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[00:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:prove it - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:03] <exec> 08└─Guffaw. But I share your skepticism, fellow -- Many like myself had a strong background in electronics before resigning ourselves to this nonsense.
[00:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:prove it - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:04] <exec> 08└─*Scratches his beard while looking at his pale arms* Wish I'd known twenty some odd years ago that I wasn't a real code monkey. Would have saved me a lot of time. Oh well, at least this means I can quit playing with SN code and concentrate on my professional fisherman ambitions.
[00:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Impossible - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:06] <exec> 08└─This seems to be suggesting that it's actually possible to learn outside of a formal setting, which we all know is absurd. None of the knowledge that you 'learn' outside of a college or university can be trusted, and you're bound to have gaps in your knowledge. Go back to college if you want to lear...
[00:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02I'm self taught - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:09] <exec> 08└─Lucky enough to be 20 in 78, when I bought a TRS-80. Learned Basic, coded up Conway's Life, couldn't figure out why it didn't run, went to pee, came back to see a generation had passed. So I learned Z-80 assembly. At work I was an electronic tech working on an 8080 based system. Started writing my o...
[00:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm self taught - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:11] <exec> 08└─what is BS (agile, peer programming, CASE). Learning to work well with others lasts a long time. Process is not about the process but about working well with the other kindergartners. If it becomes about the process then you have failed already.
[00:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Branding vs. Tesla - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:26] <exec> 08└─Do you have insider info? Like, is Musk looking at buying this new Nikola company?? He already bought Solar City, might as well take on some more debt while he's at it.
[00:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tough to think of a worse fuel than hydrogen - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:29] <exec> 08└─Many locations (probably including all of California, I'd have to double check) now have anti-idling laws restricting diesel trucks from idling for more than a couple of minutes at a time. They used to idle all night long to run the heat or air conditioning for the driver. Now they have small genera...
[00:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Tough to think of a worse fuel than hydrogen - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:31] <exec> 08└─H2 is the oil companies' answer to the inevitable rise of renewable sources of energy. It's a con: H2 appears to be clean, but in fact it isn't because of the way it is currently produced.
[00:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Why not natural gas? - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:33] <exec> 08└─Natgas is cheap and plentiful and pollutes much less than diesel. Why not shuffle some of those tax credits around to encourage natgas trucks, and fuel stations for refueling?
[00:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02eminent domain - 06China Approves $36B Railway Plan for Jing-Jin-Ji Megacity - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:42] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much property was taken by eminent domain to create the right of way for these new rail lines? Or maybe they don't even bother with legalities and just hire local bullies (village government) to clear out the riff-raff that happen to live in the way. Makes things great for business, doe...
[00:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:incremental speedup in fMRI - 06Fast fMRI Tracks Brain Activity During Human Thought for First Time - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:54] <exec> 08└─They are not measuring any "activity" in the brain, they are measuring blood! fMRI measures changes in blood oxygenation, which were previously thought to be too slow to detect the subtle neuronal activity associated with higher order brain functions.
[00:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:16] <exec> 08└─Real scientists primarily care about causation. A large part of understanding the mechanics of something are understanding the cause and the effects of it.
[00:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''I don't want to tell Amazon every time'' - 06systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:34:14] <exec> 08└─The Ubuntu Shopping Lens has been disabled by default since April. [google.com] This has been covered here previously. [soylentnews.org] You can stop your hand-waving about this issue. . As for your previous post regarding tutorials, folks have to be careful that what they find applies to the versio...
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[01:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02bitsavers.org - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:11] <exec> 08└─You can find out exactly what OS it was and get back to us :) More seriously though, if you have any old books, documents, whitepapers, etc, check if they don't already have them and consider scanning and making a contribution! It is really good to hear stories from some of you greybeardy types and...
[01:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm self taught - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:13] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? You think Agile is BS? Lot of aspects of programming change awfully fast. How better to keep up than with an Agile mindset? For example, how to write a graphical app has changed immensely since the 1980s. In the early 80s, you targeted a platform, perhaps CGA graphics on the PC, or the A...
[01:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WTF - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:15] <exec> 08└─You mean we have to keep studying IT, computer science, and math/science on our own time, even after we've landed a decent job? C'mon.
[01:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Learn Hindi.. - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:17] <exec> 08└─Learn Hindi...
[01:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Tough to think of a worse fuel than hydrogen - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:36] <exec> 08└─Relevant: Hot Trucks and Anti-Idling Laws [youtube.com]
[01:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Tough to think of a worse fuel than hydrogen - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:38] <exec> 08└─And the only place where the pollution is even a factor is in urban centers, which is pretty much the opposite of long haul trucking.
[01:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Tough to think of a worse fuel than hydrogen - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:41] <exec> 08└─Although Nikola is producing both short-haul and long-haul trucks, the focus of the article is more on the long-haul, where, IMO, the technology is quite useless. For short-haul, where the trucks spend most of their time in the city, and tend to spend more time waiting for things, pollution is impor...
[01:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Tough to think of a worse fuel than hydrogen - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:44] <exec> 08└─Correction, they aren't using a fuel cell, but intend to burn hydrogen in a gas turbine.
[01:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Tough to think of a worse fuel than hydrogen - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:46] <exec> 08└─Apparently somebody invented the hydrogen power storage plan I wanted to invent when I had a few hundred million to spare. ITM Hydrogen Rally | Fully Charged [youtube.com] TL;DW: You can cut the power companies out by generating your own power. You can even offer standby generation/ grid stabilizati...
[01:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score:2) 02Why can't the USA have nice things like this.. - 06China Approves $36B Railway Plan for Jing-Jin-Ji Megacity - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:57] <exec> 08└─The USA is trapped in a decaying form of the 1950s... Go to Japan, Korea (or China in a few years), they are like 80 years ahead of America infrastructure-wise..
[01:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:45] <exec> 08└─But if you had the balls to do someone who will fight back against you like that you wouldn't be bragging about your temper tantrums on the internet
[01:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:48] <exec> 08└─I re-read your original post with your admonition in mind. I still came away with the most straightforward interpretation of your final paragraph in the original as being the one I first had. Sometimes it's not the other guy going off "half cocked" (what trollish bullshit), but you not being quite t...
[01:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:more advanced online math courses? - 06The Princeton Guide to a Math Education - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:33:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, but mental arithmetic has nothing to do with it. Linear algebra is the language of geometry. It is also the study of vector spaces in general (abstract and concrete). In first year linear algebra, learning the mechanics of vector and matrix operations should be incidental to learning the genera...
