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[00:01:14] <exec> 08└─I'm dubious
[00:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:16] <exec> 08└─Mining cryptocurrency involves less work though... ;)
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[00:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:39] <exec> 08└─Oh, goodie. More people who don't understand how to acquire wealth telling us it's all luck.
[00:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:41] <exec> 08└─This is precisely the problem the socialism and Marxism attempt to solve. Luck is NOT A SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT! The fact that these numbskulls think that someone who happens to be both the CEO of a Fortune 500 company and also happens to have several friends and relatives also in high positions just mag...
[00:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:43] <exec> 08└─It is why Jesus loved the poor. He knew not all of them were lazy good for nothing pieces of shit. If he had lived long enough he would know those were the silver spoon type like our Don jr. Camels through the eye of a needle. Good luck you mostly lucky few.
[00:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:45] <exec> 08└─Even if you strike it rich by luck, if you are a dumbass, you'll lose it all in no time.
[00:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:48] <exec> 08└─There the story of a man who from very humble origins rose to be very rich back in Galicia. On an interview, the reporter asked him about his early life and the rich guy recounted how he wanted to be a sexton in his local church but was rejected. Later the reporter marvels at him, ‘You have achie...
[00:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:50] <exec> 08└─The answer is simple -- be Jewish.
[00:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:53] <exec> 08└─This study comes as a little for a surprise for me. I thought that the main attribute driving acquired wealth was sociopathy. In fact, there was a study that compared the personalities of CEOs and people detained in Broadmoor Hospital (where they "detain" the criminally insane in the UK). The CEOs w...
[00:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03west [6884] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:55] <exec> 08└─It concludes that the majority of riches do not result from talent, intelligence or hard work please define in empirical terms which have ample enough data: -talent -hard work then find the data set of people (random/disperse in persons and geography and time) which inclused those aforementioned met...
[00:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03west [6884] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:57] <exec> 08└─no, no. asians and jews are the top two "groups" in terms of wealth in the west. this clearly means that those two stacked their RPG stats into luck. int = 5 str = 5 stam = 5 mana = 5 luck = 999
[00:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 1861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:00] <exec> 08└─"Luck" is just our word for favorable outcomes of systems too complicated to model effectively. The universe doesn't include a concept of "fairness" as a primitive, but human society can reach levels of sophistication, efficiency, and pleasure if we invent such a concept and notice how it modifies o...
[01:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:02] <exec> 08└─That's not quite the full picture. Wealth has a negative feedback effect on losing it - the richer you are, the harder it is to lose money. As long as the effect of wealth is higher than the drawback of your personal ability, you will remain wealthy. Trump is quite rich well into his old age, need I...
[01:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:04] <exec> 08└─Oh, goodie, another comment from somebody who doesn't understand how to acquire wealth mocking those that are trying to study the problem rather than uttering this dribble..
[01:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:07] <exec> 08└─Then there the story of a guy who was shooting at some food when up from the ground came a bubbling crude; oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea. But then there's that other bunch that went on a three hour tour. A three hour tour! It's all luck, lol. :)
[01:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:09] <exec> 08└─Trump didn't strike rich by luck, his daddy handed it to him, sending him to expensive boarding schools and UPenn. The fucker has German ancestry, and it's the Nazi Germans that try to annihilate the Jews for their avarice, the definition of irony.
[01:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:11] <exec> 08└─Many are in the right place at the right time and simply fail to notice the opportunity as it passes them by. That is a big part of success. Being the best at a specialty just means you will be a valuable employee slaving away in a cube farm unless you have that risk taking attitude and keep alert t...
[01:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Supercolony" of 1.5 Million Penguins Found in Antarctica - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:25] <exec> 08└─According to the article, they all moved there from New York City in 2015.
[01:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Observe a New Quantum Particle With Properties of Ball Lightning - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:34] <exec> 08└─An attractive girl single-handedly helped "lighten" my balls recently... 5 stars would try again.
[01:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:03] <exec> 08└─>Encryption is largely at the mercy of incompetent or malicious certificate "authorities". Oh look, someone who doesn't understand SSL or the issue of trust. I can generate an SSL certificate myself and start encrypting traffic. Clearly, encryption is not at the mercy of anyone, largely or otherwise...
[01:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 2760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:05] <exec> 08└─There are a number of reasons for this consolidation: 1. Many folks with domains don't have the technical expertise to manage their own DNS servers; 2. Other folks don't have the geographically distributed internet links to support *resilient* authoritative name resolution; 3. Still others have outs...
[01:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:03] <exec> 08└─Buying a lottery actually makes more sense if your goal is to get really really rich. For a lot of people it's the best chance for them to have a 100+ million dollars in their lifetime. So if that's your goal then I'd say it's worth a shot. Tons of people spend more on lattes and the odds of them ge...
[01:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:04] <exec> 08└─See also: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://www.technologyreview.com [technologyreview.com] It's as much bullshit telling the poor that they should work hard if they want to become...
[01:02:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Arm Schoolteachers? Kids Say No - 691 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:33] <exec> 08└─Davidson, a democrat, very conveniently causes this issue while guns are in the news. Gee, what ever could be the motive here? Of course, he couldn't actually have brought a gun to school, because schools are gun-free. It says so. Schools are also drug-free. Laws work great. Being "gun-free", there...
[01:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:34] <exec> 08└─Condorcet is slightly better on a theoretical basis, but IRV is so much easier to explain that it's the only alternative in use anywhere.
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[01:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:53] <exec> 08└─Oh look, a study that (confirms/rejects) my biases, better completely ignore it and reaffirm my dearly held beliefs!
[01:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:55] <exec> 08└─There is a difference between acquiring and producing wealth. Lately, the way to acquire wealth has been to support the correct politicians.
[01:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:57] <exec> 08└─And quite a bit of theft is "legal" -- longer copyrights, patent trolls, monopolies, rigged markets, etc.
[01:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:59] <exec> 08└─Trump didn't strike rich by luck, his daddy handed it to him
[02:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:02] <exec> 08└─At the same time and for the same reasons, the idea that rich people are necessarily intelligent and hard working is bullshit.
[02:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:04] <exec> 08└─Wooo, I didn't even have you call you out on this one. People are figuring it out TMB, being a bossy (bully lite) person does not generate truth.
[02:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:06] <exec> 08└─"Luck" is just our word for favorable outcomes of systems too complicated to model effectively.
[02:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:09] <exec> 08└─At bottom it seems to be probabilistic, but we don't choose the outcomes of those random values either
[02:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:11] <exec> 08└─Modern civilization is rich enough that we can afford to treat success like a game.
[02:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:13] <exec> 08└─Great contribution, Nietzsche. Thankfully, very few people believe your bullshit or ever did.
[02:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 3300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:15] <exec> 08└─Its only luck, if you consider luck the reason of who gets born into the wealthy families already. There is a saying on Wall St, "To turn $10,000 into $20,000 takes a lot of skill and hard work (and many fail); To turn $10,000,000 into $20,000,000 is inevitable." It is a lot easier to manage your mo...
