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[00:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:55] <exec> 08└─Buying beer in a dry county after a 10 hour drive? Jeez, just consider the ramifications of that. I'll head to a restaurant, order a chicken fried steak, ask for a beer, and get told "um, you can't buy a beer for 30 miles around here" They should post signs. When I'm doing a long drive I would love...
[00:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:05] <exec> 08└─The article says 6.4 * 4.6 diameter; not sure but that is probable the OD (outer diameter) this thing has conical ends so from a total outside ~116m^3 it is probably closer to ~100m^3 internal living space. Maybe something line the https://bigelowaerospace.com [bigelowaerospace.com] would be b...
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[00:21:07] <exec> 08└─That module seems quite small to be suitable as somewhere to stay for longer periods. Considering there's a lot of stuff to store in terms of food and life support. And how will they build the radiation protection? the radiation in LEO is a health concern. The radiation at the Moon is terminal whene...
[00:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:09] <exec> 08└─How can we get superheroes if we're not routinely exposing scientists and astronauts to radiation sources?
[00:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:23] <exec> 08└─You city dwellers keep thinking goats are cute, but we killed them for a damn good reason. They cause harm, both directly to humans and indirectly by killing our livestock. We even burned all the forest off of Mount Monadnock just to wipe out a goat herd. The mountain is still bald 2 centuries later...
[00:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:25] <exec> 08└─Googling "You city dwellers keep thinking" returns exactly 4 SN hits ... (I remembered wolves, mosquitoes and now goats) Is that an original SN colloquialism, or did I miss the original source?
[00:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:27] <exec> 08└─As far as I know this copypasta started with wolf anon, which is what their response to mosquito anon [soylentnews.org] seems to indicate.
[00:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:29] <exec> 08└─The shotgun part is self explanatory. For rifles, they specify "high-powered", which would mean more powerful than standard, MBR calibers like the .308, so .338 Lapua Magnum at the very least. Perhaps these goats have body armor? But then why would a shotgun work?
[00:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:31] <exec> 08└─As explained in this more detailed article [outdoor-society.com], mountain goats were introduced to the region in 1925. So, there is some justification controlling their numbers. Still, they are native to North America and their native range is not that far away.
[00:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:34] <exec> 08└─Shotguns (with 00 Buck) work for exactly One Goat. From then on you would never get in range. You need a pretty flat shooting rifle and a good set of lungs and legs to take Goats. On the other hand, if they just want to kill them off, and leave them in the field, choppers with a door gunner would do...
[00:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:50] <exec> 08└─Internet Draft is meant for drafts. RFC is meant for standards. "Request For Comments" is an anachronistic name from the days when ARPANET was the exclusive playground of rich old white men.
[00:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:52] <exec> 08└─Old? Rich? Steve Cocker was a 24-year-old grad student when he wrote RFC 1 [ietf.org].
[00:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:54] <exec> 08└─| | _______________________|@\ |@ \ *Crocker |@ C |@ / ~~~~~__________________|@/ ~~~~ ~~
[00:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─See now you're getting it! /s
[00:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Wetter Than Previously Thought - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:50] <exec> 08└─τοῦ νῦν εἰρημένου.
[00:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much CO2 Does a Single Volcano Emit? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:43] <exec> 08└─> But without an atmosphere, wouldn't the clouds fall down? Of course not. Water drops are heavier than air, so the clouds are just a Sino-liberal conspiracy.
[00:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 And One E-bike to Rule Them All: Trek Super Commuter+ 8S Review - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:34] <exec> 08└─Econoboxes still have woefully sluggish auto transmissions, which coupled with their small engines make any good hill quite a pain. I'd rather keep my manual Versa than get anything auto under $20k.
[00:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After 32 Years, the Death of Microsoft Paint - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:34] <exec> 08└─They're doing this to CADCAM software too. They remove the keyboard navigable dropdown menus and replace them with evil ribbons.
[00:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After 32 Years, the Death of Microsoft Paint - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:35] <exec> 08└─The thing that Mozilla has against it is that it lack one process per tab. That method handles some issues a lot better.
[00:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electricity Shake-Up Could Save Consumers 'Up to £40bn' - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:29] <exec> 08└─Think more like the first house have solar panels but have produce more energy than they need. So they could send some to run the neighbors AC in the afternoon. And at a later time when they have a small dip, they could buy some from the neighbor which buys it from the grid. Thing is, there are coun...
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[01:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:55] <exec> 08└─The Federation of Private Sector Employees has called a 24-hour strike to protest the decision while the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (ESEE) said it will appeal it to the Council of State.
[01:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:56] <exec> 08└─A dude wanders into a convenience store in dry country, grumbles "no cerveza" and wanders out.
[01:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:59] <exec> 08└─who is john galt
[01:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:01] <exec> 08└─But then nobody would go there. You see, it's Big Oil™ who lobbies for dry zones, because that means people have to drive more and buy more gas.
[01:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:03] <exec> 08└─Although people make fun of Greece over this, it's no better in many other European countries. Planning to fly into Germany, Austria, France, or some other countries on the weekend? Remember to bring your own food, because nothing will be open. In some cities you do get larger stores that stay open...
[01:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:05] <exec> 08└─Try to get any shopping done in Norway.. :-) Shops closed when you quit the job and only Saturday to do it on otherwise. No rest from Friday work there..
[01:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:07] <exec> 08└─Who loves Big Brother, What is John Galt. Strange as it may seem, they give actors nowadays very peculiar names.
[01:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:10] <exec> 08└─I never would have thought that Europeans live with such archaic laws. At least here in the US, "Blue Laws" are aimed at "sinful" things, like alcohol. When I was a kid, most stores were closed on Sundays, but there were always places where you could find life's necessities. In fact, there was a hug...
[01:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:12] <exec> 08└─Ah, yeah, I did Vienna -> Oslo on a weekend, from one nothing-open-zone to the next. Luckily I still had the food bricks... "One Square Meal", like an MRE but with less variety and flavour. "If a crow wants to fly down the Oslofjorden, he must carry his provisions with him" - Filip Sheridanssen.
[01:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:14] <exec> 08└─It seems to be religious-based, the church wants the weekend to be free of anything but praying on Sunday. Or wanted, I don't know if they care any more now, and I've yet to meet anyone who actually thinks it's a good idea. It's just stuck there because of inertia, "we've always done it this way".
[01:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:16] <exec> 08└─Europe is modern. They can accept a job, paying a living wage, without fear that they'll be scheduled to work every week-end and never do anything with their kids.
[01:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:19] <exec> 08└─When Athens introduced a law [in 2014] allowing Sunday shopping in 10 tourist regions, Greek Orthodox Church leaders called it heretical and members of the Federation of Greek Private Employees said it was an infringement on workers’ rights.
[01:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:21] <exec> 08└─Our local Walmart was open on our Fourth of July national holiday (Independence Day). Lucky for me, I was able to get a refill propane tank for the gas grill, which ran out when we started cooking dinner. The store was nearly empty and the manager who helped me was bitching about the lack of blue la...
[01:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:34] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between being a hero and doing the suicide thing that can be avoided. And where death has no benefit for any party. It's known there's lethal radiation spikes regularly. It's known how intense these peaks are and how to build radiation protection to mitigate it. So it seems fool...
[01:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:35] <exec> 08└─Found the guy whose never read a comic book.
[01:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:57] <exec> 08└─And even more data here https://pubs.usgs.gov [usgs.gov] The area was taken over by the Federal Government for a National Park in 1994. The first thing the feds did was shut down hunting, and thereby remove any check on the Goat population. In this document the NPS d...
[01:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:58] <exec> 08└─They really mean flat shooting because of the range needed. Hard to get near a wily goat. You don't really need a big caliber. 264, 270, 280, and 7mm Remington Magnum are common goat guns in Alaska. Relatively small bullets with a big charge of powder behind for go fast go far.
[01:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:18] <exec> 08└─Would you believe Steve Crocker [wikipedia.org] and Joe Cocker [wikipedia.org] were born in the same year.
[01:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:56] <exec> 08└─I see the connection now. Warmbier dies -> travel ban -> (warm) beer festival is canceled
[01:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe they got the recipe for Miller Lite.
[01:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:00] <exec> 08└─Combining stories is what editors do. They're like a DJ mixing songs. Another brilliant mashup: UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director [soylentnews.org].
[01:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon Wetter Than Previously Thought - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:21] <exec> 08└─Is that you, Thales of Miletus?
[01:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much CO2 Does a Single Volcano Emit? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:16] <exec> 08└─Your ignorance of the oceans is astonishing.
[01:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After 32 Years, the Death of Microsoft Paint - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:10] <exec> 08└─...That's not how GIMP works. "Save" saves the project in its native format, like Audacity and a lot of other programs. To save as a different format you use "export"...
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[02:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:58] <exec> 08└─"accessible luxury" brand is buying a "high fashion" shoe and accessories brand
[02:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:20] <exec> 08└─It is stupidity all the way up and down. Back in the day, we had two major grocery stores in town. They would "collude" and one would open in the morning on Thanksgiving and the other would cover Christmas. Very few large tickets, lots of one or two item ones. So people who had forgotten something s...
[02:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:22] <exec> 08└─Rejecting corporate slavery is archaic?
[02:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe it relates to good old times when people lived together, in families, and had plenty of food in house. If some supplies run out, they can be borrowed from the neighbor or just ignored and something else can be made instead. People depended on stores only for occasional, large purchases of basi...
[02:21:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:50] <exec> 08└─Exactly. [outdoorsdirectory.com] This whole problem is solvable by issuing hunting licenses. People would Pay for the privledge, do all the work, and put the harvest to good use. Leave it to the government and they will waste both treasure and goats, and accomplish nothing.
[02:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:01] <exec> 08└─"Seems to me that if you have too many wolves in one place, and too many goats in another, you can solve your problems with a truck." Sir, it's plainly apparent that you have never attempted to load a truck with either sort of critter.
[02:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:02] <exec> 08└─An adult billy goat in rut with full natural horns is a bona-fide walking menace to any other species native to north america. Anyone that doubts it has certainly never had to beat one off mano a mano. Even the grizzlies suddenly discover something very interesting in the other direction - not on si...
[02:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:04] <exec> 08└─The shotgun part is self explanatory. For rifles, they specify "high-powered"
[02:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:04] <exec> 08└─"Maybe they got the recipe for Coors." FTFY!
[02:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:06] <exec> 08└─Putting multiple North Korea stories in one submission is not the same thing, and you know it.
[02:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Wetter Than Previously Thought - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:28] <exec> 08└─It might be just that fraction that soaked in after The Big Splash. Don't laugh, that guy had his hands in more payloads on more Nasa missions than anyone else at the time.
[02:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Wetter Than Previously Thought - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:30] <exec> 08└─oops forgot the link: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[02:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HoloLens 2 to Include Machine Learning Accelerated Hardware - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:53] <exec> 08└─one teraflop per second
[02:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 And One E-bike to Rule Them All: Trek Super Commuter+ 8S Review - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:17] <exec> 08└─You could probably bring your electric bike into the office. Someone would have a shit fit if you brought a moped in.
[02:27:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06After 32 Years, the Death of Microsoft Paint - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:14] <exec> 08└─Sounds like we pushed his buttons a bit. You can't blame us, though, there's no indication that it WAS a button...
[02:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After 32 Years, the Death of Microsoft Paint - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:21] <exec> 08└─Pottering, Pöttering, Poettering *shrug* A systemd by any other other name would smell as bad. (With apologies to the late bard...)
[02:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After 32 Years, the Death of Microsoft Paint - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:24] <exec> 08└─My guess is that you can push the problem off for a few more years by snagging an older copy of Paint and installing that on the new "Paint-less" version of Windows. Maybe even include this with your software distribution so that customer IT is only called once when your stuff is installed. Win 7 di...
[02:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After 32 Years, the Death of Microsoft Paint - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:26] <exec> 08└─Yes... :(
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[03:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:52] <exec> 08└─Protecting jobs is just the cover story. India knows a lot about the quality of most software development.
[03:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:53] <exec> 08└─Do all trenches get dug by hand in India? Nail guns & power saws take away jobs; do they have those? A thousand other examples exist. Where do you draw the line? I would say nail guns take more jobs then driverless cars would.
[03:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:55] <exec> 08└─Nitin Gadkari said the government would "not allow any technology that takes away jobs".
