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[00:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:30] <exec> 08└─"Let's get ourselves some floozy-bots and void their warranties all night long!"
[00:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:32] <exec> 08└─I'm so tired of this crap. I went from saying proudly "I'm a feminist!" to "Well, I'm an equalist!" to "You know what? I'm a meritocratist!" to "No, really, I am a meritocratist, and that means I'm not going to compromise my principles!" to "You know what? FUCK you. I guess women, on average, just a...
[00:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:34] <exec> 08└─Virtually forgotten
[00:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twisted Carbon Nanotubes Can Harvest Energy From Temperature Changes and Ocean Waves - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:43] <exec> 08└─...with tiny little tweezers?
[00:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:07] <exec> 08└─Dad had a drawer of daguerreotypes. Black and white, and colored. Very tasteful! From time to time I take them out. And give my wife the night off.
[00:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:13] <exec> 08└─I see you seem to want to eat at the restaurant. Next time, try, if you're not stuck at the Escherian table, to enjoy a relaxed evening in nice company at the restaurant, complete with occasional food. Most of your issues will be irrelevant. It is a different experience, for sure, but on ne vieillit...
[00:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:00] <exec> 08└─> NOLA flooding was the presidents fault in the news. WTF? The president doesn't have anything to do with this stuff TWO DAYS before Katrina made landfall, I was watching the news in Chicago, and they said that if the eye hits at the wrong place (West) as a Cat 3 or 4, NOLA's gonna flood, especially...
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[00:33:01] <exec> 08└─One could argue that having a transportation system that's not capable of handling a total evacuation of the 4th largest city in under a week is a strategic nightmare. Whether it's zombie Godzilla, the Russians, Chinese, or just a big storm, you need to have plans to pull the people out of danger in...
[00:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hottest New Board Games From Gen Con 2017 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:44] <exec> 08└─It's not Cthulhu, but the board game that has me most excited right now is The Thing.
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[01:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:39] <exec> 08└─Everything you need to know is covered by the "A team of women" combined with the "In a cramped Harvard sub-basement" The implication is this is a desperate group of the sisterhood battling the evil white male oppressors to save their kind. Just perhaps we should ask why they are excluding males? Se...
[01:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:41] <exec> 08└─I would advise avoiding magnets for a while, after that comment!
[01:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:43] <exec> 08└─There's no irony involved. It isn't society separating out leftists. It's the opposite: leftists intentionally separate out themselves from the rest of society. It's yet another example of the division they intentionally create. Society is united until leftists come along and first separate themselv...
[01:26:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 632 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:51] <exec> 08└─Whoa! Like the lies that came from HRC? Like the theft of the leadership from Sanders? Like the sticky, slimy snail trail of corruption she left behind her everywhere she went? Like the lack of leadership she has shown since losing (and the leadership that Sanders picked up with her failure to come...
[01:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Board Has a Surprise New CEO Pick: Expedia's Dara Khosrowshahi - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:36] <exec> 08└─Uber has had so much bad press. Not only for the sexual harrassment at HQ, but for treating their drivers like shit, and for disregarding local laws as they've expanded around the world. Lets hope the new CEO is better behaved, and Uber starts improving their reputation. Because at the end of the da...
[01:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:13] <exec> 08└─Fuck, you're stupid.
[01:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:15] <exec> 08└─Fuck, you're just as stupid as Runway
[01:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:17] <exec> 08└─Troll Fucker.
[01:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:19] <exec> 08└─Actually, you're at least equally stupid. The proof that liberal leadership is destructive is in the news just about every other day. How's Detroit, these days?
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[02:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:35] <exec> 08└─I'm killing n00bs in MW2, how exactly does this improve my K/D ratio?
[02:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could make a really good aimbot with it.
[02:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:39] <exec> 08└─Whoa! Man! Are you a Crusader or a Warden?
[02:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:54] <exec> 08└─Me thinks you've had one too many huffs from the science bag my friend.
[02:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:55] <exec> 08└─Sing it, Bro!
[02:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:28] <exec> 08└─No, he's stupider than Runaway. Runaway has a good points about a variety of things. jmorris only has good points when talking about IT.
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[03:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:33] <exec> 08└─ability to architect solutions based on Open source development tools such as GitHub, and knowledge of new tools.
[03:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:34] <exec> 08└─it's not surprising that a 77 percent majority of the tech professionals surveyed said the ability to architect solutions based on open source software topped the list of valuable skills.
[03:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:36] <exec> 08└─86 percent of open source professionals believe that just knowing open source has advanced their careers
[03:25:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 19 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:55] <exec> 08└─Virtually forgotten
[03:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:02] <exec> 08└─If they don't, they can't gin up enough hatred to get elected dogcatcher.
[03:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twisted Carbon Nanotubes Can Harvest Energy From Temperature Changes and Ocean Waves - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:12] <exec> 08└─Stories about carbon nanotubes and new 6,000,000,000,000,000-times-more-efficient batteries should be permanently banned until said products are available outside of research universities.
[03:27:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:08] <exec> 08└─So far only two real differences. TTP is dead and we took a step back on Syria instead of diving in. So far so good.
[03:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:02] <exec> 08└─How can they tell if you're tethering?
[03:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secret Service Conducts Live Test of ShotSpotter System at White House - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's because the Secret Service know more about its effectiveness than Washington bureaucrats. The primary purpose of this thing is as a deterrent, whether you switch it on or not. It's actual effectiveness is pretty marginal, so the economically most sensible way to deploy it would be to buy...
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[04:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:33] <exec> 08└─Economists will never admit that they are the "Women's Studies" of value-exchange and will complain when you tell them that they are nothing more than that. Usually, they will try the retort "well, but if people would act X or Y, then our predictions would come true". Yeah, well, they don't and your...
[04:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:34] <exec> 08└─All this applies to "climate scientists" as well.
[04:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:45] <exec> 08└─Just like you're not an actor until you join the Screen Actors Guild ... you're not a coder until you join GitHub. Just like if you're not a celebrity A-list actor, you won't get the big roles ... if you're not a rockstar coder on GitHub, you won't get the good jobs. Fame is everything ... and open...
[04:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:47] <exec> 08└─Demand for Linux skills is also high but has dropped a bit since last year -- from 71 percent down to 65 percent.
[04:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:49] <exec> 08└─It's more than just that. GitHub can elevate a mere man into a god. Just look at pcwalton [github.com]. GitHub is the Mount Olympus upon which a god such as pcwalton so triumphantly stands.
[04:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:51] <exec> 08└─The article makes it very clear that it is important to know Open Source. But is that enough? Is it also important to know GNU?
[04:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:53] <exec> 08└─What's a GNU? I interviewed for a job, a job which as far as I know had nothing to do with a duck, and my resume lists years and years of experience with GNU, Linux, and GNU/Linux. The interviewer told me, "Sorry, we're looking for someone with open source skills." Why? Why? Now I know why! GitHub!...
[04:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:04] <exec> 08└─It doesn't help worth shit under any circumstances. These things are so proprietary you'd think Imagination Technologies was producing them, instead of Intel. There is no opcode documentation. The firmware required to operate them is signed. The sdk required to work with them is wholly proprietary....
[04:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:07] <exec> 08└─How many times can you repeat "deep" "neural" "learning" without actually spelling out how it's actually cooked up? Deep fucking bullshit.
[04:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:09] <exec> 08└─Deep-seated anger issues lol.
[04:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:11] <exec> 08└─Lol this, dipshit cunt.
[04:26:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:44] <exec> 08└─I for one can't wait for this infernal contraption to send us Daguerrotypes from the surface of this mysterious world. Full steam ahead I say!
[04:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:02] <exec> 08└─Not being rude, but it sounds like you grew up well after the microprocessor. That's the paradigm you think in with respect to computing. Have you ever seen mechanical fire control computers on Navy ships? They calculated trajectories, in-flight times, and compensated for wind, curve of the earth, a...
[04:32:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 907 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:33] <exec> 08└─One factor never mentioned in media-reported discussions is the massive difference between "nuclear power could be safe" and "do we build NP plants that are safe". It is a small but significant side spur of a vastly larger issue with construction and manufacturing in general. Engineering team says "...
[04:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:52] <exec> 08└─The reactor design itself has been known dangerous since the mid 70s. http://abcnews.go.com [go.com]
[04:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:07] <exec> 08└─Add a flame-thrower to the mix and you're good. Or are fire ants immune to fire, just like fire elementals? ;)
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[05:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:35] <exec> 08└─It doesn't. "Climate science [wikipedia.org]" is a subfield of Physical geography [wikipedia.org], which is a natural science [wikipedia.org].
[05:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:36] <exec> 08└─Not me [soylentnews.org]! If you know anything at all about animal psychology and human psychoses, then you know economics.
[05:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:51] <exec> 08└─CyberneticEntomologist [github.com] almost does everything right. Full name, photo, location, and forked a trendy automation tool. Shame about 0 contributions in the last year.
[05:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:53] <exec> 08└─I don't know whether to mod you Interesting or Troll, so I'm commenting instead.
[05:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:07] <exec> 08└─No no, must be 'deep-shit cunt' to keep to the thread trend.
[05:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:26] <exec> 08└─Everything you need to know is covered by the "A team of women" combined with the "In a cramped Harvard sub-basement" The implication is this is a desperate group of the sisterhood battling the evil white male oppressors to save their kind.
[05:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:27] <exec> 08└─The use of the word leftist pretty much disqualifies you from any insight. There's no such thing as a leftist. There are progressives and liberals on the left, but no leftists.
[05:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:29] <exec> 08└─> Why do leftists force us to be divided up based on our genders, our races, our sexual preferences because seeing the enemy in the male, the female, the black, the white, the straight, the faggot distracts you from seeing the enemy in the one dimensional system whose philosophy and propaganda we ha...
[05:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twisted Carbon Nanotubes Can Harvest Energy From Temperature Changes and Ocean Waves - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:39] <exec> 08└─The azonano FA is just that, a f..king article. The IEEE tells more: While there are other capacitance-based energy harvesters, those other devices require extremely high voltages to work because they're using parallel plate capacitors, according to Haines. “Even if you try to make them very thin,...
[05:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 1396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:06] <exec> 08└─Yup, I know about that stuff. I know about the old analog electronic computers too. But they are proposing sending this thing with zero reception capability, that means it has to be smarter than any of that stuff can do in the size and weight limitations of a typical rover. Optimized hardware can re...
[05:28:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 1111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:01] <exec> 08└─Sure they do. You just have to have an IQ in positive territory to recognize it. You have to have hope that if you work hard in school and then work hard at a job that you'll get somewhere better than what you'd get for criminal activities. Idiots like you seem to think that there's an automatic lin...
[05:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:57] <exec> 08└─While not trusting people beyond their field is a good idea, your paranoia birders on a mental disorder.
[05:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:20] <exec> 08└─Next time, try, if you're not stuck at the Escherian table, to enjoy a relaxed evening in nice company at the restaurant, complete with occasional food. Most of your issues will be irrelevant.
[05:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:15] <exec> 08└─So what? No one has shown those things are serious enough that we have to care.
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[06:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:44] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see a phone with a bunch of tiny DIP switches or similar which physically break the circuit to various components - camera, wife, bluetooth, cell, microphone, speakers, gps, ... anything else?
[06:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:45] <exec> 08└─Well, a little bit freudian there -- wife is obviously wifi.
[06:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:47] <exec> 08└─Turning your wife on that easily could be dangerous!
[06:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:49] <exec> 08└─Be nice if the switches were accessible without dis-assembling the phone. A simple cover, maybe. The microphone and speaker switches should be like the on/off switches on old calculators. "Slide to enable phone" (They could also be the "answer" and "hang up" buttons)
[06:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:51] <exec> 08└─While the phone will use as much free software as possible Purism do concede that the mobile baseband will likely use ROM loaded firmware
[06:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:54] <exec> 08└─Well, a little bit freudian there -- wife is obviously wifi.
