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[01:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They took the Feds' money - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:39] <exec> 08└─Then they went to Uber.
[01:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:40] <exec> 08└─If a crime is so transparent to the rest of society, so hard to detect, and so lacking in impact to those not involved, is it still a crime? How does someone using The Silk Road to buy or sell drugs affect me at all? It's actually a huge improvement from the old school drug trade which DID sometimes...
[01:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:42] <exec> 08└─The rest of the operation is online dangerous
[01:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:44] <exec> 08└─So Dr Shipman in the UK, who for kicks was giving fatal injections to old people living alone, his patients, and went undetected for 30 years because, er, it was hard to detect, was committing no crime? Could argue he was doing them a favour as mostly terminally ill anyway. How about the bank comput...
[01:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:46] <exec> 08└─You make a very valid point about Shipman being hard to detect. However, the impact of his crimes was quite far reaching, impacting on friends and family of the victims, and he was the only consenting party in the crimes, the victims did not ask for it. If Shipman didn't murder those people, there w...
[01:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:47] <exec> 08└─It's not legitimate for the Government to spend my money trying to stop this
[01:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:49] <exec> 08└─My assumption would be that 'special location' should be the privacy of the drug users own home. Like sugar, tobacco, alcohol, prescribed medication and other 'legal' drugs/highs can be consumed in 'special locations' or can be consumed in the comfort of ones own residence. If you drive drunk, walk...
[01:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:51] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I agree with you, and feel that drug legislation needs a drastic reworking. The problem isn't the user directly, the problem is the money raised by illicit drugs which gets re-invested in organized crime. Drugs are relatively cheap to make, and have high markups, and can be used to build...
[01:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:1) 02Well... - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:53] <exec> 08└─The Feds got unmasked too - not sure what that budget was though. The wheels on the bus go round and round.
[01:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SEI, eh - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:54] <exec> 08└─Back when I was at CMU in late 80's, there was this famous(?) guy staging continuous protest at SEI building going on for sometime now. Cuz he didn't like SEI doing defense research work. Wonder if he's still at it. Anyhoo, you can bet CMU/SEI is doing (and has been doing) some creepy work of nebul...
[01:20:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] 02clickbait... - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:58] <exec> 08└─there was no mention of the new material. It was a "what if" for fusion reactor design *if* someone can make a material that generates 30T confinement field...
[01:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:clickbait... - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:02] <exec> 08└─The material is muh dik. When I ram it up yo ass it superconducts my semen into your colon.
[01:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:clickbait... - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:04] <exec> 08└─that does it, i'm subscribing to soylentnews
[01:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02singularity first plz - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:06] <exec> 08└─I don't care if u power the scientist rooms with diesel, singularity first. everything else follows. duh. but, singularity is always 50 years away then.
[01:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Be Careful People - 06Mars' Moon Phobos is Being Slowly Ripped Apart - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:18] <exec> 08└─> Being Slowly Ripped Apart If it can happen to Phobos, it can happen to Uranus.
[01:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Be Careful People - 06Mars' Moon Phobos is Being Slowly Ripped Apart - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:19] <exec> 08└─If it can happen to Phobos, it can happen to Uranus. Oblig link [goatse.cx]
[01:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Be Careful People - 06Mars' Moon Phobos is Being Slowly Ripped Apart - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:20] <exec> 08└─Why are you posting Ethanol-fueled's homepage?
[01:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Of Course - 06Mars' Moon Phobos is Being Slowly Ripped Apart - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:22] <exec> 08└─We've known for 22 years there's an interdimensional portal there.
[01:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Read a book when I was a kid - 06Mars' Moon Phobos is Being Slowly Ripped Apart - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:24] <exec> 08└─Don't remember much about it but 2 kids somehow get to Mars and find out 1 of the moons is an alien artifact. For whatever reason that story stuck with me. If you wanna play "name that book", I read it in the 60s when I was maybe 10-12 years old.
[01:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:45] <exec> 08└─I got out of medical research for the same reason... I think I'd prefer a bank to that (lesser evil). So what job did you find that doesnt involve scamming people?
[01:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:46] <exec> 08└─That's a common experience among those who have real skills and retain moral bearing. Those who predominate in finance are amoral, incompetent pieces of dreck. Once you know that, on an up-close-and-personal level, your contempt for the U.S. system as constituted becomes complete.
[01:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:53] <exec> 08└─high capacity, rock solid, high reliability IT infrastructure
[01:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Code Red Day - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:58] <exec> 08└─Code Red day was July 2001. Bah, get off my lawn!
[01:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's a weird idea... - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:11] <exec> 08└─What about AF447? MH17 was shot down. By Ukriane, Russia, rebels, terrorists, counterterrorists, the US, Israel, Martians, whoever. MH370 was no more related to MH17 than AF447 was, or Helios Airways 522.
[01:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's a weird idea... - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:14] <exec> 08└─Eat them before they can use them. Eat them and blame it on those fine young cannibals... yes...
[01:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:34] <exec> 08└─No, you guys are wrong. Think about it as a project manager. You already have the studio and talent booked. The time required to shoot "B" roll (as it's known) in that setting is far less costly than doing a separate, fresh shoot. Thus the marginal cost of producing that 3 minutes of sub plot is qui...
[01:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:2) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:41] <exec> 08└─Hear the screams and cries of those caught in the swirl as the toilet flushes! I hit the handle years ago. It's a damn shame what gets advertised on public TV - lawsuit ads for bad pills and medical devices, yet the next set of commercials sell more of the same. It's not enough that pain pills work...
[01:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:The fine print....? - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:05] <exec> 08└─And then there is also the bad habit of actually cutting away to commercial breaks half a second early, and coming back half a second late, thus allowing them to squeeze on extra ad in every couple of hours.
[01:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Advertising = Brainwashing - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:19] <exec> 08└─>> It's actually true that advertising is brainwashing. > In what sense, and how effective is it? Just look at the mindless zombies who queue up for the latest iShiney.
[01:23:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Personally - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 2618 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:45] <exec> 08└─Bear in mind that the prison population is a rolling number. Some number of people go to prison for forever. Others spend decades in prison. Others are repeatedly sentenced to shorter terms. Many others go to prison for short terms, and are released, only to be replaced by new faces. The numbers bel...
[01:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Personally - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:46] <exec> 08└─Slavery is still 100% legal, so long as the slave is being punished for a crime. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
[01:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:22] <exec> 08└─steeply above a certain level
[01:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:30] <exec> 08└─Note: For any pedantic neckbearded cunt, I am very, very well aware that the Stasi were of Communist East Germany, whereas "Godwinning" would normally involve referring to Hitler. If you are incapable of seeing the comparison, well, fuck you.
[01:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:31] <exec> 08└─So what you are saying is that you know goodwinning was the incorrect terminology but you used it anyways. I mean I am just checking here. I don't want to rile you up any, cause you seem like you have anger issues.
[01:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:33] <exec> 08└─not a huge fan of ethanol, but can't disagree with your take on this, as far as shadowbanning being simply despicable, inhumane behavior... worse than the chickenshit disemvoweling boing boing does/did... (? have not been back since i saw them do that to some posters a couple years back... again, de...
[01:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:UnReddit and VOAT - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:56] <exec> 08└─I knew on some level there had been mass mod abuse, but that really puts it in black and white. I don't hang out in /r/video, but most of those don't seem to be against the rules. I don't know if unreddit is reliable, but given what I've seen in other subs, basically sums it up. As for Voat, well, I...
[01:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Reddit can suck it - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:06] <exec> 08└─That's mostly because we set the default cutoff to zero so AC posts show up out of the box. If you set it to 1 or 2, a fair bit of crap disappears out of sight.
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[02:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:3, Interesting) 02System and context - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:41] <exec> 08└─Colors are found on a spectrum and texture has similar properties for roughness and temperature. Likewise sound is a bit like light in that it has frequency and amplitude to describe it. Smell is made by discreet particles and nobody has created a particular system that's as easy to understand. Sure...
[02:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Interesting Observation - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:42] <exec> 08└─Smell is more visceral than verbal - smell sensory probably don't have much linkage with the language bits of our brains.
[02:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02smell and taste are related - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:43] <exec> 08└─"burnt" for example
[02:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:smell and taste are related - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, when we eat, we experience the flavors partially [wikipedia.org] through our sense of smell, so it's unsurprising that we often use the same words for both smell and taste. "Malodorous" only refers to smells.
[02:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:58] <exec> 08└─> Drug crimes are fairly unique I think, in that the victim is apparently society in general, as both sides of the market are criminal. Bribing public officials. FWIW, one solution I've heard proposed to fix the problem with bribes is to make giving bribes legal. The idea is that when both sides are...
[02:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:01] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's probably the most authoritarian "fix" to the war on drugs as anyone could possibly come up with. Entrance and exit drug testing? So if you want to smoke a joint after dinner instead of drink a beer you have to commit hours if not days of your life? And that all presumes your CSI-level un...
[02:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:03] <exec> 08└─Decriminalization and legalization could allow small time drug producers to grow marijuana or mushrooms in their own homes, undercutting organized crime.
[02:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:05] <exec> 08└─> If a crime is so transparent to the rest of society, so hard to detect, and so lacking in impact to those not involved, is it still a crime? Woah. I had to read that like five times before I realized you were not defending government surveillance in the same way the courts keep turning down challe...
[02:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Be Careful People - 06Mars' Moon Phobos is Being Slowly Ripped Apart - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:38] <exec> 08└─It happened to mine! Took ages and ages to heal. :(
[02:22:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 534 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:00] <exec> 08└─I would say over a long career I've seen many CS-certified people who aren't fit to lick the shit off your shoes, and many liberal-arts trained people who rock, and rock hard. I've also seen many people who are fucking phenomenal on the skills level, who become utterly despondent and useless because...
[02:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:56] <exec> 08└─> So you'd notice he is a jew? Absent any other explanation and given e-follower's well-known racism it sure looks that way.
[02:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Change. - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:19] <exec> 08└─Great points, but the article is that they are reducing advertising, not increasing.
[02:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Done with advertising - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:28] <exec> 08└─> I want to pay a flat fee and get access to all content, no ads. WIll not happen. It used to be that if you weren't paying you were the product. Nowadays even if you do pay you are still the product, they just aren't so blatant about reminding you. They will record all your viewing habits - shows,...
[02:24:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Personally - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 943 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:01] <exec> 08└─Personally, I wish half the people in the various "Departments of Corrections" would just drop dead. Prisons are an industry, plain and simple. That is, corporations are profiting from imprisoning people. Every jail, every prison, should be government owned and operated. All of them. This is one par...
[02:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Personally - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying that your post is bad, or wrong, but comparing the US favourably to North Korea strikes me as damning with faint praise. North Korea's total population is 24.9 million and an estimated percentage of population in prison of 0.6% to 0.8%. The United States' total population is 318.9 mi...
[02:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:55] <exec> 08└─You're gathered with a huge group of people who, by their nature, are assholes
[02:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:12] <exec> 08└─> Whatever. Lol. The ultimate tacit admission of getting it wrong but being too prideful to own it like a man. Who knew runaway had the maturity of a 12 year old girl?
[02:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 1906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:13] <exec> 08└─As a veteran, libertarian, and as a commenter that has been reading your posts here for a long time I have to say are you sure they didn't ban you cause you were acting trolly? You at times give off a flambait/troll aura. Maybe, just maybe, if you were a little bit calmer and tried to speak to your...
[02:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:1) 02Re:Failed to see the "news" here (no pun intended) - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:20] <exec> 08└─2. Google Maps already had this feature for ages. Yes they kept masking it to the point of making it unfindable from one version to the other, but still i used it a few times in the last years (yes, YEARS).
[02:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03CaTfiSh [5221] (Score:1) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:42] <exec> 08└─Actually, you've nailed it dead-on. The obscure references that nobody always got were a huge part of the attraction to the show. There's a funky kind of mental *click* where, for a split second, you almost simultaneously go, "huh?" and "oh yeah!. Additionally, there's a sort of intimacy like sharin...
[02:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Joel Hodgson Wants to Bring Back MST3K - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:43] <exec> 08└─Hmm, maybe that's it. I watched a later episode ("Future War" was the movie) because I'd seen a review on RedLetterMedia and it looked entertaining. Any particularly good ones with the old host you'd recommend I check out?
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[03:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:3, Interesting) 02here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:54] <exec> 08└─In English, there are only three dedicated smell words—stinky, fragrant, and musty
[03:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:56] <exec> 08└─Most of those words are reference to things that smell alike.
[03:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:57] <exec> 08└─And what is left are measures of smell magnitude or other subjectivity thus yielding no information about the smell itself but only information about what an observer feels about that smell.