[02:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:18] <exec> 08└─And look at Trump now. Melania is refusing to hold his hands in public. Ivanka has to answer to his infidelity. Trump wants to wage trade wars against all, allies and foes. Trump is making America super-fucking GREAT, not like never before. The only thing saving his tenure is Mike Pense being his r...
[02:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:20] <exec> 08└─So where are your billions of dollars then, Buzzy? Unless, of course, the study actually IS bullshit, and you're not a billionaire only because you're a moronic fucktard. So which is it? Is the study accurate, or are you a moronic fucktard?
[02:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:22] <exec> 08└─Chaotic.
[02:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Supercolony" of 1.5 Million Penguins Found in Antarctica - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:38] <exec> 08└─They were forced out of their old habitats because of perverted scientists. They were watching them while they ate and exercised, even when they were mating... never stopping a minute for modesty. And damn, you couldn't even get rid of their creepy gaze when your kids where being born. To make matte...
[02:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VPNs and Cross-Border Leased Lines Banned in China After the End of March 2018 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:36] <exec> 08└─You are taught in school that the Sun 'moving South'(aka The Tilt) for the winter accounts for the change of seasons. But have you modeled it yourself?
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[02:02:38] <exec> 08└─China tries to prevent dissent from being seen. In the west we just ensure that it is adequately diluted with stuff like the parent post.
[02:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs and Cross-Border Leased Lines Banned in China After the End of March 2018 - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:40] <exec> 08└─What are you describing is sunset. Sunset is not seasons. You have missed the question. for khallow: yes yes yes. You've also missed the question. For both: How can the sun behave differently from horizon (0 degrees) to azimuth in winter(say, 30 degrees) in winter, but not have exactly the same beha...
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[02:02:42] <exec> 08└─There is nothing wrong with the movements. The problem is how the Sun can behave differently at different times of the year when compared at identical angles above the horizon. Angles of sunlight, time above horizon, and resultant heating is distraction. The heat and light at a given point in the sk...
[02:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VPNs and Cross-Border Leased Lines Banned in China After the End of March 2018 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:45] <exec> 08└─The problem is how the Sun can behave differently at different times of the year when compared at identical angles above the horizon.
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[02:02:47] <exec> 08└─Photographers claim it. Painters claim it.(Winter sunlight) I claim it. Watch it for the next 12 months. You will see it. Until then. https://hooktube.com [hooktube.com] https://hooktube.com [hooktube.com] https://hooktube.com [hooktube.com...
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[02:03:21] <exec> 08└─Port Aurthur massacre - Australia - 1996 1 gunman - 35 dead - 23 wounded Afterwards, the people of Australia said ENOUGH! The changed the gun ownership laws. They bought back the guns from those who were no longer entitled to ownership and destroyed those. They haven't had a mass shooting since. It...
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[02:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:39] <exec> 08└─About. time.
[02:59:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 1861 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:56] <exec> 08└─"Luck" is just our word for favorable outcomes of systems too complicated to model effectively. The universe doesn't include a concept of "fairness" as a primitive, but human society can reach levels of sophistication, efficiency, and pleasure if we invent such a concept and notice how it modifies o...
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[03:00:12] <exec> 08└─Its only luck, if you consider luck the reason of who gets born into the wealthy families already. There is a saying on Wall St, "To turn $10,000 into $20,000 takes a lot of skill and hard work (and many fail); To turn $10,000,000 into $20,000,000 is inevitable." It is a lot easier to manage your mo...
[03:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:17] <exec> 08└─Stochastic?
[03:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:19] <exec> 08└─Anemic.
[03:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:21] <exec> 08└─Oh I absolutely will. His head start was chance but everything he gained thereafter was most assuredly not.
[03:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:24] <exec> 08└─Please, child. Anyone who does not have any wealth but tells you they know how it is acquired is full of shit. I have almost no ambition beyond going fishing when I want to go fishing and I had enough saved up to sit on my ass without lowering my standard of living for two and a half of the past thr...
[03:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:26] <exec> 08└─You'd prefer taking financial instruction from some schmucks who've never actually participated in the economy?
[03:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:28] <exec> 08└─Yup and that thoroughly sickens me.
[03:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:30] <exec> 08└─I have no desire for billions of dollars. I made as much as I wanted to (Yes, I turned down work that would have made millions for me.) for years running my own business then closed it up and lived off my savings while doing fuck-all but fishing and whatever else I felt like doing. For over two year...
[03:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:33] <exec> 08└─Nope, WIS. With a good WIS score, even abysmal luck can be planned for and mitigated.
[03:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:35] <exec> 08└─but everything he gained thereafter was most assuredly not.
[03:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:37] <exec> 08└─That's actually one of the main points of 1984 that almost everyone misses. Near the end when O'Brien is talking to Winston he asks 'How do you know when you have power over someone?' and Winston has an epiphany and correctly answers 'by making him suffer'. Unless he is suffering, how do you know it...
[03:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:40] <exec> 08└─without lowering my standard of living for two and a half of the past three years.
[03:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:42] <exec> 08└─Mine is to be able to go fishing whenever I want. Oh, and a nap after lunch. Often at the same time (bells on the ends of my catfish rods). I fit the Gen-X lack of ambition stereotype to a T.
[03:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:44] <exec> 08└─I had enough saved up to sit on my ass without lowering my standard of living for two and a half of the past three years.
[03:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:46] <exec> 08└─And? What's your point? You think it's all down to luck? Spend all your retirement plans on lotto tickets then. Go ahead, I'll wait. Now that we've established that even you don't believe that utter bullshit, let's have a sensible conversation.
[03:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:49] <exec> 08└─Even athletes... Having access to the best gym equipment is expensive. If you can afford the expensive and/or exclusive clubs, you can guarantee that the gym always has enough equipment that at least one is always available and in perfect running order. Money allows you to have professional personal...
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[03:00:51] <exec> 08└─High CHA + Gender:Female
[03:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:53] <exec> 08└─It's easy to do regardless with ambitions like mine. I can get by quite happily only bleeding off around thirty grand a year from my savings. It's not even difficult. Not buying stupid shit that I don't need and barely want is the vast majority of my budget plan.
[03:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:55] <exec> 08└─Many are in the right place at the right time and simply fail to notice the opportunity as it passes them by. That is a big part of success. Being the best at a specialty just means you will be a valuable employee slaving away in a cube farm unless you have that risk taking attitude and keep alert t...
[03:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:58] <exec> 08└─Everything in life is luck!
[03:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:00] <exec> 08└─Never said I was out of savings. I just started earning again because I found something that interested me. Not being in massive debt counts as astounding, fantastic, amazing, incredible financial wisdom in the US these days.
[03:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Supercolony" of 1.5 Million Penguins Found in Antarctica - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:17] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the homo sapiens creatures tolerate CCTVs and ALPRs just fine.