[06:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:56] <exec> 08└─Someone went HAM on the topics for this story.
[06:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beau Slim [6628] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:58] <exec> 08└─Yep, a non-open, non-user-auditable base rom makes these guys absolutely no different from anyone else. In fact, it probably makes them (and any other small player) worse because they won't have the funds to hire the legal team required to protect themselves from secret warrants, etc. If they weren'...
[06:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:08] <exec> 08└─Nope. It belongs in the Religion and Philosophy dept. It makes no falsifiable predictions.... well that isn't exactly right either. It made some that could only be tested by waiting twenty years twenty years ago but those were all wrong. You would have an easier time debating the finer details of tr...
[06:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:10] <exec> 08└─Experts getting trashed = tax cuts + fossil fuel subsidies + healthcare removal coming asap
[06:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:12] <exec> 08└─Economics is a solved problem. Read Mises _Human Action_ and it is self evidently correct. The problem are two. We lack a political system that could permit the economics described in it to work long term. The second problem is all of our current political systems demand central planning of the econ...
[06:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:14] <exec> 08└─"Climate science [wikipedia.org]" is a subfield of Physical geography [wikipedia.org], which is a natural science [wikipedia.org].
[06:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:16] <exec> 08└─Why don't you throw geology in there with them, too, for the full moron? I recommend reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (by Jared Diamond) - its afterward outlines in explicit detail how you don't need double blind studies or controlled variables to conduct experiments. And it's a lot more readable th...
[06:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:18] <exec> 08└─You don't see a conflict between the ideas that economics are not a science and that economics is a "solved problem"? I guess doublethink is easy for some people.
[06:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:20] <exec> 08└─Ummm... Don't lay this at the feet of Keynes. He wasn't big on abstract mathematical models, and because they usually had to rely on nonsensical assumptions he discouraged their use. There are actually quotes of Keynes out there saying as much. It was the Austrians who painted Keynsian economics as...
[06:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:37] <exec> 08└─Would that be "knowing" in the biblical sense? If so, I've been missing out. Bigtime.
[06:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:39] <exec> 08└─Sure, there are shitload of (abandoned) open source projects on there (which repo do I need?), but every time I think "Hey this FOSS project looks interesting, let's check it out further" and I'm directed to a github page, I don't know if it is abandoned, what's the latest news, activity of its comm...
[06:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:41] <exec> 08└─Telling your boss he can't legally pack GPL code to his proprietary product.
[06:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:16] <exec> 08└─I'm a scientist in a research lab. The entire existence of the lab is to produce output by me and others like me. We get the basement while admin gets the upstairs offices with sunlight and views. I'm not female. Something seems unfair about this :(
[06:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:17] <exec> 08└─Also commies, socialists and Hitler.
[06:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:19] <exec> 08└─No friend, once we eliminate all these menaces we will finally get our country back. It will be all good guys all the time.
[06:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 3804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:21] <exec> 08└─This [linkedin.com] is the Linkedin profile for the individual who's doing this research. It's the same story literally every single time. This individual likely came from a very wealthy background given she went to an no-name private university that's about $50k a year. And followed it up by skippi...
[06:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:23] <exec> 08└─We get the basement while admin gets the upstairs offices with sunlight... Something seems unfair about this :(
[06:33:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 911 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:15] <exec> 08└─The only reason nuclear power is at all economically viable is because the costs are socialized: the costs to build, the costs to operate, and the costs to cleanup. It is the golden child of moral hazards, socializing losses and privatizing profits. Secondly, on a time scale of all of human history...
[06:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, you can't trust "the experts". That's why we are opposing climate change policies. And cutting taxes on billionaires. And subsidizing fossil fuels industries. And say goodbye to your healthcare. Experts are the problem, see? Look over there.
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[07:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:33] <exec> 08└─So the price on generic canned beans was dropped 43%, while all other prices stayed the same and/or were increased. The headline would still be completely accurate, albeit just as misleading.
[07:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:34] <exec> 08└─Only high volume items will get significant price cuts. Costco, ALDI, and Walmart are still better places to shop.
[07:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:36] <exec> 08└─"We cut all the profits out so we can steal all the other people's business, then when we have them ordering regularly and they've forgotten about those other places, we'll raise the prices slowly". It's a pretty obvious tactic, and the percentages on the particular things they cut just seem to poin...
[07:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:55] <exec> 08└─Even if you have tons of money.. http://www.techradar.com [techradar.com]
[07:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:57] <exec> 08└─Followed by an expensive non-cellular SoC for the 'system'. Hell you could even add a switch to turn off the baseband SoC if desired, rather than software disable via the 'primary' SoC. Now mind you this increases parts costs by 25+ percent and may be worse when you roll in design costs. But it is t...
[07:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:15] <exec> 08└─Jmorris, do not criticize what you do not understand. It serves no purpose, and only makes you look more ignorant.
[07:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:17] <exec> 08└─But more fundamentally, as Austrian economist Frank Shostak notes, "In the natural sciences, a laboratory experiment can isolate various elements and their movements. There is no equivalent in the discipline of economics. The employment of econometrics and econometric model-building is an attempt to...
[07:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:19] <exec> 08└─Read Mises _Human Action_ and it is self evidently correct.
[07:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:21] <exec> 08└─I recommend reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel"
[07:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:23] <exec> 08└─Climate "science" is not scientific because it deliberately ignores enormous steam plumes from power plants [youtube.com] which directly influence major weather patterns. No mention of this means the reports are bogus.
[07:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:25] <exec> 08└─Truth sure is a hard pill for some people to swallow. To sink below the pinnacle of human achievement, who could bear that?
[07:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:27] <exec> 08└─Can you enlighten us? Awhat does it feel like to be smart and stupid at the same time?
[07:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 1705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:26] <exec> 08└─Hardly. This [youtube.com] clip from Morgan Freeman is incredibly insightful, and also realistic. This article has very little to do with the merit of what was achieved. The reason it's being brought up is exclusively because it's something that women did. This is insulting and humiliating to women...
[07:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:04] <exec> 08└─There are semiconductors that can operate at Venus surface temperatures. We don't need to use silicon. We can connect things with high-temperature solder, welding, or good old mechanical force. That is just if we want long-term operation without internal temperature control. We can of course add air...
[07:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:29] <exec> 08└─The real issue is not net neutrality. It's local monopolies and lack of investment in improving networks due to non-existent competition. State laws banning municipal broadband worsen that. Put down the Kool-Aid. It tastes sweet, but it ain't good for you.
[07:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 1826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:18] <exec> 08└─Because you think it's profitable for the restaurant for you to stay there and chat? This is about restaurants not making money, from people who want to give them money. And I'm sorry but what makes you think I don't do the above. 10 people arrive, we're going to want a drink almost immediately. The...
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[08:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:38] <exec> 08└─It's a race to the bottom - which ever company has th deepest pockets/cash reserves wins, as they can hold out making no (losing) money the longest. If the suppliers are on 90 day (or longer, poor buggers) accounts, and the cash registers are ringing, then, even at the reduced income, they company w...
[08:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:40] <exec> 08└─Any chance of bringing back the asparagus water? With the new price cut, that would go from $6 to $3, making it such a bargain. A bottle of water with 3 asparagus stalks could be had for just $3. Think of it!
[08:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:21] <exec> 08└─No. Mathematics and Philosophy contains many solved problems, that are not science. The Austrians take a non-empirical approach, and thus do not suffer from physics envy (their proofs do not require experiments), not do they suffer from mathiness, as they do not believe the qualia that are involved...
[08:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:22] <exec> 08└─No. It's not even empirical. It doesn't use the scientific method. In fact the fundamental criticism of the Austrian school against the mainstream is one of epistemology. When you criticise something, bother to understand the first thing about it.
[08:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:23] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as a leftist.
[08:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:29] <exec> 08└─Net Neutrality legislation is not what you're told it is. Face it: You have not read and understood the legislation. The legislation is not the idea of "packet equality", it has vast censorship clauses and should be thrown out. Net Neutrality is aimed to restrict technological innovation and 1st ame...
[08:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:30] <exec> 08└─*child porn
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[09:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:32] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like crypto discount ticket to me.
[09:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:34] <exec> 08└─B-B-But it's got da blockchain!
[09:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:46] <exec> 08└─Actually they will probably not do a zero profit. Instead they will cut down just enough goods to get people hooked, but still make some profit at the other goods. For example, imagine they sell apples, bananas and cherries. Then they can lower the apple and banana prices to zero-profit, while keepi...
[09:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:48] <exec> 08└─So what are the prices of fractional foods? I for one want complex foods. Preferably with rational real part and transcendental imaginary part.
[09:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:05] <exec> 08└─It appears that this phone will have that. From their FAQ: Will there be hardware kill switches? Yes, we need to evaluate the wiring and design limitations to determine the best approach; the intention is to include Camera, Microphone, WiFi/Bluetooth, and Baseband Modem kill switches or some combina...
[09:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:33] <exec> 08└─So let's use a car analogy. Imagine you were driving a car. You have some numbers available, the speed of the car, the rpm, which gear it is in, which direction the steering wheel is pointing. You even have control over some of those levers, like the accelerator, brakes, and steering wheel. Now imag...
[09:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:34] <exec> 08└─Schrödinger's jmorris?
[09:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:37] <exec> 08└─No. It's not even empirical.
[09:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:56] <exec> 08└─Open Source skills are skills that anyone may use without paying you for it. ;-)
[09:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:58] <exec> 08└─No, because GNU is Free Software. They are looking for Open Source skills, not Free Software skills. They want to exploit you, not empower you.
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[10:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:33] <exec> 08└─Cryptocurrency is just one more boat that I missed in my own short, uncomfortable life. However, I was never against it; I do appreciate the serious gnashing of teeth that all you naysayers will be experiencing for the rest of your own short, uncomfortable lives. Ha!
[10:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:47] <exec> 08└─values have no meaning without knowing the distribution they are drawn from.... So either quote mean and variance, or show a plot of prices cuts indicating the maximum was "upto 43%". This is how we got to "unlimited" meaning "up to our marketing dept". Innumeracy is as bad as Illiteracy and politic...
[10:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:48] <exec> 08└─They'll just cut hours: employees don't matter.
[10:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:07] <exec> 08└─Probably looks a bit like this: https://workingmomadventures.files.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
[10:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnx-software.com/2017/08/25/purism-librem-5-open-source-linux-smartphone-focuses-on-privacy-crowdfunding/ [cnx-software.com] And there's always decent commentary since the blog is run and visited by people who work in embedded.
[10:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:39] <exec> 08└─Can you enlighten us? Awhat does it feel like to be smart and stupid at the same time?
[10:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:40] <exec> 08└─No. It does not require faith. Neither do maths nor logic.
[10:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:42] <exec> 08└─actually to be consistent - since astrology is made up mumbo jumbo, perhaps the term voodoo should be used. It is cooler from where I'm sitting, even though still made up. I like to think that we treat voodoo as less normal than astrology due to the empirical evidence of "newspapers" still printing...
[10:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:44] <exec> 08└─IMHO that is a poor analogy. All the things your are measuring have nothing to do with location, you can't make facts (or even predictions) for the location based on that. I could agree that economics is trying to do that, but that's also why the predictions fail more often (Even modern politics are...
[10:27:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:31] <exec> 08└─Everything you need to know is covered by the "A team of women" combined with the "In a cramped Harvard sub-basement" The implication is this is a desperate group of the sisterhood battling the evil white male oppressors to save their kind. Just perhaps we should ask why they are excluding males? Se...
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[10:28:26] <exec> 08└─In the same way Qui-Gon took a blood sample from Anakin and asked Obi-Wan to analyse it over the communicator. Don't worry about piddling details.
