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[00:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:22] <exec> 08└─There is already a company that operates private hire cabs and has an app. What's the difference? It actually follows the laws.
[00:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibody Combination Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:35] <exec> 08└─I don't think it does, so it should be far easier for their bodies to fight it off.
[00:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06lowRISC is Hiring: Help Make Open-Source Hardware a Reality. - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:13] <exec> 08└─Even the 80286 [uaf.edu] had microcode.
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[01:39:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:17] <exec> 08└─There is already a company that operates private hire cabs and has an app. What's the difference? It actually follows the laws.
[01:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:19] <exec> 08└─If they meet the need, legally, then great. What's bad is when London makes all app based private hire cabs illegal, because they will continue to operate with or without state approval - and without state approval is much worse for everyone involved.
[01:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:21] <exec> 08└─and without state approval is much worse for everyone involved.
[01:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibody Combination Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:35] <exec> 08└─SHIV = Simian-Human Immunodeficiency Virus
[01:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Antibody Combination Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:36] <exec> 08└─I know, right? Looks like we're about to lose something Hollywood tried very hard to associate with people assigned to the male gender at birth who do not exist for the financial gratification of a cisgendered woman. For a while there, HIV/GRID almost made it seem like Yahweh and his alter ego [wiki...
[01:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:53] <exec> 08└─They haven't "died out". They were driven to extinction by the invasion of the Sapiens. The tribes at the time were only around 100 to 150 strong. One theory says that the Sapiens developed a more abstract language first, and that allowed them to coordinate larger groups of people.
[01:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:54] <exec> 08└─Wtf? Is anything wrong with slower?
[01:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:56] <exec> 08└─My summarys get less unshitty the more I write of them in one day.
[01:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Shanghai Railway Restores 350 km/h Train Service - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:51] <exec> 08└─You think this is unusual for any field? Everyone starts from scratch when they build something? No one learns from others mistakes?
[01:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:58] <exec> 08└─μάθημα in Greek means "studies" or "lessons". No surprising it would be a plural in English. No accounting for what things are in American, however.
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[02:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:17] <exec> 08└─Is this for faster spying and hacking by the NSA?
[02:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:19] <exec> 08└─Pr0n
[02:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:21] <exec> 08└─Yup. Cable taps courtesy of the USS Jimmy Carter. https://www.theatlantic.com [theatlantic.com]
[02:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbv [6022] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:32] <exec> 08└─Probably has something to do with the price of the medallions that the cities typically issue to taxi cabs and that Uber doesn't pay. I have yet to take an Uber ride in a dirty car with a rude driver and I've taken more than a few in very different places. Disgusting taxi cabs with rude drivers are...
[02:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:33] <exec> 08└─What's bad is when London makes all app based private hire cabs illegal,
[02:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:35] <exec> 08└─Well done posting a load of drivel that has no relevance to the story. London gives out something to black taxi drivers (those legally allowed to pick up people who hail them), but they are a license for a specific driver, they are not transferable (not even temporarily) and have to be earned throug...
[02:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibody Combination Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:51] <exec> 08└─... and then is subsequently beaten to a pulp by the HIV strains.
[02:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:11] <exec> 08└─We could have murdered them for being smarter than us, and once all the neanderthals were gone, begun doing the same thing to smarter homo sapiens until there was mostly idiots, and a few smart individuals who hid among the idiots until their time to rise to power happened, leading to tribalism and...
[02:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:17] <exec> 08└─Apparently, you haven't noticed all the anti-abortion/anti-contraceptive busybodies in the USA. Even people who don't want kids are losing that option. ...and folks in India (only a small margin away from being the most populous country) think that lots of kids is a good thing. Huge numbers of peopl...
[02:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:19] <exec> 08└─In my first 10 hits, [google.com] I see Delight Foods Soy Patties at Whole Foods Market. Multiple mentions of Jamaican soy patties as well. Got a Caribbean restaurant/bodega in that burg? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[03:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:27] <exec> 08└─While I don't know much, or anything, about bathymetry (underwater topography) it does look a bit odd to draw cable from Virginia Beach to Bilbao. It's not exactly the shortest route. If one look at the map it seems to be almost in France and then they just decide to pull it back down to Spain. Draw...
[03:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:29] <exec> 08└─Jimmie is based in Washington State. I remember reading about this cable being much harder to tap because of the construction of the cable shield itself. But that probably doesn't matter these days since Google found out that the NSA was tapping their inter-datacenter traffic, and decided to encrypt...
[03:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:43] <exec> 08└─I've read something about this (ages ago), a very difficult test to pass. Has anyone compared the routes taken by black cab drivers to mapping/route-finding software? This seems like it could be a fun competition.
[03:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:45] <exec> 08└─It's not clear to me that "the knowledge" is relevant any more, in these days of GPS navigation and real-time traffic data. Nevertheless, it serves to limit the pool of black taxi drivers without creating a market for medallions.
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[03:40:02] <exec> 08└─...and when he's been impeached, convicted, and expelled, we'll have Mike Pence in the on-deck circle, a "Christian" guy with the same attitudes. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:23] <exec> 08└─quote>They haven't "died out". They were driven to extinction by the invasion of the Sapiens. A distinction without a difference. They couldn't compete or chose not to, or they had genes that became recessive in interbreeding. There's no end of theories. There's not a lot of evidence for inter speci...
[03:41:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Scientists Develop Device to Detect Counterfeit Booze - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:31] <exec> 08└─These were first measured unopened, then opened and contaminated with different levels of methanol (1, 2 and 3 %) and the tops replaced.
[03:41:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06lowRISC is Hiring: Help Make Open-Source Hardware a Reality. - 1675 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:46] <exec> 08└─Despite its age and issues, x86 is still alive and strong. Intel and AMD have been able to apply many advances to the x86 architecture. Such as, since the Pentium, there's an additional layer of microcode, and the underlying processor of an x86 system actually is RISC. All the inefficient, crufty 19...
[03:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:35] <exec> 08└─Evolution says that is a temporary thing. Those that are genetically inclined to have more kids will replace those that are not. Changing circumstances (our suddenly affluent society providing reproductive choice) can upset things for a few generations but, not surprisingly, those that continue to h...
[03:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:08] <exec> 08└─From what I hear, they're starting to bring components written in Rust into Firefox. So not only is there C++ code to deal with, but also Rust code! And Rust code makes C++ code look pretty.
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[04:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:01] <exec> 08└─Don't discount last minute political, tax or legal wrangling. That last leg is chump change.
[04:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:02] <exec> 08└─-Cable? -Cable fully operational sir! -Wiretaps? -Taps are in place and functional. -Evil bit? -Evil bit set. -OK let's do this.
[04:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:19] <exec> 08└─and have to be earned through learning "the knowledge" (a black taxi cab driver needs to know the best way to get to any street, in traffic, without aids, such as maps or apps).
