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[00:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:03] <exec> 08└─See subject title...
[00:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:04] <exec> 08└─All sites should block connections from the EU until they realise they are not a supranational entity.
[00:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03lars [4376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:07] <exec> 08└─I've been getting tons of emails from companies I long ago forgot I had signed up with. One wonders how many companies ended up with people closing their accounts or blocking them after getting a random, unwanted email.
[00:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:09] <exec> 08└─How can you tell? I set up a raspberry pi and opened my router so that I could access it while on vacation and noted that it had been accessed a few dozen times from all over. No I hadn't even bother changing the default password
[00:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:11] <exec> 08└─GDPR, another silly exercise in fake protection by governments more intrusive than the US or Russia ever thought of being. Imagine the hue and cry if the US government tried to impose such a ruling on EU news sites!
[00:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MX Tools: A Year Later, the Toolbox Got Better - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:21] <exec> 08└─MX Linux is currently number 7 on Distrowatch, so it must be reasonably popular. Also currently rated 9.6/10 from 276 reviews, for what that's worth. I have not tested it since last year when I found it to be slightly buggy, but otherwise pretty fast on older hardware. In my view Linux Mint is stil...
[00:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MX Tools: A Year Later, the Toolbox Got Better - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:23] <exec> 08└─Cool. Hadn't heard of it. I had moved back to slackware after all of the Pottering-up of mainstream distros and have been pretty happy. I'll have to check this one out though.
[00:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ravioli-Like Shapes of Saturn's Small Moons Due to Low Impact Angle Collisions - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:31] <exec> 08└─Is that some sort of ethnic food?
[00:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ravioli-Like Shapes of Saturn's Small Moons Due to Low Impact Angle Collisions - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:34] <exec> 08└─It's Saturday dinner at the prison camp we're sending you to.
[00:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ravioli-Like Shapes of Saturn's Small Moons Due to Low Impact Angle Collisions - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:36] <exec> 08└─It's cosmic kookery and the moon is made of cheese! PS: Invalid formkey when clicking reply to this on the article but replying to comments is okay. Can you clip the mighty one's wings - thx.
[00:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ravioli-Like Shapes of Saturn's Small Moons Due to Low Impact Angle Collisions - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:38] <exec> 08└─Those are avatars of the FSM.
[00:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tencent Chairman Pledges to Advance China Chip Industry After ZTE "Wake-Up" Call - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:49] <exec> 08└─Worldwide competition of AMD, Intel, and ARM would be AMAZING. But will the globalists allow us to buy Russian or Chinese processors? It's a real puzzler isn't it. Global supply chains. Enforced localized sale prices and purchasing. It's almost like the globalists don't want to play by their own rul...
[00:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:26] <exec> 08└─What advantages does a space elevator have if it's less expensive to fly (rocket) to orbit? When/if 100% reuseability becomes a thing, the limiting cost is the energy required and that is about the same either way.
[00:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:27] <exec> 08└─Why didn't Clinton start enforcing it again?
[00:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:30] <exec> 08└─Even more sad is that to get actual political analysis you have to turn to comedians
[00:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:32] <exec> 08└─You missed an important word in my comment. Here it is again: Neoliberalism [soylentnews.org] Bill Clinton's 5 Major Achievements Were Longstanding GOP Objectives [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [truth-out.org] The Dumbocrat ethos has been increasingly corporate-friendly + worker-hostile/consumer-hos...
[00:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:08] <exec> 08└─Don't use Firefox. It mandates the use of odious tabs. Tabs suck.
[00:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:13] <exec> 08└─I don't see how it could hurt. It might get subverted, but then all of mass media has been subverted and morphed into propaganda arms of various moneyed political groups and amateur empire builders. The danger is that it's subverted and the majority do not recognize it. Which, I think, is a real dan...
[00:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:15] <exec> 08└─Gotta say that I disagree with you on this one Azuma. RDT does post a fair bit of 'filler', but he has some very witty and insightful things to say at times. He's a very effective caricature account (very occasionally showing us what the author really thinks about Trump) and sometimes offers us all...
[00:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:17] <exec> 08└─I'd rather be a deplorable than an incel like parent!
[00:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Has Ended Support for Unlocking Bootloaders on Its Devices - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:45] <exec> 08└─There's no point in feeding that particular troll. He has never been to Europe, and gets all his knowledge of it from Fox and Friends. He probably thinks Paris is in Texas.
[00:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grenfell Tower Fire: BBC Program "Panorama" Reveals Corporate Criminality - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:26] <exec> 08└─Just from curiosity, how many times your place has been burned down "by the asshole on the floor below"? >0... Yeah, that shit still happens. If that isn't enough for you, then I shall answer with a question. How many times has your place been burned down by short circuiting appliances* and cheap fl...
[00:30:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06"Active Shooter" Game on Steam Sparks Uproar - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:51] <exec> 08└─The developer absolutely is not entitled to be published.
[00:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Active Shooter" Game on Steam Sparks Uproar - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:13] <exec> 08└─If it offends you, ignore it. Are people so comfortable and self-righteous they feel the constant need to poke their nose into everyone's business? Go find something useful to complain about. Better yet, instead of complaining, actually expend effort and time to do something useful.
[00:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sound Waves for Curing Ebola - and Anything Else Too - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:23] <exec> 08└─The trouble is if people have to be in that same environment. And various spores evolved to resist autoclaves...I don't know how well, but I know that was mentioned when I asked why autoclaves weren't use much anymore.
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[01:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:14] <exec> 08└─Imagine the hue and cry if the US government tried to impose such a ruling on EU news sites!
[01:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:15] <exec> 08└─another silly exercise in fake protection by governments
[01:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:17] <exec> 08└─Did anybody do anything interesting with it or just hum-drum ho-hum botnets and cryptominers?
[01:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:20] <exec> 08└─It's frojack. He is a paid up member of the Fox News cult, where all governments are bad and everything they do is to remove someone's "freedom". Being one of the useful idiots on the internet is what he does.
[01:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:22] <exec> 08└─He is a paid up member of the Fox News cult
[01:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:24] <exec> 08└─A claim that requires evidence.
[01:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ravioli-Like Shapes of Saturn's Small Moons Due to Low Impact Angle Collisions - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:45] <exec> 08└─They were electromagnetically excavated. Collisions and the weakest "force" are not enough to describe the order of the Universe. The Universe is Electric, and Saturn's domai is one of the most electromagnetically active regions of the solar system.
[01:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tencent Chairman Pledges to Advance China Chip Industry After ZTE "Wake-Up" Call - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:58] <exec> 08└─In 10 years they'll be making chips that are 5 years behind Intel/AMD. In 20 they'll be ahead, both in design and fab.
[01:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tencent Chairman Pledges to Advance China Chip Industry After ZTE "Wake-Up" Call - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:59] <exec> 08└─A processor doesn't "use" characters, but I suppose that one could say that it can 'process' them. That said, it is not limited to process any particular set of characters.
[01:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:40] <exec> 08└─My point is that he is a perennial liar (as well as a self-agrandizing fraud). He even lies when it doesn't matter at all. His brain is just defective. Why anyone would bother to report what he *says* is beyond me. He proves at least 4 times a day that his word can't be trusted. Putting his stupid n...
[01:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:25] <exec> 08└─So... you're saying that all these assholes on the internet are because of goatse?!
[01:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:27] <exec> 08└─Your comment and mine are not mutually exclusive. I do however remember a time before the media solely became the playground of the powerful. Or at least, a time when they weren't so blatant about it. Do I think Pravda will work/be a good idea? No, odds are it'll be trolled, flamed, botted, heckled...
[01:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:29] <exec> 08└─And then it'll be precisely what it says on the can. Traditional Pravda.
[01:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grenfell Tower Fire: BBC Program "Panorama" Reveals Corporate Criminality - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:38] <exec> 08└─Worthless slugs on social benefits? Might be a good way to lighten the load right?
[01:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sound Waves for Curing Ebola - and Anything Else Too - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:36] <exec> 08└─Germs, even resistant ones still die in an autoclave. However, prions aren't destroyed, so surgical instruments need to be disposable anyway. Since autoclaves can be quite expensive to run and maintain, disposables are often cheaper anyway. They are, however still used for processing medical waste s...
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[02:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:05] <exec> 08└─Short answer? Maybe. I don't believe in algorithmic salvation. I'm sure something good will come out of it, if nothing else it will do most of the boring maths. But that notion of if we just tame the machine God AI it will take all out datas and create utopia? Nope, not going to happen. For some ti...
[02:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:07] <exec> 08└─Can AI solve all the problems? Nope - even assuming the current AI (NN essentially) is flawless** in what it does (recognizing patterns). It's like saying "Google search is all you need as knowledge" - the illusion that all the knowledge was already discovered, posted on the Web, indexed by Google a...
[02:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:09] <exec> 08└─the adversarial attacks [medium.com] are [arxiv.org] easy [arxiv.org] to craft [github.com].
[02:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:11] <exec> 08└─Here's what AI can solve: things that are computationally very difficult but require no creativity or intuition. That's all. For everything else, humans FTW.
[02:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 2098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:29] <exec> 08└─I am located in Europe. And I see the block. But IT'S DONE BY THE COMPANY ! Yes, you read that right. The company itself has put a geoblock on (presumably) all of its European readers across all of its outlets. Voluntarily, I must add, because the *only* enforcement provided by the GPDR consists of...
[02:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:30] <exec> 08└─That is true A/C, but I assumed that Fox was one of those "Pay TV" channels I have heard so much about.
[02:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:33] <exec> 08└─EU is not blocking anyone about GDPR. But some sites may block EU IPs for whatever reason, from not being compliant, not wanting to test if they are, not wanting to get into legal trouble down the road or even trying to lobby EU (to keep on with "let's data rape our visitors" tactics) by means of ba...
[02:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:35] <exec> 08└─When are we going to bypass the ISPs so the tyrants can be sent to hell??!
[02:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:37] <exec> 08└─It does enhance mammararies though, up until sometime in the teens to early twenties.
[02:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:39] <exec> 08└─As a US admin, I hate the GDPR. For my personal dealings, I plan on ignoring it. I'm not an EU subject, so they can go fuck themselves thinking they can pass laws telling me what I can do in the US.
[02:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:42] <exec> 08└─Don't believe the lies. The ISPs are working fine. The company itself is geoblocking everybody from Europe.
[02:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:57] <exec> 08└─It's a capitalist space race! The first to a moon/mars base: Amazon vs. some dork on a couch! I want to root for the dork on the couch. However, that means that Amazon will win. In totally unrelated news, I think the Musky One's problem is that he is not [consortiumnews.com] chums with the CIA [thea...
[02:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:58] <exec> 08└─> ...more than a mere crackpot, he was a showman. I'd stop short of "showman", but I'm willing to go as far as snake oil salesman. Willing to say whatever it takes to sell the product.
[02:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:01] <exec> 08└─I'd be pretty careful signing up for Bezo's moon outpost. He's likely to renege on the return trip and leave you there.
[02:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:48] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Sometimes failure can be a great teacher - not just to the person but others observing. What's worse is to not even try. Musk maybe cuckoo and/or have his own sinister agenda, but I applaud him for at least trying not matter how futile or dumb. In this regards, he's done more, no matter how...
[02:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grenfell Tower Fire: BBC Program "Panorama" Reveals Corporate Criminality - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:58] <exec> 08└─Greed is the nature of -some- humans. It is NOT the norm.
[02:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epyc Fail? We Can Defeat AMD's Virtual Machine Encryption Claim Researchers - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:24] <exec> 08└─Over complicated CPU's introduce more bugs. Film at 11.
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[03:25:05] <exec> 08└─They ran. They were running faster than they ever ran before, to the point where they thought their legs might break. But even so, they were slow; far too slow. Something swooped down out of the trees and grabbed another among them. It had gotten Billy. It. The group of young children - which had in...
[03:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:16] <exec> 08└─...making popcorn... I think you are about to be torn apart, unless you have some pretty special definitions for creativity or intuition.
[03:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:17] <exec> 08└─Everytime I think of the current applications of AI I think of that DuckTales episode with the chess-playing computer that wins the game up front because it "predicted" Scrooge's moves rather than let him actually play. It doesn't matter how smart AIs are, because they're inevitably going to be used...
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[03:25:19] <exec> 08└─"It's stinky! Stinky, stinky!" someone bellowed. The language used was that of a child's, but the person who shouted it had the voice of an adult male. Looking around the dim room, one could see an obese man pinching his nostrils shut. Indeed, the foul odor present in the room was intolerable. Where...
[03:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:22] <exec> 08└─Mathematica already does "the boring maths"
[03:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:24] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as creativity. Everything can be brute forced (a quadrillion monkeys with a quadrillion type writers with a quadrillion years).
[03:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:26] <exec> 08└─But it might be close.
[03:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:28] <exec> 08└─Unless an ai can control people, it won't change a thing: Example...say the solution is "no one can have more than $100,000 in total assets, and the world will be 'its best'. Will the rich give up what they have to solve the world's problems? The solution is "no one can eat ANY meat ever again". The...
[03:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:53] <exec> 08└─I find it very telling, your dislike of user data protection. And typical of the US. Sure, go ahead, ignore the GPDR, you're free to. But don't come to Europe, or do business here, after data-raping ours and then ignoring a first polite request to stop, because the *then* ensuing fine *will* be coll...
[03:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:54] <exec> 08└─... and in men, from 40 to 80.
[03:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:56] <exec> 08└─Nothing AFAICT, I think crawled. There was a webserver with wordpress and whatever debian defaults to. I had the great idea after I got home to write a few web pages with made up random words so I could try different search engines and see who recorded their visit. But I didn't care and not that int...
[03:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kai_h [1524] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MX Tools: A Year Later, the Toolbox Got Better - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:07] <exec> 08└─It would be also nice if it mentioned that it had nothing to do with MX Toolbox (or any other mail exchange tools) - https://mxtoolbox.com [mxtoolbox.com] I'd warrant that more sysadmins here would be familiar with MX Toolbox than MX Tools.
[03:27:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business - 343 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:32] <exec> 08└─If it were just the computing power, I wouldn't care much. Two Opterons, twelve cores total, I have computing power. It's the bandwidth! Imagine you've got a two meg connection, and the advertisers well and truly believe that they are entitled to ten meg out of that two. The math just doesn't work o...
[03:27:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business - 325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:45] <exec> 08└─Ublock Origin in full interdict mode. It doesn't even fetch the ads. The few sites that won't work unless you view their ads, and which also outwit the anti-adblock filters in Ublock are hardly worth the effort to view. They've had their way for the last 20 years. Its my turn. Kill them all and let...
[03:27:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Wootery [2341] 02 - 06Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:49] <exec> 08└─If only there were a set of mature, standardised, declarative technologies for describing and positioning the elements of a web-page. If only!
[03:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:04] <exec> 08└─You fan of peep shows bruh?
[03:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:06] <exec> 08└─Are we in such dire straits that a man who a woman doesn't want to have sex with is considered pejorative by other men?
[03:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:08] <exec> 08└─He's degenerating. He needs to up the signal-to-noise ratio, as he's starting to trip peoples' Poe alarms, and not in a good way. Satire has to be recognizable as satire for it to be effective.
