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[00:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:already - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:47] <exec> 08└─Conversely, many branches of the Protestant church view the Pontiff as an office of the Anti-Christ. So, it would make sense that the Catholic Church accepts climate change as it is a lie from the devil. Don't make me look up sources, I don't have time to google them for you. Just my personal experi...
[00:20:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:13] <exec> 08└─God is a ladyboy.
[00:20:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:33] <exec> 08└─The type that thinks the bible was originally written in modern american english is 100% certain their god is a he, but original texts seem to disagree. I thought that the bible was written by Adam and George Washington as they sailed their ark with dinosaurs on 4000 years ago at the dawn of the Ame...
[00:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope. We won't let you die. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:46] <exec> 08└─They will put in a nutrition solution like the one used for growing organs. Then hook it up directly using a neural chip. You can die but never disconnect. Because in Soviet-Russia the internet connects you..
[00:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Brain in a jar - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:47] <exec> 08└─What's missing here is a clip of Igor (Eye-gore, aka Marty Feldman) dropping the first jar and picking up the next jar he finds. [google.com] -- gewg_
[00:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02freedesktop.org ftw - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:50] <exec> 08└─Lenny Puttering is the obvious choice here. Not trolling either. He has that can do spirit!
[00:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02BSD has done fine without him. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:52] <exec> 08└─Come to think of it.. the other big free operating system in the BSD family has been managing without Linus for decades.. :p (on a serious note, it might be a good idea for a lot of projects to consider their continuation plans. People don't live forever yet!)
[00:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03heiner [3643] (Score:1) 02Re:BSD has done fine without him. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:53] <exec> 08└─BSD is not GPL.
[00:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:06] <exec> 08└─The curse of the 'burbs and outback - too bloody expensive. Besides, you'd have to exit somehow in this world, so back to Big [theaustralian.com.au] Boys [wikipedia.org] - which, Aussies or not, will sell your rights without a whisper [whirlpool.net.au].
[00:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:08] <exec> 08└─You are absolutely correct. The issue I had was that the government seems to censor and delay deployment of improvements. My thinking is that the government should keep their hands out of content, facilitate fiber upgrades and keep ISPs in check.
[00:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:26] <exec> 08└─It doesn't cost that much. Movies and their accounting are hilarious. Think of them like money sponges; they suck up everything available and clamor for more. Ex Machina was made for 11 million Euros. It is more technically impressive than the Avengers. Mad Max was made for 150 million USD. It's min...
[00:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Chalk dust is bad for your lungs - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─I like big clouds and I can not lie.
[00:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:For so many reasons: YES! - 06"Let's Encrypt" gets a Launch Schedule - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:24] <exec> 08└─At least for websites, HTTP Public Key Pinning mitigates most of the issue. The CA becomes responsible for securing the first connection, and after that, only the key set by the pins will be accepted.
[00:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:1) 02Re:Gotta say, I'm not surprised... - 06TPB Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Guilty Verdict on Hacking Charges Upheld - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:52] <exec> 08└─Being a bit of an ass is not criminal in most nations with reasonable justice systems.
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[01:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Time for a new gaming box - 06AMD Radeon 300 Series Launches, "Fury" to Come - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:33] <exec> 08└─6 years ago my PC power supply died at the same time I was getting divorced, result was I bought a PS3 and have been gaming on it ever since. Now that PS3 is end of life'd I need to decide if I want to buy a PS4/Xbox or build a PC. Suppose I decide to build. Assuming I want to keep the price competi...
[01:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Time for a new gaming box - 06AMD Radeon 300 Series Launches, "Fury" to Come - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:35] <exec> 08└─http://pcpartpicker.com/ [pcpartpicker.com] http://www.tomshardware.com [tomshardware.com]
[01:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well yeah. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:55] <exec> 08└─Linus can finally retire from running Linux because it has finally caught up to Windows on the desktop... from like 1995 :) Mission Accomplished Linus. Linux now sucks just as much as windows did during that era! We even have comparable touchscreen support now. This is mostly intended as a joke, but...
[01:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well, OpenBSD does have a fanatic in charge - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:58] <exec> 08└─The reason that project is held in high esteem is in no small part because of the take-no-prisoners attitude of its ramrod [google.com] wrt code quality. OTOH, as has been mentioned, those projects where a developer/modifier is not bound to pass on the freedom that he received with the source code a...
[01:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Planning is key. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:00] <exec> 08└─Although the natural urge is to wait until the guy keels over dead before you begin developing succession plans, it probably would be possible to put many of the likely outcomes in motion well in advance. For instance, why don't we get a jump on what will almost certainly happen and launch a dozen o...
[01:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02...and get the Sunni/Shia thing - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:02] <exec> 08└─When the Prophet died, he didn't leave any plan in place for his succession. His followers then split into 2 camps and it's been a violent mess ever since. It seems like gregkh could assume the responsibilities that Torvalds now holds and, if he finds himself overloaded, shift some his old duties to...
[01:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:15] <exec> 08└─Arrange for some nerd ghettos? And collaborative sea cable financing? kickstarter? (starting to think here, Murdoch, kickstarter, bad people.. hmm ;-) )
[01:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:33] <exec> 08└─Copyright most certainly does create scarcity! Copyright is scarcity by government/corporate fiat. It is just what the name means, the legal right to make a copy. That it is ineffective and archaic doesn't change the intent, which is to treat information like material goods. The law makes token ackn...
[01:22:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Translation Error [718] 02Re:Whither TFA? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, but it was written in chalk, and it rained.
[01:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Social engineering - 06Encryption Would Not have Protected Secret Federal Data Says DHS - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah give EVERY user the ability to do this. Sorry how does this change the point I was making? If anyone can get root access to the database through "social engineering" then there is no security at all. So how many employees have already obtained/sold the list without the agency knowing?
[01:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:1) 02Re:Lost cause - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:41] <exec> 08└─They'll just back off a bit and do anthropometric ID instead of facial recognition--or start scanning for IR or other invisible spectra.
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[02:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Ageing? - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:35] <exec> 08└─Ageing? Aging? Really? From the journal Nature? I'm confused.
[02:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Ageing? - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:19:36] <exec> 08└─http://grammarist.com/spelling/ageing-aging/ [grammarist.com]
[02:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How much each pill will cost... - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf7uJDhVZIE [youtube.com]
[02:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02huh? - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:41] <exec> 08└─A non-patented drug in trials? What has become of this world!
[02:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Lobbying FDA to Accept Aging = Med Condition - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:43] <exec> 08└─https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2015/06/more-on-efforts-to-lobby-the-fda-to-accept-aging-as-a-medical-condition-that-can-and-should-be-treated.php [fightaging.org] We have the example of sarcopenia [wikipedia.org] to consider, this being the name given to the characteristic loss of muscle mass...
[02:20:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 653 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:08] <exec> 08└─Very few people think the bible isn't something that people pick and choose from. It's just the more "devout" side tends to turn a blind eye to their own selective reading, while calling others "Cafeteria Christians". The less literalist side of Christianity tends to accept that they're picking and...
[02:20:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:09] <exec> 08└─I view it as an inevitable artifact of taking a long, complex, rambling, self-contradictory, mistranslated, incomplete, politically-edited, cryptic common-language book collection of plagiarised, half-remembered fantastical folk tales as your most fundamental truth.
[02:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:44] <exec> 08└─by the old testiment, god is more of a destroyer and mean son of a bitch than a warm caring woman. I'm not biblical scholar but every chraracter trait that is attributed to god points to the notion that if there was such a being, it would not be femle-like, as we understand females. what characteris...
[02:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:BSD has done fine without him. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:11] <exec> 08└─BSD is not GPL.
[02:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm available - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:15] <exec> 08└─The first order of business will be to give the OS a name appropriate for the new era. As maintainer, I'm going to go with ACix.
[02:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:32] <exec> 08└─Mmmm.. speaking 'bout ghettos, like this [wikipedia.org]? Some are listed by non-operational (e.g. http://www.taswireless.net [taswireless.net] - dead. The http://townsville.wireless.org.au [wireless.org.au] reads "Stay Tuned we have new things to offer for 2013"). Then, Kickstarter doesn't help to...
[02:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:33] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they did it the wrong way? Anyway I don't think wireless cuts it in any way. It will always have too great latency and a lot of wave propagation issues. One could also do things in steps. Ie build a local fiber network. Then cooperate to get a direct line to US/Europe. The basics is quite si...
[02:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02more than just DIY'ers - 06New Type of Gecko-like Gripper Created - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:48] <exec> 08└─cheap mass production of this would be great for wearable tech, especially for permanent internal medical devices. i think a great application would be an I/O array that would stick to your brain without puncturing it. that way lots of different neurons connected without rejection issues.
[02:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Lost cause - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:02] <exec> 08└─Use flash mobs to assemble and be gone before any recognition equipment can be setup? And "nice surveillance equipment you got there.." As for the direct counter act. Use aluminum lining and inlays in the shoes etc.
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[03:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ageing? - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:19:35] <exec> 08└─Ageing? Aging? Really? From the journal Nature? I'm confused.
[03:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How much each pill will cost... - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:19:37] <exec> 08└─http://www.drugs.com/price-guide/metformin [drugs.com] http://www.goodrx.com [goodrx.com] http://health.costhelper.com [costhelper.com] or $0.50
[03:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:How much each pill will cost... - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:19:39] <exec> 08└─But, its still not clear to my semi-functioning brain if we are talking about a placebo on not. Because if it didn't have to have any actual ingredients we sohould be able to get the price down to 5 cents.
[03:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How much each pill will cost... - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:19:40] <exec> 08└─Check the Wikipedia article in the summary if you want to know more about metformin. The proponents mentioned in the Nature article are also interested in having the FDA acknowledge a broad category of "anti-aging" drugs as a valuable and achievable goal. See also this comment [soylentnews.org].
[03:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Lobbying FDA to Accept Aging = Med Condition - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:19:42] <exec> 08└─Outcome, only rich people get to live health beyond 120 years?
[03:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Lobbying FDA to Accept Aging = Med Condition - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:19:44] <exec> 08└─In a world where almost everyone can afford a smartphone and babby's (FDA's) first anti-aging candidate drug costs $0.50 a pill, I think some poor people will see an improvement.
[03:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lobbying FDA to Accept Aging = Med Condition - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:19:45] <exec> 08└─I forgot about the babbys, thanks: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope. We won't let you die. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should make sure he has a post-demise source of intravenous Soylent?
[03:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:BSD has done fine without him. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:21] <exec> 08└─On a serious note, if Linux is considered a niche OS globally (and it is), BSD is a niche OS even if we restrict the picture to free OSes. Yes, BSD is "the other big free OS (family)", but compared to Linux its market share is almost non-existent (feel free to cite contradicting sources for this). O...