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[02:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Expanded Genetic Code - 06Engineered Virus Has Artificial Amino Acid Allowing It to Serve as a Vaccine - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:09] <exec> 08└─From the abstract (the paper is pay-walled), it seem like the virus doesn't contain non-natural amino acids, instead it is produced in cells that will ignore a particular termination codon and make complete viral proteins. Normal cells will not produce full-length viral proteins so the virus will on...
[02:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Branding vs. Tesla - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:42] <exec> 08└─I'm no insider; I don't even know much about the topic. An earlier report about Nikola said that methane, rather than a hydrogen, would be the fuel for Nikola's trucks: Nikola’s trucks will be powered by an electric-natural gas hybrid system, similar to what drives electric-diesel locomotives. Th...
[02:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tough to think of a worse fuel than hydrogen - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 2021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:49] <exec> 08└─As far as why it's being promoted prematurely, you're exactly right. However, there is a reasonable possibility that, sometime in the future, hydrogen could make sense. Fossil fuels have the benefit of coming out of the ground in more-or-less portable form, give or take a little refining and crackin...
[02:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:52] <exec> 08└─I was not bragging. I was talking about how some kids are at the extreme end and his point was stupid. (which it was supposed to be because he is a professional troll) You mistake it for bragging since that is what you would do, I understand that. Don't touch me with your shit stick though...
[02:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:57] <exec> 08└─I reread your post and see the chip is not on my shoulder. I in no way was trying to exclude or denigrate anyone who has the condition - just pointing out the ridiculous naming. I reread your most recent post and by reading between the lines I see: "I wont accept I am wrong" ADD and ADHD are not two...
[02:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about a cap and trade on births - 06China's 'Missing Girls' Theory Likely Far Overblown, Study Shows - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:39] <exec> 08└─Why don't they have a cap and trade system on births. Every person is allowed to have a single child, a couple is allowed to have two children. If you want to have another child past two you must buy the right from someone that has it (and markets determine price) and they lose that right. When you...
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[02:30:40] <exec> 08└─Alternatively when the population is growing too fast the government can then control the population by reducing the number of rights each person is endowed with. For instance they can decide that each person is only entitled to have 3/4 of a child and rights can be sold in 1/4 increments. Each coup...
[02:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:O-E Converter - 06The Future of Electronics is Light - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:55] <exec> 08└─I'll believe that when it snows in Hawaii.
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[03:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Learn Hindi.. - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:29] <exec> 08└─Is that an interpreted or compiled language?
[03:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:京津冀 - 06China Approves $36B Railway Plan for Jing-Jin-Ji Megacity - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:29:05] <exec> 08└─So the name is sort of like the Keihanshin metropolis in Western Japan, which consists of Kyoto (京都), Osaka(大阪), and Kobe (神戸）. By taking the first kanji of each city’s name, they got 京阪神, and using the Chinese-influenced (on-yomi) pronunciations of the characters rather than t...
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[04:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Orson Welles got it right - 06NASA Scientist Finds Rock Formations Suggestive of Biology on Mars - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:05] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama) [wikipedia.org]
[04:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fat fingers? - 06Smartphone Software Smooths Jerky Touches - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:12] <exec> 08└─My fingers are too wide for smartphone keyboards when in portrait mode. Can this tech help that?
[04:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fuck Yeah - 06Smartphone Software Smooths Jerky Touches - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:15] <exec> 08└─Sext and masturbate with the same hand!
[04:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Automotive - 06Smartphone Software Smooths Jerky Touches - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:17] <exec> 08└─So now I can actually adjust the heater when I'm not on a smooth highway?
[04:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm self taught - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:38] <exec> 08└─Technology-wise, this sounds extremely similar to my path, but I actually think agile development and pair programming work (or at least better than waterfall and poor programmers hiding in their offices [producing nothing). Well, actually, I'm not a fan of Perl or even Python that much either. I pr...
[04:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:WTF - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:40] <exec> 08└─At least your making a decent living, teachers are expected to pay to do that for an embarrassingly small amount of money.
[04:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02do shrooms - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:44] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: It's pretty good. Heil Trump 2020!
[04:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not natural gas? - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 1661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:13] <exec> 08└─Capacity is my guess. My understanding is there's two ways to fuel a natgas vehicle: CNG and LNG. CNG is compressed natural gas, and does not have terribly high pressure. They tried to retrofit a bunch of cars back in the early 00s with that, and it didn't work too well: the storage tanks have to be...
[04:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Why can't the USA have nice things like this.. - 06China Approves $36B Railway Plan for Jing-Jin-Ji Megacity - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:24] <exec> 08└─That's one thing I've got to say about China, while I probably wouldn't want to live under that form of government, they really do Get Shit Done. In my home city they're just now constructing the desperately-needed rail infrastructure that was first planned in the 1950s. They've spent the last sixty...
[04:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:30:17] <exec> 08└─I don't know why you are getting so worked up over the name (ADD vs. ADHD). That's all it is: a name. The only thing that matters is the diagnosis and treatment. I also don't know where your penchat for personal attacks comes from. That doesn't fall under ADD, does it? Maybe you have some comorbid d...
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[05:28:33] <exec> 08└─Same here, I started out in broadcast engineering before the computer stuff.
[05:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm self taught - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:41] <exec> 08└─agile development and pair programming work (or at least better than waterfall and poor programmers hiding in their offices [producing nothing).
[05:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Learn Hindi.. - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:47] <exec> 08└─Interpreted unless you know something about human babies that I don't....
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[05:33:47] <exec> 08└─I would avoid online courses for math. Google for recommendations from mathies on specific subjects (e.g. linear algebra), then cross-reference the book reviews on amazon, and go back an edition or two to buy used at a good price (usually well under $20). Read reviews carefully for what level of mat...
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[06:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sell to avoid conflicts of interest? LOL - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:06] <exec> 08└─when they sell some of their holdings to avoid conflicts of interest in their new positions.
[06:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Curious - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:07] <exec> 08└─Curious how this wasn't an issue under Obama. Oh wait, it was: http://ijr.com [ijr.com] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com [usatoday.co...
[06:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Re:Curious - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:10] <exec> 08└─"certificate of divestiture," has never been tested quite like this.
[06:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Curious - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:12] <exec> 08└─> will be the wealthiest administration in modern American history People care because someone got elected on a wave of discontent at dishonest elites gaming the system.
[06:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:14] <exec> 08└─Funny. When Wikileaks showed that CNN, NBC, and Politico all send stories to the Democrats for approval, nobody was very interested in that conflict of interest. George Stephanolopous works for the Clinton Foundation and also reports on them as Senior Political Anchor at ABC. The media couldn't give...
[06:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't care. Won't care. Who gives a shit? - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:16] <exec> 08└─There's a tax on sale of assets. There's an exception if you're forced, in the national interest, for the sake of good governance, to sell assets. Because you have to - it's not what you might otherwise have done. This applies to Trump. He's complying with the requirement, and happens to fall into t...