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[10:30:56] <exec> 08└─They look for the tether. Duh.
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[11:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:36] <exec> 08└─It would have been nice to have a followup instead of a repeat. Falkvinge notes at the end of the post that they might get around to addressing the problem maybe somtime in the autumn. This was covered here a few weeks ago under the title Outsourcing Nightmare [soylentnews.org] Here are two other ol...
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[11:25:37] <exec> 08└─The Director would only have been docked a tin of Surströmming if she were a man!
[11:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:21] <exec> 08└─> Needs to be sturdier than a tiny DIP switch, tho; I suspect there will be quite a number of switches. http://www.toocooldude.com [toocooldude.com] At least makes women fun for me, I enjoy complicated machines xD
[11:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:55] <exec> 08└─In other words, it's a perfect analogy for mainstream economics...
[11:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:51] <exec> 08└─Reality will care not about this choice.
[11:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:53] <exec> 08└─A normal cat 4 hurricane causes mostly wind damage, not inland flooding.
[11:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:55] <exec> 08└─And nobody has reported [wwltv.com] to the police that shots were fired. Starting to smell like fake news.
[11:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:57] <exec> 08└─You also mentioned how much New Yorkers "care". Now, suddenly "caring" is a personal choice about which reality doesn't care? Same goes for those New Yorkers, right? Or does their caring somehow matter more than everyone else's caring?
[11:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:59] <exec> 08└─The asshole in the White House and his useless FEMA director fucked up the sluggish Federal response to the hurricane, then claimed out loud that nobody predicted what would happen.
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[12:25:38] <exec> 08└─On the Google-translated article mentioned at the bottom of TFA (wrt. fixing the leak): The risk that we will get more boring news in the future is probably quite obvious.
[12:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:40] <exec> 08└─"she was docked half a month's paycheck." Unlike in America, where you get mandatory minimum sentences for things someone decided to call "offences" like smoking trees, being black etc. It is all a jewish conspiracy. Giving someone the punishment of half a month's paycheck is not necessary either. T...
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[12:25:42] <exec> 08└─> The damage is done yes, um... punishment is also intended as a dissuasion for the same kind of offense by everybody else. It feels strange that these concept have become so foreign.
[12:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:44] <exec> 08└─Now they are at their weakest for a long time. Hit hard, hit fast. And maybe, just maybe somebody will learn a lesson.
[12:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 1885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:46] <exec> 08└─To update since this was news last time. They are still arguing about who know what and when, not to mention whom did they inform about what they knew and not now know and when. There is still about a two year gap between when various ministers say they knew or got informed, some got informed in Sep...
[12:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:57] <exec> 08└─And electrolytes plants crave.
[12:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:59] <exec> 08└─Cryptocurrency is just one more boat that I missed in my own short, uncomfortable life.
[12:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:01] <exec> 08└─Because I know you must be interested.
[12:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:11] <exec> 08└─and it is self evidently correct.
[12:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:13] <exec> 08└─While I agree that GP went too far in a sarcastic hyperbole, there had been the climategate publications which were only possible by a combination of groupthink and PC. This tainted climate research in my perception and it remains the very challenge of climate research today to stand clear of those...
[12:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:15] <exec> 08└─and supposedly disproved Keynes by showing how stagflation confounded the "Keynsian" models
[12:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:17] <exec> 08└─No. It does not require faith. Neither do maths nor logic.
[12:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:19] <exec> 08└─However they are unable to predict the unintended consequences of their actions.
[12:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:21] <exec> 08└─their proofs do not require experiments
[12:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:24] <exec> 08└─But more fundamentally, as Austrian economist Frank Shostak notes, "In the natural sciences, a laboratory experiment can isolate various elements and their movements. There is no equivalent in the discipline of economics.
[12:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:26] <exec> 08└─Quack! Quack! Quack!
[12:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:48] <exec> 08└─If you don't use the freely available materials in your products, you're a fool. Mr. Darwin will likely soon have a chat with you. The only time when you should keep your whole stack proprietary is when your writing code that is clearly sub-standard quality and so uninspiring people would not see an...
[12:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:07] <exec> 08└─Call me cynical, but eventually the insurance company will make the trade off between 'care' or 'coffin'... What better spy for providing the information needed for that decision than the care-bot?
[12:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Houston and Hurricane Harvey - Links to Resources; Questions on Delayed Evacuations - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:29] <exec> 08└─No one has shown those things are serious enough that we have to care.
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[13:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dishes Band Together - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:41] <exec> 08└─Scientists can still work together.
[13:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:55] <exec> 08└─> It is all a jewish conspiracy. I hate replying to trolls, but in this case... Since you believe that Jewish people control all these things, I'm very surprised that you haven't converted to Judaism. That way you could get in on the power and wealth yourself. After a few generations of mixing, your...
[13:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:09] <exec> 08└─news anchor: Police tonight have raided the homes of three suspects linked to a local terrorist cell. Cops say that 33yo Yousef Ahmed attempted to purchase thirty pounds of high explosives, four AK-47's, along with two hundred pounds of uncooked french fries using the beefy cryptocurrency known as w...
[13:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:10] <exec> 08└─Customers will be able to claim one coin for every rouble (1.3p) they spend on the Whopper sandwich.
[13:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:27] <exec> 08└─It's also illegal if they're doing so by cross-subsidising from an entirely different business (e.g. cloud computing).
[13:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:28] <exec> 08└─wow. you just invented a "loss leader"
[13:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:30] <exec> 08└─Funny how the slaves don't ask for more pay; they ask for more hours. "Work me longer, massa!"
[13:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:33] <exec> 08└─1 + 1 = 2 You don't need an experiment for that. You can disprove the assumptions, or find a flaw in the logic. You don't go about collecting a whole bunch of ones and experimentally combining them and then counting them. This is the difference between empiricism (experiments) and rationalism (proof...
[13:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 3145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:34] <exec> 08└─Some of "economic theory" is quite good, useful and valuable. Some is not. First, rather than "astrology" a better analogy is "Economics is like forecasting the weather." It is inexact, probabilistic and imperfect. More generally, predictions are hard, especially about the future. Especially predict...
[13:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:36] <exec> 08└─Actually math and logic may still work, but they may lead to different conclusions. (see non-Euclidian Geometry) In any system of logic the axioms have to be taken on faith, that is the definition of an axiom, and hardly insightful. If there are any axioms used in Austrian Economics that you dispute...
[13:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:39] <exec> 08└─You will be delighted to hear that the article is not dismissive of economics! It is dismissive of only one school of economics, the mainstream branch of it. The criticism comes from a school of thought that has at its centre the study of human behaviour. The article is a criticism of the mainstream...
[13:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:41] <exec> 08└─It makes no falsifiable predictions
[13:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:43] <exec> 08└─If it's a "solved problem", why is it that Mises is not infrequently wrong? So far, everything I've heard from you about it is that when Mises doesn't match up with reality, that is because reality is wrong, which is the exact opposite of how real academic endeavors work.
[13:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:45] <exec> 08└─You keep waving the word "empirical" around as if it is a source of indisputable proof. (Or magic word, that dissolves the enemies of science). Don't get me wrong, empirical evidence is exactly what I expect from Physics. However, the Austrian school believes "empiricism" is the wrong epistemology f...
[13:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:47] <exec> 08└─Staw man. When was Mises wrong? Name one time. Show us your familiarity with the Austrian school.
[13:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:49] <exec> 08└─Let us note that we have since had a couple of other glaring examples of the failure of this approach with ... the Obama administration's actions.
[13:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:12] <exec> 08└─I just check the commit history.
[13:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 2046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:35] <exec> 08└─Its a pity the steampunk thing probably won't fly because of a collision of new technologies. "Everyone knows" that silicon carbide junction transistors work over 500C in the lab but the highest datasheet spec I can find from GeneSiC (this is not a soyl-vertisement) is shipping today at an operating...
[13:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:36] <exec> 08└─Bumps on metal in a highly corrosive environment, what could possibly go wrong?
[13:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:39] <exec> 08└─If there were more motivation than Venus probes and passive devices in Earth environments, transistors with higher junction temperatures that SiC could/would be developed, just as the current theory goes to 500C, but the current shipping implementations are to 225 - likely not a function of the junc...
[13:30:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 532 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:54] <exec> 08└─Having a D in front of their name does not make them good, or pursue programs that would actually help. Stop with the tribalism please. The biggest issue has always been the War on Drugs. We now know that it was started with the express intention of cultural warfare, full stop. It has been wildly su...
[13:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Robots Could Bridge the Elder-Care Gap - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:37] <exec> 08└─Call me cynical, but eventually the insurance company will make the trade off between 'care' or 'coffin'...
[13:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:59] <exec> 08└─And BOOOOM trump is the prez
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[14:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD, Approves Phase 3 Trials - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:31] <exec> 08└─What will they re-invent next? Maybe therapy combined with LSD as successfully trialed (by Tim Leary and others) in the early 1960s?
[14:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD, Approves Phase 3 Trials - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:32] <exec> 08└─nah, it'll go mainstream and be used to make more people completely delusional. see the 'news' on doping populations with oxy and watch 'brave new world'; things you liked used against you. oh yawn.
[14:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD, Approves Phase 3 Trials - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:34] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to cite, but I vaguely recall some research somewhere indicating that symptoms of depression appeared immediately following administration of LSD. Given how much it messes with serotonin, it sounded reasonable. That will likely put a damper on any future research on LSD as a kind of therapy...
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[14:25:37] <exec> 08└─In the 1980s, Leary became fascinated by computers, the Internet, and virtual reality. Leary proclaimed that "the PC is the LSD of the 1990s" and admonished bohemians to "turn on, boot up, jack in".
[14:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD, Approves Phase 3 Trials - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:39] <exec> 08└─This was years before personal computers. Not only was the hardware needed to run Unix too expensive to be within an individual's reach, but nobody imagined that would change in the foreseeable future. So Unix machines were only available by the grace of big organizations with big budgets: corporati...
[14:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD, Approves Phase 3 Trials - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:41] <exec> 08└─It's not mainstream enough until kids can buy it out of a vending machine just like caffeine.
[14:25:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 585 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:54] <exec> 08└─It would have been nice to have a followup instead of a repeat. Falkvinge notes at the end of the post that they might get around to addressing the problem maybe somtime in the autumn. This was covered here a few weeks ago under the title Outsourcing Nightmare [soylentnews.org] Here are two other ol...
[14:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:02] <exec> 08└─The cloud hype has been really strong. I've heard clients sigh of relief after confirming their question: "but my data is going to the cloud, right?" To the average person "the cloud" is something magic but good, and your data is safe there.
[14:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:17] <exec> 08└─+1 for imagination gone wild! All I could think of was that BK was being clever to beta test in a (mostly) failed economy. If there are any holes in the software, surely the Russian crackers/hackers will expose them, as they strive for needed calories. After a suitable test period the holes can be p...
[14:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:19] <exec> 08└─Sounds a lot more sustainable than most cryptocurrencies I've heard of.
[14:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:39] <exec> 08└─Our local Aldi seems to consistently have the best avocados. We are ~3000 mi (5000Km) from California and historically I've often felt that the Californians have been keeping all the good avocados for themselves. Years ago it was so bad that I quit buying them locally and only had avocados when I wa...
[14:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:40] <exec> 08└─Fractional foods are cheap. They are the ones that come from a factory, with a list of ingredients as long as your arm...and the shelf life of Methuselah.
[14:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:02] <exec> 08└─Can someone explain this comment for me? I thought I knew what intersectionality meant, but I see no discussion of multiple disadvantaged classes being combined in the summary. Similarly, HAM to me evokes imagery of either amateur radio or salted pig leg, neither of which is evident either. I'm at a...
