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[00:06:03] <exec> 08└─LOL you made my day
[00:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:04] <exec> 08└─Have you ever heard the thermology, "Hypercompression, hyperaware"? It's like your jack in the trade, and the most you'll be lacking today!
[00:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:07] <exec> 08└─Only one use I can see for such a beast. Getting around noise regs near airports. Take off any direction at any time if the electric drive can produce enough thrust to take off since electric motors are quieter. Even a half hour of battery power would get up into the air and up high enough to crank...
[00:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:09] <exec> 08└─Does anyone have a gibberish to English translator?
[00:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:34] <exec> 08└─As for grocery bags, pick your poison: Paper, much more material used to carry the same groceries. Pound per pound paper is more environmentally friendly than plastic, but when you consider the multiple of paper required to carry the same groceries, it's a huge loser. Thin plastic, horrid looking wa...
[00:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:36] <exec> 08└─Of course, metal confetti is much faster to bio-degrade than the wreckage of an airplane that's been successfully targeted by a missile...
[00:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:38] <exec> 08└─Trisia Farrelly hates unicorns and faeries.
[00:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:10] <exec> 08└─> What's the point of a discussion forum other than flamewars ... At the risk of feeding the troll (bad idea, I know). How about this: Reasoned debate at an intellectual level and avoidance of emotional triggers.
[00:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:11] <exec> 08└─my problem is when people get mad that I don't want to integrate to them instead of them integrating to us. Do you have any actual examples of people getting *mad* at *you* about this? I mean, I get it that some immigrants don't integrate very well (that's nothing new nor particular to Hispanics or...
[00:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:13] <exec> 08└─Come on people...wtf?!?!? They raise you and you then say fuck you? (Although, I did have decent parents, YMMV). Different people have different circumstances. Some people have a poor relationship with their parents, perhaps because they were abused, or their parents try to use them. Other people ju...
[00:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:16] <exec> 08└─Immigration would have nothing to do with whether a corpse is found or not
[00:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:18] <exec> 08└─Spock made everyone all hot and bothered. For wrongheadedness, there's no salve more effective than ridicule. Invalid form key: Oa4a450ZBG
[00:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:20] <exec> 08└─xenophobic nativists
[00:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:22] <exec> 08└─I wail and gnash my teeth at your obviously tragic disappointment. Truly heart-rending. OTOH, don't let the swinging door hit you in the ass on the way out.
[00:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:25] <exec> 08└─Wanting to keep a homogeneous population would be considered very racist were Japan a nation of white people.
[00:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:27] <exec> 08└─While I agree with the technicalities of the post, I disagree that all humans die alone. Every human wants to die alongside their peers, and some do even if it isn't alongside their peers.
[00:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 1477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, it has became too common with corportations taking over and doing whatever they want to control without any colaboration, to get more control or to save resources in the short term. Allwinner doesn't care about the GPL, all efforts are community based. And so do many other ARM business, with lu...
[00:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:31] <exec> 08└─That's old news. The problem today is hardware. Support RISC-V and other such projects.
[00:09:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 643 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:01] <exec> 08└─Because this is what the Nazi and similar racists are - a bunch of cowards. They are really scared shitless of the "others". Their fear results in driving themselves into the proverbial corner where the murders convinced themselves that they had "no choice" and is it them that are "victims". And the...
[00:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:25] <exec> 08└─it was never meant for high speed, not in the early days. mouse, keyboard, modem, printer. all relatively slow things. NEVER meant for disk or fast i/o. not in the early days. I remember just buying motherboards when usb came out. the first chipset (triton?) on tyan and asus and supermicro all had t...
[00:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 1371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:27] <exec> 08└─putting cables in 'by feel' is very valid. sometimes, unavoidable. a good design can tolerate all kinds of user 'error'. that's what makes a good design from, well, everything that happened over the last 20 or so years, maybe even 30, connector and cable-wise. (mostly connectors). anything from the...
[00:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:29] <exec> 08└─Ever actually looked at the USB logo? What might it stand for? Of course, it clearly symbolizes the three attempts it will take to plug in an A plug.
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[01:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:04] <exec> 08└─The last of USA's piston-driven strategic bombers had 6 pusher props. It also had 1 thing on each wing that looked like an outrigger. Those were jet engines. [google.com] If that isn't crazy enough for you, they tried to make one of these beasts nuclear-powered. [wikipedia.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [so...
[01:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:06] <exec> 08└─Sure. but its gonna put a dick in your mashed-potatoes. Take into account all those planes that did so. Well, the Global Hawk [kinja-img.com] did too. All those long-ranging planes like the U2 used a conventional wing, that is, one that sticks straight out and maximizes lift at a relatively low airs...
[01:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:08] <exec> 08└─The peacemaker was an abomination, which is why it isn't used anymore. The B-52 is. But that the B52 is still a matter of doctrine speaks volumes about what the United States Government believes what will be needed in the near future. Hell, the Russkies are still poking our airspace with TU-95's. Ma...
[01:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:10] <exec> 08└─2 megawatts is about 2600 horsepower. Or, in the same ballpark as the engine used in the B-29 https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The B-36 IC engine https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] is a good bit higher power. Th...
[01:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:12] <exec> 08└─I don't see that thing ever producing enough thrust to get off the ground. If they put props on it maybe, because in that case you have prop-induced airflow over the wing [google.com] to assist with lift. One advantage a propeller has over a jet engine is the addition of the propwash flowing over th...
[01:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:40] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if you're being entirely serious or not, but environmental policy should never be decided by free market capitalism - not even in the ways you describe although they would admittedly be a step up from the current situation. Lots of people only care about what's going on in their back ya...
[01:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Touché) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:22] <exec> 08└─A girl can walk from one end of Tokyo to the other at 3am by herself in complete safety (with the exception of maybe Roppongi..which is also where the foreigners from those sketchy countries happen to usually be) Tokyo (as well as other Japanese cities) is very clean, safe, orderly and everything wo...
[01:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:51] <exec> 08└─New book: How to cook a politician... first with words, then with fire :) Feed the homeless: roast a politician.
[01:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:24] <exec> 08└─It would be trivial to have live contacts on both sides of the connector, hard-wired appropriately to the wiring in the cable itself. The sockets would be fully insulating on one side, so no matter which way you plugged it in you'd get it right. Oh, wait, that's USB-C . pffffft.
[01:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:26] <exec> 08└─What I don't understand about USB is why did it start out so slow.
[01:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beer Distribution Game - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:38] <exec> 08└─Sloan School? You know what they call it at MIT?
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[02:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:16] <exec> 08└─This is why all electric planes will never be seen in the skies.
[02:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:18] <exec> 08└─Why not just use the gas engines to make electricity?
[02:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:47] <exec> 08└─Your opinion doesn't matter; what matters is whether your activity in this universe is productive for society. If you think you can make a case that some "pristine" landscape is worth preserving as such, then make that case like anybody else who is seeking to make his impression on the world: Put up...
[02:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:49] <exec> 08└─Sure, just "ban" glitter. Just like some dictatorships try to "ban" the internet. The manufacturers don't care, plenty markets exist to offload anything even a large subset of nations might refuse to import. As for New Zealand - sure, ban glitter, right after you stop dropping 1080 all over the "100...
[02:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:51] <exec> 08└─Your opinion doesn't matter; what matters is whether your activity in this universe is productive for society.
[02:07:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 369 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:07] <exec> 08└─Allowing increased immigration is an obvious remedy for a declining population. Might not be your favorite remedy, and you might not agree that declining population is a problem, but it makes sense for it to be mentioned. "Bans immigration" is an exaggeration, but they don't allow that many people i...
[02:07:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:13] <exec> 08└─It was suggested by Machiavelli in his infamous book "Prince". In short, if said Prince wants to hold concurred nations long term he has only two choices: 1. Exterminate them. 2. Provide for them a better living than to his own people. Stalin had done both. The US has done the former and is doing th...
[02:07:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:23] <exec> 08└─Okey dokey, well I think I'm done here. This entire submission page is filled with nothing but xenophobic nativists modding each other Insightful, as if every immigrant to every country is a brown Islamic extremist looking to destroy the native culture. I fully expect to be Trolled and Flamebaited t...
[02:07:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:32] <exec> 08└─Wanting to keep a homogeneous population would be considered very racist were Japan a nation of white people.
[02:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:36] <exec> 08└─I'm just here for my weekly visit to the old folks home with my (cadaver sniffing) dog for a little walk around to cheer everyone up:)
[02:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, but I live in a very liberal town.
[02:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:41] <exec> 08└─There is much in what you say, but they also have a few problems. While they aren't externally aggressive, they are quite xenophobic, and as a culture they tend to suppress empathy. You might ask a Chinese, a Filipino, or a Korean how much they like the Japanese and why. I rather like the Japanese I...
[02:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:43] <exec> 08└─I am currently in the process of having my grandmother sent to a retirement home. My wife and I have been caretaking for four years as she went from being an able person to having her brain destroyed by alzheimers. She has become mean and threatens violent acts on occasion, calls my wife a terrible...
[02:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:45] <exec> 08└─Suck it, mods. Truth precludes Troll. Take your butthurt asses back to your safe spaces.
[02:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:51] <exec> 08└─First of all, you're using a tautology here. Open source means that you can see and modify the code, adding a redistribution requirement makes little sense. Yes, we should, but what do you call code then that is available for looking at, but is only distributed through one source? Secondly, same dea...
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[03:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tyrsal [5456] (Score: 1) 02 - 06On Atari's Flashback Game Console - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:04] <exec> 08└─The really confusing part of this is that I thought this story was about the 'atari box' or whatever console that has been in the news recently.. It wouldn't have surprised me if this was what that ended up being, as it seems like so much vaporware from a company that's just a name at this point.
[03:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06On Atari's Flashback Game Console - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:06] <exec> 08└─I was 20-21 (I went bar hopping with these folks when I turned 21). At work I used a logic analyzer to figure out the game chip in each cartridge was a (2716?) PROM with the (read? maybe CS, it's been a while) line inverted. At work we had a system to both burn and read EEPROMs, and it had a disc dr...
[03:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Atari's Flashback Game Console - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:08] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/09/27/0243212 [soylentnews.org] Release in spring 2018. No crowdfund so it's not a complete scam in the making.
[03:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Atari's Flashback Game Console - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:10] <exec> 08└─PROM - Programmable Read Only Memory EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Read Only Memory. Put a chip in a magic box and you can reprogram it. ZIF - Zero Insertion Force, sockets with a lever used to install/remove chips CS - Chip Select DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory, 16k was a pretty coin in 1980....
[03:07:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:24] <exec> 08└─Increased immigration is NOT a cure for a decreasing population. It is, instead, a prescription for that declining population to be smothered, and displaced.
[03:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03lernema [6807] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:46] <exec> 08└─> A girl can walk from one end of Tokyo to the other at 3am by herself in complete safety Maybe. But they cannot take the train at rush hour: http://abcnews.go.com [go.com]
[03:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:47] <exec> 08└─A nicely-constructed site. 1. Name the images intelligently 2. Separate the content from the chintz via subdirectories 3. Don't use scripts where they aren't warranted -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org] (who blocks all images by default)
[03:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:51] <exec> 08└─Fine for the plug. Doesn't help if you can't see the port and are groping around by feel. And why are ports on the front of the case invariably upsidedown, so if the USB device has its own LED, it points at the floor??
[03:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:53] <exec> 08└─Problem I can see is that sometimes you've got a live, shockable device on the other end of that cable... what happens if you accidentally shock that plug?
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[04:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:24] <exec> 08└─Look at that list. How many of those are manned craft in commercial passenger service? Lots of experimental and unmanned, nothing suitable to replace even the smallest real airplane. And unless batteries get 10x better there won't be.
[04:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:26] <exec> 08└─Diesel-electric train engines do that, they are heavy and somewhat inefficient. But the electric drive is very controllable, makes it possible to control the train speed accurately. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (always loss in energy transfers) makes it a bad idea for aircraft. Better results to put th...
[04:07:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:05] <exec> 08└─Compounding matters, Japan has a declining birthrate and bans immigration.
[04:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:47] <exec> 08└─conquered... or concurred?
[04:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:49] <exec> 08└─A lot of folks do this with someone to whom they aren't even related. The elderly person puts an object in the front window in the morning so that a neighbor can see it. Remove it by 3PM so that it's clear that you're still ambulatory. Use the other edge of the window for the next day. The problem d...
[04:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:51] <exec> 08└─Another factor to consider (one we are facing). Grandma and Grandpa may well have already paid their house off, and the kids live in a much more expensive area. In order to move nearer our kids, we'd have to sell our house (which is paid off) and buy a new house that would cost at least 250K more fo...
[04:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:53] <exec> 08└─Empty tiny apartments for the elderly are hardly "assets of opportunity" when noone wants to live in them.