[04:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:16] <exec> 08└─the chaotic exchange was generating more net traffic than a properly trimmed thread.
[04:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:17] <exec> 08└─frojack, the one that vents at the barSN with perfect order.
[04:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:19] <exec> 08└─Another round for everyone, frojack pays. Not enough drunk grandpa rants for a Saturday.
[04:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:14] <exec> 08└─None of them will really fly until they get taste, mouth feel, nutrition and safety
[04:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:15] <exec> 08└─You're kidding, right? Just about every time someone comes along with a new submarine abortion ban, they get slapped down by the courts referring to repeated SCOTUS decisions to the effect that bad faith regulation is impermissible. Sure, there's a temporary fuss and some hand-wringing, but the resu...
[04:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:51] <exec> 08└─Unless your workflow is now in Linux and structured around Zotero, LibreOffice, and add-ins like Tab Helper and Zotero Connector. Spent a couple of weeks trying to get the bits and pieces to install and talk to each other - no joy. Back to FireFox for now. For the Windows side of the machine, oh hel...
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[05:40:08] <exec> 08└─It's quite the pickle, but I'm enjoying the orangutan-in-chief "for the lulz," as I've seen it written. The world of man, just 8 years away from blowing itself sky high. I don't think there is a way to avoid N-day. It was bound to happen as this global information network rolled out. I'm sure the so...
[05:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:29] <exec> 08└─What you mean is modern humans.
[05:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:44] <exec> 08└─From your lips to $DIETY's ear. In the meantime, there are states where there is a single facility that provides abortions. Folks have to travel hours to get there and have to make multiple trips. Abortion may not be illegal there, but for many it may as well be. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:39] <exec> 08└─A red herring is not a missed point. The sudden introduction of Cuba, Vietnam War, Chomsky, etc is irrelevant to criticism of the US's handling of disaster relief in Puerto Rico. Further, Cuba, Vietnam, and Venezuela are all examples of "state capitalism" a system which OriginalOwner has claimed to...
[05:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:41] <exec> 08└─So if a state capitalism can do that well, then what does that say about the handling of Puerto Rico by the United States? I'm not finding gewg_ difficult to follow at all. She also brought up Florida. She's clearly looking at the forest you're missing.
[05:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:43] <exec> 08└─Who will be shooting at the ship normally used for amphibious assault? I didn't realize a hurricane was a war. If we were to approach it as a war, I'd recommend deploying Jaegers. "When you're in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane."
[05:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:25] <exec> 08└─So you can't take software distributed with the express intent to grant freedom to its users without continuing to grant the same freedom to users of your modified version. Could you explain how a reciprocal condition makes software "proprietary"?
[05:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:26] <exec> 08└─The legacy extension to disable Ctrl+Q to quit (Keybinder) doesn't work in Firefox 57, and the WebExtension to disable Ctrl+Q to quit doesn't work in Firefox for GNU/Linux because bug 1325692 [mozilla.org] will not be fixed. This means an accidental press of Ctrl+Q when aiming for Ctrl+W or Ctrl+Tab...
[05:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:28] <exec> 08└─Why not move to Chromium right away?
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[06:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:05] <exec> 08└─Is anything wrong with slower?
[06:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:06] <exec> 08└─The sale which most accurately predicts greater problem solving ability.
[06:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:08] <exec> 08└─Probably not. Were they more intelligent than us, they would have developed advanced society much quicker than we did. If they did half as well as we did over the thousands of years of their existence, we wouldn't have been able to wipe them out.
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[07:41:06] <exec> 08└─Looking at humans today: Asians babies are least capable. They have small heads. They are slow to walk. They keep their brains growing though, and in the end they are smartest. Europeans have middle capability, both at birth and in the end. They do have large heads at birth, matching up with mothers...
[07:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Ice Found in Craters on Mercury - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:46] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, Mercury will be destroyed as the Sun turns into a red giant.
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[07:44:21] <exec> 08└─Wrong gender, but everything else you said is to my liking. khallow won't admit that he knows that it can look a lot like one is moving up, when, in fact, what he is doing is keeping someone else down. ...if you look at it through Reactionary eyes. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[07:44:22] <exec> 08└─Doesn't much matter who might be shooting at the Gator Navy - doctrine says they don't sail without an escort. If you want to change Navy doctrine, maybe you should become CNO. Is a hurricane a war? If you were a sailor, you might think that it was. The sea has killed more sailors than all wars comb...
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[08:39:15] <exec> 08└─Operation complete. Save or abort, that's the ethical question.
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[08:39:36] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=13764&cid=351841#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
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[08:39:37] <exec> 08└─(Oh, shit. Somebody encrypted the evil bit!)
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[08:39:49] <exec> 08└─What's bad is when London makes all app based private hire cabs illegal,
[08:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:55] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is you have to have ten years of experience as a cab driver in London before you can become a cab driver in London
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[09:39:12] <exec> 08└─installing most apps on android requires "accepting" terms and conditions, and granting "permissions" Most people don't even look what is in the list. Chances are, is one said "access to contacts, calls, call state, location, keyboard entries, text, speach, etc etc." And people installed it anyway....
[09:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Security Researchers Warn that GO Keyboard is Spying on Millions of Android Users - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:13] <exec> 08└─Of course it's spying. Spying legalized by EULAs and enabled by idiots.
[09:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:58] <exec> 08└─> It's not clear to me that "the knowledge" is relevant any more, in these days of GPS navigation and real-time traffic data. GPS navigation sucks in London. I don't know if it is all the tall dense buildings on narrow roads, the trees, or what, but getting a fix is hard in London, getting a fix in...
[09:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that 'Bleeds' - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:57] <exec> 08└─Only in America...
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[10:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Security Researchers Warn that GO Keyboard is Spying on Millions of Android Users - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:16] <exec> 08└─TFA actually provide an important info, you may want to insert it into TFS: GO Keyboard was found to be transmitting personal information about users back to remote servers, as well as... [currently missing from TFS] "using a prohibited technique to download dangerous executable code."
[10:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Security Researchers Warn that GO Keyboard is Spying on Millions of Android Users - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:18] <exec> 08└─Since Google wants to have a walled garden to control what people put on their phones, shouldn't Google be liable for anything distributed through their app store? EULA's notwithstanding?
[10:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Researchers Warn that GO Keyboard is Spying on Millions of Android Users - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:20] <exec> 08└─But other apps do that, too. They call it an "update"
[10:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:48] <exec> 08└─To be precise, Jimmy is based at Bangor on Hood Canal, which connects to all that other wavy, watery stuff. Subs pretty much go wherever there's enough H2O. Sneaky buggers. There's also the resource of T-ARC type craft like the USNS Zeus (conveniently based at Norfolk), which ostensibly serves to he...
