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[00:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We don't - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:20] <exec> 08└─Now "Why do we all use bad layouts of leyboards?" is a better question.
[00:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More Millential Nonsense - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:21] <exec> 08└─It has been proven that, regardless of layout, experience typists will perform the same. Querty, Dvorak, whatever, it doesn't matter.
[00:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02These things require a generational change - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:24] <exec> 08└─like rights for gays, legalized pot, etc. Some whiz kid entrepreneur will mandate Dvorak or some other keyboard layout for his product that is pitched to Gen Z. And all the kids will see it as a way of keeping their Millenial parents off their gear.
[00:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Because everyone uses one - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:26] <exec> 08└─I first heard of this in the 70s when I had a TRS-80. Got a program to rejigger my keyboard to Dvorak, dunno if it made me faster or not as I was still learning how to type (first program I bought with that TRS-80? Typing Tutor). But at work I had a keyboard I couldn't rejigger. So now I've got 2 la...
[00:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The Age of Writing - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:28] <exec> 08└─these days so many of us communicate in writing. Great things are written, and horrible abominations as well. Some day it will all come to an end, when petabyte drives are sold in gumball machines and we all communicate with holograms, like Princess Leia did with R2D2 in Star Wars.
[00:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Because we're used to it - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:30] <exec> 08└─And relearning unnecessary things is a waste of irreplacable time.
[00:37:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02Reverse assumptions - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 640 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:41] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be simply a lot easier to assume that any and all story on that media is false? The gullibility of people eating up stories is simply amazing. Like there is no reality show like farcebooks reality. It is a propaganda tool of large scale. And, with all propaganda, you need to assume it t...
[00:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reverse assumptions - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:43] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that anyone is on Facebook [stallman.org] to begin with. It's not just a personal decision, because Facebook even collects information on people who don't even have accounts. People should not be promoting such an unethical service.
[00:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:As Bruce Schneier says... - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:51] <exec> 08└─My understanding of even the summary is it won't be made to work that way. Ordinary people can report news links they think might be fake but the system only uses that as one input, perhaps as a mark for further scrutiny by professional fact checkers before something gets flagged as possibly false....
[00:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Funny) 02SJWs Always Double Down - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:53] <exec> 08└─So the major purveyors of Fake News, in a project to be underwritten by a Nazi collaborator, is going to be given the power to banish BadThink on FakeBook. And people still wonder why we got Trump. Every day we see another confirmation that America made the correct choice as the Left continues to de...
[00:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWs Always Double Down - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:55] <exec> 08└─I tell you it's those jackbooted Federal agents, on order from the libs reading the New York Times while sipping Chardonnay while accepting cash from George Soros, breaking down our doors to confiscate our guns!
[00:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:51] <exec> 08└─I think the number one cause of seizures is being epileptic. I've met a number of epileptics, and no two of them seem to have the same symptoms, signs of problems, or whatever. Met one woman who knew when a seizure was coming, she would sit down, and focus her mind on getting through it. I guess it...
[00:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:Half the Story, as usual - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:57] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the article and starting this discussion. We understand the possibilities for filtering, and I'm convinced there will turn out to be several SN'ers who know a thing or two about the limitations of visual processing.
[00:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:01] <exec> 08└─Support it? Well, yeah, I do. But, I've never bothered to sign up for it, or check into it, or whatever. Maybe I should . . . .
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[01:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More Millential Nonsense - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:25] <exec> 08└─What is easier on the hands, thought?
[01:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:These things require a generational change - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:27] <exec> 08└─> Some whiz kid entrepreneur will mandate Dvorak or some other keyboard layout for his product that is pitched to Gen Z. More like in a generation 99% of users won't even use a keyboard. It will be voice or predictive thumbing on a phone.
[01:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Because everyone uses one - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:31] <exec> 08└─Heh. The fingers know it all, that's for sure. If, for some reason, I actually LOOK AT my keyboard, I get lost. The only reason to ever look down, is to find the home position. Found home, look away quick before you screw it up!! Had one of the guys at work walk up to me one day. He's from Mexico, a...
[01:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:The Age of Writing - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:34] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. The written word will never die.
[01:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Just because! - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:37] <exec> 08└─And, if you don't like that answer, ask your father when he gets home!
[01:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Lack of something better - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 1948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:39] <exec> 08└─Why? There isn't anything better as far as I know. There needs to be, or at least it really helps to have, a standard. As far as I know switching to some other layout provides minor improvements if any. From a personal perspective if I sat infront of a non-QWERTY keyboard my typing speed would plumm...
[01:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Fake news ? You mean Fox news ? - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why this was modded flamebait, it is a serious issue. Modern large-media news sources may be able to claim that the words they say are factually true, but the pictures they paint with those words are usually so slanted, out of context, sensationalized, and incomplete, they often might a...
[01:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Bruce Schneier says... - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:00] <exec> 08└─However, many people agree that Wikipedia is a very useful service.
[01:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A war on alternative viewpoints - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:06] <exec> 08└─David Icke: The 'Fake News' Hoax - The System is Desperate [youtube.com] It is a war on alternative views and alternative media. Another tool for suppression. Just say no to it. Say no to MSM and Facebook. System's take: "It is not approved by the Ministry of Truth, so it must be fake and must be su...
[01:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02(((Israeli))) security experts have discovered - 06Researchers Find Fresh Fodder for IoT Attack Cannons - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:15] <exec> 08└─Israeli security experts have discovered trivially exploitable weaknesses in nearly a half-million white-labeled
[01:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Because it's proprietary - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:30] <exec> 08└─there are already proprietary tests out there [...] It wouldn't be hard for a plug in to run all video through such a test before playing it
[01:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hate - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:59] <exec> 08└─Donald? Try The O.. HE is the one that split this country in 2 and brought back hate.
[01:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Half the Story, as usual - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:39:13] <exec> 08└─That's not what I meant, but that is indeed also interesting! I just figured there would be some SN'ers who are into computer vision or video processing (someone who worked on Youtube's content-id system? you never know... ;-). I don't know a lot about video encodings, so I don't know if you (basica...
[01:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:more left buttcheekhurt - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:38] <exec> 08└─Actually, the opposite is true. If you don't have any antipathy toward the SJW's, then you are unqualified - for anything.
[01:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:How far is the closest black hole? - 06Black Hole Rips Star Apart, Creating Biggest Blast Ever Seen - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:45] <exec> 08└─So, just as we figure out how to control asteroids from taking us out...
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[02:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NHST - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:21] <exec> 08└─Really, you will think I am kidding, but all this stuff needs an "rationale" these days to get through the door. NHST is how it is provided currently, maybe they will turn to something else when we finally stop allowing pseudoscience to guide public policy, but for now we should point the finger at...
[02:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NHST - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:22] <exec> 08└─You're not kidding? OK, so are you the Flat Earth AC, or the Electric Universe AC? I'll bet that they laughed at the Academy when you presented your findings on the NHST, didn't they?
[02:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Neoliberal Policies - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:25] <exec> 08└─The trend started in the 70s. Right when it became de riguer to cut back on public investment in all areas of society - research, health, education, etc. We were bamboozled into thinking that there was no place for the government in society. That leaving it up to the market would be better. Instead...
[02:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Cherry picking? - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:27] <exec> 08└─As far as education costs go, there is a degree of cherry picking. As the graph on this page [usgovernmentspending.com] shows, 1980, while not being the lowest point is clearly in a part of a dip. Education spending as percentage of GDP was higher around 1970. Furthermore, it dropped again after 201...
[02:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Cherry picking? - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:29] <exec> 08└─I sincerely hope that serious consideration was given to demographics: population age curves. So much is dependent on the relationship of infrastructure to population, it explains many dips and bumps in these kinds of analyses.
[02:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02pat ourselves on the back? - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:31] <exec> 08└─According to the big report linked from the summary, the tech sector is more than doing its job of increasing real productivity. It's those profiteers in healthcare (a royal mess), housing (real estate speculation, developers gone mad?) and education (check college admin salaries) that are keeping A...
[02:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Age of Writing - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:49] <exec> 08└─Who needs holograms, 2D videos seem to be enough for a disturbingly large minority of the population to abandon the written word to an alarming degree. It's not that I mind videos as such, for entertainment or for information that actually has a major visual component, but so many things that would...
[02:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Blame Microsoft - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:54] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing it is because Microsoft has not yet mined all those telemetry metrics they are collecting, thrown the numbers to the team that developed the MS-Office ribbon and Metro, come out with a new keyboard "standard" that is completely useless garbage, and then cry more about how phones are kil...
[02:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Because it’s Good Enough™ - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:56] <exec> 08└─The QWERTY layout may have been the optimal one that compromised between typing speed and the mechanical constraints of early typewriters, but for computer keyboards where these mechanical constraints are absent, the benefits of using an alternative layout seem to be marginal at best. The US Governm...
[02:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reverse assumptions - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:10] <exec> 08└─Like I said, techno-hermit elitism. It really doesn't matter what platform people use, these problems will happen with all of them because the problem is people. Traditional journalism had a process for dealing with it - editorial discretion, multiple sources, fact-checkers, retractions, etc. The ne...
[02:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Reverse assumptions - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:12] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be simply a lot easier to assume that any and all story on that media is false?
[02:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Fake news ? You mean Fox news ? - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:16] <exec> 08└─So where does one draw the line?
[02:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Bruce Schneier says... - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:25] <exec> 08└─> How far can we really trust these professional fact checkers? Make your decision based on how they handle their mistakes. Do they double-down and pretend everything is fine? Or do they make a public retraction? If the later, then that's about as good as you can reasonably expect.
[02:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:SJWs Always Double Down - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:29] <exec> 08└─Who the hell modded this drivel by jmorris up as "Insightful", of all things? I think someone really should step forward to explain this.
[02:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:A war on alternative viewpoints - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:33] <exec> 08└─David Icke AND jmorris, all on SoylentNews in the same thread? Truly, these are the signs of the apocalypse. Either that, or kurenai has gone straight and hell has frozen over and Donald Trump got elected President of the United States. You see, it is actually lizard people all the way down! jmorris...
[02:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:You act like America didn't before? - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:22] <exec> 08└─They have plenty of power to punch someone in the face, or rape them, or both. This whole doesn't have power so can't be racist nonsense is just an obscene excuse for people to be racist, as long as they are not white.
[02:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:Half the Story, as usual - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:40] <exec> 08└─Thank you again. I've done some programming here and there, and in college (BSEE) did some interesting image processing. One could create a video in which the frames alternate light and dark areas- flickering- but that each frame has the same average brightness, so you could not detect the flickerin...
[02:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meh - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:40:40] <exec> 08└─Idiots who still think the issue is win vs. lose shitposting nonstop - news not needed we see it every day.
[02:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:40:55] <exec> 08└─The Democrats have a history of ignoring what the common people want
[02:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Even Remotely True - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:40:58] <exec> 08└─Sanders didn't let that spec of dirt stop him from whole heartedly endorsing Clinton. If he thought she wasn't legitimate he could have just done dark and said nothing.
[02:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:02] <exec> 08└─I guess I'll get my questions ready about comparing the level of organization in the Reich to the Trump administration. I could start with this [dailymail.co.uk].
[02:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:more left buttcheekhurt - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:08] <exec> 08└─SJW: Stop being such dicks to people! Systemic cultural racism is a problem you inconsiderate fuck face. Con: Waah waaah people are insulting us and pointing out major cultural issues, waah waaah. They want to change merry christmas to happy holidays waah waaah my sacred bullshit. SJW: Waah waaah pe...
[02:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:author of visionary science fiction novels - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:20] <exec> 08└─Seeing as how Christianity has always been about embrace, extend, extinguish this is a very real possible dystopian future. There have been many countries throughout history that supported religious freedom, however there are a much greater number that mandated which religious were acceptable. It is...
[02:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Lawyers do have integrity - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:28] <exec> 08└─Some good replies, but no one admits to the unfair characterization of millions of professionals. I'm willing to concede that the practice of arguing a specific side of a case, even when you may disagree, tends to make lawyers morally flexible compared to the average person. Also, every profession h...
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[03:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:25] <exec> 08└─I take the time to educate myself and speak out, based on reason, not angry ignorance, and not on smugness, numerology, and appeals to the authority Lord Keynes. There is a lot of irony in making all those insults and then turning around and holding up the Lord Mises as an authority.
[03:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, you mean "libertarian economics"! More of a dream than a science. Totally impervious to data, experimental testing, or even logic. In fact, it is indeed one of the leading candidates for the dark matter we seem to be missing in the universe. Social Darwinism:: Social Miserism? It's not the fau...
[03:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not a science - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:29] <exec> 08└─If it were a science it would follow actual scientific method. It's at best a cargo cult and mostly a vehicle for opinions. As far as trends go, big money backs an opinion for a while until enough get burned then they switch horses. It's all a scam. If you missed the last n decades and still need a...
[03:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NHST - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:39] <exec> 08└─Nope, they didn't use more than the most basic math or logic there so just assumed it was wrong somehow and went back to their ways.
[03:37:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Neoliberal Policies - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 649 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:41] <exec> 08└─The trend started in the 70s. Right when it became de riguer to cut back on public investment in all areas of society - research, health, education, etc. We were bamboozled into thinking that there was no place for the government in society. That leaving it up to the market would be better. Instead...
[03:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neoliberal Policies - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:43] <exec> 08└─You want liberal policies but slam liberals for theirs not being followed. Getting what you want, starts with making up your mind.
[03:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score:2) 02Re:Neoliberal Policies - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:49] <exec> 08└─In addition, service has inherently lower rates of productivity growth than manufacturing Switch to service economy was the second nail in the coffin.
[03:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:pat ourselves on the back? - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:54] <exec> 08└─Notice how most of all those sectors are part of the service economy. That's actually to be expected. As productivity increases, it gets cheaper to do the same thing. So more of the money spent in the economy shifts to the less efficient sectors because it still costs about the same to get the same...
[03:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Maybe not productivity... - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 1488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe economic productivity (whatever that is) isn't increasing in proportion to costs, but I certainly do see improvements in education and housing since the 1970s. Bigger houses, fancier houses, houses with more luxury and frankly more protection from the elements, unless you want to talk about st...