[04:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:56] <exec> 08└─Long Live Hunter Thompson, too desperate to make his deadlines to be afraid of what might happen if he actually submitted the work. Genius, from the unexamined, unedited, unfiltered output of a drug fueled mind.
[04:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:58] <exec> 08└─My grandparents' generation went overboard and cared for their parents in the home, retiring early to take on the job full time and then discovering that a 2:1 caregiver ratio still wasn't enough - they still had to call in outside help for the final years. After that experience, they vowed never to...
[04:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:00] <exec> 08└─I get the poor relationship thing and that you may just cut contact. But if not, a phone call even once a week? Once a month? Just to say "hey, you still alive?" Even if you live on the other side of the world....email anyone? Anyone who has kids and isn't Joseph Mengeles should get at least a yearl...
[04:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:02] <exec> 08└─Absotutely posilickly.
[04:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:04] <exec> 08└─I don't know. I think I would call them proud and protective of their homeland, their people, and their way of life. Not xenophobic. It's pretty pathetic watching generally awkward foreigners move to Japan expecting to fully integrate and be accepted as a Japanese. You're not Japanese. Respecting th...
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[05:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:05] <exec> 08└─Ah, submitted by TMB! So of course accepted. Even though he is an alt-right coder. Shame, Soylent! Shame!
[05:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:07] <exec> 08└─You accuse him of being alt-right, which implies you are politically left, and you people can't turn off. TMB at least talks something other than politics for a change.
[05:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:37] <exec> 08└─A big part of the motivation for projects like this is, apparently, the European Commission's Flightpath 2050 Vision for Aviation, which includes a reduction of CO2 by 75%, reduction of NOx by 90% and noise reduction by 65%. The happy side effect, presumably, will be cleaner air, lower dependence on...
[05:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:10] <exec> 08└─I've never had to wash or repair a reusable bag, and they hold way more groceries than plastic bags do. The only problem I have with them is remembering to bring them.
[05:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:10] <exec> 08└─Sure they can. They just have to make sure they get on the women-only cars that are specifically set aside for them. No idea if that costs more or not, but if the country was truly "safe" as much as some like to believe I doubt there'd be a market for that.
[05:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, you've had people tell you this? Like how? How do you even get into such a conversation?
[05:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:13] <exec> 08└─You're already at +5 so I can't mod you up further, but THANK YOU for being the one single fucking voice of reason in this entire festering septic tank of a thread. This place is going straight to shit...
[05:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:15] <exec> 08└─So, uh, quick question for ya...if "beatin' that ass in Walmart" is such good discipline, *why do they keep having to do it?* A little food for thought there, if you can be bothered to stop sucking your own dick for a bit...
[05:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:44] <exec> 08└─These wats should howd a wowwee! "A wowwee? What's a wowwee?" A warge gathewing of wats for a puwpose. "Oh, you mean a rally!" That's what I said! A wowwee! *(Yes I know, Fievel was a mouse....)
[05:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:23] <exec> 08└─A copyleft license is based on the idea that all software should be public, as in public health, public education, etc.
[05:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:24] <exec> 08└─If you want to be taken seriously, perhaps learn the meaning of words before you use them. If you're looking for a meaningful distinction between "open source software" and "free software", as used by the technically-literate population of the planet, I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong drainpipe...
[05:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:26] <exec> 08└─"You're holding it wrong."
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[06:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:04] <exec> 08└─From the article: Features in Light Table - Freeware: Light Table is free for everyone to download and use. - Closed-Source: Contribute to the source code on GitHub.
[06:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:06] <exec> 08└─Are you so sure? I have to admit, I first thought he was going on about DarkTable, but that is a photo editing suite. Light table, for light skinned people, only? Fricking neo-nazis! Oh, I am so far right that I make your commie uncle look like a Ron Paul supporter.
[06:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ataradov [4776] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:08] <exec> 08└─This is another chrome-based toy written in some goofy language. I'll pass.
[06:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:10] <exec> 08└─Let me make a guess, it is based on node.js? What's with the kids trying reinvent everything with broken languages? There has to be some sociological/psychological phenomenon underneath this.
[06:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 2847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:13] <exec> 08└─I used Light Table for a while before going back to emacs and it's a pretty nice editor. In a way, it's basically "emacs, but modern": extensible editor using a Lisp dialect (Clojure, or more accurately ClojureScript) for both the program and configuration. Uses ctrl-space by default to bring up a "...
[06:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:15] <exec> 08└─Sorry, all. I did not know that this was based on node.js. Oh, the Hugh Grant Manatee! But seriously, is this what we have been reduced to? Buzzard? Account for your sins, you mangy bird of carrion.
[06:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:17] <exec> 08└─Careful, aristarchus is a slippery eel! He has connections throughout the internets. You mod him down at your peril! Do you want to sleep with the fishes?
[06:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Atari's Flashback Game Console - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:27] <exec> 08└─Saw two versions of Atari at Sam's club a couple weeks ago. One plugs into a TV, the other has a built in display. Got the latter for my son who's turning five, figure the games are about the right level for him.
[06:07:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:29] <exec> 08└─How dare they not want to become a dirty, crime ridden Muslim slum, filled with rapists, terrorists and welfare-lifers? That's what all noble good countries want.
[06:07:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03iru [6596] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:32] <exec> 08└─Japan does not ban immigration. High skilled work force is always in demand. Japan does however bans the dangerous kind of immigration that can lead to violence against its culture and citizens.
[06:07:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 20 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:59] <exec> 08└─xenophobic nativists
[06:08:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 962 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:03] <exec> 08└─A girl can walk from one end of Tokyo to the other at 3am by herself in complete safety (with the exception of maybe Roppongi..which is also where the foreigners from those sketchy countries happen to usually be) Tokyo (as well as other Japanese cities) is very clean, safe, orderly and everything wo...
[06:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:24] <exec> 08└─Although, I did have decent parents, YMMV
[06:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:55] <exec> 08└─You're right, J-Mo, variations in ethnic and racial groups are real. And Ashkenazim have the highest IQ. You know, Jews? The ones whose very existence triggers you so hard you have to resort to putting ((())) around them? Odd. Since you seem to believe in some kind of twisted social-Darwinistic vers...
[06:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:35] <exec> 08└─> That Court has also been accused of being nothing more than a kangaroo court Well clearly it can't be, with it being located in Hague rather than down under properly! I mean, sure, they claim they're the "nether lands", but they're nowhere near. Buncha wannabies (note: not wallabies).
[06:10:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:52] <exec> 08└─I'd have been happy if they hadn't made the plug fit so nicely into Ethernet jacks. Many a user problem fixed by plugging the USB cable into the actual USB port.
[06:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:39] <exec> 08└─So now I have a name to curse when this happens. As others have pointed out, no need to make it flippable - just obvious tactically that one is holding it wrong. It is very unfortunate that you were able to convince whomever you needed to for this mistake we all have to put up with. I'm going to gue...
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[07:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:05] <exec> 08└─Sounds a bit like they're doing a Radio Shack - attempting to diversify into more mainstream products and now collapsing to a business they don't really have that much to do with any more. What's interesting is that Barnes & Nobel is a survivor of what used to be a large retail chain bookstore marke...
[07:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:22] <exec> 08└─First Atom then Brackets now Light Table
[07:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:54] <exec> 08└─You talk like flying is impossible without megawatts of power. Yet somehow birds manage it, and for long distances. The albatross is a particularly inspiring bird. > This is why all electric planes will never be seen in the skies. They are already in the skies. A solar plane successfully flew around...
[07:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:28] <exec> 08└─Little known historical fact: "Django Reinhardt lost most control of two fingers on his left hand in a fire in his youth." [wikipedia.org] What they do not mention is that the fire was caused by nitrocellulouse, from his wife making plastic imitation flowers out of the same material. Many vintage f...
[07:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:29] <exec> 08└─There's balsawood boards too. Fucking AMAZING ride.
[07:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:34] <exec> 08└─The training manual for the Suicide Prevention Service Of Santa Cruz County described the suicide of a college student who took his own life in his dorm room. His body wasn't discovered until he had been dead for seventeen days.
[07:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:36] <exec> 08└─they aren't immigrants. Their ancestors were many years from now, but their families have been in the US for generations.
[07:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:38] <exec> 08└─Isn't it a bit late to still have Trump Derangement Syndrome? Anyway, don't let the door...
[07:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:52] <exec> 08└─Front plugs are normally a cable run to a patch plug. The patch plug's normally symmetrically mounted. Whoever assembled had probably 0 restriction.
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[08:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:21] <exec> 08└─Ow! Slick! First an offtopic mod, and then, then, an over-rated mod? How is this even possible? Unless, possibly, it was someone with an intimate understanding of the entire structure of SoylentNews, say, a code-monkey who gets his submissions accepted, because, you know, he writes the code! The rig...
[08:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:23] <exec> 08└─Well the watch variables is a very cool integration. I do not use this nodejs languages nor anything related, and I admit I am clueless when I see a piece of code of it. Coming back, an integration with gdb and the IDE with this watch variable mechanism would be very interesting. Is there anything s...
[08:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wine Robots Are Rolling Into Europe’s Swankiest Vineyards - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:00] <exec> 08└─Hmm, assuming that "$2 to $5 a bottle" is without tax I can think of exactly three wines worth the time to uncorking (but not worth the time to go buying unless passing by the store anyway). Another method to avoid label fraud is to buy wines with non-standard design-features or tints of their bottl...
[08:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:52] <exec> 08└─At least USB3 seems to have cottoned on, and now the shape of the type B (and micro B) connector is such that you can easily plug it in correctly. Unfortunately the Type A is still a PITA due to backwards compatability.
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[09:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:09] <exec> 08└─I mean, who'd've thunk it: a bookstore that sells books! I used to love going into bookstores to browse. Shelves filled with a broad selection of books, you could easily discover new authors. In good bookstores, the staff in each section actually knew the selection, and could make good suggestions....
[09:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:28] <exec> 08└─It's an error in the journalistic piece. The software is under the MIT license.
[09:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:30] <exec> 08└─Lately, a "modern" IDE has meant a slow IDE. Is this the case here? From Visual Studio to all the Chrome-based IDEs that have been popping up lately, slowness seem to be the defining "feature". And "Light Table"? Sounds like a photo manager / editor.
[09:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:32] <exec> 08└─Closed source.... now a feature!!!
[09:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:39] <exec> 08└─...well, if you dismiss Charlie Christian, Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Wes Montgomery, Larry Carlton, Pat Metheny... Now, the greatest that uses only 2 fingers? I'm OK with that. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[09:08:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 492 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:11] <exec> 08└─When my wife's grandmother was on her own, they set up a system where they called her every day and visited her a lot. That way they knew if something happened to her. Twice, they'd found she'd fallen and couldn't get up (cue the lol). They knew when she'd eaten or hadn't and knew when she was sick....
[09:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 1773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:57] <exec> 08└─His whole thing the past couple years has been telling people how 'open but closed' is acceptable according to his interpretation of the GPL. Furthermore people have been flaunting it for up to 15 years now, and there was an accusation made a few months back on the green site that the FSF has tacitl...
[09:11:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 1256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:53] <exec> 08└─How many end users know about the USB logo on the plug telling them about the orientation? I only know because I read about it, and I'm a nerd. Even with this logo, it doesn't help when the socket is in a vertical orientation. Is it left or right? All the connectors on my current systems are vertica...
[09:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:05] <exec> 08└─You don't think people would start noticing something fishy when their RS-232 hardware comes not with an RS-232 connector, but with an ISA connector? RS-232 doesn't need - or even know about - IRQs and DMA channels, that's only the serial port card.
[09:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:06] <exec> 08└─Yup, I tried replaced an ISA serial card with a USB to RS-232 converter, and found out it was useless. The time for the flow control signals to propagate via the USB hardware to the OS is longer than it takes to overflow the buffers in the hardware, and of course the converter contains a bog standar...
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[10:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:31] <exec> 08└─Please, being a left-coder is the only sensible opinion. What kind of moron uses right alignment for code?
[10:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:33] <exec> 08└─Kinda: https://stackoverflow.com [stackoverflow.com] Any other day I'd make fun of people needing gdb front-ends but I've been having a hard time getting a grip on my factor/forth stacks recently so...
[10:07:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:24] <exec> 08└─I remember decades ago when glitter was
[10:07:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 673 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if you're being entirely serious or not, but environmental policy should never be decided by free market capitalism - not even in the ways you describe although they would admittedly be a step up from the current situation. Lots of people only care about what's going on in their back ya...
[10:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:42] <exec> 08└─I agree that environmental policy shouldn't be decided by free market capitalism. But I like the idea of: tax what you don't want/like. So tax the use proportional to the clean up cost. If the company does cradle to grave, give them proportional tax break to what they take back. Taxing is better the...
[10:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:44] <exec> 08└─Tony Iommi.