[03:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:06] <exec> 08└─Just a suggestion: let the goat get it out of its system with a lady goat instead of interfering with it and beating it off? "Animal husbandry" does not mean what you think it means.
[03:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:08] <exec> 08└─Heli door gunner, eh? Just like 'Nam, then, and we go with the shot 'em and then re-locate? I liked the hunting solution better, because humans should always eat what they kill, especially in war, just like in 'Nam.
[03:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:10] <exec> 08└─You see that's how it's supposed to go, of course. But sometimes it goes wrong. The billy is short sighted and as often as not wanders off in the opposite direction to the lady goats. The first thing it finds of roughly the right shape and size, whether it's a car or a dog or your neighbors kid, IS...
[03:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but it's just another idea dreamed up by the Google children to make things easier for them. You can always improve performance for you if you don't care about the impact on everyone else, which is all that Google cares about, as long as they can stream their content and ads and whatnot at you...
[03:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:13] <exec> 08└─Clearly, experimentation with hangover-free beer has mutated all their yeast into freedom-hating, botulism inducing WMDs.
[03:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:58] <exec> 08└─Smarter IoT everything. Smarter thermostat control, smarter Wi-Fi/mesh, etc. Presumably having some pre-trained AI system is easier than getting your average consumer to enter their house schematics via a clunky web UI.
[03:26:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06After 32 Years, the Death of Microsoft Paint - 433 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:00] <exec> 08└─There is no alternative. Really there isn't. I work on inspection equipment which perform image processing, and some times the customer needs to do something very custom. I can write a tutorial in Paint and know it is installed on their computer. If I tell them to go to some website and install open...
[03:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:47] <exec> 08└─Arthur C Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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[04:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 1494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:55] <exec> 08└─=====[Vagina] ````````````...........,,,,,,,,.,,,,,, `````````.......... ....,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ````````. .... . . ..,,,,,,,,,,,, ```````.`. .. . . . . . , ,,,,,,,,,, ````````..` . . . . . . . ,,,,,,,, ```````. . . .+++, ,+. . . . .,,,,,, `````. . . .++++.% %++++. . . .,,,,,...
[04:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:57] <exec> 08└─Meh, lame arrogance. Are you just mad that India has politicians who actually will look after their own nation's best interests?
[04:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:59] <exec> 08└─China is pro-Globalism, as in everyone manufactures everything here, thank you. Remember to also provide all the know-how while at it. Want to open a business? No, only 49% for foreigners and the rest must be Chinese. Do what I say, not what I do. Some Western business are finally waking up and real...
[04:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:01] <exec> 08└─He's dead. Get over it.
[04:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:03] <exec> 08└─Their dream is over, now the nigthmare starts: know-how gone, factories gone, local customers poor or on the path to poverty
[04:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:05] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[04:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:14] <exec> 08└─This is a charity comment because You won't get many on this. :)
[04:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:38] <exec> 08└─today more and more people do not cook at home and [instead] eat at various establishments It's good to know that things are going so well where you are. In Greece, the unemployment numbers are disastrous. These days, Greece looks more and more like what used to be called a Third World country. FTFS...
[04:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:22] <exec> 08└─True story, honest to goodness. A lady, may she rest in peace, travelled for the first time to Mexico, specifically to Tijuana. Being born and raised in a smaller city in Georgia, she’s afraid of any real Mexican food so she orders a burger. How bad could a burger be, even in made in Mexico? Well,...
[04:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:44] <exec> 08└─No. Drafts are drafts. It only becomes an RFC if there's enough buy-in from others: https://www.rfc-editor.org [rfc-editor.org]
[04:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:46] <exec> 08└─Any number of "TCP tweak" programs for Windows that have the same effect have been around for years to do this.
[04:29:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Florida School District Replaces Homework ... With Books! - 1713 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:07] <exec> 08└─When I was out in Rural Nowhere awhile ago, I had a tablet with me with a book loaded on it. It was one of the Dune books - I think the second one, awhile ago. I had just gotten off work and was extremely hungry. I stopped at the first place I saw - which turned out to be an old country pub / diner...
[04:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah. At a former job, all employees were 'offered' a wellness program that would give $XX off your health insurance each month, at the cost of waiving all privacy rights re healthcare information. Being fat, I didn't agree. 6 months after implementation, I see my paycheck dinged -$XXX each month fo...
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[05:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:48] <exec> 08└─You city dwellers keep thinking whales are cute, but we killed them for a damn good reason. They cause harm, both directly to humans and indirectly by killing our livestock. We even burned all the forest off of Mount Monadnock just to wipe out a whale pod. The mountain is still bald 2 centuries late...
[05:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:50] <exec> 08└─Is it possible that all the eds of SoylentNews could be infected, at the same time, with a psychotropic agent or malware? Whale songs! Yeah, that is what Soylentils want to know about! Or Micro$oft Paint? Or, for fuck's sake in honor of Runaway1956, Volcanos? Has the entire squad of editors gone...
[05:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:52] <exec> 08└─If you're so butthurt why not submit some more fakeDonnyRump spam?
[05:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:08] <exec> 08└─Under normal conditions, you'd be right to say that not adopting new technology that improves productivity and quality-of-life in order to encourage employment is the same as the broken window fallacy. However, the automobile market is already managed using planned obsoleteness, regulated fuel-price...
[05:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:09] <exec> 08└─The boss owns the gold (and makes the rules). That is the race, Globalism is the shape it has taken for USA and Europe, thinking others would play along and not check for their own interests. So no, not very wise when some countries play as they want instead as of told.
[05:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:11] <exec> 08└─I suspect globalism is not the main game. The real game is ownership of western assets. The Chinese government has wisely pegged the Renminbi, and as a superpower, are free to produce as much of it as they like. They are using this to purchase real assets all over the world. I don't think their bala...
[05:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:13] <exec> 08└─Also, have you seen Indian traffic? It would indeed be the final triumph of any AI.
[05:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:16] <exec> 08└─You know, most of us recognize this without the lame spoiler label. Besides that faux pas, pretty decent. Nice details, good size and orientation. Not to mention tasty subject!
[05:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:18] <exec> 08└─Nitin Gadkari said the government would "not allow any technology that takes away jobs".
[05:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:27] <exec> 08└─News for Fashionistas? Bro, did not know we could sink this low! Another Charity Comment, for the win.
[05:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:30] <exec> 08└─And the best part of all is how enjoyable you must be to know on a personal basis.
[05:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:32] <exec> 08└─Why was this a really big thing to begin with? Maybe I'm an outlier here (apparently not, according to the article?) but I've never gotten the point of going to the middle of the market with a purchase I can put off. Either I don't care about it in which case I'm going to go with the cheapest thing...
[05:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:57] <exec> 08└─You're talking about the part of Europe where unions are strong (France, Germany) and where Democracy hasn't completely failed yet (add Scandinavia). There's also a hotbed of very successful Socialists in northern Italy. [google.com] ...then, in contrast, there's Portugal, Ireland, Crete, Greece......
[05:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:58] <exec> 08└─You must be younger than me. Everything was closed on Sundays in Youngstown until the Hill's Department Store in the Boardman Plaza decided to open on Sundays around 1960. The religious types were outraged, but most of us were thrilled. The other stores soon followed suit.
[05:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 2702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:14] <exec> 08└─The SLS, which this module will be designed to be flown on, is a joke. Boeing and Lockheed are a joke. The reason I mentioned Boeing here is because the entire system is being built by ULA. What is ULA? ULA is an anti-competitive merger between Boeing and Lockheed. They 'promised' would bring down c...
[05:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:44] <exec> 08└─Shit... Just drop a nuke there.
[05:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:46] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah flamethrowers and harpoon guns would be so much better. Of course to be sure one should nuke it from the orbit.
[05:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:10] <exec> 08└─You're wrong, of course.
[05:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:12] <exec> 08└─I like to set the retransmission timeout so low that the slighted delay causes congestive collapse.
[05:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:14] <exec> 08└─IETF with its "requests" for "comments" has become as democratically egalitarian as a totalitarian people's republic.
[05:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much CO2 Does a Single Volcano Emit? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:16] <exec> 08└─The 33K colder is what the temperature would be without any greenhouse effect, no H2O or CO2 in the atmosphere.
[05:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much CO2 Does a Single Volcano Emit? - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:17] <exec> 08└─Venus has lost nearly all its hydrogen, leaving fairly heavy molecules such as CO2. As the summary says, there's one hell of a lot of CO2 inside an Earth sized planet. Earth has a carbon cycle, CO2 comes out of volcanoes and gets subsisted back into the mantle through plate tectonics. Venus only has...
[05:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much CO2 Does a Single Volcano Emit? - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:20] <exec> 08└─Mostly correct. There's also the Sun increasing its output, from about 25% less early in the Earth's history, so luckily for us (and life in general), the cycle isn't quite in equilibrium, with generally less CO2 as time goes on, offset by higher solar heating. One of the coincidences that has allow...
[05:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much CO2 Does a Single Volcano Emit? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:22] <exec> 08└─Preferably also CO2 -> CO₂
[05:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:49] <exec> 08└─Don't you just love it?
[05:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LAV8.ORg [6653] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 And One E-bike to Rule Them All: Trek Super Commuter+ 8S Review - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:17] <exec> 08└─I gave up driving 7 years ago and haven't looked back. I started with an ebike, but within a year the electric boost was an unnecessary complication. I've never set foot in a gym and my resting heart rate is below 60 bpm. I encounter many people who think several miles is a *very* long distance to r...
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[06:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:56] <exec> 08└─To get in a car last used by some dude who showered sometime last month and left his Burger King trash in the car. I'm not seeing shared cars as ever becoming a thing. I like my car. I like that I can get in it and go somewhere at a moment's notice. You know that, when shared cars become a thing, th...
[06:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:57] <exec> 08└─"Social behaviors that have been deeply ingrained over the past century"? What's that, precious? You mean... ingrained like "the country-X dream... have a home that's fully payed by the moment you retire? Or be milli/billionaire?". The NOwnership [forbes.com] and experience economy [wikipedia.org] m...
[06:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:59] <exec> 08└─You are no longer representative (or will not be in a shortish time) - get used with the idea, granpa'. The millennials are driving the economy now and they don't seem to care [google.com].
[06:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:09] <exec> 08└─A whale is a whale, so swell, so swell, And no one can talk to a whale so well, It would be hell, unless the whale, is the famous Mr. Hale. Go right to the mail and write the whale, He'll give you the answer that you'll think is swell. He's always on a steady trail. Talk to Mr. Hale.
[06:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:11] <exec> 08└─takyon! Just because a Soylentil calls you out on really bad ed choices, that does not mean you mod them down! And none of your Posse (takyon has a posse?) should mod down, either. We who are Soylentils, we the few, the proud, the extraordinately informed, expect more of you, our editors. Try to liv...
[06:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:34] <exec> 08└─Looks more like the front view of a horse's head. Maybe a donkey with those ears!
[06:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:46] <exec> 08└─(Oh, why, of course... I made the purpose of my life to make myself the most enjoyable person by AC-es on SN, the supreme purpose of anyone living in this world really. Or... was it getting to be most friended on FB? I can't remember).
[06:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:48] <exec> 08└─Either I don't care about it in which case I'm going to go with the cheapest thing that does what I want, or I do care about it and I'll try to get something nice that lasts.
[06:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:50] <exec> 08└─or I do care about it and I'll try to get something nice that lasts.
[06:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:17] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid,
[06:22:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 756 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:53] <exec> 08└─And even more data here https://pubs.usgs.gov [usgs.gov] The area was taken over by the Federal Government for a National Park in 1994. The first thing the feds did was shut down hunting, and thereby remove any check on the Goat population. In this document the NPS d...
[06:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:31] <exec> 08└─Or turn on super jumbo frames on ethernet, but only for yourself. All the 1500-MTU wimps can just sit back and watch as my freight train frames [dailymail.co.uk] lumber past.
[06:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moon Wetter Than Previously Thought - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:38] <exec> 08└─Why yes, oxygen is released when two water molecules fuse into helium. Stars are made out of water, not 'simple' hydrogen, you know. Whaddya think? Can I get it published [soylentnews.org]?
[06:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moon Wetter Than Previously Thought - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:39] <exec> 08└─Oh jeeze! I swear I made the above comment before I looked that guy up.