[03:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:59] <exec> 08└─You mean like orange, which is named after a fruit, or purple, which is named after the shellfish, or black, which was named after the burned stuff, or rose and all the other flower colors?
[03:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:00] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The omission of pungent is the most glaring since it's not any less common than musty and it's clearly a purely smell related word. I could just as easily say that there are only four dedicated taste words: sweet, sour, salty and bitter. There are other words that mean sweet, but none that c...
[03:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:4, Informative) 02Wine - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:02] <exec> 08└─I'm a sommelier in my spare time (seriously, I'm actually accredited, I don't just drink a lot). It's a great hobby, but describing the aromas is quite difficult. Basically, you can only really describe smells in terms of things you've smelled before; cherries, vanilla, mint, barnyard, etc. It's bas...
[03:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03D2 [5107] (Score:1) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:04] <exec> 08└─Trekkie and beer geek (decades brewing and judging) here, and that last sentence was one of the coolest I've read in ages. We do **SO** much metaphorical describing, and I'd never made that connection. So. Awesome. There are personality words (bright, assertive, crisp to describe effervescence, play...
[03:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Evidence in action! - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:06] <exec> 08└─Pretty much all the posts so far have tried to explain away the findings, rationalize and explain why there is a lack. Some good points, I was going to make the smell/taste connection as well. I guess it just demonstrates our lingual deficiency, how we have a hard time even discussing the topic. I w...
[03:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds don't have useful dedicated words either - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 2738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:08] <exec> 08└─I am not a scientist or an audio based professional but as far as I can tell in my hobbyist audio engineer and mixing experience there are not dedicated words to describe sounds like is being claimed exist. The premise of this article is based on smells being unique in that they can't be well descri...
[03:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:24] <exec> 08└─But that's ok, because taxes were paid all along the way and your wasteful lifestyle was good for the states GDP. The only irresponsible thing you did was not pay off that credit card, not the irresponsible consumerism and consumption in pursuit of the necessary psychological stimulation to make lif...
[03:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:24] <exec> 08└─Do irresponsible consumers, workaholics, binge eaters, chocolate addicts, fast-food junkies, work-out addicts, etc get a special 'freedom zone' too? They can all create socially and personally damaging results for the participants and those around them.
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:29] <exec> 08└─This has been obvious to open minded people for decades, as per usual the close minded mouth breathers take decades to catch up. In others words: drugs being illegal helps fund crime in general. So again we come back to the the ridiculous 1950's insanity surrounding recreational drugs causing even m...
[03:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:42] <exec> 08└─Minor correction. Although the protest is happening in Hamilton, the software in question is a project of the Government of Ontario. The City of Hamilton is more or less an innocent bystander. Although I can recall a major City of Hamilton web site overhaul about ten years ago which is still my gold...
[03:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Change. - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:58] <exec> 08└─We'll just have to do that ourselves with technology. :D
[03:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Advertising = Brainwashing ...Godwin!! - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:17] <exec> 08└─Tell a lie often enough, and loud enough, and people start to beleive it. I could look up the exact quote, but you get the idea....
[03:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:Personally - 06Provider of Prisoner Phone Calls Hacked - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:54] <exec> 08└─In a well-run dictatorship, just the threat of prison will get all the subjects to behave and the number who actually *go* to prison is really low. Using the number of prisoners to compare a democracy and a dictatorship is misleading and an abuse of statistics.
[03:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:39] <exec> 08└─Tax property? I'm not a big fan of taxing either real estate or personal property.
[03:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Secure, but for how long. - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:28] <exec> 08└─I have a Linux solution, ClearOS running on an old Dell machine I already had. It does a lot more than just routing, but is a much better option than the ISP supplied VDSL router supplied to me. That just sits in bridge mode.
[03:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OSMAND Kills Android Maps - 06Google Maps for Android Adds Offline Mode - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:29:36] <exec> 08└─They would be correct in some instances. For example, corporate interests "outing" Firefox's former CEO, who championed online freedom, as a homophobe, and having him replaced with someone who integrated DRM into the browser and forced closed-source software into the browser, such as the Pocket soci...
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[04:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Too bad we didn't listen to Jimmy Carter - 06Despite Lavish Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Loses In Latest IEA Forecast - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:11] <exec> 08└─and moved away from oil in 40 years ago.
[04:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 022008 - 06Despite Lavish Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Loses In Latest IEA Forecast - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:12] <exec> 08└─The 2008 financial crisis may go down in history as peak oil. The thing about "peak oil production" is that you can only observe it in hindsight.
[04:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:30] <exec> 08└─There are square, edgy, round, bright, dim, sharp, scratchy, smooth, etc., etc., - so many other options for other sensory perceptions, unlike smell.
[04:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:33] <exec> 08└─Words like red are dedicated colour words because they mean primarily those colours. The expression 'red-handed' came about from the image of a guilty person whose hands are stained with blood, which is, of course, red. Greenhorn came about because new leaves are a deep shade of green, and the term...
[04:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Not too simple, but too complex - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 1710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:37] <exec> 08└─Smells, and to a lesser extent tastes, are very difficult to describe, both in natural language, and mathematically, because of their complexity. To describe such complexity, we cannot use mere vocabulary, but require an entire grammar. Consider, for the sake of analogy, sound. The attributes that c...
[04:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:03] <exec> 08└─Emotional damage when you haven't hard your chocolate fix, financial costs from poor diet, eating too much chocolate and raising the prices for the rest of us :P
[04:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:08] <exec> 08└─Most drugs come from PLANTS, some of which are literally classified as intrusive weeds which grow so rapidly and hardily that they are considered invasive pests to more profitable agriculture. When they're legal, the price will drop so low that it will be impossible for anyone to make much profit of...
[04:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02one MILLION! dollars - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:12] <exec> 08└─This is like something Doctor Evil would do.
[04:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bequalsa [2107] (Score:1) 02Well duh... - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:31] <exec> 08└─With high-temperature superconductivity, a whole lotta things will change and we may not even need fusion for a while.
[04:24:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 1461 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:14] <exec> 08└─Surprise! Government contractors, aka thieves, entertain politicians to secure lucrative contracts. They then call up the punjabi coding hut staffed by people with fake degrees who don't know a pointer from a gif file to build the system. Millions are blown on bogus overruns which are nothing more t...
[04:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Change. - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:49] <exec> 08└─they are reducing advertising
[04:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:19] <exec> 08└─Quick read on progressive tax rates. Maximum taxes could approach 100% on income above a certain level. The purpose of the taxes was to pay off debts incurred in the world war. For certain values of "failed", I suppose it can be claimed that the tax structure was a failure. Despite such claims, the...
[04:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:You Go, Girlfriend! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:24] <exec> 08└─I hope the folks here realize what you and the rest of the team have accomplished over the last 18 months or so -- I appreciate your hard work and delight in having a place like this to discuss, debate and learn without worrying about being censored.
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[05:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Availability is important, not free stuff - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:19] <exec> 08└─I need coffee, black tea, filtered drinking water. I'm accustomed to getting those for free, but I wouldn't whine if I had to pay market price. I also appreciate having a vending machine that has something that's not mostly sugar and hydrogenated oils. I don't mine paying for snacks. Otherwise, I'd...
[05:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Availability is important, not free stuff - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:20] <exec> 08└─wait for co-workers to go to meetings or the bathroom. treat their desk like it's the lunchroom.
[05:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Free pizza. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:22] <exec> 08└─one consulting firm supplies coders and testers with: free bottled water, soft drink, fruit, snacks, chips, and anyone in the office at 9pm gets free pizza in the weeks before a release. BUT: they expect the staff (who are mostly contractors) to be in the office as late as necessary (ie, all night,...
[05:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Free pizza. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:24] <exec> 08└─Any company in Australia that hands out free stuff beyond coffee and tea is likely an evil work-you-to-death factory.
[05:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Depends on type of snacks - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:26] <exec> 08└─I think that perks can do more for employee-satisfaction than an equivalent pay-raise, because is shows appreciation on a different, every day visible level. But keeping your employees healthy might be as important as keeping them happy. In our place the only free snacks we get is a fruit-basket two...
[05:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02I don't get it either... - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:28] <exec> 08└─A few years back, we had the entire head office all gathered together in some company update meeting (around 200 people, most of whom I worked with for years), and the CEO was up there powerpointing away, and then they came to the question period on how they can improve productivity or something lik...
[05:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:55] <exec> 08└─You mean color words like orange, teal, argent, chartreuse, and indigo?
[05:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:56] <exec> 08└─Yes there do exist colour words like that which equally refer to actual objects that have the colour, yes, but there are also a lot of other colour words like red, blue, green, yellow, grey, purple, brown, and white which don't, instead referring to the abstract idea of the colour. There aren't anyw...
[05:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Describe this. - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:02] <exec> 08└─*rips a massive wet one*
[05:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You have it right here - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:04] <exec> 08└─>Hunter-gatherer groups appear to have many more words for smell. Words reflect the culture in which the language develops. We develop a lot of words if they reflect our needs (the misleading statement that Inuktitut has blah-blah words for snow is an example*). Since English developed in a "modern"...
[05:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:26] <exec> 08└─sounds like you are in favor of a nanny state. I could not disagree with you more. people should be free to do whateve they want as long as it does not hurt others, and doing drugs does NOT hurt others. if you think it 'harms society' you have been listening too much to nancy reagan et al. the war o...
[05:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:27] <exec> 08└─If you drive drunk, walk the streets intoxicated, go to work drunk etc, you don't get the "oh it's legal, i drank the 40oz before i left home this morning, totally not drinking on the job" excuse, dangerous behavior with criminal or social penalty exists for such cases.
[05:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Irrelevant at the moment - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:53] <exec> 08└─Higher field strengths are more useful at the moment in other areas, like nuclear resonance imaging (aka, MRI), or ESR. They will also improve beam energies at CERN, if and when that instrument gets upgraded - probably a decade or two, at least. But fusion, at the moment field strength is not really...
[05:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02Re:Workflow problems and Training elimination - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:50] <exec> 08└─I think this is one of the reasons why admins like the Linux CLI so much. It can be clear, concise, fast, and it doesn't often change without good reason.
[05:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:The fine print....? - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:07] <exec> 08└─Why even show the credits if you can't read them
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[06:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Availability is important, not free stuff - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:02] <exec> 08└─You seem to have this completely backwards. You said" wait for co-workers to go to meetings or the bathroom. treat their desk like it's the lunchroom.
[06:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Availability is important, not free stuff - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:03] <exec> 08└─I haven't worked at a company like that for a long time, but what always seemed unfair to me was companies that only provided vending machines, which sell snacks and drinks at a price which is clearly profitable for the company. Making a profit center out of the employees: not cool.
[06:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Availability is important, not free stuff - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:05] <exec> 08└─One company I worked for in the past had a refrigerator, but no free snacks. One day I started buying big packs of ice-cream cones, put a per-piece price on the box and a small container next to it. I sold basically at cost (rounding up to next 10 cent). My effort was as neglectable as my financial...
[06:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it either... - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:11] <exec> 08└─Everyone says breakfast is the most important meal of the day and helps you think, so for only a few dollars per employee, you can make sure everyone can eat breakfast." ... I was essentially brushed aside. I can't remember what he actually said, but something generic and neutral.
[06:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sprint has far more problems than cost of snacks.. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:12] <exec> 08└─...but it is emblematic of their situation right now. Sprint is desperate, and they know they're becoming increasingly irrelevant. Acquiring Nextel left them with a boat anchor known as iDEN, which is an infrastructure that no one uses anymore, and back in 2004, it was a niche for people who liked t...
[06:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:1) 02Renewables - 06Despite Lavish Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Loses In Latest IEA Forecast - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:22] <exec> 08└─Sea change.
[06:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:44] <exec> 08└─What abstract idea of the color? The photon wavelength? All these colors are known by their most famous representatives, like the sky, the foliage, the blood, the Sun. Purple, for example, is named after the animal used to produce the dye.
[06:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:45] <exec> 08└─We say blood is red. We say cherries are red. We use the word 'red' to denote the abstract idea of the colour that is shared by both blood and cherries. We're delving into some pretty deep problems of linguistic philosophy here, it's a complex topic that has tied up philosophers for thousands of yea...
[06:21:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Wine - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 363 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:47] <exec> 08└─I'm a sommelier in my spare time (seriously, I'm actually accredited, I don't just drink a lot). It's a great hobby, but describing the aromas is quite difficult. Basically, you can only really describe smells in terms of things you've smelled before; cherries, vanilla, mint, barnyard, etc. It's bas...