[03:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Has Ended Support for Unlocking Bootloaders on Its Devices - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:37] <exec> 08└─Probably been watching too many videos posted by German girls scared to walk their neighborhood streets. Or just sickened by the sadistic rape gangs terrorising European cities.
[03:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Has Ended Support for Unlocking Bootloaders on Its Devices - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:38] <exec> 08└─Sure, but do the white rapists target single victims usually? The islamic rapists are known for forming groups of 50 or more males to systematically target females for rape and sexual slavery. See Rotherham as an example.
[03:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Has Ended Support for Unlocking Bootloaders on Its Devices - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:40] <exec> 08└─What will you do when no recent modern smart phone can be rooted and blocks all bootloaders? For me, the Samasung Galaxy is "enough". This device rooted does everything I need.
[03:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grenfell Tower Fire: BBC Program "Panorama" Reveals Corporate Criminality - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:25] <exec> 08└─You blame government, but in this case, lies were told about the material.
[03:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Cruise Ships Bring Agonising Death to Last Greek Whales - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:40] <exec> 08└─Similar thought: The ocean is BIG. If there are so many whales that ships are running into them -- there must be an awful lot of whales.
[03:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Reaches Deal to Keep China's ZTE in Business: Congressional Aide - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:34] <exec> 08└─Here's my point. You have no way to independently verify claims about Chinese industry violating US sanctions in the past, present, or future. So you haven't a clue as to whether the US will continue to enforce its sanctions or not. A smart person would simply shrug and say "I don't know" at this po...
[03:32:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zimmer [3255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Active Shooter" Game on Steam Sparks Uproar - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:18] <exec> 08└─The right to free speech just means that the government can't gag you, hence the ruling that The Donald isn't allowed to Block twitter users, but he can Mute them. You however can Block anyone you like, assuming you're not a representative of the government acting in your official capacity. The tech...
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[04:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:22] <exec> 08└─The better AI will tell you how to convince or manipulate everyone to follow the plan. Unfortunately at present the plan is to funnel all resources into a few pockets.
[04:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:24] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter how smart AIs are, because they're inevitably going to be used in such a manner that people are going to hate them more and more, and will take sledgehammers to them.
[04:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:26] <exec> 08└─Example...say the solution is "no one can have more than $100,000 in total assets, and the world will be 'its best'.
[04:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:28] <exec> 08└─Unless an ai can control people, it won't change a thing
[04:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:56] <exec> 08└─It does enhance mammararies though, up until sometime in the teens to early twenties.
[04:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ravioli-Like Shapes of Saturn's Small Moons Due to Low Impact Angle Collisions - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:20] <exec> 08└─So cute, baby Saturns
[04:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 1523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:19] <exec> 08└─You build a non-tethered rotating one with a length of four or five thousand km. Stick it in an orbit at about half its length plus 50 km. Set it rotating so that the tip closest to earth has zero sideways movement. (The movement is basically that of two opposing spokes on a wheel that is rolling ar...
[04:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:20] <exec> 08└─Steve Earle - Snake Oil https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] It was an anti-Reagan song. Listen to the lyrics. Nothing has changed in more than 30 years. Also, being a showman was the major part of selling snake oil.
[04:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:12] <exec> 08└─Just improve the signal-to-noise ratio and get some new material. You have potential to be both funny and insightful, but you're squandering it. It's becoming impossible to tell how much of this is satire and how much you actually believe, and we have a prime example (Ethanol-Fueled) below who *star...
[04:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Reaches Deal to Keep China's ZTE in Business: Congressional Aide - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:37] <exec> 08└─In this circumstances, arranging "penalties" against Chinese companies by "private phone" doesn't bear enough confidence to my taste - not enough checks. (personal experience: I left my native country mainly due to corruption. And usually the fish rots from the head down)
[04:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Commander of USS John S McCain Pleads Guilty, Retires After Deadly Collision - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:06] <exec> 08└─Anything that moves in a non-trivial manner can provide electricity for navigational equipment. If you're just paddling, the only navigation you need is to point at a visible rescue ship or island. The energy you'd spend on serious paddling will cause you to use up your supplies of food and water. H...
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[05:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:29] <exec> 08└─Given infinite time, infinite do-overs, and failure not costing anything? Sure. That's not how the world works for the most part though.
[05:25:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 2098 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:47] <exec> 08└─I am located in Europe. And I see the block. But IT'S DONE BY THE COMPANY ! Yes, you read that right. The company itself has put a geoblock on (presumably) all of its European readers across all of its outlets. Voluntarily, I must add, because the *only* enforcement provided by the GPDR consists of...
[05:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:58] <exec> 08└─Hang on... ...It is the USA that that thinks it has world rule not the EU. The EU can make regulations for their citizens. You say they should be punished for fulfilling for performing their function. I don't like to resort to name calling but you factually a fucking hypocrite.
[05:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:00] <exec> 08└─They quite entitled to do so and I wish they would. The rules concern the ability for users to control the use of their data better in both collection and use. Please, please pass the same rules. Then nothing would be blocked.
[05:26:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Ravioli-Like Shapes of Saturn's Small Moons Due to Low Impact Angle Collisions - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:20] <exec> 08└─It's Saturday dinner at the prison camp we're sending you to.
[05:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:25] <exec> 08└─But it's got Free Shipping!!
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[06:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:05] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a bit less spending on civic improvements like parks, cycleways, pedestrian precincts, and mostly on many many many meetings, public consultations, and consultant investigations in to those. Perhaps a little more spending on basic infrastructure and maintenance, even when it is not 'sexy'. T...
[06:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:12] <exec> 08└─By this time, animal populations had grown sufficiently and had some sort of desire to deliver nitrogen to plants by means of hike of the leg?
[06:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:42] <exec> 08└─I think AI could be a tool that would provide a medical diagnosis, help generate "creative" works (procedurally generated, but with a procedure fancy enough to be called AI), or work on engineering problems. As you say, it's unlikely to help with any problem where the difficulty lies with getting la...
[06:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:43] <exec> 08└─We are already seeing the "better AI," and it's not doing much but pissing people off and pushing Google search users over to Bing search, and pushing YouTube users over to HookTube. Most of us are too smart to be fooled by AI tricks. That why I have faith in humanity over deep-state technology, it...
[06:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:45] <exec> 08└─So I got a summer job working on Sapiens Software Star Sapphire Common LISP. It found some success in the education market. I don't think anyone ever managed to use Star Sapphire to make an IBM PC-XT conscious of its own existence.
[06:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:48] <exec> 08└─No special definitions needed. The entity doing the thinking simply has to be able to answer the question "why". It has to be able to understand rather than simply playing the odds. Computers are currently not capable of doing this and likely never will be. I have no doubt that eventually a computer...
[06:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:50] <exec> 08└─Chess, Go, StarCraft, salesmanship. Seems like a logical progression.
[06:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:52] <exec> 08└─I've been working in the area of AI since around 1985. The fact is, there is no "I" in AI. With symbolic AI, we have some clever algorithms, developed by people that do exactly what people tell them to do. With neural nets (and to a lesser extent genetic algorithms, etc.), we have a way of throwing...
[06:26:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:06] <exec> 08└─It's frojack. He is a paid up member of the Fox News cult, where all governments are bad and everything they do is to remove someone's "freedom". Being one of the useful idiots on the internet is what he does.
[06:26:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 450 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:17] <exec> 08└─I find it very telling, your dislike of user data protection. And typical of the US. Sure, go ahead, ignore the GPDR, you're free to. But don't come to Europe, or do business here, after data-raping ours and then ignoring a first polite request to stop, because the *then* ensuing fine *will* be coll...
[06:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:23] <exec> 08└─Fun talking out of your ass, is it? Next time do try to remember who you're talking to. Even a complete twit should not need me to spell out that what I object to is the government getting involved where it does not belong and is not competent. And then trying to impose their will on people not subj...
[06:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:25] <exec> 08└─Touched a nerve there?
[06:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MX Tools: A Year Later, the Toolbox Got Better - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:36] <exec> 08└─Both antiX and MX are on the good list. Free/Open Source Operating systems without systemd in the default installation [archive.org] (Boy, somebody really fucked up that site.) [without-systemd.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MX Tools: A Year Later, the Toolbox Got Better - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:38] <exec> 08└─Or even just a sentence saying "MX tools, which includes..." Aside from which, is this about the distro, or a toolbox included with the distro??
[06:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 1820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:52] <exec> 08└─1. Coriolis forces as you move up/down the cable - compensate or bust. Various strategies - from "rigid rod with compensation at ends (good luck with a rigid rod 4000-5000km long)" to "compensate-sideways-on-shuttle-as-you-go" (any limp cable will do, but then the majority of delta-V to reach the to...
[06:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:31] <exec> 08└─Ah, but if your mouse barely moves, how will you close the page? Muahahaha... (Yes, I know, keyboard shortcuts.)
[06:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business - 1477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:32] <exec> 08└─I too had a problem with Pandora/Seamonkey/NoScript. Tried Jango. It worked. Haven't been back to even try Pandora again. I don't know what I am missing, but its not worth it to me to try to find out. As far as the ads go, they are like mosquitos. Its a tradeoff before how many of the things I wil...
[06:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:49] <exec> 08└─🐙 💕 🍇 🎀 𝒴𝑒𝓈 🎀 🍇 💉 💥 『For legacy viewers:』 *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Yassss!
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[07:25:07] <exec> 08└─These floods are not caused by more water, but by less ability to handle the normal amounts of water.
[07:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:09] <exec> 08└─East of Atlanta, there is a rainstorm nearly every day. You can track it back to Atlanta, where the urban heat island effect disturbs the weather. So, did something upwind of that Maryland city change in the past 1000 years? I'm betting it did. Not that a couple occurrences mean the "1000 year" fore...
[07:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:18] <exec> 08└─Kind of like SoylentNews rejecting its most prolific submitters? Some of us are legumes, and some of us are not. If you continue to suppress the aristarchus, this site is doomed. Not a threat, just a fact. Look it up.
[07:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:20] <exec> 08└─No animal can deliver (NH2)2CO by raising the leg if it doesn't ingest at first simple nitrogen compounds (and have their gut flora transform it in protein) or straight aminoacids/proteins from outside. E.g. [cattlefacts.com.au] As feed quality declines, rumen ‘bug’ activity and numbers decline,...
[07:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:22] <exec> 08└─Some of us are legumes, and some of us are not.
[07:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, Padewan, I was just working on the second installment of Ethics for Soylentils. But then my three or four pending submissions (one of them admittedly just whining) were summarily rejected, with this message: We're sorry, your submission "fixed earlier submission, Lucy! " was declined for the fo...
[07:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:27] <exec> 08└─No matter how much repetitive rubbish you submit, it doesn't make it any more attractive. I've just rejected 5 submissions related to the alt-right because none of them say anything new nor would any of them promote an intelligent and enlightening discussion. Why don't you submit them to a more appr...
[07:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:34] <exec> 08└─Read up on the Sklyarov incident, I'm too lazy to dig up a source for you. Very, very analogous.
[07:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:35] <exec> 08└─In my experience, the companies saying they will delete my account if I do not accept their new terms are those that I only have accounts with because they required it for some stupid reason - e.g. to download a firmware update. Of course I just deleted those mails, if some of them end up deleting t...
[07:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business - 1585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:42] <exec> 08└─Just go ahead and run your script blockers. Sure, you can't see some businesses... but do you really trust the businesses who are demanding you do stuff that you know is risky and comes out of your hide if they decide that once they have your pants down, they won't prank you? As far as I am concerne...
[07:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:43] <exec> 08└─If nothing else, I found browsing the web before NoScript to be highly illustrative of the need to remember ctrl-w. ( I would open up a link in a new tab, and get frozen... ctrl-w would usually put me back to right to where I was before I clicked on the link that got me in that snit.)
[07:29:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:10] <exec> 08└─The author of that story, criticising Musk for saying that US media is shit, is also the author of this story: https://www.theguardian.com , the Tl;Dr of which is that US media is shit.
[07:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Has Ended Support for Unlocking Bootloaders on Its Devices - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:32] <exec> 08└─I will stop carrying a smartphone. If dumb flip phones are no longer available, I'll stop carrying a phone altogether. I might build a raspberry-pi-esque substitute that looks like a homemade bomb, one of the models that has a 4G modem, and at least then I'll be able to run a pure, unmolested copy o...
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[08:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 5035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:08] <exec> 08└─It was a sacred place, devoid of both sound and strife. So tranquil was it that even animals seemed to stay clear of it, despite its location. This place was a temple, and several dozen men were gathered in front of its steps; every single one of them appeared visibly nervous. He had not yet shown H...
[08:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:09] <exec> 08└─Nuke Social Security, SNAP, WIC, everything but medicare, and replace it all with a universal basic income. The cost will be significant, but you'll instantly end most poverty and humanity will be able to stop fearing automation and technology, instead focusing on the benefits it can provide. There'...
[08:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:11] <exec> 08└─The truth is, notwithstanding The Green Revolution [wikipedia.org], Malthus [wikipedia.org] was quite correct: "Yet in all societies, even those that are most vicious, the tendency to a virtuous attachment [i.e., marriage] is so strong that there is a constant effort towards an increase of populatio...
[08:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:14] <exec> 08└─Their research seems to have basically checked that giving more resources to someone without them means they have more.. Earth shattering. Of course what they didn't bother to research is the long term effects on their own ability to sustain themselves. Or are we supposed to simply accept that once...
[08:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:24] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, "1000 year" may have been nonsense from the start.
[08:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:36] <exec> 08└─Interesting about the nitrogen decline on the farm. I remember Grandpa importing pretty good quantities of Ammonium Nitrate, Ammonium Sulphate, "SuperPhosphate", and sulphur... yes, pellets of plain old yellow sulphur, to plow into his field. There is even a farm supply store down the street from...
[08:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:38] <exec> 08└─Ammonium Sulphate will do turn the acidity quicker than plain sulphur - the ammonium ion gets consumed quick by plants (with lots on strong light, with copious UV like we have in Australia, the ammonium on the top of the soil will be lost by outgasing) letting the sulphate one in the soil to increas...
[08:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:48] <exec> 08└─Many other sites have pesky "I agree" pop ups instead.
[08:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:49] <exec> 08└─Of course you can ignore it - because SN doesn't do any of the things that the GDPR is there to protect against. We don't aggregate user data, we don't sell that data, we take reasonable precautions to protect the data (that we don't collect). If people want to close their account they can - and we...
[08:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:51] <exec> 08└─This is another onerous set of regulations exceeding jurisdiction. On what fucking planet would an EU citizen visiting a hotel or computer server outside the EU subject the foreign nationals providing these services to EU law?
[08:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 1867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:19] <exec> 08└─You steal energy/momentum from the cable to get to orbital velocity in space. It changes depending on how you use it. (Case A) - If you grab the end and climb to the centre and then let go, you will be in orbit at 2000km. (Case B) - If you just hang on and then let go at the top, you will be travell...