[14:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:04] <exec> 08└─I can't support a project for a cell phone unless I'm confident it'll work with my cell provider. If I'm going to spend $600 on a phone I don't want to be forced by it to switch providers, too. I can't tell that they've even committed to being either CDMA or GSM yet...
[14:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:06] <exec> 08└─It's too damned big to fit in my pocket, like most phones [mcgrew.info] today.
[14:27:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bobs [1462] 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 3145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:50] <exec> 08└─Some of "economic theory" is quite good, useful and valuable. Some is not. First, rather than "astrology" a better analogy is "Economics is like forecasting the weather." It is inexact, probabilistic and imperfect. More generally, predictions are hard, especially about the future. Especially predict...
[14:27:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:53] <exec> 08└─It makes no falsifiable predictions
[14:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:59] <exec> 08└─Thanks for taking the time to reply. I have read this article and several others on Mises. The end goal of this paper, and apparently Mises, is to say economics is bad. Government is bad. Regulalion is bad. We should just let people do whatever they want. Money quote from the article: If economics...
[14:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:01] <exec> 08└─... I will say I agree that many economists try to be too precise with their numbers and predictions. Say it is going to get 8% worse vs. 10% worse is a mistake. And in charts, using a single line rather than a spectrum of increasing and decreasing probabilities would be more accurate, but also hard...
[14:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 1956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:04] <exec> 08└─Mises, Human Action, Part IV, Chapter 19: "It will be shown later why all isolated measures of government interference with market phenomena must fail to attain the ends sought." This is utter nonsense. Some examples of successful isolated measures of government interference with market phenomena by...
[14:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:06] <exec> 08└─Thanks Bob. You must be an economist. - An actual economist
[14:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:30] <exec> 08└─GitHub is the premiere social network for coders, and you say it doesn't have a "community" feeling? Are you for real, bro? GitHub Pages is your website. Issues is your forum. Trendy young coders, who are in demand for the hip jobs, spend their entire lives on GitHub, pushing commits every day. Hot...
[14:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:55] <exec> 08└─Solve poverty and homelessness here on Earth instead.
[14:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:56] <exec> 08└─Someone in search of scrap metal might come along and take it.
[14:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:58] <exec> 08└─Solve poverty and homelessness here on Earth instead.
[14:30:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 396 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:10] <exec> 08└─Brought to you by the moronic people who've voted in a moronic executive branch lead by a moronic orangutan. Does it give you all special feelings to piss on everything Obama put in place? Do you have any identity outside of attacking opposing political figures and blaming straw men for the problems...
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[15:25:42] <exec> 08└─Linux is the establishment and systemd is the flipping finger. Countercultural enough for you?
[15:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scottingham [5593] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:43] <exec> 08└─That's odd, I've heard the exact opposite with LSD. Though I too am too lazy to cite. Are you perhaps confusing it with the after-effects of MDMA? That is definitely associated, especially in an uncontrolled setting with an unknown dosage, symptoms of depression.
[15:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:45] <exec> 08└─I did MDMA once. It was at some festival called Shambala in BC. It didn't really do anything for me. My wife did some as well and she was fucked up. She started hearing voices and said that everyone was shit-talking her behind her back (they weren't). It lasted for a couple weeks and we went to the...
[15:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:47] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to cite, but I vaguely felt the symptoms of thinking you're a dumbass set in after reading your comment.
[15:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:46] <exec> 08└─I'm smiling, not because prices are lower at Whole Foods (I've hardly ever shopped there), but because progressive elites, and progressive elite wannabes, will now have to share their precious Whole Foods with the hoi polloi they secretly hate. High prices kept out the riffraff. Not any more.
[15:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:47] <exec> 08└─Only $3 and the side effect of funky piss? Shut up and take my money!
[15:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:49] <exec> 08└─Well you can get the "transcendental imaginary part" over in the homeopathy aisle that every Whole Foods has.
[15:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:51] <exec> 08└─> So either quote mean and variance, or show a plot of prices cuts indicating the maximum was "upto 43%". Still more accurate than the usual "up to x% and more"...
[15:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:16] <exec> 08└─I'm sold!
[15:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:13] <exec> 08└─I discovered that economics was rank bullshit when I took an economics class taught by three PhDs. I had spent August of 1973 to August 1974 in Thailand, where the median income was $1000/year. These bozos were saying that since someone in the third world could live on a thousand a year, we could to...
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[15:28:15] <exec> 08└─I walked out and dropped the class before the first class was over. A third of the students followed me out.
[15:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:17] <exec> 08└─Actually, if you would read the books before burning them you would know that Mises fully explains the boom bust cycle as a product of government policy, i.e meddling. It allows banks to create money (credit expansion) through fractional reserve banking, this distorts the signals in the economy lead...
[15:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:19] <exec> 08└─There's money involved. As in, if Theory A is adopted, Group A will get more money, while if Theory B is adopted, Group B will get more money. And since both Group A and Group B want more money, they will each attempt to convince whoever is making the decisions that Theory A or Theory B is the one t...
[15:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 1792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:21] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you might enjoy reading about the Austrian Business Cycle Theory (aka. ABCT). It predicts that fiat money will result in boom bust cycles. Look it up it will answer all your questions about booms and busts. It is also fairly self-contained and you don't have to swallow the Austrian Kool-...
[15:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:23] <exec> 08└─Then there was "trickle-down economics", proven over and over to simply not work, that many economists still hold to.
[15:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 1918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:25] <exec> 08└─- CFS's are not a market phenomenon. As an example an incentive was created for remitting a florocarbon, at a certain price, a factory in China found it could produce the CFS at a profit, and thus produced the CFC, to ship to the regulator, to get paid, for reducing cfc emmissions. - The government...
[15:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:28] <exec> 08└─Right...you got to Part IV, Chapter 19 before you found a flaw?
[15:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:19] <exec> 08└─... They're called incandescent lamps. You could even choose a frequency that is likely to penetrate the atmosphere [wikipedia.org] using light anywhere from IR to UV, or use a hot cathode X-Ray tube [wikipedia.org] to communicate. That'll make it thru.
[15:30:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06President Trump Lifts Ban on Sale or Transfer of Military Hardware to Local Police - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:30] <exec> 08└─Brought to you by the moronic people who've voted in a moronic executive branch lead by a moronic orangutan
[15:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:47] <exec> 08└─And, hey, wow - Alfredo sauce is so easy to make! For $10 you can feed 6 people, make it $20 to include all the little extras. That's the cost of one plate at the Track-Me Eatery & Bar. And the terrible "chore" of cleaning up - can be a time to socialize with real friends.
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[16:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:32] <exec> 08└─Until batteries drop in price by a couple orders of magnitude, or start lasting 30+ years, I'll stick with gas thanks*. For people buying super expensive vehicles though go for it, the whole point of such a vehicle is that you are okay with spending a huge amount of extra money. EV and hybrid, to me...
[16:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:33] <exec> 08└─Most ICE cars do not survive 20+ years (on original parts) unless they are garage kept and driven very little. You say you wouldn't buy an electric or hybrid but i doubt you'd buy a new ICE car either. A new car of any kind would be a huge waste of money for you. An electric is a good option for som...
[16:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:35] <exec> 08└─Firstly, good job for keeping your car going; that deserves respect. Yet, the truth of that matter is that cars have improved in safety and efficiency over those 20 years; not only are you missing out on those improvements (possibly to the detriment of others), but you're also not helping to pay for...
[16:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:51] <exec> 08└─[quote]That being said, I would definitely try it again given the right opportunity.[/quote] "That being said"? That which was said has to be the worst supporting argument I've ever read.
[16:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:53] <exec> 08└─The only time i smoked pot was in college: a viet nam vet grew his own (so i'm guessing not that strong). Shared a joint with him and 3 others. Felt NOTHING. He brought over another joint a day later and smoked it with me. Nothing. The next day, he brought over another with a ball of snot (he said w...
[16:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:55] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of MDMA, the very drug this story is about. To counter that, you take 5-HTP [wikipedia.org] to restore serotonin levels.
[16:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:57] <exec> 08└─I realise that you're being jocular, but: honestly, systemd is more like the establishment trying to worm its way into Linux. "It's too hard for the Marketing department guys! Just ... make all that complexity go away! Like Microsoft!"
[16:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dishes Band Together - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:06] <exec> 08└─So the probe is not broken or dying at the moment, this is just a test of the "Emergency Mars Broadcasting System" in case the probe goes guflooey and has to use an omni-directional radio.
[16:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dishes Band Together - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:08] <exec> 08└─Are they sure that the Russians just didn't hack the satellite in order to feed them data they want to see? Or mess with it? Those Russkies are bad people, so should we be sharing resources/info with them? I'd say the data they get should just be wiped: you know, with a cloth. You can't trust the da...
[16:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:24] <exec> 08└─Aye. 'the cloud' == 'somebody else’s servers, over which you have no control' It's worth looking up what happens to information held on servers owned by a company that goes into bankruptcy. As far as I know there is some legal protection for consumers personal information (especially medial record...
[16:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:33] <exec> 08└─economics is a great forensic science
[16:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:35] <exec> 08└─Astrologers are occasionally correct.
[16:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:37] <exec> 08└─Math isn't science, so you don't need an experiment. You do need proof though. There are definitely situations where that wouldn't be true, such as adding 1 m/s of velocity to 1 m/s doesn't give you 2 m/s if we're really specific about it. It'll be close to 2 m/s, but thanks to relativity, it won't...
[16:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:40] <exec> 08└─Because we never had boom/bust cycles prior to the development of government? Yeah, that sounds accurate. Please travel in a time machine back and tell our ancestors that they don't have to worry about famine and can just eat their hearts out when times are good.
[16:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:42] <exec> 08└─Mathematics makes no statements about the real world. It only makes statements about abstract constructions. That's why mathematics needs no empirism. Now mathematics does give great tools to describe reality with. But to find out which mathematical tool can be applied to which real-world phenomenon...
[16:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:44] <exec> 08└─Pretty good!
[16:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:46] <exec> 08└─The models are not really "wrong" per se. The problem with economic predictions is that everyone, including investors, can use the same models and knowledge to try to game the system to get rich by predicting trends. That's an investor's job. It's pretty much a case where the observer affects the ou...
[16:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:48] <exec> 08└─No, that's just the most popular point for criticism because it is so easily refuted.
[16:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:50] <exec> 08└─Duckspeak?
[16:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:15] <exec> 08└─That's right -- hard work is its own reward. Say it enough times, and it might not come across as direct exploitation.
[16:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:43] <exec> 08└─But by the mid-1970's the reactor was already in operation. It may well not have been known to be dangerous at the time it was built. That said, there were clear design mistakes such that they *should* have known that this particular reactor was unsafe including, as I mentioned, the siting of the ba...
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[17:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zappy [4210] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:42] <exec> 08└─over $4k per phone
[17:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:43] <exec> 08└─Let's include some spares. $4k per phone at 40,000 phones. $2k per phone at 80,000 phones, more than 2 per officer. Yeah, they got hosed. I guess a chunk of that $160m went to developing those slick apps they can't live without.
[17:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:45] <exec> 08└─Because who would bother to steal a Windows phone?
[17:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:48] <exec> 08└─Moreover, we assessed that the Windows platform would be most effective at achieving our goal of securing 36,000 devices that would be used for sensitive law enforcement operations. This was of paramount importance.
[17:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:59] <exec> 08└─It's hard to argue with the torque output of a modern electric motor. Batteries are steadily improving. It feels like we are on the turning point of what it means to own a car. Will anyone really want to? Do we need body style upgrades every 3-5 years? What about repair-ability? If a vehicle isn't r...
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─Hybrid at a minimum seems like a good deal to me. It has less batteries than a purely electric car, so less of a premium. The batteries that it does have add weight, but that could improve safety. So how much is hybridization worth? $5,000? The improved mileage should make that money back, especiall...