[06:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HoloLens 2 to Include Machine Learning Accelerated Hardware - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:05] <exec> 08└─It's the Amazon AWS growth rate.
[06:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much CO2 Does a Single Volcano Emit? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:42] <exec> 08└─Just do the calculation for yourself one day.
[06:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Saliva, Clues to a 'Ghost' Species of Ancient Human - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:03] <exec> 08└─Don't be silly, humans cannot ha-a-a-a-a-ve goat DNA.
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[07:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:51] <exec> 08└─I like my car. I like that I can get in it and go somewhere at a moment's notice.
[07:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:52] <exec> 08└─If you are going to be condescending towards those your see as your elders, you deserve no respect now, nor when you get old yourself.
[07:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:55] <exec> 08└─So you never used a taxi?
[07:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:57] <exec> 08└─nor when you get old yourself.
[07:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:59] <exec> 08└─My decision to own or not own a car is influenced by economics, but is eclipsed by the sheer will of owning a vehicle that is my own. It is somewhat funny that people so obsessed with money come up with these ideas while not realizing that money to them is control, while to someone else, control is...
[07:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:12] <exec> 08└─For Jap science.
[07:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:36] <exec> 08└─But is it in the nation's best interest? Imagine what would have happened if, back when the car was invented, the government had decided to protect all the jobs in the horse-powered transportation industry.
[07:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:38] <exec> 08└─Hi Pot, this is Kettle... I think you know what I'm calling to say right?
[07:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:40] <exec> 08└─Some things transition more readily, but self driving cars will eliminate a lit of jobs very rapidly. There are real economic consequences that might need to be addressed. The car was a better horse and crested a large industrial sector. Self driving cars eliminate a lot of jobs without creating all...
[07:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:09] <exec> 08└─According to credible sources, you may recover after 108 years.
[07:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:19] <exec> 08└─Coors Light is made of water, barley malt, corn, yeast and hops. Miller Lite, however, is made of water, barley malt, corn, yeast and hops [thebeerbabe.com] (very different!). Corn is a grain. So is barley.
[07:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DARPA's Funding of "Post-Moore's Law" Technologies - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:23] <exec> 08└─Our existing known tech is still primitive in many ways. The human brain uses about 20W. Crows are fairly smart too and their brains use a lot less power. Houseflies can navigate, find "fuel", reproduce etc. Personally I think we should figure out more about how single celled creatures think. Thinki...
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[08:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 1867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:03] <exec> 08└─I've never owned a car and hate the idea of having to regularly spent large amounts of my time in transit between places. My current commute is a shade over 10 minutes by bicycle and it's the furthest that I've ever lived from work. We did the ZipCar thing for a while, but for the amount that we use...
[08:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:04] <exec> 08└─I don't like driving, in part because I don't think I'm very good at it, and in part because some people have dangerous driving habits. The public transit in my city is not extensive enough to take me to work. This would be perfect. I would so much rather not have to maintain a car, pay for car insu...
[08:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:07] <exec> 08└─The day that insurance and car companies have taken that away I will just walk.
[08:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:09] <exec> 08└─I just don't see electric cars as feasible in the midwest where the temperature is often -40°F. Sometimes a normal car won't even start. I'd hate to see how well an electric car would (wouldn't) work in this climate.
[08:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:11] <exec> 08└─To get in a car last used by some dude who showered sometime last month
[08:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:13] <exec> 08└─The UK's Transport Secretary is due to announce an intention to ban the sale [bbc.co.uk] of new diesel and petrol cars in the UK from 2040 later today, with the expectation that by then all new vehicles with be electric or hybrid. Additional measures to be enacted earlier include taxes on higher pol...
[08:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 2761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:15] <exec> 08└─Your comment makes 0 economic sense. Companies in this industry will make profit on miles driven. Having customers lined up for hours is missing a massive amount of capital. The economics of self driving taxis are actually phenomenally interesting to consider. And I think we're in for a treat compar...
[08:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:18] <exec> 08└─I live in San Diego. Mass transit is pretty much a joke. Trolley? 45 minutes from home to downtown and costs twice what gas would. Trolley to work? Doesn't go within 15 miles of my job (but they're working on that, it will be ready after I retire). Bus? Um, no. Slower than the trolley, not as comfor...
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[08:21:20] <exec> 08└─Norway seemed to be doing OK with electric car sales until they removed the tax subsidies recently, and while the Norwegian coastal climate is generally not as harsh as winter in the midwest you don't have to go too far inland before you can get down -40°F (or Celcius) on occassion. Whether many No...
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[08:21:22] <exec> 08└─You assume that a person doesn't value their own time. People do use public transportation, mass transit, etc but that's only a small percentage of the population. Not owning a vehicle and having to get to work on time will be difficult unless there are enough available cars for hire to pick everyon...
[08:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:02] <exec> 08└─Want to open a business? No, only 49% for foreigners and the rest must be Chinese.
[08:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:04] <exec> 08└─Thinking that you actually solve problems by banning technology is so shortsighted and lacking in understanding the issues that I fail to see how one could become such a luddite short of a lobotomy.
[08:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:19] <exec> 08└─45GBP? Seems to me like that's not the greatest deal considering how well normal shirts age. Pretty sure my parents still wear t-shirts they bought more than 20 years ago..
[08:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:21] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure my parents still wear t-shirts they bought more than 20 years ago..
[08:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:23] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile the New Horizons mission sends a space probe to Pluto for a grand total cost of $720 million [iflscience.com]. Oh, and NASA cut out the Pluto Fast Flyby and Kuiper Express (amongst others) because they couldn't get the budget. But $1.2 Billion on a trendy brand name that sells expensive sh...
[08:22:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:40] <exec> 08└─Europe is modern. They can accept a job, paying a living wage, without fear that they'll be scheduled to work every week-end and never do anything with their kids.
[08:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:51] <exec> 08└─It makes sure none of them are aged more than 13 years. :-P For anyone who didn't get the reference: Jared. And go read about how Subway looked the other way.
[08:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:07] <exec> 08└─SoaceX needs competition too. They've shaken up the moribund access to space market, but Elon Musk has become a bit of a cult leader who can do no wrong in the eyes of his worshippers. This needs to be kept in check. Very recently, his grandiose claims and plans have taken some knocks, the Dragon ca...
[08:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:09] <exec> 08└─Why has the space industry been so slow to test and quality those inflatable habitats? I seem to remember them being first prototyped in the 1980s.
[08:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:11] <exec> 08└─Did Dennis the Menace ever get a large dose of gamma rays or bitten by a spider? He might have been bitten by Gnasher or maybe even Rasher, but he always seemed to get his father's slipper.
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[09:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:12] <exec> 08└─It seems being able to drive is already declining..https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-decline-of-the-drivers-license/425169/ And not just millenials..
[09:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:55] <exec> 08└─to reduce our workload, i.e. enabling fewer people to do the same amount of work, i.e. taking away jobs. Thinking that you actually solve problems by banning technology is so shortsighted and lacking in understanding the issues that I fail to see how one could become such a luddite short of a loboto...
[09:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:13] <exec> 08└─It's probably how you wash/dry them that is at fault. Apart from a few accidents during washing most of my shirts held for 10 years.
[09:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:15] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, I admit - machine washing. Front loader, set on "daily wash" program (40C, 1 soak cycle, 1 detergent, 2 rinse cycles) - loaded with the week worth of tees and shirts (single wear before washed), dried outside on a rope. Not the most gentle wash, but again not the most aggressive. And the...
[09:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:17] <exec> 08└─Hm, .... Did you check your waist circumference recently? Just a thought...
[09:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:19] <exec> 08└─most of my shirts held for 10 years.
[09:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:43] <exec> 08└─List of suspects: * IRS to see if your housing area is correct with respect to property taxation codes. * Burglary highest bidder. Roomba maps leaks to underground top seller sites with burglar project packages. * SWAT teams and other enforcement. * Furniture companies like IKEA will now...
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[10:20:50] <exec> 08└─i love the way you troll us phoenix, and i think that proximity=f(identity); err, that who you are ([self-]identify-as) determines who you are proximate to by selecting who you do the oil-bubble blending with, err, are even talking or listening to. So we basically master local dialects if it suits u...
[10:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physics of Bubbles Could Explain Language Patterns - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:52] <exec> 08└─Your identity to a large part determines your proximity: Who you are determines who you talk to, and who you talk to influences how you talk. But of course this works also the other way round: Who you are is largely determined by who you talk to, and how you talk largely determines who you talk you...
[10:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:00] <exec> 08└─s/t
[10:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:25] <exec> 08└─Taxi is taken care about, at least a little bit, by its driver or the owner. Public transportation is guarded by public shame of most of passengers in front of the crowd. Automatic car will be oblivious to ... mishaps ... previous patrons had.
[10:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:27] <exec> 08└─Your comment makes 0 economic sense. Companies in this industry will make profit on miles driven. Having customers lined up for hours is missing a massive amount of capital.
[10:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:29] <exec> 08└─And, what's more, Norway is to ban sales of new petrol/diesel cars from 2025 onwards [zmescience.com].
[10:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:31] <exec> 08└─All autonomous taxi users will have a credit card on file like Uber requires and if you shit in there the next person will report you and then camera footage can be reviewed. Then you incur a huge fee or criminal charges. The only other way would be to price out the revolting peasants which defeats...
[10:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:33] <exec> 08└─I have. Once. When I needed a ride from the airport in a town I didn't know anyone in. In over 40 years. Haven't even ridden a bus since the schoolbus and didn't ride that after I got my license. Human-driven cars are going to be a thing for the foreseeable future. Deal with it.
[10:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:36] <exec> 08└─Being a jackass has no age limit.
[10:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:38] <exec> 08└─The owner of a self-driving car will certainly care just as much about the status of the car as the owner of a human-driven car. And unlike with human-driven car, he will likely know quite exactly who did travel in the car at which time, through booking data, so any misbehaviour will not only make y...
[10:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:40] <exec> 08└─You should get out more. What you describe is not possible in the vast majority of America.
[10:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:42] <exec> 08└─I believe the future will be: everyone owns a cheap individual or family transportation pod, a sort of universal, standardized "passenger palette" or "passenger container" for certain number of passengers (1, 2, 4, ...), which packs well together and allows you separation from others, privacy, and c...
[10:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:56] <exec> 08└─harpooning whales and doing nothing for justin bieber seems a fucked up priority to me
[10:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:17] <exec> 08└─Everybody loses, except the customer. Who can now shop 24/7/365. Sorry that's how capitalism works. The customer, is literally, King.
[10:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:18] <exec> 08└─What is John Guilt? [everything2.com]
[10:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:38] <exec> 08└─Attempting to minimize round trip time is good. Measuring round trip time while blatantly disregarding RFC3390 is bad. As I noted three weeks ago [soylentnews.org]:- UDP [wikipedia.org] has a reputation for packet flood but TCP congestion control [wikipedia.org] is wishful thinking which is actively...
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[11:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:50] <exec> 08└─In software development we call these things Magic Numbers. Since when has science devolved into numerology? Can't we rather teach statistics, rather toying with the Magic Number? In the first place, why are you using p-values? Or is that the only statistical hammer in the bio-medical toolbox? What...
[11:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physics of Bubbles Could Explain Language Patterns - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:59] <exec> 08└─Is proximity the determinant to dialect?
[11:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:08] <exec> 08└─Enrolement varies by more than a factor of four? This makes me more inclined to hire people who study during the unpopular periods. The remainder have no passion for the subject.
[11:21:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:21] <exec> 08└─nor when you get old yourself.
[11:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:44] <exec> 08└─Besides by owning the vehicle it's possible to whack the phone-home and by extension the remote killing program of various organizations.
[11:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:45] <exec> 08└─Even more, it gets better with age
[11:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 2776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:47] <exec> 08└─"The NOwnership [forbes.com] and experience economy [wikipedia.org] may cast [thenegotiator.co.uk] some doubts [google.com] on your ideas of how deep the social behaviours are ingrained and how slow they change." All I see is a bunch of vacuous marketing hype, trying to convince me that people who a...
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[11:21:49] <exec> 08└─Only a few people will be able to use autonomous shared cars as a substitute for car ownership. More than can use Zipcar, etc. or Uber, but not enough to really change much (except for those specific people). First, let's talk about range. Electric cars have limited range. Expecting them to drive ar...
