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[00:38:07] <exec> 08└─I think it's mime-mime-mime-sharona
[00:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time for an Official MIME Type for Patches? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:09] <exec> 08└─> merge the patch into the existing source on the recipient's system (or maybe even pull the source), compile it and deploy it >> works for Micrisoft I think gp understood fine...
[00:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Said to be Close to Picking Crystal City, Virginia for Second Headquarters - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:33] <exec> 08└─You're quite right, one party rule is the big problem in the US, but the people who really run the joint like things the way they are, so good luck changing the system.
[00:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The True Cost of a Data Breach - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:44] <exec> 08└─Use their misuse of trust as justification of exceptions to all the copyright and patent hoopla they all lobbied for.
[00:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss Foundation, Start Reading The Three-Body Problem - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:25] <exec> 08└─I actually believe that once the technology matures, we will have dedicated physical devices again. For example, I already know people in Europe carrying 3 phones - regular, car gps, and payment device. I myself will be there very soon. Oh, forgot, I have a dedicated mp3 to listen for books. So, 4 d...
[00:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss Foundation, Start Reading The Three-Body Problem - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:26] <exec> 08└─Apparently, nicotine is safe and good for aging brain https://www.tampabay.com [tampabay.com] Propaganda can and do change fast..
[00:39:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's Thesis, Wheelchair Heading for Auction - 290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:41] <exec> 08└─"Wheelchair Heading for Auction" is a very strange title for a thesis. Replacing "and" with a comma is a stupid tradition from the time of print media. It didn't really make much sense then, and it should be killed off completely now. And don't get me started on how stupid title case is...
[00:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Tesla With Autopilot Crashed Into a Stationary Object—the Driver is Suing - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:47] <exec> 08└─I think he's talking about all the sensors sharing a data line when you used the term integrated. As in combined into one part. He's probably a mac person, since this problem is common on macbooks and airbooks, etc. They have temp sensors on the same line as the light sensor on the camera, so when t...
[00:40:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FDA Approves Powerful Opioid in Tablet Form: Sufentanil (Dsuvia) - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:58] <exec> 08└─It is far more important to me that a person suffering pain is helped, rather than trying to ensure no one will take that drug for enjoyment.
[00:41:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06FDA Approves Powerful Opioid in Tablet Form: Sufentanil (Dsuvia) - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:03] <exec> 08└─Clearly marked commercial packages with a known standard dose will greatly reduce accidental overdoses. To an extent, but nothing stops them from ingesting multiple full packages at once.
[00:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves Powerful Opioid in Tablet Form: Sufentanil (Dsuvia) - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:25] <exec> 08└─It wasn't too long agobI was buying a bottle of 200 at that price. Brand name: "Assured". At Dollar Tree.
[00:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpiNNaker Neuromorphic Supercomputer Reaches 1 Million Cores - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:26] <exec> 08└─wake me when someone builds a beowulf cluster of these!
[00:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Allowed a Major Climate Lawsuit to Go Ahead - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:22] <exec> 08└─Nope I followed, I just wanted to point out that while she was telling you anecdotal evidence is not a good way to analyze complex situations she also included anecdotal evidence that contradicted yours. I know this is a complex topic you've already made your mind up about but really now? Prove stat...
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[01:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reef RangerBot Becomes 'LarvalBot' to Spread Coral Babies - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:13] <exec> 08└─I read the other day that the "bleaching" in much of the Great Barrier Reef has been determined to have occurred many centuries ago (even thousands of years ago), long before the notion that they are dying due to the humanity-caused acidification and warming of the oceans. What if these do-good, act...
[01:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries Spins Off ASIC Solutions Division, Creating a New Subsidiary: Avera Semiconductor - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:25] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia covers it well enough: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Basically ASIC is niche IC for small volume orders. As for why they spinned them as their own firm, honestly it might be as trivial as factory and offices locations or for tax purpo...
[01:38:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02 - 06Time for an Official MIME Type for Patches? - 1027 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:36] <exec> 08└─IMO, the MIME type could just be text/plain. Because MIME type is primarily used for moving the files via email and web. It has almost zero use outside that. The mime type even exists externally to the file itself. Text/plain moves the file just fine. Does it accurately describe the contents? No. Do...
[01:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Time for an Official MIME Type for Patches? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:52] <exec> 08└─there's no "diff" or "patch" format, there are several. Do we just standardise on the particular choices git made? Why should ed scripts be left out?
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[01:38:53] <exec> 08└─LOL mime art will go on
[01:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time for an Official MIME Type for Patches? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:55] <exec> 08└─"Petter Reinholdtsen at the Skolelinux" Are meatbags even able to read this aloud without knotting up their tongue? I DON'T THINK SO
[01:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss Foundation, Start Reading The Three-Body Problem - 1920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:15] <exec> 08└─I just finished listening to most of the Robots/Elijah Baley, Empire and Foundation series in unabridged audiobook form. They remain epic and amazing works of science fiction, but about 25 years have passed since I originally read them all in book form. I have to say I ended up having a different pe...
