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[00:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:22] <exec> 08└─Disconnect Victoria. What a bunch of retards. Of course when you search for this guy you get some of the underworld figures that have been reported in connection with his name. That's exactly how it's supposed to work. Before seeing this, I would have figured he might well be an innocent man, but no...
[00:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:38] <exec> 08└─I'm for a constitutional amendment requiring one chamber to take a vote on any text passed by the other chamber within two weeks if they don't present their own project, or a month if they do. Either chamber should have to vote on any text backed by at least a quarter of its members under the same d...
[00:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:39] <exec> 08└─I am not American, and as far as I am aware we don't actually have Net Neutrality rules as such, but I do know the national network infrastructure bit is owned by a heavily regulated company which provides access to the network for the retail providers who I actually deal with. My home connection i...
[00:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:41] <exec> 08└─Add a clause that anyone that doesn't vote also doesn't get a paycheck.
[00:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:44] <exec> 08└─You can even run it as russian roulette. But for every day past some relatively short cutoff date, the two majority parties in Congress will have one member from each side executed for each day they are unable to decide on a bill, budget, or other legislative action. Do this a few times and you will...
[00:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, but most are too rich to really care about the paycheck. Add: their staff doesn't get paid. I'd go for "miss 25% of the votes, you become ineligible forever" (requires a safety against the Speaker setting up 700 votes on your day off).
[00:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but you have No True Freedom [wikipedia.org] like the USA has.
[00:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:51] <exec> 08└─That's true. I was just saying to Mrs. Zombie last night that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can't expect to wield supreme executiv...
[00:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:53] <exec> 08└─Net-neutrality *should* be the conservative position because it fosters the growth of small businesses ...
[00:34:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:04] <exec> 08└─A few more... https://www.snopes.com [snopes.com] http://www.politifact.com [politifact.com] The first one being especially rich.
[00:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:15] <exec> 08└─Quoting Hadith to represent Islam in the whole is like quoting the Book of Mormon to represent Christianity as a whole. Stop it.
[00:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:17] <exec> 08└─You can't fix an institution that gets SJW converged, any attempt that appears likely to succeed will only cause the SJWs themselves to destroy it. So most of what we now call "higher education" simply has to be destroyed and rebuilt from scratch. It is all defective, by design. A few of the hard sc...
[00:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:08] <exec> 08└─"Yeah, they could use their hoses to refill our lake."
[00:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:24] <exec> 08└─Yep fuck Linus in the ear for not supporting linux 2.6.30 anymore. How dare he not give support for that anymore!
[00:35:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:32] <exec> 08└─Republicans know they can't win a fair fight so of course they'll illegally fail to certify the results. The Will of the People and the Rule of Law simply don't matter to them.
[00:36:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 1319 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:02] <exec> 08└─If that were actually true. Yet, voter fraud has been investigated numerous times, and never found to be in any significant amounts. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong with citations, which of course can't be Fox News, a White Nationalists propaganda outlet (Brietbart), or the Daily Storme...
[00:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:10] <exec> 08└─Can lead to bad results? As opposed to the current system where almost every single result is bad and people just vote for who they perceive as 'the lesser evil'? Whether range voting or ranked choice voting, both are far better for democracy.
[00:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:56] <exec> 08└─"I would imagine that, if it were possible for some super-heavy element to be stable for even a useful amount of time, that stars and universe-forming and whatever else goes on outside of Earth would have made them and, being stable, they would have survived." Maybe they did and do. But in sufficien...
[00:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GnuPG Patched to Thwart 'Fake Filename' - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:24] <exec> 08└─If you're viewing it on anything other than a terminal, it isn't a problem.
[00:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GnuPG Patched to Thwart 'Fake Filename' - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:25] <exec> 08└─The ammolite is so beautiful. And the ladies love it. As you know. But unfortunately Canada has a HUGE trade surplus with my Country. With the USA. Trudeau came to see me, Justin from Canada. He said, "no, no, we have no trade deficit with you, we have none. Donald, please." Good-looking guy comes i...
[00:37:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jdavidb [5690] 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:41] <exec> 08└─This is not Netflix's first major outage. Does nobody remember the great Christmas 2012 outage when Amazon's AWS servers went down and took Netflix with them?
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[01:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:26] <exec> 08└─Google needs to meet the consequence of the real world. "Hey, I am just a cokmputer geek" don't cut it. The fuckers that came up with zyklon b said the same.
[01:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:27] <exec> 08└─Hey, I am just a cockpooter geek. Wanna anal?
[01:33:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:40] <exec> 08└─Did that never make it through the House or something? Paul Ryan and the House Republicans are refusing to even hold a vote on it. [thehill.com] Vote Dem in the midterms if you want your net neutrality back.
[01:33:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 948 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:42] <exec> 08└─Other countries have much more competitive markets for ISPs. Most Americans have exactly one choice for broadband: the cable company. DSL, satellite, LTE, and dial-up don't count; they're too slow, have too high latency, have crippling bandwidth caps, or all three. We are not going to get to a compe...
[01:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:52] <exec> 08└─"Vote Dem in the midterms if you want your net neutrality back." and hope they don't bobble Hillary back out again.
[01:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:16] <exec> 08└─In other words, "I don't like the information presented so I'll attack the source as a nice convenient strawman".
[01:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:17] <exec> 08└─jmorris, you insidious twat! You are up against an institution that has persevered for two milennia. Think about that. Your own petty partisan self, living the provincial life in a parish, have no historical standing to say anything about it. We are coming for your income, we are taking your guns, a...
[01:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:19] <exec> 08└─Says the guy pretending to be a dead Greek philosopher while throwing in words that would have been strange to the Greeks.
[01:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:21] <exec> 08└─If only those "conservatives" weren't so clumsy and transparent with their propaganda they wouldn't be so easy to attack.
[01:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:24] <exec> 08└─You are up against an institution that has persevered for two milennia.
[01:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:15] <exec> 08└─That was my thought: was there something there that RAIN couldn't replace. Hoping someone there was collecting animals both male and female in some kind of big wooden ship in order to replace the loss.
[01:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:16] <exec> 08└─But make sure you also periscope/twitch/insta/whatever the view in the rear view mirror on the way out...
[01:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, lol, Moss was too busy trying to figure out what you did after you unplugged the soldering iron (or DID you unplug it??.....what's that emergency number again?????)
[01:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:35] <exec> 08└─*snnrrrk..... What!? Sorry....you lost me at Microsoft. :) Yeah... *shrug*
[01:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:22] <exec> 08└─Here up North, Trudeau said promised to do two things. 1. Legalize cannabis. 2. Reform the legal system to allow Canadians to vote for a different voting system (such as aboves topic). Guess he's only able to do one of those things and guess which one he's doing. You get one guess and then you get t...
[01:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:23] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? If we're talking about the election of a President
[01:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:25] <exec> 08└─And then no more voting ever after.
[01:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 061.45 Million Children's Lives Saved by Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines Since 2000 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:26] <exec> 08└─Then you did not read the article.
[01:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:18] <exec> 08└─Came home from a hectic day at work, made supper with wifey, ate and took son out to Special Olympics Bocce. Came back home and missed the whole Netflix thing. No problem. (Our son even scored a couple points!) :)
[01:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:07] <exec> 08└─I ascribe these sorts of stories to the fact that the US has such a huge part of it's economy invested it the military that it has no choice but to keep inventing enemies, or people will start to ask for the spending to be cut back, so that maybe some money could be spent on schools, or maybe health...
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[02:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:21] <exec> 08└─AT&T now owns Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. The Legion of Doom finally won.
[02:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:23] <exec> 08└─Looks like we're in the Injustice: Gods Among Us [wikipedia.org] universe.
[02:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:25] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, in Australia, independent movie theaters finance independent filmmakers [abc.net.au].
[02:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:27] <exec> 08└─I fully expect, under current political conditions, for unregulated or at least lightly regulated monopolies to return on most essential goods and services. Whenever that occurs, keep a very tight grip on your wallets.
[02:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:30] <exec> 08└─Fuck off, convicts.
[02:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:03] <exec> 08└─They won't do that for the midterms. If they decide to screw the pooch by introducing her again, it will be in 2020. But I desperately, foolishly hope the party learns from the mistakes of the past few decades. "We're marginally less corrupt than the Republicans" just doesn't mobilize the base the...
[02:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:04] <exec> 08└─Truth be told, it was kind of ham-handed weak sauce compared to the propaganda the CIA is directing news sources like New York Times and WaPo to print. Let's hope operation Red to Blue works and all those former CIA folks running for D team this midterm make a difference!
[02:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:06] <exec> 08└─Last I saw (not an American), Bernie seemed to be going strong! He's known, he's popular: bring HIM out. If I'd been American and given the choice of Bernie Vs Trump I'd have gone Bernie. Hill Vs Trump, with no other option, I would have voted trump (no other option, mind you) Yeah, people seem to b...
[02:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:36] <exec> 08└─Pretending? Oh ye of little faith! We knew of Latin, even before they conquered us, and when we fought them, and when we had to educate them after the fact. Romans were only good at two things: engineering and war. We Greeks had to teach them art and philosophy, and pure science. That is what is be...
[02:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:37] <exec> 08└─Wrong institution, jmorris. I attribute your lack of reading comprehension to your lack of a real, rigorous Catholic University education. Not SJW, more just SJ, Societe Jesus, if you know what I mean. Of course, the stocks are working, and it is obvious to all and sundry that you are an alt-right i...
[02:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:39] <exec> 08└─OK, who spam modded the AC! TMB? Bueller? Fess up! You are only confirming the bias of the site!
[02:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:41] <exec> 08└─Also dead. When a Communist is Pope, Christian is the last description one would apply to it.
[02:35:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:10] <exec> 08└─Still can't get it right, can they? WHICH WAS ABOUT 200 FEET DEEP.
[02:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:35] <exec> 08└─Unsure if big wooden ship is best option given the circumstances.
[02:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:37] <exec> 08└─Naah. With a temper like that, she's definitely a lesbian.
[02:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:57] <exec> 08└─You should demand your money back!
[02:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03prospectacle [3422] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 1737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:47] <exec> 08└─1 - It's true that no voting system is perfect. The easiest way to understand this, imo, is this clear example of why you can't translate a set of individual preferences into one consistent social preference. https://en.wikipedia.org [wik...
[02:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:48] <exec> 08└─>>"They [Republicans] offer nothing to those communities but denigration." Ah, that explains why the big city centers of poverty and corruption have been mostly run by Democrats for decades.
[02:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:50] <exec> 08└─The R team is probably toast in a modern voting system such as ranked choice, no argument there. The Libertarians will eat their lunch. I'm curious how the D team would fare against the Greens. To me that seems like it could be an evenly matched fight. It'd probably even pull the D team back to cent...
[02:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:45] <exec> 08└─I just checked my bottle of Martian Dust Storms. There's a warning, "Not to be taken internally."
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[03:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:33] <exec> 08└─REDUCE competition so the executives and shareholders win. Who cares the consumer loses.
[03:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:34] <exec> 08└─Whenever that occurs, keep a very tight grip on your wallets.
[03:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:37] <exec> 08└─Who cares the consumer loses.
[03:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:39] <exec> 08└─The Trump Administration’s Anti-Trust Division moved very strongly against the AT&T purchase of Time Warner. But you'll never hear that from the FAKE NEWS media. While in the Philippines I was forced to watch Time Warner's @CNN [twitter.com], which I had not done in months, and again realized how...
[03:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:50] <exec> 08└─It's an interesting conundrum here for the likes of Google. If his name is in stories linked to other underworld figures, his picture posted in articles about underworld figures... it is then implying that Google needs to actually VET the truth about any article before posting results. If google can...
[03:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:49] <exec> 08└─The Hadith sounds a lot more central to Islam than the Book of Mormon does. For example, the Oxford Dictionary [oxforddictionaries.com] is of the opinion: A collection of traditions containing sayings of the prophet Muhammad which, with accounts of his daily practice (the Sunna), constitute the majo...
[03:35:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:13] <exec> 08└─It's not entirely unheard of - Iceland managed it in the 1970s, but those were different circumstances with a very different flow rate. The BBC has an interesting article on ways people have tried diverting lava in the past: https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[03:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:57] <exec> 08└─Just wanted to say that as much as I hate the R team, frojack isn't wrong here. The D team just completely failed. They picked an awful candidate, and then she had an awful campaign. I don't think Clinton even came to my state to speak once! She and the D team just assumed my state was in the bag. A...
[03:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:58] <exec> 08└─The Democrats can barely beat the GOP and frequently can't. Of course the Greens would crush them. But, that would require the Greens to be running.