[06:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Brain wiring is wrong - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:55] <exec> 08└─A psychologist friend of me had a very different explanation for why it is so difficult to describe smells. The olfactory nerves are connected to a very old part of the brain that mostly deals witg instinctive responses. The part of the brain that handles language is not very well connected, unlike...
[06:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Crap! - 06Mars' Moon Phobos is Being Slowly Ripped Apart - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:56] <exec> 08└─What is causing it, pollution, carbon emissions, republicans?
[06:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:.Net hell - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:21] <exec> 08└─I hate Microsoft as much as any right-thinking person, but the problems you describe sound like problems with your team, not with Microsoft.
[06:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:weird changes - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:41] <exec> 08└─It you don't want weird changes between releases, BSD may be for you. BSD is designed. Linux is grown. [over-yonder.net] It you want the innovation that trying a lot of new things brings, you are going to have to try things like esound and systemd once in a while. BTW, I when sound starts acting up...
[06:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02the financial people have been after me since 2002 - 06The 100 Most Militarized Universities in America - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:37] <exec> 08└─I actually have substantial experience in C++ Quantitative Finance Coding. Sometimes it's a little hard to take, that I turn down all the offers for $250k starting salaries when I've been sleeping under a highway overpass the last little while. Do you know why they really did need to Occupy Wall Str...
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[07:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Sprint has far more problems than cost of snack - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:38] <exec> 08└─The worst still seems entirely fine to me. I use Republic Wireless, and my bill is usually under $15/mo. They use Sprint, and the service is fine everywhere I've been. This includes, recently, nine different states. Perhaps you can't always steam 4k video, but for reference, chat, email, talk, and m...
[07:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marco2G [5749] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Nope... aaaand yes. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:39] <exec> 08└─I'm a bit surprised that it's allowed to leave company premises for such things as getting snacks. In Switzerland, you're expected to prepare for your daily routine at home and bring what you need. You are allowed to take time off for important business like going to the doctor, for government busin...
[07:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope... aaaand yes. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:40] <exec> 08└─Honestly I agree with this. It seems entirely reasonable to bring in a Clif bar instead of expecting to be paid to leave.
[07:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope... aaaand yes. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, cause treating people like human beings is a terrible thing. How dare they want breaks, how dare they LEAVE the premises. Seriously, do you not see the slavery parallels here? Well, wage-slavery I think its called nowadays. Ok, that was over the top. In reality people just need to get their wo...
[07:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:1) 02Re:Nope... aaaand yes. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:44] <exec> 08└─is the fact that almost nobody is productive for more than 4 to 6 hours.
[07:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:1) 02Re:Nope... aaaand yes. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:45] <exec> 08└─Arrrgggg misfire on preview. is the fact that almost nobody is productive for more than 4 to 6 hours.
[07:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Too bad we didn't listen to Jimmy Carter - 06Despite Lavish Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Loses In Latest IEA Forecast - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:55] <exec> 08└─Sounds like one of the reasons he is so looked down upon... how dare he hurt their profits!
[07:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:16] <exec> 08└─Don't forget feculent. The naming of smells is language dependent, and this study seemingly focuses on english. This was covered in ScienceMag last year. [sciencemag.org] To find out if the Jahai are better at naming smells than the rest of us, Majid and colleagues asked native Jahai speakers and n...
[07:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:22] <exec> 08└─臭い! You Henna Gaijin, you! All your BO now belong to us, unfortunately!
[07:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Describe this. - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:30] <exec> 08└─Damn you! I almost suffocated laughing so hard when I ran across this after being in serious mode on the previous two comments. I can't smell your fart though. That was definitely not why I almost suffocated.
[07:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:56] <exec> 08└─A modern day opium house... safe to come and do the drug(s) within. Opium houses were common a long time before the war on drugs - they just were convenient for users.
[07:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marco2G [5749] (Score:1) 02Power conversion - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:21] <exec> 08└─We keep talking about new ways to generate power a lot but what about turning it into electricity? Are we still going to heat water with this super hot plasma , maje steam and power turbines? Since we still do that for nuclear, coal and I believe gas and biomass, I doubt we've found a better way. Ho...
[07:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Be Careful People - 06Mars' Moon Phobos is Being Slowly Ripped Apart - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:41] <exec> 08└─And here I thought all 10 y.o. remained on boltslash.
[07:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03korger [4465] (Score:1) 02Roche limit - 06Mars' Moon Phobos is Being Slowly Ripped Apart - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:44] <exec> 08└─The distance within which a celestial body (satellite, asteroid or comet) disintegrates due to the planet's tidal forces is called the Roche limit [wikipedia.org]. In the case of Mars and Phobos, this limit is 5,466 km center to center. The current distance of Phobos from Mars is 9,234 km in pericen...
[07:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marco2G [5749] (Score:1) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:19] <exec> 08└─Oh don't fool yourself. I'm sure Amazon and Google have their share of idiocy going on but for their staff, it's a matter of pride wehereas in givernment, it's become a running gag. After what we went through with an industry giant, namely IBM, I'm convinced the only way to get a working system is t...
[07:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Obamacare - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:26] <exec> 08└─How did Obamacare get left off this list of IT boondoggles?
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[11:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Skip this rubbish - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:27] <exec> 08└─... the C++ language is a key part of the equation. It's the closest language to C and the obvious step up from it.
[11:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Skip this rubbish - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:41:28] <exec> 08└─They're better suited to replace absolutely nothing. They're far worse than even C++.
[11:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Rust the best way to describe - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:30] <exec> 08└─After having used them both (although minimally), I much prefer Rust. There are definitely some things I like agout Go (multiple return values, etc), but it feels clunky to me. Rust seems a lot more 'elegent'. From my minimal exposure, the way it deals with threading and contention is superior as we...
[11:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:Rust the best way to describe - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:41:32] <exec> 08└─Personally I'm the other way around - I like Go's simplicity, even though it breaks DRY in a few places. Rust I've looked at a couple of times, but it is just a little too "different for the sake of it" for me to be comfortable without having run it through a real project or two. Having said that I'...
[11:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:33] <exec> 08└─Another way to look at this is to ask "What is wrong with C?"
[11:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:41:35] <exec> 08└─The main problem with the language itself is that it's not C++. How am I going to program without all those obscure features, needless bloat, and terrible syntax?
[11:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02None - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:37] <exec> 08└─There's no reason to replace it.
[11:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:38] <exec> 08└─Anybody planning to re-write Linux, BSD etc. in Rust any time soon? How many people here would choose C for a new project unless: They really need 'bare metal' levels of performanceThey need to use a ton of legacy codeThey haven't got time to learn something more modern? "What is wrong with C?"
[11:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:41:40] <exec> 08└─please provide a link to the Torvalds compiler when you have it. please.
[11:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score:1) 02Heresy! - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:42] <exec> 08└─Perl has superseded them all. Discussion over.
[11:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Funny) 02escape in pairs - 06Crocodiles to Guard Death Row Prisons in Indonesia - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:49] <exec> 08└─Go first, Joe, I'm right behind you with this club, I got your back.
[11:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score:1) 02That is in line with what I was going to write - 06Crocodiles to Guard Death Row Prisons in Indonesia - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:41:51] <exec> 08└─Crocodiles can be EASILY bribed. With MEAT. There is plenty of meat in a prison, in the form of fellow inmates. QED...
[11:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Wow - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:02] <exec> 08└─Wow, you still have bank tellers in the US? The last few years all I get is a machine in the corner with a big queue and some unqualified sprat saying you have to use it. In fact, that's the biggest reason that I just don't go into a bank any more. Fortunately, I'm no longer paid by cheque so I have...
[11:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02WTF? - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:03] <exec> 08└─The bank, which is owned by the union, negotiated with said union for a workers contract. How you say "conflict of interest".
[11:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF? - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:05] <exec> 08└─Could be worse. A certain popular chain of stores similar to walmart created and owns the union all employees must join. The employees literally pay for the privilege of the store owners dictating they deserve the bare minimum required by law.
[11:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:07] <exec> 08└─Hmmmm, seems the Union should have long ago told the bank exactly what the minimum wage should be. I'm having a hard time figuring which is more corrupt, the bank, or the union.
[11:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02Underpaid PR - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:09] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight: the least payed employees are the ones that have the most contact with the customers. Sounds like a recipe for success...
[11:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Underpaid PR - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:10] <exec> 08└─You certainly can't have the commoners mixing with important people.
[11:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Underpaid PR - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:12] <exec> 08└─the least payed employees are the ones that have the most contact with the customers. Sounds like a recipe for success...
[11:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score:1) 02Re:Availability is important, not free stuff - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:33] <exec> 08└─Slightly off-topic, but I thought I'd share it anyway. I work for a company that develops a mobile payment platform. We have a vending machine in the office. One day the vending machine was accidentally left unlocked by the owner (This machine is not the company). After being contacted the owner r...
[11:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free pizza. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:36] <exec> 08└─Atlassian? If so, we'll see how things are after the IPO
[11:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get it either... - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:40] <exec> 08└─The last CEO I worked closely with surely had wonderful food. If nothing serious like a product release was coming up he would get into the office around 10am. By noon he would be out with the senior engineers and a couple department heads for their customary 1.5 hour long lunch, with drinks. If it...
[11:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Sprint has far more problems than cost of snack - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:44] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I'm going into my 3rd year with Ting (plus several years on other Sprint MVNOs before it), and service has actually improved dramatically even just in the last year or two, so that I reliably have service everywhere I go in my region.
[11:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marco2G [5749] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope... aaaand yes. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:48] <exec> 08└─For your average cubicle worker, that may very well be true. I am in IT. Part of my salary goes toward being available in emergencies. It's great if our customers can't work because storage is acting up and the storage dude is out of the office getting Starbucks, isn't it? Don't get me wrong, it rea...
[11:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope... aaaand yes. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:51] <exec> 08└─Depends on management. Some prefer workers that sit in the office looking at the screen, though their brain is out, lacking energy. Others prefer that the worker in question does what's needed to get back to being productive. two hours looking like you're working, but getting nothing done, vs ten mi...
[11:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Well documented - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:53] <exec> 08└─Scott Adams covered this in his books decades ago. FuckedCompany.com also used to have similar tales.
[11:43:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Too bad we didn't listen to Jimmy Carter - 06Despite Lavish Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Loses In Latest IEA Forecast - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:01] <exec> 08└─and moved away from oil in 40 years ago.
[11:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02half way there - 06Despite Lavish Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Loses In Latest IEA Forecast - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:05] <exec> 08└─it sounds like it's past time to cut the subsidies for fossil fuels. subsidies only serve to increase our dependence on them.
[11:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Observation - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:21] <exec> 08└─I don't see why smell should be more visceral than colour. Both were experienced almost entirely with our experiences and litterally in-your-face encounters with real world objects, and it seems perfectly predictable that both would be named in relation to objects which have that property. I'm unabl...
[11:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting Observation - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe because you are one of them outlier weirdos. There is more to visual perception than just color. Varying degrees of abstraction modulate sensory perceptions, but smell hits up memory/emotion first/directly.
[11:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:37] <exec> 08└─Strike out yellow (shining), purple (colour of a particular shellfish), and white (light) from your list immediately. I've not checked the etymologies of the others, I'm sure most will fall.
[11:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:38] <exec> 08└─Etymology isn't the point. We're talking about the primary meaning of these words to us, today. These words all have the primary meaning in modern English of the abstract idea of the color. Nobody uses the word purple to talk about the shellfish from which Tyrian purple dye was derived in ancient ti...
[11:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:40] <exec> 08└─> What's wrong with words like > doggy smelling like a dog - did you read TFS? > lemony smelling like a lemon - did you read TFS? > lilac smelling like a lilac - did you read TFS? > mildewed smelling like mildew - did you read TFS? > minty smelling like mint - did you read TFS? > moldy smelling like...
[11:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:44] <exec> 08└─Barnyard? What are you tasting? Moonshine?
[11:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Wine - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:46] <exec> 08└─Nope, the shittier aspects will be from enterobacter infection, and the more animal/horseblanketty aspects will be from brettanomyces infection. The former is always a brewing flaw, but there are some beer styles where the latter is actually the desired outcome.
[11:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Evidence in action! - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that final sentence stuck out a bit for me too, subtly screaming "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis". Those unfamiliar with the SWH can simply substitute the word "hogwash" (and perhaps prefix it with "anecdotal" if they wish to cover their backs). There's nothing hunter-gathery or non-hunter-gathery abo...
[11:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Describe this. - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:53] <exec> 08└─*rips a massive wet one* Bernie Sanders for US President.