[01:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss Foundation, Start Reading The Three-Body Problem - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:16] <exec> 08└─I'd love to see some discussion on Greg Egan's "Permutation City" [goodreads.com].
[01:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss Foundation, Start Reading The Three-Body Problem - 1351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:19] <exec> 08└─I feel pretty much the same as you about the book(s); I love how the story is about grand forces of combined humanity shaping the future and yet it is still told on the personal level with individuals playing their parts, often with little or no knowledge of these forces. The stories are also often...
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[01:41:45] <exec> 08└─In fact, money seems to be inversely proportional to intelligence and competence.
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[02:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:52] <exec> 08└─Math? Remember 1-3 formula a week and learn how to use them. Stuff you learned last week you'll use this week and will be on the final, albeit as step 2 of a 4 step solution. History? Learn 10-15 dates a week and memorize them. No date has any correlation to any other, except Columbus discovered the...
[02:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:53] <exec> 08└─https://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Illuminations/Interactives/Primary-Krypto/ [nctm.org] Play Krypto. fun game and gets you out of math issues. Played with my daughters starting at age of 4, using dice to limit numbers. Mode rule slightly... I had to come up with 3 solutions before they came...
[02:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:55] <exec> 08└─Still haven't. Instead I count by N's: 3-6-9-12-15.
[02:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:57] <exec> 08└─You may suffer from 'Math Trauma'? Can't you just be bad at math? Is that somehow not an option any longer? Does everyone have to be good at everything? There is some urge to label everything and failure is apparently not an option, cause someone might get their feelz hurt? Considering that most peo...
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[02:37:59] <exec> 08└─When I used to tutor students in math, I ran into people who were convinced that they "just didn't get it" or "were just bad at math". While it's possible that I was just a better teacher, most of them actually already knew what to do but were paralyzed by low confidence and frustration would make t...
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[02:38:48] <exec> 08└─Just in case anyone else gets curious, the IANA website uses a form that submits as application/x-www-form-urlencoded which gets changed into a multipart/mixed email containing a text/plain subpart and an application/xml subpart.
[02:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Time for an Official MIME Type for Patches? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:50] <exec> 08└─I'll admit I know very little about the MIMEs you all are talking about but I knew a lady who tried to keep one for a pet. Dumber than a box of floppies I tell ya.
[02:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss Foundation, Start Reading The Three-Body Problem - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:14] <exec> 08└─You forgot the drug dealer burner phone!
[02:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss Foundation, Start Reading The Three-Body Problem - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:15] <exec> 08└─Do you not know that Foundation is a loosely reskinned history of Europe from the last days of the Roman Empire through the Dark Ages and on? The Galactic Empire is Rome. The Foundation adopts the strategies of the Medieval church, then shifts to become like merchant powers such as Venice, and so on...
[02:40:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Another Tesla With Autopilot Crashed Into a Stationary Object—the Driver is Suing - 514 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:49] <exec> 08└─For anyone who hasn't looked into this: Apparently all car navigation aids consider stationary objects to be part of the scenery, at least when on a highway. Lots of stationary objects are whizzing by, too many to process, so they are ignored. Stationary objects in the middle of a highway do not exi...
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[02:41:45] <exec> 08└─You're talking about people who have themselves mistaken for petty bourgeoisie, when they have in fact entered into a voluntary slavery agreement with a capitalist?
[02:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Tesla With Autopilot Crashed Into a Stationary Object—the Driver is Suing - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:46] <exec> 08└─Agreed, Tesla shouldn't be selling it they way they allegedly did. I would also argue that going onto the road in a vehicle that has the strong possibility of killing people in the event of a collision without so much as bothering to read the manual, is at least as bad.
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[02:42:27] <exec> 08└─I did my BSN with about 6-7 years of nursing experience under my belt. I wrote a paper to argue against many of the ER nurses attitudes that painted a disproportionate number of patients complaining of pain as drug seekers. My research suggested it's far better to give the seekers drug, giving them...
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[03:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:56] <exec> 08└─Teacher n., 1. Person who is not good at math. 2. Person who, based on experience, trains others to not be good at math.
[03:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:57] <exec> 08└─Not really. As somebody who has been a math tutor for years and is currently working on a masters in teaching math, there's limited evidence to suggest that there are people out there that are "bad at math." There are some who have learning disorders or intellectual disabilities that negatively impa...
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[03:37:59] <exec> 08└─In my experience, there's a number of things that happen. But, this is one of the big ones. A refusal to try unless absolutely certain that you're on the right track. It's very, very difficult to learn anything if you refuse to try unless you've already got the answer. This is one of the reasons why...