[03:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Supercolony" of 1.5 Million Penguins Found in Antarctica - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:18] <exec> 08└─It sounds like reality TV, right? Where these penguins got voted off the island -- on The Apprentice, Celebrity Apprentice we called it fired -- only maybe they got voted ONTO the island. I say maybe, nobody knows when they moved there -- you try to ask the penguins, they can't tell you. I fired @Om...
[03:02:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 1843 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:24] <exec> 08└─It works for a while because they're trashing their vehicle. Think of it as equity extraction. It's a smaller scale version of taking out an equity line on your house and living high off the hog; but then when it runs out you're homeless. If you just got laid off, you can drive people around in your...
[03:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:56] <exec> 08└─A big thing is that the costs are largely invisible. If I'm driving for Lyft, the only immediate cost I see is the gas money, but what actually bites you is the increased wear on your car. Driving for them would be far more profitable if you had a throwaway car, used some beat up old thing on its la...
[03:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:58] <exec> 08└─not totally uncommon
[03:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:00] <exec> 08└─I went through the US school system in the 80s and very early 90s. It was a complete abomination back then, and that was ~30 years ago now. If it ever wasn't an abomination, it must have been well before I was born.
[03:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:02] <exec> 08└─Perhaps because VC money is truly subsidising operations (i.e., they are upping payments to drivers to stop them quitting). https://qz.com [qz.com] Uber runs out of money in a year. It's signed a deal to buy 24,000 Volvo SUVs for $1 bi...
[03:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:04] <exec> 08└─MLMs. Lotteries. Gambling. Motorcycle-riding. Drug usage. Overeating. Binging and purging. Procrastination (the last one is a favorite of mine... ok, off to work I go).
[03:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs and Cross-Border Leased Lines Banned in China After the End of March 2018 - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:31] <exec> 08└─You first.
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[04:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:40] <exec> 08└─Lucky to have been borne to a mom with a basement.
[04:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:42] <exec> 08└─False equivalence. Making use of the connections and money you have because you were born into a rich family is vastly more easy than winning the lottery.
[04:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:44] <exec> 08└─There is a saying. Luck favors the prepared. You can be presented an opportunity (the luck bit). Being able to act upon that and even seeing that there is one in the first place. Without the skills to act upon luck you get nothing. You may even have the skills and see the opportunities but do not ha...
[04:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:46] <exec> 08└─His point is Trump exemplifies the study; luck not talent got him rich. In fact Trump is so mediocre that someone starting out with his wealth would be wealthier than Trump simply by having put it in a broad fund tracking the stock market and then doing nothing; ie by following the same advice given...
[04:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:49] <exec> 08└─It's not that you're stupid, you just have bad luck. Yeah, that's it.
[04:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:51] <exec> 08└─Come on people! The answer is simple! Socialism, Marxism, Communism... take your pick! Sure if you like massive deaths. Those systems only work while the money is still around. Once it runs out the guns come out and the dictators show up.
[04:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:53] <exec> 08└─Couldn't have said it better myself. Watching all these wage slaves spew butthurt over failings that are entirely their own fault is absolutely hilarious.
[04:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:55] <exec> 08└─I live in Tennessee at the moment. You don't build a basement here unless you've just always wanted an indoor pool.
[04:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:58] <exec> 08└─And? What's your point? You think it's all down to luck? Spend all your retirement plans on lotto tickets then.
[04:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:00] <exec> 08└─You're still not getting it. Whether his bets were the smartest bets out there or not is irrelevant. That he grew his wealth massively by his own decisions is what matters. The vast majority of this nation would be broke today if they'd got the same start Trump did. Nobody arguing with me has a clue...
[04:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:02] <exec> 08└─My point is put your money where your mouth is. I have.
[04:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:05] <exec> 08└─Lack of reading comprehension. He made an absurd statement and I invited him to put his money where his mouth is.
[04:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:07] <exec> 08└─People like Uzzard will never admit this, because their entire worldview is based around it not being the case. Don't even waste your time replying to him, except with things like "have fun in Hell." We are not dealing with a rational human being here.
[04:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:09] <exec> 08└─You're still equating two situations that are entirely unlike one another. There was no reason to bring up lottery tickets at all.
[04:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:11] <exec> 08└─This guy seems to know... https://www.ted.com [ted.com] Spoiler: Lucky timing is the single biggest factor for success.
[04:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:14] <exec> 08└─https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_startups_succeed [ted.com] Spoiler alert: Lucky timing is the key to success
[04:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 2216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:16] <exec> 08└─There's an old saw that you should never discuss religion or politics in polite company. But that's nothing compared to discussing personal finances. People evade and lie more about money than anything else, and not just in words. Lots of poor people put on a big, flashy show designed to impress oth...
[04:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:18] <exec> 08└─That he grew his wealth massively by his own decisions is what matters.
[04:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:20] <exec> 08└─Mmmmm, no. People with large inheritances are lucky, unless somehow you can show there is skill involved with choosing rich parents. They to start out with so much money that even relatively mediocre choices result still add up to a whole lot better returns in absolute terms compared to a poor perso...
[04:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:23] <exec> 08└─I think your not getting it. You wrote: "The vast majority of this nation would be broke today if they'd got the same start Trump did." I'm saying: No; they wouldn't be. As long as they did ANYTHING remotely sensible, they'd be in the same ballpark. If all they did was follow the simplest, most b...
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[04:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:45] <exec> 08└─What is the news here? Have we just discovered that bees are insects, or that insecticides kill insects, or that neonicotinoids are insecticides? If your insecticide doesn't kill bees, you probably bought the homeopathic stuff. It's some pretty exotic stuff if it kills anything you dislike while bei...
[04:59:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 480 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:59] <exec> 08└─This study comes as a little for a surprise for me. I thought that the main attribute driving acquired wealth was sociopathy. In fact, there was a study that compared the personalities of CEOs and people detained in Broadmoor Hospital (where they "detain" the criminally insane in the UK). The CEOs w...
[05:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:03] <exec> 08└─For once I have to agree with you. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
[05:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:04] <exec> 08└─There are many who win more than a million dollars in the lottery and end up broke. Maybe that is because lottery players tend to have bad judgement, but it does give some support to the point that many could have had Trump's head start and ended up with less instead of more.
[05:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:06] <exec> 08└─Society and economy are complex, partially chaotic systems. You can model them but you have to take into account every factor. And after you do that, there is only a timespan over which the model is OK in the future. And application in the past is about tweaking parameters until it fits. See weather...
[05:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:43] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the US subsidizes its industries and workers with low taxes and a dollar kept high through various means such as pegging the world price of oil to the US$. Then there's things like the subsidized gasoline, a CDN$1.40 a litre (close to $4US a US gallon) locally here. Not to mention...
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[05:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:44] <exec> 08└─Sounds right in my case, except that I have an inner sanctum of 5 (some of whom I've known since before high school) and a next layer of 15ish, but nothing else after that by choice. I enjoy bullshitting with the anonymous folks here but that's something I can walk away from and come back to at will...
[05:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:46] <exec> 08└─No friends. No family. Just me now. Me all alone.
[05:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:48] <exec> 08└─But he raised the price. So now I do without.