[10:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:47] <exec> 08└─Wow, seem to have touched a nerve with Soylentils that I did not even dream of existing. But now that I have found it, go on, please, go on!
[10:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:49] <exec> 08└─Tiny Iommi, guitar legend, lost the tips of two fingers in an industrial accident when he was a young man about to embark on his musical career. His boss felt very sorry for him and visited him in hospital, giving him a Django Reinhardt record as a present. This gave us Black Sabbath and Heavy Metal...
[10:08:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EETech1 [957] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:31] <exec> 08└─I'm just here for my weekly visit to the old folks home with my (cadaver sniffing) dog for a little walk around to cheer everyone up:)
[10:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope's MUSE Instrument Studies the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:49] <exec> 08└─Takyon is correct. We do not know that all of space is equal. But on the other hand, we equally do not know it is not. So the 12 million times figure could be woefully low. Or not. What is at stake here? "Your God is too small," in the words of Bruno Giordano. I hate it, when people's god is too s...
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[11:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:03] <exec> 08└─Chinese for irony.
[11:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:04] <exec> 08└─Really? Where do you think they got the electricity to construct this thing? Where do you think they get the electricity to recharge its battery? Coal. Doh.
[11:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:20] <exec> 08└─I agree for the most part, although their ebook offerings falling down probably has something to do with shooting themselves in the foot by helping to fix the prices of ebooks to be on par with physical books. As a result, people didn't want ebooks nearly as much anymore but if they were down with g...
[11:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:21] <exec> 08└─I'm a little shocked that Nook [wikipedia.org] still exists. They spun it off and partnered with Microsoft, bought back control of it, and partnered with Samsung on new hardware. Nook users may read nearly any Nook Store e-book, digital magazines or newspapers for one hour once per day while connect...
[11:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:46] <exec> 08└─Mercury goes screwy in the heavens - and we're having the worst thread on this board that I've ever seen. Would you people please chill and stop it with the ad-hominems? Light-table too, as browsing the blog and forum will quickly show, regressed and seems to have gone dark from complexity...
[11:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:19] <exec> 08└─You don't even need to invoke the second law of thermodynamics to see that it is a bad idea. The following is already sufficient: they are heavy
[11:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:00] <exec> 08└─My wife chose the canvas bag option. It's been years now and they show no significant degradation. None lost or left to rot. Of course, rotting = return to nature. What you really don't want is continuing to exist in more or less the same form after being discarded. To be fair, if the disposable bag...
[11:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:07] <exec> 08└─a cure for a decreasing population
[11:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:09] <exec> 08└─That is not a typo. I didn't leave off a "million". It was 3. Of those, 2 were involved in a gang rape. This is why there will not be a 4th refugee admitted to Japan.
[11:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:11] <exec> 08└─This is bad, but let's be clear on the severity: getting rubbed against or an upskirt photo is nothing compared to what would happen in many other countries, including the urban parts of the USA.
[11:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:13] <exec> 08└─fully integrate and be accepted as a Japanese. You're not Japanese.
[11:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, in most of the rest of the world this is called sexual assault.
[11:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:18] <exec> 08└─Wanting to keep a homogeneous population would be considered very racist were Japan a nation of white people. Why do the Japanese get a pass?
[11:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:20] <exec> 08└─Erm... Because they keep making new kids? A few quality ass whoopins for being a little shit in the toy aisle and you stop being a little shit in the toy asile.
[11:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:32] <exec> 08└─So instead of GTK, use Qt. Stable API, even stable ABI. What more do you want?
[11:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:41] <exec> 08└─It actually represents the Devil's Pitchfork [theguardian.com].
[11:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:14] <exec> 08└─Well, that's under the assumption that you make your daughters grind grain for some undetermined number of hours a day.
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[12:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:53] <exec> 08└─It's only illegal if you have no money for bribes.
[12:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:02] <exec> 08└─Who knew the Chinese were that good at trolling? +5 Troll, my little, yellow friends.
[12:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:43] <exec> 08└─So, the left-of-left-wing psychotic has insomnia again, he's bored, so he gets on Soylent to stir some shit, pointlessly. Typical. Crawl back under your bridge, troll.
[12:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:10] <exec> 08└─I'll not argue that - but if more than 1/4 of the world's population continues to INCREASE while another 1/4 seems to be remaining stable, and another 1/4 is decreasing - what will be the end result? As I stated above - increased immigration is a recipe to smother and eradicate the existing populati...
[12:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:42] <exec> 08└─They should build a wall inside the sewers and make the oter side pay for it.
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[13:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:13] <exec> 08└─My body, my genes. Or any other genes.
[13:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:14] <exec> 08└─Man, I don't know whether to mod you Insightful or Funny, so I'll comment instead.
[13:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:17] <exec> 08└─I'm not even quite sure what they are actually selling. Ascendance Biomedical http://www.ascendancebiomed.com [ascendancebiomed.com] Seems to offer somthing for Lung cancer (cimavax), something called Ovarian rejuvenation (not sure what that is but I guess it's restocking the eggshelf or something)...
[13:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/11/diy-biohacking-with-crispr-gene-therapy-for-muscle-boosting-myostatin-inhibitor.html [nextbigfuture.com] Josiah Zayner is CEO of the biohacking-promoting startup The Odin. He has injected himself with performance enhancing gene therapy to grow larger muscles. He...
[13:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:21] <exec> 08└─Question is: does it work? I missed that in the text about his glowing beer.
[13:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:23] <exec> 08└─Mod it whichever way you please, but I am bng srs rght nw.
[13:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:26] <exec> 08└─In the last year or so the FDA has approved some gene therapies for living, breathing human adults. We can't say for sure whether his experiment will work, but that's the point of the self-experiment.
[13:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:28] <exec> 08└─The real question when you're selling to the general population of lifters is if a dose X works what happens when dumb lifters take one hundred times X, because the dumb ones do that with everything else they can consume. This malfunction is pretty much this is why we can't have basically harmless O...
[13:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:38] <exec> 08└─Quite recently, an electric ferry has been put into service across the Mosel river, between Germany and Luxembourg. It was hailed as the first such ship. Since "ro-ro" is mentioned in the article, I suspect this ferry counts...
[13:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:19] <exec> 08└─I sincerely concur, please stop the ad-hominems!
[13:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06On Atari's Flashback Game Console - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:32] <exec> 08└─I was going to comment that you probably meant ZIF, not ZIP, but you found it.
[13:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:36] <exec> 08└─In an ideal world, I agree. You wouldn't want to leave any loopholes that let companies get around the tax, but that's exactly the same problem you'd face as with enforcing any other kind of environmental regulation. My other concern would be making sure the clean-up is fully effective and is never...
[13:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:37] <exec> 08└─> when is the last time your dad or husband fixed a bag with needle and thread? FTFY
[13:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:53] <exec> 08└─What worries me is that if I do get dementia, that person (with my appearance and my name) may not think that suicide is necessary, and the dementia will evolve to the point of causing serious pain to my family even if right now I can rationally decide that dementia is a good reason for suicide. But...
[13:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:54] <exec> 08└─Bulgaria and Greece were part of the Otoman Empire for quite some time. Both of them are still mainly christian countries, with non-muslim cultures (although they probably have some left-over muslim minorities, just like Bulgaria's neighbouring Romania does). Is this the historical record that you'r...
[13:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:57] <exec> 08└─I thought you already had gone because I haven't seen your posts in a long time. It's too bad because I've always enjoyed your input. A healthy discourse requires many perspectives. Retreating to an echo chamber might feel like the safest thing to do, but it weakens your mental immune system. Your a...
[13:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wine Robots Are Rolling Into Europe’s Swankiest Vineyards - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:26] <exec> 08└─Question seconded! I can find good locally produced wine for ~7$, and the bubbly I like is around 10-12, I'd love to know where and what to get for 2-5.
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[14:06:11] <exec> 08└─My body, my genes. Or any other genes.
[14:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, and cheeseburgers! Too many cheeseburgers will KILL you! WE MUST LEGISLATE CHEESEBURGERS! Oh, wait. We could provide information, that is, educate, and then let people choose for themselves. Heresy, I know. Mother Government knows best. You can never have too many rules. WE MUST LEGISLATE CHEES...
[14:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:21] <exec> 08└─Oh man, I think you hacked up your vowel gene partway through that post; you'd better CRISPR it back into one or both of your helices. Srsly!
[14:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:32] <exec> 08└─Inquiring minds want to know...is it clean coal? (grin) Given the losses in converting to electricity, charging/discharging batteries, and then to propulsion, the ship would probably use less coal if it burned it on board to run turbines. Unless the coal-electric plant is very high efficiency.
[14:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:33] <exec> 08└─Where do you think they got the electricity to construct this thing? Where do you think they get the electricity to recharge its battery? Coal. Duh.
[14:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Delivers on 100 MW Australian Battery Promise - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:41] <exec> 08└─Is this going to be like the super computer "race" with everyone using different metrics so they look good?
[14:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Delivers on 100 MW Australian Battery Promise - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:43] <exec> 08└─caused by your regular mismanagement and greed, just like every other shortage we suffer. Wake up people! You are entitled to good service, but only if you demand it.
[14:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:54] <exec> 08└─You're right: The early ebook prices were a problem. Publishers thought they could charge as much (sometimes more) than for a physical book, despite the obvious savings in production, printing, transportation, etc.. On top of that, the early eReaders weren't very good, which made the experience less...
[14:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:55] <exec> 08└─Ironically this is why I am among the "dismal" number of Nook users. You can entirely skip Barnes & Noble and side-load content as you would a flash drive.
[14:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:57] <exec> 08└─Sounds a bit like they're doing a Radio Shack - attempting to diversify into more mainstream products and now collapsing to a business they don't really have that much to do with any more. What's interesting is that Barnes & Nobel is a survivor of what used to be a large retail chain bookstore marke...
[14:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:00] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure every Barnes & Noble or Books-A-Million I've been to (years ago) has had a shelf of programming books. Maybe basic tier and outdated stuff, but definitely covering C++, Java, Visual Basic, and HTML development or JavaScript at the least.
[14:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:00] <exec> 08└─The interesting parts of flying are not so much the flying itself, but the landing and take-off.
[14:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:02] <exec> 08└─Diesel-electric train engines do that, they are heavy and somewhat inefficient.
[14:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:46] <exec> 08└─There are two problems with this approach. The first is attributing blame post facto: Here's a river, it's full of pollutants. Who contributed how much to it being in the current state? The second is that it's often too late by that point. The cost of moving to non-polluting manufacturing techniques...
[14:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:47] <exec> 08└─I have just seen the greatest economic engine of the next decade: The combination of the military-industrial complex and the environmental lobby, arguing that all weapons must be powerful enough to completely atomise their targets, to reduce pollution caused by war.
[14:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:49] <exec> 08└─If you are conscientious with the canvas bags, they can be better. Our #1 problem with the reusable bags is that they're not always handy - sometimes we get a $50 load of groceries, sometimes $400, and even if we have enough reusable bags to carry $400, are they all in the car that we took to the st...
[14:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:52] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, common bacteria silently go on eating common plastics. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] But bacteria have no lobby in congress and do not pay for ads.
[14:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:54] <exec> 08└─The environment is the butt-end of the joke of capitalism. "Development of Natural Resources" is just a "working hard" label for exploitation. When those resources are renewable, it's slightly better, but still displacing the natural ecosystem in favor of economic productivity, and that displacement...
[14:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:56] <exec> 08└─If they can make fusion bombs without the fission stage, I think we've got a winner here...
[14:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:15] <exec> 08└─Spock made everyone all hot and bothered. For wrongheadedness, there's no salve more effective than ridicule. Invalid form key: Oa4a450ZBG
[14:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:16] <exec> 08└─Nobody said anything about making the USA an ethnostate; nobody said anything about whites being "oppressed" (though, whites are forced to pay for the artificial advancement of other peoples); nobody said anything about whites being the "master race"; nobody said anything about being proud of skin c...
[14:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:18] <exec> 08└─concrete blocks across European cities are not in place to prevent terrorist attacks from Atheists, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains or Zoroastrians The ring of steel wasn't put in to prevent terrorist attacks from Muslims. Waste bins weren't removed from the streets to prevent terr...
[14:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:50] <exec> 08└─There's good evidence that their IQ boost is due to bilingualism being more prevalent in their culture. IQ is meaningless as a measure of native intelligence.
[14:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:34] <exec> 08└─Pffft, you can survive Linus just fine. Contrary to what they're teaching in college lately, speech is not violence.
[14:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:45] <exec> 08└─I'm about 99% successful first time when trying to plug USB cables into ethernet sockets.
[14:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:46] <exec> 08└─Additionally, this meant that a PCI and ISA slot could share the same back panel position, so that you had some flexibility in how many ISA/PCI cards you used in a motherboard.