[03:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02office infrastructure - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:59] <exec> 08└─From the article, I'm afraid they need to start with getting semi-modern IT infrastructure. Either they are using all-caps terminals from the 1960s, or they lack basic keyboard maintenance -- the CapsLock key is stuck.
[03:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CONSUMERS. - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:10] <exec> 08└─Users, like developers will likely continue using keyboards for the forseeable future because they provide an average performance level well above most users speaking or non-tactile touch performance, and unlike either of those options keyboards for the most part continue to operate efficiently rega...
[03:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02Re:Because it’s Good Enough™ - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:22] <exec> 08└─Actually, QWERTY is a pretty good layout: keys commonly used consecutively tend to not be placed together, thus they don't interfere with each other. The original reason for that, jamming mechanical levers, no longer applies, but the design still works.
[03:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reverse assumptions - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:39] <exec> 08└─> In fact, my sense is that fact shaming these people will just cause them to dig in their heels even more. That's true and its been visibly played out over the last month or so of public hand-wringing about fake news. Trumpkins have taken to labeling any reporting they dislike, no matter how accura...
[03:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news ? You mean Fox news ? - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:44] <exec> 08└─So where does one draw the line?
[03:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWs Always Double Down - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:56] <exec> 08└─Oh fuck! An anonymous twat says so, therefore it must be true!
[03:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Meta! - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:57] <exec> 08└─Meta! Very, very meta!
[03:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A war on alternative viewpoints - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:02] <exec> 08└─> It is a war on alternative views and alternative media. Sorry, but conspiracy theorists are not "alternative media" they are bullshit media. Alternative media is stuff like DemocracyNow and Pacifica Radio. They have an alternative viewpoint but they still have journalist standards. Conspiracy theo...
[03:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fake News isn't Just a Western Problem - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:04] <exec> 08└─Fake news has been screwing shit up in the 3rd world for years. It has messed with elections in the phillipines and indonesia, it might even have played a part of scuppering the peace deal with the fark in colombia. Facebook needs to partner with fact-checkers all around the world, not just the engl...
[03:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trivial solution - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:25] <exec> 08└─"While we're at it, could we make a plugin that filters out things on the internet made by dumb people? " Easily. If the byte received is greater than the value 0, move it to device null.
[03:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't point to Wired articles - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:40:53] <exec> 08└─After you read a screen/page of the article, do a page-down and when the block comes up, close the tab. Come back to Soylent and open the wired link again. It will open to the screen that you paged-down to
[03:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Even Remotely True - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:41:33] <exec> 08└─That's a stretch. You are arguing that sanders believes clinton to be illegitimate but not illegitimate enough to be disqualified. Well. Even if that's true, then for all practical purposes he believes her to be legitimate. If a utilitarian argument is good enough for Sanders himself then its good e...
[03:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:more left buttcheekhurt - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:41:45] <exec> 08└─> If you don't have any antipathy toward the SJW's, then you are unqualified - for anything. Then what does that make you? Because you clearly have a raging hard-on for SJWs. Over half your posts are about SJWs. They are obviously all you can think about. Well, them and the geys and the muzzies. But...
[03:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02invisible idiot - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:09] <exec> 08└─As one of the elderly folks on these here interwebs, I'm constantly entertained by how old news becomes new again. Back in the 1970s, IBM produced a translate computer (yes, a refrigerator sized dedicated machine) to convert English to Chinese and vice versa. When the CEO arrived to test it. he ente...
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[04:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:17] <exec> 08└─Oh, you mean "Keynesian economics"! More of a dream than a science. Totally impervious to data, experimental testing, or even logic. In fact, it is indeed one of the leading candidates for the dark matter we seem to be missing in the universe. Social Darwinism:: Social socialism? It's not the fault...
[04:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a science - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:20] <exec> 08└─If you missed the last n decades and still need a reminder, just listen to the blather from the awardees of the Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne. Seriously, read their incoherent award speeches. It's just a bunch of cargo-culting mixed with some money and wishfu...
[04:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a science - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:22] <exec> 08└─That is "von Mises" to you, you non-Aryan! Trump rules! Hail victroy! White sumprezemy! (Seriously, Austrian Circle, dude! Look it up. )
[04:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about "Economics in One Lesson" - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:24] <exec> 08└─Kinda puzzled that nobody has posted that talk radio fave as the solution to the entire field of economics.
[04:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Maybe read all the way to the bottm of the summary - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:42] <exec> 08└─Despite higher rents, the median size of rental units has declined about a fifth since 1980. Scores on standardized tests have remained roughly stable since the early 1970s.
[04:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Infinite growth is not possible - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:44] <exec> 08└─Are we talking about perpetual growth and the infinite growth of growth? That's impossible. Maybe we're talking about the status quo slipping and things not having the same level as earlier? That's something to be concerned about.
[04:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Because everyone uses one - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:00] <exec> 08└─Societal inertia is a bitch. Autocad lets you fully customize their interface, so when I did my first big project on it, I did - took my most common commands down from 3 steps to 1, felt like I knew what I was doing, and then.... after about two months of "learning Autocad," I opened my drawings on...
[04:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TYPEWRITER - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:11] <exec> 08└─"In fact, the Qwerty layout was concocted to prevent keys from jamming " Nope. It was created so that salesmen could demonstrate the typing word "TYPEWRITER" easily. They were all placed on the same row so that the salesmen without typing skills could demonstrate typing TYPEWRITER quickly, creating...
[04:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score:1) 02Hunt and peck... - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:12] <exec> 08└─Since I never learned to type - I am the master of the "hunt and peck" - I don't care where the keys are.
[04:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:SJWs Always Double Down - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:47] <exec> 08└─An anonymous twat says so, therefore it must be true!
[04:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You act like America didn't before? - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:42] <exec> 08└─Really? Lol.
[04:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What is the problem with being racist? - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:44] <exec> 08└─Oh please. What is the problem with being racist? Really. Its like the n-word for white people. But so what if someone is racist? Do you think we are going to magically eliminate individuals' prejudices? You might as well believe that one day we can eliminate being a jerk. The only thing that makes...
[04:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:05] <exec> 08└─Wow Get a real life. That's the best you got? Yeah, I'm all for fucking with everyone. SHEEIT. If you CAN go to the beer store, lift a few two-fours of beer and spend your weekend drinking and ignoring your house, property AND kids, then yes.... Yes you can fecking well work for that fecking cheq...
[04:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Even Remotely True - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:16] <exec> 08└─I watched Sanders "endorse" Clinton. Never have I seen anyone look so much like someone had a gun to his head.
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[05:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Troll) 02Be postive - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 1641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:09] <exec> 08└─Positivity gets a bad rep on this site. False or true, positive results are a good thing. Governments adopting new technologies is always a work in progress. This reminds me of something I read recently: One day, the chief of the Isolated Earth people was hunting in the forest. He was also hunting f...
[05:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Be postive - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:11] <exec> 08└─> Governments adopting new technologies is always a work in progress. A 93% error rate is not a work in progress. Its a damn crime. People's lives were ruined by this. The kind of person who most needs unemployment is in the kind of person least able to fight for it and even more importantly, least...
[05:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Be postive - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's atrocious. I decided to try being positive for a while though, so bear with me as I learn how.
[05:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyder [4525] (Score:2) 02Working as intended - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:15] <exec> 08└─My guess is it's working as intended. It kept people from receiving money they were entitled and also generated future revenue by issuing them fines. It kept the yearly cost down while raising money via fines. Then we have this: "The findings come as Michigan’s Republican-led legislature passed...
[05:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Ask a Wiccan - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:28] <exec> 08└─Economics has never been real science. It's always been nothing more than political agendas dressed as pseudo-science decorated with shoddy maths. Parapsychology is currently more rigorous than Economics. I'm not joking. And I say this as maybe the only reader of SoylentNews that has actually attend...
[05:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Infinite growth is not possible - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:50] <exec> 08└─02. WHY IS GROWTH DOWN? They're not actually talking about a decline, just a decline in the rate of increase.
[05:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh look... - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:39] <exec> 08└─> Poynter is financed by George Soros I'm pretty sure you are financed by George Soros. After all, you are an obvious plant by the globalists to discredit the anti-immigration crowd.
[05:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02B.O.'s gasoline contribution - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:39:53] <exec> 08└─Stoking of 'identity politics' by Barack H. Obama: "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon." [youtube.com] White police officer arresting black burglary suspect cum noncooperative professor "acted stupidly" [telegraph.co.uk] Forced cessation of prosecution of voter intimidation by members of New...
[05:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:more left buttcheekhurt - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:28] <exec> 08└─She was an acquaintance of a friend of mine, and evidently was very gracious to my socially-inept friend, as he always spoke very highly of her. I've read a couple of her early books -- I remember them as well written but a little heavy on the social commentary, and I wasn't really interested in rea...
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[06:37:23] <exec> 08└─A 93% error rate is not a work in progress. Its a damn crime. People's lives were ruined by this. Just remember which party did this the next time you vote.
[06:37:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nyder [4525] 02Working as intended - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 655 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:25] <exec> 08└─My guess is it's working as intended. It kept people from receiving money they were entitled and also generated future revenue by issuing them fines. It kept the yearly cost down while raising money via fines. Then we have this: "The findings come as Michigan’s Republican-led legislature passed...
[06:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Question that the summary didn't cover - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:27] <exec> 08└─The article didn't bring it up either: So 90% of unemployment cases, the person making the claim was denied. What was the result? Either A) Michigan has an enormous volume of homeless, jobless people wandering the streets, or B) most of them went and got jobs. If it's the latter, I would consider th...
[06:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Question that the summary didn't cover - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:29] <exec> 08└─It wasn't so much as claims were denied but rather the system issued random fines to folks saying they've been paid claims they don't deserve but in reality none of those folks actually submitted any claims much less got paid. Imagine if you got a fine in your mailbox on Christmas eve saying you owe...
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[06:37:31] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, society is still functioning as intended when shameless self-promoting socialites can use the gift of the gab to pull themselves out of homelessness and get jobs. [soylentnews.org]
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[06:37:33] <exec> 08└─> If it's the latter, I would consider this a positive step in the right direction, not a problem. That's because you are a selfish prick. State unemployment insurance is earned by employees while employed. Its taken out of their paycheck. Being denied unemployment benefits when you are legitimately...
[06:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"code becomes law" - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:35] <exec> 08└─But but but but but but, nerds have been saying forever that we should replace all the lawyers with computers. Wait, does this mean that Judge Joseph "I AM THE LAW" Dredd was not supposed to be a role model? Now I don't know what to believe!
[06:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about "Economics in One Lesson" - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:49] <exec> 08└─> Kinda puzzled that nobody has posted that talk radio fave Probably because most people here aren't stupid enough to listen to talk radio. But wait long enough and maybe buzzard, VLM, runaway, etc will show up and tell us all about it.
[06:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the textbooks are pushing politics - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:51] <exec> 08└─The textbook used by about 95% of AP teachers (seriously -- mostly due to chapter size and lack of non-required material) is far-left liberal, by Paul Robin Krugman. Krugman writes for the New York Times -- that should tell you enough. In college I got "Economics: Private and Public Choice" by Gwart...
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[06:38:35] <exec> 08└─Another thing I'm curious about is the moving of Caps Lock and Ctrl. Ctrl used to be where Caps Lock was. So they didn't change QWERTY but someone certainly changed some stuff. But why move Caps Lock to such a prominent and accessible position? Most people in the world mainly use Caps Lock by mistak...
[06:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Jabberwocky - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:42] <exec> 08└─Leave my qwertybabywocky alone! It's enough that I had to learn layouts for three languages. By now, I probably couldn't care less if I'm writing at 80WPM or 120. Now a neural interface on the other hand...
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[07:37:13] <exec> 08└─It's just to satisfy muslims and liberals in this country, and numerous muslims abroad. If they actually intend to participate in un-American activities, we'll just use the force of law to make them serve their country. We can start by enforcing numerous existing laws, including anti-trust. The ulti...
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[07:37:14] <exec> 08└─> It's just to satisfy muslims and liberals in this country, and numerous muslims abroad. Because only muslims and liberals care about the constitution, american values and american exceptionalism. > The ultimate tool is eminent domain. The ultimate tool is publicity. Going on the record opposing th...
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[07:37:16] <exec> 08└─This is just a bunch of tech companies opposing something Trump has already discarded or will rework into No-Fly 3.11 for Death Squads with no opposition from these same companies. Wake me up when these companies refuse to do any kind of work for NSA, DHS, CIA, FBI, DNI.
[07:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uber Trump & Friends - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:18] <exec> 08└─But they'll make a list of Mexicans, right? And conscript every Mexican to buid a wall.
[07:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Got one right 'cher! - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:20] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956, 1234 Redneck Way, Texasarkansas, Arcnemisissaw. Definitely been radicalized, claims prior military service and possessions firearms and farming type chemicals. And, batshit crazy as evidenced by massive and prolong posting on radical websites like SoylentNews and gthe comments section o...
[07:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02already exists - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:23] <exec> 08└─The No-Fly list and other lists already exist. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, IBM will build empty lists, and career bureaucrats will fill them with Muslims if desired. IBM will sell a copy of Watson to put on a few million cores. Govt. to Watson: "Can you find the mutants? I mean Muslims. All the Mus...
[07:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Was it a deliberate holocaust? - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:25] <exec> 08└─Topic: Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims
[07:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:3, Informative) 02Mission accomplished. - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:37] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Attorneys representing claimants have said that many refuse to ever apply for unemployment benefits again.
[07:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lack of follow-up - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:43] <exec> 08└─Before somebody gets accused of fraud, a human should review the evidence. Taking the bot's word for it is stupid, just like the automated DMCA take-downs used by lazy and greedy corporations.
[07:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:54] <exec> 08└─Burn, you AC heretic! Burn in the fires of your own ignorance! If you dare defend libertarian economics, mountains of retribution and bad karma, and bad money supplies, will fall upon your head! But seriously, again, what do you think hell really is? Sartre was famous for saying "Hell is other peop...
[07:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:55] <exec> 08└─Checked the link, it is some pseudointellectual waste of time I was forced to read in school... why not provide topical links in stead of something like the bible that can be interpreted to mean anything?
[07:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Ask a Wiccan - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:03] <exec> 08└─And I say this as maybe the only reader of SoylentNews that has actually attended a lecture by Milton Friedman.