[10:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 2380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:08] <exec> 08└─There are *many* other private hire ride services in London with Apps that already have licenses. Most of the ones that were already operating before Uber came along, in fact, because that was the best - and rather obvious - way to remain competetive in the wake of Uber's arrival. (For those not awa...
[10:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:53] <exec> 08└─We obviously didn't murder enough of them, as Detroit and Somalia clearly demonstrate.
[10:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Shanghai Railway Restores 350 km/h Train Service - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:52] <exec> 08└─No. And they can copy trains all they want as far as I am concerned (I am not a big proponent about IP, although I do think you should acknowledge where the idea came from. If there is no money involved, this would be easier). I was merely objecting to the idea that the "foreign design" was somehow...
[10:46:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06A SoylentNews Reader Reviews Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b1 - 786 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:42] <exec> 08└─How is it not a "review"? It: - covers the major technological changes in this version (WebExtensions and Photon) - critiques the Photon changes - critiques the WebExtensions changes - the affected extensions are described ("third-party extensions" and "own personal extensions") - the performance of...
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[11:39:24] <exec> 08└─But other apps do that, too. They call it an "update"
[11:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:58] <exec> 08└─Well the summary suggest now they think it happened "more slowly". So previously, they must have thought they developed "more quickly". I only read the very first line though...
[11:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeinated bacon [4151] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:00] <exec> 08└─http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-07-07-babies-born-healthy-mums-are-strikingly-similar-size-worldwide [ox.ac.uk] Maybe not...
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[12:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:15] <exec> 08└─Society doesn't *need* many accountants, but everyone at school is taught arithmetic. Learning to program is a life skill. At the very least it partly demystifies the Magical Self Thinking Internet Machines for the masses even if they don't get any further than changing Hello World to printing out r...
[12:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:17] <exec> 08└─They are generally teaching specific programming skills rather than the fundamentals of it. I had this same problem as a kind in the early 90s. The few classes on programming were mostly wrote programming exercises without either explanation of the theory of operation, order of operation, or details...
[12:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:19] <exec> 08└─Ahhh...mmm... yes, I can see how coding may fall on the same level as another "...eracy" alongside literacy and numeracy. Beat me if I understand, though the next part: teaching life skills is seen as a lefty-hobby on the order of theater and expressive dance so to get a budget approved you have to...
[12:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:21] <exec> 08└─The premise is mostly bullshit. In order to put it in context you have to remember that The Guardian [startpage.com] receives a lot of money every year from Bill Gates as part of his reputation laudering. That's been going on for many years now. As a result anything they might try to publish regardi...
[12:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:23] <exec> 08└─What's remarkable is that not a single bit of supporting evidence is provided. The bald assertion is made and then the author goes on to other things. We eventually reach the key claim of the article: This narrative pervades policymaking at every level, from school boards to the government. Yet it r...
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[12:39:25] <exec> 08└─Governments, school boards. In large parts of the world schooling is being subsidised. Those providing the money get to set the curriculum and want to see a direct return of investment. Having kids thrive and becoming informed well adjusted adults is seen as too vague a goal by those in power. The r...
[12:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:28] <exec> 08└─First, it's a piece of opinion, not something I saw proposed by a political figure of the present. Second, it's based on the "there aren't enough jobs for coders". Which is debatable. In my mind, that's akin IBM's "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." of the old. Software is no...
[12:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Researchers Warn that GO Keyboard is Spying on Millions of Android Users - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:40] <exec> 08└─Android doesn't prevent you from sideloading APKs. There's even a FOSS app store: https://f-droid.org [f-droid.org]
[12:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Researchers Warn that GO Keyboard is Spying on Millions of Android Users - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:42] <exec> 08└─Onły if they claim to vet every app on their platform. I can't find any poof tbey do claim that. They "review" apps (likely after the app borked someone's phone or tablet), but I fan't find evidence they check every app.
[12:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Researchers Warn that GO Keyboard is Spying on Millions of Android Users - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:44] <exec> 08└─So how they "prohibit technique"s?
[12:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Human Embryo Editing Performed in the UK - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:52] <exec> 08└─Depends on your net worth.
[12:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WhatsApp Refused to add a Backdoor for the UK Government - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, we Goyim believe this is absolutely true. Thank you for instructing us on what to believe.
[12:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Refused to add a Backdoor for the UK Government - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:03] <exec> 08└─See subject
[12:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:39] <exec> 08└─Er, no. You can drive a "private hire" vehicle. And then later learn and pass the test for driving a black cab. Both are taxis, but only the latter can pick up passengers off the street who have not pre-booked.
[12:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:42] <exec> 08└─So if a state capitalism can do that well
[12:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Marine Corps to Have its First Female Infantry Officer - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:55] <exec> 08└─because she prefers
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[13:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:13] <exec> 08└─"drop off my packages in my foyer" And, what if I don't have a foyer? All I have is a mudroom, where I kick off my muddy boots.
[13:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:29] <exec> 08└─Governments, school boards. In large parts of the world schooling is being subsidised.
[13:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:30] <exec> 08└─This hasn't changed almost 30 years later with the modern push to teach programming.
[13:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:33] <exec> 08└─Training coders will drive wages down. Obviously, the same applies to any other career choice. Maybe we should just revolt, and stop allowing ourselves to be educated? Just say "NO!" to teachers. "No, I won't learn to spell!" "No, I won't learn to multiply!" Actually, that's a pretty late start for...
[13:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Human Embryo Editing Performed in the UK - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:56] <exec> 08└─Depends on your net worth.
[13:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:22] <exec> 08└─After Snowden, there was talk about drawing a cable from Brazil to Spain or Portugal, which makes a lot more sense. That would presumably bypass US influence. So suddenly now there's a convenient cable between USA and Spain, and built in 1/3 the normal building time, like they were a bit in a hurry...
[13:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Antibody Combination Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:02] <exec> 08└─Will HIV just become a slightly embarrassing STD like the rest of them -- oops got the darn HIV/AIDS thing again, better pop some pills.
[13:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Guajataca Dam in Puerto Rico Failing - 70,000 at Risk - Evacuations Ordered - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:50] <exec> 08└─khallow won't admit that he knows that it can look a lot like one is moving up, when, in fact, what he is doing is keeping someone else down.
[13:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World – With Maths - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:53] <exec> 08└─And non sequitur means a fallacious argument which introduces an irrelevant point. No surprise that it is singular in English.
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[13:45:54] <exec> 08└─There are probably a couple million people who give a fuck what μάθημα. Almost all of them live in Greece. Civilized people don't use that shit alphabet, or language. Hail Caesar, barbarian!
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[14:39:23] <exec> 08└─is pretty pictures of the thieves. That's what I got when someone broke into our residence's garage and stole my car: the police never found the car but I got a nice VHS tape with the guy's face on it, grinning and giving me the finger. In short, nobody comes into my house when I'm not home - especi...