[03:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:00] <exec> 08└─"So when we say that Paul Le Page did not win the popular vote" But no one said that. The article said of LePage "he did it despite winning less than a majority of votes" and the AC added "so just like Trump then." No one mentioned 'popular vote' and that's not a real thing anyway. In fact LePage di...
[03:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:03] <exec> 08└─"The D team just completely failed. They picked an awful candidate, and then she had an awful campaign. I don't think Clinton even came to my state to speak once!" Why would she? The fix was in. The DNC made sure she was the D nominee, and her friends in the media pushed Trump as the R nominee, at h...
[03:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:05] <exec> 08└─"impossible for even her to win against Trump. " impossible to LOSE against Trump, obviously.
[03:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah well I'm voting Jackson/Thompson 2020! Glad there are no Gray or Brown supporters here. Those people are deplorables.
[03:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:53] <exec> 08└─Sarcastaball
[03:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Zika is Not an STD - Semen Inhibits Zika Virus Infection - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:42] <exec> 08└─Rhymes with Stick Biggers.
[03:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:06] <exec> 08└─"Time on the ground" is a nine-figures line item
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[04:33:21] <exec> 08└─The problem with nvidia is they hobble the features of their gpus to try to upsell you, and make you install telemetry to use their drivers, and you have to install (including giving them an email address and filling out a survey) their proprietary cuda platform and cudnn libraries to use it. Someth...
[04:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Discrete GPU Planned to be Released in 2020 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:22] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_device_driver#Intel [wikipedia.org]
[04:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Discrete GPU Planned to be Released in 2020 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:24] <exec> 08└─Thanks, what about the other aspects?
[04:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:40] <exec> 08└─I marked this funny. Have you *seen* how bad the DC movies are?
[04:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:41] <exec> 08└─But the Internet is no longer a luxury, it's a need. Where I live, there were actually choices for broadband: Road Runner (Time Warner cable TV line Internet) or AT&T (first their crappy DSL broadband that was barely faster than a 56k modem, over their phone lines of course, then later their U-Verse...
[04:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:44] <exec> 08└─...where are all the usual suspects? Get out here and defend this.
[04:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:46] <exec> 08└─Have you seen "Wonder Woman"?
[04:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:48] <exec> 08└─That isn't one of the many wonderful judges appointed by our wonderful President Trump. He's from the globalist Bush Jr.
[04:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:58] <exec> 08└─There's no need for Google to establish truth. They should make their search better then it's a win-win for us and Google. If there is a specific page that's defaming him then those responsible for that page are defaming him and he should get compensation from them. But if there are no pages claimin...
[04:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:27] <exec> 08└─They're gonna do it in 2020. The Democrats aren't as corrupt in absolute terms as the Republicans, but the Clinton machine was instrumental in shifting the Overton Window right beyond the wildest dreams of, say, Nixon (who threatened to do the same thing when he was elected). Unless something fundam...
[04:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:28] <exec> 08└─Canadian here. Less competitive market, I think, but net neutrality recently enshrined in law against the wishes of the Big telephone and cable companies.
[04:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:03] <exec> 08└─WTF you talking about, jmorris? The Church has always been communist! "We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord", if someone asks for your cloak, give them your shirt as well, and turn the other cheek, jmorris! What kind of devil spawn libertarian are you? You think you have existence, and...
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[04:35:59] <exec> 08└─Just move south to Rotorua then you don't have to worry about so many ;).
[04:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:01] <exec> 08└─Import a few dykes from Holland, stick a finger in them and feel the rainbow love
[04:36:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:08] <exec> 08└─Users will still be able to access the forums and get advice from each one, albeit without feedback from a Microsoft employee.
[04:36:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:11] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is NOT your friend. It's always a healthy thing to remind mortal users about this fact.
[04:36:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 535 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:13] <exec> 08└─Every time someone posts anything to the Microsoft Support forums, some Indian guy named Rameesh Manmeat or some other very Indian-sounding name shows up with a Microsoft MVP badge and says "you need to try a 'clean boot'" and gives generic ass directions on how to make things even worse. They don't...
[04:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:24] <exec> 08└─For Microsoft haters, isn't that bad enough? That they are no longer providing current support for old but recent versions? Why do we need to lie and say they have pulled the plug on the forums themselves?
[04:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:27] <exec> 08└─Lust? Really? With what? They're tongue?
[04:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:11] <exec> 08└─They actually mean relatively stable. Instead of a half life measured in micro-seconds, perhaps seconds or even days and according to https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] a few scientists argue for millions of years. As others mentioned, they're only going to be rarely c...
[04:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GnuPG Patched to Thwart 'Fake Filename' - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:41] <exec> 08└─You have to wonder about a security program that's vulnerable to an attack that's been around since the 1980s
[04:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Zika is Not an STD - Semen Inhibits Zika Virus Infection - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:02] <exec> 08└─Awwww. I miss that guy.
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[05:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:16] <exec> 08└─Who would publish such an analysis if it was worth anything? You can just go on reddit/forums and see people knew to watch what was going on with tether to decide how to trade the entire time. Whatever is going on behind the scenes'with tether is still not proven and this paper doesnt help at all, i...
[05:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:17] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is a corrupt game, and anyone that didn't see this coming with Bitcoin is naive. Jamie Dimon himself caused Bitcoin to crash last year by saying it was a bubble, and I would bet that's when he had his people go in and buy as much of it as possible. When there are no gatekeepers, that's wh...
[05:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:19] <exec> 08└─The most amazing thing is that someone might possibly think that some kind of "study" was necessary to ascertain this. I've got a butt-chain that you may want to invest in! Don't be the guy at the end of the human centipede!
[05:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:22] <exec> 08└─Who would publish such an analysis if it was worth anything?
[05:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:24] <exec> 08└─I dont buy it, theres so much more interesting stuff for a scientist to look at than "the flow of digital tokens in and out of bitfinex". Also, the analysis seems to (quote that part if I missed it) just ignore that many, many other people were watching these same flows in real time and responding t...
[05:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Discrete GPU Planned to be Released in 2020 - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:35] <exec> 08└─Who knows? We can't put it past Intel to include telemetry. It seems to be targeted for businesses/universities and machine learning first rather than gaming. Maybe they will use it as the successor to the cancelled Xeon Phi "Knights Hill" chip [wikipedia.org]. I think we can be cautiously optimisti...
[05:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:55] <exec> 08└─I thought Man of Steel was a perfectly fine Superman origin film... up until the very end. Wonder Woman was a great film from start to finish. The less said about Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad the better. Justice League I think was underrated. Don't get me wrong, it's not a good film. But it's...
[05:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:57] <exec> 08└─Actually, we do hear them gloating, because it was a decision against the position of the administration.
[05:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:59] <exec> 08└─They're all masturbating to the news that Comcast is ready to drop 65 Billion in cash to fight Disney for Fox. We're so fucked...
[05:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:13] <exec> 08└─Don't look at me. I haven't been around a computer since it was barely daylight outside this morning.
[05:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:15] <exec> 08└─You missed a key bit there. The Church is not communist. It's just a generic authoritarian regime. The difference being the Church does not tell you you must do these things, simply that it is good to. Free will negates communism.
[05:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:17] <exec> 08└─Oh, my, TMB! I fear for your soul, if possible, more than I do for that of jmorris! Yes, or course, it is optional! If it were not, it would not be an act of grace, mercy, and loving-kindness, and instead of a Republican-livertarian whiny-assed requirement that would provoke accusations of the viole...
[05:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:19] <exec> 08└─And thus, even given the bad form of responding to myself, I HEREBY *** Challenge*** the Editors!!!! To accept the Noam Chompsky on Libertarian submission, if it has not already been replaced by some alt-right or islamophobic agitprop.
[05:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:22] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is a fattwah up your skinny ass, khallow. You pretending you know anything about islam is as funny as you knowing anything about MySQL!!! Poser!
[05:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:19] <exec> 08└─So they call little ponds "lake" in Hawai... hmmm
[05:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:21] <exec> 08└─I going to patent an idea right now: Use all the plastic garbage USA dumps in the ocean to build a wall around lava to divert its flow. There will never be shortage of plastic and ocean will get clean. The only downside is all the poisonous fumes but how are you going to avoid it during a volcano an...
[05:37:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Newander [4850] 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:25] <exec> 08└─So, the best evidence of fraud is that there's no evidence of fraud?
[05:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:41] <exec> 08└─In a Federal system, that is not necessarily true. Here in Canada, different regions have different favourites. In one region it is Conservative vs Liberal, another area it is Conservative vs NDP and another area it is Bloc Quebecois vs Liberal or Conservative with the orange wave election before la...
[05:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:43] <exec> 08└─And then no more voting ever after.
[05:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:45] <exec> 08└─Well not much different then Harper, who was all in favour of election reform until he won. Election reform is going to mean no more majority governments or at least very rarely, something that no majority government is in favour of. The only way it's going to happen is like here in BC where the gov...
[05:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:47] <exec> 08└─My brain hurts. Was this question designed by a lawyer, or a programmer??
[05:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:10] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you really want solutions? Deforestation would solve the problem better than anything. Trees are by far not the most efficient plants at sequestering carbon.
[05:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:11] <exec> 08└─That's regional. Having not much of any space free where water is abundant isn't.
[05:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:13] <exec> 08└─Trees are by far not the most efficient plants at sequestering carbon.
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[06:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:33] <exec> 08└─Ummm, this sounds more like a fantasy than any other comment on this story so far.
[06:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:35] <exec> 08└─Which end?
[06:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:37] <exec> 08└─Likewise, all I can say is,"No Shit Sherlock". Ponzi schemes are always manipulated by the con.
[06:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:20] <exec> 08└─Or if I search _specifically_ for his name why would I want to see images of mob figures?
[06:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:22] <exec> 08└─And now, this SN story will show up when searching either his name or the thugs or the Victoria Supreme Court. Streisand effect much?
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[07:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring Patent Thickets - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:18] <exec> 08└─What the hell are they talking about!? Ease private ordering. Is this a method of finding patent thickets? Or is it something else? Is it to help patent applicants do their due diligence? Or is it just a story mentioning patents to stir up nerd rage?
[07:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:35] <exec> 08└─Of course it was being manipulated. The same thing happens to stock prices, to normal currency exchange rates, etc.. The only question is ever: who is doing the manipulating. Of course, it is technically illegal, which only means that the big players want to keep the game to themselves. They don't l...
[07:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:36] <exec> 08└─In December I bought $1,000 each of Coinloan and coinplace ICO tokens Now it's the middle of June and neither is listed on any exchanges Had I put two grand in the bank I would have spent it all on hookers and blow by now
[07:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Discrete GPU Planned to be Released in 2020 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:47] <exec> 08└─so it's december 2020? for christmas?
[07:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Discrete GPU Planned to be Released in 2020 - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.anandtech.com/comments/12964/intels-first-discrete-gpu-set-for-2020/605163 [anandtech.com] Current date: June, 2018 Current date + 2 years: June, 2020 Current date + 2.5 years: December, 2020 (While it could conceivably arrive before June, let's be honest: the dev time required means any...
[07:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I found it utterly underwhelming. Boring as watching paint dry. 110% formula, lousy script. The actors seemed to do the best they could under the circumstances, which is the best I can say about it. Of course, it wasn't the terrible mess known as Batman vs Superman, but it was still a bad movi...
[07:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:15] <exec> 08└─Obviously the State should own both AT&T and Time Warner, along with a few banks and shipping and transportation corporations, rebranding itself as the State of America Freedom Group of Enterprises.
[07:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:30] <exec> 08└─Nobody mentioned appending a positive or negative spin to his name. That's your strawman argument right there.
[07:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 1864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:31] <exec> 08└─Some guessing / generalization, here, as I cannot be bothered to dig into this particular case: I think a large part of the problem is that Google (and competitors) have stopped simply returning matches, i.e. content that really contains the search terms, and are instead trying to be clever. So, her...
[07:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:33] <exec> 08└─Whatever the results are, I don't see a scenario where Google gets out without bruises.
[07:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:35] <exec> 08└─Addendum: The possible path out also pretty clear, then: Just go back to searching for the terms the user has actually typed. And if you really want to add synonyms on top of that, then use a proper - human controlled - list.
[07:34:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 226 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:46] <exec> 08└─I would comment, but I'm afraid that Comcast may reclassify my home internet traffic, A) charging me more, and B) throttling my bandwidth while C) compensating by offering me free bandwidth to VUDU and Sony Playstation Online.
[07:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:45] <exec> 08└─I HEREBY *** Challenge*** the Editors!!!!
[07:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:47] <exec> 08└─No, it's like quoting the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to represent christianity, as they are the record of the words, actions, and opinions of the messiah.