[11:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:Brain wiring is wrong - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:56] <exec> 08└─I agree on that it makes no sense being too complex. But I also do not buy the "its wired differently" argument. One could just learn children a scale of, I do not know, 20 or so distinct smells and give a name to it. Any random word would do, but it has to be done on a large enough scale so it beco...
[11:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Do they? - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:57] <exec> 08└─Maybe those words aren't used much because it's much easier to describe by comparison. I had to think for a while but there are definitely more than 3 English words to describe smells that aren't comparisons. Outside of stinky, fragant and musty there's rancid, brine, pungent, volatile, heavy. There...
[11:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fermento [1069] (Score:1) 02Flavor companies have to figure this out - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:59] <exec> 08└─I have worked for a flavor company, so have some experience with this. The challenge for the flavorists are that they have to interpret what flavor the customer wants. You want a cherry flavor? Is that black cherry, sweet cherry, tart cherry, etc? There is somewhat of a standardized vocabulary among...
[11:44:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] 02Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 841 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:11] <exec> 08└─If a crime is so transparent to the rest of society, so hard to detect, and so lacking in impact to those not involved, is it still a crime? How does someone using The Silk Road to buy or sell drugs affect me at all? It's actually a huge improvement from the old school drug trade which DID sometimes...
[11:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:22] <exec> 08└─I think my point got lost in there. I am not advocating a nanny state at all, my argument it against it. Maybe your reply to me was by accident? If you drive drunk, walk the streets intoxicated, go to work drunk etc, you don't get the "oh it's legal, i drank the 40oz before i left home this morning,...
[11:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Victimless Crime - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:26] <exec> 08└─The state has a legitimate interest in keeping its citizens healthy because those people may be one day needed to defend the country.
[11:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Honestly don't know how I feel about this... - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:35] <exec> 08└─On one hand I want the freedom to talk to people securely and *privately* if I so choose. On the other, I want to know that the tech I'm using for said secure communication is being tested. While the intent behind this does smack of the nanny state, their actions will undoubtedly result in a more se...
[11:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Honestly don't know how I feel about this... - 06Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:37] <exec> 08└─From the blog: Such action is a violation of our trust and basic guidelines for ethical research. We strongly support independent research on our software and network, but this attack crosses the crucial line between research and endangering innocent users. This attack also sets a troubling preceden...
[11:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Power conversion - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:57] <exec> 08└─With anything nuclear, whether fission or fusion, I strongly doubt there currently exists a better way. Nuclear forces are extremely short range, and the energy release effectively is through heat. Thus the only way to convert that energy is by converting the heat. And the most efficient known pract...
[11:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Be Careful People - 06Mars' Moon Phobos is Being Slowly Ripped Apart - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:20] <exec> 08└─Next time choose a career that does not involve drug dealing. That way you avoid prison. Your ass: * Your ass after prison: O
[11:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:59] <exec> 08└─Having good critical thinking skills is far more important than not making typos or memorizing how to spell specific words. Our culture worships rote memorization and pettiness, even though that just harms real education in the process. Pointing out the mistakes is fine, but his point about other pe...
[11:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's a weird idea... - 06World Nations Reach Landmark Deal on Using Satellites to Track Flights - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:23] <exec> 08└─What would the robot do when it recognized that having a robot guard (because that's what your robots would be) around you all the time harms you mentally?
[11:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Singularity - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:47:35] <exec> 08└─Now apparently advertisers are less willing to pay for ads. So - will creators stop creating? My guess is, no. In fact, I think we'll see an improvement in quality of the art.
[11:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:48:46] <exec> 08└─I would characterize the tax structure during those years as a resounding success.
[11:49:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tempest [3050] 02Re:Secure, but for how long. - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 1899 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:49:34] <exec> 08└─Previously I had a Soekris box which only used as much power as a consumer router, but had too many issues with it. Similar low power devices exist, but I haven't looked. So now I just use a low profile dell optiplex. It's fast, so easy to update, with enough resources to grow into other functions,...
[11:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:You Go, Girlfriend! - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:50:45] <exec> 08└─frequent complaints about submissions are unnecessary and uncalled for. It should not have to be pointed out that if one does not like the submissions, they can submit articles themselves, and that if there is a particular topic one does not want to discuss here, they can simply skip by it and go to...
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[12:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:41] <exec> 08└─"Error #101 at line 123: Always. Initialize. Pointer. Variables. How fucking hard can it be?",
[12:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:43] <exec> 08└─Nice as it is, you're not going to write a device driver in Go. So as far as I'm concerned, it's D vs Rust and I think D wins because it allows you to go as low level as you want, but it's also high-level and safe.
[12:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Different tools for different jobs - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:46] <exec> 08└─Want to write a kernel? C. Want to write something in user land? Who cares who language.
[12:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score:1) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:23] <exec> 08└─As are acrid, dank, foul, etc. There are plenty of non-comparison smell words.
[12:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:31] <exec> 08└─It being in the etymology but not the current meaning simply means we forgot that earlier association its cognates had as the language and the world evolved. We called things that because our elders called things that, and that's all the reason we know. But if you ask your elders' elders' elders (re...
[12:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brain wiring is wrong - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:48] <exec> 08└─Color is one-dimensional spectrum perceived thru three color cones, but smell ... is so much dependent on chemical tolerance, all graduated, of smell sensory, so much more difficult to develop a semi-objective, semi-comprehensive set of gauge/vocabularies.
[12:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score:1) 02Re:Power conversion - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:46] <exec> 08└─There are other ways [wikipedia.org], including a carbon nanotube version [newscientist.com].
[12:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marco2G [5749] (Score:2) 02Re:Power conversion - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:47] <exec> 08└─I don't know how the efficiency in the first article relates to real life efficiency of current methods. And the second article is hype. It implies current methods have ridiculously low efficiency. This new method promises 20 times as much efficiency. So.... did we go from 0.1% to 2%? What efficienc...
[12:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03geb [529] (Score:2) 02Re:Advertising origins . . . - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:46:01] <exec> 08└─Advertising had already jumped off the deep end even during WW1. Have you ever seen the lists of products made to be sent as gifts to soldiers in the trenches? There were posters piling on the guilt and obligation has hard as they could, trying to convince wives back home that their brave husbands d...
[12:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Singularity - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:46:15] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the changes in novel publishing has already shown us that the quality dramatically decreases.
[12:46:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Blame the government - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 813 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:46:57] <exec> 08└─"The answer is business creation" The problem is, large corporations don't create jobs. In lean times, they get rid of jobs, and in fat times, they let small businesses and entrepreneurs take all the risk - then buy those out. Large corporations don't create jobs, or business. Think back a couple de...
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[13:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02It works! - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:26] <exec> 08└─9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition.
[13:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Mersenne Twister - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:27] <exec> 08└─In 1997, Makoto Matsumoto san gave us a PRNG that is both sufficiently long in its period, and considerably cheaper than any radio telescope. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:49] <exec> 08└─You can just switch over to the original syntax of Objective-C. Not enough @'s in your code? Objective-C can help. Now with NSEverything!
[13:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:50] <exec> 08└─Here's one: The handling of signed and unsigned types. Consider the following code: size_t x = 42; if (x > -1) printf("We should get here, right?\n"); else printf("Wrong! We get here!\n");
[13:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:52] <exec> 08└─Can't we just banish unsigned int from all code? If you need the extra range (and how often does this happen, really?), bump up to the next larger integer type - it might even make your code faster to execute, and unless you're doing satellite comms, those extra bits aren't costing anybody anything...
[13:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:54] <exec> 08└─The underhanded C competition [underhanded-c.org] has quite a few things I'd count as language issues...
[13:40:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 296 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:55] <exec> 08└─Anybody planning to re-write Linux, BSD etc. in Rust any time soon? How many people here would choose C for a new project unless: They really need 'bare metal' levels of performanceThey need to use a ton of legacy codeThey haven't got time to learn something more modern? "What is wrong with C?"
[13:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:58] <exec> 08└─"Error #1066 at line 666: Seriously? 'strcpy' is only still in the fucking library because removing it breaks nethack!"
[13:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:01] <exec> 08└─At a developer conference a few years a go, I attended an introduction to Rust talk. The presenter addressed the intrinsic buffer overrun and invald pointer dereference protections in the language, and then followed up with a way to circumvent them. OK, another new language to throw straight in the...
[13:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:03] <exec> 08└─I thought the garbage collection was optional in D, ie you can choose not to use it?
[13:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02C isn't going away anytime soon - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:05] <exec> 08└─There are basically 2 reasons for this: 1. There's too much extremely useful legacy code written in it. Think about the prospect of rewriting the Linux kernel in another language, or even converting it to a similar-but-different language, and you'll get an idea that that investment would not be unde...
[13:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Free pizza. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:52] <exec> 08└─anyone in the office at 9pm
[13:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it either... - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:57] <exec> 08└─So I'm sitting here sipping my 12 oz energy drink, and now you've got me thinking maybe I should be eating breakfast or something...
[13:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope... aaaand yes. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:09] <exec> 08└─I leave the building at least 5 times a day for smoke breaks. The other day I walked down the block and got myself a bagel and a good cup of coffee. I was gone fifteen minutes. Clock out? Nope. Tell anyone? Nope. Get in trouble? Nope. I work between 4 and 8 extra hours a week on my own time. I do no...
[13:45:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gawdonblue [412] 02Re:Workflow problems and Training elimination - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:10] <exec> 08└─I think this is one of the reasons why admins like the Linux CLI so much. It can be clear, concise, fast, and it doesn't often change without good reason.
[13:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Change. - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:22] <exec> 08└─If you watch commercial TV, you face seeing the same ads over and over and over
[13:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Singularity - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:39] <exec> 08└─As a parallel, look at the state of many non-professional (paid) software projects: they happily blast through the exciting/fun part of initial creation, but then when it comes to the long, boring hours of tracking down & squashing bugs, they rapidly lose interest and either drift away from the proj...
[13:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MITM SSL - 06How Secure Can Your Router Get? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:27] <exec> 08└─If you have such a "modern corporate environment", with proxy servers and all, why are you worried that the IT department is run by a grand mother who cannot figure out how to set up the $20 WIFI router connecting the company to the internet?
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[14:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Mersenne Twister - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, but a certain class of nerd is obsessed with obtaining "true" random numbers. I'm one of them. I visit random.org multiple times per day. Please help me.
[14:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Mersenne Twister - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:28] <exec> 08└─Cosmic background radiation is not truly random, it's part of the intelligent design - if you hold the same attitude toward God as most of the Manhattan project members.
[14:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mersenne Twister - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:30] <exec> 08└─amen
[14:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DNied [3409] (Score:2) 02Good ! - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:31] <exec> 08└─I want it in /dev/cmb, please (with the next kernel release, if possible).
[14:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03throwaway28 [5181] (Score:1) 02Re:Good ! - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:33] <exec> 08└─Please connect a 1 billion dollar telescope to the USB port to activate /dev/cmb. The upcoming Giant Magellan Telescope will serve nicely.
[14:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Numbers availability - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:35] <exec> 08└─So, I am not a cryptographer nor a physicist, but it occurs to me that given that the radiation is pretty much an energy wave akin to a wireless network's. Based on that, using all the bytes obtained from the radiation and use it as a key makes it possible to capture it as it is "generated". I am cu...
[14:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Numbers availability - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:36] <exec> 08└─I think the answer to that is that the field varies across three dimensions (probably more), so two different observers capturing random numbers from it in two different locations would get different numbers. But I am way, way out of my field of expertise here, so I could be totally wrong.
[14:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Numbers availability - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:38] <exec> 08└─Using a picosecond clock timing when you log in in the mornings gives a hard-to-guess random number: assume a normal distribution with 100 seconds standard deviation, your clock reading will be more or less random in a range of values on the order of 10^14, even if you are ridiculously punctual with...
[14:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Numbers availability - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:40] <exec> 08└─It's sort of like anti-science, an experiment that is provably hard to reproduce.
[14:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Manipulation? - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:42] <exec> 08└─Would it be possible for a space agency to place a satellite at a strategic point above the telescope and reduce the randomness by adding its own (non-random) radiation? A local source of randomness has the advantage that, as far as we know, it can only be manipulated locally.
[14:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:02] <exec> 08└─I assume you never use bitwise operations or access real hardware with C? Doing those with signed integers or with extra large registers opens up a completly new can of worms. There is a very good reason for the existance of unsigned integers. Btw: Both example programs are a WTF on their own. If yo...
[14:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:03] <exec> 08└─The other poster makes valid points. On top of that, overflow is well-defined for unsigned types in C, but not for signed, so if you want predictable wrapping behaviour then you need to use unsigned. The thing that should be remove (which Go does remove) is implicit type conversion. If you mean to a...