[05:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:50] <exec> 08└─You've got a friend? What's that like?
[06:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:19] <exec> 08└─I prefer taking instructions from whoever makes the strongest argument, and an argument from authority is not a strong argument. The wealthy know as much about economics as bodybuilders know about medicine. Success does not equal knowledge unless the measure of success overwhelmingly favors the know...
[06:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:20] <exec> 08└─It would make the fishing easier.
[06:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:22] <exec> 08└─I'm saying: No; they wouldn't be. As long as they did ANYTHING remotely sensible, they'd be in the same ballpark. If all they did was follow the simplest, most basic investing advice they could get.
[06:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:24] <exec> 08└─You’ve kissed your own arse? Hardly surprising.
[06:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:27] <exec> 08└─That's a good point; it's also the case that wealthy families lose their wealth within a couple generations too. The same 70% in fact. "70% of Rich Families Lose Their Wealth by the Second Generation" http://time.com [time.com] That's why I didn't go so far a...
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[06:01:29] <exec> 08└─High CHA + Gender:Female
[06:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:31] <exec> 08└─TFA (and the quote in TFS) say that the most talented people don't become the richest. But that does NOT imply that it's ALL luck. TFA makes clear that one has to be talented enough to take advantage of lucky breaks. A more accurate headline would be: "Study concludes that luck, COUPLED WITH talent...
[06:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:34] <exec> 08└─Darn it, forgot to include the link [cleveland.com].
[06:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Supercolony" of 1.5 Million Penguins Found in Antarctica - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:53] <exec> 08└─Huh, you'd think a city like New York City would be pretty friendly to residents with long beakish hooknoses.
[06:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Data Analysis Shows what Drives the Spread of Flu - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:14] <exec> 08└─Always thought cold air contributes not because it's cold but because it's dry, and when your sinuses are all dried out all that protective mucus and other juices can't do their jobs well.
[06:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:37] <exec> 08└─if someone finds it worth while to occupy a specific employment then who and the hell are you, for any reason, to tell them its not ok?!?!?!
[06:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:39] <exec> 08└─lots of commercial shipping companies require truckers to furnish their own semi trucks. its common. if their business model is successful then its a good business model. nothing immoral is happening here.
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[06:04:07] <exec> 08└─Khallow, what's wrong with you? OP posted a Vimeo video! Which means it's all legit and on the up and up. My god! Are you thick or something? It's from the Internets! Why do you think that you have any leg to stand on? Yeah, I know what you're going to say. Something like, "physics, blah blah blah,...
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[06:04:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah Khallow! Can't you see he's right? He just posted three (count 'em! one, two, three) videos from the intertubes. That makes a total of *four* videos he posted. That makes it just about unanimous! Khallow is wrong and AC is right! Who cares what 500 (well, more, but we'll start with that) years...
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[06:04:11] <exec> 08└─The Shanghai office of a previous employer. While offices in different countries are incorporated in those countries, there is significant cooperation between offices when necessary/appropriate. As such, site-to-site VPN is routinely used to communicate between offices on three continents. Client/se...
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[06:59:42] <exec> 08└─Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
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[06:59:43] <exec> 08└─Eth has a friend. It is like in that movie, with James Stewart, you know, the six foot tall rabbit, a Pooka, from Norse mythology, and being ethanol fueled. Nobody else can see them, but that does not mean they are not there! Fair Winds, Ethanol_Fueled!
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[06:59:46] <exec> 08└─I have no surviving enemies [wikiquote.org].
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[06:59:48] <exec> 08└─The easy answer is being able to talk to them like I talk to you all here on SN, only in real-life, and get approval for it even if there are disagreements. The kinda people you can talk to in real life with no filter. Of course, those are good friends, there are the crappier friends who wouldn't to...
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[06:59:50] <exec> 08└─Having enemies means that you are important enough to have enemies. Even when everybody at work or school is badmouthing you, it is still all about you. Never underestimate the capacity for mobs of people to lower themselves down to the level of the third-grade schoolyard.
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[07:00:00] <exec> 08└─The real news? Well, it isn't really news, at all. But, the real story went pretty much like this: Bayer didn't want, and certainly didn't fund, any real testing of neonics. Bayer did it's own unsubstantiated testing, in Canada, in a rather remote location. Bayer jumped to conclusions over inconclus...
[07:00:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:45] <exec> 08└─but everything he gained thereafter was most assuredly not.
[07:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sabriel [6522] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:28] <exec> 08└─Them: this study finds the majority factor appears to be luck. You: they're ignorant because they say it's all luck. Is it a reading comprehension problem or do you have a cognitive bias?
[07:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:30] <exec> 08└─How successful is his brother who also got the same amount of investment?
[07:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:32] <exec> 08└─Come on, people! It worked out so well for Venezuela!
[07:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:34] <exec> 08└─Actually, nobody has any evidence of what a real Marxist society would be like. My guess is that it couldn't get off the ground, but if it did, nobody knows what it would look like. Communist is less Marxist than Roman Catholic is Christian. FWIW, it's my suspicion that a Marxist society of any size...
[07:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:33] <exec> 08└─The only solution today is to walk away from the legacy DNS and either utilize something like namecoin, or simply hidden service addresses plus reputable search sites/wikis like Tor/I2P.
[07:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:34] <exec> 08└─What about DANE? No CA, No web of trust. All a certificate can do anyway is to ensure that the server you're talking to is the server you think you are talking to.
[07:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:36] <exec> 08└─What about DANE? No CA, No web of trust. All a certificate can do anyway is to ensure that the server you're talking to is the server you think you are talking to.
[07:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30% - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:58] <exec> 08└─RTFA, 5 feet is enough
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[07:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 2256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:59] <exec> 08└─I've noticed my limits of how many people's relations I can track. I read a lot of web comics, manga, visual novels, and books, and watch a lot of anime and a few other shows. Some of this content updates serially and has been running for years (decades even in some rare cases). I've exceeded the nu...
[08:00:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:28] <exec> 08└─Then there the story of a guy who was shooting at some food when up from the ground came a bubbling crude; oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea. But then there's that other bunch that went on a three hour tour. A three hour tour! It's all luck, lol. :)
[08:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:41] <exec> 08└─http://jppi.org.il/new/en/article/english-haredi-poverty/ [jppi.org.il] http://blogs.reuters.com [reuters.com] https://www.quora.com [quora.com] http://www.tabletmag.com [tabletmag.com] h...
[08:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:42] <exec> 08└─Ok, that's it. I'm out of here. This site has become worse than slashdot.
[08:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Supercolony" of 1.5 Million Penguins Found in Antarctica - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:03] <exec> 08└─An answer to that millenia-old question [wikia.com] (not millenial, it's not all about you, no matter what you think), "What fate Omarosa [nocookie.net]?"
[08:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:47] <exec> 08└─I think the top 3 should include residential server persecution. If ordinary 'internet' users were free to download FOSS bind or alternatives and operate their own DNS servers, without being in violation of their internet service provider's contract and terms of service, then we would see an exponen...