[07:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:49] <exec> 08└─The summary seems to be confused nonsense... The things it lists as being censored are typical progressive issues, often derided as "SJW" stuff... But somehow this is an attack on conservatives? What a load of bollocks.
[07:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 1376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:10] <exec> 08└─When I got hit with the FTDI chip nuker through Microsoft Update, I took a much more proactive stance on making sure I was protected against system sabotage. Things can work for years, then suddenly a middle-of-the-night stranger visits, then I discover things don't work right. If you are on WIN7 an...
[07:37:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03prospectacle [3422] 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 1737 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:00] <exec> 08└─1 - It's true that no voting system is perfect. The easiest way to understand this, imo, is this clear example of why you can't translate a set of individual preferences into one consistent social preference. https://en.wikipedia.org [wik...
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[08:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:20] <exec> 08└─If only this study had been performed 30 years ago, we would have understood the reasons. Alas, our scientists have lost the necessary brain power.
[08:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:22] <exec> 08└─The mean has dropped, what's happened to the standard deviation? You can't being to make sense of complicated phenomenon based on a single metric, particularly if you don't even understand that!
[08:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Measuring Patent Thickets - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:30] <exec> 08└─I didn't understand it either. You know, we have countries that set themselves up as "tax havens" to attract the wealthy and give them an out as far as paying tax. I wonder why some countries don't set themselves up as "patent-free havens" to attract the manufacturing crowd?
[08:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring Patent Thickets - 3008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:33] <exec> 08└─https://www.city-journal.org/html/identity-politics-sciences-15967.html [city-journal.org] "... Every academic department in the sciences, whether it is engineering, computer science, physics, is under enormous pressure from the diversity bureaucrats on their campuses – these are the vice chancel...
[08:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:50] <exec> 08└─because of you, a hooker's kid has to walk to school instead of riding a bike. you are a very bad man.
[08:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:52] <exec> 08└─Various parties have manipulated its price constantly since its birth, nothing new. As long as you are aware of that you can ride that flow and make a nice profit out of it. Everyone that gets into contact with cryptos should know it is not regulated (read: manipulated by a single party), it's desig...
[08:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:30] <exec> 08└─I enjoyed batman vs superman. it's true that they could have handled the "I've changed my mind" Batman moment a bit better, and the whole alternate reality/time-travel thing is kinda confused, but I think it's in line with other superhero movies. (by the way, I don't consider the Dark Knight Trilogy...
[08:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:59] <exec> 08└─False equivalency. Mainstream Islam includes various Hadiths and: https://www.quran.com [quran.com] There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Last Day and [who] remembers Allah often.
[08:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:00] <exec> 08└─Hmm? "radical Islam’s threat to gay people, vandalism against pro-lifers or criticism of race preferences" are actually things I'd more expect to hear from a 'right' sort of speaker than a 'left' actually, today and $current year and all. The 'progressives' are supposedly leftists, I know, that ma...
[08:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:02] <exec> 08└─Support for gay people and criticism of people who claim to have some kind of innate but somehow totally non-racist preference for not dating black people? Those are definitely progressive issues.
[08:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:05] <exec> 08└─"Support for gay people and criticism of people who claim to have some kind of innate but somehow totally non-racist preference for not dating black people? Those are definitely progressive issues." You're not wrong so much as out of date. Gay rights are only important when the other side are straig...
[08:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:05] <exec> 08└─And Soy is SO on top of the news that the June 2nd arrives on the 11th. Whoopee, 1970 called, seems they're still on hold!
[08:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:06] <exec> 08└─Ah, Orc-Land in LOTR. 50 volcanoes would cause about $30 (real value) in cleanup of the accumulated garbage.
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[09:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:17] <exec> 08└─You can't being to make sense...
[09:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:19] <exec> 08└─Touché, monsieur, touché.
[09:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:21] <exec> 08└─Humans evolve. Evolution does not stop for humans. It is going extra fast because we have changed our environment. The biggest change is birth control, which evolution will defeat. Evolution makes bears behave differently from sheep. Clearly, it affects the mind. People get strange ideas that this d...
[09:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Interesting) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:23] <exec> 08└─The main cause for the drop is the excessive and unchecked reliance on autocomplete immigration [worlddata.info]
[09:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:25] <exec> 08└─You can't being to make sense of complicated phenomenon...
[09:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:28] <exec> 08└─IQ rises when during a course of your psychological maturation you believe in contraction of knowledge - i.e. that there is one true answer for each question. Highly intelligent are highly focused on problem solving, believing there is one optimal solution. New favorite (rewarded) paradigm is "creat...
[09:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:30] <exec> 08└─The last time I took an IQ test was in the 70's, and the numbers have been dropping ever since. Hmm ... a coincidence? I think not!
[09:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:32] <exec> 08└─The pair analysed the scores from a standard IQ test of over 730,000 men – who reported for national service between 1970 and 2009.
[09:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:34] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that IQ tests are affected by cultural differences? So, they don't necessarily measure intelligence, but one culture's idea of what intelligence is?
[09:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:37] <exec> 08└─The Norwegian mandatory military service been exempted since the 70s for people attending university.
[09:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:39] <exec> 08└─IQ tests are some of the most deeply studied things in psychology, they're very close to being culturally indifferent. However, if a culture - by accident of design - breeds a population with non-critical minds, and unwilligness to think analytically, then it will of course return a lower median IQ...
[09:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:41] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that IQ tests are affected by cultural differences?
[09:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:43] <exec> 08└─your statement is ridiculous. evolution is the process by which, over generations, traits that help survival are selected for. this study is a comparison of two subsequent generations. men today compared with their fathers. your statement is that out of the fathers, only the idiots had kids, therefo...
[09:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:46] <exec> 08└─Which mean that the IQ test doesn't test your intelligence, but rather your ability to employ critical and/or analytical thinking. Which certainly is one aspect of intelligence, but not the only one. Indeed, it is exactly the other aspects of intelligence that make AI a hard problem.
[09:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:48] <exec> 08└─Humans evolve. Evolution does not stop for humans.
[09:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Measuring Patent Thickets - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:59] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, patents are viral. If person A starts registering patents, everyone working in the field has to start registering patents or they can't then negotiate for access to person A's patents. Is there any such thing as a patent-left?
[09:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring Patent Thickets - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:01] <exec> 08└─Ease private ordering?
[09:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:32] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm a feminist and all that sounds like bollocks to me. Don't fall for the alt-right narrative, just look at modern feminism and see how what you are claiming doesn't fit all with concepts like intersectionality. This is all just an attempt to re-frame the far right as the centre ground. Don't...
[09:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:34] <exec> 08└─And you think this "brought to you by Amway" Betsy DeVos piece of shit is anything that should have ever graced the frontpage of SoylentNews? I mean, there has been crap before, there has even been clickbait before, even though we have not bait to click, but this is beyond the Pale, and being a Bri...
[09:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:36] <exec> 08└─Im afraid I haven't seen a feminist make sense since Camille Paglia. The alt-right narrative is bollocks. So is the ctrl-left narrative. "Intersectionality" seems to be mostly used as a method to invert liberalism and create a totalitarian leftism to match the totalitarian resurgence on the right, o...
[09:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:38] <exec> 08└─Do you even know what intersectionality is? How on earth could it be used to create "totalitarian leftism"? Can you give a specific example of this?
[09:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:40] <exec> 08└─Easily. I already mentioned Brett Weinstein, clearly you haven't researched as suggested, here I'll save you some time. https://www.youtube.com
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[10:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:17] <exec> 08└─If this passes it will be a loss for everybody except the lawyers, a needless waste of time and energy at the local, state and national levels. Trump will be for it.
[10:33:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:33] <exec> 08└─The pair analysed the scores from a standard IQ test of over 730,000 men – who reported for national service between 1970 and 2009.
[10:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:42] <exec> 08└─by accident *or* design accident would be lack of opportunity, design would be deliberately clinging to bronze age attitudes that do not encourage thinking because you think they're superior.
[10:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:44] <exec> 08└─Working as a teacher I am not surprised at all. Pupils are so busy with their mobiles that they skip all mind developing activities. They do not even develop proper social skills, as they hardly talk to each other anymore. I have seen an enormous drop in grades the latest few years. Of course this h...
[10:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:46] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that IQ tests are affected by cultural differences?
[10:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:49] <exec> 08└─go research epigenetics
[10:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:51] <exec> 08└─and willing to confront the wishy-washy 'all is well' signals .. here are first level searches into things some of us have studied and found to be significant in relation to this. there's more to show about what you could call a war on us, but try to get some grounding here: https://www.startpage.co...
[10:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:53] <exec> 08└─I find it much more likely that something in the education system/"nurture" element changed, rather than something in the genetic makeup of the population.
[10:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:55] <exec> 08└─Not really. If dumb people have three kids on average, and smart people one, IQ will shrink if it's heritable, and it will only take one generation to happen.
[10:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring Patent Thickets - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:07] <exec> 08└─Is there any such thing as a patent-left?
[10:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:22] <exec> 08└─AI is a trigger acronym for me. Please, just write "Google's algorithm". It really isn't a neural network anyway, and a neural network isn't an AI, so please don't write that. https://www.google.com [google.com]
[10:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:23] <exec> 08└─That's always a valid remark, and I've even spent half a thought on it while typing my post. But actually I found "AI" (pronounced with an ever so slightly ironic tone of voice) quite fitting this time, because: - In forming that (silly) association, the algorithm is actually exhibiting something th...
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[10:36:45] <exec> 08└─My only knowledge of DeVos is the following quote: "Elisabeth Dee DeVos is an American businesswoman and government official serving as the 11th and current United States Secretary of Education since 2017." Now, she is a member of the US government and, as such, we need to be mindful of what such pe...
[10:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:47] <exec> 08└─We can go to Slashdot for those.
[10:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:49] <exec> 08└─Precisely why I didn't donate. You want to propagate junk like this, you can pay for it yourselves.
[10:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:51] <exec> 08└─I know about Bret (note the spelling), but his little episode doesn't seem to have anything to do with feminism or totalitarianism.
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[10:38:15] <exec> 08└─Actually it's an improvement. In my experience in too many cases the "answers" from Microsoft employees were unhelpful, offtopic or even stupid. If you were cynical like me it would seem that many were just answering for the sake of satisfying certain job metrics/quotas. In most cases it's some MVP...
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[10:41:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we just need to take people at their word that Iraq has WMD. And then kill millions of people on that basis. Present evidence to the appropriate courts or organisations, or don't make the claim in public. You'll notice that plenty of countries, faced with actual attacks involving the deaths of...
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[10:42:03] <exec> 08└─And someone being paid lots of money to betray someone sure has no motivation to make shit up to make himself seem more useful? There have been cases of spies making shit up to send to their paymasters.
[10:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:05] <exec> 08└─I have an air-conditioned office and server rooms. Every winter, everyone comes and hides in my office "because it's lovely and warm". Every summer, everyone comes and hides in my office "because it's lovely and cool". The temperature literally hasn't deviated 1 degree in four years (except once in...
[10:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:47] <exec> 08└─From your link the US generates 5.5 billion tons per year so this method will cost at least 500 billion dollars a year (assuming simplistically that nothing else is absorbing the CO2 - e.g. ignoring existing trees, vegetation, algae etc). You can make money by growing trees/bamboo and then using the...
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[10:42:48] <exec> 08└─The republicans give even less of a fuck about other people. https://www.independent.co.uk [independent.co.uk]
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[11:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:30] <exec> 08└─The only way you could be for this proposal is if you're a hard-core Republican. They see the Golden State as being a permanently Democratic state--which it is.
[11:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:32] <exec> 08└─How is Putin responsible for the leftist policies and impending bankruptcy of metropolitan areas?
[11:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:34] <exec> 08└─They see the Golden State as being a permanently Democratic state--which it is.
[11:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 1610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:05] <exec> 08└─If genetics affects "intelligence" (as indeed it has been found to: https://www.nature.com [nature.com] ) then this would be entirely expected since cultural differences are often correlated with gene pool differences. In fact any test that _doesn't_ show differences between ge...
[11:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:06] <exec> 08└─Revertion to the mean will disguise the evolution that is indeed taking place in one generation. You're falling for the son-of-a-monkey fallacy. Of course monkeys became men, even if no man was the son of a monkey. And evolution can be damn fast if the selective pressure is high and the opportunitie...
[11:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:08] <exec> 08└─one aspect of intelligence, but not the only one
[11:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:11] <exec> 08└─And if culture is affected by IQ.
[11:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:13] <exec> 08└─I believe TV is to brain function as televised sports is to physical fitness. In both cases the chain of events unfolds before you, and you have absolutely no control of the outcome. No use even trying. The last TV movie I saw was a drama about a bunch of men trapped in a supply depot cavern durin...