[14:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:25] <exec> 08└─Selling copies of your keys to the police under the third party doctrine
[14:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:27] <exec> 08└─How does this make sense when at the same time Walmart wants get rid of all cashiers? http://newstome.blog.ajc.com [ajc.com]
[14:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:29] <exec> 08└─I'd be worried, if I was a "Deliv associate", and the customer had ordered fava beans and a nice Chianti ...
[14:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:31] <exec> 08└─It's easier to automate the cashier job than the jobs of CDL-holding van/truck driver and driveway-to-fridge porter.
[14:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Guppy [3213] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Device to Detect Counterfeit Booze - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:01] <exec> 08└─I've encountered more than one case where the whisky tasted strange and it wouldn't burn. Poured a bit on tissue paper and couldn't light it up with a lighter. Ambient temperatures were high enough to expect some flames (> 26C). I've tried the same thing with the real stuff and it burned with a blue...
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[15:39:21] <exec> 08└─Years ago, we never locked doors. If a friend showed up with some food (maybe something from their garden) and no one was around, they would leave it in the fridge. Once a friend left ice cream in my freezer, a very nice surprise! If I move, because the nearby city is creeping out this way, I will c...
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[15:39:23] <exec> 08└─you're doing it wrong. the cameras are for you to be able to find the thief, not for the damn police to find the thief with. once you kill one of the thieves no one else will break into your house. also, the cameras do work as a deterrent for a certain class of thief, just not the most hardened. Sou...
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[15:39:25] <exec> 08└─Edgy response. Maybe they will be in and out before you can get home and shoot em up.
[15:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:27] <exec> 08└─> once you kill one of the thieves no one else will break into your house. Someone played a few games too many with a Thieves Guild. In reality, most thieves don't participate in a hidden crime network where they can share information about potential targets.
[15:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:45] <exec> 08└─The onus of offering a better hypothesis is on you. In particular it has become clear that the 'STEM crisis' is a myth. [ieee.org] However it's certainly true that certain companies and government agencies have been pushing that myth that incredibly hard. So what is their motivation? This article of...
[15:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:47] <exec> 08└─So, you support Ms Davos's charter school plan, then?
[15:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:49] <exec> 08└─The point is that they're having to coerce people into pursuing programming who are not otherwise interested. It would be analagous to rounding up artists and trying to coerce them into becoming accountants because 'we know what's good for you.' And there is no real justification for this coercion o...
[15:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:51] <exec> 08└─> The onus of offering a better hypothesis is on you No. That's simply not how it works. How it works is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Another must not assume any claims to be true, and the onus of offerint a better hypothesis is not on whoever should assume something to...
[15:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 2455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:53] <exec> 08└─But let's not stop there. Even if we suppose the premise of the story is true, that certain high tech companies are deliberately educating/training new workers in order to increase the supply of programmers and keep the cost of their labor down, what exactly is supposed to be the problem? The probl...
[15:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:56] <exec> 08└─save your "save the working man's wage" bullshit for your communist meetings. The whole fucking point of learning to program should be that you can be free from the slave colony. what kind of stupid fuck says "i want to learn programming so i can find some big, slow, dumb, abusive company to work fo...
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[15:40:28] <exec> 08└─You can assess the openness of a society by how it treats those it despises the most. Because as soon as you become a target in their cross-hairs for whatever reason, you will be put in that group in no-time. In a free society the job of the police is to make the lives of the citizens easier. In an...
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[15:40:30] <exec> 08└─Whatsapp is closed source. So we can't verify that that didn't comply and/or that they have not inserted another backdoor (for another agency). What can't be verified cannot be trusted.
[15:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:48] <exec> 08└─Why would they bother tapping it underwater? One end of it is inside mainland USA. They'll just tap it there.
[15:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:49] <exec> 08└─"Just think of the many high-bandwidth applications and content you use today such as Skype and Facebook Live" lmao!
[15:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:52] <exec> 08└─"Google found out that the NSA was tapping their inter-datacenter traffic, and decided to encrypt everything" while they were acting so outraged about their own stupidity(or complicity) in not encrypting their users' data to begin with they were on year 8 or so of "strong arming" the whole internet...
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[15:42:00] <exec> 08└─Grammatically speaking, "slower" is an adjective, a comparative adjective. Adjectives apply to nouns, not verbs, so it would only work if the sentence were rephrased as "Neanderthal Brains Had a Slower Development than Human" (I also think it should be "Human", for "than Human Brains" or "Humans' Br...
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[16:39:13] <exec> 08└─with all the rent-duh-k0d3rz out there, how is this even a thing.
[16:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:14] <exec> 08└─"the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group." And this is how America got to the moon.
[16:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:16] <exec> 08└─Some 17 years ago (yeah, it was in 2000), we partnered with a company specializing in Bluetooth to put BT in our products. They had one guy, very smart, very abusive to his co-workers. The other company (a startup) ran out of money and shut down. This guy interviewed with us. We all gave him a thumb...
[16:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 2528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:35] <exec> 08└─As the home owner you are in control? Being able to watch it on a camera isn't exactly being in control of the situation. Oh look the Walmarter (or whomever) is carrying off my flatscreen TV now ... Seeing is not being in control, it is just observing. But lets just assume the Walmart fridge-restock...
[16:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:36] <exec> 08└─I get the distinct impression that Walmart is trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Of the household chores that need doing, buying groceries is neither particularly strenuous nor unpleasant - most areas have decently good grocers or farmers relatively nearby, and this service will likely be...
[16:39:37] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:38] <exec> 08└─he or she will have a one-time passcode that I've pre-authorized which will open my home's smart lock
[16:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:41] <exec> 08└─Newspapers, television news, radio news, word of mouth - the word gets out. "Seen Rufus around? Is he in the pen again, or what?" "No, you haven't heard? He broke into a place on the east side of town, the owner came home, and shot him dead." "No shit? Rufus is dead?" "I'd have gone to his funeral,...
[16:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:43] <exec> 08└─Watching less and less - yes. A couple decades ago, I had reason to put up a security camera. That camera never recorded the people that we INTENDED to catch committing a crime. In fact, the camera was eventually all but forgotten. Months went by, when I wouldn't even think of it. The wife observed...
[16:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:45] <exec> 08└─You watch them on camera: if they go out of camera view or you actually see them stealing, you then push the button that sends electrical current to the door knob. They attempt to leave with your property, they better be ready for the jolt that sends their insides out to their underpants, leaving th...
[16:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:09] <exec> 08└─rent-duh-k0d3rz have been around since before the intertubez0rz became popular for the general public. hence the name 'rent-duh-k0d3rz'. US$5.
[16:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:10] <exec> 08└─I remember meeting another developer one time, he had created an API and I had created an application on top of it. I was impressed with his work, and he was clearly impressed with mine. He asked me how I learned to program, and while I had taken plenty of formal technology in school, my programming...