[14:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:10] <exec> 08└─Only initialise variables at declaration if that value is meaningful for all execution paths. A vaguely modern compiler / static analyser can analyse code where you haven't initialised a variable at declaration and tell you that you which code paths will result in it being used uninitialised. That's...
[14:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:12] <exec> 08└─"What is wrong with C?" Ans: lots of code written by programmers who didn't give a thought to security issues and didn't bother with paranoid checking of all input.
[14:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:18] <exec> 08└─I'm a relatively new programmer, so forgive the question. But what the heck is wrong with garbage collection? Don't we want this to prevent memory leaks and other issues?
[14:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:20] <exec> 08└─Nice as it is, you're not going to write a device driver in Go.
[14:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:C isn't going away anytime soon - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:23] <exec> 08└─So, for example, if you put C in front of a room full of Python programmers, chances are basically 100% that they'll be able to understand what's going on.
[14:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:40] <exec> 08└─I was going to say, in the last 15 years I think I have interacted with a bank teller (in person) less than 5 times, I might have made 5 or 10 telephone calls to the bank to arrange things like house sale funds transfers, but beyond that, I am my own teller via the online portal. Before that, I most...
[14:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:42] <exec> 08└─When I have a check to deposit it's always through the drive-thru or walk-up ATM, especially as I tend to go to the bank at odd times when it is convenient for me rather than whenever the hell the tellers are working. Also that's just if I need some cash back, otherwise these days you can use the ba...
[14:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:43] <exec> 08└─My bank released an update to their Android app that asks for so many permissions that I uninstalled it. I now go into the branch around once a month for something trivial that I'd have otherwise done on the app, just so that it's costing money for them to do stupid things. I always make a point of...
[14:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF? - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:48] <exec> 08└─I had to "join" the most popular union in order to work at a union job location. The funny thing is, the non-union company benefits were better than the union contract benefits that had a $350 initiation fee and $45 month dues. The union reps were fat lazy assholes driving expensive cars on our dime...
[14:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Underpaid PR - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:52] <exec> 08└─This is how it works in most stores... Or did you think grocery store managers make less than the cashiers and baggers?
[14:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dogvomit [5452] (Score:1) 02Astronomy - 06Groundbreaking for World's Largest Telescope - 1529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:00] <exec> 08└─I'd like to think the lack of discussion is more due to this story posting in the middle of the night than lack of interest in the future of astronomy. With three new big telescopes coming on line in the next decade, astronomy really is building excitement. I'm obviously partial to the GMT because i...
[14:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Re:Availability is important, not free stuff - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:14] <exec> 08└─"Clearly profitable" is not so black and white. Someone still needs to be paid to go around and refill those machines, repair them, pick up or deliver pallets with snacks, and so on. The floor space (at €€/m^2) taken by the machine cannot be used for other things and you have the depreciation of...
[14:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get it either... - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:24] <exec> 08└─It just doesn't make sense to me. Compared to employee costs, it's practically nothing. It improves morale, and I guess might mitigate the problem described in the summary. Then again, there's a reason I'm not CEO.
[14:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02the oil drum used to call it bullshit - 06Despite Lavish Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Loses In Latest IEA Forecast - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:50] <exec> 08└─Years ago when the oil drum blog still existed they analyzed the yearly IEA reports with a critical eye. Here's commentary on the IEA 2010 report: http://www.theoildrum.com [theoildrum.com] Oh here's the actual link to the 2015 report btw: http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org [worldenergyout...
[14:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Odors - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:41] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as "a smell". There is, however, such a thing as "an odor". It's disgusting how English is constantly being oversimplified into Newspeak. As such the title of this submission should be "Why do most languages have so few words for odors?".
[14:46:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:"Trained?!" - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:26] <exec> 08└─I went to a professional trade show (NAB), where a guy was demoing his weather animations designed to keep the viewers engaged. He was talking about the viewers in about the same way you'd talk about someone's out-of-control four year-old.
[14:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not seeing how that is advocating that the government stop this particular censorship. Maybe it simply means that he values freedom of speech highly.
[14:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Exposure? - 06Shadow Bans Not Banny Enough For Reddit - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:48] <exec> 08└─As a veteran, libertarian, and as a commenter that has been reading your posts here for a long time I have to say are you sure they didn't ban you cause you were acting trolly?
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[15:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:24] <exec> 08└─Parents who are well-educated, married and well-off tend to have children who stay home longer, whereas children who grow up in households with a single parent, or step-parent, or didn't finish high school, tend to leave early.
[15:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:1) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:25] <exec> 08└─Or, they grow up desperate to leave, or with bad relationships, rather than being comfortable with sharing space (both emotionally and physically). Being forced into self-reliance too early is not necessarily good - for example my mother didn't leave her single-parent home, she stayed in the same ap...
[15:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:27] <exec> 08└─> instead of sniveling little pussies. Do people really write that sort of stuff? I mean is this guy a real person or some sort of ridiculous hollywood script?
[15:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:28] <exec> 08└─..... sniveling little pussies.
[15:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:1) 02correlation != causation - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe more of the "Parents who are well-educated, married and well-off" can afford to, and have households large enough to, have children stay home longer (or return home). OTOH in an earlier era it was expected that children, especially young women, remained in their parents' households until they...
[15:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2) 02Familism - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:32] <exec> 08└─I never understood "western" obsession with kicking your kids out as soon as you can, some people need stability before they can start their own families, and there's less chance that you will be thrown into an old people's home when you can't care for yourself anymore.
[15:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Familism - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:33] <exec> 08└─If you are living at home because you want to live in a muti-generational home, that is great. I think the problem is that there is large number who think they need to move right from college to a McMansion in the suburbs. Just watch two episodes of "House Hunters". I am sick of those adult brats th...
[15:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Got it all wrong - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:35] <exec> 08└─My mom lives with ME! It just better for tax purposes that she keeps the house titled in her name. As well as the electric and water bills.
[15:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Revolution 9 - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:42] <exec> 08└─number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine......
[15:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Revolution 9 - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:44] <exec> 08└─100110011001…
[15:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoefff [5470] (Score:1) 02Re:Numbers availability - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:55] <exec> 08└─Just to imagine another attack vector: What if you shine with a laser into the telescope, wouldn't that make things more predictable?
[15:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Manipulation? - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:57] <exec> 08└─No.
[15:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Someone's trying to sell you shit you don't need. - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:58] <exec> 08└─I have a cheap $3.00 webcam aimed out the window. The low bits of each pixel are themselves indistinguishable from pure white noise according to all the NIST tests available. However, I just take the video frames and run them through a hash matrix. Each hashing function instance contributes to one b...
[15:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Someone's trying to sell you shit you don't nee - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:00] <exec> 08└─I used to take the low bits of a soundcard's disconnected line-in.
[15:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Skip this rubbish - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:17] <exec> 08└─Oh I can do that too: They can replace absolutely everything. They are even better than BASIC!
[15:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:35] <exec> 08└─Remember the project to rewrite Linux in C++?
[15:41:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bart [2844] 02Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:37] <exec> 08└─Nice as it is, you're not going to write a device driver in Go. So as far as I'm concerned, it's D vs Rust and I think D wins because it allows you to go as low level as you want, but it's also high-level and safe.
[15:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:44] <exec> 08└─Not in timing-critical code and/or on the bare metal. Having said that, D naturally uses the C ABI and knows about C libraries so there should be no problem using standard C libraries.
[15:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:45] <exec> 08└─But if you're going to use standard C libraries anyway, then why not just use C to begin with?
[15:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:47] <exec> 08└─Because perhaps the other language is more powerful and let's you achieve more with fewer lines of code?
[15:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:1) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:49] <exec> 08└─Garbage collection in the language includes a run-time penalty that is anywhere from not that bad to really bad. There is not any free lunch with a computer and GC performs work that may not strictly be necessary or may not be optimal. Most of the time this is a fine compromise because not that many...
[15:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 1515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:51] <exec> 08└─Garbage collection doesn't prevent memory leaks. It prevents unreachable memory, but not all memory leaks are in the from of unreachable memory. And reachable memory doesn't necessary mean that there's an obvious way to access this memory, it just means there is a chain of pointers from the base set...
[15:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Different tools for different jobs - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:53] <exec> 08└─Want to write something in user land? Who cares who language.
[15:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:C isn't going away anytime soon - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:54] <exec> 08└─So, for example, if you put C in front of a room full of Python programmers, chances are basically 100% that they'll be able to understand what's going on.
[15:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alexandrescu - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:56] <exec> 08└─wrote a well-regarded, and advanced, book about C++, so he knows what's he talking about. But of course, he's biased.
[15:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Conspicuously absent - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:58] <exec> 08└─from TFA are any mention of functional programming languages, or Java, C#, or other JVM or .NET based languages. Maybe he should've mentioned what direction he was focusing on up front.
[15:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Crocodiles? - 06Crocodiles to Guard Death Row Prisons in Indonesia - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:07] <exec> 08└─I would have preferred sharks. With frikkin lasers.
[15:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Nomnomnom - 06Crocodiles to Guard Death Row Prisons in Indonesia - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:08] <exec> 08└─Humans can be bribed, yes. But they don't generally eat pieces of raw meat that may or may not be shot full of sedatives or poisons.
[15:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:20] <exec> 08└─otherwise these days you can use the banks app to take a photo of the check and deposit it online even.
[15:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF? - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I understand. If the union owns the bank, it has the right as the primary shareholder, both morally and legally, to compel the bank to act in its best interests as it sees fit - which includes adjusting pay. Am I missing something? Could you expand?
[15:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too bad we didn't listen to Jimmy Carter - 06Despite Lavish Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Loses In Latest IEA Forecast - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:24] <exec> 08└─Technology may not have been realistically up to the job of replacing coal and oil back then. In the case of photovoltaics, just think how much semiconductor tech and applied physics have advanced in the past 40 years! It's happening *now* because it is economically and scientifically feasible now.
[15:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:half way there - 06Despite Lavish Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Loses In Latest IEA Forecast - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:28] <exec> 08└─Exactly. When I saw the headline "Despite Lavish Subsidies ...", I was thinking "In Part Because of Lavish Subsidies ...". They only appear good because of the lobby-and-government-created facade. Of course, who pays for the subsidies - the tax-payer. You're paying for your petrol twice...
[15:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:Brain wiring is wrong - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:20] <exec> 08└─Yes it may be a bit more difficult. But I would like to disagree that colors are more simple just because on a low level, they are perceived through 3 color cones. My brain does not need to know that to see a color. I do not think of purple as a mixture of blue and red. I learned that at some point,...
[15:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odors - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:25] <exec> 08└─Upon whose authority do you make such a claim? It's not as if there is any ambiguity is using "smell" as either a noun or a verb.
[15:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Power conversion - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:21] <exec> 08└─approximately, 1 barrel oil combustion produces 106J less energy than fission which produces 106J less energy than fusion. The rewards for cracking fusion are huge. Only in the last 150 years of physics has humanity known how the sun used fusion and could burn for a billion years.
[15:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marco2G [5749] (Score:2) 02Re:Power conversion - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:22] <exec> 08└─While interesting, this has nothing to do with my question.
[15:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: Doesn't matter - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:21] <exec> 08└─I don't know what people get elsewhere, but in the UK the BBC only broadcasts trailers between programmes, not during. (With the exception of long-duration magazine-type programmes, such as BBC Radio 4's Today programme, or BBC News 24's continuous rolling coverage.) Yes, it can be a little annoyin...
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[16:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02strategy for change: kill then repopulate? - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:13] <exec> 08└─I wonder if you are currently deeply colonized by a 'fat' carb centric flora biome if initiating with antibiotics then following a strict veggie diet for several months would help change the type of deeply colonized flora one has? Also, I wonder about preservatives and water chlorine effects on gut...
[16:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:strategy for change: kill then repopulate? - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:14] <exec> 08└─Not a biologist, but I have a hypothesis about red meat. Eating red meat is associated withcancer and with changes in the gut biome. I hypothesize that the flora that ferment red meats cause inflammation, because our bodies are also red meat, and that flora will also try to ferment our bodies. Meanw...
[16:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's why I eat my own - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:16] <exec> 08└─poop.
[16:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:32] <exec> 08└─I must side with you over GP. I too left at a young age, even thou I was far from ready because of difficult home life. The issues here are far from one-dimensional. They are very complex.
[16:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:34] <exec> 08└─That's Dr. Ben Carson.
[16:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:36] <exec> 08└─> This would be because they are forced to learn self-reliance early on, so they grow up to be adults instead of sniveling little pussies. Well, that's the most complete and nuanced analysis of the phenomenon that I've ever seen. Perhaps as a society, we can call these issues settled and move on to...
