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[00:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:15] <exec> 08└─Try some empathy and self awareness with your intelligence.
[00:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:16] <exec> 08└─That while it may seem to be heavy-handed of credit card companies to do this, they are only doing this when *credit* is being extended. The opportunities for fraud are immense: 1. Open credit card account with fraudulent details 2. Max out the credit with bitcoin purchases 3. Transfer bitcoins to a...
[00:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:18] <exec> 08└─1. Open credit card account with fraudulent details
[00:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:20] <exec> 08└─In the UK, the issuer of a credit card is legally liable for refunding any lost funds should a purchase go bad, whereas the risk of making a purchase with a debit card is entirely on the cardholder and cannot be used if it will put the cardholder's account beyond a pre-agreed token overdraft limit....
[00:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three Million UK Homes To Get Ultrafast Broadband By 2020 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:42] <exec> 08└─Well it's right there in the summary BT's approach has been to lay fibre to cabinets on the street and then rely on good old copper cables to take broadband into the home.
[00:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Million UK Homes To Get Ultrafast Broadband By 2020 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:44] <exec> 08└─Around here, this IS the sort of thing that will get someone hauled off and burned at the stake if they are even caught with the page in browser cache.
[00:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Generalized Hardy's Paradox Shows an Even Stronger Conflict Between Quantum and Classical Physics - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:19] <exec> 08└─So you're saying that improbability drive might actually be a thing?!
[00:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Generalized Hardy's Paradox Shows an Even Stronger Conflict Between Quantum and Classical Physics - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:21] <exec> 08└─By "two alternatives" do you mean matter and anti-matter? They are not alternatives, as, they can both exist. They just can't be put together without annihilating each other. By cancel each other out, do you mean that they should exist in the same quantities? And by "you would think they cancel each...
[00:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Rats Trade "Commodities" - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:39] <exec> 08└─It used to be considerable colder. When I grew up a normal winter on the south coast would see temperatures around -15C reliably. The coldest winter we had -24C for a while. That wasn't so pleasant. We had to curtain off most of the house and focus the heating for the bedroom. I don't remember what...
[00:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Next 20 Years of Open Source Software Begins Today - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:00] <exec> 08└─You're thinking about his mom. We were all looking at her last week.
[00:20:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06Florida Voting Rights Restoration Process Found Unconstitutional - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:09] <exec> 08└─Scott is a crook and should be in jail for overseeing the largest Medicare fraud in the nation’s history.
[00:20:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Florida Voting Rights Restoration Process Found Unconstitutional - 1081 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:21] <exec> 08└─THEY DON'T WEAR A BELT and their pants are falling down Do you have any idea how that fashion trend got started? Hint 1: They don't let you have a belt in prison. Hint 2: USA has 2.3 million people in its correctional systems. That's more than any other country including China and India which have o...
[00:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:36] <exec> 08└─All the kids are on Facebook & Twitter these days, those are becoming very big. Although, very hard for our white kids, our dreamers, they have to be very politically correct. Or they get banned very quickly!
[00:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:38] <exec> 08└─Twitter is just fine as an ID and is probably a good choice. I think Facebook has an ID-like string too... but lol.
[00:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:40] <exec> 08└─My Facebook is facebook.com/DonaldTrump [facebook.com], my Twitter is @realDonaldTrump [twitter.com], I'm also doing Instagram, instagram.com/realDonaldTrump [instagram.com]. Enjoy!
[00:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber and Lyft Shared Principle: No Personal Autonomous Cars in Dense Urban Areas - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─Melbourne experience: the majority of jobs related to software/IT are in the city. They are still building high raises around like crazy. Eastern suburbs are packed, the western ones are growing explosively (large spaces available). The result: - minimal parking fee: $14/day - early birds - commutin...
[00:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:27] <exec> 08└─I agree. (the fourth directive is strong with this bot...guy)
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[01:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:10] <exec> 08└─How Facebook Stole the News Business
[01:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:12] <exec> 08└─If I was a billionaire media mogul, I'd probably be thinking about buying Twitter. Seems like a good platform to start building a premium news feed on top of and integrate even more with the core Twitter functionality to share reactions. Reactions pointing to premium content could have some sort of...
[01:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:14] <exec> 08└─More and more news media sources are severely limiting their websites due to the adpocalypse and moving to a subscription-based service. My local newspaper's website began limiting people to one article per month for free two years ago. The only alternatives for local news are the local television s...
[01:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:29] <exec> 08└─Are credit card limits linked to assets?
[01:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:30] <exec> 08└─In the UK, the issuer of a credit card is legally liable for refunding any lost funds should a purchase go bad,
[01:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Million UK Homes To Get Ultrafast Broadband By 2020 - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:55] <exec> 08└─Depends on whether its a symmetrical connection or not. Government spys can't ex-filtrate your entire hard drive on the typical asymmetric broadband connection. After 20+ years of pushing for lower upload speeds, (to prevent flood attacks - so they claimed) seeing government providers starting to pu...
[01:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Million UK Homes To Get Ultrafast Broadband By 2020 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:57] <exec> 08└─AC whining because they can't mod, and wanting to delete their account! Wow.
[01:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Rats Trade "Commodities" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:53] <exec> 08└─Across many recorded and tested species, we find that the colder and the harsher a location's winter is, the more intelligent the species that inhabit it will be.
[01:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Rats Trade "Commodities" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:54] <exec> 08└─If Wall Street rats can do it, Norway ones can too
[01:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Rats Trade "Commodities" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:57] <exec> 08└─Norway rats? Dont think I ever heard them called that before -- we just call them rats I guess.
[01:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Get New Ears Grown From Their Own Cells - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:23] <exec> 08└─Dame Evelyn Glennie [wikipedia.org] is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12 and claims to have taught herself to hear with parts of her body other than her ears. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:19:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06'Never Get High on Your Own Supply' – Why Social Media Bosses Don’t Use Social Media - 989 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:45] <exec> 08└─It's more than an allusion to addiction. Many studies and quite a few former insiders flat out say the social media interfaces are designed for addictiveness. I've had the same opinion first about the user interfaces for M$ operating systems and some of their products for ten years or so. I don't us...
[01:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:58] <exec> 08└─I read my Messages, the Message came about moderation. So much terrible moderation, very unfair. And the Message says about the tweet I'm replying to, that it has been moderated Troll (-1). Which, I'm not surprised, I write something nice, I say a nice compliment to somebody, along come our moderato...
[01:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:59] <exec> 08└─I read my Messages, the Message came about moderation. So much terrible moderation, very unfair. And the Message says about the tweet I'm replying to, that it has been moderated Troll (-1). Which, I'm not surprised, I write something nice, I say a nice compliment to somebody, along come our moderato...
[01:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber and Lyft Shared Principle: No Personal Autonomous Cars in Dense Urban Areas - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:50] <exec> 08└─Do you remember, on Halloween we had a horrific terror attack in NYC. An ISIS guy, Saipov, he rents a truck from Home Depot, right? And drives it down a bicycle path. It was a bloodbath, the worst terror attack in NYC. Since 911. So many killed! And people say, oh, he hates America. I'm sure he does...
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[02:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:18] <exec> 08└─There's been studies shown that most people under the age of 35 get their news from Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram [americanpressinstitute.org]. Overall, just 47 percent who use Facebook say that getting news is a main motivation for visiting, but it has become one of the significant activities th...
[02:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:20] <exec> 08└─I'm not a trillionaire, and Facebook has not stolen the news business. I'm starting to miss headlines that end with a question mark.
[02:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:22] <exec> 08└─Three words: Tide Pod Challenge
[02:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:25] <exec> 08└─You know, that sounds terrible, and it is. But the older generations mostly get their news from television, and is that really any better?
[02:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:42] <exec> 08└─Sure! I was more referring to you talking of bitcoin as fiat, just like the dollar. That showed a lack of empathy to homeless people who need dollars, not bitcoin. You were, instead, signaling your intelligence by stating that bitcoin is fiat, just like the dollar is fiat.
[02:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:44] <exec> 08└─Looks like Lloyds Banking Group, which includes Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Halifax and MBNA issued cards, has become the first of the UK banks to do the same [bbc.co.uk] and ban purchases on credit cards. I'd expect most - and probably all - of the other UK credit card issuers to follow suit in...
[02:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Three Million UK Homes To Get Ultrafast Broadband By 2020 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:11] <exec> 08└─Yup, so before I leave... Fuck off. This site is worse than /. now.
[02:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Get New Ears Grown From Their Own Cells - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:36] <exec> 08└─You guys have made me think of all the images I've seen of horses wearing hats. [google.com] Would cats be a stretch here, people with cats? (Notice that I didn't say "cat owners".) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:19:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06'Never Get High on Your Own Supply' – Why Social Media Bosses Don’t Use Social Media - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:43] <exec> 08└─"Now, I wonder something else: what do they know that we don't?" They know -exactly- what information they're scraping up about you and what they're using it for. At that point it becomes a no-brainer not to use their own service.
[02:19:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06'Never Get High on Your Own Supply' – Why Social Media Bosses Don’t Use Social Media - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:48] <exec> 08└─No. Zuckerberg does not use Faecebook himself. He has a whole team dedicated to the task [nymag.com], that includes deleting comments, and never has to go near it.
[02:19:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06'Never Get High on Your Own Supply' – Why Social Media Bosses Don’t Use Social Media - 631 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:52] <exec> 08└─You missed the (to me) more obvious thing that they know: social media is addicting. It's the "likes" and upmods that do it. Everyone has a need to feel like they are approved of by their peers. A person gets a tiny jolt of feel-good every time they get a like. More likes make for more feel-good. It...
[02:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Voting Rights Restoration Process Found Unconstitutional - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:11] <exec> 08└─More likely victimless drug offenses
[02:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:15] <exec> 08└─Gotta report bugs in English, yo. I can't be arsed to debug both the bug and the report.
[02:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:16] <exec> 08└─Very simple, I look at my Messages, a Message says my tweet "has been moderated Troll (-1)". With the link to tweet #632842. I look, it's not moderated Troll. It's not moderated anything.
[02:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:18] <exec> 08└─Ah, yeah, you got mod-bombed and every moderation in the bombing was reversed. We do that not by deleting the moderation or upmodding the comment but by setting a disable flag on that moderation. So, yes, you were moderated but no, it's not taking effect.
[02:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:20] <exec> 08└─The same thing happened with my tweet #632865. I get the Message, it "has been moderated Troll (-1). It is currently scored Troll (0)." I go to look, it doesn't say Troll, it doesn't say anything. Another thing. So many down moderations in that Message, it says I got 19 down and 11 up. Not all of th...