[11:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:44] <exec> 08└─I continue to be amazed at how stupid people are. "Hey look everyone! I can make these pieces of paper that can't be counterfeited. I will sell them to you and then you can have some as well!" "Yes! I always wanted pieces of paper that can't be counterfeited. I'll give you 10 dollars" "Hold on, I wi...
[11:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:43] <exec> 08└─His whole case is that Google is defaming him by putting a negative spin on his name. Pretty sure that makes it not my strawman argument. *sips coffee*
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[11:37:09] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with the Arik particularly strongly, but what he wrote ties in *exactly* with concepts such as intersectionality, as it's basically giving explicit examples of the insideous application of intersectionality.
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[12:33:24] <exec> 08└─I don't think this is all that exceptional. Maybe because this trick works even if the malware is only running in userspace. I've seen tons of infected Virtual Machines where none of the tools used on the VM itself showed any abnormal CPU usage, outgoing connections, or high memory use, despite havi...
[12:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:35] <exec> 08└─So the winner will be ... Texas? That will become the largest, most populous and richest state? Yiha!
[12:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:36] <exec> 08└─You could ask the same for Trump: how is Putin responsible for a conman and his performances? But yet he's leading the Free in their Land at the moment. Putin is not really pro- anything, he's just anti- according any opportunity. Breaking up California to pieces would be clealy welcomed as anything...
[12:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:39] <exec> 08└─Yep, those two Texan senators can whup ass all over the six from the Californias, until voting time comes.
[12:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:41] <exec> 08└─The citizens of the more conservative areas of California don't like paying taxes imposed by the current Democratic-led government of California. Hence the secession proposal. In short, this is all about money. That's one reason the boundaries between the various proposed states are drawn the way th...
[12:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:43] <exec> 08└─I don't think we're discussing the most important thing, which is what would we name the new states. I'd like to suggest Top California, Best California, and Narnia.
[12:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:46] <exec> 08└─It's not just conservatives calling out the criminal policies of the criminal left. [youtube.com]
[12:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:48] <exec> 08└─Jefferson, State of Engles and Mojave.
[12:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:50] <exec> 08└─I'd guess that most of California's money is concentrated in SF, LA and SD so might not make a difference.
[12:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:52] <exec> 08└─Rohan, Gondor, and Mordor. Which is which is left an exercise for the voter.
[12:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:29] <exec> 08└─Children don't get challenged to think for themselves as much as we were. My guess is that this effect is reflected in average IQ scores. This would account for both the rise and fall of average scores, because those before us had less challenges than we did.
[12:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:30] <exec> 08└─want to go to Mars
[12:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:33] <exec> 08└─Serious question: these tests tend to restrict augmentive tools like internet connections. The average person today, stripped of their cell phone, may indeed be losing skills, but how would they perform on these tests with their handy and a good connection?
[12:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:35] <exec> 08└─The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:37] <exec> 08└─The pair analysed the scores from a standard IQ test of over 730,000 men – who reported for national service between 1970 and 2009.
[12:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:39] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence#Genetic_explanations [wikipedia.org]
[12:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:42] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the bacteria
[12:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:44] <exec> 08└─That site doesn't appear like they even looked at their own data. As shown in the table above, there seems to be a correlation between IQ and income level. It is true that high-income countries are among the top places, while those with far lower incomes, such as China, Mongolia and Eastern European...
[12:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:46] <exec> 08└─Amusing Ourselves to Death (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death) by Niel Postman. Also The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School and Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology also by Postman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman) explores this.
[12:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:48] <exec> 08└─I don't think the 'digital' aspect has any effect beyond the effects of the television itself. Disclaimer: I worked with Sarnoff on digital television standards in the early 90's.
[12:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:51] <exec> 08└─for those still smart enough and willing to confront the wishy-washy 'all is well' signals ..
[12:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:53] <exec> 08└─Children don't get challenged to think for themselves as much as we were.
[12:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:55] <exec> 08└─but how would they perform on these tests with their handy and a good connection?
[12:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:58] <exec> 08└─those before us had less challenges than we did.
[12:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:00] <exec> 08└─Dumbing Down ( https://en.wikipedia.org) [wikipedia.org] is a real thing. that action then devalues the cultural capital of the subordinate social classes, and thus limits their social mobility within their own society.
[12:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:02] <exec> 08└─This kind of self-selection would pretty much wreck any study done on that kind of data...
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[12:35:22] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is a corrupt game, and anyone that didn't see this coming with Bitcoin is naive. Jamie Dimon himself caused Bitcoin to crash last year by saying it was a bubble, and I would bet that's when he had his people go in and buy as much of it as possible. When there are no gatekeepers, that's wh...
[12:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:35] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin was cheaper with transfers up until some point in the past year or two. Now most places have the equivalent of $10+ in transfer fees. Most of the other cryptocurrencies are still cheaper with transfers, but their value is more volatile than that of Bitcoin. If any of these currencies reach...
[12:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:37] <exec> 08└─Well, I suppose at least you know you're being conned. You sound like one of those battered spouse syndrome people.
[12:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:26] <exec> 08└─I came to say the same thing others have already said so well: nothing of value was lost. It has been more than 20 years since i used microsoft, but i never found anything useful on their forums. Even when i worked at companies with expensive support contracts, their "help" was always worse than use...
[12:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:29] <exec> 08└─The population of Ireland get the chance to elect a government every 5 years (or less). They most recently voted in 2016, the next one will be 2021 at the latest. They are free to vote in a party that would have a referendum on leaving the EU, or even just vote a party that would leave the EU.
[12:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GnuPG Patched to Thwart 'Fake Filename' - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:49] <exec> 08└─You have to wonder about a security program that's vulnerable to an attack that's been around since the 1980s
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[13:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:23] <exec> 08└─Sooo...almost as costly as Comcast Triple Play then.
[13:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:24] <exec> 08└─obviously they paid more for their running water, so they can't complain. I guess the electricity was cheaper, since you can put that wire overground. although there would be the problem of clearing forests etc, so I can't be sure.
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[13:33:33] <exec> 08└─Cool story, grandpa. How often do you run popular games in a VM, Mr Non Gamer?
[13:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CryptoCurrency Miner Plays Hide-and-seek with Popular Games and Tools - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:35] <exec> 08└─Isn't that basically how Minecraft servers work?
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[13:33:55] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with Ecotopia? A clever novel from 1975 -- https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Callenbach said of the story, in relation to Americans: “It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get...
[13:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:57] <exec> 08└─People who are unable to create value are also unable to perceive/believe that some others can. Therefore for them the world is a zero-sum game where one's gain is inevitably another's loss
[13:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:59] <exec> 08└─How is Putin responsible for the leftist policies and impending bankruptcy of metropolitan areas?
[13:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:01] <exec> 08└─Should be more "California" something like "New New Mexico" for the permanently unintegrated foreign invaders, "Peoples Republic of California" for the boomer hippie commies ironically most of whom have moved up the coast to ruin those states, and "Dune" for the unpopulated desert areas.
[13:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:03] <exec> 08└─No, no, the northern state would be "High California" It already is, in practice.
[13:34:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:22] <exec> 08└─The Norwegian mandatory military service been exempted since the 70s for people attending university.
[13:34:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 320 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:23] <exec> 08└─IQ tests are some of the most deeply studied things in psychology, they're very close to being culturally indifferent. However, if a culture - by accident of design - breeds a population with non-critical minds, and unwilligness to think analytically, then it will of course return a lower median IQ...
[13:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:56] <exec> 08└─You are correct, but there is more to it than that. There are two aspects to evolution, development of variation, and selection within the range of that variation. Development of variation is a slow process, radical variants tend to be fatal. But, selection within variation can be extremely rapid. I...
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[13:34:58] <exec> 08└─critical and/or analytical thinking. Which certainly is one aspect of intelligence, but not the only one
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[13:35:00] <exec> 08└─Working as a teacher I am not surprised at all. Pupils are so busy with their mobiles that they skip all mind developing activities. They do not even develop proper social skills, as they hardly talk to each other anymore. I have seen an enormous drop in grades the latest few years. Of course this h...
[13:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:02] <exec> 08└─Humans evolve. Evolution does not stop for humans. It is going extra fast because we have changed our environment.
[13:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:05] <exec> 08└─A.k.a. The America Dream
[13:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:07] <exec> 08└─What kool-aid have you been drinking? IQ test are notoriously sensitive to cultural differences.
[13:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:09] <exec> 08└─That list is missing Antarctica. I bet the IQ there is higher than any other country and the temperature is the lowest.
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[13:35:44] <exec> 08└─"obscure correlations"? You should actually look at the paper before criticizing the analysis, because guessing what they did and speaking out of your ass makes you look like a dumbass.
[13:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:24] <exec> 08└─Given the direction things are going, people are going to have to re-evaluate how dependent they should be on internet access. Getting internet access already involves many points of failure, increasing complexity, and requires a large personal investment in computing devices and services. With chan...
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[13:36:26] <exec> 08└─twice. I quite liked it. But compared to the whole Marvel "infinity stone" thread, DC has failed monumentally, even though one movie might be quite watchable.
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[13:37:16] <exec> 08└─In my state they'd agree to this, then also pass a bill that whenever they do get a paycheck, they deserve backpay covering all missed paychecks with a bonus for good behavior, so they'd only need to have their act together a few times a year.
[13:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:14] <exec> 08└─I'll ask you the same question as I asked him. Can you give specific examples of the concepts of intersectionality being used in this way? It seems hard to imagine how the mere understanding that people are often subject to multiple social issues that intersect with one another, and that therefore d...
[13:38:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 285 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:34] <exec> 08└─> Wikipedia reassures me that the volcanic field is dormant. Whatever that means. Don't worry, I'm sure that if there's an eruption during Wikipedia's lifetime, someone will update the page once the lava's flowing through the streets. And then it will be reverted as original research.
[13:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:17] <exec> 08└─I think the best way to stop a volcano would be by throwing every SJW and Hillary fan into the caldera, and top that off with a nuke.
[13:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:19] <exec> 08└─With a back-of-envelope calculation, I think it probably would require somewhere around 4.5 gigawatts of power over those 5 hours to evaporate water at that rate.
[13:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:46] <exec> 08└─There should never be a single point of failure. Failure needs to be distributed. As widely distributed as possible.
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[14:33:29] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 3246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:30] <exec> 08└─Having worked closely with that field (as in fiber) for decades, its typical monopoly / hollywood accounting in that you CAN spend like $1M/mile or whatever to install fiber IF and only IF its right thru the financial district in downtown Melbourne or whatever passes for a large city in AUS. However...
[14:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:31] <exec> 08└─Its AUS so they need to armor the cable to survive the teeth of the dreaded carnivorous Australian Drop Bear, a truly ferocious predator animal. Although semi-seriously, I live in a state where approximately nothing outside is poisonous to humans, whereas everything in AUS seems poisonous, so maybe...
[14:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:33] <exec> 08└─I doubt they have running water. Accordingly to TFA, the guy lives in Jam Jerrup [google.com] - switch to satellite view and you'll see farmland and some beach cabins there.
[14:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:36] <exec> 08└─Isn't wireless an option? I mean, an ubiquiti airfiber24 can cover about 13km. so for that 7km one such pair should be enough, or for the 50km to its nearest hub five pairs (the specs also clain up to 20km, so you might get away with three pairs). It seems to be priced at about 3.5k USD each (CBA to...
[14:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:38] <exec> 08└─Why should the rest of us have to subsidize your rural living? You are choosing to live out there; if you don't like it, sell your property to someone who does like it. Also, why must we always look to quasi-governmental agencies to do one particular thing? Society's like Australia's were built by p...
[14:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:40] <exec> 08└─I was going to get a couple of these https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com], a couple hundred dollars of cable from ebay and (illegally)...
[14:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:42] <exec> 08└─It's only a matter of time before satellite based ISP service becomes an actual option. For example Iridium Next. (their new constellation of satellites, not their old constellation) These are LEO satellites (eg, low ping times) and cover any point on the earth. (South pole, middle of ocean, desert...
[14:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:45] <exec> 08└─Because the Australian government passed laws forcing people to use the NBN :(
[14:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:47] <exec> 08└─Or apparently one that already exists? [finder.com.au]
[14:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:49] <exec> 08└─It's only a matter of time before satellite based ISP service becomes an actual option.
[14:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:52] <exec> 08└─See it is complete BS like this that gives people the wrong impression about this place. Drop bears don't eat metal cable. Idiot.
[14:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:54] <exec> 08└─The guy has wireless. It isn't cutting the mustard.
[14:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:56] <exec> 08└─Get a better vpn.
[14:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:59] <exec> 08└─Love to have such postings, thank you, VLM! Exactly what's probably going on.