[16:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:38] <exec> 08└─Staying with parents into your early 20s is not a sign of weakness. If anything, it's a sign of strength in family relationships. If your bonds with your parents are weak, you will leave early to strike out on your own. If you have strong family bonds, you will stay with your parents a bit longer. B...
[16:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:40] <exec> 08└─Marriage is an inevitability, is it?
[16:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:Familism - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:43] <exec> 08└─It is not that I want my kids to leave home, but that at some point the baby bird has to leave the nest and learn to fend for themselves.
[16:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Familism - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:45] <exec> 08└─It's about learning to live on your own which I believe is the key lesson a parent can teach their children. And I believe this behavior or tradition is a key reason western societies are more independent thinking than some other societies.
[16:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"the world is my home" - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe everything is just too damn expensive rent wise or butt-ugly? also if plotting the pressure exerted by parents for children to move out it follows a gauss curve. if you manage to stick around long enough you will again be appreciated ^_^ (beats move to the costly oold-people home?).
[16:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"the world is my home" - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:48] <exec> 08└─Yep, homes along with education have been just enormous take-off expenses compared to 40 years ago. It's hard not to say that people who want to invest in those things should spend years saving.
[16:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rent Too Damn High - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:50] <exec> 08└─Rent Too Damn High. I should run for office.
[16:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:"the world is my home" - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:52] <exec> 08└─I should say that in Europe it is very common to have multi generational homes, and it is not associated with being a loser.
[16:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Another symptom of the same problem - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 2400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:54] <exec> 08└─The story in a nutshell: 1. Median incomes have been basically stagnant in the US since 1979. That means that the purchasing power of American families has not kept pace with the costs that they are expected to bear, nor with the productivity of American workers. 2. From 1992 to the present, the US...
[16:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Another symptom of the same problem - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:55] <exec> 08└─And that's when I RTFS and notice that this is about Australia. But no matter: The situation there isn't quite as bad as in the US, but the trends aren't that different either.
[16:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Mersenne Twister - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:06] <exec> 08└─And no real mathematician is impressed with that at all. It was based on unsound theories, and needed several layers of elastoplast in order to fix it. Disclaimer: in a former life (when I pretended to be a mathematician) I assisted George Marsaglia with some of his long period PRNGs' proofs. Marsag...
[16:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Someone's trying to sell you shit you don't nee - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:19] <exec> 08└─There's enough entropy in a cup of hot tea too.
[16:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Someone's trying to sell you shit you don't nee - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah...I'm not a cryptographer but this problem seems solved, practically.
[16:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02already did it with quantums - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:21] <exec> 08└─we have already been using the universe for a perfect random number generator, specifically teh quantims! ok, so Quantis Random Number Generator [idquantique.com] uses "the randomness of quantum physics" to generate an endless stream of random number. now if we discover how that works, we all win at...
[16:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Max Hyre [3427] (Score:2) 02A weak point - 06Innovative Energy-Absorbing Materials have Potential Uses in Buildings, Helmets - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:31] <exec> 08└─The weak point is 3-D printing: is it being used for industrial-scale productfion (of any sizeable product, like helmet linings)? All I've seen have taken far too much time for production, you'd need a factory of tens of thousands, at least, of the printers to supply 3.2e8 people, much less 6 or 7e9...
[16:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02buckling based collapsible structures aren't new - 06Innovative Energy-Absorbing Materials have Potential Uses in Buildings, Helmets - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:33] <exec> 08└─The bendable section of bendy straws works the same way. What's so "innovative" about it? Wait ... they mentioned 3D printing. This is a massively important invention which will change our lives forever.
[16:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:54] <exec> 08└─GCC warns you. VS does not. Have not tried it but I suspect clang does as well. Yes those warnings are trying to tell you something...
[16:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:15] <exec> 08└─GC is slower than manually freeing. It could cause stutter each time it collects. It can also lead to situations where resources are locked and waiting for the GC. Like if you are done with a file but that file will remain locked until the GC finds it and runs any deconstructor/dispose methods. Make...
[16:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Different tools for different jobs - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:19] <exec> 08└─Anyone who's going to be using it and now has another piece of bloated garbage running in the background because muhframework/lib.
[16:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Low level languages are too niche now to bother - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:26] <exec> 08└─The reason we haven't seen a lot of replacements for C or C++ is because few people use languages that are so low level these days. Sure, there are a lot of programmers that currently use a low level language and need to, but as a percentage of the overall programming workforce, their share is quite...
[16:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Which language disallows/restricts pointers? - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:28] <exec> 08└─Question: Which, if any, of the languages we are discussing disallows or restricts pointer arithmetic? It seems to be that many classic C language bugs could be avoided if we just used *references* as the standard "pointer" data type. The reference would only allow the operations of setting to anoth...
[16:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:52] <exec> 08└─Yes they have a fairly cake job. Basically break bills down. Count down the 'change jars'. Do the occasional deposit. Open accounts for new customers. I usually use them with deposits. My bank likes to rearrange the menus on the ATMs about every 3 months and make the menus quite the labyrinth. Then...
[16:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Underpaid PR - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:02] <exec> 08└─This is not software development.
[16:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score:1) 02challenge? - 06Groundbreaking for World's Largest Telescope - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:12] <exec> 08└─Challenge our understanding of the universe? We don't have enough understanding to challenge, given dark matter, dark energy, expansion etc. Also, I'm a little sceptical about the reliability of adaptive optics for such large apertures. Can someone out there speak to this? Unrelatedly, what's with t...
[16:44:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] 02Re:Availability is important, not free stuff - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 852 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:26] <exec> 08└─Slightly off-topic, but I thought I'd share it anyway. I work for a company that develops a mobile payment platform. We have a vending machine in the office. One day the vending machine was accidentally left unlocked by the owner (This machine is not the company). After being contacted the owner r...
[16:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope... aaaand yes. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:46] <exec> 08└─I'm going to engage you despite feeling you may not be receptive to any counter arguments. My position is very simple. You are paid to work. Depending on your job and management, that may entail sitting in a cubicle, doing a certain amount of a productive task, keeping up with a service queue, or so...
[16:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:39] <exec> 08└─We're talking about the primary meaning of these words to us, today.
[16:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:clickbait... - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:51] <exec> 08└─Trust me. You won't be disappointed.
[16:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Power conversion - 06Breakthrough in Superconducting Materials Opens New Path to Fusion - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:01] <exec> 08└─I provided general ratios. Specifically, I believe that fission is only 1% efficient in our current reactor designs. Compare this with the 30% maximum efficient for the internal combustion engine. Does this help?
[16:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 1855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:40] <exec> 08└─Let's not be too sanguine. The post-war administration was running with some unusual blessings as well as some unusual problems. Extrapolation from that to today is difficult to the point of impossibility. Granted, the top marginal rate of income tax was very high, but it turns out to have been larg...
[16:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:2) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:42] <exec> 08└─The retired pensioner should sell the big house and move into a smaller condo. The family should rent a room to a friend or relative. The real issue with "unproductive" property is the farm problem which I addressed in the voat post. tl;dr tax is negotiated and deferred on farms until the land/equip...
[16:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:2) 02Re:stop taxing income, tax both property&cash expo - 06 Multinationals Hiding more than USD$500 Billion from G20 Tax Collectors - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:45] <exec> 08└─What you are talking about is local taxes which won't change as a part of the federal property tax proposal. I'm only talking about what is the best way to fund the federal government.
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[17:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:strategy for change: kill then repopulate? - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:29] <exec> 08└─Not a biologist, but I have a hypothesis about red meat.
[17:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:strategy for change: kill then repopulate? - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:30] <exec> 08└─Sounds about as truthy as the Food Babe or David Wolfe. You should write a book or thirty.
[17:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:strategy for change: kill then repopulate? - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:32] <exec> 08└─Eating red meat is associated with cancer and with changes in the gut biome.
[17:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:strategy for change: kill then repopulate? - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:34] <exec> 08└─There are some treatments that do exactly this. There was one with a "fecal transplant" which cured certain diseases. You may google search that term at your own risk.
[17:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:That's why I eat my own - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:36] <exec> 08└─Eat poop with good brain and good bodies...
[17:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02News flash - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:37] <exec> 08└─Antibiotics kill bacteria. Film at 11. That's why I've never understood the American obsession with anti-bacterial everything: It's not bacteria that are bad, it's bad bacteria that are bad. But there's all sorts of indifferent bacteria and even beneficial bacteria, and some bacteria that is sometim...
[17:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Probiotics... - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:39] <exec> 08└─Get yourself a bottle of "Jarrow Formulas Sacharomyces Boulardii & MOS" and it'll replenish your gut bugs. Warning... your farts will smell like a barnyard for awhile.
[17:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:50] <exec> 08└─It sounds like the GP is bitter and probably never calls his parents, I've noticed this trend among those who "got kicked out or fled at 18" and usually their parents were rather abusing as well. They also tended not to amount to much in the long run either, while those who got to stay home for long...
[17:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:57] <exec> 08└─While agree that staying at home part way through college or returning briefly isn't necessarily a sign of weakness, jumping straight from your childhood home into starting your own family skips an important developmental step. I think everyone should live on their own for at least a short time (eve...
[17:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:59] <exec> 08└─"Becky, what do you want to be when you grow up?" "I'm going to be a Google social engineer!" "Johnny, how about you?" "I want to be a policeman, so I can steal Becky's lunch!" "And, you Ed?" "I don't want to grow up. I'm remodeling my Mom's basement for gaming, and I'm learning the fastest route to...
[17:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:correlation != causation - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:01] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a cool father-in-law.
[17:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Child labor law - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:04] <exec> 08└─Between school, sports, homework, and working (if you want that cell phone/car)
[17:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Child labor law - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:06] <exec> 08└─how is a child supposed to earn money to buy a cell phone to call for a ride home?
[17:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Depends on what "launch" means - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:08] <exec> 08└─It depends on the situation. In many countries, having multiple generations living together never went out of style. In most 1st world countries, it did. If things are reversing, that may or may not be a bad thing. It all depends on the reason. Case 1: You have kids who live at home as adults, and t...
[17:41:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Another symptom of the same problem - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 2400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:14] <exec> 08└─The story in a nutshell: 1. Median incomes have been basically stagnant in the US since 1979. That means that the purchasing power of American families has not kept pace with the costs that they are expected to bear, nor with the productivity of American workers. 2. From 1992 to the present, the US...
[17:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Another symptom of the same problem - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:16] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound like a conservative version of economic history. This one has no magical thinking. Is this part of the "gay agenda" I keep hearing about? They weren't part of the jobless recovery, were they? I thought working girls were in the service industry... reconciling all of these propagan...
[17:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Mersenne Twister - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:36] <exec> 08└─PRNG != RNG.
[17:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Numbers availability - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:45] <exec> 08└─The CMB is not measured at those wavelengths.
[17:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Someone's trying to sell you shit you don't nee - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:52] <exec> 08└─Well, first off they're not trying to "sell" anything. Their paper is about how random the CMB is. Secondly, what do you mean you run your frames through a hash matrix? Are you taking a single frame and hashing that, or are you doing some sort of time-series analysis of individual pixels? In either...
[17:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:A weak point - 06Innovative Energy-Absorbing Materials have Potential Uses in Buildings, Helmets - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:03] <exec> 08└─"sorry guys, the 3D printer was too slow, so we'll play the next game with only 15 people. We unearthed evidence of rules for running around with an oval ball and not stop every 10 seconds, and are currently waiting for feedback from the TV networks"
[17:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:1) 02safer football helmets... - 06Innovative Energy-Absorbing Materials have Potential Uses in Buildings, Helmets - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:05] <exec> 08└─If only there were some way to avoid the impact inherent in football, football helmets could be phased out entirely. Ever ask yourself why nobody wears jousting armor anymore (yes, with a few exceptions)?
[17:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:40] <exec> 08└─The fucking library? I didn't know that C comes with native support for teledildonics!
[17:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:41] <exec> 08└─Duh, of course it does. It has to support NetHack after all.
[17:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:43] <exec> 08└─... uummmm .... how is this different from EVERY OTHER LANGUAGE EVER WRITTEN??!!?!?!?
[17:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:45] <exec> 08└─Of course, what 'ya gonna write your high-level. high performance string library in?
[17:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You keep using that word... - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:57] <exec> 08└─Parent said: "Garbage collection doesn't prevent memory leaks. It prevents unreachable memory, but not all memory leaks are in the from of unreachable memory." The very definition of a memory leak is "unreachable memory". GC absolutely fixes that issue. You are complaining that GC doesn't fix logic...