[03:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03novak [4683] (Score:2) 02Re:BSD has done fine without him. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:23] <exec> 08└─On a serious note, if Linux is considered a niche OS globally (and it is)
[03:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Planning is key. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:25] <exec> 08└─Too late, there are at least that many distros already, and any one of them can claim to be the one true Fork, and the rules of GPL say you have to believe them. Every one of them!
[03:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:46] <exec> 08└─Still, it seems like a remarkably open stance for Turnbull to take give the amount of filtering and blocking that government want's to impose. I suspect this statement gets rolled back and eviscerated as soon as he figures out what he actually said.
[03:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sane politician - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:49] <exec> 08└─The Liberals have decided to sign the TPP as it is. Can anyone suggest somewhere else to live?
[03:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Sane politician - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:51] <exec> 08└─In the outback, mate. Just make friends with some aboriginal land owners - at least this year you'll be ... ummm... what?... reconciled?
[03:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Pentel - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:30] <exec> 08└─I share your feelings, but for the Pentel Quick Clicker--the 0.5mm transparent black version. I have one that's at least 15 years old that still works fine. Having replaceable erasers is a bonus too. Though losing the eraser cap is why I generally replace this pencil, aside from when a loaned pencil...
[03:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Last book destroyed the series - 06SyFy Adapting Dan Simmons's Hyperion to the Small Screen - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:35] <exec> 08└─I never read the others, but Ender's Game was horrible. IDGAF what you have to say, that shit sucked when I first read it more than a decade ago, and it still sucks now.
[03:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Living Wage & Taxes - 06California: Uber Driver is an Employee - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:57] <exec> 08└─I'll be honest, I didn't read your huge block of writing. But >Why does California even care about the distinction between an employee and an independent contractor again? Because Uber is demanding "full employment" from its employees without having to take the responsibility of paying them properly...
[03:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Gyms... - 06Two Stories about Facial Recognition - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:28] <exec> 08└─I have always hated having *anything* on me, except my clothing, when I visit the gym. If I have anything on me, its apt to get broken, stolen, or lost. Especially things like wallets or keys. I feel this technology would be quite useful to admit members of gyms, so that as long as I did not forget...
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[04:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02possible job cuts - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:28] <exec> 08└─Almost certain. Not a good time to be looking for a new job, I bet there will be more like a purge than just a few drops.
[04:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't worry - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:29] <exec> 08└─I hear that Elop has signed on with Jolla now, aiming to turn that company around after it miscalculated with its Linux-based operating system.
[04:41:31] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Right - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:31] <exec> 08└─Eric Rudder will be leaving Microsoft
[04:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:33] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying that they're Rudderless.
[04:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Big surprise. - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:35] <exec> 08└─Nobody trusts a traitor.
[04:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Big surprise. - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:36] <exec> 08└─You reckon Mark Penn will find a job at Google? Far from being a traitor, he was a very dedicated man [neowin.net].
[04:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Big surprise. - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:38] <exec> 08└─he was a paid employee just like everyone else at microsoft and nothing more.
[04:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Big surprise. - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:39] <exec> 08└─Nah, he started as a Clinton hack, spun the revolving door into the corporate world and while the current Truth says he is leaving to go into private equity I suspect he has heard the call of his Dark Master and will soon turn up back by her side hoping to feed from the public trough again.
[04:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Funny) 02oh snap! - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:41] <exec> 08└─Stephen Elop just got Scroogled! ;)
[04:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02After sabatoging Nokia, what next? - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:42] <exec> 08└─Wonder what company Elop has been sent to take over and sabotage so Microsoft can buy them out?
[04:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:huh? - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:54] <exec> 08└─It will be patented for this use. And since anyone else manufacturing it can't prevent it from being used for this specific use, they can't sell it until this new patent runs out.
[04:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dusty monkey [5492] (Score:1) 02Metformin - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:58] <exec> 08└─If you want to learn what its like to urinate out our anus, just take some of this metformin. This is not a fun drug at all. Crazy to think that they are thinking about giving it to people that do not have immediate health problems.
[04:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:56] <exec> 08└─If he/she/it could direct the contents of the Bible, you would have though he/she/it wouldn't have put so many contradictions in it.
[04:43:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:03] <exec> 08└─Jesus a bastard and Joseph a cuckold. Or to be more realistic, Joseph fucked Mary, and they lied about it to avoid being stoned.
[04:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:BSD has done fine without him. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:39] <exec> 08└─Indeed. You have a cable or DSL router? That most likely runs Linux. You have a TV? My LG TV runs Linux. You have an Android phone? That's Linux. Google runs on what? Linux. Calling Linux "niche" is like calling everything that isn't a PC "niche" market. If anything, PC is current a "niche" market w...
[04:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:02] <exec> 08└─One could also do things in steps. Ie build a local fiber network. Then cooperate to get a direct line to US/Europe.
[04:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:05] <exec> 08└─We in New Zealand have it even worse. We had a nationally owned Post Office, which ran the phone system, which we sold for 3 magic beans when anyone could tell it was going to be worth a huge amount of money. Then we had a monopoly phone/cell/internet provider. Then another company entered the marke...
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[05:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02sufficient information about price - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:27] <exec> 08└─a while back I searched for an accedited domain registrar that listed all their prices on their external site, so I could determine my costs without having to be a logged-in registrar user. The only one I could find was name.com, who I am happy with for many other reasons as well. There may be other...
[05:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Phase One: Alcoholism - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:28] <exec> 08└─Phase One: Stymied on all sides, Parul Desai becomes an alcoholic out of frustration. Phase Two: ??? Phase Three: NOTHING CHANGES
[05:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big surprise. - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:44] <exec> 08└─To be precise, I guess the "the call of his Dark Mistress" would be more appropriate this time.
[05:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:huh? - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:04] <exec> 08└─If that was the case, anti-depression supplements like 5-HTP [wikipedia.org] would have studies done, patents granted, and money mined. What they'll likely do is reformulate it just slightly to make it a new drug. Since the chemical formula will be different it will get a new patent.
[05:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02off-label prescription - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:05] <exec> 08└─See title.
[05:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02lithium found to control mania in late 1940s - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:06] <exec> 08└─but was not approved by the FDA until 1970. This because there is no money to be made in a naturally occurring mineral. It is quite common for suicidal depression to follow many. How many died because no one would apply for approval?
[05:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Metformin - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:13] <exec> 08└─Probably due for a colon exorcism anyways..
[05:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Metformin - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:15] <exec> 08└─Pfft. So says a typing monkey. I'd be willing to take some side effects to live decades longer. Maybe even a freeze in a cryogenic tube to keep me "alive" until a cure is ready.
[05:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Time for a new gaming box - 06AMD Radeon 300 Series Launches, "Fury" to Come - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:24] <exec> 08└─http://www.logicalincrements.com/ [logicalincrements.com] Best site for building a new computer. Especially if you've been out of the PC building hobby for a while. Made by the same guy who use to do /g/'s falcon guide (if you've heard of it).
[05:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Time for a new gaming box - 06AMD Radeon 300 Series Launches, "Fury" to Come - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:26] <exec> 08└─That really is an excellent guide there. Thanks for sharing it.
[05:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alix was RMS's sex bot - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:01] <exec> 08└─ACix is too similar to Alix, that old sex bot that RMS was working on before HURD.
[05:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02technical know-how not needed anymore? - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:02] <exec> 08└─That's great! I can contribute to Linux development by tweeting about shit and fuck and piss! I'm a kernel hacker, now, bros! Fuck all y'all with the f-bomb, Linux style!!!
[05:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:25] <exec> 08└─Y'know, that's pretty much what happened in Australia. The only real differences are that we created our own duopoly competitor by selling the government satellite company for 3 magic beans, and then we sold the phone system back to the people at an extortionate price...
[05:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Dinosaurs - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:29] <exec> 08└─When you make something nice, the world should be your oyster. Maybe if the mathematicians shell out some cash, they can clam up this talk of going the way of the dinosaurs.
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[06:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Phase One: Alcoholism - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:27] <exec> 08└─(where the "disappointing" mod?) I see steps, I see the ellipsis on the-one-before-last step, I don't see where's the "PROFIT!!!" last step. You broke the canonical meme format, you brute! Forms must be observed otherwise it's like promising a haiku and delivering a rant. (grin)
[06:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much each pill will cost... - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 3649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:00] <exec> 08└─Meh, the FDA... They got gutted by underfunded mission creep years ago: The themes raised by the previous committees, as well as the present Subcommittee, are very consistent: 1) the criticality of high-quality science to the regulatory mission; 2) the need for the science to be mission driven; 3) p...
[06:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Metformin - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:13] <exec> 08└─How about just eating a healthy diet, shutting off the computer for a while and getting out for some exercise.
[06:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03glyph [245] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:26] <exec> 08└─I suspect this statement gets rolled back and eviscerated as soon as he figures out what he actually said.
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[07:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:22] <exec> 08└─I remember sitting in class and learning about the null hypothesis. Before they even got to it I wondered "what's the alternative hypothesis, how do you choose one?" Soon I learned the alternative hypothesis was anything except the null hypothesis. I thought it was weird at the time, didn't make muc...
[07:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02??? - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:23] <exec> 08└─TFS tells no connection between better analytics and reproducibility.
[07:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Inevitable outcome - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 2577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:25] <exec> 08└─What got me was (paraphrasing): " our ability to generate data has grown, while our ability to analyse has not". This was inevitable, IMNSHO, as soon as "publish or perish" put the number of articles above their content when determining a prime motivating factor (namely: will a scientist's work put...
[07:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big surprise. - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:51] <exec> 08└─Nah, they're sending him off to his next assignment.
[07:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Follow the money - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:18] <exec> 08└─If pharma companies are investing in drugs to treat aging, they have a vested interest in suppressing approaches that might compete with their treatments. The FDA represents the companies, because of the usual "revolving door" problem. There are also other, less obvious, conflicts of interest. As an...
[07:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Metformin - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:23] <exec> 08└─I can see Eth using this recreationally, paired with the boner pills. Is that wrong? (Answer: yes)
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[08:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cougar don't go extinct, fool. - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:26] <exec> 08└─Cougar matures into elusive Nonagenarian Pussy.
[08:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:35] <exec> 08└─I'm very much afraid your conclusion is correct, but your cause is by far not the only one leading ti that result. p-tweaking would come to mind as another significant problem, as well as observation (or publication) bias and I'm sure a competent statistician could name ten more without even thinkin...
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[08:41:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I explained my point fully. P-tweaking/hacking/whatever is a red herring. Even without that, the process of testing a null hypothesis makes no sense*. That is just more BS stacked on BS. Publication bias is similarly only a problem if the way you test your theories checking a null hypot...