[08:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:54] <exec> 08└─I'll ask again -- can we have a bot (or something) that auto-re-submits articles at some time in the future? In this case, in 6 months--
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[09:00:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 645 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:01] <exec> 08└─The real news? Well, it isn't really news, at all. But, the real story went pretty much like this: Bayer didn't want, and certainly didn't fund, any real testing of neonics. Bayer did it's own unsubstantiated testing, in Canada, in a rather remote location. Bayer jumped to conclusions over inconclus...
[09:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:36] <exec> 08└─Or at least an honorary one. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 - Dec 21) You are optimistic and enthusiastic. You have a reckless tendency to rely on luck since you lack talent. The majority of Sagittarians are drunks or dope fiends or both....
[09:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:38] <exec> 08└─...that success in life isn't measured in money but in the number of people mourning you at your funeral.
[09:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Supercolony" of 1.5 Million Penguins Found in Antarctica - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:59] <exec> 08└─I hope you're not the one who made that connection cuz damn.
[09:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs and Cross-Border Leased Lines Banned in China After the End of March 2018 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:22] <exec> 08└─I wonder if China censors all the Flat Earther clowns.
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[09:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Fixes Serious “Eclipse” Flaw - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:38] <exec> 08└─Can't be true. Because it's protected by teh crypto. Which of the magical properties that these vapourcurrencies have claimed hasn't been debunked yet? We know they're not a value store, and no good as a means of exchange. All they had was "decentralised", and apparently that's now a weakness.
[09:59:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 2256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:59] <exec> 08└─I've noticed my limits of how many people's relations I can track. I read a lot of web comics, manga, visual novels, and books, and watch a lot of anime and a few other shows. Some of this content updates serially and has been running for years (decades even in some rare cases). I've exceeded the nu...
[10:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:10] <exec> 08└─Wait, we we're assured that it was the lithium chloride stuff as indicated in the last link in TFS. So now they're telling us no, no We were wrong, we're going back to the original neonicotinoids story, or maybe the cell phone story. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
[10:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:11] <exec> 08└─Was the testing unsubstantiated or was it inconclusive? Are you certain there's a difference?. And what by the way constitutes substantiated testing? Where does one go to have their testing substantiated?
[10:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:48] <exec> 08└─Thank you, it would be a great honor. Unless you're a loser. I don't like losers. What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
[10:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:55] <exec> 08└─And CAs are about what again? Yeah, that's right: Authentication (certifying that the site is really the one you think of). The CA does not encrypt for you, nor is the CA's root certificate used for encryption. With DANE you can safely use a self-signed certificate for encryption, since you know tha...
[10:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:56] <exec> 08└─Anyone who doesn't see this bit of longstanding network non-neutrality as one of the top reasons for the current lack of DNS diversity isn't being intellectually honest. It's pretty simple.
[10:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:58] <exec> 08└─I don't understand the DNS system well enough to comment on the AC's point, but IF he is correct, then anyone who argues against him is either knowledgeable enough that they are intellectually dishonest for disagreeing, or intellectually dishonest enough to argue on a subject they are uninformed abo...
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[10:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ethereum Fixes Serious “Eclipse” Flaw - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:38] <exec> 08└─What the hell is wrong with you, guy? You can't talk like that here! Buy lots of graphics cards and just shaddup.
[11:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:49] <exec> 08└─I thought that the main attribute driving acquired wealth was sociopathy.
[11:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:50] <exec> 08└─Employers too exert pressure to spend, baby, spend.
[11:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:53] <exec> 08└─The only thing saving his tenure is Mike Pense being his replacement.
[11:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs and Cross-Border Leased Lines Banned in China After the End of March 2018 - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:39] <exec> 08└─Assuming the sun actually does look differently (it certainly doesn't behave differently, as the sun we see on the northern hemisphere is the exact same sun seen at the same timeat the southern hemisphere, where there is summer at the same time!), I'd guess it is an effect of the absolute humidity o...
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[11:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Fixes Serious “Eclipse” Flaw - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:43] <exec> 08└─All they had was "decentralised", and apparently that's now a weakness.
[11:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Fixes Serious “Eclipse” Flaw - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:45] <exec> 08└─Buy lots of graphics cards and just shaddup.
[12:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:07] <exec> 08└─Norse?! Harvey and all his kin are most definitely celtic.
[12:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 2472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:59] <exec> 08└─...this counterintuitive result... There is a well-known phrase: "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?", which indicates that being clever and being rich are not perfectly correlated, and this is often enough to be noticeable. I believe many 'self-made' people do not acknowledge the degree of luc...
[12:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:09] <exec> 08└─Just because you are uninformed does not mean you know that you are uninformed. That is, you may think you know enough about a subject because you don't know how much you don't know.
[12:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:17] <exec> 08└─it must have been well before I was born.
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[12:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clicker Heroes Maker Compares New Lawsuit From “Patent Troll” To Extortion - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:40] <exec> 08└─On hacker news If you google "US patent 7,177,838", you see that it's somewhat of a holy grail for the patent trolls. It was used to sue Amazon, Apple, Visa, News Corp, Starbucks, and the whole alphabet of multinationals. ... The patent was filed by Marvin Ling on Jan 26, 2000. Already in May it was...
[12:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clicker Heroes Maker Compares New Lawsuit From “Patent Troll” To Extortion - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:42] <exec> 08└─Shit, the linky didn't make it the first time. Here's in its naked splendour: https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com]
[12:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clicker Heroes Maker Compares New Lawsuit From “Patent Troll” To Extortion - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:44] <exec> 08└─There is a fine line between legal assertion of a patent and the use of patents as extortionate weapons. The troll-business has long been known for the extortionate application. Even when asserting a patent is legal, there is a limit how you may present such assertion. I think we have seen the line...
[13:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:16] <exec> 08└─And what of extreme introverts who have no desire to have friends? Or are they necessarily unhappy because this person said so? Not only that, but good luck scientifically determining whether someone is actually happy or not.
[13:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:09] <exec> 08└─Intelligence is not a requirement for pursuing wealth. On the contrary, unlimited wealth often results in obnoxious and unhappy children. If you don't want your kids to turn out like that, you should be smart enough not to try and acquire millions or billions of dollars.
[13:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:10] <exec> 08└─Given that the study in question was NOT empirical at all, but rather based on an idealized model/simulation run many times, your question about "how can this be empirical?" is simple: it isn't. But that would require actually clicking on TFA link to find that out... It might still be BS, but it's n...
[13:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:12] <exec> 08└─Regarding going to college: You could do it the way I did - work full-time during the day, go to class at night, reserve the weekends for projects/reading/homework. It makes for some long days, but it's doable. And yes, I did it while supporting a family. It's even easier now with the availability o...
[13:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:22] <exec> 08└─With DANE you can safely use a self-signed certificate for encryption, since you know that it indeed comes from the site you are intending to visit.
[13:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:24] <exec> 08└─I don't understand the DNS system well enough to comment on the AC's point, but IF he is correct, then anyone who argues against him is either knowledgeable enough that they are intellectually dishonest for disagreeing, or intellectually dishonest enough to argue on a subject they are uninformed abo...