[17:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:22] <exec> 08└─It could be used to treat depression and alcoholism. [theguardian.com] It's going to be slow going when it comes to getting any mainstream acceptance of hallucinogens. Many U.S. states and countries have legalized cannabis for medical purposes and that is still sitting on the joke that is Schedule I...
[17:26:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 1885 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:45] <exec> 08└─To update since this was news last time. They are still arguing about who know what and when, not to mention whom did they inform about what they knew and not now know and when. There is still about a two year gap between when various ministers say they knew or got informed, some got informed in Sep...
[17:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich26189 [1377] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:50] <exec> 08└─Mea culp. I try to read SN everyday but don’t and I didn’t have enough SN foo to search old stories to see if this was a repeat. I came across this story a few day ago while reading Schneier On Security. Bruce had posted an article re this on Aug 24 I read it a few days later. The referenced art...
[17:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:52] <exec> 08└─All that IT stuff is someone else's problem. All those annoying IT people wringing their hands about bugs and security are located somewhere else (away from me). We have a contract and I have someone outside the organization to blame. The cost is a fixed and predictable payment. I get to reduce head...
[17:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:54] <exec> 08└─Aw, poor snowflakes can't take a joke. Just a reminder, Hillary lost. Have a Trumpaliscious day!
[17:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:56] <exec> 08└─Touch Search. Select Most Recent Touch the white rectangle. Type Sweden. Touch Go on your keyboard. And there it is, Outsourcing Nightmare! Very glad you turned this in again. Important reminder of what happened because Sweden joined the European Union. They lost control of their country. They had t...
[17:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:13] <exec> 08└─The trick is that you can trade them with people, presumably in exchange for goods or services. You know, like a currency.
[17:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:14] <exec> 08└─Bovine Viral Diarrhoea outbreak wipes out the value of ButtCoin! News at 9! (finally posted in the right place)
[17:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:40] <exec> 08└─Bovine Viral Diarrhoea outbreak wipes out the value of ButtCoin! News at 9!
[17:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:41] <exec> 08└─Amazon can't really bring Whole Foods prices down to Aldi prices. They have lowered the prices of some items from 30-40%, but most have gotten a smaller decrease or aren't mentioned by Bloomberg. Poor people aren't going to come in to Whole Foods just because Fuji apples are at $1.99. Potentially, t...
[17:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:07] <exec> 08└─There's also this version of going HAM [urbandictionary.com].
[17:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:09] <exec> 08└─I love it...BUTT, there is absolutely no way (that I can figure) that $599 is going to pay for the years of needed R&D on hardware, software, and THEN all of the manufacturing costs (which always have complications) and THEN still have enough left over to actually pay for the finished product and ge...
[17:29:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bobs [1462] 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:02] <exec> 08└─Thanks for taking the time to reply. I have read this article and several others on Mises. The end goal of this paper, and apparently Mises, is to say economics is bad. Government is bad. Regulalion is bad. We should just let people do whatever they want. Money quote from the article: If economics...
[17:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:24] <exec> 08└─Actually, if you would read the books before burning them you would know that Mises fully explains the boom bust cycle as a product of government policy, i.e meddling. It allows banks to create money (credit expansion) through fractional reserve banking, this distorts the signals in the economy lead...
[17:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:25] <exec> 08└─White prividege is based on luck, not racial superiority? Who knew!!
[17:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:27] <exec> 08└─What in the world are you talking about? Astrophysics puts forth a number of theories that have been tested, and are most certainly falsifiable.
[17:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:30] <exec> 08└─In Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, the predictive models had to be kept secret from the masses to prevent them from failing. It was almost like the clergy were in charge of nudging society back onto the Great Path that only they were aware of. Of course, it's hard to make a living if nobody gets t...
[17:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:32] <exec> 08└─"their proofs do not require experiments" Oh, so their proofs are complete horseshit? Glad we agree.
[17:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:34] <exec> 08└─An axiom or postulate is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments.
[17:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:36] <exec> 08└─I think we can leave the book burning to your less savory compatriots.
[17:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:00] <exec> 08└─There is? I see a little competition is between the cable monopoly and the phone monopoly, but that's hardly "plenty". And there's no competition at all if you want more than about 25mbit service, because the phone monopoly's wires suck.
[17:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:01] <exec> 08└─You realize that anyone can create a competing DNS provider, and there are several that already exist, right?
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[18:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:37] <exec> 08└─Comes out as 2.22222k per year for me. While expensive, 2 grand per officer per year seems pretty small on the whole, compared to gas, logistics, wrongful death suits, etc. Especially if the software licensing fees are part of that 160 million. Having said that: Migrating devices every 2 years is fu...
[18:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:38] <exec> 08└─These aren't the Phones you're looking for.
[18:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:40] <exec> 08└─Wow, problems interfacing systems ... so they move to ... Apple? What a win for openness and integration. In my personal opinion it should be illegal for a public organization to choose suppliers that eschews open standards and open connectors. Just the fact that with Apple there is only one hardwar...
[18:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:42] <exec> 08└─It's not as though morbid curiosity can justify paying for one...
[18:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:45] <exec> 08└─It would make it hard for any undercover operation when the only guys with Lumias are the fuzz!
[18:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:47] <exec> 08└─As it turns out, Tisch [nypdconfidential.com] is probably not the best person for the job and a bit of digging might show just how much so. It was fully her project [macdailynews.com]. She and her supervisor need to be called out on that. It's not like people couldn't see long in advance that M$ pho...
[18:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:49] <exec> 08└─If you read her whole letter, it sounds like her division planned the whole thing out pretty well. 45% below budget is really good. I bet they would have held onto them if Microsoft hadn't killed the phone. The smartphones have made our cops smarter, faster, and more agile in their response to 911 c...
[18:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:00] <exec> 08└─Yet, the truth of that matter is that cars have improved in safety and efficiency over those 20 years; not only are you missing out on those improvements (possibly to the detriment of others), but you're also not helping to pay for those advancements.
[18:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich26189 [1377] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:02] <exec> 08└─Batteries wouldn’t work for me either, I drive a light duty pickup truck. Over the years I’ve done lots of projects around the house and have hauled plenty of building materials as well as gravel, mulch, lawn mowers, snow blowers, furniture, firewood and appliances and do weekly trips to the rec...
[18:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying it would make sense for your case (especially since you mention hauling gravel and such), but there's a lot of full-size half-ton pickups out there that never saw 500 pounds in the back -- they were bought because people needed something with that space (to haul a couple sheets of ply...
[18:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:26] <exec> 08└─As well it should. The burden of proof here is on the proponents to prove that the substance is safe enough and effective enough for a given use. We're long past the point where there was enough need for new treatments and a lack of resources for studying them. Ultimately, the people who claim witho...
[18:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:28] <exec> 08└─"MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is a novel treatment package that combines psychotherapeutic techniques with three administrations of MDMA as a pharmacological adjunct." This isn't likely to end like the opioid sad story which makes chronic addictions. This appears to be limited to 3 single doses as an...
[18:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:30] <exec> 08└─Schedule I is a research killer. [soylentnews.org] MAPS has been working with MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, etc. Very slowly. Because of the barriers to research that come with being on Schedule I. There have already been studies that have found evidence that LSD can be used as a treatment. Safety of LSD i...
[18:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:32] <exec> 08└─She started hearing voices and said that everyone was shit-talking her behind her back (they weren't).
[18:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:03] <exec> 08└─Not supporting what he said, but Judaism isn't a normal religion in terms of joining it. Firstly it is genetic. If your mother was a Jew, you are considered a Jew even if you call yourself an atheist. In fact an atheist female Jew who has a child will also be a Jew, and so on. [Converting to Judaism...
[18:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:04] <exec> 08└─We call it negative feedback. https://www.allaboutcircuits.com [allaboutcircuits.com] Sorry, couldn't stop the EE humor.
[18:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:23] <exec> 08└─That is an option, you just have to find someone then that really likes to eat at Burger King and doesn't mind swapping free coins for actual money (or items). But then this is just like a membership club card again -- I can let others accumulate points on my card or spend point from my card in exch...
[18:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:51] <exec> 08└─It's also illegal if they're doing so by cross-subsidising from an entirely different business (e.g. cloud computing).
[18:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:19] <exec> 08└─The difference is that the baseband on this phone will not have access to the other parts of the phone. It is the model neo900 was using (but neo900 wanted to have more than isolation, they wanted to monitor what the baseband was up to). It is impossible (legally, AND within the budget of mortals) t...
[18:28:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:35] <exec> 08└─"Climate science [wikipedia.org]" is a subfield of Physical geography [wikipedia.org], which is a natural science [wikipedia.org].
[18:28:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:37] <exec> 08└─You don't see a conflict between the ideas that economics are not a science and that economics is a "solved problem"? I guess doublethink is easy for some people.
[18:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:42] <exec> 08└─^ nailed it It would be really nice to know if Mises is just another corporate plant or actually that deluded. Useful idiot or agent provocateur?
[18:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:44] <exec> 08└─Sorry mate. Neither do all the proofs in trigonometry nor maths. Is geometry horeshit? By your understanding, apparently so...
[18:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:46] <exec> 08└─The Dutch Tulip Mania, was NOT an economic crisis. Speculative bubbles occur because of miscalculation. Miscalculation is amplified by central banking. You are straw manning by making the demonstrably false claim that all bubbles are caused by central banking. That is your claim. That you supplied....
[18:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:48] <exec> 08└─It wasn't "almost like", that is exactly what it was. I sometimes wonder if humanity already has a similar group operating behind the scenes. For sure we have cabals conspiring for their own purposes, but I wonder if there is a group working towards the advancement of society instead of selfish and/...
[18:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:50] <exec> 08└─Actually, being falsifiable is necessary for it to be a science. If you make a guess that cannot be proven wrong, it is not a hypothesis. This is what separates religion and science. Of course, even science relies on an axiom that must be taken on faith. This axiom is that observation follows realit...
[18:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:52] <exec> 08└─Excellent. Austrian economics is like Math, and not a science. Mainstream economics is like science, well no, more like astrology. (Ibid.)
[18:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:55] <exec> 08└─Austrian economics makes no statements about the real world. It only makes statements about abstract constructions. That's why Austrian economics needs no empirism. Now Austrian economics does give great tools to describe reality with. But to find out which Austrian economic tool can be applied to w...
[18:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:57] <exec> 08└─I didn't think I had it in me to be preached to for another several hundred pages. Pity, as the subject matter sounds really interesting. So you're saying that you couldn't put down your social exceptionalism long enough to read something "really interesting". You're right. it is a pity.
[18:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:05] <exec> 08└─Why do leftists force us to be divided up... Leftists, leftsists, leftists.... Sounds like you're the one doing the dividing here. For Christ's sake people, it's a fucking history project. Being the first of anything tends to be noteworthy to historians. Stop acting like a bunch of whiny victims!
[18:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:06] <exec> 08└─So where did she decide to focus her studies? - Undergraduate: BA in Women's History - Masters #1 - MS in in Information, Archive Management - Masters #2 - Literature and Creative Writing Sounds like she focused on history and writing. You know...the two skills that tend to be most helpful wh...
[18:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Clockwork Rover for Venus - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:54] <exec> 08└─You think you're smart. You think you're funny. Taking locker room talk out of context. To ridicule me. You're not funny. You're not smart. You're a bully. A cyber bully. Disgusting! 🇺🇸
[18:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Nobel Doesn’t Make You an Expert: Lessons in Science and Spin - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is what took me from anti- to pro- to anti- nuclear again. We already can't trust corporations with our food, water, housing, and medical systems. There would have to be a lot of back tracking from our current state of regulatory capture before I'll be pro-nuclear again. Maybe if coal min...
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[19:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:39] <exec> 08└─I foresee the comments on this article being fair and balanced.
