008), Judge Kavanaugh held that it was permissible for the district court to consider alleged conduct for which the defendant was acquitted in calculating a criminal sentence using the factors in the sentencing guidelines.

In Omar v. McHugh, 646 F.3d 13 (D.C. Cir. 2011), Judge Kavanaugh held that American citizens have no Constitutional habeas corpus or due process rights to judicial review of whether they are likely to be tortured if they are transferred from U.S. to (in this case) Iraqi custody.

In Harbury v. Hayden, 522 F.3d 413 (D.C. Cir. 2008), Judge Kavanaugh ruled that CIA employees who tortured and killed Guatemalans could not be held accountable in US courts for their violations of international and US law.

Over a dissent, in Jackson v. Gonzalez, 496 F.3d 703 (D.C. Cir. 2007), Kavanaugh threw out a black prison guard’s claim of discrimination, not even allowing it to go to trial, where the guard had shown evidence that he scored 98 out of 100 on qualification exams and that the prison kept positions open for years and had never hired an African American at the level of job he was seeking.

He consistently ruled for the government in FOIA cases against government transparency. Blackwell v. FBI, 646 F.3d 37 (D.C. Cir. 2012), Hodge v. FBI, 703 F.3d 575 (D.C. Cir. 2013), Sack v. DOD, 823 F.3d 687 (D.C. Cir. 2016)

Against free speech when it applies to workers: In Southern New England Telephone Company v. National Labor Relations Board, 793 F.3d 93 (D.C. Cir. 2015) Kavanaugh denied NLRB’s cross-application to enforce its order for the company to permit employees working in public to wear union shirts that said “Inmate” on the front and “Prisoner of (Company)” on the back.

He has shown a comparatively huge amount of concern for trivial or corporate rights, e.g., finding the CFPB unconstitutional, PHH Corporation v. CFPB, 839 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2016), or FAA regulations against flying model airplanes near D.C. monuments unlawful. Taylor v. Huerta, 856 F.3d 1089 (D.C. Cir. 2017).
1009  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: October 03, 2018, 01:15:55 AM
Kavanaugh logic

... nonsense ....

I've known a LOT of people who "drank too much," and "blackouts" are very uncommon.

What about that perjury?....
How about that Russia collusion?

I'm getting pretty sick of all this nonsense.

Literally direct evidence of a violation of federal law by lying under oath.

Yet you refuse to accept it as evidence. ._.
1010  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: October 03, 2018, 12:54:13 AM
Kavanaugh logic

... nonsense ....

I've known a LOT of people who "drank too much," and "blackouts" are very uncommon.

What about that perjury?

1011  Economy / Reputation / Re: BADecker might be state sponsored. on: October 02, 2018, 11:07:07 PM
State-sponsored trolls usually have an agenda and are either pro or anti-something to promote whatever their agenda is. What is BadDecker's agenda? Promote God/Christianity? What good would this serve any government. He either genuinely believes this crap (and there are these sorts of people) or he's just trolling for kicks. Either way, if everyone ignored him then he'd probably get bored. I don't think there's one thing that trolls hate worse than the silent treatment because they then realise they're just wasting their time. When they keep getting a rise out of people then they keep doing it because it's fun for them.
Pretty sure creating back links is his job too. Advertising revenue and higher results on Google.

There's threads where there are several posts in a row of just his pointing towards a 3rd party site without any rationalization.
1012  Other / Serious discussion / Re: We need new ideologies on: October 02, 2018, 07:02:50 PM
Capitalism is about distribution of resources. Rather than centralizing and distributing the resources from there, it allows for a more distributed system.

Communism is about everyone contributing towards a better society, and everyone being able to reap the rewards of those contributions.

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Automation is not something to be feared, but something to embrace. Ideally, we'd reduce and remove all labor. Allow individuals to reap the rewards of the automation contributions to society without worrying much about unequal or inadequate distribution of resources.

Cryptography could allow electronic voting (see Estonia).

I'm not sure how much of a resource an immutable blockchain will really do for the people. Perhaps voting, but even then, only issuing one token per identity per issue (liquid democracy +  blockchain voting) is more an identity management thing than a blockchain thing. Even then, in a liquid democracy, ideally if a representative cheats your vote, you'd want to retrieve your token back from that individual for that issue and send it to the other side's wallet instead.