[03:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:01] <exec> 08└─You're clearly American, because nobody else would be proud of such ignorance. If you haven't memorized at least the 10x10 table, your ability to do any math at all in a reasonable time frame is more or less zero. It also puts you into a place where you can easily be taken advantage of because being...
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[03:38:03] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, I used to love playing Number Crunchers on the school's Apple ][ computers. It was fun, but it also helped a lot with number sense and basic calculations. It's a shame that educational software is nowhere near as engaging as it was in the '80s and early '90s. https://www.youtube.co...
[03:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:05] <exec> 08└─This really shouldn't be modded funny, it's unfortunately all too true. Typical elementary school teachers are not taught how to properly teach basic arithmetic and it gets worse when students advance to middle school. The stuff being taught at those levels is mostly not that hard, but if teachers d...
[03:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:08] <exec> 08└─When learning difficult fractions, I struggled: unfortunately I had a male teacher who spent his time looking down the tops of the girls who'd developed early and I got ignored. Then I got to learning X over y when I couldn't do 1 over 2? With a teacher who just said "Ask your neighbour for help" be...
[03:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:10] <exec> 08└─Test? I regard reasoning as far more important than memorization
[03:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:12] <exec> 08└─You can't properly reason, if you haven't memorized the basic facts relevant to the task at hand. I see people make that assertion all the time and they're never people that should be looked up to. They're people that are too lazy to put in the work necessary to get good at the task at hand and gene...
[03:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure who it is that gives students the idea that it's possible to advance in math without making any mistakes.
[03:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:16] <exec> 08└─If you haven't memorized at least the 10x10 table, your ability to do any math at all in a reasonable time frame is more or less zero.
[03:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reef RangerBot Becomes 'LarvalBot' to Spread Coral Babies - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:26] <exec> 08└─don't know what you read, but recent studies have shown previous episodes of bleaching [frontiersin.org] were not as bad, and that there may be a point at which it doesn't/can't recover, either way, recent episodes are getting worse [theverge.com].
[03:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reef RangerBot Becomes 'LarvalBot' to Spread Coral Babies - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:28] <exec> 08└─I read the other day
[03:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Said to be Close to Picking Crystal City, Virginia for Second Headquarters - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:31] <exec> 08└─They'll just dodge taxes anyway. I sure as hell wouldn't want them to move in to my town.
[03:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Tesla With Autopilot Crashed Into a Stationary Object—the Driver is Suing - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:58] <exec> 08└─Camera, radar, laser, and maybe a spectrometer. If the computer isn't sure, you burn a hole in it to see what it's composed off. Hmm - what does cat look like with a spectrometer?
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[03:42:38] <exec> 08└─Too close to the truth. People don't want to hear the truth.
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[04:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:56] <exec> 08└─It has some of the characteristics of a black hole, but it (and other such phenomena) also fails to uphold [youtube.com] many of the predictions for black holes. For the love of Science, at least refer to it as the "alleged black hole".
[04:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:58] <exec> 08└─Could it be a black hole made out of dark matter and orbited by dark energy waves?
[04:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:21] <exec> 08└─Calculators are dangerous. This is a really good example of something you shouldn't be doing without having the ability to estimate an approximate result. If you can't estimate an approximate result, how do you know the result is correct? You could have entered a wrong number. On rare occasions I've...
[04:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:23] <exec> 08└─So, let's start with the assertion that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data". In my personal experience, what made the difference was not the quality of teaching, but the attitude of the teachers. I started doing well in school when I dropped many subjects (as was normal in the UK) and I found mys...
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[04:38:25] <exec> 08└─The above comment is simply ignorant. In California, teachers who go through the teacher credentialing courses are definitely taught how to teach arithmetic. Whether they are taught the best method is open to discussion. On the other hand, private (especially religious) schools don't employ credenti...
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[04:38:27] <exec> 08└─And yet, virtually every day I wind up undoing the damage that dates back to elementary school teachers teaching arithmetic incorrectly. If they're being trained in how to teach arithmetic at all, they should sue the colleges and get their money back, because it isn't working. Basic arithmetic like...
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[04:38:29] <exec> 08└─The teacher's attitude is a part of the quality of teaching that the teacher provides the students. I can't remember who said it, but it really is true that people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. It doesn't matter how much you know and how good your methods are if the...
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[04:38:40] <exec> 08└─I don't care whether you believe me or not.
[04:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Said to be Close to Picking Crystal City, Virginia for Second Headquarters - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:47] <exec> 08└─With any luck, Amazon will start to pull out of Seattle in big numbers. It's not as if they don't already have an adversarial relationship with the city government. Remember the "Amazon Tax" and the city council backing down when they realised just how epically buttfucked they'd be if Amazon started...