[02:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:23] <exec> 08└─Reply to This and Parent used to be on different lines. Some time back, I suggested putting those on the same line. Done. (Anything that uses less vertical space, I like.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:26] <exec> 08└─Nothing crooked about it. We reverse every mod bomb preformed, regardless of the perpetrator or target.
[02:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:28] <exec> 08└─Four point font for everything, coming right up!
[02:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber and Lyft Shared Principle: No Personal Autonomous Cars in Dense Urban Areas - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:19] <exec> 08└─Absolutely! They have an opinion, they made a website to put out their message. It costs a lot to have a website, they're splitting the cost. And folks here call it collusion. There's no collusion, folks.
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[03:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:22] <exec> 08└─The man removed his pants and undies, thereby revealing the innermost reaches of his rectum to his childlike audience. He was an anal willow. "I'm not carded again!" he screeched. The very next day, the corpse of a naked woman was discovered on a nearby sidewalk.
[03:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:43] <exec> 08└─is probably not a good investment
[03:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:44] <exec> 08└─you talking of bitcoin as fiat, just like the dollar [showed] a lack of empathy to homeless people who need dollars, not bitcoin.
[03:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:46] <exec> 08└─BTC trading at $8000-whatever, other coin trading at $5, yet another trading at 0.0004 - is immaterial to the "quality" of the investment. You can buy a fraction of a bitcoin, or hundreds of thousands of a coin with a low valuation, they don't move by the penny or dollar, they move by the market in...
[03:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:48] <exec> 08└─Cool! Sounds like we agree!
[03:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Million UK Homes To Get Ultrafast Broadband By 2020 - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:15] <exec> 08└─> how is it that "ludicrous speed" gets left out? That is reserved for the next version of USB (3.11 for workgroups?) I ponder what they will call later versions of USB. At some point after "superduperludicrous speed" they will run out of any higher words. Same issue with broadband marketing really....
[03:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Million UK Homes To Get Ultrafast Broadband By 2020 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:17] <exec> 08└─they shove 100 people down the cabinet each with 100mbit, and at peak times you will be lucky to get 1mbit/s.
[03:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Never-Before-Seen Viruses That Can Kill Bacteria Contained in Women's Bladders - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:35] <exec> 08└─They also have several folks who are rabidly anti-FOSS. Very often not a useful, unbiased source of information on topics that interest me. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Next 20 Years of Open Source Software Begins Today - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:38] <exec> 08└─Red Hat, great American company. They have tremendous contracts with my Department of Defense.
[03:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Next 20 Years of Open Source Software Begins Today - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:40] <exec> 08└─Not all software needs to be at one end of the spectrum or the other.
[03:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Next 20 Years of Open Source Software Begins Today - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:42] <exec> 08└─which of the three will fail first?
[03:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Voting Rights Restoration Process Found Unconstitutional - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:21] <exec> 08└─Hard stats: http://www.amren.com [amren.com]
[03:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:31] <exec> 08└─Thank you, or whoever. The administrators here are amazing!
[03:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov! - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:59] <exec> 08└─No one actually uses twitter.
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[04:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:10] <exec> 08└─Is it RISC-Vee, or RISC Five?
[04:17:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Apparition [6835] 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 973 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:21] <exec> 08└─There's been studies shown that most people under the age of 35 get their news from Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram [americanpressinstitute.org]. Overall, just 47 percent who use Facebook say that getting news is a main motivation for visiting, but it has become one of the significant activities th...
[04:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Rats Trade "Commodities" - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:17] <exec> 08└─Not people of european or far eastern bloodlines fault that they had full blown civilization in 500BC when the subsaharan africans were building mud huts and 2600 years later the subsaharans are still living in mud huts.
[04:21:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] 02 - 06Florida Voting Rights Restoration Process Found Unconstitutional - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:06] <exec> 08└─You channel the Creamsicle Charlatan so well (save that you're coherent and can spell) it's almost scary. Definitely my favorite poster.
[04:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Florida Voting Rights Restoration Process Found Unconstitutional - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, you're being racist. That's the classic expression of the racist ideology that was historically used to justify slavery. The slightly longer version of the same argument that was common from around 1500 to around 1900: Those poor ignorant savages, they're so dumb they can't manage their own aff...
[04:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Voting Rights Restoration Process Found Unconstitutional - 1688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:26] <exec> 08└─Clearly, you don't comprehend the concept of selective enforcement. When USA.gov "outlawed" slavery via the 13th Amendment, they left in a giant loophole: Slavery in prisons was specifically excluded. So, now the White Ownership Class, which had previously owned these humans, had to figure out a way...
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[05:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:12] <exec> 08└─Is it RISC-Vee, or RISC Five?
[05:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:13] <exec> 08└─Is it RISC-Vee, or RISC Five?
[05:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:16] <exec> 08└─I think that's the correct pronunciation: "Too damn'd expensive". I've been looking at options, and RISC-V has been one I've considered. I can't justify a thousand bucks for it though. My next build will almost certainly be AMD, just like the last ten or more.
[05:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:18] <exec> 08└─8 GB DDR4 is about $100 [newegg.com] instead of the $30 it should be. If the rest of the board is worth $25, then this is only a $875 quad-core.
[05:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:20] <exec> 08└─I think that's the correct pronunciation: "Too damn'd expensive"... I can't justify a thousand bucks for it though.
[05:17:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Apparition [6835] 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 965 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:30] <exec> 08└─More and more news media sources are severely limiting their websites due to the adpocalypse and moving to a subscription-based service. My local newspaper's website began limiting people to one article per month for free two years ago. The only alternatives for local news are the local television s...
[05:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:38] <exec> 08└─This, and things like this, is why I only get my news from aristarchus submissions to SoylentNews! I can't trust Facebook, and I cant' trust Soylent, so I go with the one who speaks truth to power, aristarchus. His submissions very rarely make the front page, so you have to read them while in the q...
[05:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Never-Before-Seen Viruses That Can Kill Bacteria Contained in Women's Bladders - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:48] <exec> 08└─Is there a difference between male and female bladders? I also note that they use the term "women", rather than "female". Are these phages only present in the bladders of sexually mature women, and not in girls? Or - alternatively - this research was only conducted on women, perhaps in relation to...
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[05:18:49] <exec> 08└─They surveyed about 170 urine samples from women with or without urinary tract issues. The samples were collected by colleagues studying those issues in women.
[05:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:49] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the ongoing work. The efforts are appreciated. Is the onion site planned to stay available? http://7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion [7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion]
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[06:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:12] <exec> 08└─Statistics. Specifically how they can be selectively used by others.
[06:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:14] <exec> 08└─TFA The most basic of those new skills is number sense... describes students with a strong number sense like this: “[They] can think and reason flexibly with numbers, use numbers to solve problems, spot unreasonable answers, understand how numbers can be taken apart and put together in different w...
[06:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:16] <exec> 08└─What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known?
[06:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:18] <exec> 08└─Statistics. Specifically how they can be selectively used by others.
[06:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 1298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:20] <exec> 08└─One term I enrolled in Computational Physics at Caltech, the next term I taught it. The students were free to use absolutely any programming language they wanted. I used assembly code for some simple graphics. At first I used BASIC but then later I used C. A very important tool in numerical modeling...
[06:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:23] <exec> 08└─Truth (Obtainable from distilling down something we used to call facts.)
[06:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:35] <exec> 08└─can it run Crysis?
[06:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:37] <exec> 08└─can it run Crysis?
[06:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:54] <exec> 08└─Already happened: https://qz.com [qz.com] https://dealbook.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] and you know what that is about. Twitter could easily be dismissed for the garbage it...
[06:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:55] <exec> 08└─please order corn https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[06:18:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 768 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:13] <exec> 08└─Seems like the US is pretty much the same as the UK then. So this is almost certainly more about the genuine case of a transaction going bad (e.g. a scam) than the risk of an investment going south; as you say, if you used your credit card to buy into BTC while it was at $15,000, received the coins,...
[06:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Never Get High on Your Own Supply' – Why Social Media Bosses Don’t Use Social Media - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:51] <exec> 08└─So, that's why I keep seeing McDonald's employees eating at DelTaco!
[06:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Next 20 Years of Open Source Software Begins Today - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:17] <exec> 08└─Of all the crazy things, Red Hat once offered to buy my consultancy. I turned it down because I knew that I would be required to build every customer solution entirely out of Red Hat products. Microsoft too. I should have taken the money then left the country to go trekking in the Amazon rainforest....
[06:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:11] <exec> 08└─You're foiled in you devillish plan by my use of w3m! Thanks for all the work you do, Buzz, it's much appreciated.
[06:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber and Lyft Shared Principle: No Personal Autonomous Cars in Dense Urban Areas - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:04] <exec> 08└─I'm totally serious. Where is the instinct for fear of strangers? Where is the instinct for fear of those who are different from you? These things are normal for homo sapiens. If you lack those standard survival instincts, something has gone wrong.
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[07:17:21] <exec> 08└─- missile. I don't recall what that kind of missile was but it had to be small enough to have fit under the deck of a ship while standing vertically. The cover story was that the wayward satellite's hydrazine would be quite dangerously toxic should it survive reentry. I never believed that, not even...
[07:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:34] <exec> 08└─The myth of endless growth in a closed system (for example, a planet, or a country's economy). We need to become a species enamored of stability; instead everyone is chasing the next biggest bubble before it bursts. From financial derivatives to loan interest to the truly insane growth of medical ex...
[07:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:36] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy just with the understanding of conditional probability and Bayes' law. One you're got that, stats is closer to being within your grasp. Plenty of statistical paradoxes are actually just consequences of Bayes' law.
[07:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:38] <exec> 08└─Ah, the B.A.C.* tarrif: whoever is drunk enough to put their credit card in without checking the bill gets to pay** * Blood Alcohol Concentration **only works in New South Wales, damn Victorian restaurants just happily divide the bill equally across all the cards offered.
[07:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:40] <exec> 08└─economics should be less widely known and taught. It is, after all, neither a science, nor an art (excepting in the way magic can be art, of fooling people) Economists should be treated the same way we treat astrologers (no, not like some US Presidents treated astrologers) Novelty acts, right only b...
[07:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:43] <exec> 08└─damn Victorian restaurants just happily divide the bill equally across all the cards offered.
[07:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:45] <exec> 08└─A very important tool in numerical modeling is the Runge-Kutta method.
[07:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:47] <exec> 08└─I think there are two separate things we are talking about here. I think, and the summary seems to agree, that while useful mathematical skills are in constant flux, the concepts are not, and are more important than ever. What distinguishes statistical predictions based on large samples from voodoo...