[11:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:54] <exec> 08└─Mmm.... I'm afraid to
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[11:23:25] <exec> 08└─I recall similar arguments in the UK (specifically England and Wales) in the lead up to the 1994 Sunday Trading Act [wikipedia.org]. Before then, there'd be virtually no shops open on a Sunday. Large shops are now limited to six hours of trading on a Sunday, and while smaller shops (less than 3,000...
[11:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:27] <exec> 08└─Iceland had put 26 of its banksters in prison.
[11:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:29] <exec> 08└─In 2012, the UK government relaxed Sunday trading restrictions for shops larger than 280m^2 for two months while the Olympics were held in London. The directors of the book shop chain that I worked in seemed to suddenly realise that there were never any restrictions on smaller shops (which included...
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[11:23:31] <exec> 08└─Q: What do you call 10,000 dead lawyers at the bottom of the sea? A: A good start. s/lawyers/bankers -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[11:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:50] <exec> 08└─> multi-purpose logistics module (MLPM) Shouldn't that be MPLM?
[11:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:23] <exec> 08└─How about providing goats with salt so they don't go near people?? The goats will approach people, Johnson said, because they love salt, which is lacking in the park, and the goats are fond of nibbling on backpacks salty with sweat.
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[12:20:47] <exec> 08└─Here have a clue stick.
[12:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:48] <exec> 08└─There is an O(n^2) problem in many statistical studies. Automation means that an increasing number of variables can be collected and Big Data allows a retrospective trawl through more variables. This data is then exhaustively cross-corollated and then, dammit, *something* of significance is found be...
[12:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:51] <exec> 08└─If anything, it will only make things worse as seeking cures instead of treatments will become even harder to financially justify. Moreover, it will shift the risk-profit equation for hiding negative findings and inflating positive results towards the wrong direction: Already, failing an experiment...
[12:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:53] <exec> 08└─And worse, working with preexisting data makes it very tempting to fit your hypothesis to the data. Same with the general disdain for "our hypothesis was disproved" papers. That's the real problem that needs to be addressed and changing p-values does not directly address it. The probability of SOME...
[12:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:10] <exec> 08└─I'm okay with lack of passion as long as they don't lack skill and a work ethic as well. I've worked plenty of jobs I wasn't particularly thrilled about just because they were good jobs. It's the ones who take CS paths to get out of working that I have no use for.
[12:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:50] <exec> 08└─Why exactly would this be a monopoly? All you need to get started in this business is a phone app and a car. Ideally more than one car, but still. You can get into this business for a couple of million dollars with basically off the shelf technology. Barrier to entry is zero, unless there's some stu...
[12:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 2506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:52] <exec> 08└─Hate public transport. And what people miss is that public transport is NOT set up to do some things: 1) Your weekly shop. This consists - in my country at least - of driving to a supermarket, loading up the boot. You can't do that on public transport. Though you MIGHT be able to do that...
[12:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:54] <exec> 08└─All I see is a bunch of vacuous marketing hype, trying to convince me that people who are being driven into poverty by the ongoing recession are somehow "choosing" such options
[12:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:56] <exec> 08└─What makes you think they'll not make the car detect any attempt to disable the phone-home functionality?
[12:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:58] <exec> 08└─To get in a car last used by some dude who showered sometime last month and left his Burger King trash in the car.
[12:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:42] <exec> 08└─I think you're right that it's just a cover story, but for a different reason. Indian politicians get to collect some populist points while outlawing something that's a long way from making economic sense anyway. Because first of all, drivers are really cheap there. If you're in the class that can a...
[12:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 2119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:06] <exec> 08└─All that money has to end up somewhere. If it takes $30 to make shoes sold for $1,500, you have money going to the government (and NASA), employees, reinvestment in the business which means additional construction work and bla bla bla. The figure includes physical retail locations, som I think it wo...
[12:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:42] <exec> 08└─s/Crete/Cyprus (Old guy's brain fart.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[12:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:43] <exec> 08└─The customer, who in turn is an employee as well, loses just the same. The only winners are the business owners.
[12:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:45] <exec> 08└─That is a MARKET. Markets exist outside of Capitalism. Another word that fits is BUSINESS. Capitalism is an ownership model, BTW. ...and there's no reason that a (Socialist) worker-owned cooperative couldn't do the same thing. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[12:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:05] <exec> 08└─It's turtles all the way down, especially in the Italian Space Agency.
[12:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 And One E-bike to Rule Them All: Trek Super Commuter+ 8S Review - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:16] <exec> 08└─It's worse than that: I've never driven a car with an automatic gearbox. This is partially by choice, but partly by circumstances. All the cars I've bought have been manuals, because they're more common on the second-hand market. (Private listings site autotrader.co.uk has twice as many used manuals...
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[13:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:00] <exec> 08└─The model you quote seems apt. My worry is that nowadays, it seems more often it seems to be: gather data -> formulate hypothesis -> investigate data -> adapt hypothesis to investigation -> check hypothesis -> publish
[13:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:01] <exec> 08└─(There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.) If it was as cheap and easy to get p 0.005 as it is to get p 0.05, researchers would be doing it already. Getting this level of certainty requires more of something. More tests, more subjects, more time... more. That means that smaller, simpler studies wi...
[13:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physics of Bubbles Could Explain Language Patterns - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:12] <exec> 08└─Whenever someone tries to explain or make an analogy like this, it all falls apart with the Basque people and language -- they are in the middle of Spain and France and their language is completely different.
[13:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:23] <exec> 08└─I think that work ethic would be more likely to be present during such downturns. But there are better ways to gauge such things than when someone graduated.
[13:21:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 445 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:37] <exec> 08└─My decision to own or not own a car is influenced by economics, but is eclipsed by the sheer will of owning a vehicle that is my own. It is somewhat funny that people so obsessed with money come up with these ideas while not realizing that money to them is control, while to someone else, control is...
[13:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:07] <exec> 08└─You assume that a person doesn't value their own time. People do use public transportation, mass transit, etc but that's only a small percentage of the population.
[13:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 2495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:09] <exec> 08└─> the necessary roll out of additional EV charging points This is the massive problem no one is really dealing with. There are over 25 million cars in the UK and something like 30% (more in london) of households have no off-street parking - so probably over 8 million cars. Currently ( http://www.nex...
[13:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:11] <exec> 08└─1) Your weekly shop. This consists - in my country at least - of driving to a supermarket, loading up the boot. You can't do that on public transport. Though you MIGHT be able to do that in a hired car (which is what any automated vehicle essentially is), you certainly can't...
[13:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 1777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:13] <exec> 08└─I'm also in a different corner case that's preventing me from switching to a pure EV. I spend quite a bit of time driving in rural environments - sometimes hundreds of miles a day including getting to/from the area - with stops in places where there is not likely to be an EV charging point, even wit...
[13:22:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─Protecting jobs is just the cover story. India knows a lot about the quality of most software development.
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[14:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:53] <exec> 08└─The next project should be to analyze the brains of people that just want to become football players to find out if the damage was already there or was causative.
[14:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:54] <exec> 08└─I suspect the NFL (and the NHL) is on the way out. Thank god we didn't give dinky dick Spanos a billion bux to build a new stadium. Let the LA taxpayers be on the hook for that. Oh wait, dipshit dick is gonna be playing in the basement of some billionaire from Saint Louis. Good riddance.
[14:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 1864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:56] <exec> 08└─If one has ever seen NFL football it's usually not a lot of running and movement but a constant of short burst action plays as the players collide with each other and the ball at best moves a few yards forward. These results should hardly come as a surprise for they are playing a game where monster-...
[14:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 1768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:16] <exec> 08└─If this gets accepted as the new standard I'm afraid that the new methodology will just include a lot more data-massaging or p-value-hacking. Gathering, (re-)defining and manipulating your data to reach the golden standard of a "proper" result at a p-value of 0,005. After all it will be cheaper then...
[14:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:18] <exec> 08└─Yep that's what I was saying :) It's lazy mode. Then of course there is the whole other category of "models which we can't properly test so we just rely on care and the authors being at a good institution", which is a similar problem.
[14:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:39] <exec> 08└─Work ethic is hard, because it cannot be magically wished into it. I often spend my time thinking up different things to model economic patterns, and I came to the conclusion long ago that in business the most sought after quality in everything is consistency. Hence an employee who is not extraordin...
[14:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:40] <exec> 08└─Wish I knew them. I mostly have to go on instinct and time spent unemployed. The latter is a dead giveaway though. If you haven't spent 95% of your working-age history employed, you're probably going to be someone I'll have to fire within 6 months.
[14:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:42] <exec> 08└─Fucking truth. I'd rather have someone who's just adequate but shows up on time every day than some absolutely brilliant guy who can't even be arsed to call in so I can tell him he's fired for not showing up while healthy.
[14:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:45] <exec> 08└─It's the ones who take CS paths to get out of working that I have no use for.
[14:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:33] <exec> 08└─3) Unscheduled trips. Sod having to do everything by even a London bus/Tube timetable.
[14:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:35] <exec> 08└─That's because American cities are not designed for humans (only 18% of the US population lives in areas classified as rural, and that's been dropping for decades). I spend quite a bit of time visiting various bits of the US, but with the exception of NYC the public transport is bad and the city lay...
[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─Lots of sensible points, thanks. > One parent could go to work, then send the car home for the other one to use. When I was in grade school (early 1960s) we had one car. Most days my mother drove my father to work in the Beetle (8-10 minutes each way) and then had the use of the car for the day. As...
[14:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:39] <exec> 08└─And you think the car is unable to distinguish between being unable to phone home occasionally, and being unable to phone home perpetually (while the GPS indicates that you passed about ten dozen different cell towers last week which are extremely unlikely to have all been switched off)? Not to ment...
[14:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:41] <exec> 08└─But of course! However... letting aside how it's worded, one has to admit that nowadays the "deeply ingrained social behaviours" are not that "slow to change" and the traditions of "the last century" mean nothing when one can't afford them (in contrast with the fool's hope the submitter set in the e...
[14:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:43] <exec> 08└─Are we just making things up now? Alright. This expert believes as much as 95% of all passenger miles in 2040 will be made by unicorn-pulled carts. The electric cars need to be a lot better than they are now. The autonomous cars need to be much, much, much better than they are now to have enough rel...
[14:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:46] <exec> 08└─Look at Uber. Their value isn't from running a fleet of vehicles, it's from running the booking system. The market that you want to be in is providing the app that allows users to book a taxi from one of thousands of small operators across the world and charges a small cut of each transaction. Even...
[14:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:48] <exec> 08└─No, it gets better with *practice*.
[14:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:03] <exec> 08└─Ann Coulter is magnificent. She always makes a complete and utter imbecile of herself in public whenever they interview here on the British TV news. Jon Snow on Channel 4 had a particularly good go at her a while back and she readily obliged.
[14:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 3685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:35] <exec> 08└─Why do people need to work jobs? They need money. Why doesn't the Indian government simply pay people to dig holes in the morning and fill them up in the afternoon? That's certainly “hard work” and physically exhausting too. However, everybody can plainly see that it's a pointless activity. It's...
[14:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:59] <exec> 08└─A lot of money the government spends it doesn't extract from businesses. It just borrows and 'promises' to pay it back later. Don't worry The Fed is in on it and are going to keep interest rates low for a little while longer. Have fun while it lasts :)
[14:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:38] <exec> 08└─...and there's no reason that a (Socialist) worker-owned cooperative couldn't do the same thing.
[14:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:00] <exec> 08└─This needs to be kept in check.
[14:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:02] <exec> 08└─I wish there were a "-1 Completely Missed the Point" mod. Come on then, tell us how the Sacred Market Who Must Be Worshipped Above All Else works without competition to keep the megalomaniac loonies in check?
[14:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:04] <exec> 08└─We need to get away from the destructive thinking of one-off. Here, there's only one such object. So there will be plenty of very large, one-time costs that will be completely irrelevant to anything else that the US or humanity does in space. If there had been, say 50 of these things, then most of t...
[14:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:06] <exec> 08└─Come on then, tell us how the Sacred Market Who Must Be Worshipped Above All Else works without competition to keep the megalomaniac loonies in check?
[14:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:08] <exec> 08└─Like I said, point missed entirely.
[14:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:43] <exec> 08└─Goats and wolves? You need a boat, and a cabbage.