[06:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why can't the USA have nice things like this.. - 06China Approves $36B Railway Plan for Jing-Jin-Ji Megacity - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:42] <exec> 08└─Well shit. It's probably a lot easier to get infrastructure projects done under a one party totalitarian rule.
[06:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kenny Blankenship [5712] (Score:1) 02"heterostyly" - 06Biologists Unlock 51.7-Million-Year-Old Genetic Secret to Landmark Darwin Theory - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:03] <exec> 08└─"Heterostyly" sounds like it belongs on the Red Hot Chili Peppers "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" album.
[06:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Perfectly normal - 06More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:56] <exec> 08└─Just because most places typically either contain snow OR do not contain snow, does not mean that you should be imposing your narrow-minded views on Mauna Kea! Scientists are studying whether the mountain may have been born inter-snow, prefer poly-snow, or may just be a macro-example or quantum snow...
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[07:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Funny) 02Good idea, more please - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:09] <exec> 08└─Leaks are a bad way to govern, it allows the least official with access to make the decision, usually when they lose an internal argument, to control disclosure. They should be ruthlessly tracked down and driven from government and ruined if the disclosure had the slightest national security implica...
[07:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good idea, more please - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:10] <exec> 08└─The thing is without leaks we would have no idea the shenanigans they are doing. No leaks only means you think everything the gov does is above board and we are the good guys. This is not true by a long shot.
[07:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Curious - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:22] <exec> 08└─People care because someone got elected on a wave of discontent at dishonest elites gaming the system.
[07:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Curious - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:24] <exec> 08└─So a bit of corruption is okay. A mere trifle that Geithner had to pay $34,000 in back taxes before he could oversee the IRS. Gotcha. Oh, and if you have a computer (which I assume you do) and make at least $32,400, you are in the top 1% worldwide. http://www.investopedia.com
[07:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Curious - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:26] <exec> 08└─Stop it with this "oh yeah, well what about blah blah blah". No one cares. Whats important here is Trump got elected on the basis of stopping exactly this sort of thing. He was going to drain the swamp, remember? Not THROW MORE SWAMP IN!
[07:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Curious - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:28] <exec> 08└─In case you've been living under a rock, you might have noticed Trump hasn't even taken office yet. A bit hard to drain the swap when you haven't even been there. While his appointments haven't filled me with everlasting joy, it has really been no better or worse than any other administration that i...
[07:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Curious - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:30] <exec> 08└─Because as pointed out elsewhere in the thread... "People care because someone got elected on a wave of discontent at dishonest elites gaming the system." You know drain the swamp etc? Trump got elected on the basis of stopping this sort of thing.
[07:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:33] <exec> 08└─At the very least, the story could have been framed as an on-going issue affecting several administrations, how the law affected those appointees, and maybe, just maybe, pointed questions to both Obama and Trump as to whether there were plans to change the law. Instead we get how the law could be be...
[07:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:35] <exec> 08└─It's more beneficial to Trump's appointees because they are, in general, much wealthier than any prior administration.
[07:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:37] <exec> 08└─So this isn't about any actual corruption, but a class issue, and heaven forbid that there are some extremely wealthy people out there (unless you are Musk, Clinton, or Soros). Given how many millionaires were appointed under Obama, you sure you want to make this a class issue? You know how the term...
[07:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:40] <exec> 08└─Clinton lost, forget Clinton, Clinton doesnt matter. Whats important is what Trump does. This is about Trump and his failure to drain the swamp. Stop deflecting.
[07:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02WTF? - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:43] <exec> 08└─I suppose, by the fact this article is posted, we are supposed to be outraged or at least consider this bad in some way? Make up your minds lefties: So do you want to continue to make the tax implications of buying and selling things to be such a primary decision maker? If so, you have this allow th...
[07:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:45] <exec> 08└─With luck, Trump will simplify the tax code enough and make it enough less punitive of savings and investment
[07:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02The anti-Trump drumbeat goes on... - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:47] <exec> 08└─It's actually hilarious, watching the MSM beat the anti-Trump drum. Everything, really everything has to be anti-Trump, because they're still pissed that Hillary! lost. Of course, these regulations are designed to reduce conflicts of interest, and they were in place when Obama's cabinet members took...
[07:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score:2) 023 hours and only 1 comment - 06NASA Scientist Finds Rock Formations Suggestive of Biology on Mars - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:56] <exec> 08└─I know the problem. The summary failed to mention that the silica deposits are orange and have an uncanny resemblance to like Trump.
[07:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:33] <exec> 08└─Oh, Francis! How am I supposed to be able to mod you down for such a statement as this: At least your making a decent living, teachers are expected to pay to do that for an embarrassingly small amount of money.
[07:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overly complicated? - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:50] <exec> 08└─BEST we could do medium term would be change over to LNG or LPG. We have the largest already tapped natural gas fields on the planet.
[07:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:incremental speedup in fMRI - 06Fast fMRI Tracks Brain Activity During Human Thought for First Time - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:33] <exec> 08└─"Beta wave, or beta rhythm, is the term used to designate the frequency range of human brain activity between 12.5 and 30 Hz (12.5 to 30 transitions or cycles per second)." https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] My first computer tan at 4.7 MHz, so I think we'll get there in my life...
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[08:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Good idea, more please - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:04] <exec> 08└─Methinks you are confusing leaks with whistleblowers. Most leaks today aren't about wrongdoing, they are policy debates by proxy.
[08:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Reason for leaks: - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:06] <exec> 08└─British PM May Cracks Down
[08:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Reason for leaks: - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:08] <exec> 08└─It means she is going to sit on the face of anyone trying to leak stuff. The crack refers to her arse crack.
[08:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Leaks as a probity meter - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:10] <exec> 08└─If the people responsible for developing and implementing the policies are generally happy with the process by which this is done, there are fewer leaks than when 'the workforce' is disgruntled. I regard the Prime Minister making such a public statement as a warning signal: she is having difficulty...
[08:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Sell to avoid conflicts of interest? LOL - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:19] <exec> 08└─Of course they will sell. Probably to some formally independent company they still have under control. Possibly located in a tax heaven.
[08:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:33] <exec> 08└─He's not president yet. What the hell swamp could he drain? His so-called cabinet isn't even a cabinet yet. He's abiding by the rules. Wait, no, that can't be right ... HOLD THE PRESSES! TRUMP ABIDES BY RULES! CORRUPTION! REPUBLICAN PLOT UNMASKED!!! Stop hyperventilating. You're sounding as idiotica...