[16:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 3845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:13] <exec> 08└─I agree with what you've written for the most part. If tech companies need more workers, it makes sense for them to work with educators to create those workers. In my neck of the woods, there's a very real shortage of CNC operators. So, local factories created an initiative to work with community co...
[16:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 2441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:15] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, the AMA doesn't want there to be more doctors, as you indicated. Also, becoming a doctor requires serious dedication. I think the field of programming or IT or whatever to call it needs something like an AMA or a bar association. We need some body that can certify that programmer...
[16:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 2386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:17] <exec> 08└─What's even worse is what this Narrative does to women on the ground. It gives them the idea that the skills I demonstrate on a daily basis (my “magic” as it's called—jeebus, it's not magic, it's dedication, practice, education, and experience over decades!) can be learned in a 3 week bootcamp...
[16:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Security Researchers Warn that GO Keyboard is Spying on Millions of Android Users - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:33] <exec> 08└─Google (thanks to Fiber and Project Fi) is a common carrier subject to Net Neutrality rules. They don't get to decide what content people have access to anymore. This is the case that Gab is going to make in court. And they will win.
[16:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WhatsApp Refused to add a Backdoor for the UK Government - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:53] <exec> 08└─wutz uh whatsapp?
[16:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:15] <exec> 08└─You don't need a NSL or warrant from FISA under water.
[16:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:37] <exec> 08└─isn't there like 40 gazillion cameras in London, and they can't be tapped into for navigational purposes?!?
[16:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:39] <exec> 08└─Why are every other race locked out of this? Discrimination!
[16:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:29] <exec> 08└─people have said that some(all?) africans are not full blooded homo sapien, but have some homo erectus mixed in.
[16:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:51] <exec> 08└─"How many here have done something like this?" zero. only stupid windows using slaveware peddlers at Adobe and other Shit Factories (or government agencies) do stupid shit like this.
[16:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SolarCity Will Pay $29.5 Million to Settle Allegations that it Lied to the Government - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:03] <exec> 08└─Do you know how many government workers you could have had assassinated with that kind of money? When will these companies grow a pair?
[16:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06lowRISC is Hiring: Help Make Open-Source Hardware a Reality. - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:06] <exec> 08└─there are lots of FOSS devs. time for any non-whore hardware engineers to stand up and be counted.
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[17:39:17] <exec> 08└─but then there's the team, and no one wants to write code using any new features. Imagine coming in wanting to use Java 8 code features, but using old Java 3 features, because the team can't/won't stop for a day or two and try. And the smart people on the team are beat down enough that they've given...
[17:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:18] <exec> 08└─The only times I haven't upgraded to a new version is when things break and it isn't worth the time/effort to fix it.
[17:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 3823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:20] <exec> 08└─I didn't find the words female, woman, or women in TFA. However, I feel your sentiment. Counting wombs (on the assumption that all those assigned to the female gender at birth have the basic capability to grow a child in their bodies, which is not the case) as a metric of how good the team is may ve...
[17:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:22] <exec> 08└─Loose team with good communication works well, just like loose coupling with clean interface works well. Going all in for this "team" thing will turn it into George Orwell's Animal Farm.
[17:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:24] <exec> 08└─And this is how America got to the moon.
[17:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:27] <exec> 08└─Collective intelligentsia will tend to stay with in they collective knowledge. There is no growth or push from outside of their comfort zone. So maintenance will make a better system. But looking to push the envelope you need a nonconformance to bring in better different tech to get to the next lev...
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[17:39:29] <exec> 08└─In general agree. NASA is a good example. When doing things that are truly dangerous, the gender caste system finds the limit of its usefulness (assuming it has any). the person with that information was being talked over.
[17:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:31] <exec> 08└─It's in the "Anita Woolley's research" link.
[17:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:55] <exec> 08└─...starring Clint Eastwood.
[17:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:57] <exec> 08└─Woe unto the Walmart employee that enters my home. If they don't step perfectly in the well-worn path they would trigger any number of incipient avalanches carefully prepared by my darling children and wife. I mean, someone would find them eventually, when stoop sale season comes around again and I...
[17:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:59] <exec> 08└─They want to deliver your money directly to their bank.
[17:40:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 900 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:10] <exec> 08└─What's remarkable is that not a single bit of supporting evidence is provided. The bald assertion is made and then the author goes on to other things. We eventually reach the key claim of the article: This narrative pervades policymaking at every level, from school boards to the government. Yet it r...
[17:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:29] <exec> 08└─Training coders will drive wages down. Obviously, the same applies to any other career choice. Maybe we should just revolt, and stop allowing ourselves to be educated? Just say "NO!" to teachers. "No, I won't learn to spell!" "No, I won't learn to multiply!" Actually, that's a pretty late start for...
[17:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Human Embryo Editing Performed in the UK - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:55] <exec> 08└─The only question that matters in the Universe is: Abort, Retry, Fail?_
[17:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Human Embryo Editing Performed in the UK - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:56] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but it was about nanomatters in the Universe. As in: 'Abort, Retry, Fail?' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if yo...
[17:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WhatsApp Refused to add a Backdoor for the UK Government - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:09] <exec> 08└─+1 Comic/Tragic
[17:41:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:43] <exec> 08└─Well done posting a load of drivel that has no relevance to the story. London gives out something to black taxi drivers (those legally allowed to pick up people who hail them), but they are a license for a specific driver, they are not transferable (not even temporarily) and have to be earned throug...
[17:41:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06Uber to Lose its License to Operate in London - 1281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:48] <exec> 08└─> It's not clear to me that "the knowledge" is relevant any more, in these days of GPS navigation and real-time traffic data. GPS navigation sucks in London. I don't know if it is all the tall dense buildings on narrow roads, the trees, or what, but getting a fix is hard in London, getting a fix in...
[17:42:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Antibody Combination Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:00] <exec> 08└─Well we know which strains will become dominant then, don't we. The "challenging due to viral genetic diversity" is not likely to go away. A short term suppression of most strains seems the best they can hope for. The story leaves unsaid how many strains remain in that 1% against which this trifecta...
[17:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Brains Developed More Slowly than Humans - 2035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:44] <exec> 08└─Well, possibly. But not likely. Neanderthals had shoulders that weren't designed for throwing, so they needed to get in close to kill their prey. Or drive them off cliffs, but that's only possible in a few places and is very wasteful. Also the head of Neaderthal babies were thinner (and longer) so a...
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[17:42:45] <exec> 08└─Not true, because they lived in smaller groups that were more widely dispersed. They evolved that way to survive when the glaciers moved into Europe. Similar adaptations occurred among Sapiens tribes that later moved into the Arctic regions, but they had by then a more advanced technology, and weren...