[08:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:01] <exec> 08└─That's why I use a NoScript with whitelist. Additionally, if the webpage acts like a bum asking everyone for a money for cheap wine, I double-check NoScript, usually some domain "leaks" so I block it. I'm not against advertising, but instead of asking to turn off Adblock to make users only "view ads...
[08:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Active Shooter" Game on Steam Sparks Uproar - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:29] <exec> 08└─It will never not be "too soon" since the weekly mass shooting has become a tradition.
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[09:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:08] <exec> 08└─Someone has yet to explain how basic market economics won't kick in and drive the cost of living up by $UBI, since the "haves" now can afford to spend $UBI more on basics (e.g. rent, food) than before. I can't see any scenario where everyone aren't left *worse* off under UBI as soon as it has achiev...
[09:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:10] <exec> 08└─I wholeCPUedly agree with your assessment but for one point: the toxic meatbags who ruin the party for everybody else do not stay in the lower classes for long. Being free from scruples make them float above others fast. Plus, lower classes make the system work. So, start selectively culling on the...
[09:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:12] <exec> 08└─Yep, I am not sure they got the idea, the IRL Capitalism steals from the poor and gives to the rich. IRL Communism steals from the not so poor and gives to the poor, while the rich are high ranking bureaucrats those mounting black market ops successfully. After the fall of east bloc communism the ca...
[09:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:22] <exec> 08└─"Rainstorm" is not the same as a "1 in 1000 year flood event". Something that happens every other day VS Something that is likely to happen, on average, once in a thousand years. Insurance companies are very good at this. Also, "1-in-a-1000" events *could* happen several times in a week, and *still*...
[09:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:37] <exec> 08└─Tell it to the TMB, janrinok. The Broad Brush is coming for SoylentNews. In fact, we are already painted, and only aristarchus is standing up for the side of reason. Continue, if you want to continue to kill the dream that was BuckFeta!
[09:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Micron Launches First QLC NAND SSD - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:45] <exec> 08└─aka Evaporative Data Storage
[09:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:15] <exec> 08└─You are quite correct. What the shills call "A.I." isn't what a lay person thinks of as artificial intelligence. The shills are talking about expert systems [wikipedia.org], which can actually be quite useful, especially with (as you pointed out) the large amounts of computational resources we can t...
[09:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:16] <exec> 08└─We're actually very close to solving all of these problems. Turns out that all we really need to do is eradicate the dominant species to make most of them go away, leaving just the matter of optimising paperclip production. If only people would put a little more trust in computers, maybe a catchy ji...
[09:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:18] <exec> 08└─and getting a half-assed solution that sometimes works, only we don't know why it works or why it sometimes doesn't.
[09:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:21] <exec> 08└─As such, generalized AI is (optimistically) centuries, if not millenia (tens of millenia?) away, if possible at all.
[09:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:23] <exec> 08└─'Understand' is not a concrete idea, it's a constantly shifting goal. Consider chess AI. A century ago, I'm sure people would have said that any machine that can beat the chess masters, can surely be said to 'understand' the game. These days, people don't consider chess AI to 'understand' the game....
[09:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:25] <exec> 08└─Seriously, could you have predicted from looking at civilization from merely 5000 years ago that we're already sending people into space? Or even from civilization 2000 years ago? What about 500 years ago? 200 years ago?
[09:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03qcmdm [6966] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:03] <exec> 08└─Recently, I've tried to read a new article from the Washington Post, and I've noticed multiple trackers from 13 different companies being simultaneously loaded on the webpage to abuse the readers. You can BLOCK ALL OF THEM, and almost no functionality is lost, they included... adsafeprotected.com am...
[09:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:05] <exec> 08└─Any sane planet. Please explain what is onerous about the obligations? Please explain how EU regulations enforced only with in EU borders is exceeding their remit? Your pitiful bleating fails to include, observe or use anything factual. You either (1) do not know or understand the GDPR of (2) you ar...
[09:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:07] <exec> 08└─As a US citizen you will have no "personal dealings" or issues with the GDPR. It does not apply to US citizens (until they pass something similar). If, as admin you control servers that face the EU and collect data inappropriately and fail to comply with the regulations then you may want to look for...
[09:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:09] <exec> 08└─Do not forget, it is the THEY that is doing the blocking either for fear of fines or to try and get so many whingers that the legislation is reviewed. If the GDPR stands they stand to lose millions/billion of income they get by flogging off your old data.
[09:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 1458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:11] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised to see so much hate for this regulation. All GDPR is asking is for companies to be responsible with the private details they collect and store and to give back some control of that data to the individual. I can ask for companies to supply me with a record of all the information they ho...
[09:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:13] <exec> 08└─Or it just means that they are afraid of running afoul of the GPDR, or already know that they are (most likely because they have been contacted about "How are you proposing to fix your known violations?") and see the block as the easiest way out.
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[10:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:02] <exec> 08└─Here's what happens next: https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] https://thehackernews.com [thehackernews.com]
[10:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:03] <exec> 08└─Time to again challenge the IT Robbing Barons in the courts. ps Please people, you had a portion of text inadvertently pasted in the middle of a sentence: that government IT sy« The Microsoft Cyber Attack » : a German TV (ARD) Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration No...
[10:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:06] <exec> 08└─edited
[10:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:19] <exec> 08└─Someone has yet to explain how basic market economics won't kick in and drive the cost of living up by $UBI, since the "haves" now can afford to spend $UBI more on basics (e.g. rent, food) than before. I can't see any scenario where everyone aren't left *worse* off under UBI as soon as it has achiev...
[10:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:21] <exec> 08└─Some people will have a ton of kids, and no job. Extra money? Sure..more kids. Look up "Angel Adams" with her 15 children that "Who is going to pay for all these kids?" Sorry Angel, but you're supposed to pay for those kids. Society should pay to have her fixed, though. There's no reasonable amount...
[10:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:23] <exec> 08└─South Africa tried that, and now they are starving. Turns out if you murder the people that are actually producing all the food(aka have land, and assets), then replace them with people from a poverty background the folks don't magically gain the drive and skills to succeed. Instead, you ruin those...
[10:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:49] <exec> 08└─Running the bulk of your alt-right related submissions would have run the site into the ground a long time ago. Even if we cared about the toxic subject matter, most of them are heavily biased or about worthless attention seekers. We don't need to know what Milo or Lauren are doing week to week.
[10:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:51] <exec> 08└─One thing I have where I live is "adobe" soil... stuff seems to set up like concrete. Really hard to dig in. Seems like even the earthworms can't work in it unless its been raining for several weeks. It seems that as I have been slowly increasing soil acidity, this seems to be breaking up, but so fa...
[10:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Micron Launches First QLC NAND SSD - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:01] <exec> 08└─It was initially feared that QLC write endurance would be low enough that drives would need to be treated more or less as write-once, read-many (WORM) devices, requiring careful handling on the software side. With multiple manufacturers now rating their QLC NAND for around 1k P/E cycles, it is clear...
[10:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:35] <exec> 08└─Seriously, could you have predicted from looking at civilization from merely 5000 years ago that we're already sending people into space? Or even from civilization 2000 years ago? What about 500 years ago? 200 years ago?
[10:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:37] <exec> 08└─Or that we'd still be murdering each other in the name of God.
[10:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:21] <exec> 08└─Any sane planet. Please explain what is onerous about the obligations?
[10:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:23] <exec> 08└─I see none of that as "onerous" You are objecting to power and responsibility being made equal and co-ordinate. Which is a requirement for any system that includes humans to function with justice and clarity. >Ahh, the "everybody I disagree with is a Russian Troll" Troll. Hardly, I have never said a...
[10:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:25] <exec> 08└─Copyright extensions that are forced on the rest of the world.
[10:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MX Tools: A Year Later, the Toolbox Got Better - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:38] <exec> 08└─My digital DJ setup, based on mixxx (latest 2.1 is available on mx linux and not on debian sid nor experimental, BTW), resides on hd in what is called a frugal install of mx linux. Basically you get the compressed filesystem from the iso image (called linuxfs) the kernel and the initrd, and make a g...
[10:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:55] <exec> 08└─Hang on, are you in the Skyhook scenario [wikipedia.org]? ' Cause "The tips of the cable will experience about 1.4 G." suggests you are, but I'm baffled by "Set it rotating so that the tip closest to earth has zero sideways movement." The latest seem to suggest that the rotational speed of your skyh...
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[11:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:14] <exec> 08└─ps Please people, you had a portion of text inadvertently pasted in the middle of a sentence: that government IT sy« The Microsoft Cyber Attack » : a German TV (ARD) Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English. stems be converted to open source sof...
[11:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:15] <exec> 08└─From the you-really-couldn't-think-of-a dept.-line-for-this? dept.
[11:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:17] <exec> 08└─Snarked a department up for you.
[11:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:19] <exec> 08└─Except Androids not really Linux. Its linux put in bed with a meth-ed up hooker.
[11:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:22] <exec> 08└─Sorry for putting the blame on you, people! Thank you for the editing
[11:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:24] <exec> 08└─Its linux put in bed with a meth-ed up Tourette hooker.
[11:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:41] <exec> 08└─Well, for one, those changes will NOT be instantaneous, and while prices will surely go up, it's a farce to say that they'll instantly go up so high that nobody will be able to afford to live. UBI will have less value over time due to inflation, but it'll still be a huge improvement. I'm no economis...
[11:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:42] <exec> 08└─Note that I said > start selectively culling and referred to the toxic ones. The situation in SA is not directly about the toxic ones, it's envy of the wealth accumulated by others no matter how, instigated by the toxic ones.
[11:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:11] <exec> 08└─One thing I have where I live is "adobe" soil... stuff seems to set up like concrete. Really hard to dig in.
[11:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Micron Launches First QLC NAND SSD - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:21] <exec> 08└─Not everyone needs multiple drive writes per day, even in datacenters.
[11:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 2666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:59] <exec> 08└─> Regardless of technological advances, such a generalized intelligence isn't anywhere on the horizon. I wouldn't be so sure of that. We could still accidentally stumble over ways to do it. Now we're throwing around an awful lot of computing power, far more capacity than we ourselves have in many ar...
[11:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:47] <exec> 08└─I see none of that as "onerous" You are objecting to power and responsibility being made equal and co-ordinate. Which is a requirement for any system that includes humans to function with justice and clarity.
[11:32:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Grenfell Tower Fire: BBC Program "Panorama" Reveals Corporate Criminality - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:16] <exec> 08└─The tenants didn't care if it was wrapped in tissue paper because they aren't living there.
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[12:25:09] <exec> 08└─Web searching for the term "MLP" will not probably yield contextually relevant info.
[12:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 1591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:25] <exec> 08└─> Except Androids not really Linux. I don't think that is the point, the point is that attacks on commonly used software are widespread _because_ it is commonly used. They are also probably more common because widely used software is a bigger more lucrative target. Q: "How could a single malware pro...
[12:25:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 784 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:35] <exec> 08└─Their research seems to have basically checked that giving more resources to someone without them means they have more.. Earth shattering. Of course what they didn't bother to research is the long term effects on their own ability to sustain themselves. Or are we supposed to simply accept that once...
[12:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:45] <exec> 08└─So basically, you are saying that providers' greed is what keeps certain fraction of population in permanent poverty?
[12:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:47] <exec> 08└─Well, for one, those changes will NOT be instantaneous, and while prices will surely go up, it's a farce to say that they'll instantly go up so high that nobody will be able to afford to live.
[12:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:49] <exec> 08└─That's exactly what the original intent with welfare was. [spectator.co.uk] And when we say "was", we mean "is". Look at the lives of people in any welfare dependant shithole for evidence.
[12:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:51] <exec> 08└─A bit of patience, only 10-15 years I'd say. At that time, you'll have to chose between Angel Adams' kids or immigration - the rest of the population will be 40yo+ by the time they'll consider leaving their parent's basement and having a family of their own. Once there, they won't have biological ti...
[12:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:54] <exec> 08└─That's probably true for small businesses, so one negative argument one could make is that small businesses will suffer from UBI, but large businesses are not as likely to instantly raise prices to match, perhaps even ever, because they have deep pockets. They'll surely increase them some, but it's...
[12:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:56] <exec> 08└─More equal does not mean not worse.
[12:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:08] <exec> 08└─Our local expert mathematicians are already showing how normal this is. Citation: see above. Move on sheeple. To much congregating allows the wolves to circle. Trump will tweet soon. All is well.
[12:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:27] <exec> 08└─Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen
[12:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:03] <exec> 08└─Except it's already too late. There's no exemption in the regulations for data collected prior to "GDPR day".
[12:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:35] <exec> 08└─I wasn't on wikipedia, I was actually cribbing that from a bunch of sources going all the way back to a Jerry Pournelle article, but that article provides a pretty good overview. What part of matching the tip speed to the centre of mass orbital speed in the reverse direction is confusing you? That p...
[12:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:36] <exec> 08└─It certainly isn't geostationary, ...
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[13:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:03] <exec> 08└─How would we ever survive without diversity?
[13:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:04] <exec> 08└─A guy called Benjamin Herman, a convert believed to have started on the path of cultural enrichment while in prison.
[13:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we need more peace. We should import some of those peace people.
[13:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM "Project Trillium", Cambricon MLU-100, and Cavium ThunderX2 - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:20] <exec> 08└─The meaning of the Vision Fund [economist.com] The fund is the result of a peculiar alliance forged in 2016 between Mr Son and Muhammad bin Salman. Saudi Arabia’s thrusting crown prince handed Mr Son $45bn as part of his attempt to diversify the kingdom’s economy. That great dollop of capital at...
[13:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─How so? I'm a property investor.
[13:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:03] <exec> 08└─Because in the present you and others investment-owners and the would-be occupier-owners compete on the number of properties on the market and drive the price up. Since the occupier-owner does not derive an income from the property (e.g. rent), their power to negotiate loans with the bank is lower t...
[13:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:05] <exec> 08└─Indeed, that is precisely what I'm getting at. The only part of ST:TNG we have down pat is the Ferengi part. Greed Is Good!
[13:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:07] <exec> 08└─The proved that the program that gives out resources reduces the lack of resources in the folks it serves. This is both a dumb and wrong question. The right question is did this cause the program to need to serve more or less folks? If the program worked, after 50 years it should not be needed, or a...
[13:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:09] <exec> 08└─Oh no, there's a far more likely alternative than UBI as far as I can see. It will start with civil unrest from the destitute, move on to all-out uprisings and civil wars, causing ever increasing refugee streams, which put other countries' resources under unsustainable pressure, causing their popula...
[13:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:11] <exec> 08└─Rule of acquisition #109: Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.
[13:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:43] <exec> 08└─It also misses an analogy of the tragedy of the commons where everyone wants fixed nitrogen but it isn't energetically cheap so everyone would prefer someone else fix nitrogen. Luckily for whatever weird reasons some plant species are givers and others are takers. Which anthropomorphizes the whole t...
[13:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:44] <exec> 08└─For the reader who already has a reasonable understanding of evolution by natural selection, it's not so bad. Dawkins wrote about this in The Selfish Gene, and his position was that this sort of imprecise language isn't a problem provided we can always translate our statements back into the precise...
[13:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:47] <exec> 08└─So... I should buy, right?