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[15:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:05] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to have not only the difficulty for an English speaker, but also the difficulty for native speakers of other languages. In particular, it would be interesting to compare the difficulties in reverse-directions: Is it harder for an English-speaker to learn French, or for a Fren...
[15:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:07] <exec> 08└─Individuals have unique affinities and abilities, so this study is at best a very generalized indicator. As an American, I picked up reasonable fluency in German much more quickly than Spanish. I didn't see much reference to shared roots of one's parent language being much difference. Russian remain...
[15:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:09] <exec> 08└─The map reckons Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, and Basque are off the charts.
[15:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:11] <exec> 08└─My last visit to Volgograd hilariously highlighted my challenges. Should have taken Trump with you.
[15:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kim Jong Nam Carried Antidote to the Nerve Agent Used to Kill Him - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:19] <exec> 08└─Suggests it was a specific poison weapon known to him - maybe it's commonly used in North Korea. They probably attacked him where they did because for some reason he couldn't carry a syringe (not allowed on the plane?); they knew this was the window where he wouldn't have access to an antidote.
[15:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:38] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, this is a new spin on the old snake oil, and can potentially kill people, either directly or by delaying them getting a treatment that might actually work. On the other hand it has the potential to prune quite a few idiots from society so.... yea torn.
[15:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:40] <exec> 08└─The real question when you're selling to the general population of lifters is if a dose X works what happens when dumb lifters take one hundred times X, because the dumb ones do that with everything else they can consume.
[15:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 1835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:42] <exec> 08└─It's not necessarily snake oil. FDA Approves a Gene Therapy for the First Time [soylentnews.org] FDA Committee Endorses Gene Therapy for a Form of Childhood Blindness [soylentnews.org] FDA Approves Gene Therapy for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma [soylentnews.org] Gene Therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Typ...
[15:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:44] <exec> 08└─Oh man, I think you hacked up your vowel gene partway through that post; you'd better CRISPR it back into one or both of your helices. Srsly!
[15:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Delivers on 100 MW Australian Battery Promise - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:05] <exec> 08└─Good luck demanding anything from government granted monopolies. Last I checked I have access to only one gas, water and electric utility. How do I demand better service from a monopoly I have no way to walk away from? And before you say to go solar and cut the cord, in many jurisdictions you MUST h...
[15:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Delivers on 100 MW Australian Battery Promise - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:06] <exec> 08└─The reason why government granted monopoly utilities in the US have worked relatively well is because of a magical wonderful word called: regulation. Sorry, electricity and internet service are not offered in your part of the city right now. Enter your email address here to be notified if electricit...
[15:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:22] <exec> 08└─I have never found it too difficult to get downloaded ebooks onto a Kindle. Just use Calibre [wikipedia.org], which is able to convert the files and handle metadata and stuff, and organize your books to an extent. Not as simple as treating the e-reader as USB storage, but potentially saves time. I d...
[15:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:23] <exec> 08└─They're being run by morons. I had a couple of Nooks and each generation got less and less full featured, the most recent versions lack a microsd card slot. But, it doesn't much matter because the people running the ebook division are complete assholes. It used to be that you could download the book...
[15:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:25] <exec> 08└─It was decades ago that I regularly visited Barnes & Noble. It *was* a wonderful place. I remember reading Green Eggs & Ham there aloud with a very attractive classmate while in high school. I used to go in there all the time to browse and would always find something interesting to read. They always...
[15:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:28] <exec> 08└─Indeed, that's part of why I don't have a Kindle. They make it so easy to get content from other stores onto their devices, but more or less impossible to take Kindle content and put it on 3rd party devices. I still don't get how they got away with doing that without any sort of antitrust action bei...
[15:07:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 2847 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:41] <exec> 08└─I used Light Table for a while before going back to emacs and it's a pretty nice editor. In a way, it's basically "emacs, but modern": extensible editor using a Lisp dialect (Clojure, or more accurately ClojureScript) for both the program and configuration. Uses ctrl-space by default to bring up a "...
[15:07:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:44] <exec> 08└─First Atom then Brackets now Light Table
[15:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:55] <exec> 08└─That's because it's got a parser running on the source files in the background so that it can do stuff like syntax highlighting, code completion, etc. It gets worse with "dynamic typed" languages because it has to guess types from the context.
[15:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:57] <exec> 08└─Even though he is an alt-right coder. Shame, Soylent! Shame!
[15:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:23] <exec> 08└─There are many things that you don't dream, oh self-described philosopher. And, many more that you cannot dream, because your mind is much to small to imagine them. Please, confine yourself to inane discussions about angels dancing on the heads of pins.
[15:10:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 923 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:22] <exec> 08└─I don't know. I think I would call them proud and protective of their homeland, their people, and their way of life. Not xenophobic. It's pretty pathetic watching generally awkward foreigners move to Japan expecting to fully integrate and be accepted as a Japanese. You're not Japanese. Respecting th...
[15:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:45] <exec> 08└─+1 truth. I threw a fit in WalMart 1 time. I got my ass whipped in WalMart 1 time. Never acted out in front of my mom again, because I learned mommy gets scary if I embarrass her in public.
[15:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:47] <exec> 08└─Not everyone has kids, and even if they do it's often just 1. With people living longer and generation span increasing you can get a situation where you have a 10 year old child, a pair of 40 year old working parents, 4 grandparents around 70ish, and a couple great-grandparents still around in their...
[15:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:49] <exec> 08└─I've seen it happen. Usually someone says something like "fucking immigrants should learn English", someone else gets mad "you're racist!". At this point, I pull out the popcorn.
[15:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:51] <exec> 08└─Nah, the Japanese wouldn't have problems with immigrants because they don't do social programs. If you can't pull your own weight, they WILL let you starve, and won't get upset about it.
[15:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:53] <exec> 08└─Yearly? What? What did I just read?!
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:55] <exec> 08└─It's rather unlikely that all the old people require taking care of. My only grandparent with any issues could still take care of herself for the most part, because dementia caused her to forget what year it was and think I was my dad, it didn't physically disable her.
[15:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:58] <exec> 08└─Perhaps Mr. H. Thompson went through life without finding that one true love, the one that touches your spirit.
[15:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:00] <exec> 08└─I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness
[15:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:02] <exec> 08└─They weren't exactly part of it by choice.... Besides, the Otoman Empire can be regarded as an 'Islam Light' for all practical purposes. The 'rough edges' mostly polished of by contact with exactly those mainly christian countries they kept om invading.
[15:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:20] <exec> 08└─what part of "convicted war criminal Slobodan Praljak" do you not get ?
[15:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:21] <exec> 08└─It's best to educate yourself IMHO, as the agendas/biases of others may or may not reflect objective reality. Here are a few *starting* points: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Is different from https://en.wikipedia.org [w...
[15:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:33] <exec> 08└─It actually represents the Devil's Pitchfork [theguardian.com].
[15:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:35] <exec> 08└─> dvi is at least tolerable Do you mean dvi a? or dvi b? or dvi I? Or perhaps you mean the dual linked DVI-D? I have cables for all of them. Problem is my PC socket needs DVI-D single linked. I might have an adapter somewhere...
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[16:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:50] <exec> 08└─I am tattooing this on every liberal's ass in the county. Get them drunk, tat their asses, they wake up in the morning thinking they've been buggered again.
[16:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:51] <exec> 08└─The last line made me laugh. Thanks for the chuckle.
[16:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:53] <exec> 08└─Don't get an ironic "Do Not Resuscitate" tattoo.
[16:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:04] <exec> 08└─Also what exactly do they mean with learning here? Is it that you can sound like a, stupid, tourist or child or that you can pass as a native?
[16:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:06] <exec> 08└─Make Estonian and Hungarian dark blue as well and it would seem reasonable. As they are all considered the most difficult European languages for an English speaker to learn. My understandign is that they are easier than Chinese but are difficult.
[16:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:08] <exec> 08└─I'd be interested to see how Esperanto compares to these. Even though I suck at learning languages, it seemed much easier than French/German/Spanish/etc.
[16:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:10] <exec> 08└─From what I've heard, Finnish is hard, but it's not that hard if you use a modern natural language approach. Try to memorize cases and grammar, you're never gonna make it. There are some good books a relative recommended me that they used to study when they went over there, don't ask me for the name...
[16:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:12] <exec> 08└─I have still to meet someone I recognized as a foreigner that passes for a native
[16:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kim Jong Nam Carried Antidote to the Nerve Agent Used to Kill Him - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:21] <exec> 08└─It seems more like North Korea has killed with nerve agents before (not necessarily VX each time), and atropine broadly protects against that class of toxins. I believe he intended to grab syringes at his destination and didn't expect to get targeted at an airport. Whoops.
[16:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kim Jong Nam Carried Antidote to the Nerve Agent Used to Kill Him - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:23] <exec> 08└─What a petty little fat-fuck that would do this to his brother. One day you fat-sadist will get yours. Hopefully they will hang him using a chain like they did with that elephant (terrible story), so as not to have the rope snap.
[16:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:46] <exec> 08└─this is a new spin on the old snake oil
[16:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:48] <exec> 08└─Machines also generally are isolation-type exercises, and don't build the smaller muscles that provide stability and balance, and don't put as much pressure on bones and tendons, which can lead to issues when your muscles are disproportionately stronger than the joints and bones they're anchored to.
[16:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:50] <exec> 08└─It's called being incredibly reckless and irresponsible. When gene therapies are approved, they know what they're dealing with both in terms of the DNA of the person as well as what the general effects of it are going to be. This is a case of companies engaged in illegal and unethical research on ig...
[16:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:52] <exec> 08└─That's not even remotely the same thing. For the most part, there are plenty of warning signs before you eat so many cheeseburgers that it kills you. And if you eat too many, you have options for limiting the effects. This is something being done at the genetic level and if it doesn't work or causes...
[16:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:54] <exec> 08└─It is though, some of those snake oil treatments turned out to work, but most of them resulted in huge problems for people taking them. It wasn't uncommon for there to be actual poison in there. In this case, we don't know what the consequences are going to be, but we do know that they're not likely...
[16:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:57] <exec> 08└─You are putting words in my mouth. I didn't say all gene therapy is snake oil. That's like saying all drugs are useless because some crap boner pill sold online. What I am saying is that these unapproved, untested, direct to the consumer "gene therapy" products are going to turn out to be almost 100...
[16:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:59] <exec> 08└─It doesn't stop at the level of "products". People will be able to order custom-made DNA and use it as they see fit.
[16:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:01] <exec> 08└─In this case, we don't know what the consequences are going to be, but we do know that they're not likely to be good. If they were likely to be good, these companies would be going through the FDA approval process so they could potentially charge a lot more money and bill insurance for the treatment...
[16:07:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:13] <exec> 08└─Where do you think they got the electricity to construct this thing? Where do you think they get the electricity to recharge its battery? Coal. Duh.
[16:07:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 1350 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:31] <exec> 08└─I mean, who'd've thunk it: a bookstore that sells books! I used to love going into bookstores to browse. Shelves filled with a broad selection of books, you could easily discover new authors. In good bookstores, the staff in each section actually knew the selection, and could make good suggestions....
[16:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:42] <exec> 08└─Ironically this is why I am among the "dismal" number of Nook users. You can entirely skip Barnes & Noble and side-load content as you would a flash drive.
[16:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:44] <exec> 08└─This former independent is owned by Books-a-Million. And no. They had nothing. It was all how-to-use type books (Windows 10, MacOS, IOS, Android, Photoshop, Office, etc) I specifically asked if they had any other computer books and was told that their dinky little four foot section was it. The Barne...
[16:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:46] <exec> 08└─The music world has discovered that it can live without DRM, so why not the book world?
[16:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:48] <exec> 08└─B&N used to be one of my favorite places. Then, a few years ago, I walked in and all I saw were kids games, crossword puzzles, and a bunch of other dumb gift items. I walked out and never went back. So, they've lost whatever base they had, and have been catering to illiterates. Now the illiterati ha...
[16:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:17] <exec> 08└─Clojure is quite a nice language actually. I tried Light Table sometime back. I think more than a year ago. But I was comfortable enough in Eclipse and couldn't overcome inertia1. Too set in my ways. 1or dementia from having tried Perl in my younger daze.
[16:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:18] <exec> 08└─I tried LightTable a while ago. It seemed to be an inferior product compared to something like Sublime, not to mention that it's built for a specific context I don't usually work in. Open source is a big positive, but this isn't even the best open source editor. That crown, for me at least, goes to...
[16:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:20] <exec> 08└─Node is just a VM like the Java VM. It's JavaScript that sucks. Although let's not be unfair to Java - the JVM is much better than the Node environment. Which raises the question of why, if you're writing Clojure, you don't just compile to the JVM instead of Node.