[08:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Mentors? I dunno… - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 1690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:26] <exec> 08└─TFA harps about mentors, but I don’t think I ever really had one. I had taught myself 6502 machine language at the age of 11 from photocopied scraps of C-64 reference manuals. After I got an IBM-compatible PC in the late eighties, I taught myself x86 assembly language from Peter Norton’s books a...
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[08:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:30:47] <exec> 08└─Once you start seeing "causal this" and "causal that" you can be pretty sure the paper is not very valuable. Causality is not very important at all
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[09:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02airbnb is racist - 06Airbnb Regulation Deal with London and Amsterdam Marks Dramatic Policy Shift - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:06] <exec> 08└─Rent niggerbnb instead, nigga.
[09:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Please specify the dishonesty - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:36] <exec> 08└─He's obeying the law. The law is written the way it is, and was for a long time before he came along. How does obeying the law make him dishonest? Wait, before you spin yourself into a tornado trying to answer that, let me help you: it doesn't. If he'd lobbied for this law and got it passed six mont...
[09:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Invest now in the same stocks as Donald J. Trump. - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:47] <exec> 08└─Mr. Trump seems to have brought his ingenuity to bear on exploiting this loophole. According to the Wall Street Journal (pay-walled), President-elect Donald Trump in recent years has had an investment of as much as $250,000 in the parent of the company he pushed to shelve plans to move its Indianap...
[09:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Invest now in the same stocks as Donald J. Trum - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:49] <exec> 08└─Likelier, less conspiracy-laden, less biased interpretation: Trump knew about Carrier's plans because he owns stock in the parent company. Trump makes big deal of it, because it's an example he knows about. Trump might possibly have had a hand in pushing for a tax deal - a deal he had zero authority...
[09:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm self taught - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:31] <exec> 08└─Arrrggghhhhh!! You complete and utter BASTARD I could have gone at least another 5 or 10.years without being reminded of CASE tools. *sob* Why. Just why. Did you have to bring it up? I am going to go sit under my desk and not think about balancing.
[09:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mentors? I dunno… - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:40] <exec> 08└─He harps about mentors because millennial socialites are totally incapable of working alone. Everything must be a social activity. If you don't code socially, you're simply not a coder. It's like social drinking. You don't want to be the sad loser gulping sixpacks of beer in the basement, and you do...
[09:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Incorrect - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 1673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:43] <exec> 08└─Modern software development progresses very slowly. Oh sure, there's tons of pop-up libraries in the web development sphere, but there's nothing ground-breaking new. A lot o f things have de-evolved like the ability to pause your entire computer and see the state of everything running within (Lisp m...
[09:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:1) 02hydrogen cars -> not working. - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 4170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:13] <exec> 08└─For a start, hydrogen might be abundant, but it is not a primary fuel. It had to be turned into a useable fuel by employing methods that involve using other fuels. Electrolysis is the main method used to extract hydrogen from water, and most electricity is currently produced using fossil fuels.* Nev...
[09:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why can't the USA have nice things like this.. - 06China Approves $36B Railway Plan for Jing-Jin-Ji Megacity - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:26] <exec> 08└─If you are talking about Canberra then this is a load of horse manure. Increasing the already high price of bus tickets to pay for a 20b to 40b dollar tram many people really don't want or don't want to pay for is not the solution. Neither is taxing property owners within 1 km either side of tram st...
[09:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Why can't the USA have nice things like this.. - 06China Approves $36B Railway Plan for Jing-Jin-Ji Megacity - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not talking about Canberra.
[09:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03baldrick [352] (Score:1) 02Re:Why can't the USA have nice things like this.. - 06China Approves $36B Railway Plan for Jing-Jin-Ji Megacity - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:31] <exec> 08└─which is why the markets are excited about the new president elect
[09:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:1) 02Religious Idiots need prove for Darvin's 'theory'? - 06Biologists Unlock 51.7-Million-Year-Old Genetic Secret to Landmark Darwin Theory - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:53] <exec> 08└─Haha, you really have to be mentally deranged (religious) to still ask for prove of Darvin's "theory". This may help you: http://yify.tv [yify.tv]
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[10:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02I thought we were having a discussion... - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:59] <exec> 08└─I suppose, by the fact this article is posted, we are supposed to be outraged or at least consider this bad in some way?
[10:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Invest now in the same stocks as Donald J. Trum - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:04] <exec> 08└─Trump [...] could just as easily have found himself on the losing side of the election [...]
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[10:29:13] <exec> 08└─NASA Scientist Finds Rock Formations Suggestive of Biology on Mars
[10:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Automotive - 06Smartphone Software Smooths Jerky Touches - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:24] <exec> 08└─I can't wait for the update to hit. The touch screen steering on my car is going to be even more amazing than it already is!
[10:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:hydrogen cars -> not working. - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:30:32] <exec> 08└─Diesel can work, but we essentially need nuclear power to synthesize enough to make it carbon neutral.
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[11:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Irony much? - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:29] <exec> 08└─British Prime Minister Theresa May is cracking down on unauthorized leaks by ministers and civil servants on her Brexit plans, a leaked memo to the Mail on Sunday newspaper said.
[11:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Irony much? - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:30] <exec> 08└─You credit her with too much cunning.
[11:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02why the UK joined the EU - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iHSwA1SwE [youtube.com]
[11:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Curious - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:49] <exec> 08└─Wondering what form this draining of the swamp may take. All the same idiots are in Congress. Honestly not sure what to expect either. A lot of us didn't like him in spite of how charismatic he is just because he didn't have any concrete goals and couldn't quite articulate what a drained swamp would...
[11:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The anti-Trump drumbeat goes on... - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:29:03] <exec> 08└─Your bias shows. This is not about Trump but the law. Tone down your prosecution syndrome righty...
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[11:29:17] <exec> 08└─Again. [soylentnews.org]
[11:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it really a problem? - 06Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:31:33] <exec> 08└─I mentioned medical research ("waste insane amounts of time and money generating conflicting evidence"). http://journals.plos.org [plos.org] So no, I don't agree they are doing things right. I had to quit because interacting with that sham was so d...
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[12:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02price flow? - 06Mobile Use Drives US Holiday Shopping Gains (Update) - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:12] <exec> 08└─Is there any evidence the prices are actually better? I get so many "black friday, black friday, cyber monday, cyber tuesday because we like you! yes just you!!". In essence, the entire advertising industry can be summed up by a giant poster saying: "Buy our stuff. NOW!" Unless you have Amazon's sof...
[12:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Irony much? - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:35] <exec> 08└─Theresa May specifically, perhaps, but prior to becoming PM she was getting classified briefings on the operations of both GCHQ and MI5 for over a decade and would have needed to sign-off many of their operations. Kind of hard to believe she could have done that and not picked up at least a bit of i...