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[13:59:40] <exec> 08└─On hacker news If you google "US patent 7,177,838", you see that it's somewhat of a holy grail for the patent trolls. It was used to sue Amazon, Apple, Visa, News Corp, Starbucks, and the whole alphabet of multinationals. ... The patent was filed by Marvin Ling on Jan 26, 2000. Already in May it was...
[13:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Clicker Heroes Maker Compares New Lawsuit From “Patent Troll” To Extortion - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:44] <exec> 08└─I think what we just read about is the whole idea behind all this "rights" legislation Congress is being urged to pass. If someone armed with gun goes to someone and demands money, that's a crime. Not only that, the mark may retaliate... it does not take very many resources to wield a lethal weapon....
[13:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Fixes Serious “Eclipse” Flaw - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:55] <exec> 08└─Why is it no good as a means of exchange?
[14:01:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 551 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:31] <exec> 08└─His point is Trump exemplifies the study; luck not talent got him rich. In fact Trump is so mediocre that someone starting out with his wealth would be wealthier than Trump simply by having put it in a broad fund tracking the stock market and then doing nothing; ie by following the same advice given...
[14:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:15] <exec> 08└─Lottery winners get broke because they are an anomaly in their original social circle, they don't have support network in their new social stratum (as dictated by their new "net worth"), so they just fall off quickly. It's just that they are targeted by everyone.
[14:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03west [6884] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:36] <exec> 08└─are you trying to miss the point, lol? let me un-hyperbole my argument since it seems to have triggered you into a post almost as long as the original, haha. "i think these uber articles are a little too common". lots of job markets are like this. whoopty-dew.
[14:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03west [6884] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Study Shows How Much Driving for Uber or Lyft Sucks - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:37] <exec> 08└─maybe not immorality but yes people CLEARLY have a problem, otherwise why the article?
[14:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Martian Moons and Saturn Imaged by ESA's Mars Express - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:07] <exec> 08└─What are you blithering on about?
[14:07:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Georgia Denies Delta Tax Break After Airline Cuts Ties With NRA - 1141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:19] <exec> 08└─This means that costs for Delta will be higher than competing US airlines, and people will use those competitors more, and will go through airport hubs in other states more than Atlanta, so Georgia will get less revenue overall. However, I don't even know how this situation compares to other airline...
[14:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:22] <exec> 08└─In any case it's OK for Alu, the ban onlt affects imports of aluminum, but not aluminium.
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[14:59:39] <exec> 08└─The man, having finished forcibly violating the woman, got up and stretched; he was truly satisfied. The woman was almost dead, but she could still be of use to men. The man waited. However, what happened next shocked the man so much that he nearly had a heart attack: The woman did not thank him pro...
[14:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Clicker Heroes Maker Compares New Lawsuit From “Patent Troll” To Extortion - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:51] <exec> 08└─These vampires have a patent on reward tokens. Isn't there at least 12-15k years of prior art? Well, no, you misunderstood. They have a patent on reward tokens *on a computer.* Totally different, not the same thing at all. There's only about 5k years of prior art on it that way, not 12-15. Totally b...
[15:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Fixes Serious “Eclipse” Flaw - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:03] <exec> 08└─1 down, 1535 to go - I was being deliberately broad brush, as they're all making these kinds of promises. Against what ratio are they sybil resistant? How big are malicious state actors?
[15:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:28] <exec> 08└─What are these "friends" of which you speak? It sounds as if you are saying there should be someone that would NOT eventually stab me in the back. Preposterous! Completely preposterous!
[15:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 1491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:41] <exec> 08└─Substantiation can be done in house, if the "researcher" prefers to do it. That may or may not be adequate to satisfy academic authority, or whoever might be interested in the substantiation. In this case, no one checked the results - there was a rush to get to market, so the early favorable results...
[15:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03west [6884] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:27] <exec> 08└─no it is BS for the reason i gave, lol.
[15:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The DNS Was Designed for Diversity, but Site Admins Aren't Buying - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:40] <exec> 08└─> > Encryption is largely at the mercy of incompetent or malicious certificate "authorities". > Oh look, someone who doesn't understand SSL or the issue of trust. > I can generate an SSL certificate myself and start encrypting traffic. Oh, look, someone who doesn't understand SSL or the issue of tru...
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[16:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ethereum Fixes Serious “Eclipse” Flaw - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:03] <exec> 08└─Various reasons ranging from transaction fees being too high, to confirmation being too slow, to the fact that nobody bloody takes the currencies. Or for a more face-palmy answer - because if they were useful as a means of exchange, then they would be actively used as a means of exchange. And they a...
[16:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Fixes Serious “Eclipse” Flaw - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:05] <exec> 08└─Strange that Ars would make a mistake like this so soon after their fake moon landing series. The first flaw is shown in the picture in the article. Red light of the chromosphere on the back of the moon. Solar Eclipse: https://vimeo.com [vimeo.com] The second eclipse flaw is in the lunar e...
[16:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:29] <exec> 08└─I'll note that two generations is longer than five years.
[16:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:30] <exec> 08└─"asians and jews are the top two "groups" in terms of wealth in the west." What about 'everywhere'? What groups are the most wealthy everywhere? It is the Jews. The Jews are wealthy no matter where they are. They get into business that always makes them money and they never do anything involving lab...
[16:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs and Cross-Border Leased Lines Banned in China After the End of March 2018 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:25] <exec> 08└─You've got a theory. Now test it with 12 months of observations. While you're at it, see if you can figure out 'why sunsets are red.'
[16:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs and Cross-Border Leased Lines Banned in China After the End of March 2018 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:26] <exec> 08└─Five videos. The one who deceives here is God. Mock accordingly. Energeian Planēs
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[17:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Fixes Serious “Eclipse” Flaw - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:10] <exec> 08└─Lots of words in the article. Does it boil down to Ethereum reversing or "fixing" a contract that they (or a big investor) didn't like. They have done that several times before. I wonder if they would ever reverse a contract for a little guy? Bet not.
[17:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:36] <exec> 08└─In the show Friends, each main character—Ross, Rachel, Joey, Phoebe, Monica, and Chandler—these five people in their life, making it a pretty decent model to follow on a biological and sociological level.
[17:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:38] <exec> 08└─And what of extreme introverts who have no desire to have friends?
[17:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:51] <exec> 08└─two groups should have been separated by AT LEAST six miles distance - and preferably more
[17:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Supercolony" of 1.5 Million Penguins Found in Antarctica - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:01] <exec> 08└─Writing code is slow when you have to "hunt and peck".
[17:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Supercolony" of 1.5 Million Penguins Found in Antarctica - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:02] <exec> 08└─You're just jealous because they all have peckers longer than yours.
[17:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VPNs and Cross-Border Leased Lines Banned in China After the End of March 2018 - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:39] <exec> 08└─How can the sun behave differently from horizon (0 degrees) to azimuth in winter(say, 30 degrees) in winter, but not have exactly the same behavior in summer from 0 degrees to 30 degrees?