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[17:42:47] <exec> 08└─Well, it says what you say it says, but I don't find it convincing. I'm rather certain that larger (not fatter, larger) women have larger babies...assuming that the mothers are healthy and well-nourished. Any other result would be sufficiently unexpected to require rather strong evidence, which that...
[17:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Ice Found in Craters on Mercury - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:29] <exec> 08└─You see, the problem with humans settling on Mercury is it wouldn't last long. They would be become mercurial.
[17:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Shanghai Railway Restores 350 km/h Train Service - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:50] <exec> 08└─America industrialized shortly after Britain by doing the same thing. They copied and stole tech shamelessly. As annoying as China's doing the same can be, it's hypocritical to pan them for it.
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[17:43:51] <exec> 08└─China's joint venture framework has been a great way to facilitate that piracy. The Chinese JV partner gets 51%, the foreign partner with the investment capital and know-how gets 49%. They build a factory together, take a couple years to have the foreigners train up the Chinese, then the Chinese par...
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[17:46:13] <exec> 08└─If "promote the general welfare" means what you think it means, why does the government buy everyone a nice new shiny plasma TV?
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[18:39:32] <exec> 08└─The problem starts when you add a Coding Prima Donna to a smoothly functioning team. The Poison Apple then kills off what has been achieved by bullying techniques, while not delivering any visible value. Corridor criticism of some systems, backstabbing, etc. Been there, got burned. And then you do g...
[18:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:33] <exec> 08└─The older I grow, the more I prefer coding as a wank to coding as an orgy.
[18:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:36] <exec> 08└─Great. Stop taking it out on the rest of us.
[18:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:38] <exec> 08└─I chose to respond to you rather than the guy at the top, but what the hell is it with assuming that all people who are good at coding are assholes and poison apples? You know, such people exist who are good at their job and respected by their coworkers. The only prick prima donnas I know are ones w...
[18:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:40] <exec> 08└─Now that I'm coding for a living, I've lost all passion for it. Not working with my hands anymore is bad enough, but before I really didn't see how shitty documentation is, even on big projects. Programmers are autistic retards and If I see one more page of shitty documentation I'm going to go to th...
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[18:39:50] <exec> 08└─"Five years ago consumers wouldn't have assumed they'd let a stranger drive them from the airport
[18:40:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 2528 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:01] <exec> 08└─As the home owner you are in control? Being able to watch it on a camera isn't exactly being in control of the situation. Oh look the Walmarter (or whomever) is carrying off my flatscreen TV now ... Seeing is not being in control, it is just observing. But lets just assume the Walmart fridge-restock...
[18:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:11] <exec> 08└─In this case the potential thief would be an employee of the delivery company, with their every action monitored. They could be fired and/or prosecuted if a customer shows video evidence of them stealing, so my guess is they'd go out of their way to not even look like they're doing something suspici...
[18:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:13] <exec> 08└─Order on and they will install it for you while you are at work.
[18:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:15] <exec> 08└─Murdering a person because they stole something (or only tried too) seems somewhat harsh, but then again I'm just a simple commie socialist liberal pussy European, so what do I know about liberty and justice.
[18:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:17] <exec> 08└─Many years back, when refrigerators were literally ice boxes. Ice was delivered to the homes. In Chicago, for example, you can occasionally still find small doors on the outside of old buildings that let the iceman put a block of ice inside. (I'm sure they were in other cities, it's just I've seen t...
[18:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:20] <exec> 08└─It's only murder if a jury of your peers decides that it is murder. You gotta remember that "dead men tell no tales". The defendant only has to suggest that the burglar attacked him, so he shot in self defense. "Not guilty, your honor!"
[18:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:22] <exec> 08└─So... How much would you be selling the somewhat desiccated remains of delivery people for, and would there be a ready market in Brooklyn?
[18:40:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 873 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:31] <exec> 08└─They are generally teaching specific programming skills rather than the fundamentals of it. I had this same problem as a kind in the early 90s. The few classes on programming were mostly wrote programming exercises without either explanation of the theory of operation, order of operation, or details...
[18:40:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 1286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:48] <exec> 08└─I remember meeting another developer one time, he had created an API and I had created an application on top of it. I was impressed with his work, and he was clearly impressed with mine. He asked me how I learned to program, and while I had taken plenty of formal technology in school, my programming...
[18:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:53] <exec> 08└─Society doesn't *need* many accountants, but everyone at school is taught arithmetic.
[18:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:56] <exec> 08└─Did you mean "socialized through taxes"? If so, who is the actual "investor"?
[18:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:58] <exec> 08└─Back during the early days of the Qing dynasty, Hong Taiji gotten himself into a real pickle. Whenever he conquered a city, he couldn't run the place the way he wanted! Most of the previous officials were disloyal Ming nobles and they were the only people who could read and write. So, Hong decided t...
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[18:41:36] <exec> 08└─Publicly refused but the NSA/GCHQ/FVEY [wikipedia.org] plant in the company added it anyway.
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[19:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bornagainpenguin [3538] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Megaherbivorous Dinosaurs Were Not Strict Vegetarians - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:14] <exec> 08└─...the herbivores were ovo-lacto pescatarians, not strict vegans? Whoa...
[19:39:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:28] <exec> 08└─And this is how America got to the moon.
[19:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 1574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:38] <exec> 08└─It's important to realize that this study specifically assigned the kinds of tasks to groups that - in fact - require a group. As far as I can see from the article [researchgate.net], they (1) used tasks designed to be solved by groups, and (b) only used groups to solve these tasks. In the first rou...
[19:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 1204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:40] <exec> 08└─"They had one guy, very smart, very abusive to his co-workers." It seemed to be stated up front, not inferred because they thought he was smart. Most of that bad reputation comes from the higher than average occurrence of coders being cranky assholes, and another part comes from people generally fee...
[19:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:13] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't want them opening the freezer door to find bodies inside. It is best to bury them in the garden, burn them, grind them and then send them down the toilet, boil them in acid.
[19:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:15] <exec> 08└─"buying groceries is neither particularly strenuous nor unpleasant " For most people it isn't. You aren't yet elderly, or in poor health. We have an aging population that often can't drive anymore, are limited in physical mobility, otherwise frail, etc. Often elderly don't have a neighbor/relative t...
[19:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:17] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking the organ trade would be the most lucrative, but the problem of timely discovery would have to be solved. Nobody wants a desiccated liver. Barring that I could take them to Chinatown. There are always buyers there for mystery meat, "tiger bone," etc...
[19:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:19] <exec> 08└─> we knew PRECISELY who came into our home, and stole everything ... Relative? Disgruntled kid??
[19:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:21] <exec> 08└─They have something in Manhattan called "doormen" (So I hear--I never go there). The "doormen" take delivery of packages for tenants. As long as the perishables are cooled with dry ice it should work. It still doesn't solve the last mile problem of moving it from the lobby to the fridge, but that's...