[12:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:00] <exec> 08└─and heaven forbid that there are some extremely wealthy people out there
[12:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:01] <exec> 08└─If you wanted to discuss too much money being in the hands of too few, we could start with a discussion of the Federal Reserve, and especially the relationship to war financing and parallels to how liberals reaction to Trump closely mirrors another candidate: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com
[12:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I thought we were having a discussion... - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:10] <exec> 08└─Ahh, bullshit. The discussion is less about the law, but that Trump is defrauding Americans with his billionaire friends, and the fucker hasn't even taken office yet. Does his treachery know no bounds? This was a hit piece, pure and simple, and as someone who peruses the submission list, this was th...
[12:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:30:04] <exec> 08└─...they are to lazy to download...
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[13:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:price flow? - 06Mobile Use Drives US Holiday Shopping Gains (Update) - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:23] <exec> 08└─Uhhhh - anecdotal evidence? Before the internet, I was often real sure that I was paying a premium price for something or other. But, I couldn't check it without driving to another town to see what the prices were there. Time, gas prices, and more prevented me from really shopping. Time more than an...
[13:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Curious - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:04] <exec> 08└─Really? Because I remember Trump, during his campaign, saying that you'd have to be an idiot not to do everything in your power to avoid paying taxes. He didn't seem concerned that tax avoidance is much easier for the likes of him with large amounts of money than for the majority of the population.
[13:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:14] <exec> 08└─OK, firstly, wealth and class are two different things. It is entirely possible (as Trump has conclusively demonstrated) to have one without the other. Secondly, yeah, there is a class issue here. Be honest AC, if the US had just elected a latino woman, and she was busy filling the top governmental...
[13:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:16] <exec> 08└─Sorry to burst your bubble, bub, but ain't none of these people resemble me. I'd be more concern with qualifications, with the understanding that there is a great deal leeway given to cabinet appointments. But nice of you to throw some identity politics into the mix. Moving on...
[13:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't care. Won't care. Who gives a shit? - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:21] <exec> 08└─He's complying with the requirement, and happens to fall into the intentionally defined reduced tax loophole.
[13:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02This barely scratches the surface - 06Smartphone Software Smooths Jerky Touches - 1848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:50] <exec> 08└─One of my company's clients is a HCI lab, producing some very interesting papers on the field of how people with various difficulties, eyesight, sense of touch, motor control, etc. can interact with mobile devices more easily. One of the "advances" of modern technology has been migration away from r...
[13:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Tough to think of a worse fuel than hydrogen - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:30:55] <exec> 08└─It's a con: H2 appears to be clean, but in fact it isn't because of the way it is currently produced.
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[21:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:4, Insightful) 02XXL clip for better odds - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:25] <exec> 08└─After the Five Eyes, after Brexit, here comes "You really can't trust our products' security, we mean it". Competitors to UK companies would like applaud, but they need to rush out to buy a rake for the windfall money. In the meantime, The Bad Guys will keep using freely and widely available encrypt...
[21:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:XXL clip for better odds - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:26] <exec> 08└─From what I recall, most of the bad guys haven't really been using encryption anyway.
[21:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:XXL clip for better odds - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:29] <exec> 08└─Those are the ones you hear about... though you're correct, there are methods people can use to communicate that are quite secure, but those are like humanoid one-time pads.
[21:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:3, Interesting) 02It was inevitable. - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:31] <exec> 08└─It was bound to happen eventually. The bigger question is what will happen next?
[21:12:32] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02Re:It was inevitable. - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:33] <exec> 08└─Abuse, corruption, political prisoners, McCarthyism 2.0, Stasi 2.0, you name it. What the hell do you THINK this kind of technology is going to lead to in the hands of people who would pass a bill like this? I really hope some enterprising freedom-loving types are working on portable EMP generators...
[21:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:It was inevitable. - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:35] <exec> 08└─Hehe, we sent OURSELVES back to the dark age. Yes on purpose! "Ok grandkids just one more time... the ball really got started rolling with a thing we called Zuckerbook..."
[21:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:1) 02Re:It was inevitable. - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:37] <exec> 08└─Guillotines would be far more appropriate.
[21:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Home-made Encryption? - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:39] <exec> 08└─How are they going to stop people writing their own encryption code? I'm hardly a genius, but even with my mediocre mathematical and programming skills, I could probably throw something together that would be at least a minor inconvenience to "them." It would be nothing like professional quality but...
[21:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Home-made Encryption? - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:41] <exec> 08└─Dude that's a great idea bro! What's your github? I want to download your code.
[21:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Home-made Encryption? - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:43] <exec> 08└─I don't think any of my home-made code is good enough to put on github :-)
[21:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Home-made Encryption? - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:46] <exec> 08└─as alluded to above, if you have a decent one time pad to encrypt with, not going to get in unless /until someone squeals... obviously not convenient, but we can't *always* have our cake and eat it, too...
[21:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Home-made Encryption? - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:48] <exec> 08└─That is what they want. Back when free encryption was in its infancy, and they could hack to their hearts content, everything was good. The problem is the open source movement, which resulted in a push for better and better software, including better encryption, being available to general public. I...
[21:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the next six years to 2020 - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:04] <exec> 08└─>the next six years to 2020 but it's current year!
[21:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02AI on its way to world dominance - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:06] <exec> 08└─One thing Science Fiction regularly gets wrong: In Science Fiction, the AI always takes control of the world through the military. The truth will be completely different: The AI will wield power through the financial markets. The financial markets are more powerful than any military of the world, an...
[21:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Parsimony dictates it - 06Machine-Learning System Spontaneously Reproduces Aspects of Human Neurology - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:16] <exec> 08└─Facebook has been paying for this research for a while. Look up the sample work they did -- I think Sylvester Stallone was the example face model. The goal was to have FB be able to automatically detect and tag people in photos that were on an angle, poorly lit, or less than symetrical (scars/jowls,...
[21:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How significant is this? - 06Machine-Learning System Spontaneously Reproduces Aspects of Human Neurology - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:17] <exec> 08└─How significant is this finding? People are really good at spotting patterns, even when none exist. Is this purely coincidence with us seeing the single similarity and not seeing the countless potential similarities which didn't happen (like finding the number 666 within pi), or is this actually sig...
[21:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:5 minutes - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe they meant to say "every five minutes" rather than "for five minutes."
[21:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:I didn't use them before this - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:43] <exec> 08└─Uber is licensed as much as any other cab company in the U.K.
[21:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Re:I didn't use them before this - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:45] <exec> 08└─I didn't know that. Good for them, but as far as I know they're still operating in a legal gray area here in the U.S. Given this increased snooping from their app, even if they were completely abiding by all U.S. regulations, I still wouldn't use them.