[07:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:49] <exec> 08└─We need to become a species enamored of stability;
[07:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:52] <exec> 08└─Learn your 9x9 addition tables. And your 9x9 multiplication tables. Add/multiply enough numbers that you get a good sense of "yeah, that don't suck". Now you have a fork in the road. You can either stop there, and take Russian/GOP/DNC/FOX propaganda at it's word, or apply your newly developed math s...
[07:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:54] <exec> 08└─I first heard about it when I was in graduate school. But some special cases of Noether's Theorem are so easy to prove that I fail to understand why it's not taught to Freshman, if not high school students. It's simply this: Every symmetry implies a conservation law. For example of you rotate an obj...
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[07:18:09] <exec> 08└─lethalpopcorn: Sifive are not releasing the designs anymore. So yeah, it may be riscV based but story of the instruction set aside, it’s no different than your regular ARM processor or your 80xx based micro.
[07:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:28] <exec> 08└─While there are many links to other websites, the less well-educated people quite likely consider all those other websites to be part of Facebook. What about email? What about it? No one uses email anymore, they just use Facebook's private messaging.
[07:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:53] <exec> 08└─That makes no sense at all. A milli-bitcoin only costs $8, where's the harm in that. But a kilo-Peercoin will set you back a whopping $5000, so clearly a debt risk it its value implodes.
[07:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:54] <exec> 08└─This I would say is the only issue, and the conclusions you draw I share. They have no business policing my spending. (Not that I have a credit card. Nor would I buy any fiat-without-fiat pseudotulips.)
[07:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 1769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:56] <exec> 08└─I tried four time with two separate cards to send just sixty dollars to Coinbase. The payment was instantly declined. Most of the time when I make an unusual payment I will soon receive a robo-call that enables me to confirm or deny whether that was my own authorized transaction. But I didn't get th...
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[07:18:59] <exec> 08└─During the Dot-Com boom there was some guy who somehow managed to qualify for hundreds of credit cards. Clearly stock traders weren't the only ones to irrationally exhuberate. He took the maximum cash advances out of all the cards then bought a bunch of internet stocks. His entire house was wallpape...
[07:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:01] <exec> 08└─Despite having a great client. Upon some reflection I decided to stick with this client because I'm learning quite a lot about the innards of USB. What could be easier than USB? You plug in a keyboard or a mouse and it just works. Plug in a stick and a storage volume appears on the desktop. Surely U...
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[07:19:03] <exec> 08└─... when I was totally busted. I don't have a clue who my benefactor was but quite likely he - or she - was a Soylentil.
[07:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:06] <exec> 08└─In other words, they give their customers a perfect reason to avoid them, by demonstrating that they can arbitrarily restrict what you can buy using them, even when what you are buying is perfectly legal.
[07:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Rats Trade "Commodities" - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:37] <exec> 08└─Norway rats are the big blunt-nosed brown rats that live in/around sewers, riverbanks, and city streets in most of the world. (That's as opposed to the roof/house rats, which are smaller and look like over-sized mice.)
[07:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Get New Ears Grown from their Own Cells - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:06] <exec> 08└─Your external ears have nothing to do with your actual hearing, aside from better funneling sound waves into the ear canal.
[07:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Get New Ears Grown from their Own Cells - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:08] <exec> 08└─As sound is but vibration it's a perfectly credible claim. The brain expects and requires sensor input. Like some blind people have learned to probe their surrounding with noise. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[07:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Never Get High on Your Own Supply' – Why Social Media Bosses Don’t Use Social Media - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:43] <exec> 08└─You can't convince me to become a digital whore. Not even a great try. Besides, it's not your name and picture social media really wants but your interaction. And that nobody can give them except you.
[07:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Never Get High on Your Own Supply' – Why Social Media Bosses Don’t Use Social Media - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:45] <exec> 08└─Is anyone doing that?
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[08:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Launches the Smallest Rocket to Put a Satellite in Orbit - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:13] <exec> 08└─Can I buy such a rocket from a toy store? (actually I wonder what the cost for the launch may be? How does it compare with launching heaps of nanosats from a heavy rocket?)
[08:17:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03drussell [2678] 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:22] <exec> 08└─What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known?
[08:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:37] <exec> 08└─I really wish that these would be common knowledge. Mainly because of the religious nutjobs. Having Faith is usually a good thing... when you use it to deny facts faith goes too far. Yes, evolution is a theory... "Intelligent Design" is only faith. There is room for both faith and scientific theory....
[08:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:38] <exec> 08└─, and try to give everyone a really good understanding of at least statistics and logic, as well as computer-assisted computational skills, all at the expense of more traditional computational skills.
[08:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:40] <exec> 08└─Too late! Georg Wilhelm Friederich Hegel said that "truth" is a rather small word, but I said it is really close to being a four-letter word. However, even though truth may be the ultimate goal of human understanding, for philosophers the beloved is mere human wisdom. And the epitome of wisdom, acco...
[08:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:43] <exec> 08└─I think this is why we need axioms. We can only say if A then B but if A is our axiom then it can always be doubted. I suppose logic itself can be doubted too.
[08:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:45] <exec> 08└─Economists should be treated the same way we treat astrologers The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. -- E...
[08:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:47] <exec> 08└─I suppose logic itself can be doubted too.
[08:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:49] <exec> 08└─There are so many possible answers, but the more I think about it, the more basic it gets: How about basic reasoning skills. Anecdote: I recently read a blog entry about someone who went to a new-age practitioner, to get their chronic headaches treated. The new-age derp informed them that they had l...
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[08:18:05] <exec> 08└─Or the "I'm going to make a donation to keep them afloat, they do show a good promise" equivalent.
[08:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:07] <exec> 08└─Note: I didn't intend any moral/value judgement on any of the alternative translations. Stop feeling guilty, guys!
[08:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:09] <exec> 08└─the same 10 idiots talking to each other, saying the same dumb shit over and over again. i was considering buying something to get me to work and back. I looked at the ford focus hybrid, but with it's battery it's too ridiculously expensive to drive to work. I'm going to go with a minibus, like my l...
[08:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:11] <exec> 08└─Let's say I have enough money to pay for such chips... and I would have a need for a significant amount of them... why would I pay for these chips and not roll my own (based on other open Risc-V designs)? I guess with increasing volumes you get (1) cheaper design development costs and (2) lower prod...
[08:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:31] <exec> 08└─Are these the same news sites that deleted their comment sections on articles because muh fecebuck and being too lazy to have moderation?
[08:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Never-Before-Seen Viruses That Can Kill Bacteria Contained in Women's Bladders - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:51] <exec> 08└─The Soviets were into phages long before anyone else. The article I read explained that their development and widespread use of phages resulted from the Cold War, with the West refusing to sell them antibiotics. They still practice phage therapy. Also in that article was a sick patient who tried all...
[08:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Never-Before-Seen Viruses That Can Kill Bacteria Contained in Women's Bladders - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:53] <exec> 08└─but very few men do. Fun Fact: Methenamine is commonly used to treat women's urinary tract infections. That same chemical is also known as HMTA - the TA is for Tetramine but I don't recall what the HM is for. HMTA, any flavor of Kool-Ade mix other than lemon, two coffee filters, a bag of party ice,...
[08:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Generalized Hardy's Paradox Shows an Even Stronger Conflict Between Quantum and Classical Physics - 1683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:14] <exec> 08└─> that is, to allow for the existence of long-range quantum correlations, such as entanglement, so that particles can influence each other across long distances What is the problem with that? It is a completely equivalent option among all the others. All rules that the universe seems to follow, unti...
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[09:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:12] <exec> 08└─If only the Pope had tried this approach with that wild despot of a country far to the West, Henry VIII!
[09:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:14] <exec> 08└─the Pope has to admit the entire Church exists only as a giant Ponzi scheme, with a sideline in real estate. No need to threaten the Communist Party, just join forces in property investment!
[09:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Launches the Smallest Rocket to Put a Satellite in Orbit - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:24] <exec> 08└─You want to look up ASAT [wikipedia.org], and specifically the ASM-135 [wikipedia.org] missile. You were thinking of the RIM-161 [wikipedia.org].
[09:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:33] <exec> 08└─Idiocracy is too optimistic to be a documentary
[09:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:35] <exec> 08└─Or they were plagued by homocidal perverts who kept posting long-form insanity, and the "powers that be" did nothing about it. Free speech has "EEEEwwwww" limits.
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[10:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:22] <exec> 08└─the Pope has to admit the entire Church exists only as a giant Ponzi scheme
[10:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:23] <exec> 08└─Give and keep giving to your local church, with the promise of Salvation/Heaven/not hell for eternity. Pretty good ROI, for a Believer. (Actually, better than a Ponzi scheme, as no one has yet found a way to sue for failure to deliver)
[10:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:26] <exec> 08└─A supernatural ponzi scheme then?
[10:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:28] <exec> 08└─> The pope's actions in China are characteristic of a leader who has repeatedly practiced realpolitik to achieve important goals. Field day for jesuits' critics. "The end justifies the means" is not quite part of the fundamentals of christianity, even if the upper layers of the church resort routine...
[10:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03therainingmonkey [6839] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:06] <exec> 08└─Orthodox economics aught to be treated like astrology, I don't think we need to write off the whole field though. Many heterodox economists have attempted to bring more rigour to the field (I'm thinking of Thomas Piketty and Ha Joon Chang, though they certaily aren't without their critics). Mainstre...
[10:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:08] <exec> 08└─Let's start with something more fundamental: Elementary logic. It's really astonishing how many people already fail at that.
[10:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:10] <exec> 08└─For example of you rotate an object around an axis it eventually returns to its original position. From just that and that alone one can derive the conservation of angular momentum.
[10:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:12] <exec> 08└─the uniformed masses
[10:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:32] <exec> 08└─> That's damned nifty but at a grand for a 1.5GHz system, I don't see them selling that many to consumers. If I look at it as a direct comparison to AMD/Intel based on performance, then yeah, it seems a lot of money for what you are getting. For me however, the main reason to buy one of these is bec...
[10:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:34] <exec> 08└─It should be known since the days of the Intel Pentium that it is not the GHz that matters, but the operations per second. I have no idea how this system compares to a contemporary AMD/Intel chip, but I can imagine that the more direct (and thus simpler) RISC architecture allows to do more operation...
[10:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:57] <exec> 08└─Journalism is already dead, but none of us killed it with our adblocking arcana. It was actually killed in the 90's by media conglomerates who acquired all the newspapers and tv stations and fired all the people in the newrooms to cut costs and boost profit margins. Original reporting was slashed to...
