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[00:01:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How a Norwegian Comment Section Turned Chaos into Order—with a Simple Quiz - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:28] <exec> 08└─Apparently it's not required any more, even at the presidential level.
[00:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Norwegian Comment Section Turned Chaos into Order—with a Simple Quiz - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:38] <exec> 08└─> You're pretty god at this stuff,... I see what you did there!
[00:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How a Norwegian Comment Section Turned Chaos into Order—with a Simple Quiz - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:40] <exec> 08└─Interesting idea, but a bit dated as news..
[00:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Norwegian Comment Section Turned Chaos into Order—with a Simple Quiz - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:42] <exec> 08└─He works for a part of NRK, it's the Norwegian state television and radio monopoly. Those things tend to be very laid back even by nordic standards. It's not exactly the private sector.
[00:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Norwegian Comment Section Turned Chaos into Order—with a Simple Quiz - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:44] <exec> 08└─We had a "similar" item around this time last year. Norwegian Website Requires Readers to Answer 3 Questions Before They Can Comment [soylentnews.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:29] <exec> 08└─MS forced Win10 on most users without charge.
[00:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:04] <exec> 08└─I don't know, you guys let the hilariously awful Nancy Reagan live there, and liked it so much you asked her back, along with that half wit husband of hers. Tipper seemed almost human in comparison.
[00:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:06] <exec> 08└─> "clearly [promoting] the sexualisation of children" That is reserved solely for the elites in Britain: The BBC, politicians, and some others.
[00:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:47] <exec> 08└─And have a high chance of losing your job, house, kids and freedom?
[00:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:49] <exec> 08└─You say that now, as a person who wasn't dragged out of the house and interrogated for many hours without a break then tossed in jail to stew for a while. After a few days of being treated like a sub-human, someone tells you that just one little word can make sure you go home that afternoon. Or proc...
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[00:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vanguard I Has Spent Six Decades in Orbit, More Than Any Other Craft - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:41] <exec> 08└─Sixty years in orbit is a long time. To maintain orbit, spacecraft have to travel pretty fast, or else they fall back to Earth. So... how far has it travelled? Orbital calculations are not my bailiwick. I'm hoping a fellow Soylentil can help out. I did find this resource: http://www.n2yo.com
[00:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vanguard I Has Spent Six Decades in Orbit, More Than Any Other Craft - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:43] <exec> 08└─A story about something older than me.
[00:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:59] <exec> 08└─Wait until we reach socialism (as a whole country, or one class at a time.) Everything, not just power, will be minimized and monitored, as it's impossible to provide everyone with luxury goods and living. However it is possible to average Trump's penthouse and a bunch of cardboard boxes where homel...
[01:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:01] <exec> 08└─In Ontario, anyways, we have tiered-time/seasonal pricing: certain times of day are very expensive, some are less and some are cheap/changes twice a year (slightly) for winter/summer. So bit mining would have 3 different prices for 24 hour a day mining.
[01:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Entire Myst Series to be Re-Released for 25th Anniversary - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:26] <exec> 08└─I'd like to replay Revelation (IV), which was quite pretty. With modern real time rendering, it could look even better.
[01:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Entire Myst Series to be Re-Released for 25th Anniversary - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:27] <exec> 08└─not windows release so much as the underlying version of DirectX.
[01:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Entire Myst Series to be Re-Released for 25th Anniversary - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:29] <exec> 08└─They could handle it but in a for profit situation why would they bother. I love and support Linux but I can very much see why if your primary motive is to make a buck you'd not bother.
[01:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:50] <exec> 08└─git commit -m 'deprecate swipe to connect. add shake to connect feature'
[01:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Government of Jamaica to Actively Pursue Greater Use of Open Source Software - 1991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:17] <exec> 08└─Microsoft really REALLY doesn't like governments moving to F/OSS. Munich certainly showed that. It was pretty remarkable that even CEO Balmer was part of the effort to get them to switch back. In the end it took a change of government, and Microsoft to commit to move their new German corporate headq...
[01:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:38] <exec> 08└─Micros~1 is just finally starting to add a proper implementation of content-security-policy [google.com] to Edge, something that *every* other browser has had for years.
[01:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:16] <exec> 08└─Tipper's from my ancestral home of Eastern Tennessee - ultra-conservative Baptist roots, she wanted to make sure the "F-word" and all the other words that go with it were minimized out of children's ears by whatever methods would achieve that goal, including censorship. Nancy was relatively agenda-l...
[01:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:00] <exec> 08└─In his case, worst case scenario are fines. I believe up to 1200 USD is possible. However, along with that comes the guilty conviction. If he pleads out he'll still have to pay. So there's not a huge downside to fighting it for him. There are other options we can go for, file it and dump it after a...
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[01:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03milsorgen [6225] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:43] <exec> 08└─If they could give a realistic explanation as to the rise of autism they could end people's fear.
[01:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:44] <exec> 08└─Really? You have to ask that? The answer is simple: increased awareness leads to increased diagnosis.
[01:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:47] <exec> 08└─He said that prior research has shown that it is very hard to completely debunk misinformation, such as the mistaken belief that the MMR vaccine causes autism, but the study results suggest that accurately communicating about the risks of Zika can help lessen the detrimental effects of the misbelief...
[01:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:49] <exec> 08└─Are you referring to zika or autism?
[02:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:15] <exec> 08└─That ship sailed LONG ago. Most states have tiered pricing. Both to encourage job growth and grid balancing. For example many new york city skyscrapers actually crank up the AC during the night. To make ice. Then use it during the day to melt. They do that by use of tiered pricing. http://www.foxnew...
[02:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrBoogers [6894] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:16] <exec> 08└─It's this and have other people pay more. I don't see the rise deterring the miners. It's just a cash grab.
[02:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:05] <exec> 08└─What sites and apps don't let women make the first move? Women don't make the first move because they're rather lazy and typically have enough men approaching them that they don't have to put up with the fear of rejection.
[02:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Government of Jamaica to Actively Pursue Greater Use of Open Source Software - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah. When they have something to show, -that- will be the time to take notice. The autonomous region of Extremadura in Spain (over a decade ago) first converted to all FOSS apps on their tens of thousands of computers. [google.com] After that was all settled in, then they switched all those boxes t...
[02:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:32] <exec> 08└─I have no doubt tipper is ultra consevative, because even the most liberal of American politicians are by the civilised world's standards, but Nancy was a long way from agenda-less. Ignoring AIDs because only gay people got it, and "Just Say No" to drugs being two of her worst ideas, but she also r...
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[02:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:46] <exec> 08└─What they call science is also mostly NHST which is just confused application of statistics. It is really difficult to take these people seriously who just presume some truths about medical knowledge. Can they point to one prediction ever made more precise than whether a correlation will be positive...
[02:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:47] <exec> 08└─There are lots of brain-destroying things spread by mosquitoes. We keep discovering more, including ones that aren't even that rare but just weren't sufficiently noticed. Are we going to get 50 vaccines for mosquito-borne illness? Shall we reserve room in a vaccine schedule for that, maybe taking ki...
[02:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:49] <exec> 08└─There is one: at the same time that more people (including doctors) became aware of it, the DSM definitions for the different developmental 'disorders' were updated to reduce the number of autistics being labeled with a cognitive disability or a form of Pervasive Developmental Disorder. The 'increas...
[02:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:52] <exec> 08└─"My mama says that stupid is as stupid does."
[02:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:54] <exec> 08└─As crazy as most alternative-beliefers are, they're correct that at one point, vaccines were able to cause autism-like conditions.
[02:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:56] <exec> 08└─We could just slay the bloodsuckers
[03:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:24] <exec> 08└─now the electricity company has a reason and power to know what you are using your electricity for which they wouldn't have in a use-agnostic market.
[03:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Entire Myst Series to be Re-Released for 25th Anniversary - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:51] <exec> 08└─Free software is the only way to go. Finally ditched my Android tablet, so I'm now unplugged from Alphabet dba Google. We need to show software publishers with our wallets that we want games that run on free software, even if the games themselves won't be.
[03:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah again: HOW are there 7.5 billion and change of us? @_@ This is insanity.
[03:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:02] <exec> 08└─Firefox is less functional then NCSA Mosaic at this point. With the exception of ad-blocking no relevant features exist past what existed in the first web browser invented. There are dozens of missing broken and hidden features in Firefox.
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[03:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:40] <exec> 08└─Is it typical for fabs to not have backup power to survive an outage like this, or is this another embarrassment for Samsung? Maybe the batteries exploded.
[03:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:42] <exec> 08└─What does it tell you about the globalisation vs the health of the 'economy ecosystem'? Let's put it in a more concrete terms: suppose a certain Kim becomes mad on another certain nation and decides to throw a tantrum against its southern neighbour. How would this be felt by the global economy?
[03:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:44] <exec> 08└─I am sure they have several layers including UPs and generator, what they would seem to indicate is they had some internal fault that meant those didnt work.
[03:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:46] <exec> 08└─Let's put it in a more concrete terms: suppose a certain Kim becomes mad on another certain nation and decides to throw a tantrum against its southern neighbour. How would this be felt by the global economy?
[04:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:03] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that the mercury issue is wildly incompatible with our understanding of how the element behaves biologically. A small, one-time dose of a biologically unavailable form of mercury is not going to cause problems in the vast majority of people. Mercury is a naturally occurring element th...
[04:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:05] <exec> 08└─Not sure why its modded down, clearly awareness of zika has increased recently.
[04:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:07] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure injecting a years worth of tuna salad into a vein at once is going to cause some problems. Im only half kidding, your argument ignoring dose schedule and route of administration is worse than nothing. Just talking about mercury toxicity isnt enough. Its how much entering the body in what...
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[04:00:09] <exec> 08└─Inorganic mercury is unable to pass the BBB, organic mercury (such as thimerosal) can. [PMID: 24354891] TL;DR - Brain encephalopathy caused by mercury intoxication. The limitation here, is that it's only a statistical analysis of data, instead of a full fledged study. There was a great meta-analysis...
[04:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:11] <exec> 08└─As crazy as most alternative-beliefers are, they're correct that at one point, vaccines were able to cause autism-like conditions. Completely discrediting misinformation,
[04:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:14] <exec> 08└─Careful, the mercury that was used in vaccines was biologically available, but not absorable. Fluorine is also a naturally occuring element, but it will wreck havoc on your teeth. Mercury is also seldom present in the environment that humans have adapted to. The reason fish aren't dying is because t...
[04:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vanguard I Has Spent Six Decades in Orbit, More Than Any Other Craft - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:24] <exec> 08└─Not older than me (1954 vintage...). I have vague memories of hearing adults talking about the early days of the space race, back at that time. Then a few years later I watched (or heard on the radio) the Mercury launches, riveting for a kid. One funny memory was that the old B&W TV lost picture at...
[04:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vanguard I Has Spent Six Decades in Orbit, More Than Any Other Craft - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:26] <exec> 08└─150 million km or so?
[04:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:47] <exec> 08└─They don't care what you use your power for, only that you consume too much too fast. It's no different than paying a higher price for more bandwidth. The practice is not without precedent? I would think it'd be ubiquitous...
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[04:01:23] <exec> 08└─Apparently, with Bumble, only women are allowed to start the conversation with a potential match. I'm guessing the thinking behind this is that women tend to get driven off of dating sites by terrible first moves by terrible men. As in, in a reasonably large metro area there's, say, 1000 straight gu...
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[04:01:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah again: HOW are there 7.5 billion and change of us?
[04:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:40] <exec> 08└─Women aren't impossibly picky, they just know an asshole when they see one.
[04:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Entire US Broadband Industry Will Help FCC Defend Net Neutrality Repeal - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:57] <exec> 08└─The difference is that right now (under Net Neutrality), Verizon is apparently treating all media connections the same regardless of where you get it from, while without Net Neutrality Verizon could (for example) choose to throttle or charge far more for YouTube & PornHub while giving full-speed acc...
[04:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Of Nearly 300,000 People Challenges The 'Obesity Paradox' - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:44] <exec> 08└─Well you may not be obese but you have an even worse personality disorder. Sadly those are harder to change, but its your own fault anyway.
[04:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Of Nearly 300,000 People Challenges The 'Obesity Paradox' - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:46] <exec> 08└─According to your own link: The interest in an index that measures body fat came with increasing obesity in prosperous Western societies. BMI was explicitly cited by Keys as appropriate for population studies and inappropriate for individual evaluation.
[04:03:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06The Brain Puts the Memories Warehouse in Order While We Sleep - 383 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:56] <exec> 08└─This information was known decades ago. Why plough old ground and publish it as if it was a new discovery? Also why do they assert that failing to forget non important things would lead to an overloaded brain? What proof of this exists? A so called photographic (idedic) memory, while over hyped on T...
[04:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:35] <exec> 08└─So sad, CO doesn't like his attempt at "seriousness" so very mocked. Get with it, people are tired of being manipulated and outright controlled by corporations. Hiding behind "that's business" is not a good enough excuse for shitty behavior.