[14:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:01] <exec> 08└─It should last a few years just lying on the ground, not laying. Also, how about using a proper link [amazon.com]?
[14:34:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:24] <exec> 08└─The citizens of the more conservative areas of California don't like paying taxes imposed by the current Democratic-led government of California. Hence the secession proposal. In short, this is all about money. That's one reason the boundaries between the various proposed states are drawn the way th...
[14:34:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:29] <exec> 08└─Rohan, Gondor, and Mordor. Which is which is left an exercise for the voter.
[14:34:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:33] <exec> 08└─How is Putin responsible for the leftist policies and impending bankruptcy of metropolitan areas?
[14:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:37] <exec> 08└─the more conservative areas of California don't like paying taxes
[14:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:39] <exec> 08└─"I got mine (from you) and screw everyone else?" thats part of it.
[14:35:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03engblom [556] 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 1343 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:05] <exec> 08└─Working as a teacher I am not surprised at all. Pupils are so busy with their mobiles that they skip all mind developing activities. They do not even develop proper social skills, as they hardly talk to each other anymore. I have seen an enormous drop in grades the latest few years. Of course this h...
[14:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:42] <exec> 08└─From writer Mike Judge in 2006: As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to f...
[14:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:43] <exec> 08└─After Hitler had conquered Ukraine and neighboring countries, he ordered their universities to be shut down. The idea was that the people in those countries only needed to be able to count to 100 (he actually said that), so they would make good servants to the master race and would become too stupid...
[14:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:45] <exec> 08└─This kind of self-selection would pretty much wreck any study done on that kind of data...
[14:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:48] <exec> 08└─"cultural yes man" measures
[14:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:50] <exec> 08└─So the smart Norwegian men stayed in school, while the dumber ones went into the military. And it's those dumber ones whose IQ's were measured. The results are surprisingly high.
[14:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:52] <exec> 08└─"free labor" so they could almost always find something for you to do
[14:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:55] <exec> 08└─You forgot to add the stereotypical "Sent from my iPhone" signature. The irony of me being a grammar nazi is funny given both 1) my politics and 2) I don't edit or proofread my posts either, 100 WPM typing here it comes hope ya like it...
[14:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:57] <exec> 08└─Have you tried taking their phones off them? Put all mobile phones in shielded bags or power them off during class?
[14:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:59] <exec> 08└─You know it. I know it. The government knows it. Weed is to blame. It's time to take action. The gloves must come off. We must declare war on all those who would poison our children's minds with this chemical rot. WHO'S WITH ME!!??
[14:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:01] <exec> 08└─a bunch of men trapped in a supply depot cavern during WW2. Dammit, everything worked! No excitement on how to get water, food, or light. All neatly provided. Even a hefty supply of brandy, which one guy squirreled it away before the others saw it. All we had to worry about was who was gonna jump th...
[14:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:04] <exec> 08└─Those things existed here to at the time to, "kitchen staff" and "janitor". I had (or have) a friend that served his time as a librarian, 18 months on base sorting books. Those that for some reason such as religious or pacifism usually got some kind of nursing training. I'm uncertain exactly how the...
[14:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:06] <exec> 08└─Not only are we going to Mars today (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSight [wikipedia.org]), but we're already there (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_(rover) [wikipedia.org]).
[14:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:08] <exec> 08└─are a critical component for success
[14:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─Check out the Aharonov–Bohm effect in which an electrically charged particle is affected by an electromagnetic potential (V, A), despite being confined to a region in which both the magnetic field B and electric field E are zero.
[14:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:13] <exec> 08└─As you say, Evolution does play an important role. In the past brains were adapted for solving problems, understanding nature, building the industrial age, putting men on the moon, the micro-electronics explosion and then microcomputers. The downfall began with Microcomputers. (alternate theory: the...
[14:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:15] <exec> 08└─They do not even develop proper social skills, as they hardly talk to each other anymore
[14:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:17] <exec> 08└─What's this "we" shit? Are you claiming to be a remote controlled robot? "We", humanity, has never stepped foot on Mars, so "we" ain't there. You and the rest of the robotic species have a couple representatives there? Well, good on you. Don't worry though. "We" will be along sooner or later to upse...
[14:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:53] <exec> 08└─The town bike? aka the kid's own mother? You sick puppy! You should donate some GoogleCoin to that lady in recompense
[14:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:55] <exec> 08└─Why not give an example of x vs y from the paper?
[14:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:57] <exec> 08└─Hail to the king!
[14:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:59] <exec> 08└─"most places have... transfer fees"? You clearly arent even using bitcoin, there is no such concept... Why are there so many clueless people who claim to have tried using bitcoin these days?
[14:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:01] <exec> 08└─This. The exact words I was thinking in both subject and first sentence, and a direct paraphrase of the third and fourth. It's not bad to have it academically confirmed but it just seems like a "water is wet" conclusion.
[14:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:04] <exec> 08└─December, 2017. https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com] Big transaction fees are a problem for bitcoin — but there could be a solution People are currently paying $28 on average to make transactions using the digital currency, ac...
[14:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:06] <exec> 08└─So what are these "most places" who are charging the fees?
[14:38:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 489 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:27] <exec> 08└─That's true. I was just saying to Mrs. Zombie last night that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can't expect to wield supreme executiv...
[14:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:34] <exec> 08└─Are you one of those kaffirophobes who are claiming that islam is the most feminist religion?
[14:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:36] <exec> 08└─Is that the dick who forced a bunch of actresses to show more flesh in movies and possibly give him a happy ending quid pro go?
[14:40:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:02] <exec> 08└─Please update wikipedia before trying to outrun the pyroclastic flows.
[14:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:56] <exec> 08└─By "found on earth" what I really mean is "known to mankind". There won't be some alien metal that we don't know about, or at least cannot predict and understand that it was a manufactured element that is not known to naturally occur. (not that it might not naturally occur somewhere, but that is hig...
[14:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 061.45 Million Children's Lives Saved by Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines Since 2000 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:13] <exec> 08└─We all miss stuff - I've missed a few too. :)
[14:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 061.45 Million Children's Lives Saved by Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines Since 2000 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:15] <exec> 08└─Exactly the same bullshit that happened with polio. As in it is very close to eradication thanks to vaccination, and would still be thousands of cases per year without vaccination. Thanks for the confirming example.
[14:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:12] <exec> 08└─I have been dabbling with learning Hebrew. Really. Just because I got tired of learning programming languages. They're all getting to be predictable. In many cases it's just a combination of checkboxed items. Which syntax style. GC or not, or other memory management discipline. Typed variables or n...
[14:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 2320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:14] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that the whole "paid prioritization" is a scam to get money from major network properties. AT&T (for example) goes to Netflix: pay us money and we'll make sure that AT&T customers connecting to Netflix get good connections. Result: Netflix pays. The price is absorbed into Netflix...
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[15:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:25] <exec> 08└─I don't believe that the layoffs and the crash are related at all. The layoffs are because Tesla continues to fall short of production quotas as I understand it. Re: The crash. I saw a story somewhere (Arstechnica?) about the vehicle detecting technologies that are used, and they are programmed to i...
[15:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:27] <exec> 08└─Look, there's a LOT of Software and other Engineers that read this site, and we all know that the problem space is far too massive for any software to ever be able to deal with every situation, and this reality isn't about to change no matter how "cool" the tech is or how much political and commerci...
[15:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:29] <exec> 08└─that is why the two parts of the title are separated by ";" semi-colon -- they are only related because both are about Tesla. I watched this story sit in the queue for awhile and various "MERGE" items were added along the way.
[15:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:31] <exec> 08└─If you're being driven by a driver who confuses an overhead road sign for a solid block of concrete in their path at ground level, I suggest you might want to try a different Uber driver next time (if you survive).
[15:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 1402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:35] <exec> 08└─You put your finger close to the artery, but you're still not on it, so you can't take the corpse's pulse. :^) True, software will never be as good as a good driver, and certainly not as good as an excellent driver. But, software may well be better than the average driver, and if it isn't, it may be...
[15:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:37] <exec> 08└─i would not have even opened the article here on soylent were it not for my desire to reply and say Headline Fail editors, do not do this again. it is far too misleading and i'd expect something like it someplace else
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─you conveniently left out the fact that this cable is not a metal cable. there! I have now revealed your evil ways!
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:03] <exec> 08└─Thanks, it made me bother to skim the FA (STFA?). Seems like NBN selects really crappy solutions (or rarely upgrades them). Also made me skim the unbt website, seems like they have a thing priced ad about 1k usd (again, no idea if pair or single) that can push about 1Gb/s for about 100km with a late...
[15:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:05] <exec> 08└─Do these people not have electricity? Why can't the fibre run on the same poles?
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:07] <exec> 08└─Why should the rest of us have to subsidize your rural living? You are choosing to live out there; if you don't like it, sell your property to someone who does like it. Also, why must we always look to quasi-governmental agencies to do one particular thing? Society's like Australia's were built by p...
[15:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06CryptoCurrency Miner Plays Hide-and-seek with Popular Games and Tools - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:18] <exec> 08└─So the easy solution is to have the task manager launch on boot? That would prevent the mining trojan from ever running, right?
[15:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03higuita [2465] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CryptoCurrency Miner Plays Hide-and-seek with Popular Games and Tools - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:20] <exec> 08└─or simply run linux! :D
[15:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:48] <exec> 08└─There is more to this than just "because taxes". I don't know what, though.
[15:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:49] <exec> 08└─The main problem with "Ecotopia" would be that I'm quite certain the people behind this are not trying to create anything remotely similar to the society described in that book. The Northern California that appears to be envisioned by this split would be more likely to be run by ruthlessly capitalis...
[15:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:09] <exec> 08└─Culture is selected for *by* IQ. Funny thing, you can pretty much correlate IQ with invention of the wheel. Also, there is so much data that any cultural skew on IQ tests is long since swamped out. As to the "Flynn effect" ... friend and I (both with IQs in the 160 range, mine by actual test) were d...
[15:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:11] <exec> 08└─where success requires intelligence
[15:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:54] <exec> 08└─From figure 6: net hourly flow of Bitcoin and Tether between Bitfinex and two major Tether exchanges, Poloniex and Bittrex, as a function of lagged 3-hour average return.
[15:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:56] <exec> 08└─The fastest and cheapest transaction fee is currently 30 satoshis/byte, shown in green at the top. For the median transaction size of 225 bytes, this results in a fee of 6,750 satoshis
[15:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Discrete GPU Planned to be Released in 2020 - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:09] <exec> 08└─In windows, just uncheck the Geforce Experience software when you install the driver package. No login bs required, still get all the drivers. (Not going to lie, I still yelled at the screen a lot when they first implemented that login bullshit though.) In linux they haven't required logins for anyt...
[15:38:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:45] <exec> 08└─Thank you for those. As soon as I saw right-minded news... on the college fix's masthead I thought: Oh, well, this ought to be good It turns out the college fix is (partly) just a propaganda outlet for Besty Devoss' weirdo brand of nastiness.
[15:38:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:48] <exec> 08└─Not wanting to lie on behalf of this corrupt administration is considered censorship now.
[15:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:29] <exec> 08└─Doesn't everyone believe that a DDOS attack against the FCC resulted in the false appearance that most comments were in favor of keeping net neutrality? The TRUMP administration says it happened. So it must be true!
[15:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:30] <exec> 08└─I wonder how it would work out to create a conservative version of SN? Sort of like Conservapedia?
[15:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe institutions of higher learning should be focused on the sciences. On practical skills or areas of study. On things that actually matter. (civil engineering, computer science, technology, electronics, chemistry, biology, architecture, engineering, aerospace, etc) Areas of study that don't cont...
[15:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:35] <exec> 08└─Because people on SN should not be excluded from matters of such importance.
[15:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:37] <exec> 08└─I'll answer your question. And, I'll point to Bret. All those intersectional students assumed and/or presumed that their ideas were superior to any ideas that Bret may have, and they assumed the authority to corner him, shout him down, try to intimidate him, and to run him off campus. Authoritarian...
[15:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:41] <exec> 08└─So they call little ponds "lake" in Hawai... hmmm
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[16:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:27] <exec> 08└─A company with no revenue other than 'flame throwers' and no experience will pay the 1 BILLION DOLLAR estimated cost in exchange for all future revenue at $25/trip? What could possibly go wrong?
[16:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:29] <exec> 08└─The result gives the young company a big boost in legitimacy
[16:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:42] <exec> 08└─Progress was never made by people who threw up their hands and gave up because the problem seems too hard. I’m pretty sure that the problem of sending people to the moon and back also seemed just as impossible back in the day. I never figured a post with such a defeatist attitude would be deservin...