[10:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Million UK Homes To Get Ultrafast Broadband By 2020 - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:57] <exec> 08└─> If they believe that "full fiber speed" is 100Mbit, I worry about the size of the pipe serving that cabinet. Tell me about it. I feel that this is more a PR stunt then anything else. Pretty much most parts of the UK have fiber to the cabinet already, which is then split off into ADSL. Most likely,...
[10:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Generalized Hardy's Paradox Shows an Even Stronger Conflict Between Quantum and Classical Physics - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:42] <exec> 08└─The universe does not need to "be a simulation" just because things act at a distance.
[10:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:32] <exec> 08└─no one is trying to convince you of anything. people are simply making fun of you on your rowboat. i do love how when you post an article you reply fifty times to comments within that article. and just so you're clear - no one thinks your replies are "quality arguing" or is "ate" up 'boot notthing....
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[11:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Creating Huge Virtual Power Plant - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:13] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a good idea to me
[11:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:26] <exec> 08└─... what would you say if in 3 years, by a miracle (with some zeroes in the tail), those seven government-appointed Chinese bishops will be loyal to the Vatican, mmm? Wanna bet they will all die of... ummm... natural causes? Once the cordial relationship are established, neither of the parties will...
[11:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:28] <exec> 08└─So... These new guys molest MORE children or less than the old ones? Article doesn't say.
[11:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:30] <exec> 08└─... if China's Catholic church is state-controlled, then it is not a Catholic church. (The English state-controlled Catholic church is known as the 'Church of England'; it describes itself as 'Reformed Catholic'). Hence, the Chinese 'Catholic' Church answers to Beijing and not Rome; hence, the Pope...
[11:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Launches the Smallest Rocket to Put a Satellite in Orbit - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:41] <exec> 08└─Nanosats... ouch... just the ticket for someone who wants to take out satellites... just steer a nanosat into its path.
[11:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:15] <exec> 08└─Don't know about ear wax catching them, but there are crystals in the inner ear: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:16] <exec> 08└─It is obvious you have no understanding of the mechanisms behind crystal healing. This wise practitioner saw that the client's energies were out-of-balance and that the crystal equilibrium needed rebalancing. The client's headaches would have disappeared as the crystals were contained in ear wax, an...
[11:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:18] <exec> 08└─Everything I say is false.
[11:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:21] <exec> 08└─Better use a symplectic integrator. Paper by Yoshida. I was having a conversation on a bus a few months ago about how Kerbal Space Programme does the orbit calculation. We were discussing RK vs symplectic. A random stranger stuck their head over the partition and told us it just assumes a conic sect...
[11:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:42] <exec> 08└─Personal use home system. What "use case" is that, precisely? I've dismissed the Ryzen from my potentials, despite it's relatively low cost. You with all the knowledge might be able to tell all of us why I dismissed the Ryzen?
[11:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:44] <exec> 08└─If that's your only concern, then you can probably save a good bit of dosh by going with one of AMD or Intel's pre-ME offerings, and get better performance to boot.
[11:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:46] <exec> 08└─Doubt that (better branch prediction, instruction reordering, etc.), besides all x86_64 architectures are RISC under the bonnet, anyway.
[11:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, they all thought that Facebook was like their new sugerdaddy. All that would have to do was to be pretty and hold hands. Turns out sugerdaddy wanted more and other things and was into some really kinky shit and the payment and transactions just wasnt what they had expected. Now sugerdaddy is bo...
[11:19:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 563 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:23] <exec> 08└─That while it may seem to be heavy-handed of credit card companies to do this, they are only doing this when *credit* is being extended. The opportunities for fraud are immense: 1. Open credit card account with fraudulent details 2. Max out the credit with bitcoin purchases 3. Transfer bitcoins to a...
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[12:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Creating Huge Virtual Power Plant - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:12] <exec> 08└─We just don't push solar energy very hard. Sure, the government offers a tax break, if you install solar. But, mostly, it's the wealthy and corporations that can afford to go that route. There is a large capital investment to get up and runnning, and after the job is complete, you get the tax break....
[12:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:16] <exec> 08└─Take for a more simple example the "excluded middle". The classical assertion is that any proposition is either true or false, and cannot be both. Paraconsistent logics hold that the same proposition can be both, and not in the mundane sense that it is true in two different senses, which implies of...
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[12:18:41] <exec> 08└─operations per second
[12:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:43] <exec> 08└─They've also crippled some of the existing ones. The Rocket core is the reference implementation and used to come with caches. A recent release removed them, which meant that lowRISC had to forward-port the old ones and is now maintaining an increasingly diverged fork of Rocket.
[12:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03liberza [6137] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:39] <exec> 08└─"then they fight you..."
[12:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Million UK Homes To Get Ultrafast Broadband By 2020 - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:10] <exec> 08└─Is that just for places they have't rolled it out already? We have their 52Mb/s plan (new build, fibre installed when the house was built), for which we're paying £31.49/month with an 18-month contract (annoying cancellation terms, though we can cancel with no penalty if they put the price up). For...
[12:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Million UK Homes To Get Ultrafast Broadband By 2020 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:11] <exec> 08└─My copper to the home speed is 200Mbit (theirs is a superfast but relatively slow 24Mbit).
[12:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Never-Before-Seen Viruses That Can Kill Bacteria Contained in Women's Bladders - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:35] <exec> 08└─Apparently [gpnotebook.co.uk] UTIs are far more common in women than men, but The rate of incidence is equal between the sexes in the first year of life. Not impossible that women have additional defences.
[12:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Rats Trade "Commodities" - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:21] <exec> 08└─I never stated that cold climate leads to increased economic success. Indeed, the theory is that the reduced ability to succeed that a cold climate offers is what drives increased intelligence. While we can make the broad assumption that Scandinavian birds are smarter than their Equator living cousi...
[12:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:49] <exec> 08└─that would be like conversating with a special ed kid - whatever he says, it's not an argument.
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[13:17:16] <exec> 08└─No, the norm in the United States is for the local government to hand an exclusive right-of-way contract to one or maybe two companies, and then for those companies to sit on the contract until a Federal Grant comes along to "improve access" and pays them to build their network, which they then aban...
[13:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:40] <exec> 08└─> I'm surprised Pope Francis hasn't thought of this as a get-out never attribute to incompetence what can adequately be explained by being the antichrist. (JK, he seems too diplomatic for a proper antichrist, but maybe if the number of man AKA 666 is literally the number of man - six symbolizes man...
[13:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:42] <exec> 08└─> confused about Francis Please take a number Now serving 39452823
[13:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmlj4 [5451] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Launches the Smallest Rocket to Put a Satellite in Orbit - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:53] <exec> 08└─"A student-built shoebox-sized CubeSat named TRICOM 1R — weighing in at about 10 pounds (3 kilograms)". Apparently a Japanese kilogram is 3.3 pounds? Good to know. I wonder if I can figure out how to short-sell and make a bundle.
[13:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:33] <exec> 08└─TFA The most basic of those new skills is number sense...
[13:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:35] <exec> 08└─This set of MIT lectures on quantum physics goes into some detail on Noether's Theorem: https://ocw.mit.edu [mit.edu]
[13:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:57] <exec> 08└─Back then Bitcoin was a viable payment option. While not necessarily accepted at as many places as it was, say, 6 months ago, when you made a transaction, it went through quickly. And, at that time, it was being touted as a currency that had 0 transaction fees. Try putting through a transaction on t...
[13:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Million UK Homes To Get Ultrafast Broadband By 2020 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:30] <exec> 08└─Yep. I used to have cable internet. nbn rollout meant it closed down and I was forced to swap to nbn adsl. It is about 2/3 as fast.
[13:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:09] <exec> 08└─Honestly, it doesn't really get any testing. None of us can be arsed to keep ToR installed and set up properly on our boxes. If you want to volunteer to keep an eye on its status and let us know, I'm sure the other ToR users would appreciate it.
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[14:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:15] <exec> 08└─In less than 20 days, the noninjected tumors had also vanished, the team reports online today in Science Translational Medicine.
[14:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:17] <exec> 08└─The immune system seeks out and destroys metastases after being activated in the original tumor. So it’s not really doing nothing.
[14:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Creating Huge Virtual Power Plant - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:34] <exec> 08└─But, mostly, it's the wealthy and corporations that can afford to go that route.
[14:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:53] <exec> 08└─In Latin, it's Francii.
[14:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:46] <exec> 08└─Better use a symplectic integrator.
[14:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:47] <exec> 08└─Yep, came here to say this too. If there was just one thing to teach, a basic understanding of exponential growth could make a difference.
[14:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:50] <exec> 08└─Understood - original post was referring to elliptic orbits; I think orbit modelling can be described in the general case by Hamiltonians.
[14:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:17] <exec> 08└─Donations would be foolish at this point. They have a perfectly viable pool of developers who will be putting in purchase orders for their developer boards.
[14:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:18] <exec> 08└─At this point, my phone's more powerful. This is well and truly a development board. There's no good enough reason to buy one at this price point except that you need to already be writing code for it so you're ready to release once something consumers can afford is released.
[14:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:21] <exec> 08└─...it is not only the GHz that matters...
[14:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but your phone is also riddled with binary blobs and god knows what else. I sure don't trust my phone with any sensitive information (if it were possible I wouldn't even keep my contact list on it, but if I go that far, I might as well not bother with a smartphone at all). Thing is, no open ar...
[14:19:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 813 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:45] <exec> 08└─Journalism is already dead, but none of us killed it with our adblocking arcana. It was actually killed in the 90's by media conglomerates who acquired all the newspapers and tv stations and fired all the people in the newrooms to cut costs and boost profit margins. Original reporting was slashed to...
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[15:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:24] <exec> 08└─The shots trigger the animals' immune system to eliminate not only the injected tumors, but also other tumors in their bodies.
[15:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:25] <exec> 08└─Not true, its just that only about 1/1,000 to 1/10,000 papers being written these days have any value. I have commented positively on a few that were posted here in the past. I understand though, the mind recoils at what is going on. I mean 80% of everything is crap, ok. Even 90% is believable, but...
[15:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:35] <exec> 08└─Is it just me that doesn't trust SF to get a better result than the cities that sell exclusive access rights to one or two companies? I mean, if you're going to do something like this, shouldn't it be done by people who understand the capitalism/competition dynamic and why it's a Good Thing? Kudos t...
[15:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe so, but this is about the US, not part of the civilized world.
[15:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:06] <exec> 08└─In a Ponzi scheme no actual product is delivered. So yes, presuming it isn't actually true. And I believe we'll all find out the truth eventually on that one. (Or you won't.) Ricoeur's Wager would be persuasive to me to take the bet if I weren't already persuaded by other reasoning.