[04:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:36] <exec> 08└─It's likely in your browser. What OS and browser do you use to post? Somewhere in the settings you should be able to set fonts. It's possible your fonts aren't installed correctly, or just not enough of them, or they're corrupted. If you cut-and-paste from something like Word or Notepad, the default...
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[04:06:16] <exec> 08└─I'll grant you "Just say no to drugs" was/is as idiotic as the drug war, but I've always viewed that as a simple puppet act - pretty much how I viewed all 8 years of Reagan's administration - the 4 of Bush Sr. seemed to be a bit more personally led, but Ronnie was an actor, he read his lines and sta...
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[04:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:46] <exec> 08└─Very favorably when they all short Samsung stock and buy futures in nand production before it happens...
[04:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:48] <exec> 08└─I plan to make 5 gallons of kimchi in the next month or two. The cost for 5 large cabbages and everything else needed could be lower than $20.
[05:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:11] <exec> 08└─You are very aggressive for someone who has science on his side. See my previous link to a recent statistical analysis of ASD and thimersal. And where is your actual data for this? What? You don't have any? Of course you don't Because it's a crock. Either you have no idea what you're blathering on a...
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[05:00:13] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia_hominivorax [wikipedia.org] The United States officially eradicated the screw-worm in 1982 using the sterile insect technique. However, a 2016 outbreak occurred in Monroe County, Florida.[1] The screw-worm was eradicated in Guatemala and Belize in 1994, El S...
[05:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:15] <exec> 08└─Links to "cited" data? Copies of FOIA requests? All I see here are claims unsupported by data and innuendo. You made statements: As crazy as most alternative-beliefers are, they're correct that at one point, vaccines were able to cause autism-like conditions. Completely discrediting misinformation,...
[05:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:17] <exec> 08└─You (as you seem to have a knack for it) are talking out of your ass again. Phew! that stinks!
[05:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:49] <exec> 08└─Those towns are trying to encourage employers to move in by keeping power costs low. But bitcoin miners don't tend to employ many people, so they were just riding in on the coattails.
[05:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:50] <exec> 08└─This is only the first step. The miners might leave (after all, it's long enough a horizon that they might get a good portion of payback on their gear). But I think it more likely that they're restructure the businesses to fall under the density threshold in order to continue to exploit that cheap e...
[05:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Of Nearly 300,000 People Challenges The 'Obesity Paradox' - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:48] <exec> 08└─They're looking at the wrong end of the horse. Check thyroid first, THEN look at BMI and cardiac. Because usually the root cause of both is low thyroid (half of all fatal cardiac events are found to have low T3 syndrome). Person who is fat because of low thyroid (which can both derive from and insti...
[05:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:40] <exec> 08└─6 years? I was ranting about javascript in 1998. The slightest javascript coding error would crash browsers in those days, and if running Windows, force a Windows reboot.
[05:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:42] <exec> 08└─Was the second line meant for me?
[05:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:44] <exec> 08└─I'm using OpenBSD 6.2 Patched with Firefox ESR 52. My fonts seem to be all in-order, because I'm only using the few freetypes that came with the install and my graphics card's default -- which after copying and pasting from xterm to this window, returns the regular arial. But, I'll try with Chromium...
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[05:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:47] <exec> 08└─Bad news for you guys..
[05:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:48] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes! Nazi science! Just like the good old days when scientists were not running down the Fatherland and saying bad things about the mental stability of Donald. But, then, empirical evidence, say, from trailer parks in Indiana, suggests that the results of these tests may not be what some people...
[05:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:50] <exec> 08└─Come now!! really, do you expect anyone with even a lick of intelligence to buy this. Pferdmerde (gotta love that term)!
[05:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:53] <exec> 08└─"DNA predicts intelligence." Now, you should have a definition of "intelligence", too bad, there ain't one. So what does "DNA predicts intelligence" even mean? But what can you expect? You know social/psycho/newly-minted "neuro" BSers will do as they do, but even the supposedly hard-nosed physicists...
[05:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:55] <exec> 08└─Source replaced with one that actually loads. And a link to the paper has been added.
[05:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:57] <exec> 08└─So did phrenology? I think we are fishing around here, and the soup's not cooked yet.
[05:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:00] <exec> 08└─"Intelligence" is one of those terms (some) people talk about as if they know what it means. It's one of those things that everyone thinks they know, but asked to define, or even just describe concretely, shit goes all over the place and nowhere. I sure hope somebody can enlighten me what it actuall...
[06:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:02] <exec> 08└─Source replaced with one that actually loads.
[06:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:15] <exec> 08└─Real kimchi takes more than a couple of months to cure.
[06:00:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 608 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:28] <exec> 08└─There is one: at the same time that more people (including doctors) became aware of it, the DSM definitions for the different developmental 'disorders' were updated to reduce the number of autistics being labeled with a cognitive disability or a form of Pervasive Developmental Disorder. The 'increas...
[06:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 1852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:42] <exec> 08└─>Links to "cited" data? Point me to the data you want. Specifics, see my last point "I will be more than happy to provide the sources for any of these, but please make your request coherent and specific. I will not track down "every single study on amphetamine's bioequivalence."" >FOIA copy Absolute...
[06:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:10] <exec> 08└─I read her paper, and she read mine. It was love at first cite.
[06:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:10] <exec> 08└─Very cool. I'm embarrassed to say I've never tried any of the BSDs. As such I have no idea what fonts are available to you, but you could experiment. For the record, I'm probably more open-minded than most people seem to be these days, and I don't care about your font. In fact, the variety is intere...
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[06:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:52] <exec> 08└─Ok...now that makes some sense. Of course it doesn't make the claims that the NV somehow contrived.
[06:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:53] <exec> 08└─I think that part of it is being able to construct a coherent sentence.
[06:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:56] <exec> 08└─Keep thinking. Reading is fundamental.
[06:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:58] <exec> 08└─Of course it doesn't make the claims that the NV somehow contrived.
[06:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:00] <exec> 08└─No, it's not like Maxwell's equations, but it doesn't need to be. We're measuring humans. We have tests that largely agree with human assessment of who is and isn't intelligent. This is strongly correlated with all sorts of things in life, which helps to make the measurement valuable. The measuremen...
[07:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:02] <exec> 08└─You've seen some of the things they can do with coherent light? The hell with coherent sentences, those could be DEADLY!
[07:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:05] <exec> 08└─I think we are fishing around here, and the soup's not cooked yet.
[07:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:07] <exec> 08└─So, intelligence is like beauty. Ok. "I Like Big Butt and can't deny other fellas cannot lie..."
[07:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:09] <exec> 08└─You can log in, aristarchus. We all know it's you.
[07:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:12] <exec> 08└─The hell with coherent sentences, those could be DEADLY!
[07:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:14] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight.. You are claiming that the single most well established, researched, measurable and quantified feature of psychology doesn't exist? I would say that tells us more about your intelligence than you may realise.
[07:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:16] <exec> 08└─Are you Oma or Replicarter?
[07:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:19] <exec> 08└─"You are claiming that the single most well established, researched, measurable and quantified feature of psychology doesn't exist?" Enlighten me. What is it, how is it established, how is it measure and quantized? Go on. My bad, if you were being sarcastic. :)
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[07:00:32] <exec> 08└─The kimchi I can make in 1-3 weeks tastes just fine to me. I use this recipe [minimalistbaker.com] but with the directions from this one [nourishedkitchen.com]. I previously used a 2 gallon bucket with a loose lid and a cheesecloth + rubber band to block bugs from getting through the edges, but I wi...
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[07:00:34] <exec> 08└─I might also pour in some store-bought kimchi as a starter [zenkimchi.com], which I did not do the previous times.
[07:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:36] <exec> 08└─Let's put it in a more concrete terms: suppose a certain Kim becomes mad on another certain nation and decides to throw a tantrum against its southern neighbour. How would this be felt by the global economy?
[07:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:04] <exec> 08└─Point me to the data you want. Specifics, see my last point "I will be more than happy to provide the sources for any of these, but please make your request coherent and specific. I will not track down "every single study on amphetamine's bioequivalence.""
[07:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:05] <exec> 08└─Point me to the data you want. Specifics, see my last point "I will be more than happy to provide the sources for any of these, but please make your request coherent and specific. I will not track down "every single study on amphetamine's bioequivalence.""
[07:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:08] <exec> 08└─1. In the Chinese ultrasound study, it was shown that ultrasound imaging damages brains. Hey, that's funny, autism became more common just as ultrasound did. Uh oh... 2. Women entering college and the workplace has caused them to more often end up in relationships with mentally similar people. This...
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[07:01:10] <exec> 08└─>You provide a reference to a paywalled paper [sciencedirect.com] (which, given the state of scientific publishing isn't surprising), and the abstract is vague in the extreme. As such, I can't make much of what's there. Especially since other paywalled papers [sciencedirect.com] directly contradict...
[07:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vanguard I Has Spent Six Decades in Orbit, More Than Any Other Craft - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:20] <exec> 08└─Here's an approximate calculation, assuming the orbit to be elliptical. According to your Wikipedia link it has a semi-major axis (a) of 8620 km and an eccentricity (e) of 0.1844061, so the circumference of its orbit is 4aE(e) where E(e) is the complete elliptic integral of the second kind [casio.co...
[07:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:45] <exec> 08└─You do realize that different sources of electricity cost different amounts, right? That's why so many companies try to shave peaks through various surcharges and discounts. So big fat surprise, as long as demand can be met by a local hydro plant, the cost of electricity is low, but if they're force...
[07:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:46] <exec> 08└─But I think it more likely that they're restructure the businesses to fall under the density threshold in order to continue to exploit that cheap electricity and the gear they already paid for.
[07:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:39] <exec> 08└─You are the first civilized face I've seen in what has felt like eons in a world of savagery. Anyway, I've never tried Midori, but hopes aren't high. Most off the shelf browsers are regressed towards the mean, and any open source ones are very lacking in the JS department. If you have the time, I wo...
[07:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:41] <exec> 08└─But, the EU can find MS in violation of monopoly laws, and order MS to refund full price of every copy of Windows sold in the EU...
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[08:00:11] <exec> 08└─What makes you think it is aristarchus, khallow? Other than he is one of the five remaining accounts that actually post comments?
[08:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:12] <exec> 08└─Enlighten me. What is it, how is it established, how is it measure and quantized? Go on.
[08:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:14] <exec> 08└─Paper to be retracted in ... 3..2..
[08:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:38] <exec> 08└─Both to encourage job growth and grid balancing.
[08:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:40] <exec> 08└─I would think it'd be ubiquitous...
[08:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Of Nearly 300,000 People Challenges The 'Obesity Paradox' - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:40] <exec> 08└─I'm not wearing a belt on my swimmers, especially when I'm pregnant, you insensitive clod.
[08:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Of Nearly 300,000 People Challenges The 'Obesity Paradox' - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:41] <exec> 08└─Well our great orange leader is in his early 70s and is obviously quite rotund. Wonder what that means?
[08:05:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:54] <exec> 08└─It is so sad, what a person will do to get more cocaine. They claim it is not addictive, but when you see someone lower themselves like this, oh, the misery! Get some help, go clean and sober, and never shill for Micro$erf again. Everyone will be better off.
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[09:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:17] <exec> 08└─Now, you should have a definition of "intelligence"
[09:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:19] <exec> 08└─From the tag-line-didn't-pass-the-test dept.?
[09:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:21] <exec> 08└─click bait headline much? I assume they didn't have any bonobo chimps in the control group?
[09:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:47] <exec> 08└─You do realize that different sources of electricity cost different amounts, right?
[09:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:48] <exec> 08└─I think you missed the part where they don't actually change their consumption of electricity. For example, all those qualifying businesses could be running mining operations in closets or basements and using power just below the threshold. We're also missing the benefits of those miners. Just beca...
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[09:02:43] <exec> 08└─In a game of chess the white pieces open the game. It's just how it goes.
[09:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:44] <exec> 08└─In France, we have a quite successful dating site that gives ALL the power to women (that's even their tagline). It works that way: you browse the profiles, and when you see a girl's profile that you like, you send her what is basically a "like" (they call it a "charm"), you CANNOT send her a messag...
[09:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:46] <exec> 08└─Nah, they don't know from seeing. It apparently takes them one date to work it out.
[09:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Norwegian Comment Section Turned Chaos into Order—with a Simple Quiz - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:51] <exec> 08└─And My Axe!
[09:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:52] <exec> 08└─The interesting story here is that MS is choosing to deviate from OS-level preferences.
[09:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:35] <exec> 08└─Would you be able to expand on this - particularly the hardware part?
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[09:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:44] <exec> 08└─My reaction to Trump's comment about shithole countries and encouraging immigration from Norway was "why would anyone want to move from Norway to a shithole country like Trumpistan?". This just proves the point.