[14:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:51] <exec> 08└─Honestly: not a typo
[14:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:53] <exec> 08└─It's not a typo. But you could hire an insultant to study whether this substitution is useful going forward.
[14:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:55] <exec> 08└─Machine learning to correlate images of home interiors with credit worthiness. Hmmmm.
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[15:20:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:48] <exec> 08└─The next project should be to analyze the brains of people that just want to become football players to find out if the damage was already there or was causative.
[15:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:51] <exec> 08└─It's important not to over interpret these results. After all, the field goal kicker from special teams only showed neuropathy in his foot, ankle, and lower leg!
[15:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:13] <exec> 08└─If only the full raw data was included with every paper published... Or at least archived somewhere where anyone can get it. But no, raw data has to be locked away and forgotten. We only care about results!
[15:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 1615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:14] <exec> 08└─Not really, increasing the amount of data that you're crunching doesn't guarantee better results if the data you're crunching is based on crap data. For example, it doesn't really matter how many shoe sizes you've collected if you're trying to determine the kind of paintings somebody likes. The two...
[15:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 2092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:17] <exec> 08└─I have only skimmed over the paper so far, but it seems completely unworkable to me. I was surprised to see so many biologists on the author list. Any biologist with some decent understanding of statistics understands that it is simply not feasible to get that amount of significant for many real eff...
[15:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:19] <exec> 08└─I don't see a problem with that at all. Vioxx alone was approved and wound up costing the company that produced it billions of dollars because of the various law suits. Same goes for Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder products. Companies somehow find the money for the research, might as well make the...
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[15:21:21] <exec> 08└─It would be an improvement if multiple theories were proposed and theories which didn't fit were discarded. This may appear less honed but tweaking a hypothesis prior to publication is akin to one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. Science should have predictive power and be falsifiable. If there...
[15:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:23] <exec> 08└─Smaller, simpler studies should be unpublishable. By definition, smaller and simpler = less accurate.
[15:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physics of Bubbles Could Explain Language Patterns - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:34] <exec> 08└─As long as the Basque aren't interacting with Spaniards or the French directly over the course of their day, then in this model they can be considered non-touching bubbles in the proposed models and wouldn't count as a counterexample. You would be amazed at how fiercely regional Europeans can be. In...
[15:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:49] <exec> 08└─Great thought. But during depressions, funding is unavailable too. VC's dicks will have shrunk, and your local coffee shop will laugh at you when you propose to write them a phone app.
[15:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:51] <exec> 08└─Depends. Some may simply underestimate the work it means. Of course, those tend to drop out early.
[15:22:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 2776 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:29] <exec> 08└─"The NOwnership [forbes.com] and experience economy [wikipedia.org] may cast [thenegotiator.co.uk] some doubts [google.com] on your ideas of how deep the social behaviours are ingrained and how slow they change." All I see is a bunch of vacuous marketing hype, trying to convince me that people who a...
[15:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─I see three predictions being made here; 1. Electric cars will replace gassers. 2. Self-driving cars will replace driving. 3. Once those happen, most people will stop owning cars and instead rent them. I agree with 1 - electric cars are already displacing gassers. Once they become cheaper t...
[15:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─city layouts seem designed to maximise the distances between places where people are and where they want to be at any given time.
[15:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:52] <exec> 08└─> Their value isn't from running a fleet of vehicles, it's from running the booking system. Uber's "value" is from idiot investors. For a company (whose only products are an app and a huge team of lawyers) to lose $2.8 billion in a single year is a spectacular feat. Anyone who thinks this company is...
[15:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:55] <exec> 08└─And you assume everyone lives in North America? Somehow here in Europe, the fastest way around the city is bike and then public transport and then car. People "value their time", but forget how much time they actually waste owning a car.
[15:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─I just don't see electric cars as feasible in the midwest where the temperature is often -40°F.
[15:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:59] <exec> 08└─You assume that a person doesn't value their own time.
[15:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:01] <exec> 08└─And of course everyone is like you, right?
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:03] <exec> 08└─People do use public transportation, mass transit, etc but that's only a small percentage of the population.
[15:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:51] <exec> 08└─Actually you might not have not experienced a 3rd world shit-hole with extreme abundance of labor. Coincidentally that is what some people want to turn Europe into. In India a lot of jobs are done by hand that are ridiculously automate-ible. One part is lack of infrastructure, but that is only tange...
[15:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:55] <exec> 08└─Lucky for me, I was able to get a refill propane tank for the gas grill, which ran out when we started cooking dinner.
[15:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 1617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:56] <exec> 08└─Well, my age is right up there in my nick - I was born in 1956. In 1960, I was preoccupied with tricycles and such, looking forward to my first two-wheel bicycle. ;^) Let me try to find a more exact location of this shopping center. It's been a long, long time since I lived up there . . . Coming fro...
[15:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:58] <exec> 08└─Poor AC, such a little nobody, who has no stories of life to tell. And, he's so jealous of anyone who does.
[15:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:59] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much of the problem is the side of government making the rules, or the side of government enforcing them. For example, are they doing these dumb things because the rule makers say so, or because the game/forest/park marshals all want to play Billy-BadAss and fly helicopters and shoot go...
[15:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:13] <exec> 08└─North Korea bought the old Ushers brewery from Wiltshire in England. There was some concern initially that they might use it to brew chemical weapons, but apparently the beer it produces now is a light lager type beer rather than the "traditional" bitter it used to produce in the UK.
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[16:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:08] <exec> 08└─So the brains of former football players who were showing signs of degenerative neurological disease while alive are found to indeed show signs of degenerative neurological disease when examined posthumously. Shocking. The bank of 202 former football players’ brains is a “convenience sample,”...
[16:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:10] <exec> 08└─It shouldn't take lots of scientific study to figure out that getting hit in the head repeatedly is not good for your brain. However, there are a lot of idiots out there who love watching other people get hurt. The main driver of the NFL is the same as what would make a show like "Ow My Balls!" popu...
[16:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:12] <exec> 08└─Oh man how much it sucks to be of average proportions for 1960s today :( I guess I should have binged on the hormone infested milk growing up.
[16:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:14] <exec> 08└─I don't understand what is the big fucking deal here. These people made lot of money for no-talent talent (ME SMASH is hardly something worthy of praise. A stone-age buffoon could do similar). And if they didn't, then they are morons for destroying their bodies (and poultry minds) for no money (like...
[16:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:16] <exec> 08└─I think it is increasingly difficult to deny a link between CTE and repeated traumatic brain injury
[16:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:18] <exec> 08└─From Mars, Ho! [mcgrewbooks.com]: We moved to the dining room when lunch was done cooking and turned the game on in there. By the time we got the video turned on and on the right channel, it was one up; Novosibirsk had scored. Wow, two goals this fast? Destiny said there used to be a very violent ga...
[16:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:46] <exec> 08└─The two things are effectively completely dissimilar and as such, you're not going to get a meaningful result. It gets even worse when you start combining more and more things.
[16:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:47] <exec> 08└─You're talking about precision, not accuracy. If your input data are, for some reason, skewed to give a misleading result, then a larger data set will not improve accuracy. You will, with greater precision, zero in on your skewed answer.
[16:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:49] <exec> 08└─Yes but what is the P value of the pool?
[16:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:52] <exec> 08└─It would be an improvement if multiple theories were proposed and theories which didn't fit were discarded.
[16:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:54] <exec> 08└─Its bizarre that you seem to understand that 'significance" is a function of sample size, but still think there is some point to determining it. All it measures is how much effort you are willing/able to put forth to collect data in support of your idea (ie it measures the strength of prior belief a...
[16:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:56] <exec> 08└─They still don't understand what a p-value means. All that is going on here is the vague collective opinion that only a certain percent of experiments should be "successful", so that it seems like something productive has been done. 1) More money is going towards research X 2) Researchers in X field...
[16:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:23] <exec> 08└─And the worst workers. I need someone capable of doing something they don't particularly enjoy and doing it every day. You know, working.
[16:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:25] <exec> 08└─I'd hope my local coffee shop laughs at a proposal to write an app because I'd laugh too. Unfortunately, an attempt to provide genuine value to all stakeholders makes funding difficult in all circumstances. [soylentnews.org]
[16:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:31] <exec> 08└─Does this guy have any clue at all? "Exponentially more" isn't even a thing.
[16:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:33] <exec> 08└─The electric cars need to be a lot better than they are now.
[16:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:35] <exec> 08└─It would also be the first time that no human that is being moved is at the controls at all, and if they became the only method of moving people around, governments could very easily seal off complete sections of the world, because the cars would refuse to drive you there. At the moment I can drive...
[16:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:37] <exec> 08└─Nope, but ditto right back at you.
[16:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:39] <exec> 08└─Why exactly would this be a monopoly?
[16:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:41] <exec> 08└─Your sequence is wrong, therefore your conclusion is based on wrong assumptions. Yes, 1 is a prerequisite. But the order of 2 and 3 is not the one I understand. Rather it's: 1. Electric cars will replace fuel-driven cars. (You agreed on that.) 2. Electric cars will make car ownership more exp...
[16:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:44] <exec> 08└─Your stat is insanely misleading. It counts every incorporated town and suburb, no matter how small or remote as urban when the vast majority of them aren't even close.
[16:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:46] <exec> 08└─We're (well, I am, but I assume a fair number of people here would agree) not saying driverless cars should never be a thing. We just want to keep the choice to say "no" to driverless and have our own vehicle. As it is all kinds of ridiculous, expensive, mostly-useless-to-people-who-actually-know-ho...
[16:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:48] <exec> 08└─What people do in limousines and helicopters is disgusting. And Air Force One. I inherited a mess! 🇺🇸
[16:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:50] <exec> 08└─I've read that, but I'm not seeing it. Most places in the US have terrible public transportation. My oldest daughter doesn't drive, but it's because of here severe ADD. My younest has been driving since she was sixteen, as do all the others in their twenties and early thirties I know. It's probably...
[16:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:38] <exec> 08└─Who is the wise guy now?
[16:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:39] <exec> 08└─Driverless pedicabs?
[16:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Says No to Driverless Cars to Protect Jobs - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:41] <exec> 08└─Will Nitin Gadkari ban robocallers to provide full employment for Indian scammers?
[16:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 1705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:14] <exec> 08└─Diversity is irrelevant, but competition is definitely a great thing. And there is competition. While SpaceX is the most mature company actually producing viable products, Blue Origin, Orbital Sciences, Sierra Nevada Corporation and Virgin Galactic are right behind them. One of these days Jeff Bezos...
[16:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:15] <exec> 08└─> There's a difference between being a hero and doing the suicide thing that can be avoided. Supernatural selection has an odd habit of rewarding extremely careless people who really deserved to be killed. No wonder we keep having to rebuild cities.
[16:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:18] <exec> 08└─Diversity is irrelevant
[16:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:54] <exec> 08└─We even burned all the forest off of Mount Monadnock just to wipe out a goat herd. The mountain is still bald 2 centuries later.
[16:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:56] <exec> 08└─The post I made was originally about wolves: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] It's become something of a meme around here now, with various animals in place of wolves: mosquitoes, mountain goats, whales... Seriously, whales????
[16:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Wetter Than Previously Thought - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:35] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's a typo and they meant ²H₂O? (deuterium oxide) Or maybe H¹²O⁻ (unstable superlight hydroxyl ion), H²O⁻ won't even form.
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[17:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryzen Sales Boost AMD's Earnings, Ryzen 3 Launches on July 27th With Vega GPUs to Follow - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:48] <exec> 08└─I'm buying a lottery ticket this weekend. I'm due for a few numbers. Don't need to get all six numbers, just enough for shiny new Ryzen goodness :-)
[17:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:12] <exec> 08└─From the article you linked: CTE was first recognized as affecting individuals who took considerable blows to the head, but was believed to be confined to boxers and not other athletes. As evidence pertaining to the clinical and neuropathological consequences of repeated mild head trauma grew, it be...
[17:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:14] <exec> 08└─I hear they want to do studies on what the feck is going on in the mind of the Kardashians. I'm guessing they find nothing..... inside their heads. :)
[17:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:16] <exec> 08└─Take a look at Paul Grahams High School [paulgraham.com] document. The lines between cause and effect seems quite blurred as you imply ;) Tough Guys The tough guys in my high school were pretty scary. Fortunately, by this time I hardly ever ran into them. A friend of mine who went to a good east coa...