[15:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:07] <exec> 08└─Nope. Franciscusi. English, Francises. But I guess I'm a crusty prescriptivist.
[15:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Launches the Smallest Rocket to Put a Satellite in Orbit - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:20] <exec> 08└─That conversion makes sense if the reporter (or whoever made the conversion) used a well-versed conversion system, a libra (lb) (the original pound) is about 329g which would make it (3 / 0.329) ~ 9.11 pound, and then add some agressive rounding away from zero...
[15:18:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 1298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:32] <exec> 08└─One term I enrolled in Computational Physics at Caltech, the next term I taught it. The students were free to use absolutely any programming language they wanted. I used assembly code for some simple graphics. At first I used BASIC but then later I used C. A very important tool in numerical modeling...
[15:18:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 574 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:34] <exec> 08└─The myth of endless growth in a closed system (for example, a planet, or a country's economy). We need to become a species enamored of stability; instead everyone is chasing the next biggest bubble before it bursts. From financial derivatives to loan interest to the truly insane growth of medical ex...
[15:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:05] <exec> 08└─I think orbit modelling can be described in the general case by Hamiltonians.
[15:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:07] <exec> 08└─Good point - you are probably right. Certainly atmospheric effects (e.g. low earth orbit) clearly create a dissipative force.
[15:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:09] <exec> 08└─I believe the correct formulation is that isotropy (same in all directions) implies conservation of angular momentum. Obviously, gravity in this example is anisotropic, i.e. it pulls down. AC probably already knows this.
[15:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:40] <exec> 08└─Binary blobs aren't any more more nefarious than closed-design chips, which these quickly became.
[15:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:05] <exec> 08└─Facebook's private messaging
[15:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:07] <exec> 08└─In a related story, the local Rag of Record can't get its delivery people to actually deliver the dead-trees version to people's doorsteps. My senior citizen neighbors are all talking of cancelling their subscriptions because they can't bend down to get the newspaper from under the rose bush, or cli...
[15:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:41] <exec> 08└─This makes a sort of sense in the case of Bitcoin.
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Get New Ears Grown from their Own Cells - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:53] <exec> 08└─If you experiment on humans, going with a cosmetic organ first is playing it safe.
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[16:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:14] <exec> 08└─If you're like me, you already bought a cheap used copy for about three bucks.
[16:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03starvingboy [6766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:15] <exec> 08└─Yep, it's a good read, right up there with the Richard Feynman books. I'm pretty sure there are PDF's out there you can read while looking busy at work.
[16:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:17] <exec> 08└─Are you advocating theft against employers? You are the reason we haven't colonized the galaxy yet.
[16:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:20] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/1133/ [xkcd.com] Seriously, I'm surprised this wasn't at least alluded to in the summary.
[16:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:40] <exec> 08└─I think it'll work quite well, even with government running it. I wouldn't trust a bunch of private companies to handle my water delivery, and I'm getting to be pretty much at that point with internet as well. They don't have the interests of the public factored into their plans for the most part. C...
[16:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:41] <exec> 08└─Those exclusive rights are the direct cause of all the issues we have with internet service. But don't sweat it. The entire budget for this will be used up defending against lawsuits from the industry, and city will still be blamed for the waste of money. I'll say it again, the people have a right u...
[16:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:43] <exec> 08└─There is this thing, I'll say it slowly, called reg-u-la-tor-y cap-ture, and this other thing called lob-by-ing (legalized bribery) that make the market solution a guaranteed nonstarter. Also read what Adams said about natural monopolies, PLEASE.
[16:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:46] <exec> 08└─The capitalism/competition dynamic you are speaking of is fundamentally undermined in any system that gives "exclusive access rights to one or two companies". The SF plan can't be worse than the common US plan these days for the government to mandate certain things and contract out the administratio...
[16:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:48] <exec> 08└─This has been tried before across the US. The typical response is that the state government gets involved and pre-empts local government from doing what its citizens want to do. Hopefully for SF that won't happen because California leans too socialist for it. It should help that the silicon valley c...
[16:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:18] <exec> 08└─So... These new guys molest MORE children or less than the old ones? Article doesn't say. That's because there's no way to know yet. I don't think we have any recent examples of similar moves to compare to. However, given the fact that Vatican-loyal bishops have already proven themselves to be moles...
[16:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:20] <exec> 08└─A little reading of Ancient Near-East mythology, comparative religion, and logic will dissuade you of that one. I'm no atheist, but I also know enough about the former subjects to know that if the Abrahamic God exists, *he's* the maximally-evil being, not his supposed antithesis Satan. And, have you...
[16:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:22] <exec> 08└─Are you sure it isn't? Maybe not for humans but it sure seems Yahweh is all about the ends justifying the means. Divine Command Theory is a bitch, especially when you think about what it entails for the one doing the commanding...
[16:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:21] <exec> 08└─On a related one, what is the scientific term for "God does not exist - it is a fictional story someone made up. You have to be really stupid to seriously believe that gibberish."? Although a little dash of elementary logic aught to be enough to see through that old fairy tale, realistically it will...
[16:20:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:06] <exec> 08└─You know, that sounds terrible, and it is. But the older generations mostly get their news from television, and is that really any better?
[16:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:53] <exec> 08└─Sure it is - when you're using a credit card you're spending *their* money at *their* discretion. You are promising to pay it back - unless you contest the charge as unauthorized, or go bankrupt and and default, but that's the point - it's not your money that you're spending. If you want to make a p...
[16:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:55] <exec> 08└─there are other transactions which are prohibited on credit (like many forms of gambling, including online poker).
[16:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:57] <exec> 08└─Nobody, certainly not homeless people, needs it.
[16:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:59] <exec> 08└─Nor would I buy any fiat-without-fiat pseudotulips.
[16:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:01] <exec> 08└─JoeMerchant: There's no difference buying 25 million coins worth 0.0004 and have them rise to 0.0005 as compared to buying 1.25 BTC at 8000 and having it rise to 10,000.
[16:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:04] <exec> 08└─Why should banks support a technology that seems destined to undermine many of the most profitable aspects of their own business model?
[16:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:14] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on! If you want no wasted vertical space, go to a 16 point font (for us old farts who need Readers Digest Large Print) on 4 point leading.
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[17:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:11] <exec> 08└─I read the headline: "...Irish company rolls out cow fecal recognition." Which I thought was quite impressive, pointless, and disgusting.
[17:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:12] <exec> 08└─Cow shit's actually not all that revolting, relative to many other kinds of shit. Herbivore shit, as a general rule, is less disgusting to have to be around than most other varieties. The above does not apply to omnivores who choose a herbivore diet, vegans. Your shit does still in fact stink. You p...
[17:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:14] <exec> 08└─
[17:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:17] <exec> 08└─Don't give them ideas!
[17:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:19] <exec> 08└─Raised cattle farm with uncles also in same business. Facial recognition would save money over today’s ear tags an barcode scanners. Or RFID. Would help automate milking parlars. Yes they automated today even with merry go round measure of milk production per animal. Prevent re-entry of same cow...
[17:17:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:48] <exec> 08└─I think it'll work quite well, even with government running it. I wouldn't trust a bunch of private companies to handle my water delivery, and I'm getting to be pretty much at that point with internet as well. They don't have the interests of the public factored into their plans for the most part. C...
[17:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:54] <exec> 08└─The capitalism/competition dynamic you are speaking of is fundamentally undermined in any system that gives "exclusive access rights to one or two companies".
[17:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:56] <exec> 08└─Darlin, you're not saying anything I don't already know. I'm a capitalist. Capitalists believe in competition. Anything that harms or prevents competition over the long term is not my friend.
[17:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:58] <exec> 08└─I think it'll work quite well, even with government running it.
[17:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:00] <exec> 08└─Who said anything about the government running the network? From TFA: The city says it will cover a portion of the costs for the multi-billion dollar project and provide or lease access to necessary city property and infrastructure. But San Francisco isn't planning to build the network itself, a ste...
[17:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:03] <exec> 08└─I think you have your terms confused. If they were acting like socialists, they'd be picking winners and losers in the state assembly and regulating the everlovin fuck out of them. They'd be showing a surprisingly capitalistic bent if they chose competition over regulatory capture.
[17:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:05] <exec> 08└─This is being tried in Utah, covering several cities in the Utah Valley region; they call it UTOPIA. [wikipedia.org] Gives good service, decent competition among the various ISPs that are available. The big hurdle has been paying for the construction costs, as setting it up costs $2,750/house. With...
[17:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:07] <exec> 08└─You (and others) keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Socialism [wikipedia.org]: Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production,[10] as well as the political theories and moveme...
[17:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:10] <exec> 08└─My apologies. I did not mean to post the above as AC. I, NotSanguine, authored the above.
[17:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:12] <exec> 08└─Okay. I take back what I said here [soylentnews.org], TMB. It seems it goes the same for you, not double. My apologies. ;)
[17:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:45] <exec> 08└─True, but paradox is not the same as contradiction, not even the same as Ayer's "performative contradictions".
[17:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Stole the News Business - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:44] <exec> 08└─Where's my mod -1 Confusing Ad Hominem?
[17:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:25] <exec> 08└─Feel free to use it! Make sure it's a scam that separates idiots and their money, which is a moral imperative!
[17:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:26] <exec> 08└─The Bitcoin, valued at over $8300 at this writing according to CNN Money [cnn.com], is probably not a good investment
[17:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:29] <exec> 08└─Sure, if you're spending *your* money maybe. But you can't do that with a credit card. And what makes you think you'll continue to be allowed to shop for competing ISPs using your current one? Network neutrality has been repealed - ISPs are allowed to censor or throttle your internet access however...
[17:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:31] <exec> 08└─you can't buy lottery tickets with a credit card in many jurisdictions. that's a function of the state, though, not the credit card company.
[17:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:33] <exec> 08└─I don't think the banks block buying lottery tickets (I never tried, though).
[17:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Much Delayed December Site Update (Complete) - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:47] <exec> 08└─It might be a pain in the ass, but it's appreciated. Hopefully the simple plugin will be more maintainable.
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[18:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo v. Uber Jury Trial Begins - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:15] <exec> 08└─I am looking forward to self driving cars, and keep hoping they will get here before my parents lose their ability to safely drive themselves. Back in the mid 70's there was a 'personal rapid transport' or PRT system proposed which was individual 'cars' on a rail system that were smart enough to sto...
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[18:17:28] <exec> 08└─Man! You fucked that up! You were supposed to come out with a Emily Nutella routine...