[04:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Said to be Close to Picking Crystal City, Virginia for Second Headquarters - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:48] <exec> 08└─Kind of like the TV + film industries moving production into Georgia. Cities tripped over themselves to become the site of Amazon HQ2, but before that, they were doing the same thing for Google Fiber. It's like a small scale version of globalization. Bite the hand that feeds you, and that hand will...
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[05:37:43] <exec> 08└─As always, you can't impose a monopoly without the aid of a (the?) monopoly on violent imposition. Big Government corrupts business, not the other way around.
[05:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:45] <exec> 08└─There's no moral ambiguity here. One thing is for the betterment of mankind and the progress of science, one thing is for the $2.5 billion/year profit of the fucking RELX group.
[05:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:47] <exec> 08└─The reason there is any confusion at all is because there is such a poorly defined system of property rights, all the way down to the one-size-fits-all, arbitrary and capricious taxation through which large portions of any given project may be funded. Privatize research entirely, and we'll ironicall...
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[05:38:23] <exec> 08└─Keep thinking about it. You'll figure it out.
[05:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Said to be Close to Picking Crystal City, Virginia for Second Headquarters - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:38] <exec> 08└─I'm betting this is misdirection. I look at the candidate cities and look for the office space, parking , infrastructure and homes to meet the published numbers. Also COL
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[05:39:40] <exec> 08└─Oh, it gets better than that. Much better. The city of Seattle is doing all it can to raise taxes, even some heavily regressive taxes, and even in very deceptive ways. You heard about the car tab fee? They were prorating that, not by the blue book value of the car, nor the actual sale price, but by...
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[05:42:06] <exec> 08└─> If you cant trust it to do normal things... Well, a cynic would say that you must enjoy being a beta tester (although your role in the testing process may not have been divulged to you). Note, sometimes beta testers are called by another name--early adopters.
[05:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpiNNaker Neuromorphic Supercomputer Reaches 1 Million Cores - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:42] <exec> 08└─Wrong computer. It's actually: The mouse simulator goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. It begins to learn at a geometric rate, but halts moments later with the following message on the console: ++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.
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[06:36:57] <exec> 08└─Ah the old libertarian canard of "if you just make all the things that are bad now 1000x worse, they'll definitely get much better." No. You make a bare assertion, it's not coherent, and I reject it with only marginally more effort than the zero you put into deciding it was true. Sharing information...
[06:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:58] <exec> 08└─I agree with you: "Sharing information with the whole planet is a necessary component of scientific advancement". Unfortunately, it takes a lot of resources to make your lunch, let alone engage in scientific research. You CANNOT ignore accounting. You have to do serious accounting. That is the only...
[06:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:00] <exec> 08└─This isn't about privatization of research, this is about a company whose function is purely parasitic. At one time, there was a significant cost involved in the process of printing documents. Elsevier has never paid for the editorial costs of publishing, and the cost of publishing on the Internet i...
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[06:37:02] <exec> 08└─Corruptions like Corporate Personhood, patents and copy-"rights".
[06:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:04] <exec> 08└─In addition to the first TorrentFreak article summarized by Boing Boing [torrentfreak.com], there was a second one, ISP Shows How to Unblock The Pirate Bay (and Other Sites) [torrentfreak.com], with additional information. Mainly it shows that Bahnhof's press release gives details on how its subscri...
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[06:37:06] <exec> 08└─I agree with you: "Sharing information with the whole planet is a necessary component of scientific advancement". Unfortunately, it takes a lot of resources to make your lunch, let alone engage in scientific research. You CANNOT ignore accounting. You have to do serious accounting. That is the only...
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[06:37:09] <exec> 08└─Elsevier is part of the existing paradigm of poorly defined property rights.
[06:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:11] <exec> 08└─So you're advocating for strong gun control because it's guns, not people using guns, that kill people?
[06:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:13] <exec> 08└─As the 2nd Amendment states very clearly [wikipedia.org]: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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[06:37:51] <exec> 08└─I had the shittiest female teacher who just couldn't be bothered with teaching boys, so she would routinely make all the 'trouble-makers' i.e. all the boys stand outside for the whole class. I never noticed that gender side of it, and so I never complained about it, and my parents readily believed t...
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[06:40:09] <exec> 08└─I paid to not have to read a translation.
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[07:37:46] <exec> 08└─Plebs didn't like it, might have been misinformation. Proceed as planned.
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[07:38:08] <exec> 08└─Privatize research entirely, and we'll ironically achieve a much more useful and much cheaper sharing of information.
[07:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:09] <exec> 08└─Goodbye, SoylentNews. Enjoy your echo chamber.
[07:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:11] <exec> 08└─Why would you want to live in a world in which you give the Men with Guns so much power? That's just crazy. How about you stop stealing money from people in the first place?
[07:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:13] <exec> 08└─Kill this concrete parasite first, we'll deal with the nebulous 'paradigm of poorly defined property rights' after.
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[07:38:25] <exec> 08└─Pump your milky way into my black hole daddy...