[07:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Ask a Wiccan - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:05] <exec> 08└─And where is Milton buried? And why would anyone attend one of his lectures, unless extra credit was involved? I once attended a lecture by Nerō Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, but he was still full of it.
[07:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:More Millential Nonsense - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, thought is easier on the hands, as it doesn't involve them at all. However we don't have the technology to convert thought into text directly. The ordering of the keys on the keyboard doesn't really make much difference on the hands, as the unnatural position of the hands on the keyboard is dic...
[07:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:More Millential Nonsense - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:39] <exec> 08└─Which makes me wonder why we have the same old qwerty stories popping up like clockwork ever two years? Its like See Windmill - Tilt at Windmill, lets dredge up the same old stories about jamming typewriters (these too were largely false), and trot them out again. I'd wager None of these stories are...
[07:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No need. - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:39:10] <exec> 08└─Doesn't work when the majority are ignorant or incompetent when it comes to fake news. And that's definitely the case.
[07:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:B.O.'s gasoline contribution - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:40:38] <exec> 08└─Both of which are 100% true. If he had a son, he would look a lot like Trayvon and that cop who arrested a harvard professor inside his own house because he spent too long fiddling with his own front door not only acted stupidly but was a god damn racist. Funny how simply being black is considered p...
[07:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Even Remotely True - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:05] <exec> 08└─Projection, its easy to do. Or are you one of those fuckwits who believes that the clintons are a crime family who go around murdering people? Either way your beyond wrong. Sanders was everywhere endorsing clinton. Talk shows, convention, rallies. Everywhere. It wasn't at all half-assed or reluctant...
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[08:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:they have to say this - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:24] <exec> 08└─The ultimate tool is eminent domain. Thank you for not saying "Donald Trump."
[08:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:already exists - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:29] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, the no-fly list, I'm on that. Makes no difference to me because I hate to fly. I don't even take trains. I reluctantly rode a bus today but only because the temperature outside is below 0F. In any other weather I'll happily walk 5 miles to the store and back. Fuck your list, I have legs.
[08:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:already exists - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:31] <exec> 08└─You'll be put on the No-Walk list. You try to run through a checkpoint, you get a double amputation.
[08:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:already exists - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:33] <exec> 08└─That's just a flesh wound.
[08:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:already exists - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:35] <exec> 08└─Obamacare gimme a free wheelchair! Bless da nigaa. Free at last. Free at last!
[08:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it a deliberate holocaust? - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:38] <exec> 08└─the biggest lie of the 20th century
[08:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was it a deliberate holocaust? - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:40] <exec> 08└─Concentration camps are great. Everyone sleeps in bunk beds and they have these giant gas ovens where they make the deepest deep dish pizza.
[08:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Adding to suffering benefits the "authorities" - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:59] <exec> 08└─It may have been intentional to teach people helplessness (learned helplessness). So they will not challenge the self-proclaimed "authorities" when these same "authorities" begin their one-world government. These people will now be unable to support themselves, unable to buy guns and generally be in...
[08:38:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 505 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:08] <exec> 08└─Oh, you mean "libertarian economics"! More of a dream than a science. Totally impervious to data, experimental testing, or even logic. In fact, it is indeed one of the leading candidates for the dark matter we seem to be missing in the universe. Social Darwinism:: Social Miserism? It's not the fau...
[08:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:13] <exec> 08└─Forced to read in school, were we? Compulsory education not good enough for you? Well just wait until you're walking home, late at night, and some homocidal maniac comes at you with a bunch of poorly digested Ayn Rand! Don't come crying to me, Mister! Forced to read! I swear. Actual books, then, was...
[08:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:15] <exec> 08└─> Totally impervious to data, experimental testing, or logic. You must be referring to mainstream economics. Austrian economics is based on deductive reasoning, i.e. logic. Mainstream economics is based on hand waving cherry picking data, and banging on it until the maths shows something, and then c...
[08:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:17] <exec> 08└─> There is a lot of irony in making all those insults and then turning around and holding up the Lord Mises as an authority. There is important difference between citation and an argument from authority. Btw, Mises never held the title of Lord, and was unpopular with the political establishment, sin...
[08:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a science - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:22] <exec> 08└─Yes von Mises, that Austrian jew that fled nazi occupation to the US?
[08:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a science - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:24] <exec> 08└─It is science, it's just that there are too many variables to test theories well, and so speculation is used instead. There may be a relationship found between X and Y, but it's hard to say if it's coincidental or indirect. And the nature of the economy changes over time such that historical records...
[08:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about "Economics in One Lesson" - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:29] <exec> 08└─Probably because most people here aren't stupid enough to listen to talk radio.
[08:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Ask a Wiccan - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:34] <exec> 08└─Ah, my nemesis, linuxrocks123, who has banned me and therefore never reads any of my comments . . . Oops! Time machine? I was there! Not the best time I have ever had in Rome, but when you are almost 2400 years old, I suppose you have to expect some downers. And some wacko economic theories, like M...
[08:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ask a Wiccan - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 2281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:36] <exec> 08└─I agree it is a shoddy 'science'. The problem is the systems they build. Almost all of them work. Only however in a very particular set of conditions. It is when those conditions are no longer met or the actual real system changes they have no clue. They actually do not model chaos very well at all....
[08:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ask a Wiccan - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:38] <exec> 08└─> "Economics is the study of scarcity" That is one of the criticisms that the Austrian school levels against Friedmanites. Even if you don't like their school their criticism is spot on. They hold that economics is the study of human action.
[08:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe not productivity... - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:58] <exec> 08└─Indeed, economists seem to be using over-simplistic metrics. If you just count houses by square feet, then you'll be missing energy efficiency enhancements, for example. Not all spherical cows are the same.
[08:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score:1) 02GDP growth == productivity?!?!? - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:02] <exec> 08└─Someone is making a BIG confusion here. GDP measures economic activity (money changing hands) of any kind. The real productivity graph would look completely different. Real productive enterprises (making things) are vanishing faster than you can count. On the other side, once you get to ~100% automa...
[08:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More Millential Nonsense - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:39:15] <exec> 08└─There may be slight differences, but not nearly enough to justify disrupting the standard for a transition period. It's only worth the cost of standards disruption if the new thing is significantly better. Brain implants or similar are probably the next "keyboard" anyhow.
[08:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Because everyone uses one - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:39:22] <exec> 08└─If, for some reason, I actually LOOK AT my keyboard, I get lost.
[08:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Lack of something better - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:39:32] <exec> 08└─Probably the caps lock is where it is because that's the position where it was on typewriters. Remember, that change was done back when computers started to be used also used by secretaries who were used to typewriters. Typewriters had the caps lock above the shift key because it was really a mechan...
[08:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake News isn't Just a Western Problem - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:40:19] <exec> 08└─You need to stop trusting (((facebook))). Here is a link to get you started: https://www.rt.com [rt.com]
[08:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:and in the US.... - 06Yahoo Hack: Many UK Internet Accounts Are Also Really Yahoo Users - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:28] <exec> 08└─Someone wrote in Wikipedia: Fravia was a professor at the High Cracking University (+HCU), founded by Old Red Cracker (+ORC), a legendary figure in reverse engineering, to conduct research into Reverse Code Engineering.
[08:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:translate from Japanese - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:16] <exec> 08└─Can you post it? My experience with Chinese and Japanese is that Google Translate has gotten a lot better. It still struggles with more academic style writing, but at least for more conversational stuff it's very good (which is surprising given how horrible Translate used to be with Chinese). Consid...
[08:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:invisible idiot - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:19] <exec> 08└─Nice anecdote, but we've kept working on it. Google Translate: Out of sight, out of mind -> 看不见，不在乎。-> Can not see, do not care. That's pretty good, in my opinion. If anyone has some Chinese translations before the new Translate AI, it'd be fun to look at, as it used to be completely...
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[09:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Skype is for the beautiful people - 06A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:24] <exec> 08└─I don't Skype because I'm fat and ugly and I have such low self esteem I never post except as AC.
[09:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:Skype is for the beautiful people - 06A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:25] <exec> 08└─Disregard I suck a jewish dick for breakfast.
[09:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Skype is for the beautiful people - 06A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:27] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your seclusion.
[09:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Skype is for the beautiful people - 06A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:29] <exec> 08└─Not secluded enough bitch. I hate you so much.
[09:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Be postive - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:00] <exec> 08└─Both of them?
[09:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mission accomplished. - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:04] <exec> 08└─After the Uber Trump makes America Great just watch as many displaced and discouraged workers refuse to ever apply for employment again.
[09:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Question that the summary didn't cover - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:10] <exec> 08└─Welcome to America. You must be new here.
[09:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Adding to suffering benefits the "authorities" - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:15] <exec> 08└─The downside is people who learned helplessness become bitter and belligerent and troll the fucking shit out of you at every opportunity. Good luck blocking them because you know there will be enough assholes among them who will teach the others how to evade every method you could ever use to ban th...
[09:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:29] <exec> 08└─Austrian economics is based on deductive reasoning, i.e. logic.
[09:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the textbooks are pushing politics - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:46] <exec> 08└─The textbook used by about 95% of AP teachers
[09:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:NHST - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:57] <exec> 08└─Pretty much everything except maybe k-12 schools, the "productivity slowdown" is effectively just more and more profit being demanded.
[09:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:More Millential Nonsense - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:25] <exec> 08└─A study of 14 typists, conducted for the U.S. Navy in 1944, showed [...] that it took an average of only 52 hours of training for those typists' speeds on the Dvorak keyboard to reach their average speeds on the qwerty keyboard. By the end of the study their Dvorak speeds were 74 percent faster tha...
[09:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Standards and Common Usage - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 1702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:42] <exec> 08└─I think that we are all make an incorrect assumption - that QWERTY rules the roost. Well it might do in the US, but here in France it is AZERTY, in Russia and eastern Europe it is a Cyrillic variant, and there are numerous others as one looks around the world. The important factors here are that key...
[09:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02Re:Hunt and peck... - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:48] <exec> 08└─Get a Das Keyboard with blank keys. I was hunt and peck until I got one, took me about 2 days of using it at work and I could touchtype. The secret is: Looking at the keyboard won't help, your fingers have to learn. You will be surprised how quickly they do. Down side? Passwords are now in finger me...
[09:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score:2) 02Myths vs History - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:51] <exec> 08└─Most of what is being spread around in the summary, article, and comments are myths. I'm more inclined to trust researchers from Kyoto University, who published a 13 page study, "On the Prehistory of QWERTY" [kyoto-u.ac.jp].
[09:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Premature optimization - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:53] <exec> 08└─Okay, sure, it's possible that QWERTY isn't the most optimal layout. But with modern (as in, at least 15 years ago) features like autocompletion and abbrevs I can reach 150, 200 WPM easily. At that point I am not hurting for faster typing speed, or even more ergonomic typing (when you only need to p...
[09:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Fucked, I say - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:14] <exec> 08└─Well, I thought there was a problem that the collective decisions of short term speculators could sometimes cause large fluctuations in the stock market (even though statistically you'd think their actions would even out). This was not a problem in the 1990s because high-frequency trading didn't e...
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[10:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Fuck You Soylent - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:13] <exec> 08└─I hate your site and I hate your users! Free Software means I can take all your code and launch my own news site with blackjack and hooters! Can't take the coddddde from meeeeeeee.
[10:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Free Software - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:15] <exec> 08└─Free software. Can't brick it.
[10:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free Software - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it just doesn't work out of the box half the time.
[10:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free Software - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:19] <exec> 08└─Not a problem because you can always fix it yourself, then submit your patches to upstream, where your contribution will be rejected because the bugs you fixed weren't on the maintainer's to do list, but the maintainer will still try to pressure you to work on something else which is on the to do li...
[10:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Migrate Away ASAP - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:21] <exec> 08└─If they're Oracle-like the best way to proceed is in the other direction. They do not have good judgment if this idea even got out of a brainstorming session.
[10:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doors - 06A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:32] <exec> 08└─A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X
[10:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02IBM - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:53] <exec> 08└─IBM is not absent. They are even in the damned title! Perhaps the submitter is a little too eager to share their Nazi knowledge? Here's another one: Coca Cola invented Fanta so that the nazis could have soft drinks without access to coca leaves!
[10:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Why is IBM singled out in the summary? - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, they committed grave sins in the days of the Third Reich, but TFA says they aren't doing the same thing today and are among those who have publicly stated they would refuse to help. FTFA: "As of Friday, companies including Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft have all chimed in to l...
[10:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Question that the summary didn't cover - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:13] <exec> 08└─I am imagining it: "Sorry sir, but the computer tells us that you are a fraud. Have a happy Christmas now! Pay within 2 weeks or it goes to the bailiff. Your government." What's wrong with Michigan, don't they have an Ombudsman or something?? This is EXACTLY why responsive governments need Ombudsmen...
[10:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More Millential Nonsense - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:32] <exec> 08└─Testing on myself with AZERTY to BÉPO, it greatly increased my accuracy, and most of all reduced the pain in my fingers. Speed was never the issue.
[10:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:More Millential Nonsense - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:33] <exec> 08└─Study run by Dvorak = not particularly objective. Note that the author of the article was skeptical of Dvorak's claims, and conducted his own, personal test: "During that time, my Dvorak speed increased to 90 wpm, and my qwerty speed reached 80 wpm." This reflects my own experience, which I posted i...
[10:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Because it’s Good Enough™ - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:54] <exec> 08└─That's not the only complaint about QWERTY. Another is that most of the most-used keys are placed on the left half of the keyboard (A S D E R T), putting much more strain on the left hand than the right.
[10:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Actual experience - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 1820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:01] <exec> 08└─I touch type reasonably well, around 60wpm. Back when I was young and bored, I researched keyboard layouts, put together one that I considered optimal, and learned to type on it. I measured my typing performance on QWERTY first, and then on the new keyboard, after using it for an entire year. On the...
[10:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWs Always Double Down - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:40:41] <exec> 08└─Who the hell modded this drivel by jmorris up as "Insightful", of all things? I think someone really should step forward to explain this.
[10:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Because it's proprietary - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:12] <exec> 08└─Eh, I gather the test requirements that the Harding Test implements are open source. So open source tests could be possible.
[10:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Even Remotely True - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:12] <exec> 08└─You are arguing that sanders believes clinton to be illegitimate but not illegitimate enough to be disqualified.