[10:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:25] <exec> 08└─We have tests that largely agree with human assessment of who is and isn't intelligent.
[10:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:26] <exec> 08└─So did phrenology?
[10:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:28] <exec> 08└─I think we are fishing around here, and the soup's not cooked yet.
[10:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:31] <exec> 08└─Please do not post these kinds of articles, they are click bait and even confusing: Headline: "DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time" Text: "[...] the team were only able to predict 7 per cent of the intelligence" Wow, my coin can predict intelligence better than these g...
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[10:00:33] <exec> 08└─It doesn't need to be retracted, it's obviously bollocks. Consider this alternative paper: "Scientists identify up to 10,000 factors that may make you more intelligent". All they've done is enumerated all the traits they can think of that someone defined to be intelligent has exhibited at some time....
[10:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:50] <exec> 08└─Or they just feel like shipping less units and getting higher price per unit. Probably there is much more to this story.
[10:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:22] <exec> 08└─If they could give a realistic explanation as to the rise of autism they could end people's fear.
[10:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:24] <exec> 08└─We could just slay the bloodsuckers. Send out GMO males, DONE.
[10:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 1441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:26] <exec> 08└─LOL. You are basically laying out my anti-vaxx position, which has always been one of the avaricious hell bound executives have nothing to gain by playing it safe with our bodies. That's just not the type of Capitalism (with the Capital C) were into around here :) I'm perfectly okay with some vaccin...
[10:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vanguard I Has Spent Six Decades in Orbit, More Than Any Other Craft - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:37] <exec> 08└─HOW is the mute since 1960s block of metal still supposedly useful? Or are we going to embrace full click bait style on SN too? *YOU MAY HAVE WON THE LOTTERY, CLICK HERE* [sovietrusssia.biz]
[10:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:08] <exec> 08└─Which let us note is an easy metric to game. At that point, what's next?
[10:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:10] <exec> 08└─You know, the grid is setup for average utilization.
[10:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:12] <exec> 08└─For example, all those qualifying businesses could be running mining operations in closets or basements and using power just below the threshold.
[10:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:09] <exec> 08└─I disagree. There have been studies that show that on dating sites, women see 80% of men as under average (ie they have impossibly high expectations). Which is obviously a wrong perception, because so many men use those sites that it's certainly not only the Jerks/Desperate (because they are toxic)...
[10:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Of Nearly 300,000 People Challenges The 'Obesity Paradox' - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:20] <exec> 08└─Plenty of them make it into their seventies. A few into their eighties. Anyone over ninety is probably skinny.
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[10:59:46] <exec> 08└─Is it more a statement of how bad the countries further down the list must be, that the U.S. is so high?
[10:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:47] <exec> 08└─Darkies are the problem. Always have been.
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[10:59:49] <exec> 08└─Australias Bernie Sanders was voted in in 1973. We got universal health care, free college, he pulled us out of Vietnam, stopped exploratory oil drilling on the Great Barrier Reef, doubled spending on the arts, was the first western leader to recognise China (some believed this forced Nixon to do th...
[10:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:52] <exec> 08└─It was a comment on Trump. Depressing thing is that it looks like the usual anti-Trump trolling, which it wasn't meant to be.
[10:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:54] <exec> 08└─Fake President Pull-My-Finger of the People's Democratic Republic of America :-)
[10:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:56] <exec> 08└─If you don't like them, maybe don't ship millions of them as slaves to your country.
[10:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:59] <exec> 08└─We haven't yet had the private debt crisis the US did in 2008 - that's still in Australias future.
[11:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:18] <exec> 08└─Then you get cheaper power tariff and may get other subsidies as well. Crazy but true.
[11:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:17] <exec> 08└─Apparently, with Bumble, only women are allowed to start the conversation with a potential match.
[11:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:23] <exec> 08└─It's nothing to do with anything on your pc. Got to your Soylentnews page, https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Click on the 'Comments' tab. Scroll down to 'Comment Post Mode' Change the value from 'Code' to 'Plain Old Text' Save changes. Tell that silly fucker Arik to do the...
[11:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:25] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the first line enough?
[11:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:27] <exec> 08└─The reboot was because you had just installed a virus or rootkit. Every software install in Windows required a reboot back then. (Nowadays of course, only legitimate software requires a reboot. Malicious stuff installs silently and without a problem.)
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[11:59:42] <exec> 08└─And BFR? or even SpaceX Falcon Heavy?
[11:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03StupendousMan [103] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:43] <exec> 08└─The summary doesn't mention why the asteroid Bennu is getting all the attention. The reason is that Bennu's orbit brings it close to the Earth every six years or so. In 2135 (more than a century from now), there's a chance that the close approach will alter its orbit in one particular way, which mig...
[11:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:46] <exec> 08└─A hammer drives a nail in one or two blows. A tack hammer might take 30+ blows to get the same big nail driven home.
[11:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:48] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be more cost-efficient to just go for one really big "asteroid killer" instead of trying to nudge it over 10+ years? Yes it might, or will, break apart into many smaller (which is a vary vague and relative term) parts. But it might be better to be hit by a few small parts then a really b...
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[11:59:50] <exec> 08└─I get the idea a "close call" with Earth would be a good thing. What I am getting at if it is nudging closer and closer to Earth each go-around, if the call is close enough, and interacts with OUR gravitational field, the interaction may be enough to throw it really off-course so maybe we never see...
[12:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:05] <exec> 08└─"and we're now circling the same drain the US is except.." .. it is spinning in the opposite direction?
[12:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:06] <exec> 08└─Who alive today has done that dumbfuck?
[12:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:08] <exec> 08└─A correlation that I notice is that happy places with successful societies don't piss away 54 percent of their tax base on militaristic aggression. Several among the top 10 also experience extreme cold. Getting through a hard winter is easier when you have everyone pulling in the same direction and...
[12:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 1653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:53] <exec> 08└─It's pretty easy to make some vague, passing definition of "intelligence", so long as it is confined to people who have matured within your own culture, your own economic system, your own nation, your civilization. Consider, please, a shipwreck. A bunch of "successful" people are on the ship when it...
[12:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:55] <exec> 08└─Who do you think planned and administered the test? The chimps, of course!
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[12:01:13] <exec> 08└─Let them eat NOR!
[12:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:14] <exec> 08└─I do wonder whether anyone in e.g. military intelligence has ever done a "tech tree" type analysis. For example, "Say we are at war with X. Can we still build our radios/SAMs/jet fighters"
[12:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:16] <exec> 08└─military intelligence
[12:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vanguard I Has Spent Six Decades in Orbit, More Than Any Other Craft - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:04] <exec> 08└─HOW is the mute since 1960s block of metal still supposedly useful?
[12:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vanguard I Has Spent Six Decades in Orbit, More Than Any Other Craft - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:05] <exec> 08└─Wish I could upmod you more! Not only did you provide the answer, you provided the derivation, too. Much obliged!
[12:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:40] <exec> 08└─No, no, no, no, no, that's not how it will work at all. There'll be an extra-low "family" tariff for those who maintain "family values" in their computer use habits, and in order to qualify for the discount you'll need to install the monitoring app. Of course the burdon this will place on the energy...
[12:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:40] <exec> 08└─Here I was expecting to read a thread about one dating company trying to take over another. Instead I get a thread about losers who can't get any dates.
[12:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:41] <exec> 08└─Hey, we heteros aren't all breeders, you know!
[12:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Norwegian Comment Section Turned Chaos into Order—with a Simple Quiz - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:47] <exec> 08└─uBlock Origin with the Mute filterlist. I never see comments. Ever.
[12:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Of Nearly 300,000 People Challenges The 'Obesity Paradox' - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:55] <exec> 08└─> Motorists might even roll down the window and spit on them as they drive past. Only in shithole countries.
[12:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Of Nearly 300,000 People Challenges The 'Obesity Paradox' - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:57] <exec> 08└─No. The study is actually specifically saying that no individual who has high BMI does not also have high CVD.
[12:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Brain Puts the Memories Warehouse in Order While We Sleep - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:27] <exec> 08└─This information was known decades ago. Why plough old ground and publish it as if it was a new discovery?
[12:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:00] <exec> 08└─Well, if a person paid nothing, he may be owed nothing for a refund. Or, he might claim that he has "lost" something, such a privacy, and claim a refund of the advertised retail price anyway. Depends on how a person looks at the forced upgrades. If it happened to me, it would be an unwanted upgrade....
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[12:59:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, I forgot to add... although the Earth seems large to us, in the grand scheme of things, we are really really small.... I do not believe hitting us is something to keep awake at night over... My guess is about the same probability that an airplane drops out of the sky and nails YOU, Not anyone e...
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[12:59:49] <exec> 08└─They got three out of four primary units of measure in there, did not see a car analogy tho. Maybe, bennu is expected to require 50,000 more teslas to be launched to force it into traffic holding pattern, thus the slow lane, or brtter yet a layby for DUI checkpoint orbit.
[12:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:52] <exec> 08└─Tsk, just let free market do its thing and it'll be mined to bits before it gets dangerously close. The market always makes things better, right?
[12:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:54] <exec> 08└─Can't see that giving a bit of energy to an asteroid is going to affect the Earth's rotation by any appreciable amount. Bennu might be big, but Earth is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay bigger. Bennu: 78 000 000 000 kg Earth : 59 720 000 000 000 000 000 000 00 kg What happened to that plan to divert...
[12:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:56] <exec> 08└─If a nuke could work on an asteroid, maybe it could also work on climate change.
[13:00:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:04] <exec> 08└─My reaction to Trump's comment about shithole countries and encouraging immigration from Norway was "why would anyone want to move from Norway to a shithole country like Trumpistan?". This just proves the point.
[13:00:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:13] <exec> 08└─"and we're now circling the same drain the US is except.." .. it is spinning in the opposite direction?
[13:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:18] <exec> 08└─A bigger problem is that a lot of Australia's economy is built around it functioning as an open-cast mine for China. When the Chinese industry slows down, the Australian economy stops.
[13:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:20] <exec> 08└─Common dreams, ugh. May or may not report true or false news, but its a well known false news source. So its a "take it with a grain of salt" sources. Its like Pravda in the 80s or CNN today, they're pretty accurate about some factual stuff, but tone and opinion will be strictly aligned to party pla...
[13:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:22] <exec> 08└─In Libya slave trade has returned... https://www.google.se [google.se] ...due to the imposition of shari'ah in all its pre-medieval glory by IS-related militia...
[13:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:24] <exec> 08└─They shipped themselves to Europe in a flood
[13:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:27] <exec> 08└─Long list of good things, generally bad thing (encouraged immigration from non-white countries (long story)), followed by long list of good things Must be an interesting long story. We do have one of the most highly leveraged private sectors in the world
[13:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:29] <exec> 08└─Everything is always going badly when the other guys are in charge. It's all part of the theater the lizard people stage to keep the rabble busy and distracted. You see, the obvious answer to the horrible job the other guys are doing is to vote in more of our guys. Then, when they do a horrible job,...
[13:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:31] <exec> 08└─Scandinavia is coasting along in the security envelope created by the US and NATO. Their relative national security is higher than what it ought to be, given their level of defense spending. That is a happy historical accident for them. It won't last, because such things never do. So while it's nice...
[13:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:33] <exec> 08└─As an Australian or Kiwi i would be a lot more concerned about a future in which the country was no longer protected by the British Empire or the American superpower. Getting gobbled up by China would be no fun.
[13:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:36] <exec> 08└─Does anyone think it might be related to the "half" of the country that lost its damn mind when their crown princess didn't get coronated as she believed she so richly deserved? I don't think I've had one single day since the election that someone wasn't waving their hands and crying hysterically th...
[13:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:22] <exec> 08└─It's one of those things that everyone thinks they know, but asked to define, or even just describe concretely, shit goes all over the place and nowhere. I sure hope somebody can enlighten me what it actually means.
[13:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:24] <exec> 08└─Sumbitch wasn't very smart after all!
[13:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:26] <exec> 08└─You're getting modded as touche but it should be funny, as the whole point of a century of g-factor research was, observably, like it or not, ability to geometrically reason topology problems, observed workplace performance, low accident proneness, learn foreign languages, admittedly ace IQ tests, a...
[13:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:47] <exec> 08└─The radiation will speed it up, at least according to sci fi movie rules. I had a coworker who microwaved some kimchi once at work and the resulting odor is completely unacceptable, so there's that too, if the NK impact a kimchi processing plant with incendiary artillery then its all over for the so...
[13:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:48] <exec> 08└─The exact phrase to google for is "Defense National Stockpile Center" Typical of the military, the word is singular, so there are more than a dozen unclassified storage sites. Everyone knows the gold is at Ft Knox, but the location of a truly vast pile of tungsten is somewhat more secretive beyond a...
[13:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03liberza [6137] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe backup power to keep critical building-wide systems online and to maintain data integrity, but probably not enough to keep running process equipment. Lots of power hungry robots and processes, especially in a fab of this size.