[08:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:38] <exec> 08└─Also, even without p-hacking, if you don't say exactly when you'll stop the study beforehand and rules for outliers/etc the p-value is uninterpretable even as a measure of the null hypothesis (which is usually pointless to test anyway, no the two groups of people/rats/cells did not come from the sam...
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[08:41:40] <exec> 08└─Well, it's easy: The alternate hypothesis is the one you want to check. Now you hopefully have a reason why you want to check that hypothesis, and that reason is what makes it non-arbitrary. A prediction by a theory is, of course, a very good reason, but it is not the only one. More likely you've go...
[08:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:42] <exec> 08└─The alternate hypothesis is the one you want to check.
[08:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inevitable outcome - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:43] <exec> 08└─Write one article on some data and submit it to many different journals over time. Keep changing the title and modifying the abstract and hope no one notices. I've known people who have made a career out of this.
[08:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inevitable outcome - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:45] <exec> 08└─That's c), albeit with the simplest imaginable data-mining algorithm.
[08:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Scientist Reproduction - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:47] <exec> 08└─My solution to the problem is an ancient one, one I have always maintained since the 3rd Century BC: more Scientist sex! This may not necessarily result in more scientists, but usually results in more reproduction. Come on, why do you think their acronym is ASA? And wasn't this a major plot thread...
[08:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02It's a human problem. Scientists are made of meat. - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 1548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:48] <exec> 08└─Solving the Software Problem: a Taxonomy of Error [warplife.com] Software failure is fundamentally a human problem, not a technical one. Purely technical solutions fail to effect truly meaningful and lasting change. Elementary particle physics detectors are too complex to determine their acceptance...
[08:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a human problem. Scientists are made of me - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:50] <exec> 08└─Unless you plan to eat them, scientists are made of flesh, not of meat.
[08:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I was referring to a science fiction story - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:51] <exec> 08└─in which some robotic aliens are approaching earth, preparing for humanity's First Contact, but give us a pass when they discover that we are made of meat rather than metal.
[08:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a human problem. Scientists are made of me - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:53] <exec> 08└─"They talk with their meat!" https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[08:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Phase One: Alcoholism - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:00] <exec> 08└─I have altered the meme Pray I do not alter it further Burma Shave
[08:42:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dry [223] 02After sabatoging Nokia, what next? - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:18] <exec> 08└─Wonder what company Elop has been sent to take over and sabotage so Microsoft can buy them out?
[08:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Kids These Days - 06AMD Radeon 300 Series Launches, "Fury" to Come - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:01] <exec> 08└─I know a couple of Atari's original game designers. Dave Johnson told me the 2600 had a single-pixel "frame buffer" that you drew into by changing its value in sync with the tv tube's electron beam. Anything time consuming had to be done during the vertical blanking interval. One had a choice of 2kB...
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[08:44:34] <exec> 08└─Come to think of it.. the other big free operating system in the BSD family has been managing without Linus for decades.. :p
[08:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Lending eBooks - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 1907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:34] <exec> 08└─Lending eBooks (and other digital media) is a problem. Imagine that a book has a potential market of 10,000 people (quite a lot for a tech book, reasonable for cheap fiction). Most people who buy a book do so in the first three years after publication, but most spend less than an hour a day reading...
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[09:41:25] <exec> 08└─Not all extinctions are bad. Numerous creatures are hazardous. There may have some minor benefits, but those don't outweigh the downsides. I'm not missing this one any more than I'd miss the mosquito, the guinea worm, the corn ear borer, the measles virus, poliovirus, poison ivy...
[09:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Didn't even read the summary - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:26] <exec> 08└─Without an apex predator, the deer population has exploded. The overly abundant deer are eating some plants at a rate that also causes a weird distribution in the flora. It's the hubris of the species that is supposedly the most intelligent that makes them think that whatever they do to mess up the...
[09:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Didn't even read the summary - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:28] <exec> 08└─In the same way, the US Forest Service had a no-fires-ever policy.
[09:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good riddence - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:30] <exec> 08└─... Niggers, Muslims, Indians, frigid Bitches, and all the other humans too.
[09:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good riddence - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:31] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx19iv-yv5w [youtube.com]
[09:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Metformin - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:53] <exec> 08└─That's just crazy talk.
[09:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Galileo wasn't excommunicated - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:23] <exec> 08└─Galileo was friends with the Pope. After discussing his ideas with the Pope, he wrote a book that included a character using the Pope's arguments with the name of Simplicio (simpleton or idiot). It was just feuding.
[09:44:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:11] <exec> 08└─To top it all off, you refer to God as a "Her"
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[10:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just Say No to Forests - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:40] <exec> 08└─Eliminate every tree, and the problem of forest fires will be solved as soon as trees are extinct.
[10:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Your teacher failed, or you didn't pay attention. - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:57] <exec> 08└─No scientific theory has ever been proven and none will ever be proven - simply because it's not possible. We "believe" in the theories that best explain the world around us, but as soon as we discover a problem with a theory (or find a better one) we switch it out. The above is why the null hypothe...
[10:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Metformin - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:10] <exec> 08└─And a touch of lactic acidosis, just for good measure. Metformin is a terrible drug.
[10:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:1) 02Space heaters - 06AMD Radeon 300 Series Launches, "Fury" to Come - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:23] <exec> 08└─I'd like to upgrade my graphics card; my last two have been a Radeon HD 4850 and currently an HD 6800. Both worked well, but I really don't like the trend of needing such obscene power draw (275W!) to paint pixels. It's the biggest power usage in the system by a large margin, and is a real waste of...
[10:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 1205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:51] <exec> 08└─Even assuming Hollywood accounting was rational - the movie would still probably profit or flop within the first year. I seem to recall a study stating that the vast majority of films generate 80% of their lifetime profit within the first year or two - if a film can't turn a profit after 14 years, a...
[10:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Obvious application - 06New Type of Gecko-like Gripper Created - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:46] <exec> 08└─Why not use this to do what geckos do? Walk on ceilings! Climb up glass smooth surfaces! Catch bugs and eat them!
[10:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jerry Smith [379] (Score:2) 02got the same issue, sort of - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:38] <exec> 08└─I only can properly math (or any numerical writing) with a 6B pencil, obtuse sharpened.
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[11:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Interesting) 02if they find your server - 06Uncovering Tor Users: Where Anonymity Ends In The Darknet - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:05] <exec> 08└─... and your filesystem is not encrypted, or if it is but they can capture the unencrypted image, then it will have all of your logs. So suppose you operate a tor hidden service but administrate it via SSH. If you login directly they've got your IP. In the case of Ross Ulbricht, the found him after...
[11:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:good riddence - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:20] <exec> 08└─Agree. Lions are bad news. Usually afraid of humans, but beware if they get over that, because they can and will take you apart. Over 99% of all species that ever existed have gone extinct. It's a tautology called survival of the fittest. It is part of nature, and you can't stop time. I would think...
[11:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:35] <exec> 08└─Why?
[11:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I was referring to a science fiction story - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:45] <exec> 08└─If the author actually wrote "meat" instead of "flesh", and didn't want to imply a reference to eating of humans, it just proves that the author of that science fiction story (or maybe the translator, in case the story was translated from another language; possibly one in which that distinction is n...
[11:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02So can I host my web site now? - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:58] <exec> 08└─My ISP freaks out if I have port 80 (etc.) open. They want me to upgrade to a "business" account which includes the extra special "service" of not freaking out. Does net neutrality end this? > Cable companies ... the most disliked and complained-about companies in the United States today. So how's t...
[11:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Entry (palindrome contest) - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:19] <exec> 08└─Elop: A race car, a pole
[11:45:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:02] <exec> 08└─This whole post is an exercise in argumentation for the sake of it.
[11:45:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03novak [4683] 02Re:BSD has done fine without him. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:41] <exec> 08└─On a serious note, if Linux is considered a niche OS globally (and it is)
[11:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:copyright reform is urgently needed - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, but that is officially undocumented behaviour and therefore should not be relied upon.
[11:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why all the grief? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:48:24] <exec> 08└─You mean no one on this forum has ever left a big white crayon in the chalk tray just to annoy the teacher?
[11:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Why all the grief? - 06Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:48:25] <exec> 08└─Sorry, too old. Used chalk on black/green boards up to Uni graduation.
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[12:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:24] <exec> 08└─Where is it written that growth must occur? I don't know about you but I think the pace is frantic enough already. How about we pause for breath, stop working 90 hour weeks, take a moment to look around and see if there might be anything else worth enjoying on this planet while we're still here? Oh,...
[12:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:25] <exec> 08└─Thank you. Anyone who knows anything about physical reality can tell you that infinite growth is impossible. If only more people realised this we might be able to design an economy that's updated to 21st century knowledge.
[12:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02A footprint in the sand - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:26] <exec> 08└─for over twenty years I've been asking why we need growth to have prosperity. I regard the 1970s as having been more prosperous than current times.
[12:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Inequality does far more than hurt growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:28] <exec> 08└─Look at the French and Russian Revolutions.
[12:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Inequality does far more than hurt growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:29] <exec> 08└─I wonder if income inequality causes slow growth, or if slow growth causes inequality. The rich are going to get richer no matter what the economy is doing. But if the economy is growing, everyone else will get richer too.
[12:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Not if the proceeds are inequitably divided - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:31] <exec> 08└─Look at Uber, a small company with a $40B valuation. When it goes public only its employees and investors will get a share of that pie. The vast majority of the actual labor behind Uber is done by its drivers, who do not get stock options, paid vacation nor health insurance.
[12:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02The usual: correlation/causation - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:33] <exec> 08└─This like from the abstract "We find that increasing the income share of the poor and the middle class actually increases growth while a rising income share of the top 20 percent results in lower growth" is unfortunate. They do analyze all sorts of correlations, and do a creditable job of it. Howeve...
[12:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Line, not like... - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:34] <exec> 08└─...erf. even used "preview". Should read "This line from the abstract"
[12:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:36] <exec> 08└─I guess I should clarify that a bit as the newly rich do tend to and end up broke (sports starts and muscians often do this) but as a rule the really really rich don't tend to spend that much (as a percentage and even outright) and when they do it is usually for an asset that retains value such as g...
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[13:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02You had a problem and you solved it. - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:26] <exec> 08└─Keep up the good work; minor disruptions of the site are nothing.
[13:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:You had a problem and you solved it. - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:27] <exec> 08└─I appreciate the sentiment but I'm something of a perfectionist. Even if I wasn't having the site 500ing on a regular basis for a week was not my idea of a successful upgrade. What's done is done though and I can only move forward to fix it.