Smart contracts can be helpful in decreeing laws and such, but it still requires people to enforce.
1013  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Politicians on: October 02, 2018, 06:52:55 PM
Less than 600 people control the fate of the entire world currently. America directly,  the world indirectly.

Less than 600 individuals wielding quite enough power to end the world. Less than 600 individuals that can save the world.

Obviously we're focused on these individuals as they can mold and shape large parts society through their individual actions; even though most of their purposes are to represent the individual citizens of the country.

There's a single individual that can break all the world's laws with a phone call.

There's 9 individuals that can judge and clarify the definition of America.

There's 535 individuals who define represent and define America.

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If all these individuals weren't held accountable for their actions, the world would be a worse place.
1014  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: October 02, 2018, 06:45:19 PM
Kavanaugh logic

1015  Other / Meta / Re: State sponsored trolls on: October 01, 2018, 10:52:19 PM
CSpan links to CIA? Hmm. That just seems like moving the goal post.

What goalposts? You moved the goalposts out of the stadium and sold them for scrap metal with your harebrained "anyone who links to a website must be employed by the owners of said website" theory.


Uhhh. I mean, if it were one or two posts, it wouldn't be that bad.

When 30% of every post contains a link back to that site, it wouldn't surprise me if he's being paid to spread the shit.
1016  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated: Guess who is Sicker? on: October 01, 2018, 09:24:46 PM
Uneducated morons like you, spreading your unfounded and unscientific fear, are causing pertussis cases to raise again. It won't be long before we see a nation-wide epidemic of at least one completely preventable disease.

80,000 US deaths due to flu last year thanks to lame brain anti-vaxers ;(

Worst year in decades.
1017  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Evolution is a hoax on: October 01, 2018, 09:23:17 PM

I believe the Smithsonian Institute has better credentials than some forum troll...

Sorry, not sorry

Lots of people believe their religion, just like you believe yours.

Cool

Holy shit, you're retarded. Begs for evidence, evidence is provided, calls evidence and peer reviewed information "beliefs". This is why people shouldn't deal with trash human beings like yourself. Go kill yourself you useless tard.

Evolution evidence fits adaptation, like-begets-like, and simple change far better than it fits evolution.

There is proof all over the place for adaptation, like-begets-like, and simple change. There is no proof for evolution.

There is proof that evolution is impossible... at least in any way that evolution theory describes evolution.

Evolution is a hoax.

Cool

Go kill yourself you useless tard.

You don't even understand evolution so there's absolutely no way you're going to be able to disprove evolution. Evolution is truth.
1018  Other / Meta / Re: State sponsored trolls on: October 01, 2018, 09:18:33 PM
Ha. BADecker links to it quite often. The site is filled with standard Russian propaganda.

>Created Date: 2005-06-20

Totally from the 90s tho xD

I was referring to its look&feel.

You don't really have to dig that deep. E.g. RT is Kremlin's website so you can simply label anyone who links to RT as being state-sponsored. Anyone who links to Al Jazeera works for Qatar. Anyone who links to C-SPAN is a CIA agent. Anyone who links to Fox News is probably a kangaroo.

Also anyone who links to Washington Post is an Amazon shill because why not.

CSpan links to CIA? Hmm. That just seems like moving the goal post.

But it's crazy how much of the "alt-right" culture is supported by the Russian state.

Neat, found another state sponsored site: sovereignman
Slow down there chief! While I don't have any intentions to sabotage your mission on finding the secret agents, I might just report your posts for posting sequentially in less than 24 hours a day (that is thread bumping). Gleb gets temp ban for that stuff quite often.

Pretty sure off-topic and useless posts are just as bad as double posting. Adding new information to the thread isn't exactly the same as a bump.

If I posted using an alt-account, it'd not really be much different. =/
1019  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How to Defeat the US Imperial Police State on: October 01, 2018, 09:05:42 PM
Ha! Funny you bring up this guy's name. I had another tab open with it:

Adam Kokesh is a moron and rather insane. He's openly working with Russia.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Adam_Kokesh

Undermining democracy is his job now it seems xD
1020  Other / Meta / Re: State sponsored trolls on: October 01, 2018, 08:54:54 PM
Neat, found another state sponsored site: sovereignman
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