[13:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:53] <exec> 08└─> the process to ship a wartime ready F-22 I guess the military budget goes up a factor 10 during wartime, so one can expect production times to ramp.
[13:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:28] <exec> 08└─There is no evidence that MMR causes autism. Zip. None. Nada.
[13:02:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Vanguard I Has Spent Six Decades in Orbit, More Than Any Other Craft - 917 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:39] <exec> 08└─Here's an approximate calculation, assuming the orbit to be elliptical. According to your Wikipedia link it has a semi-major axis (a) of 8620 km and an eccentricity (e) of 0.1844061, so the circumference of its orbit is 4aE(e) where E(e) is the complete elliptic integral of the second kind [casio.co...
[13:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:17] <exec> 08└─In practice, having large buyers usually works out well for the small buyer
[13:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AsiaBSDCon 2016 and 2017 Videos Now Online - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:37] <exec> 08└─you will not get to use any of the Apple stuff based on your work
[13:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Of Nearly 300,000 People Challenges The 'Obesity Paradox' - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:34] <exec> 08└─Stand up straight, look down: can you see your belt buckle?
[13:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:37] <exec> 08└─> What's a computer? I'm so glad my 4 year old daughter knows what a computer is (and that they come in all shapes and sizes). That advert makes me so angry. I'm not sure if it is the specific not-knowing-what-a-computer-is or the celebrating of ignorance that annoys me more.
[13:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:39] <exec> 08└─I've only got HTML Formatted in the dropdown.
[13:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:41] <exec> 08└─Well that's weird. Most people get four options: - Plain Old Text - HTML Formatted - Extrans (html tags to text) - Code The Code option is what makes your comments monospace font. I guess try the HTML option.
[13:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:43] <exec> 08└─Here goes the HTML option. The same is true of the dropdown on this comment too. It's nothing but "HTML Formatted."
[13:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:46] <exec> 08└─And that comment is not monospace. Don't know how it will appear to other people though, my set-up is unusual. (Mageia linux with a bunch of odd setup choices.)
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[13:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:47] <exec> 08└─when does advertising cross the line into psychological warfare against your own population?
[13:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:48] <exec> 08└─Also worth noting - in both the Brexit and US elections, this Cambrige Analytica service seems to have breached regulations regarding soliciting campaign contributions & assistance from foreign individuals.
[13:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:51] <exec> 08└─Obama was praised for how clever his use of the internet was. Oh how he was such a wonderful genius! Trump comes along, does the same stuff, and obviously this is a crime! He needs to be impeached yesterday... because we just want Pence, or something.
[13:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:53] <exec> 08└─We improve our circumstances when we make America great, as Trump promised (Why wouldn't every politician make this obvious promise?) and strangely is actually delivering. We degrade our circumstances if we pick Hillary, the most corrupt presidential candidate in over half a century. She didn't even...
[13:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:55] <exec> 08└─The moment it tries to convince the population to do something against its own interest.
[14:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:12] <exec> 08└─The researchers say ramming the asteroid to change its course would be ideal, but it would need to be a "gentle nudge" that doesn't cause it to break up. It's a complicated proposition.
[14:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:14] <exec> 08└─Bennu: 78 000 000 000 kg Earth : 59 720 000 000 000 000 000 000 00 kg
[14:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe, bennu is expected to require 50,000 more teslas to be launched
[14:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 2763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe all my physics classes were bunk but: - To move an object that huge you need a huge impulse (force over a period of time). One short bang isn't going to cut it, and is much more likely to just cause debris. You're going to want a long, sustained push. - I seem to remember "equal and opposite r...
[14:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:21] <exec> 08└─When you crush the asteroid, the collection of its debris will retain the same amount of total kinetic energy (plus some from the blast), it will only posses much greater surface area - meaning there will be more braking in the atmosphere, and greater area of atmosphere might be affected than what w...
[14:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:49] <exec> 08└─If you don't like them, maybe don't ship millions of them as slaves to your country.
[14:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:50] <exec> 08└─You list: financial disaster or quality loss, financial disaster or quality loss, being lazy cowardly wimps, prevention of financial success, a corrupt slush fund, being greedy sanction-violating wimps, being cucks, being cucks, and probably another corrupt slush fund I see you also never bothered t...
[14:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:52] <exec> 08└─She wanted to vote for herself, but her husband made her vote for Trump. He knows how things work. He feels that she is not in need of any whitehouse interns.
[14:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:55] <exec> 08└─Oh how cute you are. You want some real eye opener, search for highest use of Anti-depressants per capita. Now tell me are they really that happy or is it something else.
[14:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brazil Ousted from European Southern Observatory Consortium - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:03] <exec> 08└─Are there no Brazilians here, who could comment?
[14:01:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:32] <exec> 08└─Enlighten me. What is it, how is it established, how is it measure and quantized? Go on.
[14:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:47] <exec> 08└─Wow, my coin can predict intelligence better than these genes.
[14:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:13] <exec> 08└─It's always wartime.
[14:02:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:34] <exec> 08└─As crazy as most alternative-beliefers are, they're correct that at one point, vaccines were able to cause autism-like conditions. Completely discrediting misinformation,
[14:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:50] <exec> 08└─Zika also apparently only recently spread beyond Africa - where it's effects had not been generally apparent since it's superficially a very mild disease unless you catch it for the first time while pregnant.
[14:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, we probably could, it's just that the most effective technique has potential to go horribly wrong, and it would almost certainly spread across entire continents, and quite possibly globally, no matter how badly we wished to contain it. I'm speaking of course of gene-drives, splicing bacter...
[14:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:54] <exec> 08└─Except there's only one invasive species of mosquito, now found globally, that's responsible for virtually all mosquito-born human diseases. Most mosquitoes don't feed on humans, and the one or two other species that will, don't act as an effective disease vector.
[14:03:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:14] <exec> 08└─Tiered pricing relative on what you use your power for is a bad road to go down.
[14:03:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KiloByte [375] 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:17] <exec> 08└─While this particular use is not worth praise, changing the rules to drop power neutrality will immediately get abused. Go enough this way, and your power bill will increase for the time you used your computer to watch porn (and you'll be required to install appropriate monitoring so you can be bill...
[14:03:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 418 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:23] <exec> 08└─As described in the summary, the PSC's ruling still appears neutral: A subscriber drawing unusually large peak power (300 kW per subscriber) or sustained intensity (250 kWh/ft2/year, or equivalently 307 W/m2) will get surcharged. [ Showing my work: 250 kWh/ft^2/year * (1000 W/kW) * (1 ft/.3048 m) *...
[14:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Government of Jamaica to Actively Pursue Greater Use of Open Source Software - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:12] <exec> 08└─No kidding. My experience is that by simply justifying the use of an open source library when it is clearly the better solution will result in the politically entrenched Microsoft minions to actively try to get you fired. There are two types of criminals; those who operate outside the law, and tho...
[14:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Norwegian Comment Section Turned Chaos into Order—with a Simple Quiz - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:51] <exec> 08└─I propose a new plugin: Comment2Read You can guess what it does from its name. Hint: you have to post a comment before you are allowed to read the article.
[14:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Of Nearly 300,000 People Challenges The 'Obesity Paradox' - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:02] <exec> 08└─Are we reading the same article? Please read the actual study itself [oup.com], and tell me exactly where it makes such a ridiculously strong assertion that you almost never see in scientific papers, which generally deal in statistical arguments. Just from the abstract they say the following: A tota...
[14:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Brain Puts the Memories Warehouse in Order While We Sleep - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:33] <exec> 08└─Your story actually very much shows why sleep is utterly necessary. It appears to me that sleep deprivation eventually results in incorrect associational pathways. Fail to sleep and eventually you make a fatal mistake. Other aspects of biochemistry also occur. I think I see what you are saying - the...
[14:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:12] <exec> 08└─The reboot was because you had just installed a virus or rootkit.
[14:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:14] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, but that's because Mozilla has been busy for the last several years turning every feature into an extension and then decided to remove support for those extensions.
[14:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:16] <exec> 08└─Ah, oh well. I can accept being an old man.
[14:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:56] <exec> 08└─I played extremely violent games, such as Frogger, and Galaga, and haven't killed anyone . . . yet.
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[14:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:44] <exec> 08└─ProtonMail and VPNs blocked: https://ahvalnews.com [ahvalnews.com] https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
[14:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:45] <exec> 08└─I went there on July 2016 (aftermath of a cancelled meeting [soylentnews.org]) and I could not access SoylentNews and several other websites. I bet SN is still blocked.
[14:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:47] <exec> 08└─After ten months [...] the need to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey becomes more urgent every day.
[14:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:50] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, if only some ministry can be created to curate the truth.
[15:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:02] <exec> 08└─The moment it tries to convince the population to do something against its own interest.
[15:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:04] <exec> 08└─Advertising might intend to get you to buy something you don't need.
[15:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:06] <exec> 08└─Crazy, right? I guess Pence is a born and bred politician though, and the people behind the curtain could work with him.
[15:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:09] <exec> 08└─Also worth noting - in both the Brexit and US elections, this Cambrige Analytica service seems to have breached regulations regarding soliciting campaign contributions & assistance from foreign individuals.
[15:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:11] <exec> 08└─Trump comes along, does the same stuff
[15:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we all have our writing styles. And, those styles may change some, depending on the audience. It seems that Carole Cadwallader may be paid by the word. Gonna try the other link, and see if we can't cut to the chase . . . Ooops, same author. Seriously, do we REALLY need to know Wylie's childhoo...
[15:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:16] <exec> 08└─We're also notoriously poor at understanding each others' interests, much less our own.
[15:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:18] <exec> 08└─Bannon grasps the fact that there are multiple cultures on this planet, and that they are at war among themselves.
[15:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:40] <exec> 08└─Can't see that giving a bit of energy to an asteroid is going to affect the Earth's rotation by any appreciable amount.
[15:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:42] <exec> 08└─I thought spelling it out like that wold better illustrate the difference between the two masses.
[15:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:44] <exec> 08└─Asteroids could be used to prevent the aging Sun from heating Earth too much, by slowly changing Earth's orbit: https://www.newscientist.com [newscientist.com] Otherwise, we should begin to think about how asteroids = money. We could put t...
[15:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:46] <exec> 08└─they probably were "bunk". 1/2mv^2. notice the velocity is squared. ever get hit by a strong gust of wind that knocked you down? lemme tell ya, the wind didn't have the mass you did but it still knocked you down. what they're talking about is throwing 50 little rocks at it really fast.
[15:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:48] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/MGczXkknl80?t=25 [youtu.be]
[15:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:51] <exec> 08└─You jest, but that's the way humanity should be handling asteroids at some point in the future. Divert them into safe, exploitable orbits whenever possible, and mine them. Technology needs to be improved before that can be realized, and something "impossible" like solar-powered EmDrive might be idea...
[15:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:53] <exec> 08└─BFR would certainly be able to handle it with less launches and much less cost. But if it's 101955 Bennu [wikipedia.org] we're worried about, we have over a century to come up with better vehicles, and even if we did nothing it might not hit Earth anyway.
[15:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:55] <exec> 08└─The problem is that if it's close enough to us for us to fling it with a gravitational slingshot, then unless we give it a hyperbolic (permanently solar-system-escaping) trajectory, then it will simply come back to that point at some later time in its new elliptical orbit. (Modulo relativity, but th...
[15:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:27] <exec> 08└─Let me convert your racism into a better point of discussion (for discussion purposes only): Ethnic diversity is the problem.
[15:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:29] <exec> 08└─Case in point: Nine year old Homo Habilis, criminal in training, executes his sister by gunshot to the back of the head in a dispute over the video game controller. It took a bit of searching to prove what I already knew, that the shooter was a proto human. The circumstances: [Mississippi, victim mu...
[15:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:31] <exec> 08└─Why tell people to look, when you can just throw out the link [businessinsider.com]? A few seconds of your time is less valuable than the potential hours of your readers. Spoiler: the US tops that list - must make it the happiest place on Earth, amirite?
[15:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:34] <exec> 08└─My bad. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
[15:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:36] <exec> 08└─There are good reasons to doubt that European's safety depends on the US. If you treat the EU as a single military (not unreasonable, because there are mutual defense pacts and such), they have: - The third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Many of those nukes are French and British, not America...
[15:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:38] <exec> 08└─Not really, this stuff has been simmering for quite some time. The Democratic voters wanted Sanders to be their pick, but the DNC rigged the primaries to prevent that. There are still huge numbers of votes from California that haven't been counted, maybe they would have been for Clinton or maybe the...
[15:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Brazil Ousted from European Southern Observatory Consortium - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:47] <exec> 08└─Another nail in the coffin of brazilian scientists that try to participate in international collaboration. A similar thing happened with the space station, where brazil should should pay to participate and was set to send a base for an experiment (it was a fancy table) and couldn't do either. And t...