[19:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:24] <exec> 08└─> didn't need to be up and dressed I'm perfectly happy to answer the door in pj pants, same for walking the 75 feet out to the mailbox. Neil Cassidy (as reported by Jack Kerouac) answered the door in his birthday suit.
[19:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:26] <exec> 08└─Too much work. Pigs. Pigs are all you need. As a bonus, they produce methane you can use to fuel your post-apocalyptic cruiser.
[19:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:28] <exec> 08└─You aren't yet elderly, or in poor health.
[19:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:30] <exec> 08└─Neighbor's house had a pass-through setup like this for milk delivery -- with a simple latch on the outside and inside doors. After a slender kid shinnied through and robbed the house (exiting by a normal door) they sealed it off... By then home milk deliveries were no longer available anyway.
[19:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:33] <exec> 08└─If I was going to go to that amount of trouble, I'd want to capture the thieves alive rather than take pictures of them. Then I could experiment on them, harvest products like adrenaline, construct a subterranean slave colony, etc. If that worked out I'd leave the doors wide open, lights ablazin',...
[19:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:35] <exec> 08└─"We're all best friends with every taxi driver." Are you not? Here in NYC we all know Muhammed. Says so on his badge.
[19:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:37] <exec> 08└─I'm just a simple commie socialist liberal pussy European, so what do I know about liberty and justice.
[19:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:10] <exec> 08└─You are wrong. This is about corporate lobbying to drive wages down. I've been saying this for literally fucking years but you all dismissed me as a racist sexist. Knowing how to code alone is not a reliable indicator of intelligence. As I posted in a more recent discussion, I used to love programmi...
[19:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:12] <exec> 08└─I did not mention intelligence because it has little to do with coding in the context of technological literacy. Most jobs can still be done without coding -- for now. But if you can code at least a little, you can really use the computer as a multiplier for what intelligence and experience you actu...
[19:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 2043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:14] <exec> 08└─On the other hand reading is a skill that has a pretty limited learning curve. You learn to read - and well, you're good to go. Writing and wordsmithing can have artistry and skill involved but it's more flourish than necessity. Programming is not like this. My university was ranked 7th overall for...
[19:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Researchers Warn that GO Keyboard is Spying on Millions of Android Users - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:31] <exec> 08└─I agree with you, people do blindly give permissions to everything they download without a second thought. The problem is in this case, it is a keyboard... It is something used by the system in many places. If you don't let it have access to your contacts, call history, etc, there are many usefull t...
[19:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Human Embryo Editing Performed in the UK - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:43] <exec> 08└─Was the treatment toxic? Yes: Forty-seven per cent (8 out of 17) of Cas9-microinjected control embryos developed to the blastocyst stage, a rate equivalent to those of uninjected controls28, suggesting that the microinjection technique did not affect embryo viability (Fig. 2d). However, significantl...
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[20:39:19] <exec> 08└─Now, i dislike Islam. But if there is a lesson to be learned from it, it is that you are allowed to break the rules of it if it is the only way you can survive. For example, if you have no choice but to eat delicious bacon to live, then eat that delicious bacon.
[20:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:45] <exec> 08└─Social sensitivity of group members is critical to group cohesiveness. In order for NASA's crews both in space and on the ground to be successful, they needed to be able to completely trust each other. For an example of how critical that is, when Neil Armstrong was landing the Eagle, he did somethin...
[20:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:46] <exec> 08└─Social sensitivity
[20:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:48] <exec> 08└─Why yes, it is part of how America got to the moon.
[20:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:51] <exec> 08└─I was never one of those abusive prima donna types, but programming for a living is very quickly turning me into one.
[20:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:53] <exec> 08└─This is my daily experience with womyn-born-womyn. I'm constantly being interrupted and talked over. It's gotten to the point where I've learned to just shut up when I'm not able to complete a single thought in a discussion dominated by womyn-born-womyn and just abandon the point entirely.
[20:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:55] <exec> 08└─"the whole gender caste system" I don't know what you mean by that, but it puts me in mind of what happens when you walk into a wall while aroused. Shudder.
[20:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:57] <exec> 08└─A really effective team makes everyone better together than they'd be separately. If you've ever worked with someone who pushes you past limits you thought you had, you know what it's like. There's no sure-fire way to achieve that harmonious collaboration, sadly. And even when you happen to develop...
[20:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:00] <exec> 08└─I would if I could. However, I have learned quite a bit from men.
[20:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 1779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:02] <exec> 08└─This article takes their sample for all their data, and conclusions, from Google. This seems reasonable. It is not. The problem with this is that Google has their pick of the cream of the crop for recruits. Most companies do not. Let's take a segue to basketball for a minute. In highschool basketbal...
[20:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:04] <exec> 08└─No. When feminism wants to get serious about gender equality, especially the part where you give up privileges you're used to being unaware you have, such as the privilege of being unaccountable for one's personal failures, then I will consider it.
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[20:40:06] <exec> 08└─If you're assigned the male gender at birth, regardless of your body parts, you're expected to do certain things, such as making oneself available for the military defense of one's country, making oneself economically profitable, and directly contributing with your personal wallet to the marriage/ch...
[20:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:08] <exec> 08└─I chose to respond to you rather than the guy at the top, but what the hell is it with assuming that all people who are good at coding are assholes and poison apples?
[20:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:54] <exec> 08└─Ask them to tuck the packages behind the wheels of your trailer next to your dog Spud. Dried squirrel and pickled pig's feet will keep in the heat.
[20:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:56] <exec> 08└─The likelier scenario would be the Walmart employee cases the joint for his pals to knock over. He takes his cut, buries it in the back yard. Wash, rinse, repeat.
[20:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:58] <exec> 08└─It's an up-sell opportunity. Sign up for the grocery delivery service, and come home to find sticky notes attached to your more worn items, "Hey, this lamp seems old. Walmart is having a sale on great, up-to-date ones now!" "I notice you're almost out of lube. Walmart.com's running a great deal on a...
[20:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:00] <exec> 08└─Runaway's true quality comes out, a murderous psychopath with just enough inhibition to attempt getting around legal loopholes. You sir are an asshole.
[20:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:03] <exec> 08└─When I was young I answered the door in my black cowled robe, holding a sickle (I had been the Grim Reaper for Halloween and found the robe comfortable in the mountain climes). It worked best with Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons. Which, now that I think about it, also might explain why my cute Mormo...
[20:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:05] <exec> 08└─And, racist!
[20:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:41] <exec> 08└─"...you all dismissed me as a racist sexist." I don't remember ever dismissing you as either racist or sexist. But based on your last line, I can dismiss you as being anti-semitic.