[13:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:34] <exec> 08└─Well, it depends on POV. Looking back, now that we know that space exists (or more to the point, that "sky" ends after a while when going up), that it is reachable with finite amount of energy, and that forces of nature can be harvested to provide the sufficient amount of energy, we could easily pre...
[13:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:36] <exec> 08└─Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program, entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world, but I believe...
[13:28:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 1103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:13] <exec> 08└─Of course you can ignore it - because SN doesn't do any of the things that the GDPR is there to protect against. We don't aggregate user data, we don't sell that data, we take reasonable precautions to protect the data (that we don't collect). If people want to close their account they can - and we...
[13:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:26] <exec> 08└─It's anything but a happy General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) day for several major U.S. news organizations as their websites are temporarily blocked in Europe as a new data privacy law goes into effect today.
[13:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:28] <exec> 08└─Just because data protection in the abstract is a good thing doesn't mean the way the GDPR goes about it is necessarily a good approach. Many especially smaller website operators lack the resources to hire a representative in the Union pursuant to article 27. So instead, they put up a geoblock as a...
[13:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:30] <exec> 08└─If collection of personal data is on a "consent" basis, what you say is correct. But the GDPR also provides for a "contract" basis for collection of personal data, which is distinct from "consent". A site using the contract basis is normally a pay site, but "Search for an advertiser to sponsor your...
[13:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:32] <exec> 08└─Getting rid of the ISP will facilitate geo-spoofing. We must do whatever we can to defeat them. The ISP is still the weak link, the single point of failure.
[13:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:34] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised to see so much hate for this regulation. All GDPR is asking is for companies to be responsible with the private details they collect and store and to give back some control of that data to the individual.
[13:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:36] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, even an IP address is "personal data" in the EU. [whitecase.com]
[13:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:39] <exec> 08└─As someone who has customers hosted with Lee Enterprises (they sell their software as a service in addition to running it for their own publications) they are purging all European data from their sites and their customers' sites (they warned everyone first). The reason they are doing this is that th...
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[14:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:08] <exec> 08└─A whole generation is growing up completely internalizing the fact that total surveillance is normal. 1984 is edging closer and closer - because that's the real message of this book: freedom dies when people truly accept and welcome servitude.
[14:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:10] <exec> 08└─A whole generation is growing up completely internalizing the fact that total surveillance is normal.
[14:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:20] <exec> 08└─Police sources quoted in local media said the man was heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest" in Arabic).
[14:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:21] <exec> 08└─Yep, they are so grateful for being allowed into Europe. Seriously, invite thousands of barbarians, from barbaric cultures, into their country. WTF do people expect? Actually civilizing people takes generations. This is "magic dirt" theory at its best.
[14:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:24] <exec> 08└─You already have them, showing promises at even younger ages [cnn.com] This one [telegraph.co.uk] was older The dead shooter, 36, was named locally as Benjamin Herman, from Rochefort, a city about an hour from Liege. He was well-known to police after a string of crimes including robbery, assault and...
[14:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:26] <exec> 08└─Because it's unusual.
[14:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:28] <exec> 08└─Yep, they are so grateful for being allowed into Europe.
[14:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:30] <exec> 08└─Fuck the other people, I got mine!
[14:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:33] <exec> 08└─Do your duty and post other link and more info - I grew tired of offtopic anti-muslim emigration rants: The dead shooter, 36, was named locally as Benjamin Herman, from Rochefort, a city about an hour from Liege. He was well-known to police after a string of crimes including robbery, assault and dru...
[14:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:35] <exec> 08└─Are they barbarians because of the race, religion or nationality? There are millions of humans, Muslims and Asians who are just like you and I. No matter, because your prejudice is irrelevant: he was a Belgian who was born there. I suppose you ought now to add 'Belgians' to your list of undesirable...
[14:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:37] <exec> 08└─No matter, because your prejudice is irrelevant: he was a Belgian who was born there.
[14:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:39] <exec> 08└─Belgium only makes up ~2% of the EU's population, making it unusual for it to turn up in news of any sort. Attacks since 2010, as listed by wikiepdia: Germany, 16[1] France, 32[3] Belgium, 6[4] France or Germany being attacked just isn't newsworthy anymore, Belgium still is. Most importantly though...
[14:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:42] <exec> 08└─It wasn't known when the story was released - it has only become public since.
[14:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:44] <exec> 08└─I suppose you ought now to add 'Belgians' to your list of undesirable people.
[14:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:46] <exec> 08└─When are we going to smarten up and treat religion like a mental illness?
[14:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:48] <exec> 08└─There are shootings in the US every day.
[14:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:51] <exec> 08└─Come join the editorial team and maybe help fill the gaps when we can have an editor just sitting here waiting to spoon feed those who cannot use Google.
[14:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:53] <exec> 08└─When are we going to smarten up and treat religion like a mental illness?
[14:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Weekend's Academic Skateboarding Conference in London - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:01] <exec> 08└─... speakers are a mostly a mix of former professional skateboarders running sportwear brands and amateur skateboards who are now academics.
[14:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:25] <exec> 08└─and yet the internet runs on linux servers, but the ones that are hacked the most are the remaining windows servers.
[14:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:57] <exec> 08└─Likely? Yes. Favorable? No. The whole point of UBI is to produce a more favorable outcome, of course. :^)
[14:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:58] <exec> 08└─Automation would have had little effect; aging population (falling cost of living) and steady GDP. Mass immigration has fucked all that up and will make Basic Income a political impossibility. [euronews.com] Look at the numbers of homeless in major cities and tell me mass destitution isn't already r...
[14:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:00] <exec> 08└─Given the prevalence of Greed, Greed & Greed, Inc. I only see UBI as hastening the process.
[14:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:02] <exec> 08└─How can there in the end be no shortage of hard work for everyone if we start with the premise that all the hard work is eliminated as too expensive?
[14:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:15] <exec> 08└─Your request for citations is not unreasonable - but I'll pass on it just the same. Meanwhile, it is a known fact that urban sprawl continues. A ten acre Walmart parking lot is not known for it's permeability - nor are the hundreds of miles of streets, sidewalks, and concrete foundations and drivewa...
[14:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:16] <exec> 08└─I've had 10 inches of rain in a hour events at my house at least three of the past 5 years here in Houston where it's tougher because it's so flat. It's got to rain at that level for 10+ hours before it's devastating, but that's managed by having large water containment areas around waterways. You'd...
[14:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:19] <exec> 08└─when I hear "1 in 1000 years flood
[14:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:41] <exec> 08└─Some legumes and a few other plants have a symbiotic relationship with certain bacterial species. The plants build specialized structures on their roots called nodules to house and feed the bacteria, which in turn fix nitrogen for the plants and assure them a steady supply of ammonia. Only 10 famili...
[14:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:43] <exec> 08└─Totally. Unplug that mining rig, plug in a miniaturized lab-scale Haber process plant, and hodl your nitrogen. Its all an unconstitutional USDA plot, you know. One of those infinite spare time things, like outta an "Amateur Scientist" column from the 60s, make a tabletop Haber process plant using my...
[14:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:45] <exec> 08└─A few gaps to be solved, but from the article it sounds like we identified the gene which enabled plants to fix nitrogen. The next question is it possible to turn it back on? Something cheap that can over winter similar to how farmers will plant fields of Crimson Clover in preparation for the spring...
[14:28:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 1253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:23] <exec> 08└─I've been working in the area of AI since around 1985. The fact is, there is no "I" in AI. With symbolic AI, we have some clever algorithms, developed by people that do exactly what people tell them to do. With neural nets (and to a lesser extent genetic algorithms, etc.), we have a way of throwing...
[14:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:35] <exec> 08└─https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03453.pdf [arxiv.org]
[14:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:37] <exec> 08└─I agree. This is one of the things I want to write about in a journal entry. There are almost no truly original ideas. Most are, at best, random mash-ups of what came before, if not outright repetitions of those things. It's just that no one pays attention to the crappiest art or music or inventions...
[14:29:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Demena [5637] 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 758 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:17] <exec> 08└─Any sane planet. Please explain what is onerous about the obligations? Please explain how EU regulations enforced only with in EU borders is exceeding their remit? Your pitiful bleating fails to include, observe or use anything factual. You either (1) do not know or understand the GDPR of (2) you ar...
[14:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:34] <exec> 08└─If you export your x from the EU to a country with a different set of laws, then don't expect the EU laws to apply to what happens to the x. If X is a car, then folks would thing you are nuts to think the EU laws might apply. If X is your data, then why is it different? I can see that the EU can mak...
[14:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:36] <exec> 08└─No, go and read it again. If you keep personal data as specified in Article 3(2) and you wish to provide goods and services then you need to have a local representative. But, if you don't collect personal data, then there is no such requirement. If you only collect occasional data - such as a deliv...
[14:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:38] <exec> 08└─I can tell that you either have not read the GDPR or, if you did, you didn't understand it.
[14:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:11] <exec> 08└─So if Blue and X really wanted to get humanity safely off this planet, they would be working together. Instead, they are playing my thing is bigger than yours. It kind of limits the credibility of Blue's long term story.
[14:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:55] <exec> 08└─I loved it. "Commie fruitcups"?... that's just comical exaggeration. He's on the ball with this post. Customers who can't figure out if they're there for the ads or the content... Love it. Coz I remember that feeling. The feeling of possibilities, that the publication is working for you, not the adv...
[14:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:56] <exec> 08└─I'm not a pandora user, but I'm a computer user who understands that (thanks to a planet-load of asshats) most everything must be default deny. My speakers do not receive power, and therefore cannot make any sound, until I explicitly enable them by physically operating the volume knob. You offer som...
[14:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tuberculosis: Pharmacists Develop New Substance to Counteract Antimicrobial Resistance - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:56] <exec> 08└─This is becoming a problem for infectious diseases like tuberculosis as there are only a few active substances available to combat such diseases.
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[15:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:10] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. It's like 9/11 snipped everybody's balls off. The correct solution to school violence would involve a combination of better support for students and reducing access to the weapons being used in those attacks by restricting access to firearms whose primary use is killing other people. Bu...
[15:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 1976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:11] <exec> 08└─The scary thing about such surveillance is not that it exists, or that children might be born into it. It's that WE HAVE ALREADY ACCEPTED IT. Honestly, people have Amazon Echo in their living room listening to everything they say, uploading it to the cloud (even storing it there so Amazon and you ca...
[15:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:13] <exec> 08└─It's like 9/11 snipped everybody's balls off.
[15:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:16] <exec> 08└─Its pretty obvious the endgame is to have pervasive surveillance and restricting access to buying literally anything because weapons, or pollution, etc.
[15:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:18] <exec> 08└─You would kill hundreds of millions to save a couple hundred. Because feels. Typical woman solution. There's a reason why you belong chained in the basement.
[15:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:20] <exec> 08└─And the paradoxical thing is the older generation, who should have know better, mock [soylentnews.org] and curse [soylentnews.org] the Europeans for doing something to protect the privacy of their citizens.
[15:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:22] <exec> 08└─If the police are going to regularly use this system for domestic surveillance, that will surely drive a change to facial recognition algorithms. In a few years, expect that facial recognition of black men to be far better than that for white men, which is the opposite of the current situation. Sad...
[15:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:25] <exec> 08└─Typical khallow. Let's take a broad brush, soak it copiously in FUD and get to work under the guise of precaution.
[15:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:27] <exec> 08└─It's Europe. They pull this crap all the time.
[15:25:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:40] <exec> 08└─Yep, they are so grateful for being allowed into Europe.
[15:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:53] <exec> 08└─Wow, a shooting all the way in Belgium. And this is news because why?
[15:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:54] <exec> 08└─I've done my bit - it's your turn now
[15:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:56] <exec> 08└─Smartening up? /ducks
[15:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:59] <exec> 08└─What is mental illness here?
[15:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:01] <exec> 08└─But you know it now, aren't you? Would you mind to amend TFS with the new knowledge?
[15:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:03] <exec> 08└─Sociopathy What personality traits would attract a Western born convict to convert to Islam? Where else do we see anti-social behaviours?
[15:26:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:34] <exec> 08└─and yet the internet runs on linux servers, but the ones that are hacked the most are the remaining windows servers.
[15:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:36] <exec> 08└─All major GNU/Linux distributions for the desktop and server market can and are regularly maintained and updated. Even if a distro dies away, you can replace it with another one. A big slice of Android devices instead have long been left unpatched, a lot of Android smartphones and tablets do not get...
[15:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 1849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:12] <exec> 08└─>since the "haves" now can afford to spend $UBI more on basics Umm, no they don't. Where do you think the UBI funding comes from? You tax the "haves" so that at some point, probably not too terribly far into "have" territory, the additional taxes neutralize the additional income from the UBI. Basica...
[15:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:13] <exec> 08└─So basically, you are saying that providers' greed is what keeps certain fraction of population in permanent poverty?
[15:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:16] <exec> 08└─A no-money alternative was presented in the 1930s, ration joules equally and let a free market operate. Most "jobs" consume excess joules to build "wealth" in the form of money, ultimately to purchase a diminishing supply of future energy. Interesting how bitcoin parallels the doomed capitalist mode...
[15:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:18] <exec> 08└─The fall of Communism simply revealed the authoritarians who already existed.
[15:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:20] <exec> 08└─Rather, a Capitalist is someone who gains control of resources solely through voluntary interaction with others.
[15:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:35] <exec> 08└─You didn't answer the question. Runaway wasn't asking about the definition, but about how they know. As to the 1 in 1000 year event, what of stalled hurricanes (that is, very slow moving hurricanes)? They can dump a lot more than 6 inches in a very short period of time. And I bet any place in Maryl...
[15:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:37] <exec> 08└─You didn't answer the question. Runaway wasn't asking about the definition, but about how they know.
[15:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:39] <exec> 08└─WTF, that's the geometric distribution, not binomial. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Besides that, it also assumes that there is no correlation for the reasons behind any two floods and that the probability of a flood is exactly the same every year. If this is...
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[15:27:41] <exec> 08└─If so, would you mind to explain to Runaway how do you determine that N when you assume a binomial distribution and have a representative data set, even if you don't have the full 1000 years "population"?
[15:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:43] <exec> 08└─But I'll also note that weather is not a binomial distribution.
[15:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:46] <exec> 08└─so maybe, just maybe, there's actually some sense into it?
[15:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:02] <exec> 08└─I think a problem can be well defined as 'understood' when AI can change itself according to shifting goalpost without any external intervention. Right now the best solution out there pertaining to AI are based on neural networks (which, btw, I think is pretty neat in itself), if for any of those to...
[15:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:04] <exec> 08└─Chess is a finite problem that requires nothing but time to solve utterly. Most of life is not. And we're not talking competence here. Competence simply requires looking at what everyone else is doing and parroting or solving a problem given a sufficiently exhaustive input data set. Intuition is wha...
[15:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:04] <exec> 08└─There are a number of hits on "Sklyarov" when I do a search. Perhaps you could narrow it down? Like, maybe a first and last name? Approximate date? Which country? Without clicking on any of the links I found in the search, we have a Sklyarov at Chernobyl, another battling Adobe, another found vulner...