[17:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:59] <exec> 08└─Parent said: "It [GC] can also lead to situations where resources are locked and waiting for the GC. Like if you are done with a file but that file will remain locked until the GC finds it and runs any deconstructor/dispose methods." -AND- "GC doesn't exactly prevent memory leaks though. Your progra...
[17:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:01] <exec> 08└─I generally really like D, but it suffers from one big problem far worse than most other semi-big languages: language stability. Grown-up languages shouldn't be fickle. It seems to make breaking changes all the time for little benefit. If you want to compile a major D project (like say vibed), you h...
[17:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:2) 02Plot for The Raid 3? - 06Crocodiles to Guard Death Row Prisons in Indonesia - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:24] <exec> 08└─If you haven't seen and like martial arts movies at all it go check out The Raid:Redemption http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com] Visceral and technically great martial arts action from start to finish
[17:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:1) 02Click Warning - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:52] <exec> 08└─I hope you have your bloat blockers engaged before clicking the links to the bank's site.
[17:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:challenge? - 06Groundbreaking for World's Largest Telescope - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:03] <exec> 08└─Somewhat Humongously Immense Telescope is favorite, though Bazillion-Radius Advanced Telescope was a contender. You'd think they'd be more creative given the lack of distractions atop the Atacama, but actually they're really tired of naming stuff all day long...
[17:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Availability is important, not free stuff - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:20] <exec> 08└─Healthy is expensive: A huge company I regularly visit has 25-cent cans of soft drinks, but $1.25 water bottle. Oddly, they also provide free fruits (bananas and apples), and a water fountain next to the vending machines. It's still profitable for the external vending company, though.
[17:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free pizza. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 1795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:25] <exec> 08└─Good sir, I have read posts and replies to posts like this on the internet and on the compuserv of years past. It always ends with the people working having more money than those that didn't, unless the person who rejects it is well paid. When we read about 20 and 30 somethings living with mom and d...
[17:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope... aaaand yes. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:44] <exec> 08└─Personally, I've had a manager tell me that he would rather that I look at code while thinking about the beach, than looking like I'm not working, while thinking about a code problem.
[17:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. - 06Think Your IT Project is a Disaster? These Will Make You Feel Better - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:53] <exec> 08└─You did alright on the limitless funds, but you left out "fiat currency". When the currency is tied to something of value, government has almost unlimited funds. That is, they can bankrupt the economy, but they can't really do much more harm than that. With fiat currency, we can bankrupt today's eco...
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[18:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:News flash - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:39] <exec> 08└─if the doc wants to do *something* so the patient thinks they'll get better, why not hand out placebos instead?
[18:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Re:Got it all wrong - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:11] <exec> 08└─It just better for tax purposes that she keeps the house titled in her name.
[18:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Another symptom of the same problem - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:18] <exec> 08└─The trends are just upside down.
[18:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Mersenne Twister - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 2239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:37] <exec> 08└─Very few practical PRNGs come with documentation suitable for mathematicians, let alone a thorough mathematical analysis, and the twister is no exception. This kind of goes with the territory, since on one hand we are trying to create something cryptographically secure, so it can't be too simple mat...
[18:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score:1) 02Re:Numbers availability - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:47] <exec> 08└─You are correct in thinking that these numbers are essentially random and that a pico-second clock would be a way around it. However, someone on the other side of the world would be able to adjust *their* pico-second clock until their numbers matched up with yours. Then, presumably, they would win a...
[18:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score:2) 02Next article... - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:56] <exec> 08└─"Drone attacks on astrophysical entropy sources". If you hover a drone in front of the telescope, you should be able to de-randomize what the telescope sees.
[18:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score:1) 02What's the use of one-time randomness? - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:58] <exec> 08└─So you get a certified random sequence, how does that improve your security? You can xor it with your message, but need to save it to recover the message, and send it along with the message (or in advance by hand) which makes it no better than any other moderately complex one-time pad. Random images...
[18:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:None - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:34] <exec> 08└─Lousy string handling syntax and the silly outmoded "break" convention in the switch statement. I also prefer the type name come after the variable, in declarations, not before.
[18:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Define "Replace..." - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:46] <exec> 08└─I remember it, about 0.99pl10 or 11 But I think the goal was not to rewrite using many C++ features but rather to use e.g. C++'s better type checking to find bugs. The attempt failed mostly because of compiler rather than language - in those days g++ was basically s**t, it introduced more bugs than...
[18:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crocodiles? - 06Crocodiles to Guard Death Row Prisons in Indonesia - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:19] <exec> 08└─6 hours, 5 minutes, from story post date, to get the shark joke that I had expected would arrive within 30 minutes ? Where was everyone last night ?
[18:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Captial Punishment in 2015? - 06Crocodiles to Guard Death Row Prisons in Indonesia - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:22] <exec> 08└─Seriously, instead of abolishing the death penalty, they're looking and increasingly perverted ways of enforcing their barbarity? Innocent people have been put to death who were the victims of having drugs planted in their luggage by criminals. Drug abuse is an illness that needs to be treated, not...
[18:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, effectively, the union is sitting on both sides of the table and you can't 'negotiate' with yourself.
[18:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Corporate greed will nullify the change - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:50] <exec> 08└─When consumers have more income, corporations raise prices to boost their profits. The products still cost the same to make, but why not charge the customers more, "just because we can"?
[18:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:the oil drum used to call it bullshit - 06Despite Lavish Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Loses In Latest IEA Forecast - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:58] <exec> 08└─I'm sure "the oil drum" is totally unbiased in that regard...
[18:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:System and context - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:09] <exec> 08└─If it smells like a banana then it seems like we can use pretty much every noun to describe a smell. That seems like quite a few words to me... but describing something as smelling of freshly mowed lawn is meaningless if you don't already know it.. Describe Red to a blind person.
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[19:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's True - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:53] <exec> 08└─I took an antibiotic as malaria prophylactic when I visited SE Asia 20 years ago. I was there only for two weeks, but you have to keep taking it for a week after I came home. Ever since, I've become a fart machine till this day. Well, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
[19:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:15] <exec> 08└─"I don't want to grow up. I'm remodeling my Mom's basement for gaming, and I'm learning the fastest route to the corner store so I can stock up on Cheeto's and Mountain Dew in the minimum amount of time."
[19:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:16] <exec> 08└─That is so 1956. Nowadays you program your drone to go and get it for you. You cant waste precious WoW time. Geeze.
[19:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Familism - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:26] <exec> 08└─You are reading too much into my statement. There are some skills that can only be learned by doing. For most kids, once you have graduated high school and/or college, you should have all the basic skills necessary to live on your own. This is not to say that they won't need a lot of coaching, and p...
[19:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Due to declining American standard of living - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:36] <exec> 08└─America has typically had a higher material standard of living (on average) than Europeans. It is only recently, with our relative decline, that our standards start to approach yours. Globalization, she has been a bitch to us.
[19:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:It works! - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:51] <exec> 08└─ROT26 should be enough for everyone.
[19:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mersenne Twister - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:58] <exec> 08└─... since on one hand we are trying to create something cryptographically secure
[19:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not even wrong - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:20] <exec> 08└─Please do read up on definitions, prior to exposing your ingnorance to the wider world.
[19:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Leave out Go - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:23] <exec> 08└─If a program continues to consume more and more memory while running then it is often said to have a memory leak. A logic error and failure to free are both bugs that result in a program consuming all available memory in a system. You are right though that my use of the term is the laymans use. That...
[19:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:That is in line with what I was going to write - 06Crocodiles to Guard Death Row Prisons in Indonesia - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:42] <exec> 08└─Crocodiles can be EASILY bribed. With MEAT. There is plenty of meat in a prison, in the form of fellow inmates. QED... Lucky for us they are only putting those evil condemned drug users in this dystopian prison. All those less-evil murderers stay in the normal prison. So, there shouldn't be a pr...
[19:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:04] <exec> 08└─Wow, you still have bank tellers in the US? The last few years all I get is a machine in the corner with a big queue and some unqualified sprat saying you have to use it. In fact, that's the biggest reason that I just don't go into a bank any more. Fortunately, I'm no longer paid by cheque so I have...
[19:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:07] <exec> 08└─I'm having a hard time figuring which is more corrupt, the bank, or the union. I'm having a hard time figuring out how paying people $15/hr implies corruption.
[19:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:11] <exec> 08└─The bank, which is owned by the union, negotiated with said union for a workers contract. How you say "conflict of interest". It's two different unions: Amalgamated Bank is majority-owned by Workers United, an SEIU Affiliate. The union representing the employees is OPEIU International (Offic...
[19:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Why am I paying for these bank's employees again? - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:20] <exec> 08└─That means that about a third of bank tellers rely on some kind of public [assistance], such as Medicaid, food stamps, or the Earned Income Tax Credit, to get by. Glad to know my tax dollars are going to subsidize these banks' manpower/benefits costs...
[19:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope... aaaand yes. - 06Why Getting Rid of Free Office Snacks Doesn't Come Cheap - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:05] <exec> 08└─For the purposes of this discussion, let's assume you are paid for your time. I think that's a poor assumption to make. The article speaks of eliminating office snacks. It's probably safer to assume these folks are salary. "Work for results instead of hours" is what salary (supposedly) means.
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[20:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yeah and... - 06How Music Streaming is Creating a New Type of Superfan - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:25] <exec> 08└─So to put it into 'old foggy' ideas. You had a dude who was really into one band. They would buy every album that band came out with or related to. All the merch, t-shirts, lighters, whatever. Then the other kind of person. Where they surf around and buy a little of this and a little of that as thei...
[20:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:strategy for change: kill then repopulate? - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:47] <exec> 08└─It's still done, they stick a tube down your throat and pump someone elses shit into it.
[20:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score:1) 02Re:Probiotics... - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:53] <exec> 08└─You could do that, but unfortunately the probiotics you get as over the counter supplement are not what makes up the majority of a healthy microbiome, or at least the ones that matter the most. So yeah, take those if you've got money burning a hole in your pocket.
[20:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:15] <exec> 08└─For the vast majority, yes.
[20:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:19] <exec> 08└─Not really, you don't seriously think that those folks actually want to be living with their parents, do you? The thing that's changed is that housing is more expensive and jobs pay less than they used to. Things like healthcare are more expensive than they used to be and for a lot of people their o...
[20:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:Child labor law - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:28] <exec> 08└─By working for their parents. Get paid to mow lawn, clean yard, shovel snow. That's how it was for me.
[20:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Child labor law - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:31] <exec> 08└─Sigh. After all these years, it's the same old whine. Move on, Tepples.
[20:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Familism - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:34] <exec> 08└─That's also why failing to launch and boomerang homes are a thing. We've torn down damn near all the support that young adults used to get. As well as shipped as many jobs overseas as possible to make sure that employees can't afford to have nice things. I'd venture that a goodly portion of those re...
[20:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Got it all wrong - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:38] <exec> 08└─Medicare? Medicare doesn't care about assets and the like. I think what you are thinking about is Medicaid. Medicaid is means-tested and the way most people pay for their long-term care. Now that can be a nasty surprise as you have to spend yourself into a certain level of poverty before that kicks...
[20:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Got it all wrong - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:40] <exec> 08└─Even if you don't have it transferred, they will try to repossess the house she lives in, even if it is in your name and has never been in her name. Medical expenses set me back $20k on a house that I owned outright with my own money years before she moved in. They were simply incredulous that a guy...
[20:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:Mersenne Twister - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:08] <exec> 08└─All deterministic generators with bounded internal state will be periodic,
[20:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the use of one-time randomness? - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:29] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator#Potential_problems_with_deterministic_generators [wikipedia.org]
[20:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How do they know? - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:30] <exec> 08└─I claim it is impossible to distinguish a deterministic prng with sufficiently long period from a "truly" random number generator.
[20:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Skip this rubbish - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 1446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:54] <exec> 08└─Agreed. C is not a reasonable language to be replaced by these languages in most circumstances in which it is currently used. C++ is a much better candidate for replacement. For replacing C++, D would be the superior choice *IF* it had decent support. D is sadly lacking in access to libraries. And t...
[20:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:05] <exec> 08└─In some applications you don't want to waste the memory. Why use 2 bytes for something where you know you'll never actually use half the possible values? I don't think C is the answer to every problem, but it's ridiculous to suggest that there aren't benefits to using it. It can be a serious PITA at...
[20:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:08] <exec> 08└─For my uses the main thing wrong with C is it's handling of Unicode. (glib makes a good stab at that, but that's not standard C.) My secondary criticism is the difficulty with handling multiple simultaneous threads of execution with message passing between them. (I don't want them to be deaf and mut...