[10:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Even Remotely True - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:15] <exec> 08└─Or are you one of those fuckwits who believes that the clintons are a crime family who go around murdering people?
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[11:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's an http-only club! - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:19] <exec> 08└─The very idea is protocol-ist! internet > world wide web > social media I never use social media, and I don't even like the web. Http is so boring. There are so many other more exciting protocols on the internet.
[11:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Doors - 06A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:37:42] <exec> 08└─Since Microsoft bought it, I thought its whole reason for being was as a back door.
[11:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02growing a business -random thought... - 06A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:44] <exec> 08└─Here's my random thought of the day - is there a process that when you have a business growing in the IT/Cloud space, you get a visit from men in dark glasses to insert a backdoor? Or are companies like Skype just so large, inevitably they have a exec meeting where the bullet item is: "Need backdoor...
[11:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only terrorists use Skype - 06A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:46] <exec> 08└─Try to run Skype on a network that hosts a TOR exit node... Skype will refuse to work. Close the exit functionality of the TOR node and Skype starts to work again after a day. The reason? Apparently it becomes difficult for intelligence services to track you in Skype if it also could originate from...
[11:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I was actually coming to post this ^ - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:37:57] <exec> 08└─These companies are completely fine doing that level of spying on *ALL* Americans, so of course they don't need to *ADD* a registry of Muslims. They just have a registry of Americans, and you can sort by religion or disclosed ethnic background. So if you either listed your religion as Muslim on the...
[11:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is IBM singled out in the summary? - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:11] <exec> 08└─Sadly, these days having IBM help with a list of that sort would be one of the best ways to have it fail spectacularly, although the cost for trying would be astronomical.
[11:38:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Be postive - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 577 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:20] <exec> 08└─> Governments adopting new technologies is always a work in progress. A 93% error rate is not a work in progress. Its a damn crime. People's lives were ruined by this. The kind of person who most needs unemployment is in the kind of person least able to fight for it and even more importantly, least...
[11:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Untested software - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:37] <exec> 08└─A false positive rate of 93% of the Midas computer program means, that that program was NOT TESTED before it was paid for by Michigan State, and put into production. If the program was not very important, the spec should have said: "a false positive rate of under 5% is acceptable". Since it deals wi...
[11:38:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Not a science - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 757 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:54] <exec> 08└─If it were a science it would follow actual scientific method. It's at best a cargo cult and mostly a vehicle for opinions. As far as trends go, big money backs an opinion for a while until enough get burned then they switch horses. It's all a scam. If you missed the last n decades and still need a...
[11:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a science - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:00] <exec> 08└─It's important to differentiate economics, as a discipline studied in universities, and economics as a buzzword used in media and government. The first does follow the scientific method. It observes a system, makes predictions, and refines models based on its observations of the changes to the syste...
[11:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Always liked the quote... - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:12] <exec> 08└─...by Yanis Varoufakis: Economy has more to do with astrology, then with astronomy.
[11:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the other economist - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:14] <exec> 08└─i read the link. i don't see any tangible information. could have been written by a bot emulating a reporter? anyways ... i am reading "das Kapital". slow going but i want to be able to say that i have read it.
[11:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Different liberals? - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:27] <exec> 08└─Just sayin'. Neoliberal as described here is Conservative or Libertarian here in the US.
[11:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:More Millential Nonsense - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:57] <exec> 08└─More recent attempts by more objective researchers have failed to reproduce the increase in speed. I learned Dvorak and used it for a while, but eventually stopped because I often had to type things on other people's computers and so had to switch my brain between QWERTY and Dvorak, which offset mos...
[11:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The irony of it is... - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:09] <exec> 08└─They think they are getting *CLOSER* to others by listening to a video'd ramble in comparison to reading correspondence from others in text form (whether written or typed.) Something that I have learned over the years is it doesn't matter whether you spend time in person, via text, or via video. The...
[11:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Premature optimization - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:26] <exec> 08└─Dunno about autocorrect. Personally, I turn it off. With autocorrect, you pretty much always have to look, to see what it's going to do, because different autocorrect systems in different pieces of software do different things, and even the same one may be adaptive, meaning that its behavior changes...
[11:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:Premature optimization - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:28] <exec> 08└─A lot of people in the legal profession dictate their letters, pass the recordings to a secretary who will then take the recording and make a letter out of it. If you could make a recording in your office, and press a button to have an AI turn that into a letter, it would be really useful.
[11:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:You act like America didn't before? - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:07] <exec> 08└─Indeed, "doesn't have power" can often be the seed behind racism, a victim mentality.
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[12:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02One word - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:23] <exec> 08└─"We generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day – whether you're talking about Tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook, Instagram, Google searches or emails," said Su.
[12:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not when you consider... - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:24] <exec> 08└─How much neural networks could result in compression of all that data down to managable sizes, and maybe also help flag intellectual undesirables for our future 'Temporary Solution'. (Since the 'Final Solution' would be wiping out all of humanity.)
[12:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Instinct - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:26] <exec> 08└─"Instinct" is a marketing name
[12:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What software projects? - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:37] <exec> 08└─I've been involved with (although not a major code contributor) in the free software movement since the 90s. While I have been told 'that concept isn't planned for this software' I have never had a bug report go unfixed (although a few only made it into a 'new' release that either couldn't or would...
[12:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What software projects? - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:38] <exec> 08└─Clique-ish pseudo-open source is the cathedral model, and it's the way RMS intended. GNU projects belong to the FSF, and RMS claims the right to appropriate any changes you make, but only if he wants them. It's droit du seigneur applied to software. If RMS wants to fuck your wife then you can't stop...
[12:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Migrate Away ASAP - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:42] <exec> 08└─Definitely look into other options, although given the niche nature of the tool there might not be that many other options. I'm wondering though whether the abrupt about face was not entirely down to the negative PR and may have had something to do with Obama signing the CRFA into law [thenextweb.co...
[12:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Business. - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:44] <exec> 08└─Do no business with a software company where this is even possible, let alone where they've put that system in place and got it to the point where support actually use it. If the software doesn't work offline, your business is reliant on them being co-operative. And they did it because you didn't li...
[12:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:growing a business -random thought... - 06A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:57] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act [wikipedia.org]
[12:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:they have to say this - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:11] <exec> 08└─You lumped muslims into a group. You collectively refer to over a quarter of the world's population as if they are like-minded, identical people with the same opinions. It's at that point that I stopped reading. Is SoylentNews really going to mirror that other green website in its tolerance of racis...
[12:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Why is IBM singled out in the summary? - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, they committed grave sins
[12:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02Accenture - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:27] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter what those tech companies say they will and won't build - because none of them was in the running for the government contract in any case. This sort of work goes to the huge tech development companies, like Accenture, HP, Oracle, Dell, Cisco, PW.. you know the usual suspects. The o...
[12:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tyler [6335] (Score:1) 02Hmm. Backwards if? - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:54] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the code says something like this: if( conditions ) return LEGITIMATE; else: return FRAUD; When it should have been: if( conditions ) return FRAUD; else: return LEGITIMATE;
[12:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a science - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:15] <exec> 08└─The article is not worth reading. Empty of content, really. I find it hard to take an article on economics seriously when it does not include math.
[12:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Losing its Way - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:32] <exec> 08└─Economics as I know it is quantifying human behavior and searching for the patterns in those actions to understand the contours of the system of human behavior and how it changes as inputs change. If modern economics has lost its way, it is because it is trying to model a system based on rational ac...
[12:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Losing its Way - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:33] <exec> 08└─If modern economics has lost its way, it is because it is trying to model a system based on rational actors when the system
[12:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wake me up when... - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:35] <exec> 08└─When me up when economics becomes an actual science and can predict things... until then, I'll be drinking my tea over there but don't worry, I'll send you the tea-leaves so you can continue to do your 'economic science'.
[12:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:GDP growth == productivity?!?!? - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:02] <exec> 08└─ISTR reading a similar report about the UK recently, i.e. suggesting in not very subtle terms that every British worker is a lazy lump that accomplishes far less than our European neighbours in any given period of time. "Rich wankers still want to flog the workforce harder to generate yet more profi...
[12:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lack of something better - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:38] <exec> 08└─please keep in mind that all programming languages of relevance use english words, and english is a de facto international standard in a lot of professions. I think that is a very good reason to keep national layouts close to the standard english layout. the second reason is that the PC era was star...
[12:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Reverse assumptions - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:11] <exec> 08└─No. They are not expecting to turn into billionaire overnight. They are doing politics. They are "playing the game" just the way the game is played. The only reason you realize 'Trumpkins' doing that is because of your personal confirmation bias. Fake news is not new nor it is going to go away with...
[12:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news ? You mean Fox news ? - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:16] <exec> 08└─It's not a question of whether we like the picture it paints but, rather whether the picture is incomplete to the point of slanting the story in a not so subtle attempt to lead their readers to what they see as the "proper" conclusion.
[12:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Informative) 02Dicey Gambit - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:39] <exec> 08└─The mainstream media are pushing this fake news meme to cover their ass for the election results. They all pulled for Hillary. They skewed every prediction and analysis to prove she was going to win by big margins. And they were wrong. So now they're jumping up and down saying, "It wasn't OUR fault!...
[12:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:15] <exec> 08└─Direct from Google for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com [google.com] Makes GIFs click-to-play. I'm sure Firefox has something similar. This is a life-and-death reason to block ads, flash, and all animation in general.
[12:44:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 1531 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:01] <exec> 08└─That's sort of the point. The Democrats have a history of ignoring what the common people want and a lot of the support the GOP gets comes from people that are voting against the arrogance and elitism of the Democratic party. They're folks that are OK, even if they don't really like, the anti-aborti...
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[13:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's a different entity - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:16] <exec> 08└─Sure, we'd all like it to be the case that the new GM is the same as the old GM. After all, it's the same name, the same products, the same people - heck, 90% the people working there in *any* position are people who worked in the old GM. So you'd think it's the same thing, no. But that's not how co...
[13:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not when you consider... - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:26] <exec> 08└─First they came for the jews, and I spoke out, because I was an anti-sementic troll! Then they came for the trolls, and nobody spoke out, because everybody hates trolls.
[13:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02dumb commenters today - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:29] <exec> 08└─I noticed that in general people complain about word choice when they can't find anything wrong with the content, and they are envious. I think it's a very nice thing that the AMD people are doing, but I don't have the background to understand everything properly. I am excited about a future when my...
[13:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dumb commenters today - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:31] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, dummy. After you get laidoff from your codemonkey job, you can get a new job as a crash dummy for Tesla.
[13:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dumb commenters today - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:33] <exec> 08└─I don't have a codemonkey job.
[13:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:dumb commenters today - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:35] <exec> 08└─AMD has to get through NVIDIA, which controls most of machine learning right now, as well Intel, Google with its TPUs, and maybe Microsoft (FPGAs).
[13:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Free Software - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:48] <exec> 08└─Free software. Can't brick it.
[13:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck You Soylent - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:49] <exec> 08└─I find your views interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
[13:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Business. - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:54] <exec> 08└─Why? Because you want access to a dataset in the cloud, which the company owns, and the software provides access to that dataset. In such a situation, forget the software, reverse engineer the API, and if the company is uncooperative, invest in proxies.
[13:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accenture - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:37] <exec> 08└─MS, Facebook, etc are just the public face of IT.
[13:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SixGunMojo [509] (Score:1) 02They already have one - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure about the others but Facebook and Google already have this. It may not be called a "Muslim registry" but I'm pretty sure that in the thousands of data points about $PersonX there is one called something like "religious affiliation". Lord knows with their targeted advertising they would...
[13:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Be postive - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:52] <exec> 08└─A 93% error rate is not a work in progress.
[13:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:Be postive - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 2813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:53] <exec> 08└─93% failure rate is *worse* than chance, FFS; a coin toss would generate more reliable results. It's either deliberate or a level of incompetence I've not encountered before despite being a public sector worker[1] People who have the misfortune to be out of work or not well enough to work are demoni...
[13:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"code becomes law" - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:04] <exec> 08└─But but but but but but, nerds have been saying forever that we should replace all the lawyers with computers.
[13:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Untested software - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:10] <exec> 08└─What did the director of the Michigan UIA say, when he/she tested the system with his/her own social security number and got told he/she was a fraud?
[13:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Hmm. Backwards if? - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:13] <exec> 08└─If "conditions" was defined as "submitted application for unemployment benefits" then I think you just wrote a replacement program that was almost as accurate & effective as the one they are currently using.
[13:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Standards and Common Usage - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:54] <exec> 08└─Easter Europe here. Sorry to interrupt, but many of us (as in countries) use QWERTY and not the "Cyrillic variant". Thank you.
[13:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hunt and peck... - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:04] <exec> 08└─Down side? Passwords are now in finger memory. I don't know my password, but my hands do. Its rather odd.
[13:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is very sad news - 06 Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of life-saving maneuver Feb. 3, 1920 – Dec. 13, 2016 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:21] <exec> 08└─I'm all choked up about it.
[13:44:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02vote anyway - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 1391 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:18] <exec> 08└─Do you roll over and play dead when someone wrongs you? What do you do when you discover someone broke into your car and stole a few things? Maybe report it to the police, file a claim with insurance? Or do you do nothing because there's no chance your items will be recovered, so what's the point? Y...
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[14:37:21] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:21] <exec> 08└─So they lose their patents, copyrights & trademarks that are older that 7 years? What about any claims to longevity and/or reliability? Employees lose their seniority? They can't have it both ways.
[14:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02sounds good to me - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:23] <exec> 08└─Sure, why not? I'll go and declare bankruptcy now too, buy myself with some pocket change I had laying around, and own my house outright. In fact, given that most Americans are in some kind of debt, everybody should go and declare bankruptcy. It'd be like the ending of Fight Club (or Mr. Robot seaso...
[14:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds good to me - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:25] <exec> 08└─Let's take that analogy a step further. Hypothetically go and rob a store and declare bankruptcy before the cops catch you! It's so simple. Oh, I can't do that? But I thought corporations were people, too?
[14:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02'Pre-packs' - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:27] <exec> 08└─Substantially the same process is getting popular/notorious in the UK - know as 'pre-packs' https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Note the criticisms in that Wikipedia article: 'Pre-packs could be very easily abused. Bad management can plan for a prepack months in adv...