[17:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:18] <exec> 08└─Not sure what your point is. If it wasn't clear, my point was that *by definition* CTE is linked to repeated brain injuries so it is wrong to deny any link between the two and pointless to point out there is a link.
[17:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:20] <exec> 08└─Not only football. Boxing is also a risk sports in this area. Muhammad Ali is one example.
[17:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:23] <exec> 08└─At least back in the day Cassius "Muhammad Ali" Clay had the brains and balls to say NO to Vietnam war. Incredibly he also prevailed. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:56] <exec> 08└─...because only 1 in 200 trials will give the right result? [explainxkcd.com]
[17:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:58] <exec> 08└─OSF project page. If you have trouble downloading the PDF, use this link.
[17:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:27] <exec> 08└─> Take Stanford University Let's not. I looked at a map. Tell me if Iowa State or Alabama U is seeing a giant uptick in CS. Using Stanford as a gauge of CS is like checking Bel Air or Martha's Vineyard's prices to gauge the US housing market.
[17:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:29] <exec> 08└─Wish I knew them. I mostly have to go on instinct and time spent unemployed. The latter is a dead giveaway though. If you haven't spent 95% of your working-age history employed, you're probably going to be someone I'll have to fire within 6 months.
[17:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:31] <exec> 08└─It's neat that you can tell all that about me from one comment. You should market that skill. And no, I'll be doing everything possible within the law to not pay the way of the long-term unemployed; or, as they used to be called, bums.
[17:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:47] <exec> 08└─Ah, the (twisted) logic. 1. It takes the same amount of time to enter a self-driving car as a driven one 2. Your car will be able to park itself 3. After it drops you off at the door. But yes, maybe here in Germany it's a little different than America. It's a LOT different. All of Europe is 3.931 mi...
[17:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:49] <exec> 08└─While you assume everyone lives in Europe.
[17:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:51] <exec> 08└─I think eventually the insurance on a non-self driving car will be out of reach for most people and dirt cheap fpr autonomous cars. Face it, people drive very badly, at least where I live. But I don't foresee ever not being able to buy a car.
[17:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:53] <exec> 08└─I trust your autonomous car a lot more than I trust anyone to drive safely. Your non-autonomous car puts MY life at risk!
[17:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:55] <exec> 08└─You're going to be paying the cost of buying, maintaining, and insuring a car regardless; those costs don't go away, the vehicle's owner passes them on to you, with the addition of his profit.
[17:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:58] <exec> 08└─Personal Rapid Transit, not autonomous car is the solution for cities.
[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─It's no different than the turn of the twentieth century. The first gasoline pump was patented in 1901, in Norway. The buildup in infrastructure will be FAR less than a century ago when there were few roads. Before the 20th, they sold gasoline in hardware stores. They had to build roads and gas stat...
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter what the price is. It cost me the same to own it that it cost the rental agency (or taxi company or whatever). Renting a moving van makes sense. I pay more per mile but less than the total cost because I don't drive the moving van very often. Renting something I'm going to use up comp...
[17:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:04] <exec> 08└─When you've lived long enough to see how fast technology grows in your own lifetime you'll change your opinion. Things are common today that were impossible forty years ago. For instance, your phone is a more powerful computer than any that existed on Earth forty years ago. All of the stuff in the o...
[17:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:06] <exec> 08└─I think you're wrong about #2. The CEO of Berkshire-Hathaway, who owns GEICO (Warren Buffet) says that autonomous cars will be very cheap to insure, human-driven cars very expensive, because people really suck at driving. If you don't see how badly most people drive, you're probably one of them. I a...
[17:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:22] <exec> 08└─Spam mod because this exact post and its snowclones have been showing up a lot lately
[17:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─I have found that Egyptian and Indian cotton shirts far outlast any cotton that comes from China. Several of my favorite shirts are from India. Getting harder to find these days though. Everything is made in China.
[17:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:25] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting to hear the jew banker screams when someone suggests to Trump that he can just have the US Mint make a few dozen platinum coins with a face value of a Trillion each, and give them to the Federal Reserve to pay off the USA national debt.
[17:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:27] <exec> 08└─Don't you mean give them to his closest friends, and Putin.
[17:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:09] <exec> 08└─The reason is that dirty word "socialist." It's been so misused you can't communicate using it any more.
[17:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─It's going that way here in the UK too. It's why we got Brexit [theguardian.com]. I think the idea is that each work-producing unit (human being) should be a net positive financial contributor to the economy or is waste (a Useless Eater). It's why we no longer pay the disabled, old, sick and young e...
[17:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:13] <exec> 08└─About that last bit: graffiti artists were commissioned, according to the "Future plans" section of the article you've linked. Hence the graffiti aren't (entirely) vandalism.
[17:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:15] <exec> 08└─Sunday trading was never illegal in Scotland and when I was a teenager I worked part time in a supermarket. Sunday used to be paid at double time and the shop opened later and closed earlier on a Sunday but at the age of 16 I really used to appreciate getting 6 hours work on a Sunday. The only probl...
[17:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─Good for them, they are taking back their country, just like we will! 🇺🇸
[17:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:47] <exec> 08└─This is diversity [theregister.co.uk] in launcher technology. [space.com]. The stick rockets are the VHS video recorders of access to space. Virgin Galactic seems to be stuck on primitive agricultural technology.
[17:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:26] <exec> 08└─An adult whale in rut with full natural horns is a bona-fide walking menace to any other species native to north america. Anyone that doubts it has certainly never had to give one a reach-around mano a mano. Even the grizzlies suddenly discover something very interesting in the other direction - not...
[17:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:28] <exec> 08└─where are all the mountain lions? wolves? bears? why are these goats breeding out of control? you dumb fucks introduce a prey species without the predator? if you're going to meddle, then at least use some basic common sense and try to create a balanced ecosystem, ffs. stupid forest pigs want to rid...
[17:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Introduces New Congestion Control Algorithm - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:57] <exec> 08└─I envy the lucky wimps with their 1500-MTU. I'm extra wimpy cuz I got only 1280-MTU on IPv6.
[17:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:44] <exec> 08└─So no drought beer?
[17:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:45] <exec> 08└─OP is not [independent.co.uk] a joke. [wiltshiretimes.co.uk]
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[18:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryzen Sales Boost AMD's Earnings, Ryzen 3 Launches on July 27th With Vega GPUs to Follow - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:52] <exec> 08└─AMD's PSP makes the Intel ME look less invasive. AND they've indicated they have no plans to offer alternative firmware, documentation, or an unsigned version for users concerned about their security. Obviously none of those issues are a concern to anyone HERE....
[18:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryzen Sales Boost AMD's Earnings, Ryzen 3 Launches on July 27th With Vega GPUs to Follow - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:53] <exec> 08└─Joke's on them : I do all my bio and thermonuclear weapons designs offline. But with that many core, maybe I'll open a few tabs of scat gay porn just to misdirect anyone trying to track me. Note that most people voluntarily give up all their data to FB, Google, Amazon and their bank and cellphone co...
[18:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Noninvasive Protein and DNA Analysis Reveals New Details About Medieval Manuscripts - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:01] <exec> 08└─To reanimate Shakespeare via DNA or not to reanimate.
[18:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noninvasive Protein and DNA Analysis Reveals New Details About Medieval Manuscripts - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:03] <exec> 08└─We should remember that rigorous science depends not on ideology, but on a spirit of honest inquiry and robust debate. And according to science, Shakespeare is a very old and excellent kind of bacon. Bringing back that bacon could be terrific for our economy! 🇺🇸
[18:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noninvasive Protein and DNA Analysis Reveals New Details About Medieval Manuscripts - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:05] <exec> 08└─TRUE
[18:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:29] <exec> 08└─Not only boxing, but also American football!
[18:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:31] <exec> 08└─I know a guy in Miami who does boob jobs for only $2499. Very affordable!
[18:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:33] <exec> 08└─> I suspect the NFL (and the NHL) is on the way out. The leagues will have another toast of caviar and a cup of Dom Perignom served between the boobs of a top model while they evaluate whether your opinion is a threat to future revenue. After careful consideration (sniffing coke from the model's bel...
[18:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:35] <exec> 08└─By definition, the common cold is caused by exposure to coldness. We now know it's caused by a variety of viruses [cdc.gov], but the name has stuck. Dr. Rabinovici seems to be saying that the supposition embodied in the name CTE is correct. If the condition somehow turned out to have another cause,...
[18:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:11] <exec> 08└─If you have biased sampling, data that's not applicable or just weird data adding more won't help. You have to have a decent model and decent data to have any hope of making a meaningful conclusion. The Stanford Prison Experiment never replicated because they randomly found more psychopaths than nor...
[18:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:12] <exec> 08└─In software development we call these things Magic Numbers.
[18:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─The "golden standard" for the P-value, if we need to set it at all, should be 1.0.
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:48] <exec> 08└─Thank you for confirming you are secretly the troll who hates the guts of Michael David Crawford. You know, MDC the resident bum on your fine site. Why haven't you permanently banned MDC? He's a bum and bums don't belong in your world or on your site. Get rid of the bum.
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─http://wiki.c2.com/?GreatLispWar [c2.com] Hot-shot "cowboy coders" are great until they disappear, then you may likely have a mess to maintain, or something that's hard to find a maintainer for.
[18:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:16] <exec> 08└─One can do better than that: http://www.hardwooddistributors.org [hardwooddistributors.org]
[18:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:17] <exec> 08└─But those are fixed costs that get smaller as the car gets closer to full utilization. Most people probably drive their cars 10-20k miles per year, but a taxi racks up 5-10 times that, so imagine taking out the cost of the driver and splitting the rest 5-10 ways, and it starts to look a lot cheaper....
[18:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─>"I'm not seeing shared cars as ever becoming a thing." They already are, in the form of taxis, rental cars, and various new concepts like Zip Cars. What you are right about is that shared cars are unlikely to become the only thing, and maybe not even the majority of passenger miles. Most people who...
[18:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:36] <exec> 08└─Queensland researchers, eh? You'd think with all the money the Japanese are spending on whale science [soylentnews.org] they'd have been the ones to figure this out!
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─harpooning whales and doing nothing for justin bieber seems a fucked up priority to me You're right, we need to to be harpooning them both. In the name of science!
[18:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:40] <exec> 08└─Why is Marine Biology a bad choice of topics? I don't get it....
[18:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:39] <exec> 08└─The first thing it finds of roughly the right shape and size, whether it's a car or a dog or your neighbors kid, IS the lady goat in his mind at this point. I fail to see the problem here, or why any action is needed to change this. Let the dogs and the neighbor kids deal with this problem on their...
[18:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:41] <exec> 08└─I think this site's audience isn't big enough for a meme of this complexity. It's become something of a meme around here now
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[19:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:59] <exec> 08└─No chance of it ever holding up in court, but that gives politicians an excuse to show off, vote, and grab donations. Useless waste of their salaries as far as our elected representatives, though. My former company added a "don't discuss a boycott of Israel" policy in their annual discrimination tra...
[19:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:01] <exec> 08└─It seems like for every day that passes lately, the U.S. takes two steps backwards. I contacted my senator, who is cosponsoring this bill, a few days ago to convey my displeasure about it. I wonder where the point of critical mass is where the damage done to the United States is irreparable. If we'r...
[19:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:03] <exec> 08└─Well I guess the silver lining is that it doesn't even have enough co-sponsors to be proposed, yet.
[19:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:05] <exec> 08└─So I can get arrested for discussing BSD?
[19:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:07] <exec> 08└─It is said that Lyndon Johnson decided to ‘accept’ the Israelites had attacked the U.S.S. Liberty [wikipedia.org] by accident because donations to his reelection campaign would not be forthcoming. Hearsay, but if anyone else had killed 34 sailors and wounded 172 plus rendering a US ship useless...
[19:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:09] <exec> 08└─But apparently it's a bipartisan push. Because ignoring the Constitution is a warm, fuzzy thing that can bring us all together!
[19:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:12] <exec> 08└─And it likely won't be. Passing the law isn't the point. Congresscritters aren't stupid*. They know this has almost no hope of passage, and they certainly know that it will be shot down immediately on constitutional grounds if it does pass by the courts. This is grandstanding. It's getting your name...
