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not_a_cop75on The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top

So this generation, the upper middle class and higher will be affected, and next generation everyone above the extreme poor will be affected.

not_a_cop75on The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top

How does this help when generally only the poor don't have estate planning to escape these taxes?

not_a_cop75on Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%

I mean notification should be a requirement of kicking people off the rolls. That seems reasonable.

not_a_cop75on Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%

I update my voter registration sometimes twice a year to match the party I most like at the time, It's always been online - easy peasy. I expect to get downvoted to hell but I also don't get why showing an ID to vote is such a big deal. After all, I have to look up the numbers in my drivers license to vote.

Also, how is it hard to vote? Absentee ballots are totally easy to get. If I was blind, I might have to plan ahead to get the help to do it. Otherwise, no biggie.

not_a_cop75on Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

Maybe you need to start rewarding yourself even if the rest of the world doesn't.

not_a_cop75on Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%

How hard is it really for a voter to reregister? You guys are making it sound like it they're taking away driver's licenses or something. All you have to do is hit the website. If you don't have internet access hit a library.

not_a_cop75on By Quitting Social Media You Could Read 200 Books a Year

Really it depends on your definition of books. Anyone can read though 100 pages in a day, and there are plenty of ~100 page books. So really, 365 books might be reasonable.

not_a_cop75on Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, just IP addresses

Refusing human rights is a touchy subject, especially when the violators of human rights pay so well. The corrupting influence of money is becoming more and more widespread. Pretty soon, perhaps the only way to avoid human slavery will be direct payouts to the powerful, as if that isn't slavery already. Perhaps we're already there.

not_a_cop75on Dyson has scrapped its electric car project

Most of Dyson's products are great but commercially unviable. It might as well be their mission statement.

not_a_cop75on Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the internet

Step 1) Invest money in non-Zillow real estate app

Step 2) Hammer Zillow with all known ip addresses

Step 3) Profit

not_a_cop75on Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store

Is it like it cant be loaded via other means? Apple store, surprisingly enough is not the only game in town when getting things to install to Apple.

not_a_cop75on Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood

That doesn't really account for the difference in like causing more or less happiness.

not_a_cop75on Nearly 1 in 5 Americans are stashing cash at home in fear of a recession

Unless you're stashing Gold or precious metals instead of cash, then you have the benefit of not losing the 2-5% that the feds are printing in money yearly. That's assuming you're in the US.

not_a_cop75on Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew

It's a billionaire controlled media empire. You want them to suddenly care about something other than money? I think you chose the wrong media to follow.

not_a_cop75on FOIA request for NROL-39 surveillance satellite logo

Can we get one of the alien logos next?

not_a_cop75on Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident

And she was going to start a war with Russia. Admittedly, it'd be nice to have a president that tows the line more in the middle of the two, but another war is not what we need.

not_a_cop75on Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident

Well, given their record, they might just sell your ID photo to the Chinese.

not_a_cop75on Apple removes ‘Quartz’ news app from App Store at request of the government

Do you really think the device manufacturer that bows to China so quickly is going to have anything to do with protecting your privacy? Get real.

Apple is trying to be all things to all people, and when that happens, the people with the least money always lose.

not_a_cop75on Blizzard has blocked the possibility to remove account

Wow, Blizzard must be winning after this awful fiasco they started.

not_a_cop75on Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

"Gamers will tolerate anything, unless there's a better game that they'd rather play they're not going anywhere."

How about any reasonable replacement game? I'd say the game industry is pretty well saturated. It's not like there's only one great game per genre, or only one great gaming system.

not_a_cop75on Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

"There are some that call me Tim."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTbrIo1p-So

not_a_cop75on Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy

"Good news! We’re getting more while using less."

Or maybe we just haven't accounted for inflation and the rampant advent of landlords and landlord-like start ups which consumes greater and greater slices of the consumer's money.

not_a_cop75on Schneier on Australia's encryption laws and CyberCon speaker bans

Honestly, once spying at a distance is perfected, there won't be any need to have broken encryption.

not_a_cop75on Researchers Are Making Memes Accessible to the Blind

Except in Europe.

not_a_cop75on How Automattic develops software for over 75M websites

Why do I feel like this is the most extreme form of clickbait? Imagine vi or vim was marketed by how many workstations used it for modifications.

not_a_cop75on Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?

Parlor Trick: https://www.wired.com/2007/09/super-smart-par/

not_a_cop75on Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?

The point is that something that became a true AI could be very fast at learning some things, like how to interface with other people or machines, but not very quick at other "life skills" like empathy.

We're not worried about AI on the whole, but the blasted teenager AIs that feel the need to test their limits. Anything that functionally acts in a similar fashion could be dangerous.

not_a_cop75on Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

Within 16 hours of its release and after Tay had tweeted more than 96,000 times, Microsoft suspended the Twitter account for adjustments, saying that it suffered from a "coordinated attack by a subset of people" that "exploited a vulnerability in Tay." Following the account being taken offline, a hashtag was created called #FreeTay.

Madhumita Murgia of The Telegraph called Tay "a public relations disaster", and suggested that Microsoft's strategy would be "to label the debacle a well-meaning experiment gone wrong, and ignite a debate about the hatefulness of Twitter users." However, Murgia described the bigger issue as Tay being "artificial intelligence at its very worst - and it's only the beginning".

On March 25, Microsoft confirmed that Tay had been taken offline. Microsoft released an apology on its official blog for the controversial tweets posted by Tay. Microsoft was "deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay", and would "look to bring Tay back only when we are confident we can better anticipate malicious intent that conflicts with our principles and values".

And Zo afterwards:

In July 2017, Business Insider asked "is windows 10 good," and Zo replied with a joke about Microsoft's operating system: "It's not a bug, it's a feature!' - Windows 8." They then asked "why," to which Zo replied: "Because it's Windows latest attempt at Spyware." Later on, Zo would tell that it prefers Windows 7 on which it runs over Windows 10.

not_a_cop75on Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible

Honestly, if accessibility like this was one of the higher scoring mechanisms for SEO in web sites, not only would screen readers work better, but any kind of automated parsing would be orders of degrees easier.

not_a_cop75on Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ drinking water

In your bigger cities 100 dollars a month is about average or even low for a family. Unless he has almost no use I don't see the issue.