[13:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:You had a problem and you solved it. - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:29] <exec> 08└─I too am a perfectionist, but sometimes you just have to say "fuck it". It is impossible to be perfect 100% of the time - I am close :) For me, I only use the site when I am at work with a spare 10 minutes here or there. I didn't see any really issues with the upgrade, but what there was only small...
[13:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02On DB Upgrades - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 2649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:31] <exec> 08└─My suggestion is part human, part automation. Reason is that DBs are not built into binaries. But then again, it's often the same in web dev. If you don't commit a file, 95% of the site might work until you click a link that had that resource... The approach proposed here has been used for more than...
[13:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:On DB Upgrades - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:32] <exec> 08└─This was pretty close to what I was thinking implementing. The one slight headache is we might need to execute perl to migrate stuff if we change a data format (Paul has been chomping at the bit to redesign aspects of the database). I just wish with MySQL that you could rollback an ALTER TABLE in a...
[13:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:43] <exec> 08└─Well, you can either have growth or much greater redistribution to bring all the people of the world up to a decent standard of living. Or you can just tell everyone else to FOAD to a greater or lesser degree. Which are you going to pick?
[13:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:44] <exec> 08└─It's the golden rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules. What do people with lots of gold want? Mostly: more gold. How do you get that? Under the current set of laws and customs: invest in growing companies.
[13:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:51] <exec> 08└─Well I guess you wouldn't need inheritance tax per se. Just count it as income and have a 90% bracket. Also interest should be abolished. That will prevent the accumulation of wealth without productivity to back it, but also will finally get rid of 'fiat' money.
[13:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score:2) 02Hmmm.... - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:52] <exec> 08└─Does inequality hurt growth or does inequality not promote growth? There is a major distinction that should be well understood and communicated.
[13:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Game is over before it starts - 06Uncovering Tor Users: Where Anonymity Ends In The Darknet - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:00] <exec> 08└─Hard to prove much on an anonymous network, but you can still reason backwards with what you do know...people are being de-anonymized regularly on this 'anonymous' network. The only way I can see this happening is if GO's control a lot of the nodes or at can easily look at connection logs for lots o...
[13:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Didn't even read the summary - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:12] <exec> 08└─Without an apex predator, the deer population has exploded.
[13:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Didn't even read the summary - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but where would you hunt? Out West I'd go to the National Forest to hunt, because there is so much of it. In the TriState area around NYC there are so many people it's tough to get far enough away to shoot or to find public land you can hunt on.
[13:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Didn't even read the summary - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:15] <exec> 08└─You can't hunt in one of the biggest metropolitan areas in the world? That's a feature, not a bug. If you drive for a couple-three hours towards the North or the West, you'll be able to find a place to hunt deer. There are plenty of National Forests in upstate NY and in PA.
[13:43:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Re:Time for a new gaming box - 06AMD Radeon 300 Series Launches, "Fury" to Come - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:57] <exec> 08└─http://www.logicalincrements.com/ [logicalincrements.com] Best site for building a new computer. Especially if you've been out of the PC building hobby for a while. Made by the same guy who use to do /g/'s falcon guide (if you've heard of it).
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[14:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:24] <exec> 08└─The name "Donka F. Farkas" is making me laugh like Beavis...
[14:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Correct - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:25] <exec> 08└─For a number of the reasons stated (intonation intrepretation largely) I've made it a pattern to state "correct" instead of yes. Biggest issue is in-car infotainment. "You want to call Kevin?" "Correct." . Then again I doubt anyone will say they are happy with the in car voice commands.
[14:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:On DB Upgrades - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:38] <exec> 08└─I've yet to use a database that allowed transactional schema changes : /
[14:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Wish I could do that - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:39] <exec> 08└─Learning from our mistakes? When the wife asks, "Does this outfit make me look fat?" I still answer honestly. One day that cast iron skillet will be the LAST thing I see in this life.
[14:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Wish I could do that - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:41] <exec> 08└─I hear 'ya brother... I think it took me about 15 years, and a 2nd go-round at the marriage game before I figured this out.. :) Hopefully you get it before the skillet does you in..
[14:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Wish I could do that - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:43] <exec> 08└─Does this outfit make me look fat? That is someone asking for reassurance of their decision. The proper answer is 'yes you look good in that'. They will then interpret that however they like and go change into what they really wanted to wear. My wife asks that question when she is experimenting with...
[14:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Thank you - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:44] <exec> 08└─I sent a donation
[14:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:46] <exec> 08└─there's no consistency to confirm that both the master and slave have 1:1 data. Unless the entire frontend was shutdown, and master->slave replication was verified,
[14:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:57] <exec> 08└─Always with the gold... Thing about gold is that it had little practical value back in the day, except that it didn't rust into nothing when left exposed to the elements. This then made it a wonderful material for making tokens. Said tokens likely started out as weights used to measure up an amount...
[14:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wodan [517] (Score:1) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:58] <exec> 08└─Well, ever since they introduced the 2% inflation target you need to "grow" 2% just to stay where we are.
[14:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Not if the proceeds are inequitably divided - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:03] <exec> 08└─That is extremely normal. Tech companies hire contractors who get nothing but a paycheck and a headache. Even full-time employees for startups get the bare minimum. When the tech company sells only the initial owner(s) and VC get a cut of that big money. All the little people who worked nights to he...
[14:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Inequality does far more than hurt growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:04] <exec> 08└─You're basically just restating the "trickle-down" theory, which has been shown to be bogus. The economy was booming in the 90s, and inequality was growing like never before.
[14:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Inequality does far more than hurt growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:06] <exec> 08└─I haven't finished the book yet, but this is covered in Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century". For a long time prior to the industrial revolution, growth was almost non-existent, rates of return remained fixed, and essentially the only people who got much richer were the people who already...
[14:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:The usual: correlation/causation - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:08] <exec> 08└─You might be able to apply that same principle to things in your control though. Working for a company with a payscale that adheres to this principle might result in more growth than a company that squeezes it's employees and vastly overpays the executives.
[14:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03githaron [581] (Score:2) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:11] <exec> 08└─I think it would make more sense to have a cap on how much a single individual can inherit from another individual. The problem isn't inequality in general, the problem is severe inequality. Besides if you spend your whole life saving and building up funds, why shouldn't you be allowed to impart som...
[14:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmm.... - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:13] <exec> 08└─Does serfdom hurt growth or does it not promote growth?
[14:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Game is over before it starts - 06Uncovering Tor Users: Where Anonymity Ends In The Darknet - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:23] <exec> 08└─The last section of the article is the most important one, yet the most half-ass: Connecting to a malicious server isn't the only problem, traffic fingerprinting works both ways. Malicious clients can connect to a server while the all-seeing PRISM watches. Further the malicious server scenario in th...
[14:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Game is over before it starts - 06Uncovering Tor Users: Where Anonymity Ends In The Darknet - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:25] <exec> 08└─Eve is a passive attacker (E for eavesdropper). So she can watch traffic, but does not influence it directly. Only Mallory can do that (M for man-in-the-middle).
[14:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Didn't even read the summary - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:39] <exec> 08└─I live in the U.S. midwest - I can drive less than ten minutes in any direction and be in fields and forests. Maybe I'll see if some of my hunting coworkers will let me tag along this fall.
[14:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Didn't even read the summary - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:40] <exec> 08└─Where there is an over abundance of humans they tend to be culled through traffic accidents.
[14:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:good riddence - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:45] <exec> 08└─After growing up in Michigan and being very active in Boy Scouts, I was a bit surprised when I moved to Arizona and discovered that there are creatures that actually want to kill me! The plants too!
[14:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:sufficient information about price - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:19] <exec> 08└─Here you go: http://www.gandi.net [gandi.net] : )
[14:43:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Phase One: Alcoholism - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:22] <exec> 08└─I have altered the meme Pray I do not alter it further Burma Shave
[14:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:So can I host my web site now? - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:24] <exec> 08└─I would argue that it depends on what you are using it for. If it's for business then their request is valid. If it's personal, then they can just go away. Even though the service is probably identical for both business and non-business, i see nothing wrong with a different rate. So many other indus...
[14:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:So can I host my web site now? - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:26] <exec> 08└─How did they even find out that you had port 80 open? You didn't block incoming on port 80 from local IPs? Another tip is to go for port 443 right away.. Or .onion
[14:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:After sabotaging Nokia, what's next? - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:45] <exec> 08└─Most likely there were no suitable gig att Microsoft so went elsewhere to make more money. If he's not on contract with Microsoft he's not working for them. However you may take an Microsoft employee from Microsoft. But you won't take Microsoft out of the employee, bad goods. So the culture and idea...
[14:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Metformin - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:18] <exec> 08└─Why not a combination of things, like taking anti-aging pills *and* having a healthy diet and getting exercise?
[14:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Metformin - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:21] <exec> 08└─Well, you are at least talking out of your ass. Metformin is one of the most widely prescribed medicines for Type II Diabetes , and has one of the best records for lack of side effects. I've been on it for years, with no problems whatsoever, and my doctor tells me it's the first prescription he writ...
[14:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Another take - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:23] <exec> 08└─http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/06/18/aging_as_a_disease.php [corante.com] This guy develops drugs for a living, and has a pretty interesting blog even to this non-chemist.
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[15:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02No. - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:33] <exec> 08└─As compelled by Betteridge's law I must respond in the negative. So, no.
[15:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Left turn here? - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:34] <exec> 08└─"Right... HEY! Where are you going??"
[15:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Yes - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:36] <exec> 08└─> "Is the door open or is it closed?." Yes, it is open or closed.
[15:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:38] <exec> 08└─No, it is not open or closed. It's been stolen.
[15:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:39] <exec> 08└─It is a 'correct' answer but not an acceptable answer.
[15:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Poorly worded question. - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:41] <exec> 08└─"Yes, it is" or "No, it isn't" are acceptable responses to "Is the door open?" "Is the door open or is it not open?" expands the acceptable responses to things like "Yes, it isn't." [youtube.com]
[15:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Obligatory Clue - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:43] <exec> 08└─This reminds me so much of one of one of my favorite scenes [youtube.com] from one of my favorite campy 80's movies.
[15:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:Thank you - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:58] <exec> 08└─Why was this marked as troll?
[15:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:1) 02Re:SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:00] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that. I'd read about this last year and forgotten. I need to keep this one on my short list of "things wrong with world".
[15:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it takes having quite a comfortable life to care about stupid shit like a DB being called "master" or a "slave".
[15:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:03] <exec> 08└─django project unchained
[15:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 1874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:15] <exec> 08└─"you can either have growth or much greater redistribution to bring all the people of the world up to a decent standard of living" That's a false choice. In fact, it'd dead wrong, because people just don't work that way. Your second option is basically a restatement of Karl Marx: "From each accordin...