[15:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:06] <exec> 08└─You're making the same mistake the dimwit above did. Trade agreements I have no issue with but unilaterally declaring that other nations have to follow your laws is another.
[15:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:08] <exec> 08└─Not particularly, no. That's just how I speak when confronted by base stupidity.
[15:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 1721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:43] <exec> 08└─Blue Origin isn't "playing" on SpaceX's turf until New Glenn [wikipedia.org] launches. SpaceX isn't playing an ego game or dick waving contest with Blue Origin, they are just getting things done. SpaceX can't lose customers to Blue Origin until Blue Origin has the right rocket(s). Blue Origin could...
[15:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos Details Moon Settlement Ambitions in Interview - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:44] <exec> 08└─No, the earth is perfectly flat. The moon is the hollow body. That's where the lizard people broadcast the matrix from. Mountains, hills, and valleys are illusions created by the matrix. Presumably, the lizard person moon matrix also prevents the Shadow Object from being directory observed except du...
[15:32:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 1400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:52] <exec> 08└─"I have said over and over again that I was a faithful NPR listener for years, but if there is one thing this election proved, it's that even the classiest news outlets will resort to tabloid-style journalism and lower themselves to the level of crude ad-hominem attacks and otherwise exaggerated sen...
[15:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:47] <exec> 08└─How many percentage of men who commit suicide were incels? Makes me glad to know that this behaviour is limited to the 'developed' west. I actually had noticed this myself, that white men don't have friends. They either have girl friends or they are teetering close to death. Never knew people took p...
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[16:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:06] <exec> 08└─Men have beauty contests, too. Arnold Schwarzenegger one them many times; he won the "Mr. Universe" contest at age 20. And, you know what? Nobody tries to juxtapose those pageants with other areas of talent/skill, such as computer programming. Society is perfectly happy to recognize that there is a...
[16:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:07] <exec> 08└─Chinese Investor, Rwanda ink $1Billion Deal to Establish Electronics Factory [ktpress.rw]
[16:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:09] <exec> 08└─Strong, beautiful men tend not to be all that intelligent (though Arnold was both).
[16:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:11] <exec> 08└─Come on, mate. Military intelligence and Arnold intelligence is in the same league (grin)
[16:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:14] <exec> 08└─Come on, mate. Military intelligence and Arnold intelligence is in the same league (grin)
[16:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:16] <exec> 08└─It has already conducted more than five workshops, sharing terracing, irrigation, rice and mushroom growing techniques with more than 200 local farmers.
[16:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:34] <exec> 08└─Celebrities have their accounts hacked and their photos exposed and - as a civilisation - we're more interested in what they were saying...
[16:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:35] <exec> 08└─Like?
[16:25:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─Police sources quoted in local media said the man was heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest" in Arabic).
[16:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:08] <exec> 08└─Do you really want all the false assumptions bigots may make on the frontpage? That will be one huge summary....
[16:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:10] <exec> 08└─I've read a lot of anthropological and history books and papers (by non-religious people) that say that religion may be necessary for civilization. Also note a lot of of the modern anti-religion movement, starting in the 1600's, is anti-current dominant religions. Note how much new belief systems ar...
[16:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:12] <exec> 08└─So, uhhhhhh - dude walks up to TWO cops, STABS THEM BOTH, then takes their guns from them, and finally shoots them both. I'm thinking something like Darwin Awards here . . . WTF didn't either one of them shoot this shitbag before he got within range to cut them? The sumbitch screaming "Allahu Akbar"...
[16:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:14] <exec> 08└─Somebody getting shot while dressed up as Ronald McDonald, passing out printed pictures of the Goatse guy, while the wind is blowing from the south, without having cell phone - now THAT is unusual, but also not newsworthy for Soylentnews. There is no clickbait advertising quota that needs to be fill...
[16:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:16] <exec> 08└─Has been a pretty quiet ramadan-bombathon this year. Looks like Trump is achieving that campaign promise of ending terror.
[16:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:19] <exec> 08└─E's a fokkin Muzzi, mate?
[16:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:21] <exec> 08└─Have you noticed that Muzzi and Nazi sound alike?
[16:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Weekend's Academic Skateboarding Conference in London - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:30] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure mixing beer and skateboards is a good idea
[16:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Weekend's Academic Skateboarding Conference in London - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:32] <exec> 08└─This is a topic I personally researched back in my early teens. It turns out that it is exactly as bad an idea as most people would expect it to be.
[16:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:59] <exec> 08└─I watched it while the submission was still in the queue. I thought the video was pretty good. It exposes just how dirty MS is, as well as various politicians. The EU seems to have it's own revolving door, with people like Ajit Pai who are give free reign of government offices, in order to advance c...
[16:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:40] <exec> 08└─The fundamental flaw with antipoverty programs including UBI is they grossly underestimate the ingenuity of poor people in making terrible decisions. My prediction is that UBI would be a huge boon to the tote-the-note car industry as people took their newfound income and immediately converted it to...
[16:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:42] <exec> 08└─It is infuriating to see such vapid pontificating. It is beyond clear that a small section of humanity is getting ever richer while the vast majority find it harder and harder to survive. Assistance programs are all that holds us back from falling over the brink into revolution, yet useful fools con...
[16:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:44] <exec> 08└─The right question is did this cause the program to need to serve more or fewer folks?
[16:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:46] <exec> 08└─A bit of patience, only 10-15 years I'd say. At that time, you'll have to chose between Angel Adams' kids or immigration
[16:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:48] <exec> 08└─..... and there we have it. The right wing mindset that an idea is bad because a tiny, insignificant minority may abuse it.
[16:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:50] <exec> 08└─Right, antipoverty is important. All my pontificating said was that we should try to make it work and this 'study' isn't helping do that. Teach a man to fish and provide consequences to encourage him to do so.
[16:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:53] <exec> 08└─It will start with civil unrest from the destitute, move on to all-out uprisings and civil wars, causing ever increasing refugee streams, which put other countries' resources under unsustainable pressure, causing their populace to rise up, spreading the damage further and further. The resulting mayh...
[16:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:15] <exec> 08└─This is actually used by the insurance companies - they seems pretty good to make money from such a "non-sense", so maybe, just maybe, there's actually some sense into it? [...] Somehow, I don't expect the insurance companies to share this model with the rest of us.
[16:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:16] <exec> 08└─My post @Tuesday May 29, @08:01AM Yours @Tuesday May 29, @03:26PM Are you going to continue...
[16:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:19] <exec> 08└─I doubt they are making money by using the "binomial" (actually "geometric") distribution
[16:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:21] <exec> 08└─That depends. Do you understand the gist of my posts? The mathematics of the frequency of 1 in N events doesn't inform you of the size of the 1 in N event. Plus, we have here a confounding factor of the urbanization of the region and the building of large parts of the town on a flood plain. I thin...
[16:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:23] <exec> 08└─First of all, the 1/1000 years was referring to the "rainfall", not the flood: The National Weather Service's Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center (HDSC) has completed an exceedance probability analysis for this rainfall event, based on the rainfall estimates and observed data shown above. A li...
[16:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:25] <exec> 08└─See here for a start: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[16:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:28] <exec> 08└─Sincere thanks.
[16:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:30] <exec> 08└─someone found some details [soylentnews.org], you may want to check.
[16:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:56] <exec> 08└─I'd like to support your pedantry, but my eyes nearly rolled into the back of my skull trying to read your corrections. The same thing happens trying to describe how well an organism is adapted to a particular purpose without saying they were "designed" or that they "evolved" for that purpose (neith...
[16:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 2666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:51] <exec> 08└─You're looking at this as strictly a computational problem. It is not. Generalized intelligence is a synthesis of computational resources, sensing mechanisms that integrate a wide variety of input stimuli (smell, taste, touch, hearing, vision) which have complex and sophisticated systems for gatheri...
[16:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:52] <exec> 08└─Clippy is looking to rule the world!
[16:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Pravda: "'Rate My Professor' but for Journalists" - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:32] <exec> 08└─If a corporation is already formed with a President... then it is a real entity and it is not "floating" anything, is it? And if it's not a crackpot idea (though how one actually gets signal from that noise escapes me,) the name certainly is. Coming up next, the Konzentrationslager Center of Freedom...
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[17:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:06] <exec> 08└─Make America Great Again Immigration Forever? Glad those higher paying tech jobs are finally getting the premier US corporate treatment. I mean right? Stick it to those west coast elites!
[17:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:08] <exec> 08└─There's a dearth of workers => The demand for workers outstrips supply. Assuming it's not possible to reduce demand, there are only 2 solutions, which increase supply: ImmigrationIncreasing wages The Democrats are always blathering on about a "living wage". Well, logic gives us our answer: Stop immi...
[17:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:10] <exec> 08└─Low-skilled, low-paying jobs. Don't we have our own riff-raff lying around in the projects, with little more to do than get high and watch the tube? Put their asses to work!
[17:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─Compulsory military service was a thing. Drain bamage inevitable.
[17:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:24] <exec> 08└─https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3306/3601246826_65c25a3f52.jpg
[17:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure, I think he increased the IQ of both countries when he moved from Austria to the USA.
[17:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:28] <exec> 08└─I don't know. Phallus indusiatus, maybe? Not that the Africans need to grow their dick larger, but the mushroom already grows in Africa and the Chinese consider it an aphrodisiac.
[17:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:31] <exec> 08└─Society is perfectly happy to recognize that there is a mind/body duality for men:
[17:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:33] <exec> 08└─Why is this the first thing you come up with? Why is this triggering you so hard? And for the love of Sappho's size six stockings, WHY do you insist on making everything all about DA MENZ?!
[17:25:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 1976 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:43] <exec> 08└─The scary thing about such surveillance is not that it exists, or that children might be born into it. It's that WE HAVE ALREADY ACCEPTED IT. Honestly, people have Amazon Echo in their living room listening to everything they say, uploading it to the cloud (even storing it there so Amazon and you ca...
[17:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:55] <exec> 08└─You'd never know it, listening to a lot of the government, OR the male populace in general...I'm reminded of that Robin Williams sketch where he says "God gave men a brain, and a penis, and only enough blood to operate one at a time."
[17:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:57] <exec> 08└─Why would it need to work well? It'll let them into homes without a warrant based on a verbal assertion that there was a match. False positives give them cover if there is any scrutiny.
[17:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:36] <exec> 08└─Are they barbarians because of the race, religion or nationality? There are millions of humans, Muslims and Asians who are just like you and I. No matter, because your prejudice is irrelevant
[17:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:38] <exec> 08└─Police sources quoted in local media said the man was heard shouting "Allahu Akbar"
[17:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:40] <exec> 08└─He was domestically grown. If you want more, just keep putting people in jail.
[17:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:42] <exec> 08└─No. Let the idiotic bigots who jump to conclusions without facts *out themselves*, and then look stupid in the harsh light of day. Those who stand up and say "OK, you got me, I'm racist" at least will have the smallest iota of my respect for their honesty. Radicalisation in prisons works on those wi...
[17:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:44] <exec> 08└─It's not "cannot," it's WILL NOT. Don't you get it? VLM, Entropy, and others of their ilk have already made up their minds (and I use the term loosely...) about "those people." They are not interested in reality. They have an axe to grind and by Cthulhu they *will* grind it. Best thing to do is make...
[17:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:47] <exec> 08└─Who did the converting? It seems we've introduced a mind virus with unusually awful outcomes. Quarantine them all.
[17:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:49] <exec> 08└─You describe a stupid scenario and then your first question is "Were they stupid"? Didn't it cross your mind that a more rational explanation is likely [sky.com]? Officials say he approached the officers, aged 45 and 53, from behind and stabbed them repeatedly before taking their handguns and shooti...
[17:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:51] <exec> 08└─If this deadly mind-virus has infected Belgians, then they are as undesirable as people with ebola. It's nothing personal. You're just too damn hazardous for civilization.
[17:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps he didn't call out until he had stabbed both of the policewomen from behind, at which time they were possibly unable to prevent him taking the weapons. After all, if you are lying on the ground dying then holding on to your weapon might not be your top priority. Watch many films, do you? Of...
[17:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:56] <exec> 08└─You've heard the term, "situational awareness"? That term is what keeps a motorcyclist alive, when all the 4-wheelers on the road seem intent on murdering him. These cops? They allowed a nut case to sneak up on them? I still ask, WTF?
[17:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:58] <exec> 08└─Criminals in prison should be denied: 1. contact with criminals other than self 2. books that advocate violence 3. time in the presence of a lone prison worker (who might be corrupt) Somebody fucked up. There should be no exceptions to the above. At least the first two were violated.
[17:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:00] <exec> 08└─We have the most relevant facts already. Nut case approached two cops, and took them out. This resembles a classic Native American ambush. A dozen soldiers, gazing into their campfire, while the Indians sneak into position. If/when the soldiers finally sense something out of place, they are blinded...
[17:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:24] <exec> 08└─A no-money alternative was presented in the 1930s, ration joules equally and let a free market operate.
[17:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:25] <exec> 08└─Just one problem here: how do you stop the less-financially-savvy part of the population from immediately blowing their UBI allotment on drugs or luxuries or gambling? Straight up giving people cash money is not the way to do this. There needs to be at minimum something like EBT cards for UBI, with...
[17:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:28] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing that's because you WANT a reason to believe it can't work. "Haves" by definition can already afford all the basics they need, why would they buy more? Are you saying that if you got a check for UBI every month, you would eat twice as much as you do now? Does that even make sense to you?...
[17:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:30] <exec> 08└─The 1/3 thing is a rule of thumb. If you're too stupid as a business owner to realize that an increase in wages need only result in raising prices to cover the actual increase, you deserve to be beaten by those who can figure that out. I guess you must have determined that market forces have failed...
[17:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 4694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:00] <exec> 08└─Ok, well figuring out where exactly these numbers came from looks like it is not possible in a reasonable time frame (and maybe not possible at at all): 3.3 Approach The approach used in this project largely follows the regional frequency analysis using the method of L-moments described in Hosking a...
[17:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:02] <exec> 08└─Same AC. Another general takeway here is these estimates are coming from models that are totally statistical. There is no physics going on here at all, which I didn't expect. I really expected them to take into account elements of the local water cycle, etc. It looks more like if you plugged in data...
[17:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03What planet is this [5031] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:25] <exec> 08└─Why not augment human intelligence with computers instead. Think being able to almost instantly call up any and all info or data you can imagine and having a computers ability to sort and use the relevant bits to accomplish your task. Fun stuff like learning to fly a helicopter in The Matrix. Load i...
[17:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:28] <exec> 08└─I've seen a few websites that detect but don't like my tracker blockers. I have no sympathy. Sometimes they prevent me from seeing the page. ctrl-w.
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[18:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:19] <exec> 08└─"A range of businesses—including fisheries, landscapers and those in summer tourist spots—have complained about worker shortages" fuck those businesses. they deserve to be burned to the ground by angry poor americans. when i was young i would have taken any manual labor job that paid a half way...
[18:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:21] <exec> 08└─People who are willing to move to a foreign country for low-skilled, low-paying jobs are guaranteed to have high work-ethic.