[15:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Brazil Ousted from European Southern Observatory Consortium - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:49] <exec> 08└─I'm brazilian and just commented below. Just to give a little more context, in the last few years the country was (and to me still is) in a big economic recession, with the pension system costs skyrocketing, as well as government debt, so investments are just being postponed or cancelled. Not that t...
[15:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brazil Ousted from European Southern Observatory Consortium - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:52] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound like a big amount of money for a large country.
[15:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:37] <exec> 08└─Didn't read the TFA. Did they find the "vote for Hillary" locus?
[15:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:04] <exec> 08└─Welllll.... there's wartime, and then there's police action but we're calling it a war, and then there's total air superiority vs an actual air war which we haven't significantly had since Vietnam or Korea. Been a long time since a significant number of AG or AA missiles took out a significant numbe...
[15:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:44] <exec> 08└─The biggest outbreak of Zika was in brazil, because of local conditions and size of population. If a zika vaccine is actually developed, as the article points out, we will face an big uphill battle to get people to vaccinate as there is currently here (I'm brazilian) a big Yellow Fever outbreak, wit...
[15:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:46] <exec> 08└─Sure, the point is that we must *always* distinguish between at least two reasons for increased diagnosis. 1) Actual prevalence 2) Awareness. I would also add a third possibility: changes in diagnostic criteria (eg was zika diagnosed symptomatically before and a new blood test for zika just get rele...
[15:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:36] <exec> 08└─Which, of course, will require a distributed processing.
[15:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:38] <exec> 08└─OTOH, large consumers mean the cost of your infrastructure can be supported by them and when in a few centralized locations, they have relatively low infrastructure requirements. Once you go over this limit, you need to buy power from more expensive sources (and most sources are more expensive than...
[15:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:09] <exec> 08└─The reboot was because you had just installed a virus or rootkit. Every software install in Windows required a reboot back then.
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[15:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:54] <exec> 08└─And this is the real tragedy. Nobody should be denied their SoylentNews.
[15:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:55] <exec> 08└─for some reason, a free encyclopedia STILL not working... i'm just not feeling the angst.
[15:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:57] <exec> 08└─The free encyclopedia works just fine. The unfree country known as Turkey is broken.
[16:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:19] <exec> 08└─Khallow, you CANNOT be unaware of the ongoing wars in the mideast and Asia. I won't believe that you are that naive, or ignorant, or whatever. People are dying because they happen to find themselves in front of the wrong gun, or because they were overheard saying something "subversive", or because t...
[16:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:21] <exec> 08└─...but when does advertising cross the line into psychological warfare against your own population?
[16:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:23] <exec> 08└─Yes it is. Let's say, for example, that advertising convinces you to buy a TV you don't need. And not only that, you can't actually afford it, but you got it because it was "No money down! No payments for 6 months!" And being a bit of an idiot you saw that and thought "Free TV, until I win the lotte...
[16:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:25] <exec> 08└─This shit only works on the herd animals. Or, the sheep.
[16:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:27] <exec> 08└─It seems that "against your own interest." is hard to define except in extreme hindsight. So check back in 100 years, right? Not very useful. Secession was clearly against the USA South's own interest. I wonder if you could have convinced many in North Carolina of that in ~1860?
[16:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:30] <exec> 08└─In 2016 either Clainton or Trump was going to win. Both were advertising with the purpose of convincing people. How does the fact the money for this comes from people who expect government kickbacks rather than direct from the taxpayer really make a difference?
[16:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:32] <exec> 08└─Let's say, for example, that advertising convinces you to buy a TV you don't need.
[16:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:34] <exec> 08└─All advertising is propaganda to manipulate you, and implant new desires in you. If it wasn't then nobody would do it. By definition, the best products don't need any advertising, and the worst products require TV advertising. If you've ever bought a product which has appeared on TV, you're far far...
[16:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:05] <exec> 08└─Dirt bikes. Fling gravel off the surface at high speed. Of course, why are we trying to change its orbit when we can just spin it up in place such that when it hits earth it bounces like a skimmed stone on a pond! Yes, these are retarded suggestions. However, I consider them only microscopically mor...
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[16:01:06] <exec> 08└─The conservation law you should be looking at is that of momentum, not energy. And bennu's already got a freaking enormous v^2, we can change that barely a jot.
[16:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:45] <exec> 08└─Does anyone think it might be related to the "half" of the country that lost its damn mind when their crown princess didn't get coronated
[16:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:46] <exec> 08└─hi the link doesnt say how marketing and how doctors are reimbursed for prescribing unnecesasry medications that act as a placebo for people that dont need them, or better, cause issues that can necessitate other prescriptions and treatments. if you dont have a problem, we can make you feel bad unti...
[16:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:49] <exec> 08└─But if you are going to move to the USA, perhaps you should move to the SF Bay Area, which has two cities in the top-five happiest cities in the USA in 2018: https://wallethub.com [wallethub.com]
[16:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:51] <exec> 08└─Truly one of the most insightful comments I've ever read here. Also, pretty much stating what should be obvious, but people seem to live in a fantasy world more and more. As I've stated here before, I'm very politically neutral. When I see everyone jumping on a bandwagon https://en.wikipedia.org
[16:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:53] <exec> 08└─are you serious? stop hollowing out the earth beneath your feet by sending the stuff you dig out over to China. your country cries jobs like US corporatists. just beacuse no one else is buying the stuff doesnt mean it isn't more valuable in the ground for when you need to build a standing army. it's...
[16:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:55] <exec> 08└─Given that a solid majority of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of Hillary Clinton
[16:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brazil Ousted from European Southern Observatory Consortium - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:06] <exec> 08└─I am surprised that a goverment would ever act like this. The cost in terms of reputation by letting such a contract break are quite high. The goverment could have just cancelled the contract or could have easily negotiated a rebate by showing their cards (or whatever they want to show). Not doing s...
[16:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brazil Ousted from European Southern Observatory Consortium - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:07] <exec> 08└─If esperto123 is right, Brazil's politicians are probably too corrupt or incompetent to play on the world stage, despite the large size and growing power of that country.
[16:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:54] <exec> 08└─Just for reference, the Capitol is located in the Capital. The Capitol has a street address. The Capital may have one or more ZIP codes but generally doesn't have a street address. Thanks for the analysis though.
[16:08:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 435 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:58] <exec> 08└─Sadly, yes. Pick a random work place, that isn't technical. For that matter, you can probably do the same with a lot of tech places - the average worker isn't necessarily technically sophisticated. Start talking to people about browsers, or anything computer related. People are simply out of touch,...
[16:09:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:15] <exec> 08└─Where is the "-1, Delusional" mod?
[16:10:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 906 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:41] <exec> 08└─In looking through Omega Labyrinth Z pictures and videos, I was expecting this game to be a PS4-sponsored hentai JRPG. What I got was the equivalent of Honey Pop without any sex scenes. The game can't even be called sexual, unless you have a fetish for low-polygon chibis (though, I know the FBI crac...
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[16:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:40] <exec> 08└─like dead book? they should fire their branding guy
[16:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:42] <exec> 08└─They're going to be sued by Facebook for patent infringement.
[16:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:44] <exec> 08└─I suggest Nextonomicon.
[16:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:46] <exec> 08└─So far, 25 people have done so. One of them is Sam Altman, a 32-year-old investor who is one of the creators of the Y Combinator program. Altman tells MIT Technology Review he’s pretty sure minds will be digitized in his lifetime. “I assume my brain will be uploaded to the cloud,” he says.
[16:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:49] <exec> 08└─How is this different from Cryogenics (not literally) ? A vague promise of one day you'll return when they can cure whatever ails you (old age, horrible disease etc). They are both quite fatal, but then so is living. Alternatively they are both like some really, crazy, religious cults -- once upon d...
[16:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:51] <exec> 08└─What is our consciousness? Can it be resumed after all electrical activity has been lost? If you brain is like a computer, and your consciousness lives in RAM, you can power down the computer and the electrical connections are all still there, but the 'program' would be lost.
[16:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:53] <exec> 08└─Its chemical solution can keep a body intact for hundreds of years, maybe thousands, as a statue of frozen glass.
[16:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:56] <exec> 08└─Heh, you should start a company that issues 'Certificates of Resurrection'. The idea is that you sell these certificates for $$$$$ while 'developing a time machine'. Then once your time machine is finished you super-duper-promise to come back and bring them to the future so they can be saved.
[16:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:58] <exec> 08└─It's cryogenics on a computer so it can be re-patented.
[16:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:00] <exec> 08└─Necto could be worse than cryo from certain perspectives. You could argue about "souls", but when it comes to resurrecting you and your personality, the future scanning process could create an imperfect copy of your brain, rather than preserving a somewhat damaged version (your dead, frozen brainsic...
[17:00:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:26] <exec> 08└─The moment it tries to convince the population to do something against its own interest.
[17:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:43] <exec> 08└─It seems that "against your own interest." is hard to define except in extreme hindsight.
[17:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:44] <exec> 08└─Well said.
[17:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:47] <exec> 08└─Elections are won and lost on the popular vote... the herd, the sheeple.
[17:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:49] <exec> 08└─Or a product could be of great quality, but advertising on TV is done because it maximizes profits by increasing awareness of the product further than word of mouth alone could. Think before you post next time.
[17:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:51] <exec> 08└─Electoral college vs popular vote is splitting hairs, you could create scenarios where a 40% minority would win the election because of the electoral college system, and in modern elections with candidate messaging driven by political science we are coming down to 51-49 decisions quite often, and th...
[17:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:54] <exec> 08└─If you've ever bought a product which has appeared on TV, you're far far stupider than you realise.
[17:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:56] <exec> 08└─How does the fact the money for this comes from people who expect government kickbacks rather than direct from the taxpayer really make a difference?
[17:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:58] <exec> 08└─Electoral college vs popular vote is splitting hairs
[17:02:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 851 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:06] <exec> 08└─There are good reasons to doubt that European's safety depends on the US. If you treat the EU as a single military (not unreasonable, because there are mutual defense pacts and such), they have: - The third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Many of those nukes are French and British, not America...
[17:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:14] <exec> 08└─Also, Fremont, has a very high number of immigrants, which implies that it is good to have immigrants living in your community.
[17:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:17] <exec> 08└─I think it's time that we start rubbing the noses of the Republicans in the fact that: the happiest countries on Earth are strongly socialist.
[17:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:19] <exec> 08└─Except that Fremont, CA is the happiest US city in 2018 and it has plenty of dark-skinned immigrants (Indians mostly).
[17:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:21] <exec> 08└─Scandinavia is coasting along in the security envelope created by the US and NATO.
[17:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:24] <exec> 08└─Ethnic diversity is the problem.
[17:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:26] <exec> 08└─What do you mean, "start"? I've been doing that for years! Sadly, Republicans tend to not believe in polls, data, or facts in general, so the nose-rubbing is of limited effectiveness.
[17:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:28] <exec> 08└─Username appropriate.
[17:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:30] <exec> 08└─Some "guys" really are worse than others. For a very recent example, check out the news yesterday that the Trump administration was going to rescind a bunch of rules on the airlines which Obama's administration had created, such as not being allowed to keep people trapped in an airplane on the tarma...
[17:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:33] <exec> 08└─Actually, the presence of Indians skews the metric; they're happy even in shitholes. Remember what the Crown Prince of Trumpistan said recently. [people.com] President Donald Trump’s eldest son told India’s CNBC affiliate in New Delhi on Tuesday, “There is something about the Indian people tha...
[17:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:35] <exec> 08└─Europe isn't protected by the US as much as it's protected by France, the UK, Germany, and Italy. And as far as the history goes, the Finns managed to beat the Soviets back in the Winter War. They're quite proud of that. Yeah, and don't forget what happens when Germany gets into a warlike mood and c...
[17:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:37] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, she was part of a review committee that had no power to prevent the sale of shares in a Canadian mining company (that mines Uranium in the US) to a Russian business. Any Uranium mined in the US by this company could not be exported anyway.
[17:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:40] <exec> 08└─2016 really was "Giant Douche" versus "Turd Sandwich" in the eyes of most Americans. Yes, it really seemed like that at the time. However, since then, it seems like things have changed. The Trump voters (most of whom were reluctant Trump voters) seemed have have come around and mostly support him no...
[17:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:42] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, but how much of that is because of Hilary herself
[17:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brazil Ousted from European Southern Observatory Consortium - 1762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:54] <exec> 08└─If I would guess, by the attitudes of recent governments, it is both. I can give you a couple of examples (to contextualize, for the past decade or so we are in a big political crisis, with several politicians and businessman being jailed, which never happened before, and pretty much every single h...
[17:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brazil Ousted from European Southern Observatory Consortium - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:56] <exec> 08└─Requiring national payment for participation puts the decision directly in the hands of politicians. If the pols don't want to play the ESO gets nothing. Why not a pay-per-view system so that universities can get limited access? Or a second-class membership with limited access, again at the universi...
[17:03:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:41] <exec> 08└─Wow, my coin can predict intelligence better than these genes.