[19:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:40] <exec> 08└─Now women are more likely to get married to a less-educated man. What is the consequence of this?
[19:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:42] <exec> 08└─We discussed this topic yesterday [soylentnews.org]. I have no idea why Americans love them so much, especially women. Honestly, looking through online dating profiles, it seems like about 80% of white American women (generally liberal city-dwelling ones) have some giant dog.
[19:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:45] <exec> 08└─Women have grown used to having an abundance of men chasing their tails, from which they grow accustomed to being as snobby and demanding as they please. But men are starting to understand that marriage, or even a long term exclusive relationship with a woman, does not on balance serve male reproduc...
[19:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:47] <exec> 08└─I've seen the future of mankind I like to think I understand, but I know that I don't. The future of the human race is as alien and incomprehensible to me as the year 1975 would be to a man of Charlemagne's era. But wondrous it is indeed, and filled with marvelous thing...
[19:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:49] <exec> 08└─You could tweak the classic "landscaper" and "pizza delivery guy" scripts just a hair and start shooting.
[19:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:51] <exec> 08└─It's just you and your hand tonight, misogynist.
[19:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:53] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure which is more repelling, women fucking dogs or basement dwelling goblins fucking anime pillows.
[19:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:56] <exec> 08└─Doggy dick is natural. Nothing wrong with it. Anime pillows are unnatural affronts to God.
[19:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:58] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's misogynist; men and women just tend to be biologically wired differently. Yes, there are exceptions, but let's focus on the typical cases first. Women often want families and a man who will help take care of that family. But, a good many men don't want to be domestic "beasts of bu...
[19:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:00] <exec> 08└─While he is an angry misogynist he does make an interesting point. With more men foregoing the typical marriage route it just might bring some balance back. Feminism caught on, a high % of men under 40 hopped on board, but it has definitely shifted into the realm of misandry. Some may call it karma,...
[19:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:17] <exec> 08└─what security features were present on these devices that were not on Apple or Android 3 years ago?
[19:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:19] <exec> 08└─2014 was 3 years ago, when the decision that Android and Apple were apparently (in the eyes of the NYPD) defective was made. Let's face it, this is someone, all too common in IT, who can't see past Windows and is justifying the old decisions. To rise to this position, she has to be politically savvy...
[19:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:21] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree with anything you said about Apple. However, it does sound like the tipping point for migrating was MS no longer supporting Windows phone 8 or upgrading these devices to Windows phone 10. I suppose keeping LEOs' devices up do date on security patches and whatnot is important. Apple...
[19:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:35] <exec> 08└─It's coming, a hybrid PU Truck, 5000# towing capacity, 2200# payload capacity, AWD, 80 miles all electric (310 miles with a tank of gas), 7.2 kw power export (power your tools from the truck's battery): http://workhorse.com [workhorse.com] Also: http://www.motortrend.com
[19:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:03] <exec> 08└─You now hear the screaming forever.
[19:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dishes Band Together - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:15] <exec> 08└─Amazing science! (how sweet the thought) That sav'd ignoramuses like us! We once were lost, but now are learned, Were blind, but now we have data. `Twas ignorance that taught our hearts to fear, And knowledge our fears reliev'd; How precious did that knowing appear The hour my first experiment work'...
[19:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:38] <exec> 08└─Ok, they uploaded sensitive data to "the cloud", without having much of a clue. Worse than usual, but not exactly *un*usual. But this particular cloud was managed by IBM, who surely had some sort of a contract, which must have contained some sort of terms. Surely IBM is liable for serious leaks of d...
[19:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:58] <exec> 08└─A kind of cool thing about this is it gives the average person a way to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon with basically no risk. So what if your Whoppercoin gets stolen - lesson learned. When people move up to "real" cryptocurrencies they can use this experience to stay safe.
[19:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:49] <exec> 08└─I've been getting paid to write closed source code However I have decided to gpl my upcoming iPhone app
[19:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unearthing the Legacy of Harvard's Female 'Computers' - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:34] <exec> 08└─Everything you need to know is covered by the "A team of women"... Yeah, it's so unfair that only women get added to the history books! Where's all the men's-history, huh? Oh wait...I found it! [wikipedia.org]
[19:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:55] <exec> 08└─Most of the US is currently observing Daylight Savings Time right now, so eastern time is actually UTC-4.
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[20:25:37] <exec> 08└─RMS is a visionary, but as usual such ideas start before their time is ready. The concept of free software conflicts heavily with our profit driven economic models. Until we evolve as a society beyond the need for money this problem can not be solved. Open source all your software and some assholes...
[20:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:38] <exec> 08└─In my view, proprietary software is an injustice; it is wrongdoing. People should be _ashamed_ of making proprietary software, _especially_ if it is successful.
[20:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:40] <exec> 08└─In the Olde West, cowpokes used to say, "some men rob you with a six-gun, some with proprietary software licenses".
[20:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:42] <exec> 08└─Slave Labor + Investment Scam == Profit Freedom does not enter the equation.
[20:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:00] <exec> 08└─... from which they grow accustomed to being as snobby and demanding as they please. ... Enjoy your karma, bitches!
[20:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:01] <exec> 08└─This explains the south so much better! Inbreeding didn't quite seem to cover it, but throw in some canine DNA and you've got aggressive loyalty to the church mixed with an innate desire to hunt down things that are different. Thanks, never quite thought of it like that. Apologies to the non-insane...
[20:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:04] <exec> 08└─It's not new.
[20:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:06] <exec> 08└─My hand left me. It's HGTOW now.
[20:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:08] <exec> 08└─gender specific changes? which one? today there is about 200
[20:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:10] <exec> 08└─Statistical fail fails! "80% of white American women (generally liberal city-dwelling ones)"
[20:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:12] <exec> 08└─Now women are more likely to get married to a less-educated man. What is the consequence of this?
[20:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 4072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:15] <exec> 08└─I think it's a little more complex than that. First, there's a bunch of women now who actually don't want kids. You'll find a lot of urban women like this. But they seem to usually want a man who makes more money than them, mainly so they can afford to go on expensive international vacations every c...
[20:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:17] <exec> 08└─At least the hand won't complain and take half his shit when they break up. Plus it's making love to someone you love ...
[20:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:19] <exec> 08└─... just like the bargain women had to make 50+ years ago.
[20:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:21] <exec> 08└─Women in the US are getting very fat. Fatness is generally a major deterrent for attraction from men. I would hypothesize that 'lower quality' males may now be able to find women who are generally considered unacceptable, but have other redeeming features. In a way it's probably the same as it was f...
[20:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:23] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, I forgot about your superior data source: some random person's opinion in a comment thread. #fakenews #sad #tinytrump
[20:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:26] <exec> 08└─I'm the one who wrote that, in an entirely unrelated conversation in a different article's discussion. I wasn't making a comparison with rural and/or conservative women, I was making an observation about the liberal city-dwelling women I generally see when *I* look at dating sites (because I don't l...
[20:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:28] <exec> 08└─Women don't have to become lesbians; they can just stay single. That's what I'm seeing in the big east-coast cities anyway. Women who are 35-45 and never married are extremely common now on the dating sites. And I suspect many, many of them will remain single for the rest of their lives. Many of the...
[20:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:30] <exec> 08└─No, I don't mean that at all. Monogamy is a relatively recent social trend, which likely only started with the adoption of agriculture. Modern humans (meaning homo sapiens sapiens) have been around for about 2 million years, while agricultural societies only about 10-12k. Hunter-gatherer tribes were...
[20:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:32] <exec> 08└─(This site should let me edit comments within a few minutes of posting...) Now, if you mean "since the early days of civilization", I'd say that's mostly correct. I wrote "50+" for a reason, because western civilization has been like that until only very recently, and the way humans lived shortly af...
[20:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:34] <exec> 08└─You can't "become" a lesbian either. It's not a choice. I didn't wake up one morning and go "you know I think I'm gonna follow a strict vagitarian diet."
[20:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:37] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows you make the decision at night and then get a good nights sleep to let your subconscious mull it over. Maybe having orange juice instead of coffee is what triggered your decision? /s cause this site is fool of shittastic trolls who might seriously say shit like that
[20:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:39] <exec> 08└─just you and your hand tonight
[20:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:41] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, that too. But bisexuality among women isn't *that* rare, if they're honest with themselves. In an alternate universe, where women were encouraged to "become" lesbians (perhaps because of a giant shortage of males combined with a lack of homophobia in society like we have today), we'd sure...
[20:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:43] <exec> 08└─That's your experience. Is it every lesbian's experience? If it isn't a choice, can it be cured or suppressed by a drug? Can intervention be done before birth? Will we abort or design babies so that less lesbians are born? Can you make a lesbian by surgically altering their brain or damaging it like...
[20:26:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 1148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:58] <exec> 08└─As it turns out, Tisch [nypdconfidential.com] is probably not the best person for the job and a bit of digging might show just how much so. It was fully her project [macdailynews.com]. She and her supervisor need to be called out on that. It's not like people couldn't see long in advance that M$ pho...
[20:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:45] <exec> 08└─Apart from the reasons given by takyon, did you even do MDMA ("molly")? It's usually sold as small crystals of clear to brown-tinged colour, while Ecstasy/XTC is sold as pills. The crystal form of "molly" makes it hard as fuck to dose right, you can of course eyeball it by dipping your wet finger in...
[20:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:36] <exec> 08└─Well, a little bit freudian there -- wife is obviously wifi.
[20:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:33] <exec> 08└─Getting a patch accepted into one of the larger open source projects would be valuable to me, I would go as far to have count it as much more significant than anything CS students learn nowadays...
[20:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:48] <exec> 08└─I have worked a bit with their previous Myriad 2 architecture and it was quite nice and very energy efficient actually, I'm wondering what this one will bring but I guess that only time can tell.
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[21:25:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:36] <exec> 08└─In the Olde West, cowpokes used to say, "some men rob you with a six-gun, some with proprietary software licenses".
[21:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:39] <exec> 08└─You're too old for the olde west. Tell us about shepherds with spears, and pass the wineskin.
[21:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:41] <exec> 08└─Write code? For fun?!
[21:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:43] <exec> 08└─It would be nice if more people understood this instead of ignoring other possibilities because they clash with the presumption of current economic theory. Reply to This
[21:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:45] <exec> 08└─In the Not So Olde West they properly attribute this to Woody Guthrie. Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen.…
[21:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:48] <exec> 08└─I am deeply ashamed.
[21:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 1788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:50] <exec> 08└─One day humanity will evolve and economics will simply be about efficient resource allocation. Currently it is tied up in complex systems where money is THE goal. Money is the goal because money represents resources, and people, being greedy apes, want more resources, and resources are scarce, and l...
[21:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:52] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's right, I thought the song went; "Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen many odd persona; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a sneaky EULA."
[21:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:54] <exec> 08└─Private ownership will have limits, all land will have something similar to the UK with the right to pass through. You can't camp on someone else's land, but going through it is not trespassing and owners have to provide accessible gates. The private ownership / individualistic model in the US is no...
[21:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:56] <exec> 08└─RMS has gone on record to say programmers should write code for fun, and they should work retail jobs if they want to get paid. You can't make a living on the street making faces, unless you are Michael David Crawford.
[21:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:59] <exec> 08└─It always amuses me when I run into people who seem to be outraged by the very existence of FLOSS.
[21:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:01] <exec> 08└─If someone builds a cool tool but does not show you how they built the tool, or show you the design specifications for the tool, they have not wronged you or damaged you in any way. Now, if they attempt to punish you for figuring out how they made their tool, copying their ideas, and doing whatever...
[21:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:03] <exec> 08└─Even in the Star Trek "post scarcity" future, there's only so much good real estate around, and you can't just make more with a replicator like you can a cup of Earl Grey tea.