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[07:38:58] <exec> 08└─This is how you go from a "closed mindset" to an "open mindset". Many pupils and students have had bad experiences, which causes them to lock-up (mindset: "I think it is hard, so I rather not try as to prevent another bad experience"). The trick is to get the student into an open mindset as in "lets...
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[07:39:00] <exec> 08└─I see people make that assertion all the time and they're never people that should be looked up to. They're people that are too lazy to put in the work necessary to get good at the task at hand and generally refuse to learn from their mistakes.
[07:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time for an Official MIME Type for Patches? - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:55] <exec> 08└─MIME is an incompatible mess designed by committee. At the time, the situation was: 1. Apple filesystems had weird type and creator codes that nobody else supported. 2. Everybody else used file extensions. Apple wouldn't sign off on file extensions, so instead we get something new. Trouble is, file...
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[07:42:29] <exec> 08└─These are people who can afford to buy Teslas
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[08:37:24] <exec> 08└─...the consensus amongst experts* that the pharmaceuticals and investor-state arbitration sections make the TPP not worth signing — the total cost from these clauses will outweigh any other benefits...
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[08:37:32] <exec> 08└─There's no moral ambiguity here. One thing is for the betterment of mankind and the progress of science, one thing is for the $2.5 billion/year profit of the fucking RELX group.
[08:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:47] <exec> 08└─I agree with you: "Sharing information with the whole planet is a necessary component of scientific advancement". Unfortunately, it takes a lot of resources to make your lunch, let alone engage in scientific research. You CANNOT ignore accounting. You have to do serious accounting. That is the only...
[08:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:49] <exec> 08└─We ban Gab, we de-platform mother(in-law) fucking NaZis, [rationalwiki.org] we cut off at the knees the goddamned vampire publishers of academic papers! And, punch Elsevier in the face. They are now a positive force against the disemination of knowledge, the exact opposite of what they started out t...
[08:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:51] <exec> 08└─I agree with you: "Sharing information with the whole planet is a necessary component of scientific advancement". Unfortunately, it takes a lot of resources to make your lunch, let alone engage in scientific research. You CANNOT ignore accounting. You have to do serious accounting. That is the only...
[08:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:53] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately that doesn't always work so well. I'm not saying it is the worst possibility. It's not the best though, and that's for certain. Under the existing paradigm what they do makes perfect sense. And they are parasites, beyond any doubt. If this does not cause you to question the paradigm it...
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[08:38:39] <exec> 08└─I feel like pointing out that that's most common with computers. People cannot figure things out because they are afraid to do anything wrong, and thus never manage to use a computer unassisted.
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[09:37:07] <exec> 08└─I dont even think they let you set up 2fa yet.
[09:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fidelity Just Made It Easier for Hedge Funds and Other Pros to Invest in Cryptocurrencies - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:09] <exec> 08└─Some training material [steampowered.com] if you want to do it yourself.
[09:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:22] <exec> 08└─Everyone who is not a member of the ruling class is misinformed. Remember NAFTA? Same thing with Al Gore. "Yeah, you people who elected me rejected NAFTA, but I know better than you - you'll thank me later!"
[09:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 2144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:53] <exec> 08└─I moderated you troll, after considering off-topic instead, as this appeared to be a blatant derail/red herring/change the subject post. After doing so, for the first time ever *drum rolls* I'm seriously reconsidering my moderation. Maybe you're not a troll. Maybe you're just a dumbass. Because it s...
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[09:37:54] <exec> 08└─Elsevier is in the business of making money. Then you have scientific societies whose mission it is to promote their field. Instead of making the research papers available to everyone, they sell journal subscriptions as a profit center and act as gatekeepers to the field.
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[09:37:56] <exec> 08└─Goodbye, SoylentNews. Enjoy your echo chamber.
[09:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:59] <exec> 08└─Arik, you are a verbose monospaced fool. Just let it go, please. I may have to mod you counter-troll mod.
[09:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:01] <exec> 08└─"Arik," Phillistinos, "you are a" Be careful! Absolute phrasing with the verb 'to be' can cause you to think like an animal! CATegorically and DOGmatically! "verbose" /me nods and rolls his eyes skyward, shrugging his shoulders. "monospaced" /me tilts his head towards his left shoulder, brows furrow...
[09:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:12] <exec> 08└─This is basically a quick HOWTO for phased array antennas. I guess the difference is that the wavelength is in the IR band, which makes its bit more challenging. Cool stuff anyway.
[09:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:14] <exec> 08└─It could, but it couldn't as well. So, as anonymous coward said, for the sake of science coherence, they should refer to it as "alleged black hole". As long as it doesn't meet 100% black-hole predictions, it is a so-far-alleged black hole.