[17:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:44] <exec> 08└─Wow! You actually read that whole WOT? I got lost around the second paragraph.
[17:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:11] <exec> 08└─Good point. I really meant total war as in WWIII, which is the imagined scenario whereby significant technologies become unavailable. Regional wars I think can be managed (oh dear Korea went SNAFU, well we can source stuff from Japan instead with small cost increase), although I guess there is some...
[17:04:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:20] <exec> 08└─Really? You have to ask that? The answer is simple: increased awareness leads to increased diagnosis.
[17:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:54] <exec> 08└─It's this. My cousins each have one autistic child. They bemoan often how it must have been vaccines. Their mother did research on the family tree and learned many of our ancestors were labeled "uniquely insightful" or "especially loved by God" and other such indirect positive ways to describe them....
[17:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:55] <exec> 08└─There are very few things that mosquitoes spread and they are actually beneficial and needed for other insects. Huh? Citation needed. AFAIK, the only thing mosquitoes are good for is feeding dragonflies and bats. But from what I've read, for bats at least, mosquitoes just aren't a very sizeable mea...
[17:06:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Entire Myst Series to be Re-Released for 25th Anniversary - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:01] <exec> 08└─I never got what the big deal was about Myst. It is not a terrible game. But not exactly that good either.
[17:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Norwegian Comment Section Turned Chaos into Order—with a Simple Quiz - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:57] <exec> 08└─But after I post the comment, can I skip the article? or does it become mandatory?
[17:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:21] <exec> 08└─Market share isn't just about the warm fuzzies. IE hasn't been top dog for quite some time and Edge was never top dog.
[17:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Has A Dumb Idea To Make People Use Its Web Browser - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:23] <exec> 08└─Not sure what the comment is but I concur with the title. Bing is more superiorerer to than Google for porn search.
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[17:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:40] <exec> 08└─set a precedent so that students can get value for money, and if they don't they get compensated
[17:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:58] <exec> 08└─Unless you're talking about non-volatile RAM, but we've pretty much gone down the volatile RAM path. I assume mostly, because it's cheaper.
[17:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:00] <exec> 08└─You know, if anti-aging doesn't pan out soon, maybe Sam Altman would prefer undergoing the brain preservation w/ death procedure when he turns 35 or 40 instead of waiting until he's 70-something. That way he can get preserved before his brain function and memory starts to decline from old age. Die s...
[18:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:02] <exec> 08└─Actually, they just give your brain a big ol' chemical bath. It's up to some other saps to develop the scanning technology to revive the Silicon Valley elites so they can resume world domination.
[18:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:04] <exec> 08└─The Evangelicals already undercut your price.
[18:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:06] <exec> 08└─Let's work Roko's basilisk into this. Or how about orphans? For every Certificate of Resurrection sold, 100 starving orphans from throughout the timestream will be saved by the company. So if you don't buy a ResCert as a privileged rich person, you are condemning 100 orphans to death.
[18:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:09] <exec> 08└─So, now instead of the known to cause cancer in the state of california meme, we'll get a lose your mind in california meme?
[18:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:11] <exec> 08└─WARNING: Nectome's patented blend of secret herbs and embalming chemicals is known to the State of California to cause cancer in ready-to-scan brains.
[18:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:13] <exec> 08└─Ignore Ignore Ignore. Do not engage. Do not discuss. Do not commit this dudes name to memory.
[18:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:16] <exec> 08└─Come on, at least fund these guys so they can embalm a few SV elite zombies.
[18:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:29] <exec> 08└─Turkey's blocking Wikipedia. Regardless of the esteem (or lack thereof) in which you hold Wikipedia, that is an invaluable lesson on Turkey. In other words, the internet makes more and more dictators and their cronies show their hands regularly.
[18:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:31] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The Turks clearly don't want Wikipedia, and don't think they're missing anything. They're getting exactly what they voted for. They wanted a dictatorship, and that's what they're getting. I do feel sorry for the minority groups though, particularly the Kurds.
[18:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:33] <exec> 08└─They're getting exactly what they voted for.
[18:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 1792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:11] <exec> 08└─I think it makes a big difference, because in the country where I come from, party political broadcasts on TV were all allotted a slot on prime-time national TV, and every single one starts with a clear disclaimer: "This is a party political broadcast from the party of XYZ". That way you are on-guar...
[18:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:12] <exec> 08└─Just because the war hasn't turned hot in your corner of the planet doesn't mean the war has no casualties. More, it's not just one war. There are multiple wars, and multiple fronts. Half of those fronts may be chill right now, but people are dying on the other fronts.
[18:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:45] <exec> 08└─Actually, nukes *would* work on climate change. It's called nuclear winter. (Well, later analysis said that nuclear autumn would be a better description, but that's less exciting.) Mind you, that wouldn't improve things, since it would lead to years of crop failures and massive starvation, and proba...
[18:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:46] <exec> 08└─Reaction mass doesn't need to be a rocket exhaust. If we could land some apparatus combination of a slingshot, a digger, and a power plant on it, we could start throwing chunks of it to one side to get it accelerating in opposite direction.
[18:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:49] <exec> 08└─You are assuming the asteroid has lots of internal strength. Many of them are more "rubble piles", and would just break apart under any significant thrust...or swallow the thruster, either turning it in the process or even letting it push its way through. Imagine you're trying to push around a gigat...
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[18:01:51] <exec> 08└─I think the concept you're looking for is a variation of "mass driver". Yeah, that should work. A combination automatic catapult and automatic loader working for a few years should work. But you need to give the ejecta an orbit that won't cause problems. Probably anything outside of the orbital plan...
[18:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:53] <exec> 08└─Each asteroid that plunges into Jupiter or escapes our solar system is another big ball of resources lost to us forever. Yep. It's too bad we couldn't have captured, or at least landed a probe on, that big interstellar asteroid that came through our system a few months ago, to see what it was made o...
[18:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 2374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:55] <exec> 08└─Research indicated that as many as millions of interstellar asteroids enter and exit the solar system every year: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Glass half empty view is that many valuable rocks are leaving at this very moment and we can't stop it or even s...
[18:02:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 758 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:19] <exec> 08└─Everything is always going badly when the other guys are in charge. It's all part of the theater the lizard people stage to keep the rabble busy and distracted. You see, the obvious answer to the horrible job the other guys are doing is to vote in more of our guys. Then, when they do a horrible job,...
[18:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:53] <exec> 08└─I cannot believe that the Democrats would be that stupid. If they pick a mainstream centrist "real" politician, it could be a cakewalk to take back the Whitehouse. If they feel they need to make a statement on stupid, they will risk another four years of Trump. I can see a Hillary/Oprah ticket with...
[18:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:55] <exec> 08└─A typical day in office for Trump seems to be "undid something that Obama did, whether it's good or bad matters not". Did you see the look on Trump's face when Obama was giving his piss-take speach. You could see the cogs turning in Trump's brain as he was thinking "everything this guy's done, I'm g...
[18:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:57] <exec> 08└─how much of that is because of Hilary herself
[18:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:59] <exec> 08└─But they aren't. They are strongly capitalist, and pro-entrepreneurial (that's where you own your business, not the state, and where you employ who you want, and they don't share ownership of the company with you simply because they work for it). They are strongly *socialised* - medicine, education,...
[18:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:02] <exec> 08└─If everything is going great, you can spare a bit for others. You're trying to put the horse before the cart, thinking that socialism is the cause of happiness. Those countries aren't even that strongly socialist. Sure, they have a bit of a welfare state addiction, but they don't have the blurred li...
[18:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:04] <exec> 08└─The Trump voters (most of whom were reluctant Trump voters) seemed have have come around and mostly support him now
[18:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:06] <exec> 08└─I can see a Hillary/Oprah ticket with the campaign slogan, "Vote Republican, We just don't care anymore."
[18:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:09] <exec> 08└─She was involved in approving the sale of Uranium One ownership, and then also in approving uranium export licences. Publicly, we only know that the uranium left the US by going to Canada. Past that the trail goes cold, but the suspicion is that it then went via Russia to Iran. The pizzagate stuff i...
[18:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:11] <exec> 08└─If I see a Trump v Oprah contest, I'm voting for a candidate from a different party or an independent, because there's no way I'm willing to vote for a huckster with no clue how to be a good president, and that's what both of them are. I'd vote Vermin Supreme over either of them: He's at least a gen...
[18:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:13] <exec> 08└─There are two sides of this. The first is knowing that I'd be serving life in prison if I did half the shit Hillary has done, so there is no way she should run our country. FYI, my job involves a security clearance, and I'm aghast at her tremendous string of felonies. It's way worse than even what t...
[18:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:16] <exec> 08└─Um, did you not notice how stupid they were in 2016? 2016 should have been a cakewalk too, and they lost to an utter buffoon of a candidate. I'm with Thexalon: yes, I really do think they might be that stupid. Seriously, I really do think the Dems are going to come up with some more horrifically bad...
[18:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Beliefs About MMR Vaccine Found to Influence Acceptance of Zika Vaccine - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:27] <exec> 08└─Not uniquely insightful by them I must say.
[18:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:19] <exec> 08└─If they are renting from every business in town, they will be injecting money into the local economy, objective achieved!
[18:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:21] <exec> 08└─Except of course, the grid will still be "stressed" and the municipality will come up with a new way to screw things up.
[18:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:22] <exec> 08└─Interesting... makes perfect sense. I just signed up for it a few days ago (mainly because of this story) and discovered that the great majority of the women being presented to me were often *ridiculously* attractive. I bet I use it differently than most, as I never swipe right without checking the...
[18:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Norwegian Comment Section Turned Chaos into Order—with a Simple Quiz - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:32] <exec> 08└─Dated? This was one of the first ways of filtering users. Back when people first started putting up roadblocks, then it was abandoned because it was ineffective. There's only so many questions you can have someone create about a single article without making it too difficult for the readers to answe...
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[18:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:47] <exec> 08└─I can't say I have anything against this lawsuit. I believe it has merit. If you claim you will give the student a magical piece of paper that will get them employment to recoup the insane tuition fees, you better deliver.
[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─This suit demonstrates the corrosive consequences of students being encouraged to view themselves as consumers entering into contracts with universities for economic advantage. The collective endeavour of learning is replaced by a purely financial and adversarial relationship between two parties, in...
[18:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:51] <exec> 08└─No, the purpose of a college degree is to show you can think. If you think it is about money, the college failed. So she both should, and should not receive a refund. Yes, she failed to learn to think, but no, it is not necessarily the University's fault. Retro-active recension of degrees (flunking...
[18:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:53] <exec> 08└─A guy in the UK tried this. It was involving Oxford or Cambridge I think. He tried to sue saying that his degree wasn't as good as it should have been because of the quality of education. If I remember correctly, he may have been a law student. He of course failed, embarrassingly, in a court of law...
[18:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:55] <exec> 08└─I believe it has merit.
[19:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:21] <exec> 08└─Ever thought about how Roko's Basilisk can re-create people to torture them? Well, obviously their mind has to be stored somewhere for this to be possible. The customers of this startup might one day wake up to an unpleasant surprise! :-)
[19:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:23] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=24636&page=1&cid=655006#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] But... but think of the orphans! XD 😂😂😂
[19:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:25] <exec> 08└─Holy shit, that plus all the kittens I've killed in my lifetime! I simply cannot have that on my conscience. Certificate time for me!
[19:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:27] <exec> 08└─But if a mind can be stored anywhere, it would be prudent to have backups, multiple backups. Which raises an interesting question. If you are torturing a copy, are you really torturing the person you intended to torture, or is it just facsimile, a "strawman", as khallow would say, a mere chimera of...
[19:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:29] <exec> 08└─Too close to Next-to-no-income which seems more likely accurate.
[19:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:46] <exec> 08└─then lets stop worrying about yet another site not working and focus on the problem and not the symptom?
[19:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:47] <exec> 08└─If you have a $5 / month VPS [wikipedia.org] such as a "droplet" or "linode" you can easily (for a nerd) set up a proxy over SSH, change your browser's proxy settings, then your web surfing "originates" from your cloud VPS. Your connection from your browser to cloud VPS is SSH encrypted and all brow...
[19:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:50] <exec> 08└─People need to work on circumvention! And rub the tyrant's face in it! Fuck 'lifting' the ban. Route around it, goddammit! The impotence of resistance against authoritarians is so frustrating to watch!
[19:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03conn8d [6887] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:52] <exec> 08└─Using Tor to access Wikipedia would be dead simple since you can just download the Tor Browser with everything already setup. Here is an article from last year talking about the Dark Web Version of the Wikipedia. It mentions Turkey. https://motherboard.vice.com
[19:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:31] <exec> 08└─In the US, the former carries considerably more weight than the latter. So it's a non-trivial distinction.
[19:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:33] <exec> 08└─Think before you post next time.