[21:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:05] <exec> 08└─Money is the goal because money represents resources
[21:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:07] <exec> 08└─It's easier for most people to imagine the end of the world than it is for them to imagine the end of Capitalism.
[21:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 2075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:09] <exec> 08└─Oh, I didn't realize he was talking about trees. My reading was the he was talking about the forest. I happen to agree with RMS. When I was young and stupid, he was a smelly hippy, and I was a Linux user. Now that I'm more mature (me? mature? lol), I realize that RMS has gotten a lot smarter and tha...
[21:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:12] <exec> 08└─Pratchett took some time imagining what would happen if other near-identical Earths where just one "step" away. While not my favorite series of his (Discworld FTW), the Long Earth has some interesting thoughts on humanity in a near-unlimited-resource context.
[21:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:14] <exec> 08└─FLOSS doesn't outrage me. What outrages me is Zuck is a billionaire who built his fortune on the backs of volunteers who got nothing for their generous efforts. Gates the great satan himself at least sold a product to earn his riches. Bezos likewise sold many products. Zuck takes free software and e...
[21:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:16] <exec> 08└─Most people really want security, comfortable enough living, and leisure time, and everything else is a vague desire that you'd be perfectly happy without. Considering that we almost never see people actually stop working for more, even when they're billionaires, I'd say this is mostly false. Person...
[21:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:18] <exec> 08└─One day humanity will evolve and economics will simply be about efficient resource allocation.
[21:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:20] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. Some people seem to think it's philosophically impossible to make money with FLOSS, to which I would usually point to Red Hat, but...well...we've seen what direction that's headed recently :-/ . Re: Zuck Just six days after the launch of the site, three Harvard University seniors, Camer...
[21:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:23] <exec> 08└─I dunno about the rest of you but I really wouldn't mind having about 9K acres, a small lake, a few large ponds, and plenty of wildlife along with the means to keep them all up. So, yes, some people do genuinely want a whole hell of a lot more space than is absolutely necessary.
[21:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 1597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:25] <exec> 08└─In TOS, they didn't show that many colonies, and the ones they did show made them out to be somewhat primitive, with difficult living for the colonists. On top of that, they were constantly fighting with other empires for control of regions of space where these far-flung colonies were located. So no...
[21:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:27] <exec> 08└─Business model?! We don't need no stinking business models! Stallman considers starting up (a company) as a completely undesirable thing to do. Early in his career (in 1970s), he had an opinion that it couldn’t have given him anything except money. He says, It would have meant throwing away everyt...
[21:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:29] <exec> 08└─Even worse of an example in the TNG era when you could live in a holosuite and have as much land as you could imagine while never leaving home.
[21:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:31] <exec> 08└─resources are scarce
[21:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:11] <exec> 08└─Wait 15 minutes after the story is posted. Put a reasonable comment. Have the prepared troll comment ready. Switch it at 4 minutes and 45 seconds to account for lag. Watch some people reply or up mod your reasonable comment which is now gone.
[21:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:12] <exec> 08└─The pair of cis scum ones.
[21:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:14] <exec> 08└─Just have the old Green Site "are you sure you want to comment; doing this will undo moderation?" check, but for editing your comments. If you've already been modded, editing wipes mods.
[21:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:16] <exec> 08└─1) Sites like Reddit allow editing, and don't seem to have that much trouble with this. 2) You could make it so the original comment cannot be removed or edited, and instead you can only append to it (which is all I wanted to do in my comment above). 3) You could also have a "flag" option to flag pe...
[21:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:19] <exec> 08└─I think there's probably a lot of truth to this. The women who are attractive don't have to bother "marrying down", they get first pick; the women who aren't have to choose from the leftovers, which now means "marring down", with the alternative being staying single.
[21:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:21] <exec> 08└─That's already a thing. It's called "BLACKED"
[21:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:23] <exec> 08└─Well, breaking it down, yes, the predilection is to only fall in love with women. The choice is to be sexually active. Celibate lesbians are no less gay than ones who have a sex life. I would think drugs likely couldn't change the underlying predilection, though if you get someone drunk enough they...
[21:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I bet most people are closer to Kinsey 1 than Kinsey 0 if they're being honest with themselves. They're what I'd heard referred to as "spaghetti-sexual" (firmly straight until you get them hot and wet...). Seems more common with women than men though. ...of course, I'm a hard Kinsey 6 so there...
[21:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:27] <exec> 08└─Under-rated post. I wish I could mod this up. So many women need to get off dating sites and into the gym.
[21:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:29] <exec> 08└─Actually there are zero genders.
[21:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:32] <exec> 08└─According to genital blood flow (ie, arousal) studies, there's, within the error margin, no such thing as "heterosexual woman". There's a small but non-negligible group of strictly-lesbian women (who also have certain other mental characteristics typical of men), but the vast majority are aroused by...
[21:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:34] <exec> 08└─Not condoning the apparent misogyny here, but I've had the Internet for awhile and cruised it. There does indeed seem to be a lot more women fucking dogs, and a couple of the porn trackers that I use have bestiality sections now. No pun intended, but it's like a fucking zoo in there.
[21:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:36] <exec> 08└─This may be offtopic, but it's interesting as hell.
[21:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:38] <exec> 08└─Also makeup, piercings and tattoos. If you get past photoshopped "supermodel" weirdness the glossy press tries to push, it turns out that most women in child-bearable age are actually attractive, after you exclude those with self-inflicted ugliness. Yes, abnormal weight (both body-positive and body-...
[21:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:40] <exec> 08└─Seems more common with women than men though It's debatable. Is it because men really are biologically "straighter", or is it because today's society is more tolerant of female bisexuality so men are more likely to suppress these desires (both consciously and subconsciously)?
[21:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:01] <exec> 08└─M$ phones [are] down to less than a fraction of a percent [marketshare] Upthread, takyon has mentioned the apps. Doesn't it make good sense to specify that apps be written using cross-platform tools such as Qt, [wikipedia.org] so that it doesn't much matter what hardware/OS gets used? ...or make it...
[21:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich26189 [1377] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:17] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link, I hadn’t heard of this vehicle. As a fleet vehicle it sounds great but for weekend projects and a 5 days-a-week commute it may be a little much. Though at 28/32 mpg city/highway it's better than my Tacoma (4 cyl, 5 spd manual) which averages 23-24mpg. Interesting that the truc...
[21:28:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 1090 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:42] <exec> 08└─Schedule I is a research killer. [soylentnews.org] MAPS has been working with MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, etc. Very slowly. Because of the barriers to research that come with being on Schedule I. There have already been studies that have found evidence that LSD can be used as a treatment. Safety of LSD i...
[21:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:47] <exec> 08└─LSD is one of the most difficult drugs to synthesize. The only harder one I can think of is psilocybin. It takes some pretty expensive lab equipment.
[21:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:49] <exec> 08└─I compared LSD to a class of similar chemicals with very similar effects. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(psychedelics) [wikipedia.org] There are also other lysergamides [wikipedia.org] that are considered analogues [wikipedia.org] of LSD, such a...
[21:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Designates MDMA as a "Breakthrough Therapy" for PTSD; Approves Phase 3 Trials - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:51] <exec> 08└─Oh no. I think it's contagious.
[21:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:26] <exec> 08└─So...where are the actual leaks? Or is the data actually (so far) secure in IBM's cloud? Or did someone forget to give IBM clearance to host the stuff? Or what? TFA is really unclear about just what the problem is...
[21:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:28] <exec> 08└─Seriously, if a civil war breaks out in Europe, Sweden is arguably the most likely place. And this kind of news gets paranoid people to think that preparations are underway.
[21:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Even Burger King has a Cryptocurrency Now - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:49] <exec> 08└─It's not like there's anything inherently useful about any other currency.
[21:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:43] <exec> 08└─"Are you for real, bro?" He also says it's hard to tell if a project is abandoned, when there's a last commit date for every file in the repo right there and a graph of commit activity over time one click away, so I'm going with "no"...
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[22:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:33] <exec> 08└─Trump will probably pardon them. He doesn't want to upset his good buddy Erdogan.
[22:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:34] <exec> 08└─The present can only pardon criminal against the United States. Can't pardon crimes against persons.
[22:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:36] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I accidentally a word. "criminal acts"
[22:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:38] <exec> 08└─And present == president I also a word for correct complete
[22:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:41] <exec> 08└─"The Turkish security officials left the country before they were charged." They should have been charged and arrested before they left the country.
[22:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:43] <exec> 08└─> Turkey alleges the protesters "began aggressively provoking Turkish-American citizens who had peacefully assembled to greet the President." Which in no way, shape, or form, provides legal grounds for foreign bodyguards to commit assaults. The US cops are pretty picky about their privileges.
[22:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:45] <exec> 08└─Trump may say that Erdogan is his buddy, but I highly doubt it is reciprocal. We have been doing a lot to provoke him recently, be it our support for the Kurds (and building military bases in their area) or supporting cease fires involving the Russians that go against Erdogan's interest.
[22:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:21] <exec> 08└─Take away the fame and the honorary doctorates, and RMS is an old opinionated unkempt hippie who smells bad and who hasn't had a real job in decades. Realistic chance that RMS would be able to get a tech job is zero. Think about that for a second. Demand for open source is an open joke. Your world p...
[22:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:22] <exec> 08└─You better get used to living indoors 24/7. I know am.
[22:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:25] <exec> 08└─Considering that we almost never see people actually stop working for more, even when they're billionaires, I'd say this is mostly false.
[22:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:27] <exec> 08└─I'm just pointing out that, even in a "post-scarcity" economy where we've fixed problems with IP and we have replicators and robots making everything for us. some things will always be scarce, namely real estate. You can't replicate a planet (well, maybe you can, but that's a LOT harder than making...
[22:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:29] <exec> 08└─But proprietary software is also perfectly fine. For whatever that is worth once copyrights, patents, and DMCA doesn't exist.
[22:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:31] <exec> 08└─I know, right? Who the hell is masochist enough to do that?
[22:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:33] <exec> 08└─Wrong. He doesn't provide a product but he sure as hell provides a service. You, of course, are free to make your own though, most of the code being OSS. Let me know how that turns out.
[22:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:35] <exec> 08└─Your neighbor might want your unit, but they're probably not miserable in their current one. If you try to minimize misery rather than maximize happiness you end up with a much more sustainable outcome.
[22:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:38] <exec> 08└─RMS has been incredibly lucky to be at the right place at the right time to be the first guy to start a free software movement and then have people literally throw free money at him so he can live with the luxury of never earning a wage. The rest of us cannot ever follow his example because RMS alre...
[22:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:40] <exec> 08└─> You can no longer own slaves, as one example of changing rules. You can, you just have to call them "inmates".
[22:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:42] <exec> 08└─If someone builds a cool tool but does not show you how they built the tool, or show you the design specifications for the tool, they have not wronged you or damaged you in any way.
[22:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:44] <exec> 08└─Too true. We live in a world of scarcity where there's only one SoylentNews. As was said long ago regarding the slashdot effect, you can only fit so many cocks into CmdrTaco's anus.
[22:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:46] <exec> 08└─My entire ass. I've done quite well for myself doing work-for-hire contracts using quite a lot of OSS. Well enough that I've been able to take two and a half years off after moving to Tennessee. And I'm about to start back up using the same kind of arrangement here in a week or so. As for being rich...
[22:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:49] <exec> 08└─You want the product of my coding, you pay $N. You want the source as well, you're going to pay a multiple of N. You may think this conflicts with me working on an OSS project like Rehash; it doesn't. My efforts on Rehash give me a site I greatly enjoy using under working conditions that I specify....
[22:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:51] <exec> 08└─Growing food? Manufacturing plants? Replicators can produce whatever you desire. ...and "waste" becomes input for the next generation of new stuff. (We're a good portion of the way there already with 3-D printers; the biggest obstacle is archaic "intellectual property" notions.) Recreation? A holode...