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[20:42:00] <exec> 08└─Within the app description, the developers say: PRIVACY and security We will never collect your personal info including credit card information. In fact, we cares for privacy of what you type and who you type! [sic]
[20:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete 160 Tb/s Atlantic Ocean Cable - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:48] <exec> 08└─Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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[21:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinctions on Earth Coincided with Out-of-Whack Carbon Cycles - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:12] <exec> 08└─Good. Make way for the first round of human-created genetically engineered and laboratory-grown species. We will repopulate the wasteland with wonders. The new breeds will savagely and remorselessly hunt and eat "naturals" to extinction. The things we will see. The wonders we will behold. Make way n...
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[21:39:14] <exec> 08└─Lady Gaga and Marilyn Kansan will be the new Adam and Eve.
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[21:39:16] <exec> 08└─Good thing that the current administration will give this report its due regard and set forth making recommended changes in order to prevent the next mass extinction. The appointed heads are well informed when it comes to science and will not let their potential personal gains from caving to corpora...
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[21:39:32] <exec> 08└─Some 17 years ago (yeah, it was in 2000), we partnered with a company specializing in Bluetooth to put BT in our products. They had one guy, very smart, very abusive to his co-workers. The other company (a startup) ran out of money and shut down. This guy interviewed with us. We all gave him a thumb...
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[21:39:47] <exec> 08└─It's important to realize that this study specifically assigned the kinds of tasks to groups that - in fact - require a group. As far as I can see from the article [researchgate.net], they (1) used tasks designed to be solved by groups, and (b) only used groups to solve these tasks. In the first rou...
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[21:40:01] <exec> 08└─https://despair.com/products/meetings [despair.com]
[21:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:02] <exec> 08└─Loosely designated harems. Hear me out. Have you ever been the 1 or 2 people in a group of 5 or more dragging the rest along like boat anchors? But every now and then one of those anchors produces a good idea.. so that's group intelligence. Let's organize these groups properly. Head-to-head competit...
[21:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:55] <exec> 08└─That's a textbook definition of a sociopath :/
[21:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:56] <exec> 08└─I was going to post pretty much this. New houses will have outside access to the "refrigerator". It will have a locked access door accessible from the outside. Probably electronically locked via an encryption key system that allows revoking individual access keys. This would be an alright idea for p...
[21:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:59] <exec> 08└─But remember to put your perishables in the fridge before dealing with the delivery driver, and ensure the delivery truck is moved promptly from your driveway.
[21:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:01] <exec> 08└─Stores used to deliver food and drink to your home, milk men etc.
[21:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:03] <exec> 08└─Milk door. My neighbor's house still has the door. Its big enough for a quart or two of fresh cow juice. Too small for ice. Maybe houses were made with "giant" ice doors. There's also the coal chute, and the heating oil pipe (extra fun if you remove the heating oil tank and the supply company dumps...
[21:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:05] <exec> 08└─(...) are limited in physical mobility, (...)
[21:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:08] <exec> 08└─Fucking genius!
[21:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:45] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Why not push for more doctors? At the very least, a basic understanding of human biology is interesting and useful. We also need research biologists. Pathologists. Nutrition experts and researchers for new and less costly food sources. But no. Huge political push to teach coding. Strange, i...
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[21:41:47] <exec> 08└─I'm an engineer in a weird, niche field but I love programming. I think I'd like to write some useful utility or opengl/math-heavy tool and sell support for a living instead of engineering. I like all aspects of it. Not sure why. It's always been that way. It just feels good solving little puzzles a...
[21:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:49] <exec> 08└─There may well be no shortage of programmers. There is a shortage of competent programmers.
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[22:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinctions on Earth Coincided with Out-of-Whack Carbon Cycles - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:19] <exec> 08└─It is too late to prevent the current mass extinction. We can only hope to minimize it, and keep it from including us.
[22:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinctions on Earth Coincided with Out-of-Whack Carbon Cycles - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, indeed, they will do the Right Thing(TM) so well that our entire human species will go extinct just a bit faster. Finally, the earth can start over and the survivors will have less competition. And, as we all know, competition is a bad thing! Damn liberals. /s
[22:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinctions on Earth Coincided with Out-of-Whack Carbon Cycles - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:23] <exec> 08└─and set forth making recommended changes in order to prevent the next mass extinction.
[22:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:10] <exec> 08└─Many animal species can work like clockwork together, despite having a lot less "social sensitivity" than primates.
[22:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:12] <exec> 08└─You go to work to produce good work, not to be chums with everyone.
[22:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:12] <exec> 08└─Well, if someone is in the middle of breaking into your house while you're there, their life is forfeit as far as I'm concerned. You really don't know what their intentions are, and frankly, you should be able to protect your property from thugs. If someone doesn't want that, then don't break into p...
[22:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:53] <exec> 08└─There may well be no shortage of programmers. There is a shortage of competent programmers.
[22:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:55] <exec> 08└─The problem is that they're lying about it
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[23:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Decapitated Man" Halloween Display Sparks 911 Calls in Greene County, Tennessee - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:16] <exec> 08└─> [Okay, Soylentils, what is your best Halloween prank? --Ed.] And extremely important You wait until it is Halloween. That first, simple step seems to be too much for so many people today.
[23:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Decapitated Man" Halloween Display Sparks 911 Calls in Greene County, Tennessee - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:18] <exec> 08└─Hit man finds perfect place to drop bodies that won't be reported as being halloween decorations. Whar about the owner of the place, you say? Third one on the left, the one with the severed throat. SmCPUtbh fam
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[23:39:31] <exec> 08└─How many humans were around to cause the first 5 events? Just wondering.
[23:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Megaherbivorous Dinosaurs Were Not Strict Vegetarians - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:40] <exec> 08└─Doesn't sound too far fetched.. its not like they have chopsticks to pick out the bugs hiding in the plants...
[23:40:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:09] <exec> 08└─I was never one of those abusive prima donna types, but programming for a living is very quickly turning me into one.
[23:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:23] <exec> 08└─If you're assigned the male gender at birth, regardless of your body parts
[23:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:24] <exec> 08└─They are perceived to be male or female, sometimes mistakenly, on the basis of their body parts. When those parts don't meet a doctor's expectations, surgery is sometimes done: Non-consensual medical interventions to modify the sex characteristics of intersex people take place in all countries where...
[23:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effective Collaboration: You Don't Need Superstar Developers - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:26] <exec> 08└─That which is not tested is broken.
[23:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:26] <exec> 08└─Good, then I won't have to worry about my fondness of ordering amontillado by the cask ;)
[23:41:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success - It's About Cutting Wages - 2455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:49] <exec> 08└─But let's not stop there. Even if we suppose the premise of the story is true, that certain high tech companies are deliberately educating/training new workers in order to increase the supply of programmers and keep the cost of their labor down, what exactly is supposed to be the problem? The probl...
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[23:42:10] <exec> 08└─We need some body that can certify that programmers know what they're doing
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