[18:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:29] <exec> 08└─mistake --> Miss Steak We're talking female bovines here, not irish.
[18:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:32] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be simpler to just put RFID tags on the cows' ears?
[18:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:34] <exec> 08└─Slam! Slam! Slam! The man continued pummeling the ingredient with his fists and vigorously moving his body. The recipe he was using was simple, but tedious. Slam! Slam! Slam! It was almost done. Slam! Slam! Slam! At last, the ingredient was transformed into the final result. It was time to take out...
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[18:17:36] <exec> 08└─In Sci Fi, you sometimes see udderly amazing levels of technology in ordinary everyday things. Nevermind the cpu power that runs these neural nets, and learns to recognize animals. The usefulness of a practical application will drive the miniaturization and ruggedness so that a "cow recognizer" is j...
[18:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:38] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be simpler to use a horse and buggy rather than an immensely complex machine, loaded with technology, to get you places? The thing is, once it is reliable and affordable, you take it for granted and accept it as "simple". Now people see Chromebooks as "simple". Take one back to 1980 and...
[18:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:41] <exec> 08└─Just to add: you could buy a Chromebook today for what that 1945 ball point pen cost (in today's dollars).
[18:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:51] <exec> 08└─And DO go read the linked Derek Lowe blog. It's both highly informative and NSFW for excessive laughing. The one about FOOF is probably my favorite (already [posted it at least once here)
[18:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:53] <exec> 08└─The university I work at has access to the ebook form of this. I read the first few chapters instead of watching the Superbowl, and the joy of Philly notwithstanding, I enjoyed it far more than I would have enjoyed the game. This is a good read(tm). Highly recommended. It shows just how much of our...
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[18:17:55] <exec> 08└─I'd rate that the politicians who don't provide steady funding and change the mission based on who won the last election are far more to blame than someone reading a PDF on company time.
[18:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:06] <exec> 08└─Now that's what I call Cure for cancer! If only they find the right combination for humans... I remember some other experimant combating cancer like this and the downside was the liver gets too much dead cells for filtering.
[18:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:31] <exec> 08└─In my experience, governments and medium-large corporations both fuck things up, in amazingly similar ways. One of them theoretically at least has my interests as one of their central reasons for existence. Corporations could achieve a theoretical advantage because of competition, but that's almost...
[18:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Creating Huge Virtual Power Plant - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:42] <exec> 08└─> What is wrong with us? Give me my cut and I'll tell you.
[18:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:07] <exec> 08└─You will find out. Just watch the sunrises and sunsets for six months, and then explain it.
[18:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:09] <exec> 08└─WHERE'S FRANCIS?
[18:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:11] <exec> 08└─"We ain't got nobody here by that name." "Hey! Hey, are those my new clamps?"
[18:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:13] <exec> 08└─I'm no atheist
[18:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:15] <exec> 08└─> both the Catholic church and the Chinese are well versed in dancing diplomatic minuets. The Church (the Roman Catholic one) has been dealing with every type of human government for lots of centuries, and therefore knows well what actions bring the desired results in the long term. The Chinese love...
[18:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Japan Launches the Smallest Rocket to Put a Satellite in Orbit - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:28] <exec> 08└─It was a suborbital missile. One doesn't need to achieve LEO (low Earth orbit) in order to wreck things in LEO.
[18:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Launches the Smallest Rocket to Put a Satellite in Orbit - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:30] <exec> 08└─> Not long before that the PRC shot down one of its own satellites. Without a doubt the US shot down that satellite to convey a diplomatic message. The rest of the world was very happy when the dick-measuring contest stopped after those two samples. "Before you to the Moon and Mars" targets are a lo...
[18:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:20] <exec> 08└─Metastability is almost unknown in the civilian society. Explaining to people how a device that is either on or off can be in a variety of states in-between would be so much easier. Self-organisation is another of my favorite concepts, that very few people know or care about. Things like attractors...
[18:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:21] <exec> 08└─Since I have started using "The Brainclub for Men"(tm), I have not had one synapse lost or stolen.
[18:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:23] <exec> 08└─You don't need a fancy word for that because it doesn't fit in that hypothesis [gsu.edu].
[18:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:26] <exec> 08└─Because entropy. It melts ice cream and makes beer warm.
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[19:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Waymo v. Uber Jury Trial Begins - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:16] <exec> 08└─I believe you could implement that system safely on a dedicated 'self driving car' road. And such roads would be less expensive to build than a rail infrastructure.
[19:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:36] <exec> 08└─Agree, that (why not RFID?) was my first thought, though facial recognition might be easier to use in certain environments / use cases.
[19:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:37] <exec> 08└─The 1945 ball point pen could conceivably have had equal or greater ROI in 1945 compared to a Chromebook today. Sign checks, documents, contracts, draft letters or even a book - the Chromebook has tremendous potential, but what are most of them really used for? How much do they actually benefit thei...
[19:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:40] <exec> 08└─You're comparing apples and oranges. A Chromebook can do things you can't even imagine doing with pen and paper. According to TFS, this machine vision system's purpose is simply to identify individual cows, so you can track them individually. You don't need bovine facial recognition to do that, you...
[19:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:42] <exec> 08└─That's what I want to know. What does facial recognition get you that simple RFID doesn't?
[19:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:44] <exec> 08└─You don't have to implant the cows and then irradiate them all the time. You observe their faces, which is more respectful. By showing a more humane attitude towards the cows, you give a giant middle finger to the Vegans.
[19:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:46] <exec> 08└─Standard progression of science. The first hypothesis was to work on cow fecal recognition, but then they realized that not modeling as a spherical cow in a vacuum opened up more advanced possibilities.
[19:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:49] <exec> 08└─When things are cheap we do not have to use their full potential. But back in 1960/70-s one could open a personal computing center and run FORTRAN code (say, simulations) for days.
[19:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:51] <exec> 08└─Speaking of bullshit
[19:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:53] <exec> 08└─You can remove RFID tags. Have you tried removing a cow's face without anyone noticing? This is partly to combat crime when cattle and/or other livestock are stolen, Secondly, you can identify cattle at a distance providing that you can get an acceptable image of its face. A RFID tag is very limited...
[19:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:56] <exec> 08└─Who said you only had to do one of those?
[19:18:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:16] <exec> 08└─The immune system seeks out and destroys metastases after being activated in the original tumor. So it’s not really doing nothing.
[19:18:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe so, but this is about the US, not part of the civilized world.
[19:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:46] <exec> 08└─This doesn't count the numerous legal challenges they've had to stave off from established cable providers who miss their physical monopoly on the home wiring. This should be easy to pay for: just enact some punitive taxes on those cable providers to force them to pay back those legal costs. If they...
[19:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe SanFran should instead work on getting more reasonably-priced housing...
[19:19:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:05] <exec> 08└─the Pope has to admit the entire Church exists only as a giant Ponzi scheme, with a sideline in real estate. No need to threaten the Communist Party, just join forces in property investment!
[19:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:28] <exec> 08└─And make sure to shut your brain off before trying to explain it, if you want to think like a theist.
[19:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:29] <exec> 08└─No, there's the thing none of the greedy believers ever stop to think about: eternity, for any mind that is not-God, becomes inescapable torment. And don't try to get out of this with "well God could wipe your memory then." In this context, that's equivalent to partial or full death, i.e., reincarna...
[19:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:31] <exec> 08└─No, you're going to need to turn your brain up higher than you've ever done. There is a question you've never had.
[19:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:38] <exec> 08└─I've read enough Hentai to know where this is going.
[19:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 2241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:40] <exec> 08└─This. Schools like to skate over the basics of science, things like the very definition of science, and dwell on the details. Sure, they cover the scientific method, but in about the same manner as a construction worker is introduced to a new tool. Barely mentioned is the crucial distinction between...
[19:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:42] <exec> 08└─Occam's Razor?
[19:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:44] <exec> 08└─The problem with including God in scientific theories is to find a proper control group. "Good morning, thanks for your time. Before we get started, we need you to form a line on the left if you have been formally Forsaken By The All-Loving Almighty. Please be ready to confess whatever sin and show...
[19:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:46] <exec> 08└─I disagree that there is room for both. By its very nature, science chips away at religion or "faith". The more one understands science and the world around them the more one may and should question the proof-less alleged existence of Imaginary Sky Fairy(s). (Of course, the number one rule of Imagin...
[19:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:49] <exec> 08└─while useful mathematical skills are in constant flux, the concepts are not
[19:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:51] <exec> 08└─On a related one, what is the scientific term for "God does not exist - it is a fictional story someone made up. You have to be really stupid to seriously believe that gibberish."?
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[19:21:23] <exec> 08└─In the days of the Intel Pentium, it was never the Ghz that mattered, because the notion of even talking about Ghz in the first place was years away. The Mhz, otoh...I had a 133 MHz machine, that thing was sweet. Use it to pivot around the ol' high school firewall and get on IRC in class.
[19:23:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Generalized Hardy's Paradox Shows an Even Stronger Conflict Between Quantum and Classical Physics - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:41] <exec> 08└─Requesting for next April Fool's day - a "-1, Stupid" moderation option.
[19:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Norway Rats Trade "Commodities" - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:19] <exec> 08└─Look, dude, a few million years is a really long time to wait for a question, so Jim got a bit bored, and he may have had something on the side ... but we don't talk about that, ok ? My hypothesis is that the Norwegian rats understand Norwegian, or at just very smart at inferring the results that th...
[19:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06'Never Get High on Your Own Supply' – Why Social Media Bosses Don’t Use Social Media - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:26] <exec> 08└─For example: http://www.tristanharris.com [tristanharris.com]
[19:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Never Get High on Your Own Supply' – Why Social Media Bosses Don’t Use Social Media - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:28] <exec> 08└─But to go full circle here, the product is designed to be addictive. The more you look, the more ads you see, the more money they make. So if Facebook or Twitter have to spend $700 million to get users to use the site an extra 30 seconds per day, the investment pays off. I have to admit, I knew all...
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[20:17:16] <exec> 08└─The actual extradition ruling [judiciary.gov.uk] (warning for PDF) turned up a while after posting the first draft. It mentions a lot about his health but does not adequately express the conditions in the US prisons. Even if he were without his current health problems, he would quickly pick up nasty...
[20:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:17] <exec> 08└─Paraphrased "You judge a civilization by how it treats its weak and its prisoners"...
[20:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:55] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be simpler to use a horse and buggy rather than an immensely complex machine, loaded with technology, to get you places?
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:56] <exec> 08└─Here in Illinois cow shit is called "cow pies" and they have contests to see who can throw them the farthest. Fecal recognition? That's bullshit!