[16:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:43] <exec> 08└─TSLA stock surges from 344 to 355 on news of the layoffs.
[16:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:46] <exec> 08└─focus on actually making Americans better drivers instead.
[16:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:48] <exec> 08└─The software will work when we rewrite the rules of the road, firstly to only allow software driven vehicles on the road. This might actually work in a dual-mode infrastructure where, for instance, expressways have software controlled only lanes. Asking software to navigate the parking lot at a busy...
[16:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 1987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:50] <exec> 08└─While you're mostly right, there are some important things you left out: 1. Driving skill more or less follows a bell curve. Odds are, you're somewhere in the middle. However, Dunning-Kruger Effect ensures that you probably think you're near the top. 2. The difference between a good driver and a bad...
[16:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:52] <exec> 08└─Wow those are some good pictures on that report PDF, really illustrates it well.
[16:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:55] <exec> 08└─overpopulation? What are we going to do without wars, and drunk drivers?
[16:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:57] <exec> 08└─I don't see why not. 99% of cars are currently driven by rather esoteric software running on squishy neural networking hardware. I don't see why we couldn't do something similar in silicon.
[16:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 1618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:59] <exec> 08└─Sure. But Tesla acts like a suicide driver - it accelerates toward unknown. Tesla has no LIDAR, its autopilot is driven by a few cameras [electrek.co]. This is all by design. The stop instead of acceleration would be safer (and quickly taught the drivers the limitations of the system) - but no, Tesl...
[16:34:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─It's only a matter of time before satellite based ISP service becomes an actual option.
[16:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:29] <exec> 08└─Why should the rest of us have to subsidize your rural living
[16:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:30] <exec> 08└─Mr Stewart said the service has been "terrible". "We're getting 25-30 megabits on a 50-megabit service at best. The average is between nine and 20 megabits per second," he said. "In my work I connect to client sites and do remote work." Seriously? This guy does remote work that exceeds 9mb/s ? I do...
[16:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:32] <exec> 08└─I thought Drop Bears were omnivorous?
[16:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:13] <exec> 08└─It won't be the largest. Question: what's the worst day in Texas history? Answer: Jan 3, 1959: the day Alaska became a state and Texas was no longer the largest state.
[16:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:15] <exec> 08└─Heh, gotta love how you crazies start foaming at the mouth over "leftism" every chance you get. I feel a bit sorry for you though, constantly living in fear and hatred.
[16:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:17] <exec> 08└─I have a better idea. Split California into two states and sell Texas to Mexico. Then we wouldn't have to change the number of stars on the flag.
[16:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:19] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to build the wall along the former Texas border too.
[16:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:41] <exec> 08└─Trollolol go back under your bridge.
[16:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:42] <exec> 08└─If the gene pool contains a high level of variation, it can change very fast. The two most diverse gene pools are domestic dogs, and humans. You can develop a new breed of dog, which will produce offspring reasonably true to type, in as little as three generations. (We know this because it's been do...
[16:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:44] <exec> 08└─a new, most vigorous war on drugs! to the surplus humvees, doucheman!
[16:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 2097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:46] <exec> 08└─> Feminism You jest, or troll - but there may in fact be truth in it. If intelligence is hereditary (it is, at least partly) then any system that disincentivizes breeding in the more intelligent, or incentivizes it in the less intelligent _will_ result in a population decline in intelligence. If soc...
[16:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:49] <exec> 08└─Race car driver would be another analogy, great reflexes and high risk tolerance don't usually correlate with anything most would consider intelligence.
[16:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:51] <exec> 08└─Why did they need a study? Couldn't they just ask their wives?
[16:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring Patent Thickets - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:04] <exec> 08└─I wonder why some countries don't set themselves up as "patent-free havens" to attract the manufacturing crowd?
[16:37:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:14] <exec> 08└─Who would publish such an analysis if it was worth anything?
[16:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Discrete GPU Planned to be Released in 2020 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:51] <exec> 08└─For the log-in I was referring to: https://developer.nvidia.com [nvidia.com]
[16:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:14] <exec> 08└─"I know about Bret (note the spelling), but his little episode doesn't seem to have anything to do with feminism or totalitarianism." Those students (and the professors who fed them their lines) were all acting in the name and speaking in the language of intersectionalist feminism. You really don't...
[16:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:19] <exec> 08└─The US does not dump plastic or garbage in the Ocean. So file your patent claims in south east Asia. And do a little research maybe.
[16:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:48] <exec> 08└─Anyone that thinks vote fraud isn't rampant in the big Clinton vote centers, including notoriously corrupt cities like Chicago, is nuts. Of course it's rarely proven, that's the whole point to endemic corruption, the folks in power are all crooks so they can count on each other to perpetuate cover-u...
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[17:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:28] <exec> 08└─Do you think the boring machine has an "autopilot" feature? Man, just think of the possibilities :)
[17:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:29] <exec> 08└─It was a slow death.
[17:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:52] <exec> 08└─Are you a programmer?
[17:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:53] <exec> 08└─You can mostly cure overpopulation with the widespread availability of sexbots, and/or birth control. Also good are child labor laws which make it so children hurt rather than help the family's finances, which creates an incentive to avoid having more kids.
[17:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:56] <exec> 08└─A semicolon can be used between two closely related independent clauses, provided they are not already joined by a coordinating conjunction.
[17:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:58] <exec> 08└─Clearly he works in management. :P
[17:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:30] <exec> 08└─Are there ways to make satellites work well? The way I understood it, satellites just do not do upload. So you have dial-up upload paired with high latency because of the distances involved.
[17:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:32] <exec> 08└─Don't confuse LEO and GEO satellites. LEO satellites are not very far up. Practically scraping the ground. That's where the L in LEO comes from.
[17:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:34] <exec> 08└─Or they want to protect rural people from the evils of the intarweb tubes.
[17:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:37] <exec> 08└─It depends on the bandwidth of your upload connection. As I mentioned, somehow, I had good internet service in the middle of the ocean on a cruise for a week. Iridium's Next is aiming for speeds more sensible than they presently can offer. Their Next system is obviously already designed, as some of...
[17:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CryptoCurrency Miner Plays Hide-and-seek with Popular Games and Tools - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:49] <exec> 08└─Plus they are doing this the hard way for evading non-diagnostic programs. Just run your executable or mining threads with lower priority. Windows will automatically make sure that your machine stays responsive for everything else and the miner will kick into high gear whenever you aren't doing anyt...
[17:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:23] <exec> 08└─In case you haven't been paying attention, these areas of California - the more conservative ones - are really quite poorly represented both at the state and national level. They suffer from horrible, unconstitutional laws/restrictions about firearms, as just one example, despite being in rural area...
[17:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:25] <exec> 08└─Russia has been backing the CA secessionist movement for years now. So yes, of course, Trump would be in favor of it.
[17:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:27] <exec> 08└─The Santa Clara valley is more commonly known as Silicon Valley. As of when I left in 1996, they were still pretty conservative there too (problem was pretty much all of California was conservative with the exception of the SF, LA and SD urban zones, but their population dwarfed the rest of the stat...
[17:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:29] <exec> 08└─Head, Heart, and Anus, as an exercise for the voter?
[17:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:31] <exec> 08└─Suddenly I'm on board with the wall idea! j/k you Texas freaks!
[17:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:34] <exec> 08└─But that would sound suspiciously like "wealth redistribution" wouldn't it? And I thought that was a liberal left wing thing.
[17:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:36] <exec> 08└─Ah, thanks! Now that is an explanation that makes sense. It also fits with what I seem to observe that conservatives are deeply afraid of dark skinned or non European descent people who seem to be appearing in the US. God certainly did not make then with the same rights as I have! No way! It must sa...
[17:35:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 947 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:48] <exec> 08└─Humans evolve. Evolution does not stop for humans. It is going extra fast because we have changed our environment. The biggest change is birth control, which evolution will defeat. Evolution makes bears behave differently from sheep. Clearly, it affects the mind. People get strange ideas that this d...
[17:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:05] <exec> 08└─or POTUS
[17:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:07] <exec> 08└─I watched a documentary about that. I think it was called... Idiocracy.
[17:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:10] <exec> 08└─Citation please
[17:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:12] <exec> 08└─If we ever manage to breed it out entirely, it may be gone for good.
[17:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:14] <exec> 08└─You've been frozen for 30 50 years, Mr. Powers.
[17:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:16] <exec> 08└─Hey everybody, Doctor Nick here. Now slow down sir, you're going to give yourself SKULL failure. Ok, the symptoms you describe point to brainus eruptus where the brain tries to leap out the mouth and escape the body. Our one chance is transdental IQ transplanticide! After the operation there are maa...
[17:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:02] <exec> 08└─Jesus, it is right in the caption of the figure you call out: The graphs show the average flow per quantiles of lagged return, controlling for 3-hour lagged volatility calculated using five-minute returns.
[17:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Under Fire In Defamation Case After Someone Googled Themselves - 1404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:07] <exec> 08└─“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confusing Universe, for though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it is in...
[17:39:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:20] <exec> 08└─When the net started everyone had it, everyone.
[17:40:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mojo chan [266] 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 313 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:25] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm a feminist and all that sounds like bollocks to me. Don't fall for the alt-right narrative, just look at modern feminism and see how what you are claiming doesn't fit all with concepts like intersectionality. This is all just an attempt to re-frame the far right as the centre ground. Don't...
[17:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:44] <exec> 08└─The only person who shut the discussion down was the guy who resigned and then started a lawsuit. Everyone else was talking about it.
[17:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:46] <exec> 08└─s/lose/loose/
[17:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:48] <exec> 08└─He tried repeatedly over a period of months to talk about it. They responded by shouting him down, stalking him, physically shutting down the campus until he was pushed out... clearly you haven't actually bothered to watch 5 minutes of the videos that they themselves uploaded or you would know this....
[17:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:54] <exec> 08└─I think a left wing liberal conspiracy is a more likely explanation for using the word lake to refer to a pond.
[17:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:55] <exec> 08└─A number of atomic bombs could be used to re-route the lava and improve the lives of everyone on the island.
[17:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:57] <exec> 08└─Anyone see anything about this lakes volume? I can't find it anywhere.
[17:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:26] <exec> 08└─Now you're just jousting a straw man. I said some areas are notorious for corruption including vote fraud and a reasonable person has every reason to suspect it continues. In (response?) you pulled a yardstick I never mentioned or alluded to (nationwide vote fraud sufficient to throw an election) ou...
[17:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:15] <exec> 08└─Merging neutron stars like the recently detected GW170817 [soylentnews.org] are the way that really heavy elements are generally created. If you have two massive objects each of which is made up of degenerate matter consisting mostly of neutrons and they come together and produce a violent explosion...
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[18:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:25] <exec> 08└─Where's Runaway to tell us that climate change is a myth?
[18:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:26] <exec> 08└─I saw no ice melt. Neither did you. All is good. God watches over us all. Have a wonderful decade citizen. I am a nobody you should believe. Scientists are Soros lapdog who spout anti glorious leader stuff. More Fox news will help fix this hot mess.
[18:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:28] <exec> 08└─Playing the devil's advocate here, as I fully believe in man-made climate change, but is his question whether or not it's happening, or whether or not humans are responsible? Again, to my mind, there's no way we aren't responsible, would just hate to see a potentially productive discussion doomed to...
[18:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:31] <exec> 08└─There are still some dead-enders making that false claim, no doubt emboldened by the president's asinine declaration that climate change is a Chinese hoax, but many have moved on to weaker arguments. They now say that climate change is happening, but humans aren't the primary cause. Or that humans a...
[18:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:33] <exec> 08└─The Earth is flat so if sea levels do rise it will just overflow off the edge. It's true, Hillary said so during her presidential race.
[18:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:35] <exec> 08└─but is his question whether or not it's happening, or whether or not humans are responsible? Well today is Thursday so going by my wackjob calendar I see it is "not happening" day. Friday is "not our fault" day.
[18:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:46] <exec> 08└─Like the hyperloop, the max throughput does not seem to match the pricetag. I can't see the ROI for the company under the low-price constraint. The Blue line is fine, takes 40 minutes for a few bucks, drops you in many places, and connects to the other lines in the Loop. If you want privacy, take a...
[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:14] <exec> 08└─You make some very good observations, but I think that there is also something else to take into consideration. As a good driver ages, they become a less-good driver as their vision gets worse, their reaction times get slower and they're less able to handle the controls.
[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:16] <exec> 08└─Sure why not, as long as you aren't implying that a comment's grammar is nearly as important as the posted title's grammar. Cause you'd be wrong about that.