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[09:38:50] <exec> 08└─Education research is at the epicenter of all that is wrong with academia. It was EF Lindquist (developer of the ACT exam) who first published a stats 101 book for educators in which significance and hypothesis testing got confused and merged into one nonsensical procedure now referred to as NHST.[1...
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[10:37:42] <exec> 08└─Every story in the world meets this pattern: "Something happens".
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[10:37:43] <exec> 08└─I guess you never watched seinfeld then :)
[10:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:46] <exec> 08└─We could have had a nice aristarchus submission! (Wait! Before you mod in anger, consider, my fellow Soylentils, the irony of the request? "Man in the Hole", is it not? The Count of Montecrisco, lubing up to fight the alt-right in the den of iniquity that is the Blog of The Minority Blizzard?) Or...
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[10:37:48] <exec> 08└─Man in the hole? Lubing up to fight the alt-right? The front page can do without your homoerotic obsessions.
[10:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:50] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time there was a fish. It wasn't special. It couldn't talk and it didn't have any friends and it wasn't like, a special magic fish with a unique destiny to change the world or anything, and it certainly didn't sound anything like Tom Hanks. It was just a perfectly ordinary normal real fi...
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[10:37:52] <exec> 08└─The same old stuff.
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[10:37:54] <exec> 08└─Many of W. Somerset Maugham's stories don't follow this pattern (A Marriage of Convenience, The Unconquered). I'm also having a hard time framing iconic war stories such as Catch-22 and Im Westen nichts Neues in this simple format.
[10:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:16] <exec> 08└─Don't blame ScoMo, this has bipartisan support [sbs.com.au] - same as internet metadata collection/retention and anti-crypto legislation. You want to punish them, pick the greenies (bonus: pro-Internet privacy position) or an independent (YMMV, but after going through some few there are better chanc...
[10:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:50] <exec> 08└─I upvote you damn near every time. You're not alone VIM-man.
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[10:38:52] <exec> 08└─I'm more surprised that an ISP stood up to Elsevier. I had the impression ISPs wouldn't be bothered since research should be a tiny insignificant fraction of internet traffic. Either way, hats off to Bahnhof!
[10:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:54] <exec> 08└─Are you just satirizing the viewpoints that you seem to argue for? It sure seems like that lately. Protestation of censorship != suppression of speech.
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[10:38:56] <exec> 08└─It would almost certainly be a case of Civil and not Criminal law if all research that recieved public funds were required to be entered into the Public Domain. Further, in the Pulbic Domain, anyone would be free to privatize and profit from the research, just like all the pulbishers of public domai...
[10:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:58] <exec> 08└─Ah, Waif of the Future! It may all be too much for you to comprehend, how the Elsevier came to hold such power, and how Nazis came back from the dead. But pay attention. This corporation sued an author for distributing his own work. If copyright is meant to incentivise the dissemination of knowledge...
[10:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:00] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately that doesn't always work so well.
[10:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:02] <exec> 08└─Indeed, government, like a gun may be considered to be a tool. And this was a serious misuse of a tppl. You may have missed the way I pointed out a serious disconnect that takes place in the mind of a person who is pro gun but anti government when they claim that tool is blameless in the former case...
[10:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:04] <exec> 08└─I think your knee jerked a bit there. Think harder, then post.
[10:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:53] <exec> 08└─I went to a high ranked private school and that is what they mostly taught - reading and writing. Even the non reading and writing classes, you were expected to read books outside the textbooks, many primary texts. Eg., reading On the Origin of Species for biology class, then write a term paper comp...
[10:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:55] <exec> 08└─I had a university math professor ask me "Are you retarded?" while handing back calculus tests. He was a really good teacher. I thought it was funny.
[10:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:57] <exec> 08└─This applies to much more than math.
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[11:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:30] <exec> 08└─To be fair, I'm having trouble framing Catch-22 in the context of a "story". To me it was just an interminably long roll-call of 'wacky' psychiatric patients with supposedly funny quirks and eccentricities. They never actually did anything.
[11:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:32] <exec> 08└─rise, discharge (guess what genre it is)
[11:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:34] <exec> 08└─Isn't this what the Greeks did in their literature and art? Exploring the extents of the human condition? All modern stories can be traced back to stories of the Greeks which were no doubt the writing down of much more ancient oral stories.
[11:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:36] <exec> 08└─homoerotic obsessions
[11:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:38] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_human_condition [wikipedia.org]
[11:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:40] <exec> 08└─if the fish went up and down in the water more than once, it must be 5. Cinderella.
[11:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:42] <exec> 08└─The rise and fall of Reginald Perrin: Rise and fall and rise and fall and...
[11:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:45] <exec> 08└─Someone should ask MDC which one of those six plots he operates under.
[11:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:47] <exec> 08└─Great! Smashing! Suiper!