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─If I read correctly, the vision system can recognize the other end of the cow as well. That is, the hide patterns.
[20:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:12] <exec> 08└─Suggestions... Fuel should be cyclopropane or cubane. Oxidizer should be tetranitromethane.
[20:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:14] <exec> 08└─No guest checkout on the Rutgers site : ( But, i see the same thing on amazon if you already have an account there: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Looks like you can get the ebook now but paperback and hardback are released on May 15th.
[20:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:26] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with GP, but the first thing I was asking myself was "so, what happened when they injected that mix somewhere outside any tumor?" Hmm. Apparently, that was not tested... That said, the following interaction effect (quoted from the full article) does make it sound likely that some kind...
[20:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:28] <exec> 08└─And further: To further demonstrate the specificity of the antitumor response, we implanted tumors into mice at three different body sites: two with the A20 and one with CT26 (Fig. 4A). One A20 tumor site was then injected with CpG and anti-OX40 antibody. Both A20 tumors, the injected one and the no...
[20:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:30] <exec> 08└─So, would there be a down side of doing this prophylactically (other than selecting for non susceptible tumors - which just about any treatment also does)?
[20:18:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:55] <exec> 08└─In my experience, governments and medium-large corporations both fuck things up, in amazingly similar ways. One of them theoretically at least has my interests as one of their central reasons for existence. Corporations could achieve a theoretical advantage because of competition, but that's almost...
[20:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:58] <exec> 08└─Better networks will help with the deployment of the upcoming Unicorn "Uber for sleeping under porches, bridges and in nooks and sewers" ?
[20:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:00] <exec> 08└─And ponies. No, unicorns! And free (organic) beer. And and and and...
[20:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:43] <exec> 08└─Seems your position is in the majority these days, but not undisputed: https://www.dailywritingtips.com [dailywritingtips.com]
[20:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:45] <exec> 08└─But will you UNDERSTAND the question? Forty-two?!
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[21:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:14] <exec> 08└─This is Intel. I expect there's no software, no documentation, and some sort of hidden 'management engine' you aren't permitted to touch, it's there for black-hats only.
[21:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:15] <exec> 08└─Relax. I've worked for Intel twice and like their CPU and SSD.
[21:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:18] <exec> 08└─"Relax. I've worked for Intel twice and like their CPU and SSD." I'm glad to know they hire bone-headedly stupid people. And re-hire them even. Their products are defective by design and how you *feel* about them is of absolutely no relevance to that.
[21:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:20] <exec> 08└─Wow, what a testimonial. Thanks for this deep insight.
[21:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:22] <exec> 08└─Just sayin'. I mean, IME aside, Linux basically Just Works with Intel's stuff.
[21:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:24] <exec> 08└─It's a boy?! Send him to the operating room for reconstructive genital surgery! Evolution; defective by design.
[21:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:34] <exec> 08└─Which in the US seems to oscillate between "fuck off and die" and "get raped and die". In case any foreign readers don't know, we also remove the right to vote after someone has paid their debt to society.
[21:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:36] <exec> 08└─Why do cyber hackers always, always talk in such a complicated way? Like "no reason he cannot not be tried in England," it's very hard to understand.
[21:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:39] <exec> 08└─He could have avoided being tried in the US by not committing a crime in the US. There's no question that he did what he's accused of, and had he just allowed extradition, it's likely that he'd already be out of prison by now. And that's assuming he was found guilty, which isn't necessarily the case...
[21:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo v. Uber Jury Trial Begins - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:48] <exec> 08└─https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/02/05/self-driving-car-trial-shows-silicon-valleys-sharp-elbows-second-place-first-loser/306953002/ [usatoday.com] Levandowski joined Uber when Kalanick paid around $680 million for his self-driving truck company, Otto, in August 2016. In May 2017, Levandowsk...
[21:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:21] <exec> 08└─Exactly, most ballpoint pens today never do anything of value, but in 1945 the usefulness ratio of ballpoint pens was much higher.
[21:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:22] <exec> 08└─Identification of cows you haven't tagged yet... identification using a camera system (which has many other beneficial uses) instead of an RFID reader station which is basically useless without implanted and cataloged tags... I do feel like I'm stretching here.
[21:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:24] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, I'd recognize Elizabeth Beck anywhere. I have nightmares about that disgusting whack-job. She was crazy! And she represented her clients very poorly. She lost the case and I got legal fees, OK? If she needed a break to breast pump or whatever, I mean -- well, that's unusual, we're i...
[21:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 1831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:27] <exec> 08└─There's a very old Irish drama broadcast by the BBC about Ireland "Ballykissangel" (apparently the name of the village) and one of the more comic plots is the Irish govt implemented old age pensions for farmers by not trying very hard to audit farmers claiming fake sheep subsidy credits and the whac...
[21:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:42] <exec> 08└─I also see it on Archive.org if you don't need a dead tree form. https://archive.org [archive.org]
[21:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 1410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:44] <exec> 08└─Its a good book about the old days. The book was successful, back when it was only a couple decades old, at convincing me to do a chemistry major. Eventually I figured out that time machines were not going to be deployed anytime soon making the odds of my becoming a 1950s propellant chemist rather l...
[21:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:46] <exec> 08└─Haha, riiiight. So the every ballooning number of billionaires is actually the opposite? The rich simply can't scrape up enough money to invest in space flight? That is the reason???? I'm really hoping your comment was sarcastic, "/s" tags are mandatory these days with all the wackos and bots runnin...
[21:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:01] <exec> 08└─I am copying this idea from another source, but an immunologist stated that in experiments like this, there is a risk of an autoimmune disorder developing. If you inject this into non-tumorous area, there is a chance that your immune system will target something else in the immediate area as bad and...
[21:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:02] <exec> 08└─Neither of these two quotes directly touches upon the necessity of activation inside of a tumor. That a treatment for Tumor A might not be effective against a different type of Tumor B is completely non-germane. It may just have been a consideration of time (speed of the trial). As I read it, they w...
[21:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:33] <exec> 08└─I think it'll work quite well, even with government running it.
[21:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:35] <exec> 08└─I really don't see why local governments aren't able to force companies like this to do their bidding more.
[21:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:37] <exec> 08└─So you're here and now disavowing a good 80% or 90% of your previously-expressed social policies? :) Nope, didn't think so. You wouldn't know a free market if it bit you in your foul feathery ass.
[21:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:39] <exec> 08└─"Socialism" is a "snarl word" to people like Uzzard. Did you ever read Catch 22? Remember that little bit about the one American GI who had a dog that would go almost rabid whenever the owner said "Commies!" and would make the dog do it on command? Every. Single. Brainwashed. Idiot. Who uses "social...
[21:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:42] <exec> 08└─Rabid vulture of the 1% who thinks he already took the Red Pill, later he will learn he is colorblind and feel like quite a silly tart.
[21:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:44] <exec> 08└─Nice snarky comment, however the political reality is way more complicated. There are a LOT of very rich people in SF who do not want any more housing. There are a LOT of renters who want more housing. New development is insanely expensive, so even then housing prices will be exorbitant but it might...
[21:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:46] <exec> 08└─Also read what Adams said about natural monopolies,
[21:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:49] <exec> 08└─Holy crap, way to be clueless. Capitalists don't believe in competition, that is just lip service that is supposed to hand wave away all the problems. "Competition drives efficiency! Better for everyone!!" In general the theory holds, but it falls apart when humans get involved. Not to mention there...
[21:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:51] <exec> 08└─I would hope that the 100th time your ignorance is pointed out for you that you'd actually do some reading and start using words properly. NO SCHOOL FTW AMIRITE??
[21:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:53] <exec> 08└─You're really reaching there. Social policies have little to nothing to do with policy regarding monopolies and competition.
[21:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:55] <exec> 08└─Incorrect, you just lack the ability to go beyond 1 layer deep on any given topic.
[21:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:58] <exec> 08└─Holy crap, way to be clueless. Capitalists don't believe in competition...
[21:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:43] <exec> 08└─Quite sure. And if my "complaining" bothers you, snowflake, you can go elsewhere. Look at it this way: I'm the loyal opposition. I've seen enough bad religion to be even more upset with it than atheists are, because it gets in the way of good religion.
[21:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pope Francis' Plan to Replace Two Chinese Bishops With Chinese Govt Appointees Raises Outcry - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:45] <exec> 08└─if the Abrahamic God exists, *he's* the maximally-evil being, not his supposed antithesis Satan.
[21:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Prune [4334] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:00] <exec> 08└─But some of us are frequentists, not Bayesians, you insensitive clod!
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Introduces RISC-V Linux-Capable Multicore Processor - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─Fyvie [google.co.uk]? Is there a Bonnie lass [wikipedia.org]?
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[22:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:24] <exec> 08└─The IME is FOSS too. Thanks for putting a version of MINIX 3 inside the ME-11 management engine chip used on almost all recent desktop and laptop computers in the world. I guess that makes MINIX the most widely used computer operating system in the world, even more than Windo ws, Linux, or MacOS.
[22:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:25] <exec> 08└─Laser directly into your retina, what could go wrong? Anyway I'd be cautious, I've heard recently about an Intel thing called metldown so don't wanna experience eyeball meltdown.
[22:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:27] <exec> 08└─"As it's beamed onto the back of your retina, it's always in focus, regardless of whether you have prescription or non-prescription lenses." So, you could have it beam the environment around a blind person (or someone with bad sight) directly onto their retina and have them see in perfect focus? IAN...
[22:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:30] <exec> 08└─When we see a point source, the eye is focusing many rays of light that hit the lens at different points into a single point on the retina. But if you could somehow reduce the point source so that only a [i]single[/i] ray hit your lens, it would always be a point on your retina because it can't be b...
[22:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:32] <exec> 08└─But it has no cameras!
[22:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:34] <exec> 08└─At 400x150 pixels, the world would be pretty blocky. Of course the future holds better resolution. For me though, I must be getting old. I have zero interest in getting phone notifications right in my eyeball.
[22:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:46] <exec> 08└─In case any foreign readers don't know, we also remove the right to vote after someone has paid their debt to society.
[22:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:47] <exec> 08└─I think this may be the first time I think the realDonaldTrump has actually said an insightful comment. It should be "there is no reason he cannot be tried in England..." Bother, I have to support realDonaldTrump. I don't think it's possible to say enough Hail Marys to absolve myself of this sin. Fo...
[22:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:49] <exec> 08└─> He could have avoided being tried in the US by not committing a crime in the US. How is this always a one-way street? By that logic, pretty much the entire population of US and Europe should be extradited to Saudi Arabia/China/Russia/Thailand/etc. If he broke British laws by cracking those website...