[18:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:18] <exec> 08└─While everyone focuses on Tesla, it's important to note this snippet from the report: "The crash attenuator was an SCI smart cushion attenuator system, which was previously damaged on March 12, 2018, in a single-vehicle crash involving a 2010 Toyota Prius (see figure 3). " The safety device on the...
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:20] <exec> 08└─because the layoffs were both expected and well reasoned (I know, tell that to the folks holding pink slips)
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─Do some get criticized for driving 1 mph under? Sure. And thats not fair in most contexts Most of the times I criticize the ones that stay stopped at green lights. The ones that refuse to pull onto a road unless they can directly get in the lane they want. The ones that drive through town OBVIOUSLY...
[18:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─Or they can do the reasonable thing and drive within their current (and entirely legal) abilities. But then they get criticised for going 1 mph less than the speed limit or they get told they shouldn't be allowed on the road at all.
[18:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:01] <exec> 08└─I have heard of the type of satellite service you are talking about. From GEO satellites. LEO satellites do upload. While I cannot go into specificity, your mobile device would be assigned a certain channel and time slot both for upload and another for download. Handoffs occur frequently because LEO...
[18:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:02] <exec> 08└─Why should the rest of us have to subsidize your rural living?
[18:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:04] <exec> 08└─The drop bears I've read about don't eat cable drops; they eat only leaves. And they need leaves to be fresh off the tree; they won't even eat a salad on a plate [unimelb.edu.au].
[18:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:07] <exec> 08└─Is that the simple, albeit still expensive, way of handling this is permanent concrete or geopolymer conduits run along or under the road. They already need access for power lines, plumbing, etc. So why not start working on a permanent set of conduits you can run multiples of these assets in, with p...
[18:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:09] <exec> 08└─"Lying" has another meaning 🤥 It's like "they": people are willing to sacrifice correct grammatical number in favor of that pronoun's neuter-animate gender. Likewise, to avoid the homophone that means "tell a deliberately deceptive untruth", some people have reanalyzed "lay" as a mediopassive ver...
[18:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:11] <exec> 08└─I worked on the TCP/IP code for Globalstar. G* used LEO satellites, I calculated that if the bird was on the horizon you had a 250 ms round trip. We were happy with a 100 ms delay but prepared for much more.
[18:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:14] <exec> 08└─Last I checked, large uploads and downloads weren't economic on satellite because of its roughly $5 per GB rate, in the same ballpark as cellular.
[18:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:07] <exec> 08└─California is in need of a shakeup. Between SF, LA and San Diego the representation of the common man outside of those regions is being overpowered by the voting capabilities of those cities. By reassessing the state into political/legislative regions that more proportionally represent the common ma...
[18:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:09] <exec> 08└─We could push all the silicon valley types back to Texas where Fairchild and TI were from, then wall their sickness into Mexico where they will deserve each other.
[18:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:11] <exec> 08└─Texas will pay for the wall.
[18:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:13] <exec> 08└─But for them, paying the taxes would be easier because they'll keep cutting the taxes to rev the economy. Remember, you gotta cut money to make money.
[18:36:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:23] <exec> 08└─If only this study had been performed 30 years ago, we would have understood the reasons. Alas, our scientists have lost the necessary brain power.
[18:36:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 1038 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:31] <exec> 08└─IQ rises when during a course of your psychological maturation you believe in contraction of knowledge - i.e. that there is one true answer for each question. Highly intelligent are highly focused on problem solving, believing there is one optimal solution. New favorite (rewarded) paradigm is "creat...
[18:36:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─The pair analysed the scores from a standard IQ test of over 730,000 men – who reported for national service between 1970 and 2009.
[18:37:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:09] <exec> 08└─critical and/or analytical thinking. Which certainly is one aspect of intelligence, but not the only one
[18:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:51] <exec> 08└─For a massive IQ you sure make a lot of unfounded assumptions. Since we all came from single celled critters how do you explain the 999,999,999X explosion in intelligence? Don't let me pop your little self assured bubble though.
[18:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:52] <exec> 08└─The makers of IQ tests have been sensitive to the charges of cultural bias for decades, and have done a lot of work to make the tests culture-neutral (within the limits imposed by using a single language.) Your claim is obsolete.
[18:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:54] <exec> 08└─You're addressing a real point, but I don't think you understand it. Different environments develop different skills. The skills used in accessing the internet are not the same as those used in living within driving distance of a library, and those aren't the same as where you needed to harness a ho...
[18:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:56] <exec> 08└─Likely english is their second language, but nice to see a USEFUL post like yours on here fighting the good fight against bad grammar! Not surprised to see VLM applauding Nazi behavior. Rethink your life choices eh?
[18:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:59] <exec> 08└─"We" will pollute [Mars]
[18:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:01] <exec> 08└─the ability to focus on a task
[18:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:03] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. ELI5.
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─the small change in scores
[18:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:08] <exec> 08└─POTUS
[18:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:11] <exec> 08└─You really re-write reality to fit your insanity don't you? Yes there has been an uptick in female warriors in Hollywood films, but toughest most violent? You must be a feminist selecting only movies with strong female heroines *eyeroll* You're such an idiot it is actually a little impressive.
[18:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:13] <exec> 08└─You need an IQ of 130 or greater to figure out how to get people to pay you millions for turning left for a living.
[18:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:15] <exec> 08└─no u
[18:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ Scores Consistently Dropping Since the 1970s - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:17] <exec> 08└─This must be the most ignorant thing I've seen posted on SN, and that's despite the frequent contributions from the likes of Jmoris and Idiotking.
[18:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:04] <exec> 08└─In TFS, manipulation by the currency exchange M. Gox.
[18:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:06] <exec> 08└─No, that French guy Monsieur Gox.
[18:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:08] <exec> 08└─What would you rather use? Currency promulgated and controlled by imperialists, the international capitalist system and its banks (such as the IMF), or a decentralized, democratized currency? Additionally, are you suggesting that BitCoin represents the End of History for cryptocurrencies?
[18:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:10] <exec> 08└─What do you think youve demonstrated? Yet another magic number of 5 minutes...
[18:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:54] <exec> 08└─REDUCE competition so the executives and shareholders win. Who cares the consumer loses. This will definitely help all those struggling coal miners is Appalachia!
[18:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, even the never-Trump Republican will gladly get on board with anything that helps big business at the expense of everyone else.
[18:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 2021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:57] <exec> 08└─You are saying that we should keep various fallbacks viable? That's okay, but I feel it's not our best course of action. No, I think we must devote most of our efforts towards keeping the Internet free. Free of surveillance, censorship, throttling, and monopolistic or despotic government control. We...
[18:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:59] <exec> 08└─You know that the videos are fake news though, right? You can't really base your assessment of an entire movement on some shitty YouTube videos.
[18:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 2021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:00] <exec> 08└─So wait, you're saying the protestors faked the videos they posted? Really? Do you have any proof of this? It would be a rather extraordinary length to go for no obvious gain but perhaps I'm missing something, if so please fill me in. "You can't really base your assessment of an entire movement on s...
[18:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 1951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:03] <exec> 08└─You see, to be effective as a catalyst, one has to confront the problem of scale. You CAN NOT bring the MACHINE™ down. You can't even slow it down. What you can do is very slowly and unobtrusively begin to rearrange the basic components. We will refer to these as "widgets" and "sprockets". If widg...
[18:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:13] <exec> 08└─For some reason, this bothers me: foxnews.com/science/ Fox News concedes the existence of Volcanoes because Global Warming. It's every other part of Geology they misinform their audience about.
[18:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:14] <exec> 08└─Fine man we get the garbage from wherever. Patented ideas are country agnostic because ideas are country agnostic. Way to miss the meat for the skin.
[18:44:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tfried [5534] 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 1581 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:19] <exec> 08└─I think you're mixing up IRV and proportional voting in an interesting but misleading way, here. First thing to note is that IRV implies a majority vote, really, and does not make much sense in a proportional vote (except perhaps in combination with an electoral threshold, but that's a bit of a corn...
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[18:45:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is time to take another look at Ardour then. Thanks!
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[19:33:25] <exec> 08└─Sony, we always find a way to step on our own dick.
[19:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:39] <exec> 08└─"Where's Runaway to tell us that climate change is a myth?" Allow me: the earth is warming. Yep. Of course, it was warming naturally anyway, so it's not actually clear how much people are contributing. Will that do? I don't thing I've ever felt compelled to reply to a sig before, but just for you: "...
[19:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:41] <exec> 08└─NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses [nasa.gov]
[19:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:43] <exec> 08└─Techically it's not lost. They know where it went. They just don't like that the ice is now part of the oceans.
[19:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:45] <exec> 08└─pushing up global sea levels by 0.6mm annually - a three-fold increase since 2012 when the last such assessment was undertaken.
[19:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─The best thing to do to reduce over population is to decrease child mortality. It may seem counter intuitive, but the reason people have so many kids is because many of them die.
[19:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:15] <exec> 08└─I'm completely okay with my money subsidizing [my family]
[19:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:16] <exec> 08└─You need more money to pay for your lifestyle? Charge more money for your food. Are you starting to see materialize here a picture of how society can organize itself strictly through voluntary exchange?
[19:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:18] <exec> 08└─if you don't like it, sell your property to someone who does like it.
[19:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:17] <exec> 08└─Half right. Fairchild was a Silicon Valley entity. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:18] <exec> 08└─First, if all undocumented people are sent back to their countries of origin, the prices of your food will skyrocket. It's their easily-exploitable labor that mans meat packing plants. They also harvest your produce. The cost of lawn care and child care and hotel stays and construction will also exp...
[19:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:20] <exec> 08└─It's only "wealth redistribution" depending on whether the first derivative of the amount of exploitation of the working class is positive or negative. Nobody worries about the redistribution of wealth from the working class to the capitalist elites.
[19:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:23] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of welfare in USA is corporate welfare. Further, around 1972, wages in USA flattened. That was after the 1971 Powell Memorandum, sometimes used as the mark of the beginning of The Neoliberal Era. Characteristics of Neoliberalism [soylentnews.org] liberal left That's an oxymoron. Le...
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[19:39:02] <exec> 08└─sacred cows
[19:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:39] <exec> 08└─Just make sure that there are no exceptions whatsoever. The Speaker doesn't get out of it just because he's the head honcho.
[19:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:41] <exec> 08└─Er, and it's a randomly-selected member. We didn't actually say that? It's random. 1/500 (or whatever) chance gets interesting when the stakes are that high
[19:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:55] <exec> 08└─No, you're thinking of Harvey Weinstein. Bret Weinstein was the Evergreen professor that got in trouble with the angry students of Evergreen for ... ... well, for telling them truths that they didn't want to hear, I guess. I know quite a few greeners (that's Evergreen students, for those not familia...
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[20:33:36] <exec> 08└─Indeed, at this point in time people fucked by Sony have no one but themselves to blame.
[20:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:38] <exec> 08└─Where is the unicode symbol for the world's tiniest violin?
[20:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:40] <exec> 08└─🎻 🎻 (wrapped in <sub> tag)
[20:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:43] <exec> 08└─So you bought a same for, what, $70. Then you bought it again because you are a sucker/idiot. Now your sad that you can't move your magic cape from one account to another? Get a fucking life.
[20:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─The question is, is this losing the game company money because people aren't going to (re)buy as many hats out of protest, or does it make them more money if they buy the hats twice? Obviously the easiest way to get the suits to care about a problem is to show them how the problem is preventing them...
[20:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:02] <exec> 08└─But Florida is only 11mm above sea level. That's less than 20 years before it's completely submerged.
[20:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:03] <exec> 08└─And the only snow children of the UK will see is that in snow globes. :-(
[20:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:50] <exec> 08└─".. and finally focus on actually making Americans better drivers instead." Are you sure you have identified the correct impossible task? You cannot make people better drivers unless they really want to. Autopilot will never be perfect, but some form of it might have saved them, or the people they...
[20:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─The thing I find interesting about this specific bit of data is: where is all the outrage about the Prius driver that did the same thing as the Tesla? They both ran into stationary objects. So in this one case, it simply shows that Tesla's flavor of self-driving is no less dangerous than a human. Af...
[20:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:54] <exec> 08└─because of abundant observational evidence to the contrary. People from traditionally fecund cultures do NOT stop at 1-2 babies even when living in first-world countries with best medical care.
[20:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:42] <exec> 08└─Yep, you are right. I hadn't thought that through. Straight overhead, 90° elevation, you have a short distance. But at any bearing out towards the horizon, you have a much greater distance. That is an interesting problem to look forward to. Of course, downloads can still have great throughput with...
[20:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm being over optimistic in hoping that satellite based ISPs could free us from the tyranny of ground based ISPs.