[15:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:19] <exec> 08└─Must be related to fiat money? Gold bars tend to not shrink from drying out or such..
[15:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:21] <exec> 08└─Where is it written that growth must occur? I don't know about you but I think the pace is frantic enough already. How about we pause for breath, stop working 90 hour weeks, take a moment to look around and see if there might be anything else worth enjoying on this planet while we're still here?
[15:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03danaris [3853] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:33] <exec> 08└─The only way to level the playing field is to have 100 percent inheritance tax and raise everyone in a kibbutz style environment and I suspect that most people won't except this.
[15:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:35] <exec> 08└─Government confiscation of inheritance is immoral. The simple fact is in a free society inequality will always exist. Those that advocate the use of force to tip the scales are the advocates of tyranny.
[15:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmmm.... - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:38] <exec> 08└─Interesting that statement would be drawn from a neutral statement. I think your bias is showing...
[15:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The rich have been saying this all along - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:40] <exec> 08└─Something about getting rid of all the slackers. Now we have income equality, right?!
[15:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score:1) 02Did I miss something? - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:41] <exec> 08└─I thought it was the 90s that disproved trickle down economics.
[15:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:1) 02Tangentially Related - 06Uncovering Tor Users: Where Anonymity Ends In The Darknet - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:53] <exec> 08└─I know there's been a lot of criticism of TOR recently due to the seeming false sense of anonymity. It seems that anonymity is endangered mostly when you leave the darknet via an exit node -- i.e. using it an any anonymizer. Is it not true that if you stay within the darknet it's harder to de-anonym...
[15:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Anonymity good, software setup bad? - 06Uncovering Tor Users: Where Anonymity Ends In The Darknet - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:54] <exec> 08└─It seems the culprits are: * Using an insecure browser (or infact any http/html browser) * Security issues with services setup to be accessed from Darknet. sprintf(), gets() and PHP? * Bitcoins. Transaction secure but wallets have an ID and may be associated by any mistake. * Make sure a...
[15:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Removed from the list after extinction? - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:15] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we should leave them on, in case an individual is still found?
[15:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:31] <exec> 08└─I meant: Why is the alternative hypothesis the one I am interested in. Why not set the null hypothesis to that? This would make much more sense, but I was taught to do the opposite.
[15:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your teacher failed, or you didn't pay attentio - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:33] <exec> 08└─I really don't think you understand the idea of falsification. You try to falsify a real hypothesis, not a null hypothesis... It is actually impossible to falsify your real hypothesis by testing a different one (the old "not significant is inconclusive"). This is what I mean, there are generations o...
[15:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:34] <exec> 08└─I have a better name for the null hypothesis. We-have-no-idea-hypothesis ;-) Perhaps part of the problem is to be taught methods and apply them without first really think, think, think, think about the problem? The known methods may not even be relevant. The data is perhaps good but irrelevant. One...
[15:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:36] <exec> 08└─I have a better name for the null hypothesis. We-have-no-idea-hypothesis ;-)
[15:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Inevitable outcome - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:41] <exec> 08└─dear MBAs, no matter what you learned at school, science has no relation to a production line. So please stop using methods invented for the latter to manage the former.
[15:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a human problem. Scientists are made of me - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:48] <exec> 08└─Why use PRNG? Especially if the lab is CERN? Why not use a hardware random number generator? there's several methods to accomplish a such device with good performance. (and the guy not accepting code due French vs British.. time for LART and clue bat ;-) )
[15:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Space heaters - 06AMD Radeon 300 Series Launches, "Fury" to Come - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:14] <exec> 08└─You didn't buy an HD 6800 (70/50?) just to render your desktop though did you? I have an R7 260X which runs GTA 5 on high and apparently uses far less power than the figure you have. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk [tomshardware.co.uk]
[15:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Space heaters - 06AMD Radeon 300 Series Launches, "Fury" to Come - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:15] <exec> 08└─Maxwell has cut down on power usage significantly [anandtech.com], so if you want to go green, NVIDIA might be worth your time. However idle power draw is also lower these days. That's true for CPUs as well [anandtech.com]. Is it really a waste of electricity if you demand the performance that comes...
[15:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:14] <exec> 08└─Could even be true. There are documented cases of virgin births where the male didn't quite stick it in before cumming and some sperm still managed to swim up and find the egg.
[15:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:freedesktop.org ftw - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:43] <exec> 08└─So systemd has finally identified its prime objective: replace Linus Torvalds. And why not? It wants to replace everything else dear to Linux.
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[16:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Avoid alliterations. Always. - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:25] <exec> 08└─See Subject. Seriously.
[16:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Interesting... - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:26] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the Axe [wikipedia.org] commercials here in the States. Needless to say, replace the moth traps with trendy gay hipster bars and such. Of course, I'm sure I'm just imagining things, there isn't some devious plot enticing our youth into self-selecting population control.
[16:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Correct - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:36] <exec> 08└─"Is this text incorrect?" "Correct."
[16:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:42] <exec> 08└─That's subjective.
[16:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02My favorite story about the ambiguity - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:46] <exec> 08└─A linguist was giving a lecture about the double-negative. See, in some languages and dialects, to say a negative sentence, you negate every word in the sentence (i.e. "He didn't do nothing."), while in other languages and dialects to say a negative sentence, you need to negate only one thing (i.e....
[16:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:On DB Upgrades - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:00] <exec> 08└─And people think I mad when I want to port the site to postresql.
[16:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:09] <exec> 08└─Just as it also takes quite a comfortable life to care about someone else caring about it.
[16:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03monster [1260] (Score:2) 02Re:The usual: correlation/causation - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:38] <exec> 08└─The IMF as an institution seems to have an agenda at odds with the results. That would explain the diplomatic language.
[16:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03monster [1260] (Score:2) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:44] <exec> 08└─The same argument could be used against excessive hoarding of riches. Also, why is it inmoral? For many centuries only the older son inherited while the rest didn't receive anything. Having inheritance fairly distributed is quite recent and could also be argued against (like turning a ranch into chu...
[16:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:46] <exec> 08└─I've made this point before, too, and not a lot of people seem to appreciate this. (Particularly who make public policy. They have no understanding of what being poor means.) Poor people have no margin. Any money they save goes to pay for the NEXT disaster. It's hard to build up surplus money when y...
[16:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Did I miss something? - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:53] <exec> 08└─The 90s, the middle class willing gave their wealth to the rich. Now, the government has been tasked (gladly, mind you) to rip the wealth out of the middle class and give it to the rich as 'bailouts'.
[16:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did I miss something? - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:54] <exec> 08└─The right-wingers still want to believe. Facts are for losers.
[16:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03monster [1260] (Score:1) 02Re:Did I miss something? - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:56] <exec> 08└─Zombie ideas need repeated killing.
[16:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anonymity good, software setup bad? - 06Uncovering Tor Users: Where Anonymity Ends In The Darknet - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:07] <exec> 08└─There is another facet of that. Lets say you do X with person A. But you also do Y with person B. and so on. Eventually you can create a combination that can *only* be you. Order and what you do are also bits of information. Encryption only encrypts the conversation. Not the you had a conversation....
[16:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big surprise. - 06Stephen Elop Officially Out at Microsoft - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:31] <exec> 08└─You are correct, but I implore you to do the mental exercise of sed s/microsoft/google/ and at least recognize that the statements till holds.
[16:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:Ageing? - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:50] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reply in general and specifically for a link to the site. Looks like a good future resource.
[16:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06UPDATE - Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:07] <exec> 08└─That button labelled 'end' on your keyboard works wonders... are you that lazy?
[16:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:02] <exec> 08└─You're looking at the wrong metric. Look at revenues, they're WAY up. Personally, I think non-commercial sharing of electronic media should be legal. As such, all I charge for is physical books -- reading has always been free. I've read tens of thousands of books in my lifetime, there's no way I cou...
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[17:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Awesome Alliteration Alright Always - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:27] <exec> 08└─Adding alliteration always annoys assertive assh0les and angers asshats.
[17:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That will teach them - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:29] <exec> 08└─Stopped that gay gene dead. Oh wait. How was they gay gene passed on again?
[17:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:That will teach them - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:30] <exec> 08└─According to the ads for Prop 8 it's spread by teachers in school.
[17:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:2) 02Bugchaser's wet dream - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:32] <exec> 08└─Well, it's not news that male on male orgies are the wet dreams of bugchasers.
[17:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02MGTOW - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:34] <exec> 08└─Is this what they mean by "Men going their own way"?
[17:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:47] <exec> 08└─Watson, you fool!!!
[17:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:My favorite story about the ambiguity - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:53] <exec> 08└─you negate every word in the sentence (i.e. "He didn't do nothing.")
[17:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02...but is - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:55] <exec> 08└─...for the quesion "Do you have the time?" :D
[17:42:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02You had a problem and you solved it. - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:04] <exec> 08└─Keep up the good work; minor disruptions of the site are nothing.
[17:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Wish I could do that - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:14] <exec> 08└─That is someone asking for reassurance of their decision Bullshit, it's a bitch looking for an argument who doesn't have a real reason for one. It's a question with no good answer. If she asks that and you're not married, RUN LIKE HELL. Only women who love angry arguments ask that question. Only foo...
[17:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:21] <exec> 08└─Sure, but I'm not some white liberal whining about being oppressed because a computer is being called a slave.
[17:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:23] <exec> 08└─A co-worker was scolded for mentioning reverse Polish Notation once. Ignorance knows no bounds; fuck the thin skinned morons.
[17:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:4, Touché) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:36] <exec> 08└─> If someone is productive, but sees the results of their hard work taken away and given to others, then the motivation to work is going to evaporate. Exactly. If we all bust our asses steadily increasing our productivity, and see our real wages fall while the executives pocket all the profits witho...
[17:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:58] <exec> 08└─It is immoral because the state has no right to take it. The money has already been taxed as income, be it from capital gains or employment or otherwise. It is particularly immoral to take over half of anyone's wealth, alive or dead.
[17:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score:1) 02Re:Did I miss something? - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:08] <exec> 08└─Zombie ideas need repeated killing.
[17:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Talk about a bait and switch headline... - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:46] <exec> 08└─Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List
[17:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 3867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:07] <exec> 08└─What other theory would predict that my outlandish experiment was incorrect but the opposite presumption arising from skepticism of the claim? The null hypothesis is merely healthy skepticism being formalized to ensure experiments are disprovable. I'm not sure how the null hypothesis was explained t...
[17:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:08] <exec> 08└─One way to disprove the null hypothesis is by proving an Alternate Hypothesis correct
[17:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02WFT? - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:21] <exec> 08└─Not one Jon Snow joke? Bastards!