[17:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VPNs and Cross-Border Leased Lines Banned in China After the End of March 2018 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:40] <exec> 08└─While you're at it, see if you can figure out 'why sunsets are red.'
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[17:59:38] <exec> 08└─That EXPLAINS a *LOT*. I talked to a former chief mechanic at McClellan AFB a few years back. A few years before the base closed down he'd developed a testing and repair procedure for the F-14's avionics for the Navy. Long story short, he managed to do repairs on the units for 1/16th what NG was cha...
[17:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experimentally Demonstrated A Toffoli Gate In A Semiconductor Three-Qubit System - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:46] <exec> 08└─[paraphrase]...quibits of spin, orbited tri-directionally encompassing quantality, with the multisuperimposition of states common to subquarks. Together, they compose...[/paraphrase]
[17:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experimentally Demonstrated A Toffoli Gate In A Semiconductor Three-Qubit System - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:48] <exec> 08└─They made a new quantum gate. Given that fidelity is not quoted, it's probably shit. But we don't know, because the article is paywalled, and I'm too lazy to look for an arXiv pre-print.
[18:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 3087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:41] <exec> 08└─I think it relates to other aspects as well. It's not so much about people as it is about remaining aware, informed, and engaged within a specific closed system with the occasional rotation/turnover (in and out) of objects/entities that have numerous data points associated with them. That's not as c...
[18:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:43] <exec> 08└─So you really ARE a klan member!
[18:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:45] <exec> 08└─Narrative strategy? "making it a pretty decent model to follow on a biological and sociological level." They are using a well known cultural story to illustrate their point about the size of your close personal circle. That you have a problem with such a metaphor shows more about you than anything e...
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[18:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06It's Begun: 'First' IPV6 Denial-Of-Service Attack - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:39] <exec> 08└─It was a warm, sunny day. Four women were chatting happily on a park bench when a smiling man walked up to them. The women wondered who this man was, but he seemed friendly enough, so they didn't think much about it. Suddenly, his smile became truly disgusting. And then there was nothing. Nothing re...
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[18:59:41] <exec> 08└─IPv6 is all growed up. Even cyber criminals are using it! Normally we say a new technology has been accepted by society when the technology is used for murder. It's just such a shame that all of the innovative apps produced by faggoty tech bros are completely intangible. Try harder, shitheads. You d...
[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GAO: James Webb Space Telescope Launch Date Likely Will be Delayed (Again) - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:49] <exec> 08└─NASA's risk-averse and tedious testing procedures have been identified as one reason for the delays.
[18:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GAO: James Webb Space Telescope Launch Date Likely Will be Delayed (Again) - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:52] <exec> 08└─I talked to a former capt in the airforce that automated an inventory and ordering system. Nuked from orbit it was going to put 200 people out of work.
[19:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experimentally Demonstrated A Toffoli Gate In A Semiconductor Three-Qubit System - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:02] <exec> 08└─Anyone who claims to understand quantum physics is lying or insane.
[19:00:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Clicker Heroes Maker Compares New Lawsuit From “Patent Troll” To Extortion - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:14] <exec> 08└─These vampires have a patent on reward tokens. Isn't there at least 12-15k years of prior art? Well, no, you misunderstood. They have a patent on reward tokens *on a computer.* Totally different, not the same thing at all. There's only about 5k years of prior art on it that way, not 12-15. Totally b...
[19:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Fixes Serious “Eclipse” Flaw - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:30] <exec> 08└─How are transfers slow and expensive? Over 50k made today for practically free (10^-7 to 10^-8 btc per byte) in under an hour: https://bitcoinfees.earn.com [earn.com]
[19:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:13] <exec> 08└─So you are telling me that a product that was designed to kill insects.... Actually works!?!? Who would've thought? I understand that technology is important at maintaining our food supply, but if we do kill off most of the bees in the world, we will starve. Period.
[19:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:14] <exec> 08└─Aye... Should have previewed it. Was supposed to be "Whoa Really"
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[19:59:47] <exec> 08└─Tedious testing is probably warranted. Since its eventually going to be located near the Earth–Sun L₂ Lagrangian point, nobody is going to be able to visit it and repair it. Hubble was almost a total loss, except that we could get to it and partially repair it. Mars Climate Orbiter got metric an...
[20:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:08] <exec> 08└─Only about 1/6 of the crops need bees, and most of that is not high-volume stuff. All of the major staples are wind pollinated, self-pollinated, or not in need of pollination at all. To pick an example from each category: there will be no shortage of corn, tomatoes, or bananas.
[20:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:10] <exec> 08└─So bees in both groups died at record levels? There's nothing here about substantiation, or what that actually means.
[20:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:12] <exec> 08└─I can assure you tomatoes need pollination, or they won't set fruit. https://www.buzzaboutbees.net [buzzaboutbees.net]
[20:02:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 913 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:28] <exec> 08└─I think your not getting it. You wrote: "The vast majority of this nation would be broke today if they'd got the same start Trump did." I'm saying: No; they wouldn't be. As long as they did ANYTHING remotely sensible, they'd be in the same ballpark. If all they did was follow the simplest, most b...
[20:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Observe a New Quantum Particle With Properties of Ball Lightning - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:32] <exec> 08└─Next time, get her to try both hands.
[20:10:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06U.S. Steel and Aluminum Imports to Face New Tariffs - 441 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe so - decades ago. When I was young, "Made in Japan" meant "cheap", in most cases. Today - not so much. Today, it's China that has a poorly trained, and inexperienced workforce. Their stuff IS cheap junk - today. In thirty years, that will change. Meanwhile - we are slipping behind. Our skilled...
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[20:59:43] <exec> 08└─George hypothesized that one big future problem could be if a network is hit with a combination of IPv4 and IPv6 attack traffic – as happened in this case. A sysadmin could pull out all the normal mitigation tools but only kill off the IPv4 traffic, leaving the network under attack and the person...
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[20:59:44] <exec> 08└─Duh yeah. I runs mah blag on mah phone. I gots me BusyBox and muh BusyBox netstat dont bee showin me any EyePeeVee6.
[20:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Begun: 'First' IPV6 Denial-Of-Service Attack - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:46] <exec> 08└─"The risk is that if you don't have IPv6 as part of your threat model, you could get blindsided," Neustar's head of research and development Barrett Lyon told us. "If you have IPv6, you totally need to purchase more DDoS protection," said DDoS protection vendor spokesman Cpt. Obvious.
[20:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Begun: 'First' IPV6 Denial-Of-Service Attack - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:49] <exec> 08└─"Please look at our company's offerings" Fascinating that this is both a statement of the bleeding obvious *and* an advertisement.
[20:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Begun: 'First' IPV6 Denial-Of-Service Attack - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:51] <exec> 08└─He didn't know what the weather was, as he was sitting in his small, dark basement as always, posting his fantasies about women-killers. He just had finished yet another post, as he noticed some movement behind him. He turned around, and he immediately recognized the biggest horror he could imagine....