[14:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:'Pre-packs' - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:29] <exec> 08└─Aha - that was the term I was looking for - I remember this being a thing around implants & cosmetic surgery a few years ago as well, and reports of this tactic being used to ditch liabilities... From the daily mail report [dailymail.co.uk] (because I can't find a better link...) Daniel Yea, from Ma...
[14:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Funny) 02Emissions guarantee? - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:31] <exec> 08└─Its a federal requirement to guarantee emissions parts for ten years, or fifteen years for some more exotic models. I suppose WRT the ignition key problem if they get away with that then anyone with a worn out cat conv will be out of luck. I'm sure there's already a lot of pencil whipping WRT "wear...
[14:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How long since the last US revolution? - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:33] <exec> 08└─I mean people must be fairly desperate to vote for somebody like Drumpf. This neverending too-big-to-fail bullshit could be the last straw. Sharpen your pitchforks! Get your torches ready!
[14:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You indeed are too dumb. - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:49] <exec> 08└─You are too dumb to read through marketing gibberish. The long summary boils down to AMD announcing marketing brand "Radeon Insticint," sprinkled with buzzwords ("machine learning", "heterogenous", "platform"), devoid of any specifics.
[14:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck You Soylent - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:05] <exec> 08└─>I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. By all means. [fsf.org]
[14:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck You Soylent - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:06] <exec> 08└─Do it, faggot! Linodes are cheap!
[14:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only terrorists use Skype - 06A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:27] <exec> 08└─How does that work if you run Skype in a VM and the Tor node outside the VM?
[14:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:they have to say this - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:41] <exec> 08└─Have you read soylent? This place is far worse slashdot when it comes to bigotry. Mainly because the bigots are just as loud but there are less decent people to hold them back.
[14:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tangaroa [682] (Score:2) 02This is fake news - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:59] <exec> 08└─Trump has never called for a Muslim registry. Kris Kobach called for restoring the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) to track immigrants from countries that are unable to control their terrorist problem. That is what all of this posturing is about. So the companies announced...
[14:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stats 101 - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:14] <exec> 08└─> 93% failure rate is *worse* than chance, FFS; a coin toss would generate more reliable results. No its not. Or at least the stat on its own is not enough to say. That's because it doesn't say anything about the total sample size, just the ones that were flagged for fraud. So there could have been...
[14:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:GDP growth == productivity?!?!? - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:40] <exec> 08└─There's a mistake two steps up in your analysis that economics should maximize productiveness which mostly leads to pencil whipping and broken window fallacy "production". And the mistake two steps up is measuring productivity as money changing hands which made sense a century ago in an industrial e...
[14:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:GDP growth == productivity?!?!? - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:41] <exec> 08└─What is a better measure than GDP?
[14:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Standards and Common Usage - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:20] <exec> 08└─Thank you, my experience is from about 14 years ago. I spent 3 years in Belarus and Russia, and I had to learn to use the cyrillic keyboard almost exclusively. I still own a couple of these keyboards and can still touch-type at an acceptable speed on them. The only place that I found qwerty keyboard...
[14:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score:2) 02Loyal DVORAK user - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:36] <exec> 08└─Been using DVORAK layout since the late 80s. Roughly doubled my typing speed. In my best days I could bang out about 60-80 wpm in qwerty. Averaged 120 to 150 in Dvorak. Nowadays I have to lurch between many keyboards, mostly coworkers qwerties (is that a word?) so my average speed is much lower. Mis...
[14:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:B.O.'s gasoline contribution - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:26] <exec> 08└─Both of which are 100% true.
[14:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't point to Wired articles - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:10] <exec> 08└─I am not sure about that - I can read Wired articles just fine using TOR and with most / many things blocked.
[14:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Weak - 06‘Operation Tarpit’ Targets Customers of Online Attack-for-Hire Services - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:30] <exec> 08└─I suggest we go one step further: to the people who sell the useless IoT crap and Micro$oft. They created this problem now make the fix it. I completely agree what they are now doing is useless whack-a-mole.
[14:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:Slow cookers are miracle machines - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:18] <exec> 08└─I recently started using a slow cooker too. I would like to ask you about the frozen meat you mention. All the recommended recipes that came in the booklet ask you to do some bit of pre-cooking to the meat, like frying the minced beef for a chilli con carne. I recently made an AWESOME bolognese, but...
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[15:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02"There should be a Law!" - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:27] <exec> 08└─Legislation (or regulation) can only enshrine existing innovation, not create it. Now, a better way won't be tried.
[15:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Interesting) 02Huh? - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:29] <exec> 08└─How is this better? So more people can get in trouble for what they wrote/typoed but wouldn't have sent if it were the normal style messaging? How does this really help the deaf? If the deaf want "more natural, conversation-friendly communication" they would use a video call.
[15:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huh? - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:31] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if somehow the "streaming" of characters as you type is easier to compromise / makes it easier for our 3 lettered overlords to spy on us in real time.
[15:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unix talk(1) - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:33] <exec> 08└─I remember the old Unix talk(1) [wikipedia.org] program had real-time text since at least the 1970s, although it was originally limited to communication between local users logged into the same machine. And it’s only now that we’re getting this kind of functionality again?
[15:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Unix talk(1) - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:35] <exec> 08└─"ICQ" also popularized the same "real-time typing" technology back in the late 1990s. It was fun to play with, but it made reading the conversation logs afterward a serious PITA.
[15:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02Re:So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:46] <exec> 08└─FUCK YES. GM should have gone bankrupt and no F'n bailout. I will NEVER buy a Government Motors vehicle again!
[15:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:48] <exec> 08└─> So they lose their patents, copyrights & trademarks that are older that 7 years? In bankruptcy proceedings, assets can be sold to satisfy creditors. Patents and copyrights can be sold. So can trademarks, although in the United States a trademark can't be sold without the associated business (loose...
[15:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sounds good to me - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe not for us mortals, but what would prevent other companies of doing this if this creates a precedence?
[15:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:How long since the last US revolution? - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:58] <exec> 08└─We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my t...
[15:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Were the shareholders wiped out in the bankruptcy - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:00] <exec> 08└─If the pre-bankruptcy shareholders ended up owning some shares after the bankruptcy process, then it isn't a new company.
[15:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free Software - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:31] <exec> 08└─> (hams are well known for cheapness, making their own antenna wire by gripping a solid copper penny tightly in two hands and stretching it into a 80 meter dipole) Thanks for the laugh!
[15:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Malicious Software - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 1698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:39] <exec> 08└─I quit with and don't recommend Windows because of their unrepentant spy-backdoor-controlfreak attitude that is frankly just what rms has been screaming about all these years. That's a bad thing that eliminates (not "reduces") trust in the company/software. So I use Linux and make do without any los...
[15:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only terrorists use Skype - 06A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:57] <exec> 08└─If from the outside the IP address is the same, Skype starts to block. In my case it were two different systems, sharing one outgoing connection (NAT).
[15:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:they have to say this - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:12] <exec> 08└─You lumped muslims into a group
[15:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:they have to say this - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:14] <exec> 08└─The best single-source is Prophet of Doom
[15:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is fake news - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:33] <exec> 08└─Trump has never called for a Muslim registry.
[15:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Question that the summary didn't cover - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:59] <exec> 08└─or maybe also (C) the number of muggings in Michigan increased significantly after Midas was taken into production.
[15:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:27] <exec> 08└─There is a lot of irony in making all those insults and then turning around and holding up the Lord Mises as an authority.
[15:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Always liked the quote... - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:47] <exec> 08└─That quoted statement is actually correct. There are more dipshits who believe in astrology out there spending money because Taurus is in Uranus, than there are astronomers who spend money because Mars is Particularly Bright Tonight.
[15:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:GDP growth == productivity?!?!? - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:22] <exec> 08└─What is a better measure than GDP?
[15:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score:1) 02Re:GDP growth == productivity?!?!? - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:23] <exec> 08└─GDP also includes "productive" activities like: anything bought/sold on the stock market, anything "value added" by intermediaries, insurance, etc. In a different line of thought: is it a "productive" activity to buy / sell art? Or second-hand and collectible things? I think not.
[15:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:GDP growth == productivity?!?!? - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:25] <exec> 08└─As a thought experiment maybe bean counting has no place in economic study. Consider what beans we'd count to believe in a religion, for example. Or what beans would we count to measure progress in AI or the ethics of nanotechnology? You could argue that modern economics is mostly propaganda for a "...
[15:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Ban assault GIFs - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:48] <exec> 08└─everyone who has blinkin' lights on the their cars.
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[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:1, Troll) 02How can that be? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─Global warming!!!
[16:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:"There should be a Law!" - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:34] <exec> 08└─Now, a better way won't be tried.
[16:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"There should be a Law!" - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:36] <exec> 08└─> Legislation (or regulation) can only enshrine existing innovation, not create it. Now, a better way won't be tried. Oh shut the fuck up. In order for something like this to be useful, it needs to be standardized. A bunch of incompatible implementations randomly spread among different vendors and d...
[16:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh? - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:40] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if somehow the "streaming" of characters as you type is easier to compromise / makes it easier for our 3 lettered overlords to spy on us in real time.
[16:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh? - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:42] <exec> 08└─If the deaf want "more natural, conversation-friendly communication" they would use a video call.
[16:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Huh? - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:44] <exec> 08└─How does this really help the deaf? If the deaf want "more natural, conversation-friendly communication" they would use a video call.
[16:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm missing something.... - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:48] <exec> 08└─.... TTY was a text-to-text transmission method. For its time it was ahead of its time. I can see why it is regarded as ancient today, especially by companies that no longer use landline. How is this new system going to be any different from texting or sending an email now? More secure / differently...
[16:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm missing something.... - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:50] <exec> 08└─"new system going to be any different from texting or sending an email" You seem to have missed the "real time" portions of the TFS and TFA. "Real time texting", as opposed to most texting programs. Let's try this. I try to contact 911 to ask for an ambulance, using any older texting program. I get...
[16:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Why? - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:53] <exec> 08└─without the need to hit "send"
[16:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02What took so long? - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:55] <exec> 08└─TBH, I can see what took so long. Someone who needs the ability, and has the intimacy with existing "solutions", along with the smarts to produce the software was needed. But, it seems so obvious, in retrospect. It sounds very convenient for people who are not hearing impaired, as well.
[16:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Jeez, you people are negative - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:57] <exec> 08└─Wow, what a lot of negative comments. "How is this better?" "Why do deaf people need this?" "It's the same as X from Y years ago!" Before blithely assuming it's of no practical use, perhaps you could find a deaf person and ask them what difference it would make to them. Deafness, more so than probab...
[16:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Jeez, you people are negative - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:59] <exec> 08└─Although I'm not hearing impaired, I went to college at RIT which hosts the National Technology Institute for the Deaf, and had a few friends in the deaf community. TTY is very common to communicate and teletype devices were present in almost every location on site so that an interpreter was not nee...
[16:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:11] <exec> 08└─In bankruptcy proceedings, assets can be sold to satisfy creditors. Patents and copyrights can be sold.
[16:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:12] <exec> 08└─In addition, they have to reflect the new "founding" date in all paperwork and communications. Those TV adverts that talk about their decades of car-building experience etc? Sorry, you're only 7 years old. That company stationary that proudly proclaims they've been building cars since 19-whatever? N...
[16:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds good to me - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:17] <exec> 08└─In fact, given that most Americans are in some kind of debt, everybody should go and declare bankruptcy.
[16:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They were born on a Tuesday - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:25] <exec> 08└─And, as a matter of fact, it was last Tuesday!
[16:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's an http-only club! - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:35] <exec> 08└─They included email; this at least involves the protocol SMTP, which is much older than http. The times when lots of data were generated over NNTP are long over, the same is true for gopher and ftp.
[16:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What software projects? - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:58] <exec> 08└─If you don't like the way the FSF handles a project, you can always fork it. If you do it right, your fork may even end up being the official GNU project; see egcs.
[16:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I was actually coming to post this ^ - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:38] <exec> 08└─aiding the government in building a database
[16:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Got one right 'cher! - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:46] <exec> 08└─Not sure about the others since I don't read Faux News' comments section (and Breitbart's just for the lulz), but if Runaway is your yardstick for Christian extremist, you need to get out more. Does Mark Koernke still broadcast anymore? I remember we were supposed to get ready to march on the infide...
[16:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the textbooks are pushing politics - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:16] <exec> 08└─> Krugman writes for the New York Times -- that should tell you enough. The NYT is culturally liberal and economically conservative. So unless you think this textbook is promoting the gay agenda, you are off base and in the weeds.
[16:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe not productivity... - 06An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:45] <exec> 08└─> Maybe economic productivity (whatever that is) isn't increasing in proportion to costs, but I certainly do see improvements in education and housing since the 1970s. Nobody is saying things are at a stand-still. That's obviously not true and should have clued you into realizing you need to give it...
[16:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Because we're used to it - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:28] <exec> 08└─/thread
[16:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Reverse assumptions - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:13] <exec> 08└─it was there when Asians lacked that part of brain which allows europeans to drink like an ass yet be civilized or that part of stomach which processes alcohol.
[16:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meh - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:52] <exec> 08└─Dude half of americans treat having a winning vote like rooting for a winning sports team. No matter who wins the election, I've already won by being rich. I worry what will happen to trump's voters but their gloating will help me deal with the economic survivors guilt later on when I automate what...
[16:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:19] <exec> 08└─Surprise! Person who thinks voting isn't important is annoyed by people who think he's wrong.
[16:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:more left buttcheekhurt - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:31] <exec> 08└─Half of my posts? Math isn't your strong suit, anymore than reading comprehension. Do you even know what antipathy is? Here - let me help: an·tip·a·thy anˈtēpəTHē/ noun noun: antipathy; plural noun: antipathies a deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion. "his fundamen...
[16:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Solipsism FTL - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:32] <exec> 08└─Wow. It really easy to send you spiraling off into weird solipsistic rants. You've done it twice in this thread alone. I suspect a fragile ego.
[16:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Solipsism FTL - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:34] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus?
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[17:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Lets just be sure... - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:29] <exec> 08└─This does not mean that all loners are really smart people. :)
[17:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How can that be? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:37] <exec> 08└─When the Earths mantle cools off enough that the core stops... You won't need to worry about global warming any longer.