[19:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 1713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:35] <exec> 08└─I'd like to rephrase the common quote: When did advertising cross the line into psychological warfare against your own population? There was a time when advertising was considered to be simply informing the population that your product exists and what it does. People found that certain things around...
[19:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:37] <exec> 08└─Getting ourselves entangled in foreign wars without a clear idea of why we're there or hope to achieve is a recipe for disaster.
[19:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:39] <exec> 08└─I'm curious where you draw this "government" line. Cambridge Analytica is not a "government" entity. Do you include political organizations? What about corporations with self-motivated political opinions? What about private corporations whose primary customer is the government?
[19:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we all have our writing styles. And, those styles may change some, depending on the audience.
[19:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:20] <exec> 08└─So it would take 34-53 launches, beginning at 10 years before impact. There have been 37 launches since 2002 - I wonder how many could be produced. And at $350 m / launch ( https://breakingdefense.com [breakingdefense.com] for...
[19:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:21] <exec> 08└─Which... would be no better than 1 big rock weighing as much as the 50 small ones at the same v, no?
[19:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:24] <exec> 08└─Cool, so we just have to land on it, build all kinds of equipment, break it up into a thousand bits in a zero-gravity environment using heavy pneumatic tools, when it weighs as much as 16 Great Pyramids, then apply thrust to each part and it to separate them and somehow fling the bits somewhere safe...
[19:03:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:09] <exec> 08└─I think it's time that we start rubbing the noses of the Republicans in the fact that: the happiest countries on Earth are strongly socialist.
[19:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:33] <exec> 08└─"...blurred lines between corporations and government..." Why did you leave out the U.S. of A.?
[19:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:34] <exec> 08└─They are strongly *socialised* - medicine, education, integrated transportation (participated in by private-ownership companies), etc. But that's completely different from *socialist*.
[19:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:37] <exec> 08└─Hell even Obama's former CIA chief lost his damn mind this weekend ranting about Trump
[19:07:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06Entire Myst Series to be Re-Released for 25th Anniversary - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:02] <exec> 08└─I never got what the big deal was about Myst. It is not a terrible game. But not exactly that good either.
[19:07:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03https [5248] 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:34] <exec> 08└─Women aren't impossibly picky, they just know an asshole when they see one.
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[19:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:43] <exec> 08└─This event occurred on Thursday. Today is Monday and it's old news. I suppose the bridge's innovative method of construction justifies any tardiness; this is after all a site for those interested in technology. However, it would have been better if this were posted a few days ago.
[19:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:45] <exec> 08└─AvE did a short video where he explained the context of the bridge collapse, some of the engineering principles used to design this bridge, its basic structure, and how the original plans moving the bridge into place may have been compromised. [youtube.com] He is not a structural engineer, but he se...
[19:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:47] <exec> 08└─This is to be expected as more and more things are constructed the way software is written. Programmer: can you try it one more time and see if it happens again? Can't wait until aviation achieves the levels of reliability of computer software.
[19:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:49] <exec> 08└─The innovative installation method significantly reduced risks to workers, pedestrians and motorists and minimized traffic disruptions, FIU said
[19:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:51] <exec> 08└─AvE did a followup of this initial video the next day with the feedback from the first video, and additional information, news, and photos released [youtube.com] In this video he's specifically focusing on the pylon cracking and the possibility a post tension rod in the rubble photographs that may h...
[19:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:54] <exec> 08└─The bridge span was to have 5 pipes, each 16" in diameter, connected to a tower. This was intended to change the resonant frequencies of the bridge so that there wouldn't be a feedback loop with human leg motion. The bridge was supposed to not need those pipes for support. Concrete is tolerably stro...
[20:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:06] <exec> 08└─Came here to post the same thing; it was a lawyer suing Oxford University because he didn't get a first (he graduated with a 2.1) and claimed that this ruined his career potential. More info here [telegraph.co.uk]. So there's already a precedent, and it's not a good one for Pok Wong, although at lea...
[20:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:08] <exec> 08└─No, the purpose of a college degree is to show you can think
[20:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:10] <exec> 08└─Education is about giving people the ability to understand the world around them generally, and more specific knowledge about one or a few aspects of the world. And to give them the opportunity (should they desire it) to broaden their horizons, helping them become better informed and better equipped...
[20:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:12] <exec> 08└─If you can't appreciate, or don't want to know about, or don't enjoy the other gender, then you are missing out on some of the sweetest things in life.
[20:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:14] <exec> 08└─That is because there's no possible way she could have missed all the signs that she was enrolled in a business "degree".
[20:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:46] <exec> 08└─All these sort of stuff seem like preserving a forest by fossilizing it. Or copying some scans of it into a simulation. Or replacing people with a very small shell script. But if you're stupid enough then it may work adequately for your case. ;)
[20:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:47] <exec> 08└─I don't think the math we use in current computers has anything to represent consciousness or qualia. Consciousness and qualia might turn out to be generated by our computers as an emergent thing due to the laws of our universe, but there's really no reason for it to be generated based on the actual...
[20:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:49] <exec> 08└─My wife just joked that she's going to have my brain uploaded and then put it on the 64mb flash drive on her keychain. That shit isn't funny.
[20:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah. We need at least a 256 GB stick, come on.
[20:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 4870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:57] <exec> 08└─The tools in use are not new, nor are they the blunt instruments that folks seem to be making them out to be. tl;dr: Marketing techniques developed over the last 40+ years or so have focused on tying emotional responses to products (and yes, a candidate is product to be sold). Tools such as market s...
[20:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:58] <exec> 08└─Exactly. This sort of thing (as I mentioned in my comment, which I was writing while you wrote yours) has been going on for a long, long time.
[20:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:00] <exec> 08└─Yep, you're pretty stupid. Probably use Windows, 'cause of those amazing high-tech supper-advanced Micro$erft ads on the telly.
[20:03:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:30] <exec> 08└─Ethnic diversity is the problem.
[20:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:53] <exec> 08└─But, they're PROGRESSIVE! That makes them better than us, correct? That's what the left is constantly telling us.
[20:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nekomata [5432] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:55] <exec> 08└─Two things, SIG belongs to the Germans now. And you give the AR15 platform too little credit. It's a rock solid battle proven gun. If other guns improve upon it, we are talking very small gains (for very high costs).
[20:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:57] <exec> 08└─Scandinavians have been enjoying their principled neutrality because the US and its European allies in NATO have been bearing the costs of keeping the Russians and others at bay. They are floating along in the security envelope projected by that alliance while not having to contribute to it themselv...
[20:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:59] <exec> 08└─Pretty much this entire list applies to me too. I voted for her entirely as a "hell to the fuck no, NOT TRUMP" vote but I dislike her entire dynastic family and I think they're arrogant and evil to the core. And you know what? if Trump keeps fucking up like this, but doesn't actually lead us into Wo...
[20:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:02] <exec> 08└─The Democrats have a 45-year-long tradition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, as a friend put it. Nixon's victory over McGovern so traumatized them that they willingly sold their souls to the elite and special interest groups just to win, just not to be humiliated again. They need an ene...
[20:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brazil Ousted from European Southern Observatory Consortium - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:17] <exec> 08└─you ain't got enough nukes, or you did not look pro Israel enough, probably.
[20:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:05] <exec> 08└─This doesn't sound exactly like Ari. It's not smug or high-handed enough, and there are odd spelling errors he's not usually prone to.
[20:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, which makes it even more baffling. AC below says "alcohol," but I have a bad feeling it's really more like "a lot of rape in third-world countries."
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[20:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:54] <exec> 08└─Soylent is becoming "Slashdot's 2 day old news, 5 days old!"
[20:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:55] <exec> 08└─Someone in the linked forum got it right: Big problems often follow a pattern like: a system does not perform the way it is supposed to in the design. Then, instead of investigating the root cause, the symptoms are repaired without knowing how the model was wrong. Then the problem recurs later and d...
[20:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:58] <exec> 08└─Pittsburgh had a concrete bridge so shitty that they built a little bridge under it to catch all the pieces falling off. http://gcapgh.org [gcapgh.org] It has since been replaced by a nice steel bridge. http://www.post-gazette.com
[20:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:00] <exec> 08└─I think this may be a function of the story posting code that just methodically works through the accepted stories queue posting a new story every few hours on FIFO basis. Perhaps TMB or someone else on the team could confirm exactly how it works? For time sensitive stories like this though it does...
[21:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:02] <exec> 08└─It failed on the north side.
[21:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:04] <exec> 08└─Note: In the picture the bridge was already under disassembly. The catcher bridge had been in place for over a decade at that point.
[21:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:07] <exec> 08└─"The innovative installation method significantly reduced risks to workers, pedestrians and motorists and minimized traffic disruptions" I wonder how incredibly risky installing it the old fashioned way would have been.
[21:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:09] <exec> 08└─Humans know how to make concrete bridges that span over 300m long, supporting many highway lanes. This is/was a 53m pedestrian bridge, unloaded. It should have been a piece of cake from a technology standpoint. Let's not blame the materials for the incompetence of the design and execution. And yes,...
[21:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:27] <exec> 08└─At The Telegraph [telegraph.co.uk], cited by TFA, may be paywalled. At The Independent [independent.co.uk], where it also states she was disruptive at her graduation ceremony. This isn't just about "the education," but also what the "prospectus" for the program stated and whether it lived up to alle...
[21:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:28] <exec> 08└─Wong refers in her legal papers to Anglia Ruskin's claim to carry out "world-leading research". In fact, the university is ranked in the 301st-350th bracket for quality of research by Times Higher Education.
[21:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:31] <exec> 08└─Hoh! And here I thought you were but a flea, but you can speak eloquent... lee!
[21:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:33] <exec> 08└─As a general statement I'll agree with what you said. Not sure how these transitions would work in practice, but in the abstract they are good. I just wanted to reply to comment... Schools *can* provide quality education -- however, you get out of it what you put in. It doesn't matter if you go to O...
[21:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, and the two word response to that is "wrong think". It's still thinking, it's just wrong.
[21:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:11] <exec> 08└─Is there a free 30-day trial option? Asking for a friend.
[21:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:12] <exec> 08└─Is there a money back guarantee that it is 100% fatal? If your mind were reconstructed with some future technology, would there be copyright issues because of the music and movies that you can remember?
[21:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:14] <exec> 08└─This is a form of cryogenics. At least the article describes it as, "aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation" when talking about a test case that was not viable because it occurred 2.5 hours post death. However, normal cryogenics are applied postmortem. The summary and article makes it clear that they...
[21:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:35] <exec> 08└─Not really. Tor is blocked in Turkey, also. [turkeyblocks.org] You can bridge it, but then you have to know how to do that. Do you really want to try that in a country where abductions and police torture [hrw.org] have been reported to occur? (I'm not saying that this doesn't happen elsewhere - but...
[21:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:36] <exec> 08└─Of course, you might have some legitimate reason to SSH into a cloud server.
[21:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:26] <exec> 08└─Runaway, you Cold War Cretin! Time for your military indoctrination of wear off.
[21:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:27] <exec> 08└─I've always been aware of this, and I resent the shit out of it. It's one reason I don't watch much TV, always do my own research, and am *less* likely to buy anything I see advertised. But weirdo contrarians like us are few and far between, and getting fewer. It really feels like some kind of crony...
[21:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:29] <exec> 08└─Gerrymandering, forgot gerrymandering - and you're complaining about the Electoral College as if it were a form of gerrymandering... no, good sir, the Electoral College is weak tea in that realm [buzzfeed.com].
[21:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:31] <exec> 08└─Yet despite Trump winning in this timeline, things still barrel headlong towards N-day. The matrix has you.
[21:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:34] <exec> 08└─I've always been aware of this, and I resent the shit out of it. It's one reason I don't watch much TV, always do my own research, and am *less* likely to buy anything I see advertised. But weirdo contrarians like us are few and far between, and getting fewer. It really feels like some kind of crony...
[21:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:15] <exec> 08└─SN really needs a way of letting you cut-and-paste Wikipedia text, but automatically cutting out the citation numbers. From your link, though, I really question the wisdom of such a mission. By the time they get it together, 'Oumuamua is going to be very far away (it's already far away!), so you'd n...
[21:03:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 419 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:34] <exec> 08└─A correlation that I notice is that happy places with successful societies don't piss away 54 percent of their tax base on militaristic aggression. Several among the top 10 also experience extreme cold. Getting through a hard winter is easier when you have everyone pulling in the same direction and...
[21:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:33] <exec> 08└─The M1 Garand was a good gun at one time too, but it's obsolete. The AR15 platform is being abandoned by the US military now, as they're moving to European guns that are decades more modern. The European militaries of course don't use AR15s, nor does almost anyone else. Even the Pakistanis have more...
[21:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:35] <exec> 08└─At least Trump isn't running around telling everyone that vaccines cause autism.