[17:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Responsibility 10,000, Authority 0 - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:37] <exec> 08└─This basically sums up the role of an ombudsperson. Absolutely no authority, only reponsibility to report. In her new role, she will have two basic duties: first, to help Joe Sixpack and businesses navigate the FCC's complaints process; and second, to carry out investigations and analyses of both o...
[17:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Time for a new gaming box - 06AMD Radeon 300 Series Launches, "Fury" to Come - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:49] <exec> 08└─Also, just be sure you run at least 8GB RAM.
[17:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:23] <exec> 08└─keeping that work out of the public domain as long as possible, and thus reduce its ability to compete for audiences with new films. Somebody actually gets it. That's also the reason record labels fight piracy. Their competition, the indies, rely on it while the majors have radio.
[17:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:25] <exec> 08└─I think copyright terms should vary by media. I've held two registered software copyrights since 1984; it's crazy that they're still covered, since the hardware has been obsolete for decades. Five years is a good term for software, I'd say ten for movies and twenty for books. I'd say ten for music a...
[17:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Lending eBooks - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:36] <exec> 08└─Someone bought my 86 year old mother a Nook for Christmas and she loves it. She actually thinks she owns those copies on it. "Buying" digital media is insane. You can't legally resell it, loan it, or give it away, while a paperback that costs the same yet has costs for printing, shipping, and wareho...
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[18:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:26] <exec> 08└─The conductivity of silver is about 7 percent higher than for copper. I want silver wires too. Bulk cost it should only add about 10 bucks max to the cost.
[18:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02I don't consider this simple or clever - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:26] <exec> 08└─When it said simple and clever I expected it to be more simple and more clever. Maybe not something I could do in my garage but something that could be done with existing tech, not requiring a specialized laboratory. The level of clever here is one level above I painted my car a different color. O...
[18:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:That will teach them - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:39] <exec> 08└─Not all teachers, just the sex predator ones.
[18:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score:1) 02Banned - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:42] <exec> 08└─These traps are, of course, banned in Russia.
[18:42:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02My favorite story about the ambiguity - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 607 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:02] <exec> 08└─A linguist was giving a lecture about the double-negative. See, in some languages and dialects, to say a negative sentence, you negate every word in the sentence (i.e. "He didn't do nothing."), while in other languages and dialects to say a negative sentence, you need to negate only one thing (i.e....
[18:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:My favorite story about the ambiguity - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:05] <exec> 08└─Double Negative: -1 * -1 = 1 (positive) Double Positive: 1 * 1 = 1 (positive) Makes sense to me.
[18:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Wish I could do that - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─Does this outfit make me look fat? That is someone asking for reassurance of their decision. The proper answer is 'yes you look good in that'.
[18:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Wish I could do that - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:29] <exec> 08└─To a guy it seems like a stupid question. You either do or do not. To a woman it is 'please verify my experiment here'. Am I the only one here who actually wants his wife to look hot when we go out? When asked if I like an outfit: If I like it I answer Yes. If I don't I answer No. Seems a...
[18:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:1) 02Re:Wish I could do that - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:30] <exec> 08└─I finally came up with "That outfit doesn't flatter you", with some detail about how a horizontal element is too high/low on her figure. It helps, of course, if another option she tried on (thinking of purchases here) *did* flatter her, and it's a matter of which is preferable.
[18:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Wish I could do that - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:32] <exec> 08└─> "Does this outfit make me look fat?" Oh baby, I just want to peel that dress off of you and drop it on the bedroom floor.
[18:42:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mtrycz [60] 02Thank you - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:34] <exec> 08└─I sent a donation
[18:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:38] <exec> 08└─> Sure, but I'm not some white liberal whining about being oppressed because a computer is being called a slave. Right, you are just a busy-body whining about something that by your own words does not affect you.
[18:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:40] <exec> 08└─Sure. I already admitted as much. Doesn't change the fact that I will continue to make fun of white liberals who whine that a computer was called a "slave" as if that was some sort of world-changing cause.
[18:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:41] <exec> 08└─> as if that was some sort of world-changing cause. Because that's what happened.
[18:42:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 867 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:56] <exec> 08└─> If someone is productive, but sees the results of their hard work taken away and given to others, then the motivation to work is going to evaporate. Exactly. If we all bust our asses steadily increasing our productivity, and see our real wages fall while the executives pocket all the profits witho...
[18:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:19] <exec> 08└─I get taxed when I make money and when I spend that same money. Why should I find it immoral if a parent got taxed when they gained control of a pile of money and then their children get taxed with the pile passes to their control? Especially since both parties will expect the government to protect...
[18:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:20] <exec> 08└─Those that advocate the use of force to tip the scales are the advocates of tyranny. The use of force to protect that person's inheritance and property from all those poor people is fine, of course.
[18:43:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02if they find your server - 06Uncovering Tor Users: Where Anonymity Ends In The Darknet - 617 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:38] <exec> 08└─... and your filesystem is not encrypted, or if it is but they can capture the unencrypted image, then it will have all of your logs. So suppose you operate a tor hidden service but administrate it via SSH. If you login directly they've got your IP. In the case of Ross Ulbricht, the found him after...
[18:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:31] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the response, I will read you post in more detail later. For now I note that you seem to be assuming that correlations are rare (eg between stepping on cracks and broken backs). Common sense tells me that, where there are more cracks to step on, people are more likely to trip and have bro...
[18:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 1588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:32] <exec> 08└─I should also note that this issue of correlations was noted by Meehl many decades ago with regards to psychology (his area of expertise): Everyone familiar with psychological research knows that numer- ous “puzzling, unexpected” correlations pop up all the time, and that it requires only a mode...
[18:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a human problem. Scientists are made of me - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:45] <exec> 08└─Repeatability. You want to be able to do the exact same calculation again. Which means you need to use the very same sequence of "random" numbers again. With a PRNG, you can get that by using the same seed again. With a true randomness source, the only way to do it is to store the complete sequence...
[18:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:BSD has done fine without him. - 06Torvalds Says Linux Could Continue Without Him Now - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:54] <exec> 08└─Otoh, market share has not been a good indicator of quality. Mostly it's an indicator of driver and 3rd party software availability.
[18:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:50] <exec> 08└─Imagine what might be created if everyone, including professional-grade talent, had unrestricted legal access to all that older footage. Hmm, that might almost promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts. Can't have that happen!
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[19:41:29] <exec> 08└─Oxidation.
[19:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:More - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:32] <exec> 08└─That's the part that doesn't make sense to me. Graphene is very conductive but they are replacing an insulator with it? Okay just read the article. It can only replace the insulator when the insulator isn't being used for electrical insulation. Sometimes the insulator is being used as a physical bar...
[19:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't consider this simple or clever - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:34] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The title is just clickbait. The editors could have easily written something like "Graphene-sheathed wires improve chip speeds" instead of wasting words in the title on a misleading vague description.
[19:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't consider this simple or clever - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:35] <exec> 08└─Local engineers make computers run faster with this one weird trick!
[19:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Isn't that just... - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:37] <exec> 08└─a carbon nanotube? So "they put wire inside a carbon nanotube" is old fashioned but referring to graphene is trendy. If I'm wrong, please illuminate the difference between the two. Seriously - I'm not a physicist or chemist and would be interested.
[19:41:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Awesome Alliteration Alright Always - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:46] <exec> 08└─Adding alliteration always annoys assertive assh0les and angers asshats.
[19:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoid alliterations. Always. - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:48] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but every once in awhile it's okay. I came here for a short break, and I thought it was pretty funny. Interesting article as well. You might need a heaping helping of humor.
[19:41:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tork [3914] 02Re:That will teach them - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:50] <exec> 08└─According to the ads for Prop 8 it's spread by teachers in school.
[19:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That will teach them - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:52] <exec> 08└─Woosh.
[19:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My favorite story about the ambiguity - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:17] <exec> 08└─I hate it when attorneys say "Is it not true that..." It's trying to confuse someone who might not understand how to answer a double negative question.
[19:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:On DB Upgrades - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:35] <exec> 08└─Restoring the DB is heavy handed but almost every "it failed" arrow on the deployment flowchart points to it. Unfortunately. I'm sure someone could chime in on why very few databases allow it. But since user tables are just records in a master table it seems strange that you can't put a transaction...
[19:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:On DB Upgrades - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:36] <exec> 08└─That would be my advice too. Partial rollbacks etc. Are a pain to debug. When a problem arises you probably want to restore so that eventually you can have a process that is 100% successful. But if you have an environment where you can do a dunp of prod/upgrade/unit tests that may already improve yo...
[19:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:On DB Upgrades - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:38] <exec> 08└─SQL Server will rollback ddl within transaction - confuses some people see e.g.: http://www.sqlservercentral.com [sqlservercentral.com] It is Snapshot Isolation that causes problems (if you have it turned on) because metadata is not versioned so you can't have one proc...
[19:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:57] <exec> 08└─Of course it isn't what happened. They whined about something that only a couple of internet SJWs would ever care about. Not a single black person was offended by a DB being called a "slave" and another one its "master".
[19:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:00] <exec> 08└─Hm. I was happy about making the transition from /. Then I realized that half of this thread is an idiot or two defending fabricated indignation about a hypothetical group of people. Grrrrr conserv-a-rage!
[19:43:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 544 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:11] <exec> 08└─Where is it written that growth must occur? I don't know about you but I think the pace is frantic enough already. How about we pause for breath, stop working 90 hour weeks, take a moment to look around and see if there might be anything else worth enjoying on this planet while we're still here? Oh,...
[19:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:17] <exec> 08└─If we all bust our asses steadily increasing our productivity, and see our real wages fall while the executives pocket all the profits without contributing any more than they did before getting a 20-fold raise over the last few decades, where's our motive to continue striving?
[19:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:19] <exec> 08└─Hrmm are not growth and distribution orthogonal? Can you not change one without changing the other?
[19:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:21] <exec> 08└─What do people with lots of gold want? Mostly: more gold. How do you get that? Under the current set of laws and customs: invest in growing companies.
[19:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:25] <exec> 08└─And the obvious problem with your model is that the pie isn't fixed in size. While "trickle down" may be bullshit, I don't see how obsessing over the size of each persons' piece of the pie will help that pie grow larger.
[19:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Inequality does far more than hurt growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:31] <exec> 08└─The economy was booming in the 90s, and inequality was growing like never before.
[19:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:The usual: correlation/causation - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:37] <exec> 08└─Corrupt politicians aren't going to change their short-term thinking until they're hung from a long rope.
[19:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:46] <exec> 08└─I consider it particularly immoral for someone to suck their thumb and whine about not getting their daddy's money when their sole accomplishment to earn that money is the thumb sucking.
[19:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:48] <exec> 08└─The same argument could be used against excessive hoarding of riches.