[17:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How can that be? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:39] <exec> 08└─A representative contribution from Runaway.
[17:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How can that be? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:41] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus again. Mod runaway down, make some meaningless post, and feel superior? What an idiot . . . .
[17:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"There should be a Law!" - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:52] <exec> 08└─The same reason that seat-belt design hasn't improved, or that innovation in house construction has stagnated. Government is setting the bar, and it is guaranteed to be low; government is forcing an organization to put into implementing its own ideas resources that could be instead put into implemen...
[17:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:"There should be a Law!" - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:54] <exec> 08└─The same reason that seat-belt design hasn't improved
[17:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"There should be a Law!" - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:57] <exec> 08└─You are wrong. The forms of these things are defined by law (regulation); they are not merely a set of standards on provable properties, which could take any effective form. Who is "we"? I don't know about you, but I put on a safety belt of my own accord, etc., and cars do indeed market their compet...
[17:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"There should be a Law!" - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:00] <exec> 08└─Standardization only works well when it enshrines existing practice that has been proven to work.
[17:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"There should be a Law!" - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:02] <exec> 08└─This has already been proven to work. So what's your point? Because it looks like your point is that you done fucked up and are too mentally weak to accept it so you are just going keep randomly moving the goal posts in the futile hope that maybe you'll get lucky. You aren't lucky.
[17:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:25] <exec> 08└─But driving on government road is still ok, right? You continue living in your libertarian bubble, you...
[17:38:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02'Pre-packs' - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:33] <exec> 08└─Substantially the same process is getting popular/notorious in the UK - know as 'pre-packs' https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Note the criticisms in that Wikipedia article: 'Pre-packs could be very easily abused. Bad management can plan for a prepack months in adv...
[17:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Business. - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:21] <exec> 08└─Did you know that this is quite easily possible with a great deal of auto-patching software you(yes you) use? Every single app on your phone is aware of your user identity if the company that made it wanted to fuck you over. Every single application with an authorization component can lock you out f...
[17:40:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Question that the summary didn't cover - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 348 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:41] <exec> 08└─> If it's the latter, I would consider this a positive step in the right direction, not a problem. That's because you are a selfish prick. State unemployment insurance is earned by employees while employed. Its taken out of their paycheck. Being denied unemployment benefits when you are legitimately...
[17:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Adding to suffering benefits the "authorities" - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:50] <exec> 08└─These people will now be unable to support themselves, unable to buy guns and generally be in perpetual poverty.
[17:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Because everyone uses one - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:39] <exec> 08└─That's what's great about the -p parameter in emacs :) "Hey, open with that user's settings over there, here."
[17:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Because everyone uses one - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:41] <exec> 08└─Should've put this in my first post :P But most of my custom emacs bindings either fall under 1) Assign a binding to something that doesn't have one, or has a multi-chord binding, to the reserved C-c series 2) Bind a new feature from a plugin. I try to limit tweaking existing bindings' behavior to d...
[17:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Because everyone uses one - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:43] <exec> 08└─emacs brands you as a member of a particular cult to start with... I suppose Autocad could make keybindings easier to transfer, say onto a USB stick, or, God forbid, "the Cloud," then you plug that into your colleague's machine and he can temporarily use your bindings. But, then, to make it really "...
[17:42:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Because we're used to it - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:49] <exec> 08└─And relearning unnecessary things is a waste of irreplacable time.
[17:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jabberwocky - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:07] <exec> 08└─Now a neural interface on the other hand...
[17:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score:1) 02Re:No need. - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:27] <exec> 08└─That works here and on slashdot because the average user here is much more intelligent than on facebook.
[17:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score:1) 02Adblock - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:04] <exec> 08└─I think many of us have been hesitant to recommend our favorite filtering tools to our friends because if everyone uses them they won't work that well anymore. Plus the technical know how to get such things working was like 3x more than turning on a computer so many of us didn't bother. Adblock is e...
[17:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another crackpot - 06 Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of life-saving maneuver Feb. 3, 1920 – Dec. 13, 2016 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:24] <exec> 08└─Every person who comes up with something useful for the medical field recently rejects the mainstream as fools. Just look at Heimlich, Mullis, Damadian, etc. Yet, the army of null hypothesis testing researchers parroting textbooks marches on, wasting tens of billions each year.
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[18:37:40] <exec> 08└─We don't even have a reliable, provable way of measuring how intelligent someone is. Rubbish.
[18:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Of course - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:41] <exec> 08└─People's thoughts are just too noisy for me to enjoy being exposed to them for extended periods of time, and too many at once can be a problem even for a very short time. That's why I like text, the writing process helps people filter some of that noise out.
[18:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Of course - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:44] <exec> 08└─> That's why I like text, the writing process helps people filter some of that noise out. And to make up for it you use the most unreadable font to inject your own noise into the text. Does being a loner also make you a narcissist?
[18:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02minor correction - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:46] <exec> 08└─smart people don't necessarily want to be isolated and alone, we just really hate being bothered by dumb people.
[18:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02He was always such a quiet guy - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:48] <exec> 08└─A loner, wanting to be by himself. Then, one day... HE SNAPPED!
[18:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He was always such a quiet guy - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:51] <exec> 08└─SoylentNoose: The Evolved Killer
[18:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Evo-psych half-science - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:53] <exec> 08└─I was going to do a mealy-mouthed half attack on this based on the abstract, and how strong the conclusion was given the nature of the evidence. Then I read the full paper and it's garbage in terms of actually supporting the conclusion. this image is really telling [wiley.com] Look at this chart. Ev...
[18:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Evo-psych half-science - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:55] <exec> 08└─Forbidden You don't have permission to access /store/10.1111/bjop.12181/asset/image_n/bjop12181-fig-0001.png on this server.
[18:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Evo-psych half-science - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:57] <exec> 08└─Are you referring to Figure 1 on page 11 (document page 685) of the pdf [wiley.com]? If so, I would have this interpretation: Smart people are, overall, unhappier than dumb people; however, smart people can find more happiness in a dense population, probably because they are able to simulate a lowe...
[18:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Evo-psych half-science - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:59] <exec> 08└─You're just jealous because you have friends.
[18:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Evo-psych half-science - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry, the website won't let us link images directly. But it's figure 1 on the article. Second, the figure 2 which does show the effect that the researchers talk about is roughly a factor of five smaller change than the effect you spoke of in the first graph. So yes, that is a rather weak thing to c...
[18:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That explains it... - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:04] <exec> 08└─I can't stand being around stupid people. I have to smoke a reefer, which lowers my IQ about 50 points, to socialize with people.
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That explains it... - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─Sounds about right. Cannabis makes my thought process go all haywire so even though it's therapeutic, I prefer to be alone while high. My social drug of choice is a few strong shots. Same effect, brings the IQ down to where I can socialize. I think there was even a study with better data that suppor...
[18:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Above average? - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:08] <exec> 08└─I think you mean that the community here believes themselves to be of above average intelligence.
[18:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:How can that be? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:19] <exec> 08└─Because Aristarchus is the only one with mod points that's fed up with the right wing circle jerk this place has become, right?
[18:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:How can that be? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:20] <exec> 08└─Global warming affects the atmosphere and the ocean, you stupid motherfucker, not the rock cycle. Except insofar as the weathering of exposed carbonite rock, etc. is concerned. You don't know shit about shit when it comes to earth science. Shut. Up. This isn't a case of censorship or "butbutbut MUH...
[18:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:"There should be a Law!" - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:34] <exec> 08└─You are wrong.
[18:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huh? - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:43] <exec> 08└─Well, it works better than the system they were using previously [youtube.com].
[18:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03evil_aaronm [5747] (Score:1) 02Re:Jeez, you people are negative - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:53] <exec> 08└─Small world. I also went to RIT/NTID. I found it ironic that a lunch room full of people who couldn't hear - over on the NTID side of campus - was so noisy. :-)
[18:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jeez, you people are negative - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:55] <exec> 08└─As a tech focused university, it shouldn't be surprising to find multiple people from RIT on a tech new site. ~RIT 2010 graduate, previous member of SSE
[18:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03evil_aaronm [5747] (Score:1) 02Re:Jeez, you people are negative - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:57] <exec> 08└─I'm hearing impaired - I was deaf before I got my cochlear implant - and I also wonder, at this stage of the game, what the point of this is. Nowadays, I just text whoever I want to talk to. I could call them up and video chat, if I wanted to, but SMS texting, or Apple's Message, are usually just ea...
[18:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:11] <exec> 08└─OP here. Thank you for articulating it much better than I ever could.
[18:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score:1) 02Re:Were the shareholders wiped out in the bankrupt - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:24] <exec> 08└─Owners of the "old GM", like owners of any bankrupt business in general, got nothing. That's what bankrupt means, the debts are larger than the assets, thus the owner owns no net value. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com [usatoday.com]
[18:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Seven yearld old - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:26] <exec> 08└─Well legally a 7 year old can't own anything, can't enter into any contract and requires a legal guardian for almost any action. The courts could agree then step in as legal guardian and give any and all assets to a 'responsible' entity to manage and deal with.
[18:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck You Soylent - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:04] <exec> 08└─You know.... usually I wouldn't bother feeding the troll. But obvious troll obviously doesn't know that HRD WAS free software for a LONG time. Not sure if it was open source or not. Then the core coordinator decided he could turn a buck by privatizing it. So, douchebag, you're probably welcome to in...
[18:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03BigotDetectorGoesBing! [5877] (Score:1) 02Bing! - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe because all self-proclaimed Muslims by necessity claim to obey Islam, which is not the religion of peace you probably believe it is. Islam is in fact a sociopolitical system that literally demands its adherents wage a worldwide war until "all religion is for Allah". The best single-source is P...
[18:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uber Trump & Friends - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:49] <exec> 08└─And put the rest of us against it.
[18:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Got one right 'cher! - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:53] <exec> 08└─but if Runaway is your yardstick for Christian extremist,
[18:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:already exists - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:59] <exec> 08└─You've got no legs!
[18:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You Are Fake News - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:13] <exec> 08└─> Trump has never called for a Muslim registry. Bull Fucking Shit The best you can say in his favor is that he's been happy to conflate a muslim database with a refugee database. But given many opportunities to deny a muslim database, he's steadfastly refused to rule it out. an MSNBC reporter asked...
[18:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ask a Wiccan - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:21] <exec> 08└─You have so many nemeses, perhaps it would help if you weren't a skid mark on the boxers of humanity yourself.
[18:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Ask a Wiccan - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:23] <exec> 08└─Almost all of my nemeses are nematodes, which why they never read my comments. Oh, what I would give for a worthy opponent! You know, some one capable of rational argument and not prone to playground insults. Seems all I get are ACs with potty training issues. Oh, well. We were talking about the me...
[18:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always liked the quote... - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:32] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone got fucked in the ass by a bull.
[18:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JavaDevGuy [5155] (Score:1) 02Why problems not solutions - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:38] <exec> 08└─I cannot help but notice a couple of things about most of the replies to this article. 1) While people are decrying the state of the field of economics please be clear that the discussion is of Macro-economics not Micro-economics. Micro-economics and the study of the behavior of price has multiple m...
[18:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Lack of something better - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:51] <exec> 08└─Remember those abominations that had the huge enter key and the backslash was located randomly near the spacebar... or even worse, on the same key as the front slash?
[18:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Premature optimization - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:10] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming that you're talking about autocomplete, not autocorrect. Looking at the screen is a small price to pay when you can expand something like s.ae to self.assertEqual. If you still mistrust autocomplete, you can always use more explicit options like Emacs abbrevs, which allows you to explic...
[18:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Premature optimization - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:11] <exec> 08└─You abbreviated abbreviation. tehehe
[18:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news ? You mean Fox news ? - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:41] <exec> 08└─So it's a question of the picture it paints and whether it is complete.
[18:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWs Always Double Down - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:58] <exec> 08└─Who the hell modded this drivel by jmorris up as "Insightful", of all things? I think someone really should step forward to explain this.
[18:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Even Remotely True - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:43] <exec> 08└─I first thought you were going to retort with some fake news bullshit, so you can understand my obvious relief when I saw that you pointed to The Daily Mail.
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[19:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02CGI TBM Porn - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:40] <exec> 08└─Totally safe for work [youtube.com] and worth the thirteen minutes of your life.
[19:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:3, Funny) 02Tunnels under cities - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:41] <exec> 08└─And instead of CARS you could have TRAINS No one has ever thought of THAT before, Muskie!
[19:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Of course - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:55] <exec> 08└─If anything, monospaced fonts are more readable...
[19:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:57] <exec> 08└─That might be more like ADHD...
[19:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:minor correction - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:00] <exec> 08└─I have no clue what you're talking about ... oh, wait ... a dog with a puffy tail.
[19:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:minor correction - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:02] <exec> 08└─Totally agree. I LOVED my graduate university days spent in an office with a table tennis table and 140+ IQ office mates who were as nutty as me. We had a ball and spent as much time together as possible. Then I went to the corporate IT world where I was very successful and even ended up in manageme...
[19:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:minor correction - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:04] <exec> 08└─140+ IQ
[19:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Evo-psych half-science - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this headline avoids Betteridge only on the technicality that it's phrased as a statement.
[19:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Evo-psych half-science - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:15] <exec> 08└─I don't know -- what I see (skimming the paper) is that one small result from a complex study is being hyped in news coverage simply because it's the most newsworthy, thus misrepresenting the study's conclusion. I'm not real impressed with the "savannah theory of happiness" (it strikes me as the sor...
[19:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You aren't any different from "dumb" people. - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:19] <exec> 08└─You two are full of yourselves. You aren't any different from "dumb" people. It isn't about "lowering your IQ" its about dis-inhibition. Intoxication has always been used to facilitate socialization. Liquor isn't called a social lubricant for nothing.
[19:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That explains it... - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:21] <exec> 08└─What a coincidence. We have to smoke some weed just so we can tolerate you.
[19:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Above average? - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:25] <exec> 08└─But do they? I haven't seen any scientific evidence of that.
[19:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dvader [1936] (Score:1) 02Evolution didn't do it - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:27] <exec> 08└─Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners I don't see how evolution "made smart people loners". That would imply that the "intelligence gene" would somehow up or downregulate the "reward from social activity" response. To do that, there would have to be an evolutionary BENEFIT from being...