[21:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GAO: James Webb Space Telescope Launch Date Likely Will be Delayed (Again) - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:02] <exec> 08└─It is obvious that better reliability is needed. However, it is not obvious whether NASA's "tedious testing" helps achieve this. It is very easy to do large amounts of completely worthless, bureaucratic testing, and not decrease the failure rate. Is what they are doing now actually useful? I don't k...
[21:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:10] <exec> 08└─Sounds valid, leaves me with questions about specific individual variance of implementation of the numbers: So, on average, peoples' circles are 5/ 15/ 150. Could one person's numbers be 1/ 5/ 20 and another person's be 20/ 100/ 1,000? Varying capacities might have a correlation with introversion an...
[21:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Regulator Finds That Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Bees - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:29] <exec> 08└─That was my original point - the supposed safety of the product was never established, let alone substantiated. The EPA's own scientists disputed the purported findings of this "study". The whole thing just falls flat on it's face. Bayer pulled a fast one, and the head of the EPA let them do it.
[21:02:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:44] <exec> 08└─That he grew his wealth massively by his own decisions is what matters.
[21:02:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] 02 - 06Study Concludes that Luck, not Talent or Smarts, Results in Wealth - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:45] <exec> 08└─Mmmmm, no. People with large inheritances are lucky, unless somehow you can show there is skill involved with choosing rich parents. They to start out with so much money that even relatively mediocre choices result still add up to a whole lot better returns in absolute terms compared to a poor perso...
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[21:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:37] <exec> 08└─Al says you're Tarded and Fucked Up. That'll be this many dollars, bro.
[21:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:39] <exec> 08└─Some doc in Maine lost her license because she refused to use them One of my witch doctors was unable to understand them I once worked on such a system. I protested that doctors would refuse to deal with it "Doctors are employees" was my coworkers reply
[21:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:41] <exec> 08└─streams the audio to LexiconAI’s cloud-based engine
[21:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:43] <exec> 08└─The man chuckled. Mixed in with the sound of chuckling was a sickening gurgling sound coming from below the man. The one producing those gurgling sounds was, of course, the woman. Was. She no longer made any sounds at all. The man, having thoroughly satisfied himself, got up and childishly skipped t...
[21:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:46] <exec> 08└─Doctors find themselves increasingly glued to computers, acting as glorified data entry administrators.
[21:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06It's Begun: 'First' IPV6 Denial-Of-Service Attack - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:59] <exec> 08└─Mom?
[22:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:17] <exec> 08└─I really miss comedian Richard Jeni[1] AKA Platypus Man. He had a routine where 2 people are seeing if they are compatible and they put their cards on the table, comparing how psychotic they are. Imaginary friends come into play. [google.com] [1] His suicide at age 49 is another reason that I don't...
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[22:01:38] <exec> 08└─My father used his binoculars to look at a Soviet ship as it passed his ship. He saw a Soviet sailor looking back at him through binoculars too. Dad put down his binocs, smiled and waved Thee Free Worlds sworn enemy put down his own binoculars, looked furtively to each side, then stepped into a door...
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[22:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:45] <exec> 08└─What we need is an AI-powered death panel.
[22:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:46] <exec> 08└─Doctors find themselves increasingly glued to computers, acting as glorified data entry administrators.
[22:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:48] <exec> 08└─We'll find out these streams end up being sent to India for verification or something, and somebody will hack that. Realistically, they, (the AI company, and or the Doctor, and the clinic) will have to retain the original audio recording for legal protection. So there's another million records that...
[22:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:50] <exec> 08└─Docs have an infamous reputation for nasty hand writing, and even without that, all the medical jargon requires specialized education, even for data entry clerks. Docs need to realize what they are trying to achieve, as a profession, rather than getting drenched in their entitled sentiment. I am not...
[22:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:53] <exec> 08└─However, some smart+unfeeling bean counters discovered that, if you vastly reduce the amount of attentive time Doctors spend with patients, you can fire the data entry person and only pay one of those salaries, having its recipient do the job of both, poorly, instead of his own job, well.
[22:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:55] <exec> 08└─That will cost some extra dollars, though.
[23:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Begun: 'First' IPV6 Denial-Of-Service Attack - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:10] <exec> 08└─[Lyon's] hope is this it serves as a wake-up call for sysadmins to apply best practices to IPv6 networks, and argues that "anything you do in the IPv4 world, you should be doing in the IPv6 world."
[23:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Begun: 'First' IPV6 Denial-Of-Service Attack - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:11] <exec> 08└─Properly configuring a firewall for IPv6 is no more difficult than configuring IPv4 NAT port forwarding. In fact, my 5 year old ADSL router uses the same UI to do both.
[23:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GAO: James Webb Space Telescope Launch Date Likely Will be Delayed (Again) - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:23] <exec> 08└─The budget for JWST [wikipedia.org] was at $500 million in 1997, $1.8 billion in 2000, $3 billion in 2005, and roughly $8.8 billion today (possibly more if GAO is right). With less tedious testing, maybe the budget would have been half, with a slightly higher chance of failure but an earlier launch...
[23:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GAO: James Webb Space Telescope Launch Date Likely Will be Delayed (Again) - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah exactly, at this point it almost seems like they could have cut the cost in half and launched two instead. Or more! At some point being able to launch a whole bunch of times for the same cost serves as much better testing than merely adding billions of dollars of bureaucracy. Testing without ac...
[23:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Fixes Serious “Eclipse” Flaw - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:03] <exec> 08└─Why isn't gold (the metal) used as a medium of exchange? Various reasons [such as] nobody bloody takes [it.] Or for a more face-palmy answer - because if [gold was] useful as a means of exchange, then [it] would be actively used as a means of exchange. And [it isn't]. And the contrapositive therefor...
[23:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Is How Many Friends You Need to Be Happy - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:36] <exec> 08└─A gnat is often held up as an example of insignificance (the attention span of a gnat; a gnat's ass). Despite their insignificance, a great many folks find them to be irritating. So, no. Making someone else's life less pleasant doesn't afford an entity importance. It typically gets you brushed aside...
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[23:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Last Male Northern White Rhino 'Sudan' Falls Ill as Species Edges Closer to Extinction - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:36] <exec> 08└─Clone them.
[23:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Last Male Northern White Rhino 'Sudan' Falls Ill as Species Edges Closer to Extinction - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:38] <exec> 08└─Make steaks from them, sell those steaks for tens of thousands of dollars each to rich weirdos, donate the proceeds to conservation. By the way, if the Whites of South Africa don't get the hell out of there, they too will be extinct. I don't know what kind of crack Whites were breathing when the dec...
[23:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last Male Northern White Rhino 'Sudan' Falls Ill as Species Edges Closer to Extinction - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:40] <exec> 08└─evolution in action
[23:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:58] <exec> 08└─Physicians spend less time than ever with patients — just 27 percent of the workday, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2016. ... The app records the conversation between doctor and patient and streams the audio to LexiconAI’s cloud-based engine, which returns t...
[23:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:59] <exec> 08└─"Doctors are employees" was my coworkers reply