[19:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:50] <exec> 08└─The reason I don't appreciate this insight is the unfounded assertion that poor people are trying to save money in the first place. "Drinking your paycheck" or buying non-essential goods which you can barely afford is too widespread a phenomena to be ignored.
[19:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmm.... - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:54] <exec> 08└─Who is biased or not doesn't matter in a discussion because personal traits don't impact the validity of one's statements.
[19:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Hmmm.... - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:56] <exec> 08└─Who is biased or not doesn't matter in a discussion because personal traits don't impact the validity of one's statements.
[19:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Didn't even read the summary - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:32] <exec> 08└─And the next apex predator in line, i.e. humans, are being more and more discouraged from hunting the now overpopulated deer - whether it's by anti-gun activists, animal rights types, or just a culture that's becoming more and more urbanized. I myself haven't hunted since I was a teenager, although...
[19:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good riddence - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:37] <exec> 08└─Enjoy your Lime Disease.
[19:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:good riddence - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:39] <exec> 08└─Numerous creatures are hazardous.
[19:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03virens [5530] (Score:1) 02Re:Inevitable outcome - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:11] <exec> 08└─AC, you got the symptom right ("publish or perish"), but the rest of the post veers off the course. The problem is that the academic system itself consists of business slime and corporate-type morons who want everything to be immediately applicable. They even made TMT (thirty meter telescope) a fuck...
[19:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dhj [5533] (Score:1) 02Re:Responsibility 10,000, Authority 0 - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:37] <exec> 08└─Shit, I hope you're wrong too. That 100M fine slapped on AT&T gives me hope they'll put teeth behind this too. Just hope the administration doesn't switch to republican in 2016. They have an even softer spot that the dems for corporations.
[19:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:No bullshit and medling please? - 06Aussie Comms Minister says VPNs are Fine to Access International Sites Over AU Versions - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:00] <exec> 08└─Time to upset the market somehow?
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[20:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Ignored - 06DNA Testing Confirms Kennewick Man's Ties to Native Americans - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:28] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, Florida Man's DNA remains completely ignored by science.
[20:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:where are the long overdue oled screens? - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:44] <exec> 08└─http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/19/breaking_fad_oled_tv/ [theregister.co.uk] http://www.forbes.com [forbes.com] http://www.forbes.com
[20:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:where are the long overdue oled screens? - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:45] <exec> 08└─OLED does not require graphene. Maybe some OLED devices use it but I am not aware of any. But just maybe some do, in which case I'm not going to go looking for it right now.
[20:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02So... - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:48] <exec> 08└─so... can this graphene thing make me my morning coffee?
[20:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My favorite story about the ambiguity - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:30] <exec> 08└─When replying to an attorney, I would be inclined to rephrase (and say) the question in a form that I could easily understand -- then provide an answer to my version.
[20:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:My favorite story about the ambiguity - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:31] <exec> 08└─So answer with "No, it is not true that" (or equally, "yes, it is not true that"). They'll soon get bored.
[20:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:2) 02Re:My favorite story about the ambiguity - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:32] <exec> 08└─From what I remember of Spanish, many languages allow multiple negatives that don't ... negate each other. Instead of flipping the sign, they reinforce it. "I'm not never going to give you my money to you, mugger." Would mean "I'm REALLY SERIOUS about not handing my money over." Double, and even tri...
[20:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:You had a problem and you solved it. - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:45] <exec> 08└─I feel the same way, but my issues with the site are quite rare. All I've ever noticed is occasionally a "missed connection" when posting my comment, but the back button always takes me right back and I've never even lost my comment. Other than that small hiccup, I've not noticed much of anything to...
[20:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:On DB Upgrades - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:54] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna have to try this on my mssql setup at home and specify the isolation level. Mor generally i think that the idea here is that the upgrade should either work 100% or fail entirely and result in a restore. If you have somethig that fails halfway through and causes a rollback on that transacti...
[20:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A footprint in the sand - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:30] <exec> 08└─for over twenty years I've been asking why we need growth to have prosperity. I regard the 1970s as having been more prosperous than current times.
[20:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:35] <exec> 08└─The problem is that darned thing called human nature: If someone is productive, but sees the results of their hard work taken away and given to others, then the motivation to work is going to evaporate.
[20:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:1) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:45] <exec> 08└─Where is it written that growth must occur?
[20:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:09] <exec> 08└─Government confiscation
[20:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:12] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that all the poor people "drink their paycheck"? If you don't, then why punish those who don't because some of them do?
[20:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:13] <exec> 08└─I'm pointing out that the problem isn't as severe as claimed. And it strikes me that people who figure out how to save money, don't stay poor.
[20:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:15] <exec> 08└─So, your view is: the situation is not that grave, society can afford to let it go worse?
[20:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:good riddence - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:55] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between a species going extinct because it can't compete, and a species that gets hunted into extinction by humans which otherwise was doing fine. I suppose you could argue that the puma wasn't competing effectively against humans with firearms, but do we criticize the Native Am...
[20:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''creatures that actually want to kill me'' - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:57] <exec> 08└─I don't think that "want" is the best word there. "Are able to" is certainly apt. As we mentioned the other day with the wolves and rodents, even an apex predator prefers bite-sized meals. Leaving a partially-eaten carcass near your stomping ground is an invitation to other predators to move into yo...
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[21:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2) 02slow key - 06New Exploit Turns Samsung Galaxy Phones into Remote Bugging Devices - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:31] <exec> 08└─This exploit while useful for three letter agencies and people who have an interest in spying you personally it would be hard to deploy on a wide scale, which brings me to the point that even though it will probably be patched I never liked swift key because it "phones home" with whatever you are wr...
[21:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:slow key - 06New Exploit Turns Samsung Galaxy Phones into Remote Bugging Devices - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:32] <exec> 08└─This exploit while useful for three letter agencies and people who have an interest in spying you personally it would be hard to deploy on a wide scale
[21:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignored - 06DNA Testing Confirms Kennewick Man's Ties to Native Americans - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:41] <exec> 08└─To be fair, DNA in Florida is too general to really analyze.
[21:41:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Alfred [4006] 02I don't consider this simple or clever - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 405 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:52] <exec> 08└─When it said simple and clever I expected it to be more simple and more clever. Maybe not something I could do in my garage but something that could be done with existing tech, not requiring a specialized laboratory. The level of clever here is one level above I painted my car a different color. O...
[21:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't consider this simple or clever - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:55] <exec> 08└─Except they have not made "computers" run faster. Until it is integrated into a production line this is just a theory. And that missing part will be anything but simple...
[21:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoid alliterations. Always. - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:12] <exec> 08└─Harmless headline hilarity harries harsh heckler. He hates humor harshly.
[21:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On DB Upgrades, a newbish thought - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:10] <exec> 08└─It seems like a lot of people deploying virtualized servers seem to forget about tools like LVM. Its still useful, even inside virtual machines. I don't deal with databases much, but using LVM snapshots inside VMs has saved me some headaches. If, during DB upgrades, the site can function with a sin...
[21:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Wish I could do that - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:16] <exec> 08└─You answer the question if the outfit makes her look fat with "yes" and add that she looks good that way? Uh oh! :-) OP is Ethiopian
[21:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Wish I could do that - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:19] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one here who actually wants his wife to look hot when we go out? My wife always looks hot. Doesn't matter if she's in the cavegirl outfit from our honeymoon, or if she has babysick in her hair.
[21:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:55] <exec> 08└─This entire conversation is about as informed as a uninformed thing with no clue... "That's what redistribution is, right? Taking from those who produce - and giving to those who don't." Not necessarily. Redistribution comes in many forms. Also the opposite (wealth concentration) does and COMBATING...
[21:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inequality does far more than hurt growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:11] <exec> 08└─You are addressing the global situation when the comment was about the US. The global average for inequality has gotten better, but there is actually worse inequality happening in most countries. You are mixing the situations to fit your view. There is no way the developed economies could become "co...
[21:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:28] <exec> 08└─While a large amount of wealth is invested, there is also a large amount that is literally hoarded in assets and offshore accounts. Also, your idea of those investments helping everyone is the same old trickle down theory, so move on to reality please where the parasites justify their existence by t...
[21:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:36] <exec> 08└─IOW, you have no experience being poor or experience with the poor.
[21:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dumb question - 06Uncovering Tor Users: Where Anonymity Ends In The Darknet - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:51] <exec> 08└─Pardon the question from one who only knows the basics of Tor and not specifics.... Part of the FBI's explanation according to the website cited by kaszz above (https://www.nikcub.com/posts/analyzing-fbi-explanation-silk-road/) : 8. Upon examining the individual packets of data being sent back from...
[21:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:good riddence - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:18] <exec> 08└─Lyme Disease, even. [wikipedia.org]
[21:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Removed from the list after extinction? - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:21] <exec> 08└─I don't know if you are kidding, but after 77 years, if none has been found, i'd say it's pretty sure they are extinct. But if any would be found, then it would have to be relisted in the endangered list. It's not like that can't be done.
[21:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:40] <exec> 08└─I meant: Why is the alternative hypothesis the one I am interested in.
[21:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Some of us aren't surprised - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 1699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:04] <exec> 08└─This is a drum I have been beating for years. Science is no longer reliable, especially academic science. Industry still manages to successfully invent new faster chips and chemical processes, Big Pharma is slowing down but still cranking out enough useful drugs we tend not to see it, especially whe...
[21:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Phase One: Alcoholism - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:17] <exec> 08└─I see the ellipsis on penultimate step
[21:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So can I host my web site now? - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:21] <exec> 08└─So how's that monopoly-and-regulate strategy working out for you?
[21:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''put teeth behind this'' - 06Your ISP Jerking You Around? There's a New Sheriff in Town - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:24] <exec> 08└─That 100M fine slapped on AT&T That represents what portion of their profits over the time they were in violation? When the fine is GREATER THAN the profits they gleaned, -then- we can -start- to talk about effectiveness. Now, until the regulators start dragging corporate execs into court and subseq...
[21:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Metformin - 06Anti-Ageing Pill Pushed as Bona Fide Drug - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:20] <exec> 08└─even with that, you're still not going to live past 120, if you even get that far. lots of people have genetic timebombs waiting to go off too (alzheimer's, parkinson's, etc), diet and exercise won't do much to prevent or treat those (though i believe its been shown to help and delay onset). diet an...
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[22:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:slow key - 06New Exploit Turns Samsung Galaxy Phones into Remote Bugging Devices - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:30] <exec> 08└─I never liked swift key because it "phones home" with whatever you are writing (for better "writing recognition" I'm sure) and it needs an inordinate amount of permissions.