[16:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:22] <exec> 08└─Your wish is granted. We'll start ad-ovium-versutus attacks. Pleased now? (grin)
[16:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:25] <exec> 08└─"Slow" is not because it's "modern", it's because it's an "IDE". If you want it fast, you want something that bills itself as a "code editor". Something deliberately intended to be one of many tools, rather than the one and only.
[16:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpaxZ1FQgqc [youtube.com]
[16:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:23] <exec> 08└─Well, I would HOPE that if you waste a human being to cook their brains, you do a good job of it. Anything less would be disrespectful!! ;^)
[16:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:24] <exec> 08└─My parents were failures and they will die without some bullshit happy ending reunion from me. If they die with no one around to care, then it will be a result of the life that they lived.
[16:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:58] <exec> 08└─Don't interbreed them. I think the real lesson here is that what the rich people say is correct. It is a matter of breed rather than environment. The upper class rats are truly superior, just as rich people are inherently superior to us working slobs and therefore we should accept what the rich tell...
[16:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:59] <exec> 08└─DIN plugs for audio are round - and keyed, so you don't have 359 degrees of error.
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[17:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:09] <exec> 08└─What if the tattoo is a fraternity hazing ritual? (but then would frat bro's even be able to spell resuscitate?) It seems like the doctors should err on the side of resuscitating if unsure. It is the course of action that does not commit you to an irrevocable outcome. If the patent later tells you t...
[17:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:10] <exec> 08└─I'd be more impressed if they hadn't initially ignored the DNR. The fellow felt strongly enough about it to get a tattoo. That's got to say something. If there are people out there who are stupid enough to get "ironic DNR tattoos", well, Darwin Awards exist for a reason.
[17:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:12] <exec> 08└─they wake up in the morning thinking they've been buggered again, everyone is happy!
[17:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:14] <exec> 08└─Your approach is too complicated. If three people were wanting to eat the cake, a much simpler solution would be to cut the cake in half (as closely as possible) and shoot the third person. That way both conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied.
[17:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:17] <exec> 08└─It seems like the doctors should err on the side of resuscitating if unsure.
[17:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:19] <exec> 08└─Clear this up, really, make sure that any healed DNR-tattoo is a valid DNR. Note that little "healed" part, if the medical personell can't tell if a tattoo is less than a couple of weeks old then they probably won't know enough to ressucitate you either. Also - gives a nice two week "window of regre...
[17:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:35] <exec> 08└─what exactly do they mean with learning here? Is it that you can sound like a, stupid, tourist or child or that you can pass as a native?
[17:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:36] <exec> 08└─"How could it be that a table is a strong proud man," Der Tisch, "while a mangy feral tomcat is a proper lady?" Die Kätze. "I don't know. It makes sense to Germans." I didn't do well in my Deutsch studies because I never could remember the genders.
[17:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:38] <exec> 08└─One year of High School German is equivalent to how a 5 year old native German would speak.
[17:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:41] <exec> 08└─"What class did you do the worst in?" "German. I never had a clue!" (Uh Oh I forgot this guy is a German immigrant!) He proceeded to speak to me in German. To my great surprise I understood him and was able to respond well enough that he understood me - quite likely I was getting a lot of it wrong,...
[17:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 1724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:43] <exec> 08└─I spent 5 years at school 'learning' French, massive waste of time. I rarely go to a French speaking country (just looking down the most recent countries I've been to - they spoke Hausa, Hindi, Hebrew, German, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Portugese. I haven't been to a French speaking country since Novem...
[17:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:45] <exec> 08└─"Marina." "Govayrisch te po-Russkiy yazik?" "Da!" then... "How did you know?" "You said your name was Marina."
[17:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:47] <exec> 08└─After all the conquered Britain in 1066. It's not true that the French refuse to speak English. There's an easy way to get Francophones to speak English: Speak to them in French. At least that worked for me. I managed to memorize a few phrases but my pronunciation was a catastrophe.
[17:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:50] <exec> 08└─Amazon in the UK advertise all their jobs with (m/f) at the end. This at first glance appears very odd - specifying that it's a monday-to-friday job? Surely they aren't advertising the fact it's open to men and women. However, Amazon's HR seems to come from Germany, and because of genders in languag...
[17:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kim Jong Nam Carried Antidote to the Nerve Agent Used to Kill Him - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:01] <exec> 08└─If I recall the story correctly, he sought medical help at the airport after the attack. Why didn't he express his suspicion right there, present the antidote and have it injected? Or have the medical staff on hold to wait for first signs of symptoms?
[17:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:32] <exec> 08└─Bioengineering is too important to be left solely in the hands of big pharmaceutical companies. Odin is selling pieces of what people would need to experiment themselves. It is not selling a drug or ready-to-use therapy. http://www.the-odin.com
[17:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:33] <exec> 08└─People will be able to order custom-made DNA and use it as they see fit.
[17:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:36] <exec> 08└─OK, so first of all, that's still a product. If I order a custom tshirt, it's still a "product" being sold to me. Secondly, that just supports my point that these products will be dangerous if we don't apply some level of regulation to them. Genetics are not as cut and dry as a lot of people seem to...
[17:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:38] <exec> 08└─Does the Executive Branch want the market to decide, or not?
[17:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:23] <exec> 08└─"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto". C'mon, AC, admit it. When I wrote "Django" your first thoughts were Jamie Fox and Quentian Tarantino, were they not? Why do Americans persist in being so stupid and anti-philosophy? Even Harry Potter was changed from "Philosopher's Stone" to "Sorcerer's St...
[17:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:24] <exec> 08└─Now it is clear, you get nodded troll because that is exactly what you appear to be. Go under your bridge and play with you little contracts you clueless idjit.
[17:11:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:26] <exec> 08└─You're already at +5 so I can't mod you up further, but THANK YOU for being the one single fucking voice of reason in this entire festering septic tank of a thread. This place is going straight to shit...
[17:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:58] <exec> 08└─Back in 2007/2008 Oregon had a referendum about whether the state should be required to teach immigrant students in their native tongue for their entire time in our educational system or if they should be required to learn English. The high school I had just graduated from (back then) had two classe...
[17:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:59] <exec> 08└─who is giving them a pass? I've lived there. And have been confronted with some racism. It was the "good" kind though (have not been beat up or anything). But to conclude from that whites are much better is silly. Stupidity does not seem to have anything to do with skin color.
[17:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:01] <exec> 08└─Spock made everyone all hot and bothered. For wrongheadedness, there's no salve more effective than ridicule. Invalid form key: Oa4a450ZBG
[17:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:04] <exec> 08└─Nobody said anything about making the USA an ethnostate; nobody said anything about whites being "oppressed" (though, whites are forced to pay for the artificial advancement of other peoples); nobody said anything about whites being the "master race"; nobody said anything about being proud of skin c...
[17:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:06] <exec> 08└─My grandmother had a slow decline and then two months ago fell off a cliff. Doesn't recognize people around her, getting violent/making threats of violence, can't figure out how to look outside to tell if its day or night, can't comprehend the date when the reads the paper. This whole thing has made...
[17:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:08] <exec> 08└─The tiny apartments are fine for living in if you can get universal basic income and spend all your waking hours either immersed in video games or wanking. Ideally 100% of the population could adapt to this way of life. Ordering pizza delivery. Never leaving their apartments.
[17:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:10] <exec> 08└─Prince, or Prints? Hold, or Holed? Two, or Too?
[17:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:13] <exec> 08└─Concord?
[17:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:15] <exec> 08└─Did you ever compare the % foreigners as tenured staff at US, or even EU universities compared to japan? They do not "ban" immigration. They do just not give you the job. They have plenty of international students and postdocs, but after that time: you go back. This is changing, but very slowly. And...
[17:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:17] <exec> 08└─Moron alert, just trying yo get dome zingers in about the much loathed Berkeley mixed into Walmart. You have to drive a few cities away to find a Walmart in that area! Also, I've seen some little spoiled shits who could use better discipline, but I've seen worse from the more violent rural parents....
[17:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:19] <exec> 08└─We have plenty of cheap property in the UK, they just aren't in the right areas for where the work is. What Japan will end up with is dying villages and towns, with old people still living there, but no young people to do any actual work.
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[18:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:02] <exec> 08└─It's all very well to suggest that you should totally take a programmer's suggestions on board. Or a marketer, or a sales rep, or a janitor. Ultimately, you simply can't implement them all, and you simply can't pander to everyone's ego. If someone is going to become toxic and negative if you don't p...
[18:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:03] <exec> 08└─Code is King. If your ideas really are that good, then the most persuasive thing you can do is write some code that does the talking for you. I mean, just look at this website; it's crap. Invalid form key: wC3XKFTo3X
[18:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:06] <exec> 08└─On an "agile" team where every breath or arm movement must have a documented story or task aassociated, this is impossible. If you create a proof of concept to illustrate your point without it being pulled into the current sprint, you've broken the rules and will be punished appropriately. If your...
[18:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 2712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:08] <exec> 08└─Programmers join organizations, but leave managers. Sometimes programmers don't see the bigger picture. Some concerns are not purely technical. Try to resolve conflicts pro-actively. Everyone at work probably has the same goal: to maximize their bonus. That involves all the pesky details like keepin...
[18:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:10] <exec> 08└─Do the work you're told to do, but if you have conviction, then you'll do your own work, too. What?! Are you implying I should work outside of paid hours?! That's the kind of question a codemonkey would ask. Invalid form key: mCivm2HWoi
[18:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:12] <exec> 08└─Obligatory code monkey song: https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[18:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:14] <exec> 08└─Your eternal hero Dick Bathroom Stall-Man wants you to work retail to pay for your programming hobby. All software must be free software and nobody should ever get paid for programming. http://www.gnu.org [gnu.org] Probably programming will not be as lucrative on the new basis as...
[18:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 1688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:31] <exec> 08└─Actually it's catch-22 either way, because an erroneous act of resuscitating can only still be corrected if the patient doesn't have Return of Spontaneous Circulation. The heart starts beating and you're not going to stop it. And many people who choose a DNR path are afraid of waking up with a buste...
[18:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:33] <exec> 08└─Student (interrupting): Your approach is too complicated. If three people were wanting to eat the cake, a much simpler solution would be to cut the cake in half (as closely as possible) and shoot the third person. That way both conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied.
[18:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:35] <exec> 08└─It seems like the doctors should err on the side of resuscitating if unsure.
[18:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:37] <exec> 08└─Things are different in every state but posting another reply upstream I came across a DNR form legal in California. What’s different about it is, in EMS field settings, a Medic Alert Bracelet or Necklace specifying DNR IS apparently considered a valid order there. ( https://emsa.ca.gov
[18:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:39] <exec> 08└─The cake is a lie.
[18:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:41] <exec> 08└─This would not be the first time that attempting to make something more explicit backfires. The classic example is the first clause of the Second Amendment A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State
[18:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:44] <exec> 08└─But that lie would be so sweet!
[18:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:46] <exec> 08└─The estate will sue after contacting the deceased for guidance. This is why dead people vote and express interest in net neutrality. Dead people seem to vote against net neutrality which would be in their best interests. Ping times from the afterlife have horrible latency.
[18:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:48] <exec> 08└─but not everyone in the world is that retarded
[18:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:12] <exec> 08└─If I said you have a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? I'm no longer infected!
[18:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:14] <exec> 08└─Tell us of your travels, MDC. In which country have you tasted the best cock?
[18:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:16] <exec> 08└─The other way round can't be measured as it's mostly a function of the education system, which incorporates aspects of that country's history (e.g. invasions/empires) and geopolitics, not an intrinsic property of the mother language itself. And the inputs to that function can change very quickly - l...
[18:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kim Jong Nam Carried Antidote to the Nerve Agent Used to Kill Him - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:26] <exec> 08└─Why didn't he express his suspicion right there, present the antidote and have it injected?
[18:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:47] <exec> 08└─It won't for long. [the-digital-reader.com] I was about 2 seconds from pulling the trigger on the new Nook Glowlight 3 Black Friday deal when I found out about this and decided I'm going to get a Kobo Aura ONE with my tax refund instead. No sense investing in an ecosystem that will not be maintained...
[18:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:22] <exec> 08└─So, it's another clone of Sublime. Just like Atom, Visual Studio Code, and possibly others. Why? And what's with this fad of providing config options in barely documented JSON? Strikes me as just being too lazy to provide preference screens.
[18:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:53] <exec> 08└─It's not that uncommon that we have one or 2 "overflow" items that end up in plastic, but that's just a bag rather than a fistfull. It still comes out ahead. As for glitter, it should probably use biodegradable starch based plastic as the backing.
[18:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:37] <exec> 08└─I suspect he's talking about the Moors and their occupation of Sicily and the Iberian Peninsular for 600 years, before being driven away by Christians
[18:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:39] <exec> 08└─In Florida the dying villages are a source of jobs. Nursing, construction and repair, lawn maintenance, restaurants, even hotels are driven by the retirement communities. Bonus: the near-dead immigrate to Florida on a regular basis, sustaining the source of income. Not the most enjoyable bunch of pe...