[19:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How can that be? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:40] <exec> 08└─I was going to make a joke about how geothermal energy production is causing lithospheric cooling but this is one tough crowd.
[19:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:How can that be? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:41] <exec> 08└─Geothermal is clearly not a renewable resource. ;)
[19:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Goldilocks - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:44] <exec> 08└─Are we not in the zone? That would sure throw our search for ETs for a loop.
[19:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02peach rack ignition - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:18] <exec> 08└─I've been told that phones with speech-to-text conversion exist and are used by people who can speak but cannot hear well.
[19:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds good to me - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe not for us mortals, but what would prevent other companies of doing this if this creates a precedence?
[19:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free Software - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:21] <exec> 08└─Dude. HALF the time? WOW! You have been very, very lucky....
[19:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free Software - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:22] <exec> 08└─And don't get me started on the user interfaces and usability. FUCK ME the OS community suck as this so bad they could be making millions as prostitutes....
[19:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:they have to say this - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:12] <exec> 08└─You lumped muslims into a group. You collectively refer to over a quarter of the world's population as if they are like-minded, identical people with the same opinions.
[19:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:31] <exec> 08└─"Rationalism" in the sense you are using it should usually be specified as "Continental Rationalism", and the empiricism as "British Empiricism" The lineage of these Continental Libertarian Economic types runs more from the school of "Positivism" [wikipedia.org], roughly founded by Auguste Comte som...
[19:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Ask a Wiccan - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:50] <exec> 08└─Not being an economist, to me it looks as if economics is the study of a cross between game theory, psychology, and complexity theory. So it's not very surprising that no good theories exist. Any one of those is a tremendous problem to handle properly, and I don't think psychology has any valid mode...
[19:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Youtube HOWTO videos - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:09] <exec> 08└─it gets me down, it really does, when I'm trying to figure out how to do something, and all I can find is YouTubes.
[19:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Because it’s Good Enough™ - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:26] <exec> 08└─What about your mouse usage, eh?
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[20:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:CGI TBM Porn - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:29] <exec> 08└─That thing is just silly in an awesome way.
[20:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:CGI TBM Porn - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:31] <exec> 08└─Deep.
[20:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Tunnels under cities - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:34] <exec> 08└─SpaceX already thought of this, with their Hyperloop idea. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] This new Boring Company seems to be positioning itself for acquisition by SpaceX.
[20:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Monorails. - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:36] <exec> 08└─This just isn't very futuristic of Musk - whatever happened to Monorails! Now that has scifi cred ...
[20:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Air tunnels - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:38] <exec> 08└─Filled with flying cars. I'll be rich! Patent to be filed first thing tomorrow.
[20:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Because he's really smart? - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:40] <exec> 08└─Oh wait
[20:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Falcon 9 - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:42] <exec> 08└─He already has a machine to make holes in the ground. It's called Falcon 9.
[20:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Lets just be sure... - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─We don't even have a reliable, provable way of measuring how intelligent someone is. Rubbish.
[20:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Evo-psych half-science - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:13] <exec> 08└─A fair deeper analysis, but it's still pretty much bullshit to attribute that, sans evidence, to genetics, and the genetics, in turn, to a dual-mode selective pressure.
[20:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:That explains it... - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:17] <exec> 08└─Fanciful thought, what if Einstein avoided the Neils Bohr summer get togethers because even all those wildly smart physicists were too far beneath him. Even with all the free beer [ixquick-proxy.com]?
[20:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Evolution didn't do it - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:23] <exec> 08└─People misunderstand evolution all the time. Evolution doesn't make people or organisms do things so much as it punishes things that get in the way of reproduction. If a given trait doesn't impact the ability to reproduce, then evolutionary pressures don't apply. If you can get laid by being very go...
[20:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Polite reminder - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:25] <exec> 08└─Every time there's an article related to "intelligence" there are pages of posts of 1st person accounts explaining how intelligent the author is. Particularly when it involves having to put up with the rest of us tiresome plebs. This is a polite reminder to STFU. Your a moran.
[20:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Polite reminder - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:27] <exec> 08└─You're* Some of us are smarter then all of us.
[20:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02One thing I know - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:29] <exec> 08└─Not to be pretentious, but I know I am above average intelligence, but my biggest problem is not socializing with others but having to explain myself in terms others will grasp, as a metaphor or to go back and explain the logic I used to help others to see the conclusion I came to. I play pen and pa...
[20:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:One thing I know - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:32] <exec> 08└─my biggest problem is not socializing with others but having to explain myself in terms others will grasp
[20:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:How can that be? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:47] <exec> 08└─If we're gonna be pedantic, neither is solar. However, our world's inner heat, to say nothing of its central star, will far, far outlast the human race. ...on bad days I sometimes think the average discarded Yoplait container will outlast the human race :(
[20:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bruce Willis - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:49] <exec> 08└─I saw a movie about this exact thing. What we need to do is send nukes down a deep hole and reignite the core. Perhaps a job for the currently out of work coal miners; you know, salt of the earth types.
[20:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:"There should be a Law!" - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:04] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that the US doesn't mandate them to be a in a certain form other than that there be a belt across the lap and one across the shoulder. There are at least 2 designs I've seen in cars, but one of which has largely died out because it didn't work. If somebody comes up with a better solu...
[20:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:"There should be a Law!" - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:05] <exec> 08└─Who is "we"? I don't know about you, but I put on a safety belt of my own accord, etc., and cars do indeed market their competitive edge in safety tests, etc. There is a strong market for such things, not because the government mandates it, but rather because people do not want to die.
[20:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huh? - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:14] <exec> 08└─The deaf already use existing text messaging. How does this real time stuff really make things better for the deaf? Does being deaf somehow magically make it better to see someone repeatedly type and backspace through stuff (maybe even for minutes) and eventually not actually send anything? I'm old...
[20:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huh? - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:17] <exec> 08└─The deaf can use text messaging without this real time thing. That's what the deaf already do. How does this really make things better for the deaf?
[20:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:45] <exec> 08└─One cannot claim legal immunity from previous actions because of a supposed "change of identity" while simultaneously continuing to benefit legally from the previous identity's actions.
[20:39:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Emissions guarantee? - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 803 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:54] <exec> 08└─Its a federal requirement to guarantee emissions parts for ten years, or fifteen years for some more exotic models. I suppose WRT the ignition key problem if they get away with that then anyone with a worn out cat conv will be out of luck. I'm sure there's already a lot of pencil whipping WRT "wear...
[20:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02good job AMD - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:20] <exec> 08└─good job for recognizing that FOSS is the future(or present, actually).
[20:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Business. - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:49] <exec> 08└─For some reason I've never trusted cloud storage of data...and I don't use gmail...and I don't (yet) have a smart phone. But while I do, to the extent feasible, keep myself from being exposed to this problem, if a company ever did this to me I would use extra care to not only publicize what they had...
[20:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:I was actually coming to post this ^ - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:22] <exec> 08└─Well, it's not meaningless, but it's less impressive that it appears to be on the face. Much less.
[20:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is IBM singled out in the summary? - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:48] <exec> 08└─So instead they're going to get Oracle to build it? PLEASE. My experience is that IBM stuff at least *works*, even if it is unreasonably expensive. Oracle...well, it's expensive.
[20:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mises Institute - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:52] <exec> 08└─While I mostly agree with your qualifiers, I can't say that I agree with your characterization of the Mises folks as coming out of Positivism. To the contrary, the link I noted in my previous post from the Mises website explicitly rejects Positivism, embraces (Continental) Rationalism, and views emp...
[20:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a science - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:58] <exec> 08└─(((von Mises)))!
[20:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Losing its Way - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that Phoenix666. Economics is about creating models (typically with lots of Greek letters and Lagrangian optimization under constraint). It's also about testing the models empirically using stats and p-values and Beta coefficients. I'm not saying that economics cannot err, or be abused de...
[20:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Because everyone uses one - 06Why Do We All Still Use QWERTY Keyboards? - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:30] <exec> 08└─If closing and reopening all the necessary files is a big pain, and unbinding and rebinding everything in a running session to a different config doesn't work cleanly, yeah you sound kind of SOL :P Emacs is supposed to have a "desktop save" feature where you can close and reopen it and it still has...
[20:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:A war on alternative viewpoints - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:54] <exec> 08└─Something I briefly worry about from time to time is if we already actually killed all the humans long ago and if it's nothing but us lizard people left.
[20:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Because it's proprietary - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:29] <exec> 08└─Requirements are here [slyip.com].
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[21:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02A third source - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:27] <exec> 08└─Business insider has some detail on what is meant when they say that the attacker was a cop. "Turkey's interior minister identified the gunman as 22-year-old Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, a member of the Ankara police department's riot unit who graduated from İzmir Rüştü Ünsal Police Academy in 2014...
[21:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The price of meddling - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:28] <exec> 08└─One should know by now that meddling in the Mid. E. multiplies your headaches.
[21:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02on a much smaller scale... - 06Voyaging Before GPS - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:36] <exec> 08└─Walked out of camp one moonless, clear night and proceeded to get turned around in second-growth pine trees. Like some ethnic jokes, they all look the same! Found a clearing, found Polaris (I was nearly completely turned around) and walked back. Not a big deal, but this was long before GPS and I mig...
[21:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Finding Polaris for Big Dumb Idiots - 06Voyaging Before GPS - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:39] <exec> 08└─A reminder for everyone who forgot: http://www.instructables.com [instructables.com] http://www.space.com [space.com]
[21:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:on a much smaller scale... - 06Voyaging Before GPS - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:41] <exec> 08└─That works fine in some parts of the country, but around here you're likely to have to walk a very long way in order to see the sky. Which means that if it is so confusing that you get turned around one way, you're probably not going to find the stars very helpful on the way back.
[21:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This didn't mention testicles - 06Voyaging Before GPS - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:43] <exec> 08└─To get a feeling for what the wayfinder is doing all this time with his testicles, it helps to understand ocean swells. These enormous formations are powered by distant storms and steady trade winds and shouldn’t be confused with surface waves which change direction as the local wind shifts. Swell...
[21:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This didn't mention testicles - 06Voyaging Before GPS - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:45] <exec> 08└─I remember this story from some years ago. Later I think it was determined that the wayfinder was just goofing on the observer and made the whole "angle of the dangle" thing up for his own entertainment. It was somewhat of a relief when it wasn't mentioned in tfs.
[21:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This didn't mention testicles - 06Voyaging Before GPS - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─Link to the debunking?
[21:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Tunnels under cities - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:00] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound as cool as making a bunch of underground roads for solar cars.
[21:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02Subways are for little dirty people - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:01] <exec> 08└─"That doesn't sound as cool as making a bunch of underground roads for solar cars." Clearly... You can get in your little cocoon and not have to smell the little people, like on a subway.
[21:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Monorails. - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:04] <exec> 08└─$SIMPSONS_MONORAIL_COPY_AND_PASTE
[21:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Tunnels - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:09] <exec> 08└─Don't see how a tunnel lessens traffic in anyway. It can hide it, and maybe by using non surface real estate lessen ground congestion but traffic is still traffic no matter where it is hidden.
[21:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tunnels - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:11] <exec> 08└─Fewer intersections = less gridlock. Think in 3D.
[21:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Tunnels - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:14] <exec> 08└─Like the AC said, you have fewer intersections. You're also freed of the usual space constraints that come from being on the surface as your rail can go directly under most buildings without issues. So, you can run the lines on top of each other or you can have interchanges as well. You can't really...
[21:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02road rebuilder - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:16] <exec> 08└─Note to Elon -- there's a lot of beat up roads here in the NorthEast. Rather than re-inventing the tunnel boring machine, why not build an automated road repair machine -- eats old roads and extrudes new ones on the back end. Shouldn't use any more fuel than the Falcon 9! Something like this exists,...
[21:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:road rebuilder - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:18] <exec> 08└─>> Why else does the new surface last less than 10 years before it has to be repeated? Must be graft. We don't have that problem out here in the Southwest. Of course, we don't have frost heaves or use salt either. Wait a minute...
[21:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02There are a lot of problems with tunnels - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:20] <exec> 08└─They're very expensive to make and they are NOT permanent. Especially in southern Cali. The earth does move - sometimes quite violently. Perhaps that's his business model though? Put it in cheap, make a killing on return calls.
[21:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02slow - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 1597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:22] <exec> 08└─Why are TBM so slow? Compared to what water cutting machines can slice off or lasers can vaporize or even just CNCs driven by powerful motors can cut, I've always wondered why a TBM doesn't move as fast as a waterjet cutter sometimes can. Why can't you have an array of redundant waterjet cutters on...
[21:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score:2) 02Re:Lets just be sure... - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:35] <exec> 08└─The great thing about being a loner is that when you assert that you are the smartest person in the room, there is nobody around to argue with you. That said, I am pretty intelligent by most measures, and I am definitely very introverted. I usually like to have at least one day a week where I don't...
[21:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:39] <exec> 08└─Does it hurt to be that stupid?
[21:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:41] <exec> 08└─Not a very clever troll. I see GP's text in same font as other posts here (although I do remember seeing his stuff monospaced back when SN first started). You must have your font selection messed up.
[21:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:minor correction - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:48] <exec> 08└─The nose. You hit it squarely. I can hang regularly only with people with a 130 IQ or higher. Even that's mathematically equivalent to an average person picking their friends from the short bus though. The very few good friends I have are all 145 or better and exceed me in some area that it would ta...
[21:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Above average? - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:06] <exec> 08└─I think the community here is definitely above average, overall. I think part of the problem with such a statement is that most people think of "below average" as some sort of insult. I still recall a little while back when I was describing a family member to a friend and referred to her as "below a...
[21:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Polite reminder - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:12] <exec> 08└─* also, "moraine"
[21:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:One thing I know - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think my experiences run parallel to yours. I have a handful of friends who I truly enjoy spending time with. I've known most of them for about 15 years. We all enjoy a similar train of thought most of the time with enough variations that it's quite insightful to run things past them. We usu...
[21:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Being in nature ? - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:18] <exec> 08└─Dancing delights us. Being in nature brings us joy. And, for most people, frequent contact with good friends makes us feel content. That is, unless you're really, really smart.