[20:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:45] <exec> 08└─The nbn is a political football. The government mandated no more fibre. There is no way 7km costs that much. The NBN think we are all stupid. At my work place we got Telstra to quote on fibre install over 5km. Quotes varied between 8 and 25k. I found that variance way too high and inconsistent. NBN...
[20:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:49] <exec> 08└─It's difficult to understand your position when you praise both easily-exploitable labor and worker-owned cooperatives in the same post.
[20:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:50] <exec> 08└─> In short, this is all about money. Mostly. But there's also the "get something on the ballot that will motivate my team to go to the polls", because the CA Dems will otherwise sweep the election.
[20:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:52] <exec> 08└─You're not doing well with terminology today. A Conservative wants to slow progress to a crawl. “A Conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling STOP." [google.com] -- William F. Buckley, Jr. Someone who wants to go BACK in time, e.g to erase the gains made by The Working Class, wome...
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[20:36:55] <exec> 08└─> being in rural areas where you actually do need rifles/shotguns for varmints Most Dems are ok with single-action long guns and shotguns. The varmints are not a valid reason to want to sell everyone a glock or an AR...
[20:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:57] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand my position. I'm just laying out the facts as they are. If I had my way, The Workers would own the means of production and there would not be a separate Ownership Class. ...and a Socialist such as I am views all workers as an international brotherhood. ...not cogs in a machine to b...
[20:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:24] <exec> 08└─They're all out defending all the tariffs that Trump wants to impose.
[20:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner Approved with No Conditions - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:25] <exec> 08└─Got news for you, sunny Jim: whether it's state ownership or "private" ownership, massive centralizations and concentrations of power and resources are bad news for We The People. Private entities with enough power and money become de facto government.
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[21:33:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:35] <exec> 08└─Never ever touch anything sony - the lesson of at least three generations already.
[21:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:41] <exec> 08└─Gee if only every consumer problem were treated with such disdain then we would truly be free to make a golden society! Go fuck yourself arrogant dipshit! Don't worry, I don't own any hats or similar DLC but I can still see you're being a douche.
[21:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─You make that sound like it's a bad thing ...
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[21:34:02] <exec> 08└─Climate is complex. Are humans causing climate change? The scientists and experts in the field seem to think so. I look at it this way: If we are not the cause but we clean up emissions, what is the cost? A decade of reduced productivity? Lost revenue from oil sales? It's a short term pain, and it p...
[21:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:04] <exec> 08└─From your link: “We’re essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine Island region of West Antarctica,” said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and le...
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[21:34:06] <exec> 08└─0.6 * 3 = 0.18 0.18 * 3 = 0.54 0.54 * 3 = 1.62 When do you think the 3-fold increases are going to stop?
[21:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:09] <exec> 08└─Oops, DM for the math win! That's 1.8, 5.4 and 16.2 respectively.
[21:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:11] <exec> 08└─That is not true. The warming will weaken the Gulf Stream leaving U.K. with a colder climate.
[21:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:13] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, we all thought you were a bit slow before that post so you haven't really surprised or changed anything.
[21:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:16] <exec> 08└─Climate change isn't a myth. It happens all the time. The main questions are: - "How much are humans responsible for it?" - "Is it a good or bad thing?" - "What can we do about it if it is a bad thing?". Where 'denialists' differ from 'alarmists' is that 'denialists' are ready to consider t...
[21:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:04] <exec> 08└─> After all, a human drove into the barrier just a few weeks prior to the Tesla. Before that human/Prius hit the barrier, how many hundreds of thousands of human-driven cars passed that point safely? And how many more after the Prius accident, in the weeks before the Tesla cleaned it out? Don't know...
[21:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:05] <exec> 08└─Not as hopeless as your choice of video... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Go hit some cones and get some practice.
[21:35:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aiwendil [531] 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 857 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:18] <exec> 08└─Isn't wireless an option? I mean, an ubiquiti airfiber24 can cover about 13km. so for that 7km one such pair should be enough, or for the 50km to its nearest hub five pairs (the specs also clain up to 20km, so you might get away with three pairs). It seems to be priced at about 3.5k USD each (CBA to...
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[21:35:57] <exec> 08└─to another country.
[21:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:58] <exec> 08└─LEO satellites do upload. While I cannot go into specificity, your mobile device would be assigned a certain channel and time slot both for upload and another for download. Handoffs occur frequently because LEO satellites are only in view for several minutes. The issue is building a service that doe...
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[21:37:07] <exec> 08└─New Asia, New Latina, and Old Whiteland
[21:39:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:24] <exec> 08└─Likewise, all I can say is,"No Shit Sherlock". Ponzi schemes are always manipulated by the con.
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[22:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:20] <exec> 08└─Uber(and Lyft) are the great leap forward in preventing drunk driving since we've had cars. They really shouldn't be allowed to not pick up drunk passengers..what exactly is the alternative?
[22:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:22] <exec> 08└─I don't think they won't pick them up. Information is worth money. This is just more information. Now who will consume that info besides Uber itself?
[22:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn's Orbit Around Ceres: First Images - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:30] <exec> 08└─the asteroid's gravitational field is lumpy due to the asteroid's uneven composition [so] NASA engineers looked at over 45,000 possible trajectories before settling on the solution.
[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─Yea, I'm being a douche. But seriously, what do you expect? If you buy $app from Apple's store, do you expect anything from the Android store? Consoles are walled gardens. If you buy one, expect to run into walls. Don't cry & whine about it. You /CHOSE/ that.
[22:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:11] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but no. "Denialists" are not asking "How much are humans responsible for it?", they are denying that humans have any significant responsibility for it. Don't you remember their hero (Trump) proclaiming that climate change is a haox perpetrated by China? That question of human responsibility f...
[22:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 1615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:03] <exec> 08└─The real solution is parallel processing. With massive increases in income inequality and inflation driving the cost of a fast electric car ever higher, there will never be anything other than a small very rich minority of people owning and driving electric sports cars. The legacy population in the...
[22:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 1630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:04] <exec> 08└─Whats not discussed is the massive PR shift from "I'm never gonna buy a Tesla because I don't care if it has 25 mile range or 250 mile range, unless I can drive 26 or 251 miles I'll never buy an electric car" aka the whole psychological dysfunction of range anxiety, into a totally separate and PR ma...
[22:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:06] <exec> 08└─firstly to only allow software driven vehicles on the road.
[22:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash; Separately, Tesla Lays Off 3,500 - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:09] <exec> 08└─Don't take the bait Janrirok. The site is a great source of news thanks to folks such as yourself - and if people come here "just to laugh at the headline" or some such nonsense, let them. The overwhelming majority come here to participate in the conversation. And some come here to push their partis...
[22:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:01] <exec> 08└─...society can organize itself strictly through voluntary exchange?
[22:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:03] <exec> 08└─Easy solution: 1) attach cable to sandworm 2) send sandworm towards house, draggin the cable underground 3) dispose of sandworm when it comes up 4) spend $500k to rebuild house, plug cable into LAN There you have it! Saved half the cost!
[22:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:05] <exec> 08└─> And some applications require low latency to work well. "You see, officer, it's just a misunderstanding: my ISP is so slow that if I click on the teen porn, I get MILF porn, and if I click on the MILF porn, I get granny porn. And I really wanted teen porn"
[22:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:07] <exec> 08└─But definitely not the US, if getting 9Mb/s in a rural place is deemed a problem. Getting that much around here is reserved to farms breeding unicorns.
[22:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:10] <exec> 08└─Wireless sucks. The only person who thinks wireless doesn't suck is that idiot running Verizon wireless.
[22:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:12] <exec> 08└─Drop bears don't eat metal cable. Idiot.
[22:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:14] <exec> 08└─WISP is like cable tv in the 80s, you can do it right and it'll work great, but you can also half ass it and make even more profit, so you guess how that works out.
[22:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:23] <exec> 08└─“Three states will get us better infrastructure, better education and lower taxes,” Tim Draper, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who sponsored the ballot measure,
[22:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:25] <exec> 08└─Steppes for horse tribes. Riparian forests for elves. Alpine passes to the east. Volcanoes and cinder cones to the further east for Mordor. The Undying Land off the western coast horizon. You could paint middle earth in California and have desert landscapes left over for the lost unpublished chapter...
[22:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:27] <exec> 08└─Why are you still pretending US politics has a left?
[22:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:07] <exec> 08└─If there was a crypto that was immune to fixing that'd be great, but I don't see how that would be possible.
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[23:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:29] <exec> 08└─They really shouldn't be allowed to not pick up drunk passengers
[23:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:31] <exec> 08└─The illegal taxi biz is all about groups, and drunks are usually in groups. So the conference or whatever ends and here comes the drunks is economically valuable intel on a large enough scale.
[23:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:33] <exec> 08└─It could act as a warning to the driver. "Put the plastic sheeting down and get out the barf bag, you have another live one." Except if an Uber driver is picking up a passenger at a certain location and a certain time of the night, they already know they are going to run into drunkards. They don't n...
[23:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:35] <exec> 08└─Are they trying to reuse the algorithm they wrote to detect assholes, which they decided not to use after some internal testing was deemed to provide excessive false positives ?
[23:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:37] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be more useful to determine how drunk the driver is? Especially considering this is Uber we're talking about. It seems that an Uber driver wanting to detect the drunkfulness of a passenger would be of aid in spotting persons they can victimize. Financially, sexually, or with magic marker...
[23:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:40] <exec> 08└─What makes you think those positives were false positives? Any basis for that assumption?
[23:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:42] <exec> 08└─Bigotry and hate are alive and well also. We'll probably always have them.
[23:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:44] <exec> 08└─Since Alice [jenner.com] its harder to patent an algorithm. Maybe by calling it "AI" they hope to sneak it by the examiners. (Why are there no consequences for examiners that grant patents for un-patent-able things?).
[23:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:47] <exec> 08└─Remember, Uber is all about variable pricing. This will just give them an opportunity to put a loading on the quote, up front.
[23:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Submits Patent Application for Algorithm to Determine How Drunk Potential Passengers Are - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─Read it again. "Was deemed" is the key.
[23:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dawn's Orbit Around Ceres: First Images - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─(after all, it's just a big rock)
[23:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:13] <exec> 08└─First one's a viola, then.
[23:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:15] <exec> 08└─Is it any good, or just some more garbage? Never heard of it before this article, but I don't get around much, especially in gamer crowds.
[23:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:17] <exec> 08└─It's free on the Switch. And yes, people are annoyed that, seemingly for no other reason than "Sony," they don't have the same freedoms others have when it comes to moving their account between systems. Look, no-one's saying this is more important than peace with North Korea or ridding the world of...
[23:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:19] <exec> 08└─http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f3bb/index.htm [fileformat.info]
[23:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:21] <exec> 08└─With the caveat that "everything is good for those who enjoy it, and garbage for those who don't," my understanding is it is a pretty good game. It's a third-person-shooter arena game. Think Battle Royale [wikipedia.org] or Hunger Games [wikipedia.org] made into a multi-player video game. If you kno...
[23:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I really have no sympathy for people who actively support companies that produce this locked-down proprietary trash. Don't support products that don't respect your freedoms.
[23:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 1438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:52] <exec> 08└─I firmly believe global warming is a problem, and that we're the primary cause, but I question the validity of the 0.6 mm estimate... But, okay... a 3-fold since 2012, so 6 years. So in 18 years, we're looking at a 1.8 mm rise. That's certainly mathematically significant, but still less than the "no...
[23:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:53] <exec> 08└─Hm. I missed a cycle in there. 12 years to 1.8 mm, not 18. But my point stands.
[23:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:55] <exec> 08└─I love how baldfaced of an attempt that was to redefine the word "denial." That move is doubleplusungood.
[23:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:58] <exec> 08└─12 years to 1.8 mm That's 1.8 mm per year! Your estimate if off by an order of magnitude.
[23:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:00] <exec> 08└─When the President of the US also says it you no longer get to claim it's a fringe view.
[23:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctica Loses Nearly Three Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 25 Years - 1984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:02] <exec> 08└─You're right but a lot of time the real debate is about the allocation of funds - but it never even get to that point this topic is so toxic it typically devolves into a religious shout and insult fest. Within a nation, the problem becomes a budget allocation issue which is typically a death defying...
[23:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:55] <exec> 08└─Drop bears don't eat metal cable. Idiot.
[23:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:56] <exec> 08└─Don't sat uplinks have to be on frequencies that are not used for any other porpoise to prevent drowning out your signal? We haven't even talked about doppler shift, which would be significant. And the doppler shifted frequencies would have to be part of the allocated spectrum reversed for use by th...
[23:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:50] <exec> 08└─*crickets*
[23:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Bitcoin Price is Being Manipulated - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:51] <exec> 08└─How about... idiotCoin!!? What is stopping this person from coming up with their own perfect currency that everyone will love?
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