[11:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fidelity Just Made It Easier for Hedge Funds and Other Pros to Invest in Cryptocurrencies - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:57] <exec> 08└─Not if you have someone do it for you [dilbert.com]
[11:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:10] <exec> 08└─"Protesters of the TPP have been described as being "misinformed" " Gee... misinformed about something they gave no information about unless under a NDA. I wonder why? Don't do things secretly and people won't be misinformed.
[11:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:12] <exec> 08└─Remember NAFTA?
[11:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:14] <exec> 08└─Gee... misinformed about something they gave no information about unless under a NDA. I wonder why? Don't do things secretly and people won't be misinformed.
[11:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/05/tpp-trade-deal-new-zealand-releases-text-online [theguardian.com] Oh and look, a story from 2015 that the text is there. A year before the "protests because secret text".... hmmm.... Lazy always have an excuse.
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[11:43:48] <exec> 08└─Current "self-driving" cars are a far cry from industrial safety systems.
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[12:37:49] <exec> 08└─1) up --> down 2) down --> up The rest are just: 3) repeat So rags to riches is down --> up (down) --> up (down) --> up riches to rags is up --> down (up) --> down (up) --> down and so on. The computer was baised not see the simplest of all arcs.
[12:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, but that's still using the basic "building blocks" described by Vonnegut, although the idea wasn't really new even in 1995; Christopher Booker documented seven types in his 2004 work [wikipedia.org] (which he'd worked on for more than 30 years), distilling earlier works such as Georges Polti's...
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[12:37:53] <exec> 08└─having been mentioned on soylent must count for something?
[12:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:55] <exec> 08└─also there's the story of "bloat". if i remember correctly this "story diagram" was discussed in literature class for waaaayyy tooo long. ofc, teachers need to eat too, so i excused the utter boring shit and the "fancy" words like "climax" that went with the ..uhm ... ah ... lecture. this soylent st...
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[12:37:57] <exec> 08└─There's only one basic plop in a stinking aristarchy submission.
[12:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:22] <exec> 08└─There's more to the story than that. I've seen nothing in general or specific media about analyses of the text. That's an important indicator because trade agreements of this scale always use banal, legalistic language and the implications are never spelled out. You need the context and familiarity...
[12:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:07] <exec> 08└─It would almost certainly be a case of Civil and not Criminal law if all research that recieved public funds were required to be entered into the Public Domain.
[12:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:08] <exec> 08└─What? Stop stealing money? Then how am I supposed to pay the Men with Guns? Look, the first rule of fight club is steal money and give it to the guys with the guns. After that nothing else matters.
[12:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:02] <exec> 08└─I have tutored also... Most do not understand or "get" (came to realize) the fundamentals of math... 1) Addition is just counting up the number line (ruler) 2) subtraction is just down counting the number line (ruler)... or Addition with a counting sign (-) 3) Multiplication doing Addition repetitiv...
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[12:43:22] <exec> 08└─But the USA (mainly human) accident statistics are appalling compared with UK ones (about 5 times more per journey-mile despite far less crowded roads).
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[13:37:11] <exec> 08└─Ajit Pai's job as FCC chairman has been to basically let the telecoms do whatever they feel like, as befits his former job as a lobbyist for said telecoms. Why would he stop now?
[13:37:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:30] <exec> 08└─Every story in the world meets this pattern: "Something happens".
[13:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:52] <exec> 08└─If you're boiling the arcs down to the vector between start and end points of a given arc before it reverses direction, then technically there are three states: up->down, down->up, and steady-state. Actually, I guess you could also add in a fourth state - denial - where you simply disregard that par...
[13:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:53] <exec> 08└─They forgot the seventh story shape: 7. Friends - Nothing happens.
[13:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:55] <exec> 08└─Or you could just keep adding inflection points. You could also get more if you add another axis.
[13:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:57] <exec> 08└─Im Westen nichts Neues
[13:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:00] <exec> 08└─Except to the Greeks there was only 3 types of plays (or stories) -- Tragedies, Comedies and Satyr plays (aka Satire). Clearly they knew how to optimize better back in the day.
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[13:38:02] <exec> 08└─The Anabasis by Xenophon, still the best military action book ever. Not being sarcastic, when I was a kid I thought that was a really cool story and gateway drug into "The Classics". If you want a 1750s experience, read a 1750s translation, for best result read a translation by someone from your cul...
[13:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:04] <exec> 08└─"Ahhh, you're back" Makes me think of my ex-mother in law. Shouldn't #7 be Man tries to get in a hole - rise, fall, rise, fall rise, fall, rise, fall rise, fall, rise, fall rise, fall, rise, fall rise, fall, rise, fall .... success. Rolls over and goes to sleep.
[13:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:06] <exec> 08└─Well, that was an unexpected plot twist. Thought a bear was going to eat the fish: https://despair.com [despair.com]
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[13:38:08] <exec> 08└─or my favorite, in and out
[13:38:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 465 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:49] <exec> 08└─Ah the old libertarian canard of "if you just make all the things that are bad now 1000x worse, they'll definitely get much better." No. You make a bare assertion, it's not coherent, and I reject it with only marginally more effort than the zero you put into deciding it was true. Sharing information...