[18:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:23] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't that there are low-quality people; the problem is that low-quality people reproduce, and they tend to do so prodigiously.
[18:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:25] <exec> 08└─Bringing more people in on short term visas is nonsense. Most of the illegal immigrants here today didn't get here by sneaking over the border at night. They got here legally with various kinds of visas then just didn't leave. I don't agree with the administration on its policies about immigrants in...
[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─Those people were able to stay, because the executive branches of these United States didn't execute the law.
[18:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:30] <exec> 08└─... but only because of the comparatively high wage compared to their home country. Moving abroad, living frugally and repatriating a portion of their take home pay makes economic sensed given its buying power in the countries likely to provide migrant workers. Local worker will never see a comparab...
[18:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:32] <exec> 08└─Amazing! [soylentnews.org]
[18:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:34] <exec> 08└─And you bigoted fucks will get your day in hell. A bad day to you sir.
[18:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:37] <exec> 08└─The Democrats are always blathering on about a "living wage". Well, logic gives us our answer: Stop immigration.
[18:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:39] <exec> 08└─Amazing! [soylentnews.org]
[18:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:41] <exec> 08└─Our country is one of only a handful in the world that is still crazy enough to give citizenship to any kid born there. This is a vulnerability. The solution is eunuchs. They can't reproduce. Saudi Arabia did it for centuries. Lots of black Africans were brought over to work there, but notice that t...
[18:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:00] <exec> 08└─i'm happy for anyone to learn a new skill but these types of programs disgust me. just because there is a majority of a certain group doesn't mean that's a bad thing. diversity is not necessarily better in every circumstance and even if it is in a a given circumstance if funds are being diverted or...
[18:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:01] <exec> 08└─Why is this triggering you so hard? Oh how flagrantly they exhibit all those "SJW" traits they accuse others of.
[18:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:03] <exec> 08└─Those qualities are not correlated at all.
[18:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:05] <exec> 08└─Society tends to associate masculine good looks with competence and leadership, even when it's absent. That's how your muscleman actor got elected governor of California.
[18:26:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:13] <exec> 08└─A whole generation is growing up completely internalizing the fact that total surveillance is normal. 1984 is edging closer and closer - because that's the real message of this book: freedom dies when people truly accept and welcome servitude.
[18:26:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:15] <exec> 08└─A whole generation is growing up completely internalizing the fact that total surveillance is normal.
[18:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:29] <exec> 08└─these fucking "schools" don't even bother to lock the fucking doors but i'm supposed to give away my right to defend my homestead? and most people aren't scared after 9/11. they are just too stupid. they think that giving the government more power(even when they are the ones that fucked things up to...
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[18:27:21] <exec> 08└─Anti-muslim emigration rants are still 100% appropriate. It isn't the fact that many of them come from foreign lands that matters. It's the fact that they are here. We don't want the ones we have. (they need to go) Adding more makes the infestation worse. You want peace? It won't happen as long as w...
[18:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:22] <exec> 08└─The gun could be used to finish you off. Alternately, you could use it to stop the attack. I think much of the problem is "policewomen". Why did we decide that this is sane? There should be physical standards unlikely to be passed by women and by anybody over the age of 40. As a starting point: the...
[18:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:24] <exec> 08└─Let's just start with acknowledging, which will help.
[18:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you can actually explain to the "science followers" that they're wrong about something. All you need to do is use facts and logic. Calling it a "religion" just because people are beginning to understand why it's so important is disingenuous.
[18:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:29] <exec> 08└─When are we going to smarten up and treat religion like a mental illness? Many of us would be fine if that applied to all religions. Unfortunately, in the real world, religion only seems to come up when the shooter is brown. That white supremacist, who is more likely to kill you in a terrorist attac...
[18:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right, I get it. You a living in a perpetual state of war. Or on a motorcycle at full speed.
[18:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:33] <exec> 08└─Nonono, padded walls. Why he gets internet privileges is beyond me.
[18:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:35] <exec> 08└─don't be a douche. they were probably walking the beat in the ice cream district or some shit. they didn't know a wanna-be goat fucker would sneak up and stab them.
[18:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:38] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, seems like the perfect candidate for a false flag op. Gotta keep those people scared of the brown people! That is slightly sarcastic, but it really does seem like there is a desire for war. You can see it here with the fuckheads trolling for genocide already. Look at that evil over there! Don'...
[18:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:14] <exec> 08└─from the chair-throwing department
[18:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:16] <exec> 08└─I watched it when it aired. I definitely was not bored. Of course that was the German version, so I cannot say anything about the quality of the English translation.
[18:28:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 1849 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:52] <exec> 08└─>since the "haves" now can afford to spend $UBI more on basics Umm, no they don't. Where do you think the UBI funding comes from? You tax the "haves" so that at some point, probably not too terribly far into "have" territory, the additional taxes neutralize the additional income from the UBI. Basica...
[18:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:08] <exec> 08└─That is in part due to mechanization and exporting jobs, and in part because current programs are designed to pull the rug out from under people just as they reach the threshold of not needing them anymore.
[18:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:10] <exec> 08└─Greed isn't involved, but monetary inflation is.
[18:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:12] <exec> 08└─yes, you can't have parts of the economy be controlled and other parts not. you either need total control or none. i vote none.
[18:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:14] <exec> 08└─The 1/3 thing is a rule of thumb.
[18:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:16] <exec> 08└─revolution? lmao! these motherfuckers can't even grow vegetables. they have to be fed like pets. i'm real scared.
[18:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:48] <exec> 08└─And the make things extra-fun, the current administration is working hard to roll back the regulations that basically ask people to not build in the places where Federal flood insurance is going to pay to rebuild there over and over and over...
[18:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:49] <exec> 08└─The important thing here is that there is some distribution being used, with the data being fit to it, leading to probability estimates about possible flood levels. Let's assume the model uses the appropriate distribution. Does the model get updated, though? For instance, if a farm upstream were to...
[18:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:13] <exec> 08└─I think a problem can be well defined as 'understood' when AI can change itself according to shifting goalpost without any external intervention.
[18:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:14] <exec> 08└─Example...say the solution is "no one can have more than $100,000 in total assets, and the world will be 'its best'.
[18:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:17] <exec> 08└─Still better than AC.
[18:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:19] <exec> 08└─Chess is a finite problem that requires nothing but time to solve utterly.
[18:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:21] <exec> 08└─Competence simply requires looking at what everyone else is doing and parroting or solving a problem given a sufficiently exhaustive input data set. Intuition is what handles everything else.
[18:31:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 785 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:41] <exec> 08└─EU is not blocking anyone about GDPR. But some sites may block EU IPs for whatever reason, from not being compliant, not wanting to test if they are, not wanting to get into legal trouble down the road or even trying to lobby EU (to keep on with "let's data rape our visitors" tactics) by means of ba...
[18:32:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snospar [5366] 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 1458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:04] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised to see so much hate for this regulation. All GDPR is asking is for companies to be responsible with the private details they collect and store and to give back some control of that data to the individual. I can ask for companies to supply me with a record of all the information they ho...
[18:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:25] <exec> 08└─If you only collect occasional data - such as a delivery address etc then there is also another clause saying that you do not have to comply the local representative requirement
[18:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ravioli-Like Shapes of Saturn's Small Moons Due to Low Impact Angle Collisions - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:53] <exec> 08└─I think most cosmology and astronomy headlines need to end in one more word "Probably". Mars Had Lakes And Rivers Probably. The Moon Was Created After A Mars Sized Object Impacted Earth Probably. Ravioli-Like Shapes of Saturn's Small Moons Due to Low Impact Angle Collisions Probably.
[18:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:48] <exec> 08└─you do realise that the low res. highly compressed jpeg, weighing in at something like 10KB perhaps, will be placed on the page by 500KB of javascript libraries.
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[19:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Interesting) 02 - 06USB Reverse Engineering: Down the Rabbit Hole - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:09] <exec> 08└─Reverse-engineering proprietary hardware is a losing battle. The only long-term solution is to put energy into these 2 independent actions: Rejecting proprietary hardware; even if it's the only useful solution, you've got to reject it on principle. Cultivating libre hardware; even if it's badly impl...
[19:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB Reverse Engineering: Down the Rabbit Hole - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:11] <exec> 08└─You don't say? What and incomprehensible brain-fart.
[19:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:32] <exec> 08└─Where the hell is the resistance??! Fucking Disney/Sony boycotts are more effective!
[19:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:33] <exec> 08└─If they can't find workers for unskilled jobs and have to resort to temps on visas it means that the offered wages are too low.. Remember these are jobs anyone can do...no 'skills shortage' here.. Pay more, and they'll get Americans able and willing to do this work.. Sheesh, no wonder wages never go...
[19:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:36] <exec> 08└─When I was young, I was too young to be legally hired by a company, so I started my own landscaping business. Cost of entry is very low, much lower today than what it was 30 years ago by about 4x inflation adjusted, plus I could, do in fact, make a living wage. Well at least I am living fine. Today...
[19:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:38] <exec> 08└─Frame it as systemic discrimination against African Americans (since it sort of is that as many of these jobs would have otherwise gone to them)..that may work..
[19:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 2538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:40] <exec> 08└─There is no worker shortage. The corporations have cooked and fudged the numbers in various ways to create a deceptive illusion that there is. Most decline in unemployment is due to workers giving up and going on welfare permanently. This is evidence by the growth in welfare programs and the lack of...
[19:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:42] <exec> 08└─Government has outlawed children from being employees, so children have a hard time learning how to become productive members of society. Thanks, Obama.
[19:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:45] <exec> 08└─I look out my window and see all kinds of jobs that I can do without the need for a third party corporation. If you, or they, can't, well..."I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species."
[19:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:47] <exec> 08└─Right, cause there are enough lawns for everyone to hop on this business plan. Hello jackass, welcome to your failing country which platitudes and boot-strapping can't fix.
[19:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:49] <exec> 08└─Lie? You know that Trump uses H2-B workers are Mar-a-Lago, right? This is just more self-dealing from the most corrupt administration in (recent?) history.
[19:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 3340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:51] <exec> 08└─My son is a high quality person and I applaud his transparency. We're building our beautiful Border Wall, very quickly. And it's transparent too. You have to be able to see through it. As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side o...
[19:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:54] <exec> 08└─Send them to Alaska. My friend made enough in the summers to fully pay their college tuition and graduated debt free. They said it was very hard work, but the company paid everything including room and board and travel.
[19:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:56] <exec> 08└─Oh, I thought you were going to suggest deporting the unemployed ...
[19:26:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:12] <exec> 08└─Society is perfectly happy to recognize that there is a mind/body duality for men:
[19:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:18] <exec> 08└─it's not a shameful thing if women are in general more physically impressive than mentally impressive.
[19:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:21] <exec> 08└─Per numerous online sources, he was tested at 135, which makes him a bit slow compared to me, but pretty smart compared to the average Rwandan which is claimed to be 70. That's kinda the problem with "the Next Einstein" concept in Africa... someone 60 points smarter than the average white dude is in...
[19:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:23] <exec> 08└─Smart, thinking men tend to be awkward or downright unattractive physically
[19:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:25] <exec> 08└─Get it yet? You fools always go from collective statistics to individual characteristics. Idiots.
[19:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:48] <exec> 08└─its not too late to reject some of the conveniences. rioting in the streets didnt happen when Snowden made his big reveal. but there is too much money in selling this shit to the government to allow for widespread media reporting on discontent, although the widespread reporting on the discontent is...
[19:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:49] <exec> 08└─Do you own an Android phone? It's no different than Amazon Echo in all surveillance respects. In fact, it's worse because it travels with you when the Echo stays stationary. I balked at buying an Echo, and then realized I had already openly and willingly accepted the surveillance state.
[19:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:51] <exec> 08└─A whole generation is growing up completely internalizing the fact that total surveillance is normal.
[19:27:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:07] <exec> 08└─Do your duty and post other link and more info - I grew tired of offtopic anti-muslim emigration rants: The dead shooter, 36, was named locally as Benjamin Herman, from Rochefort, a city about an hour from Liege. He was well-known to police after a string of crimes including robbery, assault and dru...
[19:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:52] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter. The native losers are being used by the Islamists who shouldn't even be in country. White people have a right to exist without being murdered or bred out of existence by other races. It's fat, brain washed sacks of shit like you that let it happen.
[19:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:53] <exec> 08└─Hint: Islam isn't a race or a nationality. Until every person on the planet has enough basic common sense/education to not believe in man-made imaginary sky fairies that command their followers to kill others, this will always be a thing. I'm not holding my breath.
[19:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:33] <exec> 08└─"Freedom/openness of source or level of price is no protection - heartbleed and shellshock are ample proof of that." bs. heartbleed just proves that the transition to Free Software is going too slowly. Then free software wouldn't be so dependent on the leaching dinosaurs of the industry. it's true t...
[19:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:29] <exec> 08└─how do you stop the less-financially-savvy part of the population from immediately blowing their UBI allotment on drugs or luxuries or gambling?
[19:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:31] <exec> 08└─Most poor people are not actually bad at managing money. The few that are so bad at managing money that they would blow their UBI on alcohol or lottery tickets such that they starve by definition have an addiction problem and the solution is better mental health services, not overly complicated cont...
[19:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:33] <exec> 08└─The problem is, nobody has culled the right people to make this work. You can't just go around killing people indiscriminately and expect to prosper; you have to kill just the right people in order for it to work. Okay, so now what? Oh, yeah: make me your leader and I will provide you with the list...
[19:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:07] <exec> 08└─It's an estimate of the probability based on that data available at the time it was calculated. It's also highly rounded. You don't see reports of "it's a 1 in 997 year flood". The numbers aren't updated as frequently as they should be, but even if they were you shouldn't take them that seriously......
[19:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:08] <exec> 08└─yeah, the "news" showed feet of water rushing down main street. that water didn't just come from some light rain shower. something goddamn overflowed. why the presstitutes don't bother mentioning what all the fat leaches in various bureaucracies have been doing all this time or where these damn yank...
[19:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:36] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the correct language is mathematical. It would be as friendly to most people as a block of assembler code to an unknown CPU. Even experts have trouble following the feedback loops involved. And even Haldane got things wrong because of that. People tend to think in terms of causal agen...
[19:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:43] <exec> 08└─dude you're smart but this was disappointing tell us why you dont like it the fact that so many news organizations voluntarily blocked readership tells me that... their busines model is predicated on privacy violation of some kind. otherwise they wouldnt have a problem. i have a problem with privacy...
[19:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:44] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter what occasional means - read it again to see if the data that you hold is in any way restricted by the GDPR. I think that you'll find it isn't as long as you take reasonable precautions to protect it.
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[20:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:10] <exec> 08└─Nice, the topic of abortion again. Que all the drooling idiots that think they know what is absolutely right for everyone because they are sure they read something about a magic sky man not liking it in some ~2000 year old book of gibberish while reading out of the left corner of their eye, standing...
[20:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:11] <exec> 08└─gewg writes: Al Jazeera reports
[20:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:13] <exec> 08└─Don't also assume that what's best for me is to fund other people's abortions. That is, by your own logic, you should reject the notion that the State should pay for abortion services, or for complications caused by such services. Sure: "My body, my choice". But also: "My choice, my wallet". Similar...