[22:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:53] <exec> 08└─Junior, if you're gonna try to troll someone, at least try to have your response remotely related to their comment. That was just stupid and saddens me re: the quality of trolls on the site.
[22:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:55] <exec> 08└─The GNU Project began because RMS was too unskilled and too lazy to reverse engineer a printer. His attitude since the beginning has been, "Fuck you! Give me your source code!" Says so right here in the first chapter of his biography, "For Want of a Printer" Unfortunately, Stallman's skills as a com...
[22:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:57] <exec> 08└─I doubt money will ever completely go away, individuals still need a means of making transactions.
[22:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:52] <exec> 08└─Makeup, piercings, and tattoos can be forgiven if they are attractive enough. Fat not so much. And if someone is fat once, they are likely to stay that way or relapse.
[22:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:53] <exec> 08└─If you read the story, it's on the topic. Kind of on the topic. I read the Cliff's Notes. Trust funds are terrific. You have a kid, you set up the trust fund. You get married, you get the prenuptial agreement. She makes more than you? Fantastic, still get the prenuptial. Always, always. Because you...
[22:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:55] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, you're designing the successor to USB-C?
[22:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:16] <exec> 08└─Does that include the cost of service? 50 dollars a month, 24 months = 1.2k + $800 dollars phone and we are right where they spent.
[22:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:18] <exec> 08└─With Android on the other hand, you're lucky if you get [updates for] 2 years and 2 major version updates Sounds like you get your phones via a carrier. Google's unique update process is one of the best parts of owning a Pixel [androidcentral.com] There is an extremely well-defined divide between ph...
[22:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:20] <exec> 08└─When you're buying 160 million dollars worth of phones in one go, you can make arrangements for better long term support. That's especially true when the OS is open. At that volume, in house support becomes a viable economic option. While iPhone makes a lot more sense than Windows phones, one might...
[22:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:36] <exec> 08└─> However, most people (and society at large) would benefit from being able to "recycle" their old cars—it would be great if the car culture were such that you expect to > swap out your current car for a new/newish car every 2 years, at only a marginal cost, rather than paying for regular maintena...
[22:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:38] <exec> 08└─> 20 years of developments usually contains some pretty bothersome misfeatures as well Add to the list the 1st generation airbags which ended about 2000, +/- several years for model changeovers. The first gen bags were high powered, sized to restrain a large, heavy person. If you are smaller, or not...
[22:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:45] <exec> 08└─When money and control is all you desire, you are a parasite. Just like rats are parasites and destroy value wherever they go, jews destroy everything of value and give back wars and conflict in return. In the Russian revolution, jews hijacked the system and put themselves in power to the detriment...
[22:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:47] <exec> 08└─Jews today are of Khazar origin, it ought to be mentioned. The religious teaching of the Jews is principally a collection of instructions for maintaining the Jewish blood pure and for regulating intercourse between Jews and the rest of the world: that is to say, their relation with non−Jews. But t...
[22:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:49] <exec> 08└─> Suggesting someone mix races is best left as a joke and insult. I disagree with this statement in the strongest possible way. The sooner we all interbreed and become "mutts" the better things will get for all of humanity. All these damn high strung purebreds (self-segregating by race, nationality...
[22:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Agency Moved Nation's Secret Data to “the Cloud” - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:51] <exec> 08└─I'm glad you mentioned purebred. The only nation on this planet that is purebred is Israel. They run genetic tests to make sure their population is purebred (by race). By your definition, we need to nuke Israel from orbit.... I only suggest putting them all in work camps, aka concentration camps (li...
[22:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:40] <exec> 08└─> Where to rank Trader Joe's on the trash-elite scale? I'm sure I bring ours down toward trash every time -- old clothes, pony tail, untrimmed beard, shoes falling apart, the sad old hippie look. Looks can be deceiving...
[22:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:08] <exec> 08└─Github is teh ghey I is on gitlab sucka.
[22:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:24] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the third neural network based processor that's been announced this year?
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[23:25:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! [Updated] - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:49] <exec> 08└─I still maintain that the new datacenter is in Houston not Dallas. It's certainly dropping packets like it's under several feet of water.
[23:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! [Updated] - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:06] <exec> 08└─I went to pages but they were blank. I touch Refresh, still blank. I touch Refresh again, PERFECT, there's the page! Not bad for an alt-left site. 🇺🇸
[23:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Server Migrations - fluorine and neon and helium, Oh My! [Updated] - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:07] <exec> 08└─In all seriousness, I've been trying to find the time to talk to you guys on IRC on how to do it. My new system is Redmond-free as I can make it, and I have some virtualized Tails images that I would like to surf sites from. My first thought was surfing Soylent from hidden services. Also, all your w...
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[23:26:09] <exec> 08└─Cheers. It's definitely on the list now but there's things more pressing ahead of it and I won't have time to get to those until at least October I don't expect because I'll be busy writing code for actual moneys. Maybe I can talk NCommander into finding the time to troubleshoot it since he's the on...
[23:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:23] <exec> 08└─The present can only pardon criminal against the United States. Can't pardon crimes against persons. That's not true. [pbs.org] Other than impeachment, the president can pardon any violation of a federal law.
[23:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:24] <exec> 08└─All agree the U. S. President has the COMPLETE power to pardon. Only crime so far is leaks against us. We were very honored by President Erdogan's visit. Turkey is a bastion in the fight against terrorism. 🇺🇸
[23:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkish Security Officials Indicted for Attacking DC Protesters in May - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:26] <exec> 08└─Federal law and state law are two, wholly separate things. Crimes against persons are almost always prosecuted by the state. The president can not override the state in this regard, as his power is only for federal crimes.
[23:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:21] <exec> 08└─And your desire may or may not be allowed. Submit a plan for building a cabin around a specific lake and get approved? Congrats. Want your 9k acres within 30mins of a major urban center? Good luck. Resource allocation should be more communal, the private wealth system where one individual can horde...
[23:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:22] <exec> 08└─Deep Space Nine wasn't in Federation space, that's why it was called a "deep space" station. Very little about average civilian life was ever portrayed beyond the occasional episode set on Risa or scene set in Sisko's restaurant.
[23:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:24] <exec> 08└─And call your orange buddy when people finally figure out what you're up to!
[23:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:27] <exec> 08└─Who's trolling? You're providing a service called SoylentNews, aren't you? People come here for your service, don't they? And I can't start my own identical service and expect to use the same domain name, now can I? There's only one soylentnews.org just like CmdrTaco has only one anus. I wish I coul...
[23:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:29] <exec> 08└─...and in the City of Los Angeles, they're arguing about whether to allow developers to build MORE housing that only the affluent can afford. ...when there's already a shortage of affordable housing. We're in a drought in SoCal. The last time we got a heavy rain hereabouts, millions of gallons of wa...
[23:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:31] <exec> 08└─That's some outlook on life you have. Old hippie? Buddhist? Socialist parents? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:33] <exec> 08└─Guaranteed riches if you have half a brain and the hustle to sell yourself.
[23:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:35] <exec> 08└─You don't get to specify the terms and conditions when you work on Rehash. The GPL requires you to release your source code. Get down from your high horse and bend over this barrel that RMS made for you.
[23:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 2138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:37] <exec> 08└─These are good examples up above, but there are even more clear cut examples of pervasive oppression. Take a close look at here and now: virtually every mass-produced, general-purpose, individual consumer-oriented platform is proprietary, and everyone is goaded into that ecosystem, whether they like...
[23:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:40] <exec> 08└─There are far more empty homes than there are homeless people There's 7.5 billion people on the planet. 100 million of them are homeless [homelessworldcup.org] About 50-60% of food is destined not for somebody's belly but the garbage bin. More like 30% but I agree that's a problem. [fao.org] There a...
[23:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:42] <exec> 08└─Try taking what I've busted my ass for at your own peril, comrade.
[23:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:44] <exec> 08└─See? I tell you lot that socialists aren't interested in making the poor not poor but instead on dragging everyone else down to poverty and do you listen? Well, there you have it right out of one of their mouths.
[23:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:46] <exec> 08└─If you don't have the hustle to sell yourself, that is a personal problem that you may remedy at your convenience.
[23:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:48] <exec> 08└─No, it doesn't. We're quite free to never release a single bit of code since we're not distributing anything. Learn your licenses.
[23:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:51] <exec> 08└─TFS points at the always-be-maximizing-profits nature of Capitalism. Ever try to get a corporation to deviate from that path? Neither TFS nor TFA specifically mentions the incident that really set off Stallman on his crusade. It involved a company which only provided a closed-source device driver fo...
[23:28:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:02] <exec> 08└─Women have grown used to having an abundance of men chasing their tails, from which they grow accustomed to being as snobby and demanding as they please. But men are starting to understand that marriage, or even a long term exclusive relationship with a woman, does not on balance serve male reproduc...
[23:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:49] <exec> 08└─"Free Love" for the women at least. I read somewhere that genetic evidence suggests that most men never produced viable offspring.
[23:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:50] <exec> 08└─There seems to be an assumption that men want to "marry up." Most I have met do not really mind marrying down, other factors related to reproduction, genetic fitness, and child care seem to matter more, even on the instinctual level. Personally, marrying up seems to be a mixed blessing at best.
[23:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:52] <exec> 08└─You have not been paying attention. Or maybe you have, and you're spew shit because, well, you're an asshole. Feminists are very much on the side of men who suffer domestic abuse - because the facts that (i) women not being taken seriously when they report domestic assault so the perpetrators rarely...
[23:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Marrying Up' is Now Easier for Men, Improves Their Economic Well-Being, Study Finds - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:54] <exec> 08└─You see, that's exactly my point. Women no longer have control of my sexuality, and therefore, I no longer have to care what they think of me. Women prevent you from masturbating? What kind of porn are you watching, anyway?? I vote we all give him a break. If they did that to me I'd probably assume...
[23:29:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:05] <exec> 08└─Moreover, we assessed that the Windows platform would be most effective at achieving our goal of securing 36,000 devices that would be used for sensitive law enforcement operations. This was of paramount importance.
[23:29:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03petecox [3228] 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:11] <exec> 08└─It would make it hard for any undercover operation when the only guys with Lumias are the fuzz!
[23:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NYPD Defends Use of Windows Phones as It Switches to iPhones - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:22] <exec> 08└─It should be illegal for the government (especially public schools) to use proprietary software at all. They should either be forced to write the software they need themselves or use existing Free Software. It is completely intolerable that the government is dependent upon large corporations to do t...
[23:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin is the Latest Car Maker to Announce an All-Hybrid or EV Future - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:40] <exec> 08└─Bond deftly pushed the throttle pedal to the floor as he spun the steering wheel catching the Aston Martin in a magnificent four wheel slide with a squeal of tire slip as bullets pinged off the trunk from Blofeld's machine gun. Yet still after every turn, every frantic maneuver, somehow Blofeld's Ma...
[23:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:41] <exec> 08└─...Innumeracy is as bad as Illiteracy and politicians know this. They can lie with words, than confuse you with numbers.
[23:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism is Crowdfunding an Encrypted Linux Phone - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:10] <exec> 08└─This doesn't work for turning off. Especially in the case of perceived competition being present, or that time of the month, or ... zillions of other cases.
[23:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:41] <exec> 08└─So what? Economics is an empirical subject just like physics. Sure, a philosophical treatment can help, but it has to be grounded in real world phenomena. And as a result, there is no such thing as "self-evident".
[23:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Economists Are the New Astrologers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:42] <exec> 08└─I don't believe it. Jmorris is a false news profit.
[23:33:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Demand for Open Source Skills Continues to Grow - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─Would that be "knowing" in the biblical sense? If so, I've been missing out. Bigtime.
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