[21:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 1469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:37] <exec> 08└─If you're going to mention that place, you should have included Alaska. As with Venezuela, the petroleum beneath their feet is considered part of "the commonwealth". Alaska Permanent Fund [wikipedia.org] Oh, and don't forget to mention the "communist" governor who oversaw that. Y'know, Sarah Palin....
[21:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:39] <exec> 08└─At the same time, their labor unions haven't knuckled under. Their unions have managed to keep the Capitalists from clawing back every gain they have ever made in the legislature and in the courts (unlike USA). Back in the early 1980s, Sweden voted on a pseudo-socialist thing WRT "workplace ownershi...
[21:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:41] <exec> 08└─I see the Russians have gotten to you, with the Hilary Hate implant. Do not sit on park benches. You have been compromatized.
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[21:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:42] <exec> 08└─This is not particularly surprising because it is impossible to write more than 43.2 TB of data per 24 hours at 500 MB/s,
[21:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:43] <exec> 08└─Why would writing it to /var/logs matter? SSDs don't work at a filesystem level. Even if you tried to burn out cells by making /var/logs its own partition, the drive is still going to wear-level amongst its flash properly. At least with anything resembling a modern drive. Early drives didn't handle...
[21:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:45] <exec> 08└─And, like almost every drive these days, at least 95%, and up to 99%, of the data it contains will be useless redundant junk.
[22:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:08] <exec> 08└─They're great videos. I only jumped into this story to post the same links. +1
[22:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:09] <exec> 08└─All the red tape Dems caused this. If we could build a bridge with less red tape we would not waste money on tape and use it for more structurally sound materials.
[22:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 1687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:11] <exec> 08└─Reason covered [reason.com] this angle. In 2013, the FIU was awarded [transportation.gov] $11.4 million in TIGER money for its University City Prosperity Project, which included the pedestrian bridge. Some 52 projects were awarded $458 million in that round of TIGER grants—known as TIGER V—using...
[22:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:13] <exec> 08└─Editors chose when to run stories, but typically queue them to follow the previously queued one, rather than deliberately introducing any delays (some stories might be deliberately left as a weekend story, or similar). So the thing that decides how quickly a story gets out is generally how keen an e...
[22:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:36] <exec> 08└─A reasonable and generally true assessment, as far as it goes. However, it's orthogonal to my point. I did not say that in terms of economic advancement or opportunities for networking, it doesn't matter where you go to school. I did say that in terms of *getting an education* it doesn't really matt...
[22:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:38] <exec> 08└─> That is because there's no possible way she could have missed all the signs that she was enrolled in a business "degree". Well, there is at least one other possibility. The student could have worked hard (by her lights) and gotten all A's. I can believe that someone from the right sort of sheltere...
[22:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:17] <exec> 08└─fuck orphans
[22:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:19] <exec> 08└─There's a Certificate for that.
[22:01:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:32] <exec> 08└─The free encyclopedia works just fine. The unfree country known as Turkey is broken.
[22:02:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 1792 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:19] <exec> 08└─I think it makes a big difference, because in the country where I come from, party political broadcasts on TV were all allotted a slot on prime-time national TV, and every single one starts with a clear disclaimer: "This is a party political broadcast from the party of XYZ". That way you are on-guar...
[22:02:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 4870 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:29] <exec> 08└─The tools in use are not new, nor are they the blunt instruments that folks seem to be making them out to be. tl;dr: Marketing techniques developed over the last 40+ years or so have focused on tying emotional responses to products (and yes, a candidate is product to be sold). Tools such as market s...
[22:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:39] <exec> 08└─Simulacra and simulation.
[22:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:21] <exec> 08└─SN really needs a way of letting you cut-and-paste Wikipedia text, but automatically cutting out the citation numbers.
[22:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:23] <exec> 08└─yes, and if fish had fur they'd have lice. what exactly does your statement have to do with mine or the one I'm replying to?
[22:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:25] <exec> 08└─BFR will be able to lift over five times the payload to LEO of Delta IV Heavy, in fully reusable mode. Not sure how that translates to other orbits, but probably "very well". Reusable BFR launch cost could become lower than Falcon 1, which was $5-6 million: https://www.universetoday.com
[22:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:47] <exec> 08└─If that was true, it should have been dirt simple for you to link to 10 of their stories that support your claim. ...and, to make it a bit more "Informative", pages that refute those pages (not Breitbart or Fox so-called News). There's a Soylentil who has|had? a sig which States|stated? that without...
[22:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:48] <exec> 08└─I don't care what the statisticians say- your tiny sample is not a predictor of true popular opinion ... too tiny a percentage of total population sampled ...
[22:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:50] <exec> 08└─We don't have to measure anything. All the "guys" suck and they're both getting worse. The republicans have been leading the way since 2000. It would be better to identify the least corrupt people in washington, probably something like Bernie, the corpse of eisenhower and mccain's brain tumor.
[22:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:53] <exec> 08└─Other users are praising this post but it doesn't make ant sense to me. Not sure why its 5 insightful... What's lizard people got to do with happiness? Sounds like an upset conservative US-er that progressive nations were happier.
[22:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:55] <exec> 08└─Something that his list didn't include is that Hillary also sat on the board of directors of Walmart. Anyone who is a Walmart employee or whose retail operation has been put out of business by a big box store, can thank Hillary for her support of|pacivity WRT Walmart's business model. I really do th...
[22:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:57] <exec> 08└─If you do this they'll simply say that those countries aren't socialist. Then you'll say "OK I don't care what they are!! Let's be more like them!" Then they will make a few weak attempts to explain why we're not like those countries and it won't work here. Expect them to get racial here. Then they...
[22:05:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03esperto123 [4303] 02 - 06Brazil Ousted from European Southern Observatory Consortium - 608 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:08] <exec> 08└─I'm brazilian and just commented below. Just to give a little more context, in the last few years the country was (and to me still is) in a big economic recession, with the pension system costs skyrocketing, as well as government debt, so investments are just being postponed or cancelled. Not that t...
[22:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:03] <exec> 08└─I think there's probably a very large correlation between ability to memorize information and effective intelligence. Information needs context to be processed, and without knowledge, there is no context.
[22:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:32] <exec> 08└─Nah the fermentation is what keeps fermented stuff from going bad. Assuming the radiation also kills all the local molds and fungi them it should keep for a bit, but probably not as long as otherwise.
[22:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:12] <exec> 08└─Lack of education. The correlation (in a context that strongly implies causation) between improved female education, and sprogging rate is very strongly negative. Education is highly enabling, letting women chose the life they want to lead, rather than having no options and their future forced upon...
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[22:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:46] <exec> 08└─I'm positive that the company that is known for pushing the limits, ignoring regulations, and in general being total shits and douche bags will cooperate fully with giving the investigators all the footage from their black boxes that make them look innocent. Uber can be trusted, yessir. Nothing can...
[22:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:47] <exec> 08└─Uber's liable to end up in the dumpster a few years before we all expected it to.
[22:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:49] <exec> 08└─The problem with the self-driving industry aren't the tech and the bugs. It's the liability. Car manufacturers occasionally get in multi-billion dollars recalls, but they reject (correctly) most crashes' liability onto the driver. With autonomous cars, they are liable, because there's really nobody...
[22:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:52] <exec> 08└─The problem is that with the reputation that Uber has, the more it holds back, the more it looks like Uber is just being Uber here - and that's not going to work well in the court system for them. The downside is that they will just keep throwing more litigation at it until everyone gets weary of re...
[22:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:54] <exec> 08└─But... was the passenger injured? If not, this is not a business busting incident**, Uber promises you get to the destination in spite of those service-refusing pedestrians and delivers Always safer to travel with Uber! Our latest self-driving light armoured cars make the best of both worlds - nimbl...
[22:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:56] <exec> 08└─And the amounts could easily bankrupt them.
[22:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:58] <exec> 08└─Meh. I need to express my pain. Money is speech. You can't tell me I'm limited to a specific amount of pain (multiplied by the class size). Silly? It only takes 5 judges agreeing with me.
[23:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:01] <exec> 08└─Tired of being slowed down by traffic jams? For only 10x the price of Uber Black, you may now enjoy Uber Tank.
[23:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:03] <exec> 08└─Might also make pedestrians a bit more careful. I've been legally driving since 1971, and I couldn't possibly count the number of times someone has walked out into traffic in some unreasonable fashion and required me to stand on my brakes. Might even make us build safer roads - pedestrian bridges in...
[23:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:14] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm implying that they have wear leveling by the fact that they have this warranty... however, it is still possible that they have crappy or even non-existent wear leveling and the business office just made this warranty as a sales ploy.
[23:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:16] <exec> 08└─Most of my drive is filled with pictures and games. Debatably useless, but I wouldn't say redundant.
[23:00:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03beckett [1115] 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:25] <exec> 08└─AvE did a short video where he explained the context of the bridge collapse, some of the engineering principles used to design this bridge, its basic structure, and how the original plans moving the bridge into place may have been compromised. [youtube.com] He is not a structural engineer, but he se...
[23:00:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03beckett [1115] 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 341 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:29] <exec> 08└─AvE did a followup of this initial video the next day with the feedback from the first video, and additional information, news, and photos released [youtube.com] In this video he's specifically focusing on the pylon cracking and the possibility a post tension rod in the rubble photographs that may h...
[23:00:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 706 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:34] <exec> 08└─Someone in the linked forum got it right: Big problems often follow a pattern like: a system does not perform the way it is supposed to in the design. Then, instead of investigating the root cause, the symptoms are repaired without knowing how the model was wrong. Then the problem recurs later and d...
[23:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:45] <exec> 08└─Trump was a builder like a programmer's boss is a programmer.
[23:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:46] <exec> 08└─So the bridge's lifetime was shorter than the delay to post of its demise?
[23:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:11] <exec> 08└─Horseshit. An old man like you has no place saying what should be. You ruined the world and now expect us youngsters to follow ideals suitable for the times you grew up in and wasted. It's a savage concrete jungle now old man you don't waste time fucking around lest you and all your descendents end...
[23:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:13] <exec> 08└─3.75 GPA Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Master of Science, Mathematics 145 IQ Unemployable Dude, where's my six figure tech job??
[23:02:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:09] <exec> 08└─They're getting exactly what they voted for.
[23:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:16] <exec> 08└─I feel sorry for the Kurds too, the Sykes–Picot Agreement [wikipedia.org] really screwed them over.
[23:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:12] <exec> 08└─'cause of those amazing high-tech supper-advanced Micro$erft ads on the telly.
[23:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:13] <exec> 08└─One of those things is not like the other, and furthermore, the problems are not related, although both affect a common outcome. You are making an argument analogous to "murder doesn't matter because more people die from disease." So, still no.
[23:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:15] <exec> 08└─Gerrymandering does not affect the presidential election, so again, it is an entirely unrelated problem WRT the EC.
[23:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:18] <exec> 08└─Probably use Windows, 'cause of those amazing high-tech supper-advanced Micro$erft ads on the telly.
[23:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:30] <exec> 08└─Depends on what day you were listening. Donald Trump Flip-Flopped 3 Times In 3 Days On Minimum Wage [motherjones.com] (His actual position is that he is in favor of a race to the bottom for workers--in case that wasn't obvious from his policies WRT to his employees in his businesses.) Trump Trade Po...
[23:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:32] <exec> 08└─Wallis Simpson? But that was nearly a century ago!
[23:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:35] <exec> 08└─Sure those fucking republicans they are totally in the wrong. https://i.redd.it [i.redd.it] Oh wait the sad places are where the democrats have created basically shithole warzones of unemployment to make sure there is access to cheap labor and a pool of it desperate to work. Not mu...
[23:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:37] <exec> 08└─Here's Socialism: Socialism is the collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers. Before Stalin, USSR was developing a pretty fair model of that. (The militaristic aggression of USA and other Capitalist nations had USSR diverting resources from public infrastructure, though they did...
[23:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:47] <exec> 08└─Care to support that bald assumption?
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[23:59:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 337 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:43] <exec> 08└─I'm positive that the company that is known for pushing the limits, ignoring regulations, and in general being total shits and douche bags will cooperate fully with giving the investigators all the footage from their black boxes that make them look innocent. Uber can be trusted, yessir. Nothing can...
[23:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:52] <exec> 08└─Outside of towns, sure. Inside cities, it might be wiser to remove the cars, or force them to really low and therefore safe speeds. There are way too many places in the US where a 4-lane road, where people go 50mph, is right against houses, shops and schools.
[23:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:54] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome our new automaton overlords. With every new accident, autonomic cars move one step closer to being banned. If Tesla could now allow one of their semis to plow into one of the many private girls-only catholic school, schools of children that are overrunning the streets of Manhatte...
[23:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:57] <exec> 08└─The idea of self-driving cars is being pushed on the claim that they are safer than human driven ones and that no infrastrucure changes will be required to accomodate them. But there you go already.
[23:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:59] <exec> 08└─I expect many drivers have become completely dependent on Uber for their livelihood. As a result they are just barely making it with the aid of food stamps, and will soon lose their jobs completely.