[19:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:14] <exec> 08└─Oops - forgot to actually include the footnote in parent about congresscritters not being stupid. OK, maybe they ARE stupid, but they're stupid in relatively predictable ways. And thinking this could possibly become real law in the US is not one of those ways.
[19:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:16] <exec> 08└─introduced… by Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.) and… Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.)
[19:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:18] <exec> 08└─As a European myself I find it very strange that such a law can ever be officially proposed. And in the US of all countries where the freedom of speech in codified in the constitution.
[19:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:20] <exec> 08└─It's a way to show a return on the investment made by your campaign contributors. Most laws are, we're only paying attention to this one because its so clearly unconstitutional.
[19:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 1969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:23] <exec> 08└─Looks like the chosen ones are afraid of the dwindling support of their zionism. Fuck them is what I say. Oh the poor jews! Everyone hates them so! Why won't people leave them alone? Because they don't leave others alone. Oh, and they're all in one big well guarded and defined club, and you ain't in...
[19:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:25] <exec> 08└─Follow the sheckels....
[19:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:27] <exec> 08└─Well, SCOTUS, in its infinite wisdom, has determined that "giving oodles of money to a candidate's election campaign" is free speech. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if "boycotting an apartheid regime" would be found to -not- be free speech. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryzen Sales Boost AMD's Earnings, Ryzen 3 Launches on July 27th With Vega GPUs to Follow - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:38] <exec> 08└─Note that most people voluntarily give up all their data to FB, Google, Amazon and their bank and cellphone company already. Why bother to use a backdoor?
[19:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryzen Sales Boost AMD's Earnings, Ryzen 3 Launches on July 27th With Vega GPUs to Follow - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:40] <exec> 08└─I'm seriously considering selling FPGA-based hardware firewalls to paranoid people. Basic Hardware filtering is pretty easy, but making the rules management somewhat user-friendly is a pain.
[19:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:18] <exec> 08└─Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
[19:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:59] <exec> 08└─Is it bizarre that I think that? Is it not exactly what the people in this paper are proposing? I agree that there is no point to it, but you won't be a very successful scientist with that attitude.
[19:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:00] <exec> 08└─And worse, working with preexisting data makes it very tempting to fit your hypothesis to the data. Same with the general disdain for "our hypothesis was disproved" papers.
[19:23:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 560 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:44] <exec> 08└─To get in a car last used by some dude who showered sometime last month and left his Burger King trash in the car. I'm not seeing shared cars as ever becoming a thing. I like my car. I like that I can get in it and go somewhere at a moment's notice. You know that, when shared cars become a thing, th...
[19:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:04] <exec> 08└─San Diego is, by far, the most car-centric city I've ever visited. One of my colleagues checked into the same hotel as me. The first question he was asked was what his car registration number was so that it wouldn't be clamped in their system. After he said that he didn't have a car, he asked how to...
[19:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:06] <exec> 08└─All of Europe is 3.931 million square miles, the US alone is 3.797 million
[19:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:08] <exec> 08└─Technically, Brazil is not part of Europe.
[19:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:10] <exec> 08└─Your weekly shop. This consists - in my country at least - of driving to a supermarket, loading up the boot. You can't do that on public transport
[19:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:12] <exec> 08└─I am 27 and I can not imagine not owning a vehicle and driving it wherever. The majority of the time I spend driving has no destination, it is just driving. Every other night a buddy and I drive around smoking cigars talking about various things, mostly articles/good comments from soylent and bitchi...
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[19:25:14] <exec> 08└─Mod this up. Packet-switched networks of 1-2 person pods travelling at 100km/h suspended on rails about 10m above the ground is a far better solution than most of what's proposed.
[19:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:17] <exec> 08└─My problem is counting on the problems being solvable by 2040; it's certainly possible, but I think drawing a line in the sand like this is not wise. It's not only a problem of solving the technology, it's a problem of solving the logistics of deploying whatever it ends up needing and supporting the...
[19:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Michael Kors Spends $1.2 Billion on Shoes - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:40] <exec> 08└─Just why?
[19:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:28] <exec> 08└─...and that's NOT Socialism. Here's Socialism: The collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers. What you are describing is LIBERAL DEMOCRACY (when that is being done properly). Sometimes that is called "Social Democracy" and that causes some people to get confused about terminolog...
[19:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:30] <exec> 08└─Dude, seriously? First of all: Communism [wikipedia.org] In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a so...
[19:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:32] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you were at fault ...
[19:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:44] <exec> 08└─Those kids are a pain in the ass anyway
[19:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:46] <exec> 08└─Recover from what?
[19:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:48] <exec> 08└─Have you ever seen where these goats hang out? There's a reason helicopters are involved....
[19:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:50] <exec> 08└─An adult billy goat in rut with full natural horns is a bona-fide walking menace to any other species native to north america. Yep, from the article: The park has always dealt with the goats on a case by case basis, Johnson said, but it wasn't until 2010 when they got serious about the problem. "We...
[19:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:52] <exec> 08└─where are all the mountain lions? wolves? We can't have these things around! They might hurt someone's kid! We have to eliminate all large predators to make sure all wild lands are perfectly safe for children! /s
[19:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Olympic National Park Planning to Kill or Relocate Mountain Goats - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:55] <exec> 08└─A billy goat cursing you. It was only 71 years, but fans will recognize the 108 number easier. /Chicago jokes [wikipedia.org]
[19:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:15] <exec> 08└─My bad, combining stories in a submission is different from combining submissions.
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[20:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:11] <exec> 08└─Where "all" is made easier by the absence of representatives of certain groups [aljazeera.com].
[20:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:13] <exec> 08└─For once that they could usefully remind us what the Tea Party fuss was all about...
[20:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:15] <exec> 08└─why is this not being called virtue signaling by the anti-SJW warriors?
[20:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:17] <exec> 08└─Muslim =/= Daesh Christian =/= USA Jewish =/= Israel
[20:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:19] <exec> 08└─No, but Netcraft will confirm you're dying.
[20:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:21] <exec> 08└─Anti-Zionism is not a virtue to them, so they see no need to signal that by screaming "virtue signaling." Now, compare and contrast. On the right side of the aisle in the One Party's PR department we see anti-Zionism and Islam as horrible things. On the left side of the aisle in the One Party's PR d...
[20:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:24] <exec> 08└─Because then they would be applying the label to themselves.
[20:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should, I dunno, fucking assimilate. If they want to live in an Islamic country, pack your shit up and head back where you came from.
[20:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:28] <exec> 08└─> Both Cardin and Roskam were lawyers (or have legal degrees), so I'm certain they know that this legislation is unconstitutional on its face. Given their sheer numbers, if lawyers-turned-politicians could get disbarred for voting obviously unconstitutional or unethical laws, we'd get an teaspoon of...
[20:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:30] <exec> 08└─If you were properly assimilated into a civilized society you'd realize that spewing profanity over mundane issues makes you look like a lunatic.
[20:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:33] <exec> 08└─(D-Md.) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has recently come up with a "Better Deal" platform where he tries to convince gullible USAians that it's something like FDR's New Deal or Jill Stein's Green New Deal. It's quite hollow in that it doesn't address the REAL problem that The Donkeys have (the...
[20:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:35] <exec> 08└─tea-baggers of today are a mockery of the Tea Party we all fondly reminisce about so don't expect much from that...
[20:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:37] <exec> 08└─"As a European myself I find it very strange that such a law can ever be officially proposed." You can propose anything. I'm sure that some in Brussels have proposed some pretty wild things that have zero chance of being made into law. In the US, the system is that the legislative branch can pass pr...
[20:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:40] <exec> 08└─we all fondly reminisce
[20:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:42] <exec> 08└─"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. "
[20:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:44] <exec> 08└─That's not quite what they decided. There's a long legislated history that certain rights are valid for corporations, given that they incorporate the interests of a range of natural persons. So that wasn't really even at issue in Citizens United - corporations have had recognised free speech rights...
[20:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:46] <exec> 08└─"As a European myself I find it very strange that such a law can ever be officially proposed. And in the US of all countries where the freedom of speech in codified in the constitution." in germany you will get completely shunned by most people working anything but the most pedestrian jobs for sugge...
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─Military would be interesting. Specifically combat vets vs REMF guys. I guess the whippersnappers on my lawn these days call them pogs or pogues or some damn thing, but when I was in they were REMFs. The background and training will be very similar across infantry or arty or support REMFs BUT its we...
[20:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:38] <exec> 08└─Possibly. Looking at demographics, whites don't watch soccer and hispanics don't watch football, so WRT intentional demographic replacement, some states are likely to drop the whole football thing in place of soccer. I don't really know why CA or FL have football teams right now. On the other hand o...
[20:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 2231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:40] <exec> 08└─This is a popular claim, I'm not disagreeing with that, but I don't believe its true. Nobody seems to freaked out that extensive safety regulations in car racing make the sport boring or unwatchable, merely because its become unusual over the decades for race car drivers to die. In fact I think its...
[20:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:43] <exec> 08└─Professional soccer players have also been found to have high levels of CTE (presumably from using their head to deflect the ball).
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─As I understand p-values, 0.05 means a 5% chance that you are publishing rubbish. So if we make the assumption that only 1% of hypothesis are actually correct, and that only verified results are published (null hypothesis doesn't get published), this means that only 1 out of 6 studies we see publish...
[20:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physics of Bubbles Could Explain Language Patterns - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:36] <exec> 08└─I think it is a matter of social proximity (people that speak to each other), which is a property of physical proximity and social identity (and surely a few other things).
[20:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:01] <exec> 08└─Dartmouth College's computer science program has quadrupled, but that doesn't tell the entire story.
[20:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:02] <exec> 08└─The remainder have no passion for the subject.
[20:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:04] <exec> 08└─MDC knows the score. Having problems doesn't entitle you to special consideration; not even in your own head. Everyone has problems. Nobody gets to use them as an excuse for failure.
[20:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:07] <exec> 08└─▲ ▲ ▲
[20:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:43] <exec> 08└─It's no different than the turn of the twentieth century. The first gasoline pump was patented in 1901, in Norway. The buildup in infrastructure will be FAR less than a century ago when there were few roads. Before the 20th, they sold gasoline in hardware stores.
[20:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 1521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:44] <exec> 08└─That's sort of the other end of the driving picture that most of the other people in the thread have been missing: how many of your necessary trips are still necessary? The "Retail is dying" headlines have really proliferated this year thanks to Amazon, FreshDirect, BlueApron, and other online servi...
[20:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Tensions Brew, No More North Korean Beer Festival - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:33] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the editors will hop to it.
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[21:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:55] <exec> 08└─Hey, look, a nice big wooden statue of a horse, and it's free!
[21:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:56] <exec> 08└─Of course even back then, the purpose of the horse was to fight against Trojans.
[21:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:58] <exec> 08└─So they want to scan your email contents, your software catalog (and how often/when you use each piece of software), any network activity (sites you access and what you download), and probably all disk accesses. Then send all this information back to their servers. All this for free, without having...
[21:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:01] <exec> 08└─So the company that is getting slammed by the current administration for potential, actual and/or possible connections with Russian security service (FSB) is handing out free antivirus software to the public. I guess when you get removed from doing business with governments you can always turn to th...
[21:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:39] <exec> 08└─Obviously you came to it late, and only got the CNN-sanctioned crazy-asshole-on-camera view of the tea party.
[21:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:41] <exec> 08└─What does any of this have to do with the GP's post? And what idiot modded a huge "no fucking duh" post insightful?
[21:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:43] <exec> 08└─You appear to be the victim of false memories. Probably the result of taking TV news seriously. A lot of old tea party folks actually voted for Obama, at least the first time.
[21:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:45] <exec> 08└─the judicial branch can then declare it unconstitutional Let's remember that The Orange Clown's favorite president is Andrew Jackson. Let's now remember Jackson's comment about the unconstitutionality of the forced "resettlement" of Native Americans (AKA "The Trail of Tears" where bronzed-colored pe...
[21:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:47] <exec> 08└─It seems like for every day that passes lately, the U.S. takes two steps backwards.
[21:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:50] <exec> 08└─Because I am supposed to believe as an American that an insular, xenophobic nation that believes it represents Yahweh's elect and chosen people, in a very real political sense, and may speak for an entire ethnic group the world over is capable of no backroom dealing and capable of no evil.