[18:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:14] <exec> 08└─>I have no love for the older molex power connectors, but they were still better than what we ended up with, in the sata power connector. One time, I managed to plug in a Molex connector the wrong way, and a hard drive went up in smoke because the 12-volt and 5-volt power connections were reversed.
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[19:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:18] <exec> 08└─You cocksucking pussy. You should become a malcontent and continue to criticize management until you are fired for insubordination.
[19:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe on your first job. Then you get your second, usually byt that time you've learned you don't know everything, and you do what you were hired to do while you figure out what is going on, and who is who, and then a year and a half later, you quietly sell your idea to your boss, maybe with a proof...
[19:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:21] <exec> 08└─Code is King. If your ideas really are that good, then the most persuasive thing you can do is write some code that does the talking for you. I mean, just look at this website; it's crap. Invalid form key: wC3XKFTo3X
[19:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:23] <exec> 08└─with a Lifeline Obamaphone
[19:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:26] <exec> 08└─70% sociopaths, 15% psychopaths, 14% narcissists 1% people that have at least minimal value proceed acordingly
[19:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:28] <exec> 08└─Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corne...
[19:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:30] <exec> 08└─I guess this is the most appropriate place to observe, none of the above is exclusive to code monkeys. All of the same things happen to grease monkeys, turd monkeys, and all the other monkeys who get disgusted, and decide to just put in their time, and cash their paycheck at the end of the week. You...
[19:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:32] <exec> 08└─Seriously, if you provide the right motivation and rewards, it's not that big a problem [youtube.com].
[19:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:35] <exec> 08└─You forgot to post the invalid form key lol
[19:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:37] <exec> 08└─Therapy my friend, therapy.
[19:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:39] <exec> 08└─I am not the invalid form key AC you stupid fuck. There are more than one of us and we all hate your guts.
[19:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:41] <exec> 08└─Just depends on the personality -- some girls just wanna defun [sachachua.com].
[19:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:44] <exec> 08└─The feeling is mutual :)
[19:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:46] <exec> 08└─I can't afford therapy after getting fired! Logic, you fail it!!
[19:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:48] <exec> 08└─Code is King. If your ideas really are that good, then the most persuasive thing you can do is write some code that does the talking for you. I mean, just look at this website; it's crap. Invalid form key: wC3XKFTo3X
[19:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:50] <exec> 08└─I gather your particular bug is hard and SN isn't paying people to code expressly for Tor .onion domains. So they'll get around to it when they get around to it. You should be thankful that they're supporting [soylentnews.org] this at all rather than being a permanent dick about it.
[19:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:16] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you, first we do the biggest Tax Cut in history. Then the cuts to Medicare happen automatically. Terrific!
[19:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:17] <exec> 08└─So, you're freaking GENIUSES in some respects. But, you're retarded in other ways. Which parts of the world were it, that trapped itself into a spider web of conflicting treaties, and started World War One? Fekkin' retards. The only reason we even bothered to help you out, TWICE, was so we could ste...
[19:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:19] <exec> 08└─Heh. It's easy enough to go buy a bracelet, and slip it onto the wife's wrist after she's fallen and can't get up. Then, all the money is MINE MINE MINE!! Well, if the wife had any money . . .
[19:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:22] <exec> 08└─Which parts of the world were it, that trapped itself into a spider web of conflicting treaties, and started World War One?
[19:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:24] <exec> 08└─Tattoos -- the cause of, and solution to, [soylentnews.org] recent issues in the news.
[19:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:26] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you about this one weird trick [wordpress.com] that libertarians hate! The automation is already underway.
[19:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:28] <exec> 08└─The classic example is the first clause of the Second Amendment A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State
[19:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:55] <exec> 08└─Some say that alienness isn't a disadvantage, as you don't fall into any ruts that you learnt from other languages. Finnish is remarkably logical, having well-followed rules, except for some terrible consonant degradation quirks. However, I knew I was going to find it hard to learn when the teacher...
[19:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:57] <exec> 08└─Once I read that English is not as easy as Spanish (I'm Spaniard). Starting to speak English is easier than Spanish, (simple flexion verbs, no grammatical gender...). But after going through the first difficulties, Spanish is much easier to master than English. English has a very difficult pronuncia...
[19:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:59] <exec> 08└─That must depend a lot on your high school. After a year of German I could say things from the lessons, but I was hardly as fluent as a 5-year old. Closer to 3, but with a very different vocabulary. (I know of very few 3 year olds who would say the equivalent of "Gee, that's probably the oldest car...
[19:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:01] <exec> 08└─This is what Russians keep asking me: ты говоришь по-русски [wiktionary.org] And this is my answer: я не говорю по-русски [wiktionary.org] Sometimes I also mix it up with я не знаю [wiktionary.org] and я не понимаю [wiktionary.org] to get the messa...
[19:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:03] <exec> 08└─Living in Estonia, I'd mostly agree, but living in the near-50%-Russian-speaking part of town, I get to see a lot of Cyrillic too. My raw vocabulary of both languages is quite similar - mostly foodstuffs, but when I read Estonian menus, I see a whole word and understand it immediately, but when I re...
[19:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:05] <exec> 08└─So she should have said "One can't even say...". Lots of languages (all languages?) have rules about what sounds are included, and which are slopped together into one sound. And native speakers of those languages literally *can't* either say or hear the excluded sounds. The traditional example is th...
[19:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:08] <exec> 08└─Learning language is not easy. Period. You must learn the rules, the vocabulary and then they must pop in your mind immediately. To learn a language, you need thousand of hours, continuity and determination. And many hours hearing the language (from a mp3 or from native speaker) If you don't have a...
[19:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:10] <exec> 08└─Since you sad tomcat I believe the proper German would be der Kater.
[19:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:12] <exec> 08└─let's look at the hardest splat on the map - the Ugrimugris
[19:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:58] <exec> 08└─The problem really applies to anything. Sell a lawnmower and some idiot will try to trim hedges with it. Sell a hair dryer and some idiot will try using it while still sitting in the tub. No amount of nerfing can save some people.
[19:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:00] <exec> 08└─These don't seem to be gene-line therapies, though, so the people are only hurting themselves. As long as nobody is paying them to do this, I don't see it as any worse than lots of other things people do that may hurt themselves, like mountain climbing or watching TV (sloth is deadly). OTOH, as you...
[19:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:02] <exec> 08└─It's actually only illegal if you advertise a commercial product as a medical treatment or diagnostic tool. But hey, that doesn't make as good of a pithy, cynical, soundbite.
[19:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:04] <exec> 08└─You must be doing something wrong. Have you tried buying dinner first? *ducks*
[19:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:06] <exec> 08└─I'd like to remind you that Odin is not selling a gene therapy. They are selling components that can be used to create a gene therapy. That should not be outlawed, no matter how unsafe it could be. If it is outlawed, I would encourage it to be circumvented by desktop-sized equipment capable of synth...
[19:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:52] <exec> 08└─A bookstore selling books cannot be allowed in the new disrutitive economy! where are the MBA's??
[19:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:28] <exec> 08└─QtCreator is pretty fast though. Much faster than Visual Studio at syntax evaluation. The integration with gdb is pretty good too. All I had to know was that this new IDE appears to target Electron. Unmitigated trash.
[19:11:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 319 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:01] <exec> 08└─You talk like flying is impossible without megawatts of power. Yet somehow birds manage it, and for long distances. The albatross is a particularly inspiring bird. > This is why all electric planes will never be seen in the skies. They are already in the skies. A solar plane successfully flew around...
[19:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Hybrid Plane Will Add Second Electric Engine As Battery Costs Drop - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:05] <exec> 08└─Absent the high volume of gas flow due to combustion, I can't see how a ducted fan ever compresses enough atmosphere to squirt it out fast enough to get airborne. At best I see this as a cruise engine.
[19:11:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:26] <exec> 08└─That's probably exactly what they do want. "Ban glitter" just makes for a snappier headline that will give the story more exposure.
[19:11:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 803 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:27] <exec> 08└─So, I'm sure the ban would specify some rationale as to why "glitter" is targeted and that some ingenious entrepreneur somewhere can come up with an environmentally acceptable glitter that can be sold after the ban has passed. (Cynical take: somesuch already exists and the financial backers of that...
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:46] <exec> 08└─I'm just saying a phone call even.... ....the person doesn't answer the phone for a couple days, you could call the local cops/landlord/someone to check on them, so if they have fallen, they don't die from starvation or... My wife's grandmother fell with her arms pinned beneath her chest (she'd trie...
[19:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:48] <exec> 08└─"You say that as if a decreasing population is a problem." It's mainly a problem for next quarters profit report.
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[20:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unraveling the Surprising Ecology of Dust - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:06] <exec> 08└─Seriously I know nothing jon snow
[20:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:41] <exec> 08└─On an "agile" team where every breath or arm movement must have a documented story or task aassociated, this is impossible. If you create a proof of concept to illustrate your point without it being pulled into the current sprint, you've broken the rules and will be punished appropriately. If your i...
[20:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:43] <exec> 08└─The problem is certainly triggered by Tor more easily, but it's a fundamentally stupid design that is at the core of the problem. I don't use the .onion domain. Why would I bother?
[20:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:45] <exec> 08└─Do the work you're told to do, but if you have conviction, then you'll do your own work, too. What?! Are you implying I should work outside of paid hours?! That's the kind of question a codemonkey would ask.
[20:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:47] <exec> 08└─he is known to be a "nanomanager", as in, taking micromanagement to the next level - he knows ridiculously low-level details, and your ass is in the hot seat if you screw something up, but he will also acknowledge you for your skills if he likes what you are doing, no matter where you are on the org...
[20:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:49] <exec> 08└─Obligatory code monkey song: https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[20:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:52] <exec> 08└─Death will cure your addiction to food.
[20:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 1656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:54] <exec> 08└─I've managed programmers before. How to manage programmers falls basically into 3 steps: 1. Hire smart and capable techies. Treat them like they're smart and capable, unless proven otherwise. 2. Give them a clear idea of what you want them to do, what standards you're expecting them to adhere to, an...
[20:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:56] <exec> 08└─I've managed programmers before. How to manage programmers falls basically into 3 steps:
[20:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:30] <exec> 08└─I don't see how it's a poor example. Half of today's Europeans think they are master statesmen, just like they did in 1900. And, half of Americans are determined to preserve their second amendment right, just like they were in 1900. The nuts and the acorns don't fall far from the trees. (For clarifi...
[20:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:32] <exec> 08└─What if a hazing ritual involves signing a full power of attorney document? At some point you just have to draw the line and say that either the person asking is criminally dangerous to society and lock them up, or a person willing to accede to that is too dumb to manage their own affairs and should...
[20:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:08] <exec> 08└─People in East Asia tend to have DNA that helps with distinguishing pitch. Observe that most of East Asia speaks tonal languages. There is an interesting feedback loop here. If people have that DNA, then a tonal language is more likely to be created. If people speak a tonal language, then those with...
[20:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:10] <exec> 08└─I thought Arabic was off the chart, and the dark blue is just the Arabic-laden version of French they speak in the former Colonies, which should also show up as a dot representing Marseille. (grin, as he says)
[20:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:12] <exec> 08└─Indeed, but you can learn a few key phrases - being able to identfy common nouns on a menu in half a dozen languages would be a very beneficial skill. Just learning how to copy the items down from the menu to pop them into your phone to auto-translate would be a massive benefit when it comes to lang...
[20:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:14] <exec> 08└─I think it would be best to teach something like interlingua, which will allow one to read most Romance languages, and maybe speak or understand them, the similar slavic artficial language which I can't recall the name of, and maybe Chinese characters or aramaic or arabic script. When most people ca...
[20:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:16] <exec> 08└─People in East Asia tend to have DNA that helps with distinguishing pitch. Observe that most of East Asia speaks tonal languages.
[20:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kim Jong Nam Carried Antidote to the Nerve Agent Used to Kill Him - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:29] <exec> 08└─> What a petty little fat-fuck that would do this to his brother. Somebody needs a history book. Lots of influential siblings of emperors/kings have had accidents over the centuries. Related to lots of kings/emperors (and regularly their male heirs) having accidents at the instigation of someone who...
[20:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:10] <exec> 08└─Like i said I'm torn. It's their bodies (well until they start giving this crap to their kids) so they should be able to do as they please. But without any regulation there is no way to know that people are getting what they are promised, that it's safe and/or effective, and what the known risks and...
[20:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:23] <exec> 08└─On top of that, building clones of the ship, which may carry less unpleasant loads, is pretty easy. The question I have, given the recent news of the electric mining truck which produces power by taking it load downhill, is whether the electric ships floating downriver can end up creating power by s...
[20:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:25] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but it wouldn't work. A truck going downhill can use the difference in speed between the vehicle with gravity adding energy to the truck to keep it moving. A floating ship going down river is moving at effectively the same speed as the water it is floating in so there wouldn't be enough of an...