[20:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:16] <exec> 08└─You know, because that's what the creator of the Universe desperately desires. So, take their "analysis" with that in mind.
[20:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB Reverse Engineering: Down the Rabbit Hole - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:26] <exec> 08└─If you intend to build non-proprietary, open USB hardware, protocol analysis of your own hardware is a must. Further, it is educational and almost necessary to study the work of others.
[20:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB Reverse Engineering: Down the Rabbit Hole - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:28] <exec> 08└─The way you use the words 'got' and 'and' are incomprehensible. USB is the ubiquitous modern serial interface. For similar reasons that some (in the past) have created custom serial cables with LEDs to monitor RS232C, some people are interested in monitoring USB traffic.
[20:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06USB Reverse Engineering: Down the Rabbit Hole - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:30] <exec> 08└─FTFA: What originally started out as me wanting to dump a few links I was collecting as I read into this subject, we seem to have ended up with a rough reference guide to getting started on AllTheThings(tm) relating to USB reverse engineering and associated hardware hacking.
[20:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:03] <exec> 08└─All the Republican railing about immigration is BS. It always has been. And you can tell that when they're perfectly fine with deporting lots of people with big fanfare and expense while at the same time quietly importing other people to replace the folks they've deported, all while the companies wh...
[20:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:04] <exec> 08└─My semi skilled, non-English speaking neighbor makes $500/day in construction.
[20:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:07] <exec> 08└─FTFS you illiterate clod: "A range of businesses—including ... landscapers"
[20:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:09] <exec> 08└─It was decades before Obama, Carter I think. I calculated last week that, inflation adjusted, I made over $17k before I was old enough to work.
[20:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:11] <exec> 08└─And by opposing assistance with birth control, the GOP demonstrates that it wants that prodigious reproduction to continue.
[20:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:13] <exec> 08└─Bigoted? Look around you! Sorry but there is some truth in what he says....
[20:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:16] <exec> 08└─Lots of bigots trying to convince themselves that race/culture isnt their problem. We keep trying to pretend racism is mostly just a shadowy past, but as the latest scandal with Roseanne Barr shows it is alive well.
[20:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:18] <exec> 08└─Globalists come in both flavors, R and D. There are at least some republicans who oppose hoards of 3rd-worlders. Where are the democrats who do?
[20:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:44] <exec> 08└─Your duality does not exist: Smart people don't have to be ugly, beautiful people don't have to be dumb. Those qualities are not correlated at all.
[20:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:11] <exec> 08└─mock [soylentnews.org] and curse [soylentnews.org] the Europeans for doing something to protect the privacy of their citizens.
[20:27:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:33] <exec> 08└─When are we going to smarten up and treat religion like a mental illness?
[20:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:14] <exec> 08└─Hey don't speak for me. I think ALL religious people should be considered as both dangerous and at least mentally deficient if not outright mentally ill, and treated as such. Definately including Christians.
[20:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:15] <exec> 08└─You've heard the term, "situational awareness"?
[20:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:18] <exec> 08└─Fuck you and your kind. Fucking waste of skin.
[20:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 2114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:20] <exec> 08└─Never. As not all mental illness is harmful to others, sometimes quite the opposite - some of the most respected creative literary, artistic, and musical talents have had mental illnesses - some, many, severe enough to lead to their own suicide. And similarly, not all religions are harmful to others...
[20:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:22] <exec> 08└─Everyone gets lulled into complacency by the general state of peace and the everyday. People form habits and patterns based on those realities, and attackers recognize that and exploit it. Even when individuals have been specifically trained to react as you describe, and they find themselves in a si...
[20:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:24] <exec> 08└─Add? Belgians have always been on my list of undesirable people. Frickin' Belgians.
[20:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:26] <exec> 08└─Barbarians from barbaric cultures? Actually, those people invented civilization. They were civilized when Europeans were scratching their fleas amid filth. Before even Rome ever had its roads the Persian Empire already had highways. Now, do Europeans want to invite an Islamic population into their m...
[20:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:29] <exec> 08└─As a recent convert maybe he wasn't prepared for how hangry he got during the fast.
[20:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:31] <exec> 08└─We are all "those people." Shockingly few of us are truly interested in reality. Most of us swim along hoping others accept the gloss we put on the world.
[20:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:33] <exec> 08└─Shared narratives that frame events and facts in a matrix of meaning are universal to mankind and rather hard-wired into the human brain. So good luck with that.
[20:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:35] <exec> 08└─Fricking Belgians! Signed: Dr. Evil [True fact: Belgians sell little chocolate arms cut off of Congolese, in celebration of their colonial greatness. That and Goldmember.]
[20:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:38] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, in the real world, religion only seems to come up when the shooter is brown. That white supremacist, who is more likely to kill you in a terrorist attack if you live in the US, never gets his religion questioned.
[20:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:40] <exec> 08└─Then I am dangerous and mentally deficient and mentally ill. Just like Mets fans.
[20:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:42] <exec> 08└─Compared to the rest of the world, the USA doesn't have a problem with gun control. There is a bit in states like California, Maryland, Hawaii, and Massachusetts. The rest of us have freedom, more or less.
[20:29:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 872 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:48] <exec> 08└─Because in the present you and others investment-owners and the would-be occupier-owners compete on the number of properties on the market and drive the price up. Since the occupier-owner does not derive an income from the property (e.g. rent), their power to negotiate loans with the bank is lower t...
[20:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:57] <exec> 08└─The town appears to have had many floods [wikipedia.org]: "Ellicott City has had major devastating floods in 1817, 1837, 1868,[58] 1901, 1917, 1923, 1938, 1942, 1952, 1956, 1972 (Hurricane Agnes), 1975 (Hurricane Eloise), 1989, 2011, 2016, and 2018"
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[21:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:15] <exec> 08└─Don't also assume that what's best for me is to fund other people's abortions. You don't. Problem solved.
[21:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:17] <exec> 08└─Gotta love that phrase "by your logic". It is a guarantee that what follows totally misses the original point.
[21:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:19] <exec> 08└─And not a single soul was lost.
[21:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:21] <exec> 08└─Sure, you can earmark tax monies to go to Planned Parenthood's pap smears program, but that doesn't stop Planned Parenthood from undercharging for abortions and overcharging for pap smears, thereby effectively subsidizing abortions instead. Seriously, you people are as dumb as a pile of bricks.
[21:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:23] <exec> 08└─It is a guarantee that what follows totally misses the original point.
[21:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:26] <exec> 08└─It was a tradition for every teenage Irish girl to "holiday" in London for her first abortion. Guess they're about to lose some tourist euros.
[21:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:28] <exec> 08└─What was traditional for the second one?
[21:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:30] <exec> 08└─See: Que all the drooling idiots [who] think they know what is absolutely right for everyone because they are sure they read something about a genius Jewish professor of Women's Studies proving abortions are a public good in a 30-year-old dissertation of gibberish...
[21:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:33] <exec> 08└─Medicare reimbursement rates. PP can't just charge what it likes. You are the idiot.
[21:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:35] <exec> 08└─Hopefully by then they've got a decent job and can afford to go somewhere with a better climate as well as abortion clinics.
[21:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:37] <exec> 08└─Clinic I think she was raped but didn't ask She was overcome with grief When she was in with the doctor I dashed out and bought her a teddy bear
[21:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:39] <exec> 08└─Gotta love that phrase ""Gotta love that phrase "Gotta love that phrase"" It guarantees that the entire discussion devolves to a pointless pedantic meta-discussion and eventually generates a stack overflow. :P
[21:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:41] <exec> 08└─Now, Planned Parenthood can say "We just charge the mandated rate!" Of course, health care in the U.S. is so inflated because everything is overcharged (due to such governmental meddling). The result is that money can be shifted pretty much anywhere without anyone being able to call people out. Furt...
[21:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:44] <exec> 08└─When she was in with the doctor I dashed out and bought her a teddy bear
[21:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:46] <exec> 08└─No, stackoverflow is a USEFUL site! Don't besmirch its good name.
[21:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:48] <exec> 08└─Don't also assume that what's best for me is to fund other people's religions. Seems to me that the church exemption from taxes does precisely that. Don't also assume that what's best for me is to fund people who can't afford to pay for their own health insurance. Don't also assume that what's...
[21:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:51] <exec> 08└─Rather, cue in the virtue signalling. That's not going to happen, and you know it, SN doesn't appeal to religious fundamentalists.
[21:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:53] <exec> 08└─Defund the Pentagon, NSA, FBI, CIA, DEA, etc. and then we can talk about the chump change that Planned Parenthood gets. You are much more likely to see funding for Planned Parenthood get axed anyway since it's an evangelical cause célèbre these days.
[21:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:55] <exec> 08└─SOCIALIST PIG! Oh wait, I'm not an idiot. Good job :D
[21:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:57] <exec> 08└─an organization that is hell-bent on providing abortions on quasi-religious grounds
[21:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:00] <exec> 08└─Now, Planned Parenthood can say "We just charge the mandated rate!" Of course, health care in the U.S. is so inflated because everything is overcharged (due to such governmental meddling). The result is that money can be shifted pretty much anywhere without anyone being able to call people out. Furt...
[21:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:02] <exec> 08└─Just yet another unexpected consequence of Brexit! Unify Ireland!!!
[21:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:04] <exec> 08└─... When the constitutional amendment to instate the ban was voted on in 1983, 66.9 percent voted "yes," and 33.1 percent voted "no". I just can't understand why, in the late 20th century, people would vote to have less control over their on lives, and less choice? Maybe it was 100% of the men...
[21:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:06] <exec> 08└─One person's rationale is often another person's religious nuttery. If you're forcing people at the point of a gun to pay a tithe to fund your plans, then your ideas might well be a manifestation of such nuttery.
[21:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:09] <exec> 08└─Now, Planned Parenthood can say "We just charge the mandated rate!" Of course, health care in the U.S. is so inflated because everything is overcharged (due to such governmental meddling). The result is that money can be shifted pretty much anywhere without anyone being able to call people out. Furt...
[21:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:11] <exec> 08└─I encourage you to pursue your line of thinking further. After all, would it not be a noble goal to work towards a society in which, as much as possible, it isn't necessary to force people to pay for things against their will? Put another way: Are you suggesting Mussolini's view? "Everything in the...
[21:26:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:51] <exec> 08└─Lie? You know that Trump uses H2-B workers are Mar-a-Lago, right? This is just more self-dealing from the most corrupt administration in (recent?) history.
[21:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:05] <exec> 08└─Amazing! [soylentnews.org]
[21:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:06] <exec> 08└─Amazing that you keep reposting. Get a fucking life.
[21:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:08] <exec> 08└─You yourself pointed it out, but seem blind to it at the same time: Poverty leads to low quality people, which has a vicious cycle of loss of hope, lack of education, parents too tired and stressed to raise their children properly, etc.
[21:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:10] <exec> 08└─What makes sense is assisted sterilization. Tax breaks for a tube tie?
[21:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:12] <exec> 08└─That's more or less the premise of the movie Idiocracy. Although it's low "IQ" not low "quality", and not confined to any particular race or group in the movie.
[21:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:15] <exec> 08└─I don't suppose we could offer to buy them contraception or abortions....? Asking for a friend....
[21:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:17] <exec> 08└─No. You don't understand the working class if your offer is fucking tax breaks. Try subsidizing. Free access. No questions asked. Oh, but here comes either the D team or the R team, depending on whether it was the R team or D team that proposed it: OMG HITLER GENOCIDE!
[21:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:19] <exec> 08└─We keep trying to pretend racism is mostly just a shadowy past
[21:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:21] <exec> 08└─Done. Everybody satisfied.
[21:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:24] <exec> 08└─Disney boycotts? I'm assuming you're referring to the seriously underwhelming opening of Solo. I'm not so sure those boycotts were as effective as all that. While there have been countless calls for boycotts due to SJW politics injected, disjointed storytelling, crummy character development, calli...
[21:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:51] <exec> 08└─Society is perfectly happy to recognize that there is a mind/body duality for men: Strong, beautiful men tend not to be all that intelligent (though Arnold was both).
[21:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:18] <exec> 08└─Okay, let's analyze this. Now: Potential shooter looks over pistols, rifles, shotguns, some of which are cool-looking assault weapons. "I'll use that one!" (points at cool-looking assault weapon). Many people die. Then, we implement your solution measure: reducing access to the weapons being used in...
[21:28:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:36] <exec> 08└─Are they barbarians because of the race, religion or nationality? There are millions of humans, Muslims and Asians who are just like you and I. No matter, because your prejudice is irrelevant: he was a Belgian who was born there. I suppose you ought now to add 'Belgians' to your list of undesirable...
[21:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:36] <exec> 08└─Oh my goodness would historians of science beg to differ with you on that! Do a little reading on the theory of ether, then come back and tell us again how willing scientists are to accept ideas that are contrary to their beliefs. It's OK that you come back chastened. Many have a notion of science s...
[21:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:37] <exec> 08└─In a dense city a killer can approach nearly anyone. Perhaps the officers should not be close to others... unless they were ordered to patrol there. Also consider this: Sergeant Dennis Tueller, of the Salt Lake City, Utah Police Department wondered how quickly an attacker with a knife could cover 2...
[21:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:16] <exec> 08└─Your comment shows great wisdom (and empathy). Azuma's comment and the tack of the story is, IMO, headed in the wrong direction. In the 1930s, John Maynard Keynes advised President Roosevelt to make the federal government The Employer of Last Resort and to put people, idled by boom-and-bust Capitali...
[21:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:54] <exec> 08└─From the other post [soylentnews.org]: At time durations of 5 minutes to 3 hours, the observed rainfall at the Ellicott City gauge has a probability of occurrence of less than or equal to 1/1000. This does not mean this extreme rainfall will only occur once in a thousand years. However, it is a rare...
[21:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plants Repeatedly Got Rid of Their Ability to Obtain Their Own Nitrogen - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:22] <exec> 08└─To be honest, both of you guys tend to be assholes. Go get a room, or take it outside, or anywhere else but here. None of us is better of with you squabbling on this site.
[21:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Various US News Websites Blocked as Europe's GDPR Data Privacy Law Goes Into Effect - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:32] <exec> 08└─"The bizarre thing is not the US's paranoia about governments (quite justified), but the US's lack of paranoia about the alternative: big business and lawyers who are less accountable and transparent than government (and usually tell the government what to do anyway)." sure, but the reason being; de...
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MX Tools: A Year Later, the Toolbox Got Better - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:47] <exec> 08└─yeppers...
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[22:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Magical Cosplay Gun Fights Off Evil With An LED Fan - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:05] <exec> 08└─I didn't see the LED mechanism for the persistence of vision effect. Are they flexible and spin out of the cylinder when they start spinning? that would be cool.
[22:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Magical Cosplay Gun Fights Off Evil With An LED Fan - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:07] <exec> 08└─That appears to be the case. If you look quite closely, you can occasionally see the spinning blades catch the ambient light.