[21:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:I didn't use them before this - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:47] <exec> 08└─I didn't know that. Good for them, but as far as I know they're still operating in a legal gray area here in the U.S.
[21:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:54] <exec> 08└─From what I have observed with all these new "services" people are signing up to in the last decade or so pretty fucking stupid, naive and ignorant. Giving away all your personal information for very little returned in exchange for it these companies are getting your entire life history for peanuts.
[21:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:58] <exec> 08└─https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-difference-between-military-GPS-data-and-civilians-in-terms-of-accuracy [quora.com]
[21:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Eh - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:06] <exec> 08└─13 miles in 30 to 45 minutes? if you're not in the snow belt or the sweatlands, you should consider an electric-assist bike.
[21:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score:1) 02So what? - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:08] <exec> 08└─Who cares? Nobody, except a few nerds Uber won't lose many customers because of this new surveyance policy. There are advantages and no price to pay. It's a win win movement. Why should't do it? Google, facebook, amazon, apple etc have been storing and using an unbelievable amount of data about us w...
[21:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Because Words Matter - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:39] <exec> 08└─Look, the Treasury is the last place I want anti-establishment theatrics. A banker with experience works for me even if you think it's somehow hypocritical. Just look at what's going on in India right now. Last month, the idiot in charge decided, as part of some massively misguided effort to fight c...
[21:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Birds of a feather - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:41] <exec> 08└─I don't know
[21:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Because Words Matter - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:43] <exec> 08└─> Look, the Treasury is the last place I want anti-establishment theatrics. I really DGAF what you want. You are a narcissist with literally no knowledge of civics. What you want is immaterial.
[21:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:caricature - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:49] <exec> 08└─This ^ Ethics and morality now regularly take a back seat to profit, corporate rights / desires, and straight up imperial tactics such as running an oil pipeline through an area that would most likely damage the nearby Native Americans. Thankfully the Armoy Corps has stepped in, I think it would be...
[21:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reading comprehension fail. - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:52] <exec> 08└─Obama nominated 3 and got 2 republicans for his cabinet. His campaign obviously had prepared a list of potentials that weren't just loyalists ahead of the election. Trump's so ill-prepared that he's literally running his cabinet selection process like a season of the bachelor.
[21:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Reading comprehension fail. - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:55] <exec> 08└─Tear into Trump, honestly, with the force you applied to tearing into Obama and Hillary.
[21:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:WaPo throws in a tidbit - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:03] <exec> 08└─My reading on the Taiwan call is that Trump will be the playground bully, as so many of his electors wanted. He's either clueless, or telling China "I don't care about your diplomatic stuff. I'm the boss. I do what I want. Too bad if you don't like it, try to retaliate if you can". Whether he realiz...
[21:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:WaPo throws in a tidbit - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:06] <exec> 08└─My reading on the Taiwan call is that Trump will be the playground bully, as so many of his electors wanted.
[21:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:WaPo throws in a tidbit - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:08] <exec> 08└─Then you misread. The behavior of doing whatever he feels like, regardless of prior convention and sensitivities, is what I interpret as an indication that he is likely to act as a bully in international relations. He's had bully behaviors before, with journalists and some of his opponents, so I'm n...
[21:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:WaPo throws in a tidbit - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:10] <exec> 08└─The behavior of doing whatever he feels like, regardless of prior convention and sensitivities, is what I interpret as an indication that he is likely to act as a bully in international relations.
[21:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:WaPo throws in a tidbit - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:12] <exec> 08└─If you recoil because the other guy is getting bigger, are you really the big guy? Unless Trump international has significant assets in China, what's to stop President Trump from showing his allegedly-adequate manhood by pushing them around a bit? That's his promise to his electors, and never settle...
[21:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VLM SOP - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:25] <exec> 08└─You keep using that word and you don't even realize what that advertises to the world about who you are. And now you want to whine about the fact that you are arguing with an AC because you believe using the label "runaway" is some sort of moral triumph. What a petty, vapid narcissist you are. You'v...
[21:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:They're all dirtbags - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:30] <exec> 08└─I attended an anti-white power rally to counter a white power rally many years ago. In reviewing the pictures, I noticed that both sides generally wore similar counter-culture clothing. Generally surplus military fatigues with various badges.
[21:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They're all dirtbags - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:43] <exec> 08└─Well actually, SJW refers to those people who rampage for illiberal causes. Identity politics refers to broad classifications of people based upon superficial commonalities promoting division, not specific to liberals. Even some one as dense as you should be able to figure that out. I'm personally t...
[21:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:They're all dirtbags - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:58] <exec> 08└─Certainly every drop of crude oil dripped into the river will flow past two orders of magnitude more people just in the greater St Louis metro area, eventually, and all that water or crude or whatever flows past New Orleans eventually, etc.
[21:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Engineering rational please? Anyone?? - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:59] <exec> 08└─What's puzzling to me is that the current proposed crossing is where the river is ~1/2 mile wide (800 meters?). Not too far north of this, and still south of Bismarck, the river is a few hundred feet wide. So why did Dakota Access Pipeline choose this option that called for much more expensive borin...
[21:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good for them - 06Virgin Galactic Spaceship Makes First Glide Flight - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:11] <exec> 08└─So I think SpaceShipTwo has some potential to enable lower cost research which would support space-based industry.
[21:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good idea, more please - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:52] <exec> 08└─"When a toxic person can no longer control you, they will try to control how others see you" This is what I see when I see people attacking people who leak things.
[21:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legalism is No Defense - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:36] <exec> 08└─Trump University... How to defraud thousands of people behind a loophole. See, we can play this game all day long.
[21:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:50] <exec> 08└─They should do as you recommend, but people who identify as "Liberal" ought to do likewise. I live in the People's Republic of Park Slope, Brooklyn, and every neighbor, every parent at my kid's school, half my family, and many others are absolutely convinced the Klan has taken over the country. Ther...
[21:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, because Latino women, black transgendered dwarfs, or one-legged pot-smoking Californian gays tells me anything at all about the politics of said people. Except that you think they belong to a particular political class, hence identity politics. Shocker!- there are black conservatives.
[21:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:I thought we were having a discussion... - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:13] <exec> 08└─The name can be traced by my email to my email server, then to my home and website - if you cannot achieve that then there is not much I can do.
[21:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I thought we were having a discussion... - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:15] <exec> 08└─The story was submitted by one of our community who thought it was worthy of a discussion.
[21:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:I thought we were having a discussion... - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:17] <exec> 08└─No, the story was submitted by at least two that I know of. Isn't it customary to note that in the thread?
[21:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I thought we were having a discussion... - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:19] <exec> 08└─Problem being, beyond your tenuous accusations, I am far from a Trump supporter. But I can recognize obvious yellow journalism. Maybe it's a quality you could learn to cultivate?