[20:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:27] <exec> 08└─they play joke.
[20:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Delivers on 100 MW Australian Battery Promise - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:38] <exec> 08└─MWh, MW, $/MWh, %loss/year, recyclability ... not too many things to play with. But if marketing people want to have a "mine's bigger" race, I'll be glad to see more systems come online just for bragging rights! The electric companies won't let them install stuff that doesn't generate profit, and an...
[20:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:20] <exec> 08└─Should, but I can already hear the moans: "oh, the good old glitter we used to have would just rinse right off, but this new stuff gets all gooey and sticks to everything..." I dated a girl in the 1980s who wore sparkly makeup - I'm just now picturing those shiny little dots jamming up the liver cap...
[20:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:09] <exec> 08└─Then help Muslims emigrate to Malaysia (Just look at their flag! They must be the ACS project for Muslims!), Mexicans back to Mexico (under US 'management'.) And then let the chinese finish buying out the US and watch as our leadership learns mandarin and abandons us for some wealthy Chinese-majorit...
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[21:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:06] <exec> 08└─Where is your god NOW??? Oh right, this is the fault of the government that invested in business. Corruption and theft are far far FARRRR down the line of things we need to worry about!! /s
[21:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:08] <exec> 08└─Don't you know how many miles of optical fiber are in a modern 350-ft yacht ? Add a few miles for each of the two Gulfstreams and two Falcons, and you get a pretty respectable amount of fiber, overall.
[21:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─There needs to be a Separation of Government and Business. It is not the case that Big Business corrupts government; it is the case that Big Government corrupts business. If the government didn't have so much power to sell, businesses wouldn't be trying to buy it. We need to get government's fingers...
[21:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:12] <exec> 08└─Obviously Big Business has too much money. We need to tax them alot more.
[21:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:15] <exec> 08└─We need to get government's fingers out of business; a government's role should be mediating and enforcing according to well defined rules the agreements made between individuals (and their organizations) in the market. That's it.
[21:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:17] <exec> 08└─Clearly these fraudulent bastards need FEWER regulations!
[21:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:19] <exec> 08└─Baka Take away government and big business just directly does what it wants. Consumers obviously are driven to the cheapest product and it is already clear that tracking violations by big businesses hardly affects consumer choices. How many lights do you see?
[21:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:21] <exec> 08└─It's a worlds first completely secure fiber network. They should patent this.
[21:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:24] <exec> 08└─Nobody had to grant anything for the restaurant down the street to "invest" in infrastructure. The owner did it because he saw a business opportunity. He was right, and now he is earning a return for his investment of time and money. Big gov colludes with Big corp all the time. It goes both ways. Pr...
[21:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:26] <exec> 08└─What is "free market" about these government-sanctioned monopolies? I'll wait.
[21:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03curril [5717] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unraveling the Surprising Ecology of Dust - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:36] <exec> 08└─NASA has a simulation of the distribution of smoke, dust, and ocean spray here: 2017 Hurricanes and Aerosols Simulation [youtube.com] It's amazing to watch as dust is whipped across from Africa to the Americas by hurricanes.
[21:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:19] <exec> 08└─Invalid form key: mCivm2HWoi
[21:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:21] <exec> 08└─I am not a programmer, but maybe you've just defined 3 as a variable?
[21:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:23] <exec> 08└─3. As much as possible, keep out of their hair, and keep other people out of their hair, so they can do their friggin' jobs.
[21:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:25] <exec> 08└─You're against someone being motivated and then taking the 5% of that outcome that you need, now knowing just how much more the kid can do, even if no one asked? Most people I work with have a hard time delivering that 5% the kid didn't do, let alone providing 90% more than anything asked of them, a...
[21:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:28] <exec> 08└─There is a great deal of honor in the technical skill set and that should not be violated (that honor goes straight to the heart and personality of the technical person).
[21:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:30] <exec> 08└─SN blocks repeated submission attempts and tracks IPs making spammy posts. The troll connects through TOR and runs into repeated errors since the TOR ip is frequently changing. Troll is consistently angry about it, probably making so much noise so they weaken their security measures, then said troll...
[21:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:32] <exec> 08└─So the eeeevil SN admins can't find your actual IP and geolocated you within a few hundred sq. miles. Perhaps they think their trollish comments will never be tied back to them, but I think the NSA would get a chuckle out of that!MySession
[21:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:34] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot. Plenty of open source software receives real money. Support is huge, and then there are non-free aspects for Enterprise customers. Service is the new thing, not creating a single code base and updating it with bullshit every year just so you can charge more. Go fuck yourself you shi...
[21:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:36] <exec> 08└─The sensitivity training might be required due to how various laws are interpreted. If a business can show that they sent someone to "don't be stupid" training, even if , they then can tell the legal system later that they gave proper "how not to be stupid" training, it's not their fault the guy did...
[21:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:39] <exec> 08└─When the bugs are actually a secret feature there is no point in wasting QA time.
[21:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:41] <exec> 08└─I think you are missing the point that the 5% he didn't do inevitably comprises: - 95% of the work - 95% of the bugs, the testing and the QA - must-haves for all the top 5% of customers, by account value This is why knowledge and experience make more money than ideals. Don't want to make money? - fi...
[21:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:43] <exec> 08└─Therapy and / or Drugs can be an effective treatment. Especially if your insurance plan covers prescription cyanide. Alas, not all insurance plans are created equal. And thus the Comparable<T> interface.
[21:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:19] <exec> 08└─Those DNR bracelets aren't that easily accessible, and I think that there's generally an audit trail.
[21:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah but in the end thats the interpretation that matters.
[21:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:23] <exec> 08└─How about we build a wall around the swamp and make the swamp pay for it? We have the best swamps. Trust me. The best most beautiful swamps. Swamps unmatched by the rest of the world. And believe me, I know my swamps.
[21:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:25] <exec> 08└─I think you finally found a proposal that all sides of politics are in favor of.
[21:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:06] <exec> 08└─Esperanto is easy to learn. It's an artificial language, so there are no exceptions to any rules, and the prefixes and suffixes are all sensible and easy. Word roots are Indo-European, and an English speaker with a passing knowledge of French, Spanish, Italian, German, or another similar European la...
[21:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:07] <exec> 08└─It's impressive you learned it. As a bonus you should have a leg up learning Hungarian now.
[21:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:10] <exec> 08└─...Also, (hit 'Submit' too quickly) it would give you a leg up learning Tolkien's Elvish, since he based those on old Finnish.
[21:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:12] <exec> 08└─The first thing bables learn is pitch, they imitate very well the pitch and tone in their gibberish, no matter the language Simply pitch doesn't carry semantic information in most languages, so children don't practice and such skill becomes atrophied. Nevertheless we use pitch in question and stress...
[21:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:14] <exec> 08└─English has tones, too, but most people don't realize it. Unlike Chinese, where tone carries the primary meaning, in English tone conveys connotation and context. Try it: Flat tone: A: "I can't make up my mind where we should eat dinner. Mexican is cheap, but can be too spicy. Japanese is good, but...
[21:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:16] <exec> 08└─It's amazingly popular for something completely invented in the late 19th century.
[21:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:19] <exec> 08└─Arabic hard? Looks to me like Germany is Orange.
[21:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kim Jong Nam Carried Antidote to the Nerve Agent Used to Kill Him - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:31] <exec> 08└─Perhaps what Kim Jong Nam had on him could be some insight into everyday carry items for North Korean upper management. Obviously most of us don't carry vials of atropine everyday; perhaps this is some indication of how NK bourgeois views the scope of external threats; the fatal attack on Kim (if it...
[21:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:13] <exec> 08└─And what if your genemodding your own body also alters something like a cold virus or the e-coli in your gut into something really nasty? If it just kills you no big deal since it was your choice to mod your own genes but if it jumps to other people then it sucks for everyone else. It is kind of lik...
[21:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not interested in safety mechanisms (also known as anti-science restrictions). I want innovation in bioengineering. People and companies already engage in risky behaviors that make diseases worse. For example, using too many antibiotics or using them incorrectly, or dumping medical waste product...
[21:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:30] <exec> 08└─Another advantage of this ship is it moves any CO2/soot emissions from a moving source with limited room for exhaust scrubbers to a single non-moving fixed location with plenty of room for extra scrubbers to be installed and easily maintained. So even though this ship is might be hauling coal for a...
[21:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:32] <exec> 08└─I guess I should have mentioned the dragging would be on the river bed, since yes, the water mostly goes at drifting ship speed (localized effect do apply). You know, if you're gonna piss off the eco-conscious by carrying coal, you might as well kick up silt and rip the ecosystem to shreds in the pr...
[21:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:44] <exec> 08└─QtCreator is pretty fast though. Much faster than Visual Studio at syntax evaluation.
[21:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:45] <exec> 08└─And what's with this fad of providing config options in barely documented JSON? Strikes me as just being too lazy to provide preference screens.
[21:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:48] <exec> 08└─The choice of name was deliberate, the idea was that it would borrow ideas from real light tables. It's not clear to me if he got it working, but there are demos of the idea in some of the videos.
[21:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:50] <exec> 08└─Very true. Modern IDEs deploy dozens of threads in the background to all the parsing/coordination work, and I thought managing that on JVM was a feet, but stick that on top of dynamic scripting language platform, it negates all the multi-core hardware performance advances of the last decade.
[21:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:52] <exec> 08└─Did Granger fail to deliver any of the promises in the Kickstarter? If he fulfilled all of the original goals - and I think he did - then what's wrong with him abandoning the project? I tried LightTable, but for better or for worse (mostly for worse) I pay my mortgage working on Java. If I could con...
[21:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:24] <exec> 08└─I don't recall any of Tony Iommi's Jazz recordings. Perhaps you could point to a list. Barring that, maybe an advertisement/poster for one of his Jazz concerts. ...and if we're straying into the Rock world: Eddie Van Halen, Gary Moore, Slash[1], Ted Nugent[2]... [1] I've heard a recording by him on...
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[22:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:14] <exec> 08└─We need to get government's fingers out of business; a government's role should be encouraging business (via a variety of tools) into areas which will enhance the economic well-being, improve the lives of its citizens and "insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the gene...
[22:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:15] <exec> 08└─It's not "big governent", it's legalized lobbying, regulatory capture - legalized CORRUPTION. Things like power, telecom, water, sewer are utility - natural monopoly. You leave it out to the industry, monopoly/cartel is the natural outcome. Adam Smith centuries ago already saw this coming.
[22:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:17] <exec> 08└─The fact that, by and large the free market had already created the monopolies before government stepped in to regulate them? There's lots of natural monopolies in the world, they come free with economies of scale, and can only be challenged by incredibly deep-pocketed investors that can "buy in" at...
[22:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:20] <exec> 08└─Subject: Big business corrupts government, not the reverse. Comment: Big business doesn't corrupt government, it's the reverse. So, which is it? As for the rest of your comment, I agree 100%. No more subsidies. No more tax breaks. No more tax loopholes. No more incentive packages. No more government...
[22:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:22] <exec> 08└─I dispute your notion that government keeps big business in check. After all, government is itself a monopoly—and not just a market monopoly that came to power through providing a voluntary service, but rather a monopoly that was founded in violent imposition of its will. If anything, Big Business...
[22:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:24] <exec> 08└─The subject line was a mistake/typo. That's OK. Hopefully, the mistake caught more attention, and will make people think about it more.
[22:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:26] <exec> 08└─As OP said: Big Government corrupts business. Get the government out of the business of choosing how resources should be allocated. That's the business of business; that's the business of individuals (and their organizations), participating in a market of voluntary trade, where the government's sole...
[22:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:29] <exec> 08└─If you hand that mandate to the Men-with-Guns, your nice words will quickly become blood in the mouth. Your culture should expect that the Men-with-Guns are only supposed enforce the properly negotiated agreements made between individuals, as per well published rules in advance of interaction. That...
[22:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:31] <exec> 08└─After all, government is itself a monopoly—and not just a market monopoly that came to power through providing a voluntary service, but rather a monopoly that was founded in violent imposition of its will.
[22:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:33] <exec> 08└─So you're saying you hate out republican (small 'r') form of government? No one says you need to live here. If you don't like the form our government takes, go somewhere else. Even better, why don't you break out the ammo box? That way, I won't have to read the ridiculous drivel you constantly spew...
[22:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:35] <exec> 08└─The government says "You have to pay for this", and you have no choice but to comply. No other organization has that power. Indeed, that's what distinguishes an organization as a "government": It can throw you into a cage (or worse) for not buying its services.
[22:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:38] <exec> 08└─Look past your identity and start to think about the way things are structure, and how they instead could be structured. If you think of yourself as a member of Civilization, then you should be excited about figuring out how society could be organized to have as little coercion as possible. So, why...