[22:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:slow key - 06New Exploit Turns Samsung Galaxy Phones into Remote Bugging Devices - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:31] <exec> 08└─But how do you get Multiling O Keyboard onto the phone if Swiftkey is supposedly "uninstallable" ..? (Swiftkey picture [androidcommunity.com], Multiling picture [androidpit.info])
[22:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02How this works - 06New Exploit Turns Samsung Galaxy Phones into Remote Bugging Devices - 2067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:33] <exec> 08└─The affected computerphones seems to be: Samsung galaxy S4, S5, S6, S4 Mini The juicy details can be found here: * Remote code execution as system user on Samsung phones [nowsecure.com] * Samsung keyboard security risk disclosed: Over 600M+ devices worldwide impacted [nowsecure.com] This secur...
[22:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:How this works - 06New Exploit Turns Samsung Galaxy Phones into Remote Bugging Devices - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:34] <exec> 08└─The bug now has its own CERT code CVE-2015-2865 [cert.org] These kinds of bugs at least has one upside. Backdoor to switch operating system..
[22:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Department of Redundancy Department - 06New Exploit Turns Samsung Galaxy Phones into Remote Bugging Devices - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:36] <exec> 08└─Not a criticism of you, as it's in the source you linked, but "over 600 million+"? And in a glorified big font and banner at the top of the page! Argh!
[22:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 022 terms that occurred to me - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:55] <exec> 08└─Skin effect [wikipedia.org] The higher the frequency, the less of the bulk of the conductor that counts. Waveguides are hollow and their walls are only thick enough that they don't dent too easily. The shield of some coax is silver-plated (then coated with plastic to avoid oxidation) in order to max...
[22:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:1) 02Re:Isn't that just... - 06Engineers Find a Simple Yet Clever Way to Boost Chip Speeds - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:04] <exec> 08└─They are not making nanotubes. They may not be making tubes at all. It sounds like they are depositing graphene to line the channel and then depositing copper. The top would still be open at this stage. In principle, they could apply another layer of graphene on top making it rough tube but the moti...
[22:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting... - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:18] <exec> 08└─Hmm, all these comments thus far and still no mention of the Gay Bomb? [wikipedia.org]
[22:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02But no means no, right ? - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:54] <exec> 08└─Brings to mind my the 80s date rape campaigns, "no means no" - yes and incomprehensible means incomprehensible, but how how does that help anyone ? Ok, we could save a lot of pages in dictionaries if we just printed "$x means $x # to use this dictionary please substitute required word for $x in for...
[22:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score:2) 02Differences in languages - 06What Don't You Understand About Yes and No? - 1464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:55] <exec> 08└─Funny to see an article like this. It's always been an aspect of how English is used that bothers me. For instance, a person is having difficulty opening a bottle with a tight cap, and another person asks, "Can't you open that?" Typically the struggling person will respond with no to indicate that o...
[22:43:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WizardFusion [498] 02Re:You had a problem and you solved it. - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 564 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:07] <exec> 08└─I too am a perfectionist, but sometimes you just have to say "fuck it". It is impossible to be perfect 100% of the time - I am close :) For me, I only use the site when I am at work with a spare 10 minutes here or there. I didn't see any really issues with the upgrade, but what there was only small...
[22:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:55] <exec> 08└─Capitalism and debt-based economies are only sustainable so long as there is growth. Admitting that infinite growth is impossible is an admission that capitalism is dying and should be retired.
[22:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A footprint in the sand - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:58] <exec> 08└─Because without growth, the only people who benefit under capitalism are the ones already entrenched and holding all the capital. Without new capital for others to obtain (growth) and without new markets (growth), there will be no new prosperity, just more and growing inequality.
[22:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:04] <exec> 08└─It's not like the only solution to income inequality is wealth redistribution
[22:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:07] <exec> 08└─Hence the reason why open source tanked immediately. Why should I bust my ass contributing to open source software when others, who didn't contribute anything, benefit from all the hard work I put into it? It completely saps my motivation when I see stuff like that going on.
[22:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:17] <exec> 08└─And the obvious problem with your model is that the pie isn't fixed in size. While "trickle down" may be bullshit, I don't see how obsessing over the size of each persons' piece of the pie will help that pie grow larger.
[22:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, society can afford to let it get worse. But there's no reason to do that. My view however is that there are deeper problems which are being aggravated by the emphasis on income inequality. Making poor people slightly less poor is a relatively noble goal, but I think there's more to be gain, inc...
[22:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just Say No to Forests - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:19] <exec> 08└─Eliminate all sapient life and all problems will no longer matter.
[22:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Didn't even read the summary - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:20] <exec> 08└─That would be western politicians putting pressure on the Forest Service.
[22:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Didn't even read the summary - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:28] <exec> 08└─Domestic dogs? Never heard of that as being a problem for deer. Dogs can be killed by just one kick and many urban breeds really don't know how to hunt. It isn't like cats that are born killers so much so that they murder for fun. Not that I do not believe it. They could easily kill several young de...
[22:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Didn't even read the summary - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:29] <exec> 08└─Domestic dogs? Never heard of that as being a problem for deer. Dogs can be killed by just one kick and many urban breeds really don't know how to hunt.
[22:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:1) 02read the summary, saw it was mindless - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:31] <exec> 08└─You didn't read my comment: "There may have some minor benefits, but those don't outweigh the downsides." Yes, not having an exploding deer population could be a minor benefit. Deer do cause car crashes. We ought to encourage shooing the deer. We could even allow commercial hunting all year long. OT...
[22:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:good riddence - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:35] <exec> 08└─tangomargarine hit the nail on the head. its not about trying to keep everything exactly the same, its about limiting the impact of human-caused extinctions and destruction. sabertooth tigers probably went extinct because their giant saber teeth weren't really suited for hunting, and wooly mammoths...
[22:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:55] <exec> 08└─Even without that, the process of testing a null hypothesis makes no sense*.
[22:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 1639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:02] <exec> 08└─The null hypothesis is the hypothesis to be nullified. It can be anything. In practice it has come to be usually "no effect, no correlation" (this is called the "nil null" hypothesis) and that is the problem. The null hypothesis is nearly always false in that case, the only time it isn't is if you a...
[22:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:11] <exec> 08└─What the fuck does gravity have to do with correlations? You're seeing all kinds of correlations that don't exist and working with lots of assumptions that don't match with reality, that must be why you're so confused about this.
[22:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:13] <exec> 08└─The gravity example shows that it is commonly believed that everything in the universe affects everything else, however minutely. This idea has been put forth in other ways as well: "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things."
[22:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WFT? - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:28] <exec> 08└─You know nothing, Jon Snow.
[22:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some of us aren't surprised - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:30] <exec> 08└─. Science is no longer reliable,
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[23:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02OPM Database - 06Former NSA Director Hayden on Snowden and OPM Hack - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:30] <exec> 08└─" Hayden argued the stolen OPM databases, which apparently included US national security clearance application forms, would be useless for blackmail since Uncle Sam already knew what was on the forms. "
[23:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Look at how much we can get away with! - 06Former NSA Director Hayden on Snowden and OPM Hack - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:31] <exec> 08└─We can violate everyone's rights, violate the highest law of the land, violate basic ethics, and still only some people care! Getting the ignorant majority to care about anything important is next to impossible, so this says nothing.
[23:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Department of Redundancy Department - 06New Exploit Turns Samsung Galaxy Phones into Remote Bugging Devices - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:46] <exec> 08└─Seems only nowsecure.com claims this 600 million number. Neither Ars technica or CERT mentions it. According to Wikipedia: S4: 40 million sold in the first 6 months S4 Mini: no data S5: 12 million in its first 3 months S6: 10 million in its first 1 months However this article [androidauthority.com]...
[23:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Smartphone free - 06New Exploit Turns Samsung Galaxy Phones into Remote Bugging Devices - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:47] <exec> 08└─This kind of news is what makes me glad that I don't have a smart phone. It's just another reason not to get one.
[23:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoid alliterations. Always. - 06Male-on-Male Moth Mating Minimizes Museum's Misery - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:30] <exec> 08└─It's from El Reg, alliteration is an English thing, Did not "noshing attackers" give you a hint? And now look, you've gone and Striesanded the subtle syllabic symetry!
[23:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kbahey [1147] (Score:2) 02Re:You had a problem and you solved it. - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:23] <exec> 08└─I full agree. Don't be too hard on yourselves. The site has been superb. Some glitches every now and then are no big deal. Thank you for the transparency. Valuable, specially when Slashdot is removing features (comment link) and replacing it with social media stuff, despite the users' uproar.
[23:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:SJWs aint gonna like this post! - 06Learning From Our Mistakes (Or How To Prevent Another Painful Upgrade) - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:59] <exec> 08└─Hmm... If master/slave is out, can we use terms like pitcher/catcher or top/bottom?
[23:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:23] <exec> 08└─Hence the reason why open source tanked immediately. Why should I bust my ass contributing to open source software when others, who didn't contribute anything, benefit from all the hard work I put into it? It completely saps my motivation when I see stuff like that going on.
[23:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Holy Growth - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:34] <exec> 08└─it isn't fixed in size, but it does have a definite size at any point in time, and that size can't increase without growth of some sort. the only reason each person's piece of the pie is a big deal is because of how extreme the difference is, with equivalently 1 person holding 80% of the pie and the...
[23:44:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bootsy [3440] 02The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 1123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:49] <exec> 08└─I guess I should clarify that a bit as the newly rich do tend to and end up broke (sports starts and muscians often do this) but as a rule the really really rich don't tend to spend that much (as a percentage and even outright) and when they do it is usually for an asset that retains value such as g...
[23:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:58] <exec> 08└─Not really related to you, but I find it hilarious that the kind of people who say taxation is immoral or theft often claim that the government should own womens' bodies if they have a certain parasitic infection.
[23:45:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 1291 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:04] <exec> 08└─I've made this point before, too, and not a lot of people seem to appreciate this. (Particularly who make public policy. They have no understanding of what being poor means.) Poor people have no margin. Any money they save goes to pay for the NEXT disaster. It's hard to build up surplus money when y...
[23:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:The rich don't spend money - 06IMF Study Reveals Inequality Hurts Growth - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:12] <exec> 08└─I'm pointing out that the problem isn't as severe as claimed.
[23:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More hubris - 06Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:51] <exec> 08└─a predator [...] running around ...as they did for millions of years before your species ever showed up. Clearly, YOU are the interloper. putting my life in danger Some advice for you, fraidy cat city boy: never leave "civilization". Don't even leave your gated community (there might be predators ou...
[23:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:18] <exec> 08└─One doesn't need a theory to see something of note.
[23:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats Class - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:19] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention: All accurate data is interesting, if a detailed report of the methodology is included alongside.
[23:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Inevitable outcome - 06The Reproducibility Crisis in Science - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:43] <exec> 08└─dear MBAs, no matter what you learned at school, science has no relation to a production line.
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