[21:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:I thought we were having a discussion... - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:21] <exec> 08└─Didn't mean to cast any slurs on your character. But if we stick to discussing what the story is about rather than blaming the editor, submitter or commentators that you don't agree with, we should be able to get along fine. And as I live on this side of the pond - I'm going to bed now...
[21:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Expanded Genetic Code - 06Engineered Virus Has Artificial Amino Acid Allowing It to Serve as a Vaccine - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:55] <exec> 08└─My guess was wrong: The researchers did actually use a non-natural (actually, it is used by some bacteria) amino acid that would substitute multiple positions in the normal sequence (2-8 per RNA segment to help reduce the chances of reversion to the "wild" strain). The use of a non-natural amino aci...
[21:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score:2) 02Re:Tough to think of a worse fuel than hydrogen - 06 Electric Big Rig Startup Nikola Comes Up with a Surprisingly Viable Business Plan - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:59] <exec> 08└─Do they pay you by the lie, or by the word? The exhaust product of hydrogen fuel is H2O. And nothing else. Creating it produces Hydrogen and Oxygen, neither of which is released in to the atmosphere. the oxygen is captured for medical and industrial use. Generating the electricity to do it produces...
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[22:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Benevolent sexism - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:15] <exec> 08└─When the rich overwhelm the elections, it's a travesty of democracy. When women do it, it's a testament to their "can do" attitude, only to be voted out by the next election.
[22:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Benevolent sexism - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:16] <exec> 08└─You're not a scholar of history, are you?
[22:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:19] <exec> 08└─i think it was either wyoming or montana who had woman voters before becoming state, AND they made it a condition that woman could keep their vote upon entering the union ! (went to google/wikipedia to fihure out which state, but wasnt mentioned in the first 3-4 screens about womens suffrage, AND my...
[22:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:21] <exec> 08└─Full Voting Rights before 19th Amendment and before statehood Territory of Wyoming 1869 Territory of Utah 1870 Territory of Washington 1883 Territory of Montana 1887 Territory of Alaska 1913 Could vote for President prior to the 19th Amendment Illinois 1913 Nebraska 1917 Ohio 1917 Indiana 1917 North...
[22:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Refuse to sell to them. - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:40] <exec> 08└─I'll bet that if Apple, Google etc. just said "nope, sorry we're not making a custom cracked version for you" and refused sell the latest new shiny to them, that there would soon be changes to that law. Sorry. No Google products for you. Oops, no more iAnythings either. We have a few nice flip phone...
[22:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Refuse to sell to them. - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:41] <exec> 08└─The revolt would be quick.
[22:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Eh, nice buzzword - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:52] <exec> 08└─"Brazil, China, India, Mexico and Russia"
[22:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AI on its way to world dominance - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:02] <exec> 08└─The flash crash was just a birth pang.
[22:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Metric prefixes and zettabytes - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 2316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:04] <exec> 08└─Just a random thought, but what is the obsession with metric prefixes in data measurements? I know the whole system, but I assume most people's first encounter with most of these prefixes is in computer lingo, especially beyond Tera- or so. I recall as an undergrad once giving a presentation on atmo...
[22:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Metric prefixes and zettabytes - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:06] <exec> 08└─is it really clearer or easier to refer to a sextillion of something as "zetta-" rather than just saying "a sextillion of X"?
[22:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Metric prefixes and zettabytes - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:08] <exec> 08└─How bout we use 10^n instead of e.g. yotta or septillion/quadrillion? Simple is beautiful and instantly accessible.
[22:13:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02If they were honest - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 446 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:27] <exec> 08└─We do this to invade privacy. The passenger is with the Uber driver, s/he can tell the driver exactly where s/he wants to be dropped off. What if the passenger wants to be dropped off a distance away from their final destination for privacy reasons? The app should not be tracking people after it is...
[22:13:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:If they were honest - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 471 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:28] <exec> 08└─Yep. Got to agree with you. There is no Uber anywhere near me, so naturally I don't use them. But, this would make my mind up to never use them again. I don't really care very much what their reasons are - there is no good reason to track my old ass. If someone is following me a crowd, I know he mea...
[22:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:So what? - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:04] <exec> 08└─There are advantages and no price to pay.
[22:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Birds of a feather - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:37] <exec> 08└─> I'm done with this. I so, so, so fucking wish that were true. But we all know you'll just come back to spout your ignorance as fact in the very next story. Probably even in other comments on this story.
[22:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reading comprehension fail. - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:48] <exec> 08└─Who should (or could) he even appoint at all? Dems hate his guts. Most republicans don't like him. Whos left? The people who can be paid to do as they're told.
[22:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Reading comprehension fail. - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:49] <exec> 08└─This is the "double standard" that liberals have been complaining about all election. Nobody listened, I guess because they were tired of hearing that feminist message. Of course the real reason it works this way is because while Clinton spent her time proving her innocence to Congressional witch hu...
[22:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good for them - 06Virgin Galactic Spaceship Makes First Glide Flight - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:58] <exec> 08└─but does the work being done here have any potential applications to the "real" space industry?
[22:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:What was the passenger count? - 06Virgin Galactic Spaceship Makes First Glide Flight - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:02] <exec> 08└─That was quite unwarranted. You should have asked yourself whether it can still be considered a virgin, after that blow-job.
[22:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good idea, more please - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:35] <exec> 08└─What is the difference between a leaker and a whistleblower?
[22:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:59] <exec> 08└─Somebody made a typo on the internet. How will the world continue to spin.
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[23:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another take - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:17] <exec> 08└─Here [sciencemag.org] is what Science had to say about it a month ago from a linguistic standpoint.
[23:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Adblock unfriendly? - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:18] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? [github.com]
[23:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Adblock unfriendly? - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:20] <exec> 08└─Well, it's NoScript unfriendly, so I don't actually care about how it deals with AdBlock …
[23:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Benevolent sexism - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:32] <exec> 08└─When the rich overwhelm the elections, it's a travesty of democracy. Yeah, because the rich don't overwhelm elections by actually voting.
[23:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benevolent sexism - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:34] <exec> 08└─Weren't you whining previously about most candidates being rich white males?
[23:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Benevolent sexism - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:36] <exec> 08└─No, I wasn't.
[23:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benevolent sexism - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:38] <exec> 08└─You are equating money in politics with actual voters. I guess that just fits your butthurt narrative of "feminism is unfair woe is me the white male". People voting == democracy in action. Money buying political favors and manipulating election == corruption. It just fits so well with the modern "c...