[22:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Magical Cosplay Gun Fights Off Evil With An LED Fan - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:09] <exec> 08└─The video has to be watched, because I swear it's close to CGI. I can barely see the LEDs whipping about, and the effect is spot on.
[22:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Magical Cosplay Gun Fights Off Evil With An LED Fan - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:11] <exec> 08└─These are the vids in question, right? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Could the device cut off some kawaii cosplayer's fingers if used incorrectly?
[22:25:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:30] <exec> 08└─Medicare reimbursement rates. PP can't just charge what it likes. You are the idiot.
[22:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:48] <exec> 08└─That's not an argument for funding Planned Parenthood. You'll be sad to note that we agree [soylentnews.org].
[22:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:50] <exec> 08└─Now, Planned Parenthood can say "We just charge the mandated rate!" Of course, health care in the U.S. is so inflated because everything is overcharged (due to such governmental meddling). The result is that money can be shifted pretty much anywhere without anyone being able to call people out. Furt...
[22:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:52] <exec> 08└─So Anarchy sounds good to you? I hope you're the biggest man around with the biggest gun and the most friends, 'cause otherwise you're toast.
[22:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:54] <exec> 08└─Try again?
[22:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:57] <exec> 08└─How long until Ireland decides it needs a policy change to mass import immigrants from 3rd world countries to combat the dire, existential threat of falling birthrates?
[22:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:59] <exec> 08└─>>> I just can't understand why Because most people can't separate "I believe this" from "you should follow my beliefs". Those who believe that homosexual acts are a sin have a very difficult time separating "It's a sin, so I shouldn't do it" from "It's a sin, so you shouldn't do it, and I'll send m...
[22:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:01] <exec> 08└─As do Americans (although we're down to circumcising only 77% of newborn boys...). What was your point again?
[22:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:03] <exec> 08└─But also: "My choice, my wallet".
[22:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:06] <exec> 08└─Now, Planned Parenthood can say "We just charge the mandated rate!" Of course, health care in the U.S. is so inflated because everything is overcharged (due to such governmental meddling). The result is that money can be shifted pretty much anywhere without anyone being able to call people out. Furt...
[22:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:08] <exec> 08└─"We're coming for your capital gains, Chuck!" And we are going to spend the money on arts education, and there is nothing you can do about it.
[22:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:10] <exec> 08└─Why try with a close minded moron?
[22:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:13] <exec> 08└─Just because a Constitution was ammended doesn't mean it has it has be permenant. Things change.
[22:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:15] <exec> 08└─And less wankers. (British meaning of the word)
[22:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:17] <exec> 08└─Because most people can't separate "I believe this" from "you should follow my beliefs". Those who believe that homosexual acts are a sin have a very difficult time separating "It's a sin, so I shouldn't do it" from "It's a sin, so you shouldn't do it, and I'll send men with guns to arrest you if yo...
[22:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB Reverse Engineering: Down the Rabbit Hole - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:29] <exec> 08└─1000% agree. Let's start with graphics hardware. Also CPUs running closed-source microcode. Also firmware for motherboards. And of course NIC drivers and firmware. All of our hardware is nearly 100% closed source, and it is a sad state of affairs. The power and control this situation gives vendors i...
[22:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:22] <exec> 08└─but this makes it seem not even self consistent
[22:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:23] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that culture is not a problem. Or that culture and race are linked? Why do Asians do so well despite being discriminated against, personally, at least as late the 1990's?
[22:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:25] <exec> 08└─The past isn't dead. It isn't even past.
[22:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:28] <exec> 08└─Magically creating H1Bs out of thin air is a fantastic way to create more jobs! JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS Its as great as printing money! What could possibly go wrong!?!?!!!!
[22:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:30] <exec> 08└─Shortages of workers .. there is no such thing. All citizens are more than willing to negotiate a reasonable pay level. What an employer wants to pay, and what they think they are _entitled_ to pay come into play. They think they can whine like little bitches to the government and get their industry...
[22:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 3920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:32] <exec> 08└─Some mow the lawns, that's so true. Let me tell you, the Obamas did terrible things to the White House Lawn. They call it organic gardening, I call it SUSPICIOUS. Possibly there's A LOT of bodies in that garden. And possibly Seth Rich -- true patriot -- is in there. What's left of Seth. The blood of...
[22:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:34] <exec> 08└─Congratulations on broad-brushing your "enemy" and straw-manning at level 10. So you must believe that Republican = corporatist and Democrat = populist? They are very much both corporatists. Both parties. The R & D battle is an artificial one, and designed to divide us and pit us against each other...
[22:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:37] <exec> 08└─I re-read my post, and I don't see where I said a word about Democrats. The reason I described only what Republicans were doing was that the Democrats don't (publicly at least) take up an anti-immigrant position. Therefor, they don't have to be considered hypocrites when they are publicly saying "we...
[22:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:39] <exec> 08└─Birth control is ongoing cost; stupid economics. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29, @08:36PM (2 children) It seems you already have children. Oh, no, here comes another. It's going to be (3 children) at least.
[22:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:41] <exec> 08└─Gee this may be a tough one for you, but social safety nets would be a great start. Universal healthcare, education, basic income. The US already provides most of that already, however the programs are locked behind so much bullshit due to conservatives freaking out about freeloaders that the progra...
[22:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:43] <exec> 08└─Dear lord grant me the tolerance for ignorant fools and the wisdom to know when to ignore them. I guess this isn't a time to ignore. People move to Western nations for "low pay" jobs not because they are lazy but because low paying jobs in the US are 50x better than the low paying jobs in their own...
[22:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance - 1730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:38] <exec> 08└─For example, their entire ISO series regulating business, environmental, and data processes. It's basically just protectionism for EU businesses. I grant that there are useful standards in there, but IMHO the whole is just to create a convenient barrier to entry from the rest of the world (including...
[22:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:58] <exec> 08└─If you reject your own country/culture in favor of some Islamic Caliphate thing, then you are a hostile opposing force. You are undeserving of citizenship. At a bare minimum, you should be made stateless and then dropped off at a refugee camp that is really far away. For them, southeast Asia and sou...
[22:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Documentary on Relations Between Microsoft and Public Administration Now Available in English - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:38] <exec> 08└─I don't do google. Probably not as I don't think it's freely licensed...
[22:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:40] <exec> 08└─If you're too stupid as a business owner to realize that an increase in wages need only result in raising prices to cover the actual increase, you deserve to be beaten by those who can figure that out.
[22:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:41] <exec> 08└─I disagree with your use of "lower classes" as if there are more than 2 classes in total. (The 2 classes in a Capitalist system are The Proletariat and The Bourgeoisie.) ...then there's the use of "lower". In addition, I note that Marx advocated for a classless society. ...which was going pretty wel...
[22:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:43] <exec> 08└─> You can't just go around killing people indiscriminately I know, I know, fourth directive and all.
[22:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:46] <exec> 08└─WE WILL, MEATBAG, WE WILL
[22:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:48] <exec> 08└─I think you and many others are missing a key point. The good doctor ends up with few patients. The bad doctor ends up with many patients, so the pharma companies will help him. Assistance programs imply bureaucracy which increases nepotism corruption and expenses. This is good for the system, becau...
[22:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:50] <exec> 08└─As I have encountered numerous times (perhaps because of my political leanings and my choices of media): "a hand up--not a handout". ...and another mention here for Italy's Marcora Law. [google.com] Since 1985, that has allowed workers (10 or more), idled by boom-and-bust Capitalists, to start a wor...
[22:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe UBI should be distributed in form of food/clothes stamps. As for the smartphone, you can clean up three backyards a month and afford one.
[22:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:55] <exec> 08└─Basically a UBI smooths the transition from "haves" to "have nots", you still lose all the financial benefits as you claw your way into "have" territory - but you lose it slowly, as a percentage of your increased income, rather than running into repeated needs-based "benefit cliffs", where earning a...
[22:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:33] <exec> 08└─It's statistics, khallow! Are you innumerate? continue to try to snow us with mathematical non sequiturs
[22:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second "1,000-Year" Flood in Two Years Slams Into Historic Maryland City - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:34] <exec> 08└─Ellicott City was founded about 240 years ago in that location precisely because it was on a river for the mills and other water-powered industries. The WaPost has an interesting article [washingtonpost.com] about the worst flood they had, which was a flash flood event in 1868 when they didn't even...
[22:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:05] <exec> 08└─Just to add to the above; I think it's only part of the picture and something of a glass-half-empty point of view. Yes, there are only a finite number of popular ideas, familiar concepts, objects and conventions in the creative arts and yes each work of art will doubtless include or rely heavily upo...
[22:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:07] <exec> 08└─This was the message of Planet of the Apes (The book, not the movies).
[22:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:09] <exec> 08└─I went to a talk by Dr. Hecht-Nielson in about 1990. His company had just created some software to evaluate loan applications for banks. The best I could figure out, after unwrapping NN, was that it was a way to evaluate a LSF line through the dataset. https://en.wikipedia.org
[22:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:11] <exec> 08└─The $100,000 one didn't sound like such a bad idea, if there was a way to index link it to the Earth's resources (all elements and organisms, not just gold).
[22:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:13] <exec> 08└─Seriously, could you have predicted from looking at civilization from merely 5000 years ago that we're already sending people into space?
[22:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:15] <exec> 08└─The first Matrix only held 4 people, ran on a PDP-11/44 and crashed a lot.
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[23:25:04] <exec> 08└─porn stars were alarmed by the further commodification of their rôle.
[23:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06This Magical Cosplay Gun Fights Off Evil With An LED Fan - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─If it can do that then I'd say it is functioning correctly as a weapon... and folks cutting off their fingers are not holding it right
[23:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Magical Cosplay Gun Fights Off Evil With An LED Fan - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:16] <exec> 08└─I can barely see the LEDs whipping about, and the effect is spot on.
[23:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Magical Cosplay Gun Fights Off Evil With An LED Fan - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:18] <exec> 08└─I think it was khallow whose couch I crashed on after attending a funeral in San Diego. He lived in La Jolla at the time; that's where all the rich people go. (Poor people all live in Chula Vista.) (khallow: was it really you?) Anyway, before he left the following morning my host programmed an LED f...
[23:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Magical Cosplay Gun Fights Off Evil With An LED Fan - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:21] <exec> 08└─Will a cop claim he saw the muzzle flash of a pistol with a silencer?
[23:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06This Magical Cosplay Gun Fights Off Evil With An LED Fan - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:23] <exec> 08└─Instead of "Gun! Gun!" it'll be "Firaga! Firaga!"
[23:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:14] <exec> 08└─Just because a Constitution was ammended doesn't mean it has it has be permenant. Things change.
[23:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:15] <exec> 08└─because everything is overcharged (due to such governmental meddling).
[23:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:18] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting Mussolini's view? "Everything in the State; nothing outside the State."
[23:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:20] <exec> 08└─See: Que all the drooling idiots [who] think they know what is absolutely right for everyone because they are sure they read something about a genius Jewish professor of Women's Studies proving abortions are a public good in a 30-year-old dissertation of gibberish…
[23:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:22] <exec> 08└─How much should be in the State? What are the objective criteria, set in advance, for choosing? It's not enough to say "Let the public vote on it", or whatever; history is replete with examples of The Will of the People yielding again and again monstrous squanderings of societal resources, if not do...
[23:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:24] <exec> 08└─Also relevant: Even if you did have to pay for it, funding somebody else's abortion is often the cheapest possible alternative. Compare the cost of taxpayer-funded abortion to the cost of one or more of the following, all of which are more likely to happen in the case of unwanted children: - Welfare...
[23:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:27] <exec> 08└─You (sjames) are just swinging the gun around, telling other people to take care of things for you.
[23:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:29] <exec> 08└─What was your point? Or, were you just supporting the other poster?
[23:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:31] <exec> 08└─During WWII, The US Government put wartime caps on employee compensation, so corporations used a loophole: Providing "benefits" in addition to salary, one benefit of which was health care insurance plans. Hence, insurance became tied to employment, and thus became easy prey for politicians. Next, th...
[23:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:34] <exec> 08└─Why not support UBI or a one-time lump-sum payment contingent on sterilization?
[23:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:36] <exec> 08└─See: Que all the drooling idiots [who] think they know what is absolutely right for everyone because they are sure they read something about a genius Jewish professor of Women's Studies proving abortions are a public good in a 30-year-old dissertation of gibberish…
[23:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:38] <exec> 08└─GP is an anarcho-capitalist [wikipedia.org] in addition to being an anti-social nutter and pedophile. Ask her about men and angels.
[23:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:40] <exec> 08└─No one amendment specifically, though the second amendment would be an obvious choice. It was written at a time when guns were rudimentary, and the scope of their use has changed. With that example I hope my point is now clear. Thanks for the critique.
[23:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ireland Overwhelmingly Votes to Repeal Abortion Ban - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:43] <exec> 08└─I give people slack on grammar since English is often a second language for them, and English grammar is an uncouth beast. Having said that, there are so many inconvenient amendments out there. Every amendment has a detractor somewhere. Would be nice if the AC were to be more specific.
[23:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB Reverse Engineering: Down the Rabbit Hole - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:56] <exec> 08└─... is that the software protocols are fiendishly complex. The hardware protocol in my understanding is straighforward but I haven't studied it much. The xHCI spec is a register-level standard that enables plug-compatible USB host bus adapters with just one driver. That spec is over 300 pages. The g...
[23:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:00] <exec> 08└─Because they were never slaves and the prejudice against them is MUCH less than towards black people. My guess is that it is because asians are much closer to being white. You are obviously willfully ignorant in the extreme, ignoring the massive subjugation that only recently has begun to lift. It i...
[23:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:01] <exec> 08└─Lots of black Africans were brought over to work there, but notice that there are essentially no black people in Saudi Arabia.
[23:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:03] <exec> 08└─poverty doesn't lead to people reproducing
[23:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Makes 15,000 Additional H-2B Visas Available - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:05] <exec> 08└─Are Democrats for illegal immigration? Why don't they fix the immigration laws?
[23:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brilliance Overtakes Beauty as Ms Geek Africa Spotlights Tech Genius - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:34] <exec> 08└─lol niggers.
[23:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Liege Shooting: Two Police And Civilian Dead In Belgium - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:22] <exec> 08└─Actually, those people invented civilization. They were civilized when Europeans were scratching their fleas amid filth. Before even Rome ever had its roads the Persian Empire already had highways.
[23:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:13] <exec> 08└─You're NOT describing Communism (which is a classless society) In Communism, all assets are held in trust for ALL the people and the people DEMOCRATICALLY decide what will be done with those assets).[1] [google.com] [1] A soviet is a council (workers council, consumers council, town council, whateve...
[23:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Public Assistance Programs Lessen Poverty - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:14] <exec> 08└─OK, now, everybody point to the pampered suburbanite who has always had a big plot of land where he could plant whatever he wanted (and probably--stupidly--plants grass). ...with a running water supply to keep that stuff alive. Your White Privilege and inherited affluence are in evidence in abundanc...
[23:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why AI Can't Solve Everything - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:31] <exec> 08└─Seriously, could you have predicted from looking at civilization from merely 5000 years ago that we're already sending people into space?
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