[21:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:52] <exec> 08└─anything to get that AIPAC $$$ into election acvounts...
[21:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:54] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that some in Brussels have proposed some pretty wild things that have zero chance of being made into law.
[21:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mayo2y [6520] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:56] <exec> 08└─Gorsuch is a strict constitutionalist. Attila the Hun was neither right nor left. Re Andrew Jackson he was for universal male suffrage (a step in the right direction). He thought power was too concentrated in Banks, was against big business and against crony capitalism, was against eminent domain a...
[21:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryzen Sales Boost AMD's Earnings, Ryzen 3 Launches on July 27th With Vega GPUs to Follow - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:08] <exec> 08└─A small Arm micro with a simple lcd UI or even ethernet port with small web server could bang values into registers via an spi interface or memory mapped interface. You could even push that into the FPGA using a soft core.
[21:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryzen Sales Boost AMD's Earnings, Ryzen 3 Launches on July 27th With Vega GPUs to Follow - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:09] <exec> 08└─The Talos OpenPower Workstation [soylentnews.org] is supposed to be actually launchinng in August— basically the last hope for a open, free, workstation-class computer system in the foreseeable future.
[21:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryzen Sales Boost AMD's Earnings, Ryzen 3 Launches on July 27th With Vega GPUs to Follow - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:11] <exec> 08└─AC, google a little next time: https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] In AMD’s AMA here, they say they will seriously consider releasing their Platform Security Processor (PSP) source code. This is their equivalent of the Inte...
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[21:22:22] <exec> 08└─Not if it's null, depending on the language's rules
[21:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:56] <exec> 08└─it is increasingly difficult to deny a link between CTE and repeated traumatic brain injury [experienced while playing American football]
[21:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─Doubtful. When we have a soccer game in San Diego they have a good turnout, but a large percentage is from south of the border. We have soccer games maybe twice a year. If we have games weekly, or more often, how many people are going to be willing to wait for hours to cross the border to watch the...
[21:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:59] <exec> 08└─Another rather interesting "race car analogy" is if football players die when team players get over 300 pounds average of muscle, well, it seems obvious to have a weigh in and the team can field no more than wxyz pounds on any given play.
[21:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:00] <exec> 08└─I think this is right. Driving is the worst waste of time. On a bike, you're also getting exercise and seeing the area in a way, in greater detail, than you do in a car; also, when I commute by bike I get there faster than by car or even public transportation, because traffic and congestion in the s...
[21:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:01] <exec> 08└─I see somebody just visited "World of Tomorrow" at Disneyland. ;-)
[21:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:04] <exec> 08└─Actually my thoughts are more in the cabin-switched ground or underground level network for 3-4 people per cabin traveling ~100 km/h on rails. More people => higher throughout. Some high traffic sections can actually use cabins for 40 people. Ground level avoids the risk of falling down like the one...
[21:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:17] <exec> 08└─My point probably wasn't as clear as I wanted it to be. But the idea is that he went to walmart on a national holiday and bought propane from people who don't want to be there. He supported walmart's greed. If he planned ahead, he would have found that his tank was nearly empty and would not have ne...
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[22:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:52] <exec> 08└─There were two factions disagreeing on how to proceed with growing Bitcoin: Those who wanted to allow a larger blocksize, and those who wanted a technology to reduce the amount of data per transaction that goes into the block. The compromise they now found was: Just do both.
[22:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:53] <exec> 08└─The can has been kicked; the buck has not stopped. Bitcoin Unlimited will still be dancing on the brink of volcano, whether that line is drawn at 2 megabytes or 1. Ultimately they cannot be negotiated with, only capitulated to or hard-forked from. It's a beautiful trainwreck briefly delayed by cleve...
[22:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:55] <exec> 08└─Some prominent figures in the Bitcoin community saw an easy fix: just increase that 1MB limit. But Bitcoin traditionalists argued that the limit was actually a feature, not a bug.
[22:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:06] <exec> 08└─An OS whose development -starts- with a security model is a much better idea. Trying to paste on "security" afterwards is obviously completely backwards. ...and I just have to swivel my head every time I think that Windoze didn't even include a firewall before XP SP1, didn't activate the firewall by...
[22:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:54] <exec> 08└─We're supplying a randomly picked subset of apartheid regimes with cash and weapons. That country you're talking about gives muslim citizens more rights than the apartheid ones around it -- despite muslims being nominally in power. But failing to "recognize the supremacy of Islam" or to murder unbel...
[22:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:55] <exec> 08└─no you're a jerk
[22:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:57] <exec> 08└─Re the Supreme Court and enforcing rules - I guess you're against Sanctuary Cities as the power to set immigration laws rests in the Federal Government and not the states. (Same as tariffs).
[22:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:59] <exec> 08└─You act like the Palestinians have no blood on their hands. Go back and read the history of the British Mandate. I especially liked the part where there was the Arab terrorist guy running around with his band of insurgents randomly killing Jews, then when the Brits got tired of it they holed his ass...
[22:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:02] <exec> 08└─Guess we should round up all the Westboro Baptists and other extremists now that "right right" is all about taking such people down. Since we're slapping on overly broad labels and applying it to everyone, that means we're just gonna have to get rid of pretty much all the christians, no telling when...
[22:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:04] <exec> 08└─From the article [aljazeera.com].. Survey finds Muslims feel out of place in society, displeased with their president, and are targets of discrimination. [picture] The early days of Donald Trump's presidency caused anxiety among Muslim Americans, with many reporting concern about their place in US s...
[22:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:06] <exec> 08└─Let's concentrate efforts on ideologies that are actively calling for murder right now, not merely have such calls in an unused corner of their holy books. By "holy books" I put Koran, Mein Kampf, Bible and works of Marx&Engels into one bag. Same for SJWs vs "patriots" (the US is overran by the form...
[22:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:08] <exec> 08└─Precisely! And in particular "abridging the freedom of speech".
[22:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryzen Sales Boost AMD's Earnings, Ryzen 3 Launches on July 27th With Vega GPUs to Follow - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:23] <exec> 08└─AMD to briefly consider bestowing backdoor module source code unto peasants. Silence ensues.
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noninvasive Protein and DNA Analysis Reveals New Details About Medieval Manuscripts - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:35] <exec> 08└─There is no question.
[22:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:12] <exec> 08└─So the brains of former football players who were showing signs of degenerative neurological disease while alive are found to indeed show signs of degenerative neurological disease when examined posthumously. Shocking.
[22:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:14] <exec> 08└─At least he that thing called fame and money which allowed him to skate by the draft process. The rest of the nobodies got shipped off to hell.
[22:23:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03melikamp [1886] 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:57] <exec> 08└─In software development we call these things Magic Numbers.
[22:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:02] <exec> 08└─I considered the possibility that they might be trolling with an absurd reduction for the purpose of getting bad practice disbanded. Now I'm concerned that established players are entrenching bad practice for their own benefit. I believe there was a Mark Twain quote of the form "There was never a ga...
[22:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:24] <exec> 08└─Have you been to Utah (or Nevada--similar terrain)? It's mostly steep rocky mountains (beautiful scenery) and desert. I'm surprised there are anywhere near a million people living outside the major metro areas, would have guessed much lower. I've crossed it several times by car, and twice on the cre...
[22:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:25] <exec> 08└─Cool site. Thanks for sharing.
[22:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:28] <exec> 08└─Practice require time.
[22:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:30] <exec> 08└─Once there are multiple EV charging points on every forecourt, including in rural areas
[22:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:45] <exec> 08└─Ah, double-time for Sundays! I had a bit of that in the decade or so after the 1994 act for England and Wales, and (for various reasons) was in the rota for every Sunday too. I was glad of the extra money. Now that Sunday trading is so commonplace (in England and Wales), very few companies offer dou...
[22:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:46] <exec> 08└─Much of it was indeed commissioned, and the various pieces cover a lot of the hull (hence "plastered"). A selection of before and after images can be seen here [dailymail.co.uk].
[22:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:48] <exec> 08└─It's similar in some parts of Texas I've been, the only thing open after 5 are some of the drive thru liquor stores, not even the gas station open.
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[23:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:38] <exec> 08└─How do you enforce a court judgement if you don't even know who they are? What does the court judgement even do? >crowdstrike Yeah, I'll take that with a megaton of salt.
[23:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:48] <exec> 08└─Why is it that a blockchain blocksize of 1 MB limits the number of transactions per second? And won't larger size make ASIC/FPGA designs harder as more on chip SRAM will be needed? Is Ethereum technically as good as Bitcoin? and it provides anonymity unlike Bitcoin?
[23:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:50] <exec> 08└─While Bitcoin insiders squabbled, competitors like Ethereum have soared in value and gained developer mindshare.
[23:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:52] <exec> 08└─Nice, non-technical summary: http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com]
[23:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:54] <exec> 08└─Why is it that a blockchain blocksize of 1 MB limits the number of transactions per second?
[23:21:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:03] <exec> 08└─Of course even back then, the purpose of the horse was to fight against Trojans.
[23:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:08] <exec> 08└─I mean.. programmed it :p
[23:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:10] <exec> 08└─Would you feel better about it if they charged you for it?
[23:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:12] <exec> 08└─Ruskies advacned AI in Merican computers? NO00OO000OOOoo0ooO000OOOooo
[23:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:08] <exec> 08└─My opinion of Jill Stein has been irremediably damaged by her recommendation that Green Party supporters vote for Trump. I now consider anything she supports as suspicious baring further evidence.
[23:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:10] <exec> 08└─It can't be immediately struck down. It may be immediately obvious that it's unconstitutional, but to be struck down it needs to be: 1) Enforced. 2) Applealed. 3) The appeal accepted by the appealate court. 4) The appeal supported by the appeals court. 5) Appealed. 6) The appeal accepted by the circ...
[23:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:12] <exec> 08└─The notion of a boycott is bunk in our modern massively interconnected society. The free market will provide, and will deliver to the wider market, even is some chose not to be customers. The old idea that a community can through solidarity isolate and exclude the landlord is difficult if not imposs...
[23:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:14] <exec> 08└─Gorsuch is a jerk who crafted his opinions in order to audition for the SCOTUS job.[1] 6 out of 7 judges who rules on the case, thought that The Frozen Trucker did the right thing. Only Gorsuch voted in favor of the corporation and thought that the guy should have allowed himself to freeze to death...
[23:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:16] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the original (as in a few decades ago) Tea Party was a cross between libertarian and flipping reactionary. The reactionaries chased out the libertarians. FWIW, neither side had a viable plan for a society that has fast transportation and fast communication. Things that work well in a small iso...
[23:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:19] <exec> 08└─Because they could see what happened to the Native Americans when a bunch of people from across the sea started coming over and claiming land. There was resistance, there was appeasement, but in the end they were marginalized in their own land. One thing remaining is for Israel to get the Native Pal...
[23:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:21] <exec> 08└─...like Christianity. The Branch Davidians in Waco shot at federal agents. Clearly, they represent -ALL- Christians. Christians are clearly a violent bunch, set on murder, and -ALL- Christians should be rounded up. "Kill them all; God will know his own." ...to quote a Christian. ...and I seem to rem...
[23:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:23] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:25] <exec> 08└─Then how do free speech zones work? Right of the people at assemble
[23:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─Americans don't have any obligation to make any particular religion or ideology at home Clearly, you haven't been paying attention to what's happening in Jesusland. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryzen Sales Boost AMD's Earnings, Ryzen 3 Launches on July 27th With Vega GPUs to Follow - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:43] <exec> 08└─Take your own advice. https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[23:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:34] <exec> 08└─No, this is the entire quote in TFS: "I think it is increasingly difficult to deny a link between CTE and repeated traumatic brain injury, be it through contact sports or other mechanisms,"
[23:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is bizarre that the authors think this as well. In reading their paper though, it sounds like many of them actually don't want NHST around either. The figure maybe this will cut down on BS somehow by making it slightly harder for those who don't know what they are doing. Also, I quit medical...
[23:25:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:12] <exec> 08└─If you are going to be condescending towards those your see as your elders, you deserve no respect now, nor when you get old yourself.
[23:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:01] <exec> 08└─That's not AC, it's aristarchus posting AC, you can tell by the way nearly every pussy of his starts the same, is content-free, and makes you forget about the trump supporting nonsense you should have been replying to because aristarchus' nonsense is so much more retarded.
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