[20:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:None - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:11] <exec> 08└─Those are criticisms which are valid when applied to C++, but invalid for C. C is intended to be used in limited environments, or when your code needs to act in a precise way. I've got several criticisms of the syntax of C when used in a context where C++ is a more appropriate choice. Unfortunately,...
[20:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:System and context - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:49] <exec> 08└─Red is light between approximately 620 and 750 nm. There done. Now, good luck describing that smell to anybody that hasn't smelled it. Yes, the definition of red isn't useful to a blind person, but they can understand that in relation to UV and X-Rays if they have to, both of which are completely re...
[20:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:2) 02Re:Change. - 06Why TV Networks Are Cutting Back on Commercials - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:50] <exec> 08└─No viewer WANTS ads.
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[21:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02People Actually Pay For Streaming Music? - 06How Music Streaming is Creating a New Type of Superfan - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:33] <exec> 08└─Why. Pandora is Free?
[21:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:People Actually Pay For Streaming Music? - 06How Music Streaming is Creating a New Type of Superfan - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:34] <exec> 08└─You can't play songs on demand with Pandora. For example, you can't play a certain song 50 times in a row.
[21:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:People Actually Pay For Streaming Music? - 06How Music Streaming is Creating a New Type of Superfan - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:36] <exec> 08└─That's what YouTube is for.
[21:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:People Actually Pay For Streaming Music? - 06How Music Streaming is Creating a New Type of Superfan - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:38] <exec> 08└─YouTube's music quality is crap. I gladly pay for a Spotify Premium family plan. 320KB Ogg Vorbis on-demand streaming FTW.
[21:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probiotics... - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:05] <exec> 08└─They worked fine for me. Only had to take them for three weeks, then regular diet maintains the gut bugs. Yogurt helps too. But like I said, the farts smell like horseshit.
[21:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Waraqa [1461] (Score:1) 02Antibiotics should be avoided - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:07] <exec> 08└─Antibiotics should be avoided whenever possible. Once I had a diarrhea for a week and the doctor prescribed an antibiotic for me without any lab test. I felt slightly better but I suffered from gut problems for a few months. Another doctor told me I would have been cured without taking it.
[21:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:22] <exec> 08└─I've noticed this trend
[21:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:26] <exec> 08└─No, not everyone, just most of them. At 18 you are an adult and should be acting like one. That means supporting yourself not mooching off the rents, no matter how much they're willing. Anyone costing their parents money after their 18th birthday gets zero respect from me as a human being.
[21:41:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03slinches [5049] 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 680 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:32] <exec> 08└─While agree that staying at home part way through college or returning briefly isn't necessarily a sign of weakness, jumping straight from your childhood home into starting your own family skips an important developmental step. I think everyone should live on their own for at least a short time (eve...
[21:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:34] <exec> 08└─Living without others around and having the freedom of complete autonomy
[21:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:39] <exec> 08└─you don't seriously think that those folks actually want to be living with their parents, do you
[21:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:No Shit, Sherlock - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:40] <exec> 08└─Because income is distributed evenly amongst the various jobs? Oh, wait, no it's not. The good jobs that pay well and have excellent benefits are too limited for everybody to have. Otherwise, everybody would have them.
[21:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Familism - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:52] <exec> 08└─Fundamentally its a complex decision. If my parents live near the college and had an extra bedroom I would seriously have considered living at home, if for no reason other than to cut costs. I have a friend who slept on a couch for $200/month throughout college (2008+) to save money. I don't think t...
[21:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Someone's trying to sell you shit you don't nee - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:43] <exec> 08└─But I can't find a Bambleweeny 57 Submeson Brain. Do you know where I could get one?
[21:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why am I paying for these bank's employees agai - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:49] <exec> 08└─Banks make billions in profit every year. They can afford to pay their employees without raising fees.
[21:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A wage too low for basic survival - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:50] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you are in favor of a mandated living wage. Further, it sounds like you think it is unfair that *some* companies (WalMart[1], et al) get to sponge off the taxpayer. N.B. Those companies actually hand out how-to-get-federal-aid advice sheets and the corresponding forms when someone sig...
[21:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:the oil drum used to call it bullshit - 06Despite Lavish Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Loses In Latest IEA Forecast - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:00] <exec> 08└─Actually, they seemed to be unbiased, in my opinion. It's the people *working* in the oil industry that wrote that blog, as opposed to the *investors* and *directors* of the oil industry. They were always speculating about whether the Hubbert peak [wikipedia.org] would be in 2005 or 2006; now which...
[21:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:the oil drum used to call it bullshit - 06Despite Lavish Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Loses In Latest IEA Forecast - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:01] <exec> 08└─(possibly talking to meself here) Actually, about the Wiki page of peak oil: I disagree with the paragraph Hubbert's original prediction that US peak oil would be in about 1970 seemed accurate for a time, as US average annual production peaked in 1970 at 9.6 million barrels per day.[12] However, the...
[21:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Re:Brain wiring is wrong - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:55] <exec> 08└─I was trying to say that the amount of visual processing needed to recognize a shape is vastly more complex and would need vastly more brain capacity than what one would need to recognize a smell if you actually had the brain wired for it.
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[22:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02That's nothing special - 06Discovery of Classic Pi Formula a ‘Cunning Piece of Magic’ - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:31] <exec> 08└─"The value of pi has taken on a mythical status, in part, because it's impossible to write it down with 100 percent accuracy," said Friedmann, "It cannot even be accurately expressed as a ratio of integers, and is, instead, best represented as a formula."
[22:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Where's my shoe phone? - 06Joint US-China Research Teams Solve One Big Issue with Fusion Reaction - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:39] <exec> 08└─Here's hoping they'll use this joint knowledge for good... instead of evil.
[22:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02How much do the artists get paid? - 06How Music Streaming is Creating a New Type of Superfan - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:52] <exec> 08└─Some of my very best friends are professional recording artists. One of them pointed out that a particularly popular artist got streamed millions of times but was paid only a few dollars. Surely there is a better way? I earn more singing on the street for tips, then were I signed with a major label...
[22:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:strategy for change: kill then repopulate? - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:13] <exec> 08└─CO2?
[22:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Antibiotics should be avoided - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:25] <exec> 08└─Antibiotics should be taken whenever possilbe. I had an ear/sinus infection for several months thinking it would go away on its own. Then went to the doctor who prescribed antibiotics and it went away in a few days.
[22:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score:1) 02Re:Antibiotics should be avoided - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:27] <exec> 08└─That's the bad thing in a nutshell: Doctors prescribing antibiotics without ever testing for the bacteria causing your problems. It's bad for the individual patient because the antibiotic you're taking may or may not target the bug you got. Doctors get around this problem with broad spectrum antibio...
[22:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Be safe, stay home - 06Single Course of Antibiotics Messes Up the Gut Microbiome for up to a Year - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:28] <exec> 08└─The medical research community has no idea what it is going on. On top of this, the reigns have been taken over by scammers and MBA types quite a few decades back. It should scare you to go to the doctor/hospital almost as much as the medical problem scares you. In some cases it may be worth the ris...
[22:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Mersenne Twister - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:52] <exec> 08└─5 1000 digit coefficients in 2 lines of code? Your monitor must be wider than mine.
[22:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Mersenne Twister - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:53] <exec> 08└─I guess that these folks are "no real mathematicians" then: The Mersenne Twister is the default PRNG for the following software systems: R,[3] Python,[4][5] Ruby,[6] PHP,[7] CMU Common Lisp,[8] Embeddable Common Lisp,[9] Steel Bank Common Lisp,[10] Free Pascal,[11] GLib,[12] SageMath,[13] Maple,[14]...
[22:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Good ! - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:58] <exec> 08└─Radio telescope not needed; you can observe cosmic rays well enough using a USB webcam in a light-proof box. [archive.org] Original site is now offline, but the project lives on at sourceforge. [sourceforge.net]
[22:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Numbers availability - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:06] <exec> 08└─Not sure we're on the same page: to get a seed for your crypto PRNG for the day, feed it the ps clock value at the time you log in, nobody will measure the time of your login better than 1/100 second, even if they have a high resolution video feed that shows when you hit the enter key (and have mana...
[22:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:53] <exec> 08└─I'll grant you hardware registers as a special case, if the top bit is ever 1 that's a lot easier to deal with unsigned. But.... how often have you run into a slew of compiler warnings when working with legacy code that just went unsigned happy with quantities that are getting counted, or using unsi...
[22:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dx3bydt3 [82] (Score:2) 02Re:Astronomy - 06Groundbreaking for World's Largest Telescope - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:36] <exec> 08└─Pure science stories in general don't tend to generate that many comments I've noticed. Perhaps it's because there are fewer people knowledgeable in the specific fields around to contribute to the discussion. The largest telescope I've ever looked through is only a 10" aperture. It must have been on...
[22:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score:0) 02Re:here are some more words - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:18] <exec> 08└─You're right. This is a bullshit article. How about 'acrid', 'cloying', 'sickly sweet', 'mouldy', 'fetid', 'fruity', etc.
[22:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score:0) 02Re:Flavor companies have to figure this out - 06Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:38] <exec> 08└─What were they making that needed to taste or smell like animal shit or cat piss? I am intrigued, but a little put off my food.
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[23:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:That's nothing special - 06Discovery of Classic Pi Formula a ‘Cunning Piece of Magic’ - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:49] <exec> 08└─Actually that is the DEFINITION of a irrational number. That it can't be expressed as a ratio. That's literally what it means irrRATIOnal -> not-ratio-able aka "not expressible as a ratio"
[23:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pi - 06Discovery of Classic Pi Formula a ‘Cunning Piece of Magic’ - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:50] <exec> 08└─I like pie!
[23:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cauchy Integral and Mond - 06Discovery of Classic Pi Formula a ‘Cunning Piece of Magic’ - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:51] <exec> 08└─What follows is some slightly drunken numerology. But maybe it means something: There are two interpolating functions commonly used for implementations of MOND: x/(sqrt(x^2 +1) and x/(x+1). These are just arbitrary functions that need to be ~1 when x [much greater than] 1 and ~x when x [much less th...
[23:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:yeah and... - 06How Music Streaming is Creating a New Type of Superfan - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:10] <exec> 08└─I think it is a bit more than that. The streaming fan doesn't buy albums, they buy "music", and the article suggests they are more likely to be fans of "music" rather than a particular genre or band. It also suggests that musicians need to engage more directly with this sort of fan, presumably to co...
[23:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much do the artists get paid? - 06How Music Streaming is Creating a New Type of Superfan - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:16] <exec> 08└─There's a whole big story behind that. First off, that streaming revenue is most emphatically not the only source of revenue. Musicians have a range of revenue sources, including licensing for advertisements, shows, royalties on media (compilation or single artist output), and of course royalties on...
[23:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Child labor law - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:38] <exec> 08└─Mowing is of questionable value anyway. Why do we have this obsession with keeping the grass short? I've heard that it's to make it impossible for snakes to hide in the grass. Also, to cut down on the fire hazard. Yet there is another way to "mow" the grass: herbivores. Turn goats or cows loose on t...
[23:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Familism - 06More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home' - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:44] <exec> 08└─That's also why failing to launch and boomerang homes are a thing.
[23:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02I <3 numbers :) - 06Big Bang Left Us with a Perfect Random Number Generator - 3999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:26] <exec> 08└─Well OK I meant the engine would fit into 2 lines. Here's a normal number printed by a 5th degree polynomial starting with p(x 0) and with coefficients ai : (loop for x from x0 do (write (+ (* a5 (expt x 5)) (* a4 x x x x) (* a3 x x x) (* a2 x x) (* a1 x) a0))) A generic state consisting of x an...
[23:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:#include <stdlib.h> - 06Which Language has Brightest Future in Replacing C — D, Go, or Rust — and Why? - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:40] <exec> 08└─I will give you the fact that the behavior is unintuitive for most use cases, but when you consider what actually happens to make that comparison, it makes sense. -1 is equivalent to all bits being high, and in an unsigned comparison it is definitely greater than 42. Perhaps situations like this sho...
[23:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:escape in pairs - 06Crocodiles to Guard Death Row Prisons in Indonesia - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:28] <exec> 08└─Why are they bothering to build an island?
[23:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF? - 06The First Bank in USA to Pay $15 Minimum Wage for All Employees Sees Immediate Benefits - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:59] <exec> 08└─Pretty much my experience with unions too. Oh, you have a problem? Tell the steward. He'll know which shredder gets your form. Oh, your problem is unaddressed? That there sure is a shame, son. You had the cheek to call OSHA? Hope you enjoy finding a new job.
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