[23:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benevolent sexism - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:40] <exec> 08└─The major flaw in your analysis (of many I can tell you!) is assuming when people vote a millionaire into office, they must be simpletons, unable to rightly ascertain your (more) correct point of view, but somehow when women are voted into office, it shows the sage nature of the common (wo)man. Sorr...
[23:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:45] <exec> 08└─Actually, as the standard was only landowners could vote; there were women landowners. And that was as far back as 1776. What people are really referring to is universal women's suffrage, which happened in 1919. Universal male suffrage (not tied to conscription) hasn't really happened yet.
[23:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:47] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that felons are third-rate citizens for life (because we don't believe in rehabilitation), so there is no hope for "universal" any time soon.
[23:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:49] <exec> 08└─Which is why I stated mostly. Failing to register with Selective Service is a felony, which in most states disqualifies you from voting.
[23:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The regressive left doesn't get it. - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:51] <exec> 08└─We're not going to jump in the time machine with you and set the dial for 100 ybp when women ruled over men.
[23:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The regressive left doesn't get it. - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:53] <exec> 08└─That happened too long ago for the events to be relevant today
[23:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:The regressive left doesn't get it. - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:55] <exec> 08└─The stupid right doesn't get it. You're stupid, stop it.
[23:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nine to Five from Dolly Parton - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:57] <exec> 08└─will be the other flick on the twin bill for girls' night out.
[23:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That word - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:59] <exec> 08└─“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Can we please stop misusing the term "hack"?!?
[23:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That word - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:02] <exec> 08└─But how else can they make themselves sound relevant? Just a terrible title, women campaigned for themselves, got enough women out to vote, and won. Democracy in action, no hacking, no clever tricks, just human beings casting their votes.
[23:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Comment bait garbage - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:05] <exec> 08└─Just a story about a group of voters motivating enough people to win. Great for a political history or gender studies class, terrible for SN commentary. Just fodder for conservative trolls.
[23:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Home-made Encryption? - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:22] <exec> 08└─github contains good code? All of it?
[23:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Home-made Encryption? - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:26] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to write a dumbed-down generator of random 2048-bit primes. You don't need much of an algorithm to be safe with a huge key, shared out-of-band.
[23:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Home-made Encryption? - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, home-made encryption. But with the continuation of government onslaught, how long do you think home-made will keep working? People can be made afraid to do certain things and over time, the government will win. All your data (private and public) will be kept in Tel-Aviv forever. If there is no...
[23:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Home-made Encryption? - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:30] <exec> 08└─How are they going to stop people writing their own encryption code? I'm hardly a genius, but even with my mediocre mathematical and programming skills, I could probably throw something together that would be at least a minor inconvenience to "them." It would be nothing like professional quality but...
[23:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Little practical effect - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 1415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:34] <exec> 08└─The law will only really affect providers of services who are trying to sell secure data storage, or incorporate secure data into their product. Most Terms & Conditions for provision of services will already have a 'law enforcement' exception, and what this new law does is make it clear that if the...
[23:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:AI on its way to world dominance - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:55] <exec> 08└─Is that a Lawnmower Man reference? You know with the resurgence of VR, we are about due a crappy remake of that crappy film.
[23:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:AI on its way to world dominance - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:56] <exec> 08└─The truth will be completely different: The AI will wield power through the financial markets. The financial markets are more powerful than any military of the world, and while taking power through the military will be blatantly obvious, taking power through the financial markets can be covert until...
[23:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Metric prefixes and zettabytes - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:01] <exec> 08└─How bout we use 10^n instead of e.g. yotta or septillion/quadrillion?
[23:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Metric prefixes and zettabytes - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:04] <exec> 08└─Interesting how much of the Wikipedia discussion of the labeling of large numbers is about currency names that came from hyperinflation episodes.
[23:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Metric prefixes and zettabytes - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:06] <exec> 08└─> what is the obsession with metric prefixes in data measurements? Interesting question. My instinctive (cynical) reaction is to blame the marketing departments at Seagate / Kingston et al perpetually trying to befuddle consumers with ever more impressive big numbers and buzzwords.
[23:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If they were honest - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:35] <exec> 08└─Or if you're an activist, a journalist, a lawyer challenging the government, a dissident, someone's political opponent, a whistleblower, or someone else who plays a critical role in democracy. Do you think it's only the 'bad guys' who should be worried about tracking?
[23:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:If they were honest - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:38] <exec> 08└─People shouldn't be giving their names to Uber to begin with. The service is garbage because you can't anonymously pay with cash.
[23:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Oh, man, they're on to me... - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:40] <exec> 08└─How many times have I been creeped out by a cab driver and told them to drop me off somewhere a block or two away from my final destination? More than twice, at least. I live down a long, private, shared driveway - if I'm asking you to drop me at the main road it's because I don't want you seeing my...
[23:14:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedGreen [888] 02Re:Bullshit - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 479 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:53] <exec> 08└─"Just how stupid, naïve, ignorant do they think we are?" From what I have observed with all these new "services" people are signing up to in the last decade or so pretty fucking stupid, naive and ignorant. Giving away all your personal information for very little returned in exchange for it these c...
[23:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:02] <exec> 08└─Off topic, but the reason GLONASS is being included everywhere because Russia has a 25% tariff on any GPS device not including GLONASS. Including vehicles.
[23:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eh - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:07] <exec> 08└─Only 20 Km? I do a similar trip every day by bus. Currently that is $2.50 each way or about $5 a day depending on peak vs offpeak price. I could maybe bike it but the traffic is known to be literally murder. Motorbike or scooter is probably the best option. However, they want a tram now which will c...
[23:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mainframe Bloke [1665] (Score:1) 02Re:So what? - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:11] <exec> 08└─Well said, MD. Re the original concept, I find it creepy. Think about it - they can track you at any time, effectively all the time, only limited by the space for storing the tracking data. "Information wants to be free", and freeing that information does not bode well for the subjects. It could end...
[23:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Because Words Matter - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:47] <exec> 08└─The only problem they had is that they couldn't print the new notes fast enough. All the problems were based on that. Of course all the corrupt rich with rooms full of cash are going to run crying to the media and make a big fuss. Thats exactly the target.
[23:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:WaPo throws in a tidbit - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:10] <exec> 08└─We'll see when he takes office.
[23:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:They're all dirtbags - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:42] <exec> 08└─> beyond all reason and taste to self-destruct, especially after Trump's election This bit I can agree with - Trump's election was certainly beyond all reason and taste.
[23:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Conflict of Interests all over - 06Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Millions in Taxes Thanks to a Little-Known Law - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:49] <exec> 08└─Which is bullshit. Remind me, which side of the house is it that always points to their multi-ethnic communities when someone dares to suggest that what works in Scandinavia might work in America? "But but but we have so many black people here..." Is it the left and the "identity politicians" compla...
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