[22:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:40] <exec> 08└─> > > It is not the case that Big Business corrupts government; it is the case that Big Government corrupts business. > As OP said: Big Government corrupts business. I just came back from attending a street protest filled with CEOs who were trying to stop the government from offering them contracts,...
[22:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:42] <exec> 08└─Your argument doesn't really work, because most such monopolies were created, supported, bolstered, etc., by government anyway. It wasn't capitalism, but rather cronyism, and the whole Anti-Trust movement was vote-grabbing by politicians who were trying to take advantage of the popular spread of mar...
[22:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:44] <exec> 08└─He's mad because government is the new God and you're committing deicide against his faith.
[22:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:47] <exec> 08└─The government says "You have to pay for this", and you have no choice but to comply. No other organization has that power. Indeed, that's what distinguishes an organization as a "government": It can throw you into a cage (or worse) for not buying its services.
[22:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:49] <exec> 08└─Are you willing to share details of this protest I can research further? I understand if you don't want to be more specific. I'm not skeptical, just curious.
[22:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:51] <exec> 08└─As much as I'm not a laissez faire libertarian, it's fallacious to attribute this to the free market running amok over consumers and taxpayers. The cable companies and other ISP's generally enjoy municipal exclusivity agreements (read: government mandated monopolies) that leave them unmotivated to s...
[22:07:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 2712 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:10] <exec> 08└─Programmers join organizations, but leave managers. Sometimes programmers don't see the bigger picture. Some concerns are not purely technical. Try to resolve conflicts pro-actively. Everyone at work probably has the same goal: to maximize their bonus. That involves all the pesky details like keepin...
[22:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:56] <exec> 08└─Well now let me see I am already an accomplished programmer and open source project creator and code contributor and I still get paid zero for my work and there are no jobs for me anywhere. So tell me dear genius how I can get on the lucrative gravy train of free software. Tell me which trending pro...
[22:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:57] <exec> 08└─I don't have an insurance plan because I don't have a job! Logic, you fail it!!
[22:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:59] <exec> 08└─Should have used \LaTeX and let the computer worry about numbering.
[22:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:02] <exec> 08└─Humans are a bit more complicated than that, Troll. Quoth Steinbeck: Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pav...
[22:08:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:12] <exec> 08└─I'd be more impressed if they hadn't initially ignored the DNR. The fellow felt strongly enough about it to get a tattoo. That's got to say something. If there are people out there who are stupid enough to get "ironic DNR tattoos", well, Darwin Awards exist for a reason.
[22:08:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:26] <exec> 08└─but not everyone in the world is that retarded
[22:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:42] <exec> 08└─You do have to wonder though - why was this clause included if it was not important? From memory (I'm not a US constitutional expert), none of the earlier amendments included any 'explanatory' text in them apart from the 2nd. It stands to reason then that this should form part of the meaning of the...
[22:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:31] <exec> 08└─The thing about vowel harmony is that it magically evaporates when you have compound words, which in an aglutinative language like Finnish, are quite common. Nothing wrong with the bizarrely now sayable Pukinmäki, Lapinjärvi, or Hämeenlinna. Finns, not having a native voiced "b", but being positi...
[22:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:33] <exec> 08└─In the gay part of Portland's Paris Adult Theater. I celebrated my paycheck by signing up for a six-month membership and a locker at Hawk's PDX. But Welbutrin sometimes makes it impossible to get my cookies. A really nice man worked very very hard for almost an hour, but eventually I gave him a hug...
[22:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:35] <exec> 08└─-e. I know this because a friend operates a Filipino grocery store in Alameda, California. He sells the newspaper with those appalling ads.
[22:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:37] <exec> 08└─Tolkien was indeed influenced by Finnish, and the Kalevala in particular, but I wouldn't say the languages were based on it particularly. I'm quite glad that he was nerd enough to construct a whole clade of languages with sensible proto-elvish roots. It's not just the other more recent JRR author wh...
[22:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:39] <exec> 08└─I picked up enough polite Arabic from my brother in law to impress his family when I visited Palestine waaaaay back. Can't read or write it at all, though - I refer to how difficult I consider other scripts to be elsethread. Even pranked him once - phoned him up and just started in Arabic, and had h...
[22:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:42] <exec> 08└─The FSI focuses less on how easy it is than how long it takes to learn because that's the relevant piece of information. Since these are diplomats and staffers there's a ton of motivation to do the work necessary as failing can lead to losing not just a job, but an awesome opportunity. But, language...
[22:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:44] <exec> 08└─Peop!e in borderline zones speak both languages because every word they learn they use it the next day, and practice again and again every day. If you don't need it, you will forget those nouns, like dates or names you learnt in history or geography. In fact, learning a language is a waste of time i...
[22:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:46] <exec> 08└─This is completely correct. By about age 6 months a baby already has the basis of an accent. You can literally tell what the language family the baby has been listening to based on the accent of the crying. In general, it's whatever sound the people of that language find to be the most annoying so y...
[22:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:48] <exec> 08└─That's usually because the quality of instruction isn't there combined with the fact that there's a limited number of languages available. Having both poor teaching and a language that isn't necessarily of interest to the student causes tons of problems. The main thing holding students back is that...
[22:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kim Jong Nam Carried Antidote to the Nerve Agent Used to Kill Him - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:02] <exec> 08└─The court also heard that atropine, which was described as an antidote for VX poisoning, was given to Kim Jong Nam at the clinic at the airport. But the dosage - 1mg - was not effective, prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin told reporters.
[22:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Electric Cargo Ship Will Be Used to Haul Coal - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:03] <exec> 08└─Sorry, it can work. It's done. You can go get electric motors for your yacht (if you're rich enough to own one in the first place) and you'd better believe they do their version of regenerative breaking, when power is not being applied the rotor will (slowly) turn it as a generator. However, despite...
[22:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Delivers on 100 MW Australian Battery Promise - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:16] <exec> 08└─Duracells.
[22:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:41] <exec> 08└─the stores started carrying the same-old-stuff
[22:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:43] <exec> 08└─Figured it out just after posting. The three retail genres will be food, clothing, and gift shop. Think of tourist traps with their "gift shop". Someday soon the only non-food non-clothes store will be endless gift shops as far as the eye can see. Eat it, wear it, or give it away, nothing else possi...
[22:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:25] <exec> 08└─Did Granger fail to deliver any of the promises in the Kickstarter? If he fulfilled all of the original goals - and I think he did - then what's wrong with him abandoning the project?
[22:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:59] <exec> 08└─The breakdown actually takes a few months of exposure to the environment. Water won't turn it gummy. Just add the glitter to horse feed then tell people you have a rare horn-less unicorn.
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[23:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text Messaging Turns 25 Years Old - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:03] <exec> 08└─💩
[23:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text Messaging Turns 25 Years Old - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:05] <exec> 08└─"Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? It's not my department, says Wernher Von Braun." - Tom Lehrer.
[23:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Text Messaging Turns 25 Years Old - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:07] <exec> 08└─of SMS spam you can't filter.
[23:06:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:16] <exec> 08└─Don't you know how many miles of optical fiber are in a modern 350-ft yacht ? Add a few miles for each of the two Gulfstreams and two Falcons, and you get a pretty respectable amount of fiber, overall.
[23:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:46] <exec> 08└─ook past your identity and start to think about the way things are structure, and how they instead could be structured. If you think of yourself as a member of Civilization, then you should be excited about figuring out how society could be organized to have as little coercion as possible. So, why a...
[23:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:47] <exec> 08└─And what would happen in that case, is the folks who want to privatize everything the government now does would have a field day, and more and more of our tax money would be transferred directly to contractors with minimal oversight. No, thanks.
[23:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:49] <exec> 08└─He's mad because government is the new God and you're committing deicide against his faith.
[23:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:52] <exec> 08└─Consumers flock to the cheapest option because companies decouple cost from quality as well as the fact that an increasing number of people aren't making enough to afford a decent lifestyle without cost cutting like that. If we'd stop giving money to the rich via government handouts, the poor would...
[23:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:54] <exec> 08└─But the money quickly ran out after buying that 802.11 Monster brand LAN patch cable from the telecoms CEOs cousins boyfriend that sells those on Amazon.
[23:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:56] <exec> 08└─You should have seen the sign that CEO held, which showed a grey government cubicle, with the slogan "stop making me exceed Street estimates with your broadband-for-the-masses clauses" on one side, and "without you my lobbyists could ensure fair competition" on the other. Since there were obviously...
[23:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:59] <exec> 08└─>not mad >sanguine: bloody, blood-thirsty hmmmm
[23:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:01] <exec> 08└─Once again, if you don't like how our system of government operates, work to change it (ooh! ooh! please try to do so violently and die in the street like dog you are) or go somewhere else. I hear tell that things may be pretty much like you want in the South Pacific, thanks to these guys [seasteadi...
[23:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:03] <exec> 08└─Trollee troll troll troll troll troll troll, trolllololol lolol lol lol. I wish you a trolly christmas I wish you a trolly christmas, may you die in a guuuuuutter when the doctor says "but no insurance" For we are in a free market, we are in a freeee maaarket, we ARE IN A FREEEEE MARKET so suck it a...
[23:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 1566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:05] <exec> 08└─The Founders of America tried to create a restricted government; the whole point of the Constitution was not to create or grant rights to The People, but rather to restrict the government. Nowadays, what is there that the Government doesn't stick its tendrils in? They promised Life, Liberty, and the...
[23:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:08] <exec> 08└─If the government didn't have so much power to sell, businesses wouldn't be trying to buy it.
[23:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:16] <exec> 08└─I've seen this dozens of times. I've probably done this when I was green. Once. Do we really have to replow this field?
[23:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:18] <exec> 08└─Sensitivity training has a point, specifically to help save the company from being sued if you do something you shouldn't. However, most meetings are pointless: - You should know where the project stands from the code repository and the ticket tracking system. But if you need an in-person report, yo...
[23:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:20] <exec> 08└─You are welcome.
[23:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Your Programmers Just Want to Code - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:22] <exec> 08└─I am already an accomplished programmer [...] and there are no jobs for me anywhere.
[23:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:03] <exec> 08└─I doubt they are going to research the origin of any such bracelet in time to save someone who needs resuscitation. Just make sure it is not traceable to you.
[23:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:05] <exec> 08└─California has lots of nuts, though.
[23:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoo Baffles Doctors - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:07] <exec> 08└─My dead uncle had a "do not hesitate" tattoo, but in their haste the doctors read it as "do not resuscitate". (just kidding)
[23:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:05] <exec> 08└─The US Defence Language Institute in Monterey regards English as one of the hardest languages to learn. Grammar is simple, but there are lots of irregular verbs and other features of the language that make it difficult to become a fluent speaker.
[23:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:06] <exec> 08└─Filipino languages don't have a lot of gendered words. For instance no words for brother or sister, just sibling. None for daughter or son but just child (although different words for your own or other people's children). You have to specify male or female with the words for man or woman, so you say...
[23:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:09] <exec> 08└─Romania is listed as one of the easier languages to learn. When I was there for a couple of days, I was surprised to find out that the language has a lot of words similar to Romance languages. I could recognize a lot of ordinary words but it also has a lot of Slavic words that I don't know whatsoeve...
[23:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:11] <exec> 08└─I wonder how future generations will learn languages, if at all. AI translators are getting better all the time and who knows what percentage of the next generation will bother learning another language at all.
[23:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:09] <exec> 08└─Why, actually I'm doing it every day!!!
[23:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:10] <exec> 08└─I'll show them all!
[23:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:12] <exec> 08└─But cheeseburgers are legislated quite heavily. There are limits on what meats can be used, and how they should be processed, limits on hat additivews can be used, and laws regarding labelling. Believe it or not, there is an governmental administrative body that deals precisely with legislating food...
[23:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:15] <exec> 08└─Only your own genes? I tithe my internal biome too.
[23:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:12] <exec> 08└─Most of the books I buy now are used, and quite a high percentage of them are out of print or just not found in the big chain bookstores. Most of them cost a whole lot less as well, if you have the choice of buying 10 or so books for $50 or 2-3 books for the same price, there is not much debate. I s...
[23:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble Pivots to Books - 1832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:13] <exec> 08└─And so is the private bookstore. Publishers and the ever more artificial scarcity of their business model can die in a fire. It's time our public libraries and schools be allowed to take full advantage of technology and go all in on digital formats and networking. The only things the private booksto...
[23:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:56] <exec> 08└─Plenty of dynamic languages use multiple cores, even Clojure. The problem is the massive software stack in between the user and the actual application is a bloated mess. In the case of QtCreator, it's all c++ so the heavy lifting is done closer to the metal in native machine code using native librar...
[23:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:32] <exec> 08└─Breakdown of the starch based plastics, yes. Breakdown of the current mylar? I'm seeing somewhat believable references to the 350-600 year ranges.
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