[21:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Define "intelligence" - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:20] <exec> 08└─Now, disclaimer: I consistently test in the 140-150 range when taking IQ tests, usually right smack in the middle around 145. I also prefer to be with a small group of close people, preferably around the same mental level as me. And yes, being around stupid people is draining and painful. But alone?...
[21:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Define "intelligence" - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:22] <exec> 08└─> What is intelligence in this context? Not getting caught. Ted Kaczynski started his bombing spree in 1978 and didn't get caught until 1995. Smart man! Going to be the science advisor in the new administration.
[21:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Define "intelligence" - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:24] <exec> 08└─Now, disclaimer: I consistently test in the 140-150 range when taking IQ tests, usually right smack in the middle around 145.
[21:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02It's the smell. - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:26] <exec> 08└─can't see where they dealt with B.O. as a confounding variable. Loner lonely, but smelly is likely to be alone, no matter what their IQ.
[21:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02How do all of you know your IQ? - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 1910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:29] <exec> 08└─This is a serious question. Already I see lots of comments here quoting exact IQ thresholds -- "I only hang out with folks 130 IQ or over," etc., etc. I've only taken two actual IQ tests in my life. One was in elementary school and given by a professional psychometrician, whom my school district bro...
[21:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AudioGuy [24] (Score:2) 02Seems problematic on the network layer - 06The FCC Just Approved a Landmark New Way for Deaf People to Communicate - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:25] <exec> 08└─I'm all for having the option for this mode available. The changes required to do this are trivial at the program level. But at the network layer, forcing a send of every single byte if tcp is used means wasting 1500 bytes for each character sent. I can't see this becoming the default case. Someone...
[21:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:42] <exec> 08└─If ownership in the new General Motors Company was indeed given to the former creditors of the old General Motors Corporation, as partial compensation for what they were owed, the claim of a "new identity" is, in my opinion, justified.
[21:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score:1) 02Re:So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:44] <exec> 08└─I drove a Jeep renegade a while back, it had "SINCE 1941" in big letters on the dashboard. The new GM wouldn't be able to do that.
[21:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score:1) 02Re:sounds good to me - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:51] <exec> 08└─(or Mr. Robot season 1 or what have you)
[21:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How long since the last US revolution? - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:58] <exec> 08└─I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!
[21:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:they have to say this - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:29] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the other site, I do know that I don't tolerate it at all. I will stand up to the bigotry and racism, as you just have. Thank you.
[21:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a science - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:57] <exec> 08└─(Seriously, Austrian Circle, dude! Look it up. )
[21:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score:2) 02Re:Always liked the quote... - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:20] <exec> 08└─So, you are saying inflation is definitely caused by Aliens?
[21:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Reverse assumptions - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah you read that list correctly. Thanks for that info, always enjoy learning a new thing. Original point remains same, though :)
[21:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Reverse assumptions - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:31] <exec> 08└─If we were looking for another Asian-themed "thing that isn't a real thing" there's always fan death [wikipedia.org], heh.
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[22:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02unlike Venezuela and India - 06Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:27] <exec> 08└─In Venezuela and India, cash is only for criminals. /article.pl?sid=16/12/13/0943223 [soylentnews.org] /article.pl?sid=16/11/09/0433215 [soylentnews.org]
[22:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's what every currency should strive to be - 06Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:28] <exec> 08└─...undermine America's long-standing ability to disrupt the financial networks of its foes and even permanently upend parts of the global financial system.
[22:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trump is like Bush and Cheney - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:38] <exec> 08└─They have "can-do" notions that don't work in the Middle East. This is where a lawyer like Nixon or Obama is who we want running our foreign policy. Lawyers can be nuisances, but they're trained in studying all the nuances of a situation involving various interested parties and principles, and prepa...
[22:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Franz Ferdinand All Over Again - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:41] <exec> 08└─Well, shit, barely more than a century after the fact, here comes another World War. I wonder how THIS one's gonna turn out?
[22:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Franz Ferdinand All Over Again - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:43] <exec> 08└─Every time something bad happens people on SN say the same thing.
[22:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Franz Ferdinand All Over Again - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:45] <exec> 08└─wooden ships? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I found these berries, see?
[22:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Franz Ferdinand All Over Again - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:47] <exec> 08└─here comes another World War. I wonder how THIS one's gonna turn out?
[22:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:on a much smaller scale... - 06Voyaging Before GPS - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:58] <exec> 08└─but around here you're likely to have to walk a very long way in order to see the sky.
[22:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:This didn't mention testicles - 06Voyaging Before GPS - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:03] <exec> 08└─You need a link? Why? Testicles get you into problems, not out of them.
[22:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Tunnels under cities - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:18] <exec> 08└─I think they tried that in Dublin. It was Jimmy Cricket who came up with the idea originally.
[22:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:road rebuilder - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:30] <exec> 08└─190years is wishful thinking. Here in NYC, they mill the road, wait a few weeks or months as you mentioned, and then pave it. Problem is, the road always fails in the winter at the seams where the pavement overlaps. I have seen roads paved in the spring/summer only to need extensive patching along t...
[22:38:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02Re:Lets just be sure... - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:45] <exec> 08└─We don't even have a reliable, provable way of measuring how intelligent someone is. Rubbish.
[22:38:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tathra [3367] 02minor correction - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:53] <exec> 08└─smart people don't necessarily want to be isolated and alone, we just really hate being bothered by dumb people.
[22:39:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Evo-psych half-science - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 811 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:01] <exec> 08└─I was going to do a mealy-mouthed half attack on this based on the abstract, and how strong the conclusion was given the nature of the evidence. Then I read the full paper and it's garbage in terms of actually supporting the conclusion. this image is really telling [wiley.com] Look at this chart. Ev...
[22:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Evo-psych half-science - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:10] <exec> 08└─talk on the telephone
[22:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That explains it... - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:16] <exec> 08└─proper image link, [nww2m.com] without the hella funky non-functional proxy redirect.
[22:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Above average? - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:22] <exec> 08└─Of course I'm of above average intelligence. I mean, the vast majority of living beings are bacteria. Do you know the intelligence level of bacteria? I mean, I could be the dumbest person in the world, and still would be of above average intelligence! You just have to choose your ensemble appropriat...
[22:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution didn't do it - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:26] <exec> 08└─You have a good point, it seems like this study has things backwards. The evolutionary pressure comes from being intelligent being of survival benefit if you are a loner. If you are dumb and alone, you are less likely to survive than the smart. This would correlate alone seeking genes with intellige...
[22:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution didn't do it - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:28] <exec> 08└─Also, as far as I know, there is no "intelligence gene"...
[22:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken [5985] (Score:1) 02Re:Polite reminder - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:33] <exec> 08└─"than"
[22:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Insight vs. Coherence - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:39] <exec> 08└─It looks to me like you would benefit from more editing. Not censorship, mind you. It's my gut feeling that people of above average intelligence are used to their raw stream of thought passing as coherent throughout their educations. People below average, however, had to train themselves to form coh...
[22:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How can that be? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:52] <exec> 08└─Still an idiot. OP isn't right wing. What does it tell you when you hate the same people the right wingers hate?
[22:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:How can that be? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:54] <exec> 08└─Just so you know - I don't fuck stupid mothers. But, I presume that you know a lot about shit, so I'm just not going to argue with you, Azuma. That whole freeze peach thing went over my head. Or, did it go down the toilet? Spam mod away, LMAO
[22:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:How can that be? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:56] <exec> 08└─Somehow, despite knowing almost exactly what you'd say, you still managed to disappoint me :( That's talent, and/or complete moral degeneracy. Not sure which.
[22:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cyclical? - 06Earth's Mantle is Cooling Faster Than Expected - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:03] <exec> 08└─new volcanic crust forming on the seafloor has gotten thinner over the last 170 million years.
[22:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a different entity - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:40:53] <exec> 08└─I don't even know where to begin to explain what's wrong with your lack of logic. So the company is a buffer, good then let's make the company post for it. Well, no because it's not the same company. But it's the same people! Let's make the people pay then, they're obviously abusing the system! Well...
[22:40:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:40:58] <exec> 08└─In bankruptcy proceedings, assets can be sold to satisfy creditors. Patents and copyrights can be sold.
[22:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:03] <exec> 08└─The article oversimplifies what happened. It glosses over the difference between Chapter 7 bankruptcy, in which a business's assets are sold off to satisfy creditors, and Chapter 11 bankruptcy, in which a business continues, possibly under the ownership of its creditors. https://en.wikipedia.org
[22:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So ... - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, you missed Daimler-Benz, followed by the carpetbagger years of Cerberus Capital Management and Nardelli (from Home Depot) who nearly ran Chrysler (including Jeep) to the ground before the government gave the pieces to Fiat. For Jeep there might even be more (didn't dig back...)
[22:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Pre-packs' - 06Why General Motors is Asking the Supreme Court to Say It's Only 7 Years Old - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:17] <exec> 08└─> If a building is found to be built incorrectly after completion, what you find is the project company has been wound up, has no assets to speak of, and any guarantees are worthless, and the parent company has no obligations. I was told in architecture school that it hasn't always been like this. W...
[22:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:It's an http-only club! - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:35] <exec> 08└─There are so many other more exciting protocols on the internet
[22:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:dumb commenters today - 06AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:44] <exec> 08└─Intel bought out Altera, second biggest FPGA maker, to leverage their FPGA's for this type of stuff. And interestingly enough, Altera is no more. It's all Intel branded now.
[22:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Streisand effect - 06Negative Software Review Results in Company Bricking Reviewers Software - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:16] <exec> 08└─Some people learn slowly. I will leave this here in case some of them care: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:they have to say this - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:52] <exec> 08└─It's far easier to argue with a bigot than it is with a SJW.
[22:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score:2) 02Re:Working as intended - 06Michigan Unemployment Agency's 93% False Positive Automated Fraud Detection Rate - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:42] <exec> 08└─I feel like you could save a lot of money by streamlining the systems the State uses to pay people. So, legislators and the unemployed are equally dependent on the same system for their money. I bet the false positive problem would go away pretty much instantly.
[22:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Flaw in the premise. - 06Economic Science has been hijacked. - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:56] <exec> 08└─There is a deep-seated tendency for people to misapply physical science techniques to the social sciences. This has resulted in mainstream economics degenerating into a modern day numerology. However there are intellectually sound schools of economics that do not attempt to treat human actions like...
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[23:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:unlike Venezuela and India - 06Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:22] <exec> 08└─Same reason the USA got rid of bills above $100.
[23:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:unlike Venezuela and India - 06Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:23] <exec> 08└─That sort of mentality is toxic to the freedoms and convenience of ordinary citizens. We shouldn't be sacrificing freedoms and inconveniencing people just because bad guys like to use bills above $100.
[23:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:unlike Venezuela and India - 06Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:25] <exec> 08└─Ordinary Americans are too poor to have the luxury of carrying a $100 bill. But please continue championing the right of billionaires to carry as much petty cash in $100 bills as they want.
[23:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Malicious? - 06Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:28] <exec> 08└─Zarate says, is that terrorists and other enemies might create one so powerful and so untrackable, that they'll no longer need the global banking system, which the U.S. uses to financially starve them. This has yet to happen, but America's defense and intelligence agencies are already trying to figu...
[23:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Malicious? - 06Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:30] <exec> 08└─Zarate says, is that terrorists and other enemies might create one so powerful and so untrackable, that they'll no longer need the global banking system, which the U.S. uses to financially starve them. This has yet to happen, but America's defense and intelligence agencies are already trying to figu...
[23:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cash is for Luddites - 06Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:33] <exec> 08└─I have no bitcoin and I don't want any bitcoin. Gonna go spend some cash now.
[23:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Franz Ferdinand All Over Again - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:45] <exec> 08└─Is it some variation of "First post"?
[23:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Franz Ferdinand All Over Again - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:48] <exec> 08└─Well, shit, barely more than a century after the fact, here comes another World War.
[23:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02And in other news - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:50] <exec> 08└─The moslems are at it yet again! http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] Remember, it's a religion of peace. Though only eventually, once they kill off all those pesky infidels. Then they will have their peace.
[23:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And in other news - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:53] <exec> 08└─If you defame Islam or the prophet, such as drawing a cartoon, his followers will kill you in the name of god. If you don't say Islam is a religion of peace, you will be killed.
[23:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:And in other news - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:55] <exec> 08└─The war has already started. It will not be fought on a battlefield with guns. They will wear the world down with their numbers, force migrate into countries, push everyone else out and kill those who oppose them. Look at what happens to people in prison with a majority muslim population. They sudde...
[23:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No actual death scene - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:57] <exec> 08└─Does anybody know why it is so rare to see an actual shooting on video? This video (like pretty much every other one) shows the aftermath of the shooting, but not the actual shooting itself. I'd write it off as cultural sensitivity to death, but we see tons of it staged in TV and movies all the time...
[23:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No actual death scene - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:59] <exec> 08└─The pictures of this event were absurd. The guy murdered someone and then had the trigger discipline to get his finger up so he didn't shoot anyone else by accident.
[23:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No actual death scene - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:01] <exec> 08└─Like the Islamic State doesn't have enough footage already without our help. These videos would be used by them for propaganda. There's no point in releasing it.
[23:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:on a much smaller scale... - 06Voyaging Before GPS - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe he lives in Michigan.
[23:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Clouds and islands - 06Voyaging Before GPS - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:18] <exec> 08└─I noticed in the tropics that you just have to look at the clouds to know where islands are, long before you can see the islands themselves. I guess it should be possible to 'see' islands from at least 50 kilometers (~25 nautical miles) away.
[23:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:slow - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:48] <exec> 08└─Think outside of the box: nukes!
[23:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Above average? - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:34] <exec> 08└─Even many of the trolls.
[23:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Above average? - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:36] <exec> 08└─Even many of the trolls.
[23:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Above average? - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:38] <exec> 08└─Meaningful engaged participation on /pol/ is only possible for the cognitive elite.
[23:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Above average? - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:40] <exec> 08└─Welcome to Soylent News, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
[23:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Above average? - 06Evolution Made Really Smart People Long to Be Loners - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:43] <exec> 08└─Aren't some of those bacteria in the whitehouse? That explains even more.
[23:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is IBM singled out in the summary? - 06Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:21] <exec> 08└─The Canadian government is going through a major pain with an awful system that is Oracle software, installed and configured by IBM. The worst of both worlds.
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