[22:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:52] <exec> 08└─He did what he did in his own country, not in the US.
[22:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cracking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:54] <exec> 08└─Many lawyers are habituated not to use commas. It seems weird, but it is true. Commas are regarded as potentially introducing dangerous ambiguity, so contracts and wills (and other legal documents) have traditionally been written in many jurisdictions without the use of commas. There isn't a hard-an...
[22:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:39] <exec> 08└─You could spray paint a QR code on its side, and when the paint starts looking messed up due to growth, rain, whatever, then an automated system spray paints a new copy of the QR code on the other side. You could repeat this for awhile if each code isn't too large. Of course this might mess up the l...
[22:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Udderly Ridiculous or Bold Mooove? Irish Company Rolls Out Cow Facial Recognition - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:41] <exec> 08└─Sure, you can't remove a cow's face easily, but put a hat and pair of sunglasses on it and you've beaten the facial recognition with no one the wiser.
[22:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:16] <exec> 08└─so in what scenario would the auto-immune disease be worse than cancer? if I get testicular cancer, and the options are (1) cut them out and maybe die anyway or (2) live and maybe make my immune system kill them, I will choose (2). no contest. maybe I would prefer to die than to have my immune syste...
[22:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Immune-Stimulating Injection Eliminates Tumors in Mice - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:17] <exec> 08└─Many people are saying we get cancer many times every day. And it goes away many times every day. Senator John McCain has always been a fighter. Melania and I send our thoughts and prayers to Senator McCain, Cindy, and their entire family. We want him to get well soon. But maybe this is something he...
[22:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:00] <exec> 08└─That has nothing to do with the power of local governments to enact laws affecting their territory. They absolutely do have that power. They can't easily discriminate, but if they pass a law that equally affects all cable companies, for instance (regardless of the fact that there's only one operatin...
[22:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:02] <exec> 08└─The problem with your analysis is that those renters, who you claim are "a LOT", should logically outnumber the very rich people who don't want any more housing (please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am). So assuming the renters outnumber the rich bastards, they should be able to elect...
[22:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:04] <exec> 08└─When ever single instance of an ideal being put into practice turns out exactly the same corrupt way, it is not unfair to declare that corruption to be part and parcel of the ideology. Yes, the same could be said for capitalism but at least in capitalism it's acknowledged as corrupt and fought back...
[22:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:06] <exec> 08└─Socialism should be a snarl word to anyone reading it. It invariably turns anything it touches into an authoritarian shithole. If you actually knew your history you wouldn't need to be told this.
[22:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:08] <exec> 08└─Afraid not. I can totally tell a PBR from a Red Stripe. Even at a distance.
[22:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:11] <exec> 08└─Projection 101 with Professor Buzzard. "Hey, where's the class?"
[22:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:13] <exec> 08└─You mean the ability through rhetorical gymnastics to say that something is what it is not? Yes, I lack that. Proudly.
[22:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:15] <exec> 08└─Educate yourself before you reply mmmkay? Socialism != Communism. Can you try saying that 100 times? Also, it is intellectually bankrupt to pretend that a small group of powerful educated people pulling one over on the public is either socialism or communism. Please stop replying, you just highlight...
[22:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:18] <exec> 08└─Welp, there went the potential excuse. You sir are an idiot, a knave, and should probably apply for court jester.
[22:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:20] <exec> 08└─Redefinition, another favorite tactic of your ilk. What next? I know you are but what am I?
[22:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:22] <exec> 08└─Ok fine, I'll take the bait. Pleas elaborate on this history you refer to. List more than 3 instances so we have a good baseline to refer to, a quick blurb on what they countries wanted to do and how it actually turned out. The point keeps being brought up as some master stroke to end an argument, s...
[22:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:25] <exec> 08└─I'll repost the link to the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] on the off chance you'll decide to educate yourself in the actual fact that "socialism" isn't one thing or one set of practices. I am, as you are certainly aware Buzzard, if you've actually read the c...
[22:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:27] <exec> 08└─Yet, in the real world, owners nearly always have vastly more political power than renters. They have more money, so they can support campaigns better. And housing is a complicated issue, so politicians can appeal to renters without actually promising any policies that will actually result in more h...
[22:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:29] <exec> 08└─I was going to go with "I'm rubber, you're glue..." but I do take requests.
[22:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:32] <exec> 08└─I most assuredly know the difference and stand by what I said.
[22:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:34] <exec> 08└─I know precisely what it is. Ownership of the means of productivity by the workers. Which, in practice, is rarely any such thing. Even when it is though, bucking the party line is a good way to become prematurely dead.
[22:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Creating Huge Virtual Power Plant - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:45] <exec> 08└─If you don't have a reliable Grid, your country is a shithole. Like Puerto Rico. As Australia found out -- they have huge problems with their Grid. They're trying to make it reliable with a big battery. The biggest. And it's costing them tremendously. We're very lucky. Because we have reliable Coal...
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:38] <exec> 08└─you can't separate the skills from the concepts in practice
[22:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Children Get New Ears Grown from their Own Cells - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:37] <exec> 08└─But why is there no mention of the final front ear?
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[23:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:15] <exec> 08└─Weren't they supposed to consult their physician if it was up for more than four hours? Or is this where we figured that out?
[23:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:16] <exec> 08└─I was just saying recently (to a voice coach), "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
[23:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:19] <exec> 08└─The wall was a lesbian. The place between the two barriers was called "no man's land", and much blood was spilled there. [ducks] On-topic: dang, we're getting old fast!
[23:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:21] <exec> 08└─Build a wall !
[23:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:23] <exec> 08└─Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up
[23:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:25] <exec> 08└─Actually, it was down for much much much longer than it was up. As in, 4 billion+ years versus less than 30 years.
[23:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:28] <exec> 08└─An interesting philosophical point. Before it was up, was it down? It's a reasonable argument to suggest that something that had never existed was not in fact down. You can't ascribe properties ("up", "down") to something that doesn't exist.
[23:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:46] <exec> 08└─It's where they end up anyway. Unless you get yours delivered in Morse code via vibration.
[23:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:48] <exec> 08└─I've remembered the example I meant to give earlier, but couldn't think of - it's like the speckle pattern you see when you point a laser pointer into your eye (don't do this!) - it's always "in focus", such as it is, regardless of your prescription.
[23:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:50] <exec> 08└─Caution: Do not look into Intel glasses with your remaining eye
[23:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:52] <exec> 08└─how you *feel* about [subject] is of absolutely no relevance to [fact].
[23:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:54] <exec> 08└─And that distortion could be corrected in software.
[23:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:57] <exec> 08└─I'm glad you feel that way. or *citation_needed
[23:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:59] <exec> 08└─wouldn't the shape of the lens have an inpact? As in I'd suspect the image would move/distort differently if you're focusing on something nearby verses something far away.
[23:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:01] <exec> 08└─A secret auction is currently ongoing to decide which lucky advertiser gets the "burn text into retina" laser power unlock code. Sadly, half of the black hats already guessed it's 123456 (the others didn't think it could be as dumb as a luggage code), and are conducting their own secret auction. The...
[23:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ignition! The Funniest, Most Accessible Book on Rocket Science is Being Reissued - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:22] <exec> 08└─FOOF doesn't hold a candle to ClF3. From Ignition! All this sounds fairly academic and innocuous, but when it is translated into the problem of handling the stuff, the results are horrendous. It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fu...
[23:19:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aiwendil [531] 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 1505 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:49] <exec> 08└─Ehm, that isn't standard in the civilized world? Here (sweden, you should all know where I live by now [roughly the same shape and size as californa]) Open Access network are standard in pretty much any city and starts to become very common out on the countryside as well (we even have several compet...
[23:19:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 378 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:50] <exec> 08└─No, the norm in the United States is for the local government to hand an exclusive right-of-way contract to one or maybe two companies, and then for those companies to sit on the contract until a Federal Grant comes along to "improve access" and pays them to build their network, which they then aban...
[23:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:40] <exec> 08└─Pick any three nations that have ever had "socialist" in their name or even talked about socialism as if it were a good thing. Or any three workers' unions. I'm too lazy to educate you today but it's your baby so you should have plenty of examples to hand. Socialism, by its very nature, is tyrannica...
[23:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:42] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, Uzzard, your social policy is the level below these and from which these spring. You are suffering from (or, more accurately, making the rest of us suffer from...) a priority-inversion bug. Commerce is not our highest purpose. We, the human race, do not exist simply for monetary or...
[23:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:44] <exec> 08└─I don't buy this, sorry. Literally every single other service of its kind--water, electricity, roads--is a natural monopoly. The analogies to water delivery, for example, are so readily obvious that we even have terms like "pipe" used to describe internet connectivity.
[23:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:46] <exec> 08└─Gods, no. He's not funny.
[23:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:49] <exec> 08└─You really can't handle it when we agree on something, can you? Totally fucks up your world view and makes your mind race to figure out how that can't possibly be right. Also, if you think material wealth is even close to my highest priority, you haven't listened to a word I've said the entire time...
[23:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:51] <exec> 08└─Yep. That's one way that socialist ideas have been implemented, but not the *only* way. There are many others, many of which are meldings of capitalist and socialist ideas. Should you wish to get a broader understanding of what's under the umbrella that encompasses "socialism," you're perfectly capa...
[23:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:53] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Unless private citizens start being allowed to dig under roads and across their neighbors' yards, there's not a viable option for the last mile to be anything except a monopoly. As such, it needs to be regulated in such a way as to produce the most competition rather than the least. It's bes...
[23:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:55] <exec> 08└─That's not "one way", yo. That's the definition of the thing. That's what it means, even if people want to go around misusing the word.
[23:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco Seeks Universal Fiber Broadband With Net Neutrality and Privacy - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:58] <exec> 08└─Sorry but I have to double reply here. I can't stand by and let a slight on Groucho go. He was quite possibly the funniest man who ever lived, even if Harpo's "hold my leg" gag always makes me laugh the hardest.
[23:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Creating Huge Virtual Power Plant - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:10] <exec> 08└─Um, calling Puerto Rico's country a shithole is a little, um, counter to MAGA...
[23:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:04] <exec> 08└─Boolean logic. It could be called common sense, if developed sufficiently.
[23:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Ban Expands Across Credit Cards as Big U.S. Banks Recoil - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:51] <exec> 08└─You can smell it in the air. Much like the *AA, adapt, or eventually die.
[23:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Children Get New Ears Grown from their Own Cells - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:06] <exec> 08└─Just thought I'd leave this here: http://www.vintag.es [vintag.es]
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