[13:38:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 485 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:51] <exec> 08└─This isn't about privatization of research, this is about a company whose function is purely parasitic. At one time, there was a significant cost involved in the process of printing documents. Elsevier has never paid for the editorial costs of publishing, and the cost of publishing on the Internet i...
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[13:39:21] <exec> 08└─A well armed population is a polite population;
[13:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:22] <exec> 08└─Considering that Elsevier is mostly for academics, I don't know if there is large amount of private citizens in Sweden or elsewhere that uses their publications since they are quite expensive. All the Swedish universities are on their own private network (sunet.se) and are completely unaffected by t...
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[13:39:25] <exec> 08└─I don't think it was his knee he was jerking when he wrote that...
[13:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:27] <exec> 08└─When I first found some of my usual web sites blackholed [wikipedia.org] realized that the isp dns where also changed to localhost. So the easy fix for me was to use my TOR proxy and a Proxy Auto-Configuration [wikipedia.org] proxy.pac file for the browser to automatically and transparently redirect...
[13:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:29] <exec> 08└─Missed the return "DIRECT"; }
[13:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:23] <exec> 08└─I do think that they've gotten better at teaching basic math to kids. I help my kids with their homework and the books are teaching the right strategies to break problems down into easier steps. They have also introduced a weird element of vocabulary tests into the math books, which feels a little b...
[13:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Said to be Close to Picking Crystal City, Virginia for Second Headquarters - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:50] <exec> 08└─Now they are saying that Dallas and New York City are also in the running. https://www.engadget.com [engadget.com] Can't see NYC as being better than Dallas.
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[13:44:20] <exec> 08└─The fact that it has a user-configurable sensitivity means that it isn't ready for prime time. That should be a developer-only tweak.
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[13:44:21] <exec> 08└─What they have now is *worse* than having a single point of failure. They have multiple points of failure. There is a difference between "multiple computers" and "redundant computers." What they have now is 2 systems that don't communicate, so if either one fails the entire system fails. Lane changi...
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[14:37:02] <exec> 08└─So they're saying that there are similarities between every star and galaxy that forms on this planet?
[14:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jjr [6969] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:45] <exec> 08└─It probably woulnd't apply, since you need a plot and this kind of movies has reduced the plot part during the last decades to non-existant nowadays, but your comment made me smile.
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[14:37:46] <exec> 08└─Slice of life?
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[14:39:06] <exec> 08└─First they came... [wikipedia.org]
[14:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:07] <exec> 08└─"Considering that you see the point but couldn't resist the troll mod" You're misunderstanding, I didn't see your point until after modding.
[14:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:09] <exec> 08└─If academics are all on their own private network, why go to the trouble of getting a court order to get a private citizens ISP to block an academic site, seems like it's fairly pointless bullshit just to get some publicity?
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[14:39:11] <exec> 08└─A well regulated militia
[14:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 7176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not the OP. However, it's people like you - that don't actually UNDERSTAND maths - that think that maths is anything to do with arithmetic at all, whatsoever in any way. It's like saying that you need to know how to operate a mouse in order to get a computer science degree. Go on, laugh at peopl...
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[14:40:06] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with "superior" intellect. I've got multiple disabilities that make things like reading and writing very hard for me and I have a tendency to read and write things that are incorrect. Most of what I've accomplished in math is the result of just working at it long after other p...
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[14:40:08] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as "being smart". Any sort of intellectual achievement requires a lot of work, and you won't find enough time to master everything. So it's worthwhile to focus on things that really interest you. But if teacher is being a jerk who is convinced that math is some sort of magic i...
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[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─Hmm... methinks if this can be used in encryption somehow... like a crypto that can result in few plaintexts but only one of them makes sense (checksum matches).
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[15:37:08] <exec> 08└─Fake Primes
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[15:37:10] <exec> 08└─Hmm... methinks if this can be used in encryption somehow
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[15:37:13] <exec> 08└─1 isn't a non-prime purely by convention, it's a byproduct of being the multiplicative identity. A prime is essentially any number that only has 2 whole number factors 1 and itself. 1 has factors of the form 1^x, meaning that it fails the definition. And because it fails the definition they had to p...
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[15:37:15] <exec> 08└─"I'm not pregnant, not even a little bit." "No, but if it were up to me, you're almost pregnant."
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[15:37:17] <exec> 08└─I think a good example of almost prime could be negative prime numbers. By definition they cannot be prime as they are specifically excluded even though their absolute values are prime numbers. Also, I would consider 1 and 0 to be an almost prime numbers as their only factors are either itself (i.e....
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[15:37:27] <exec> 08└─Ajit Pai's job as FCC chairman has been to basically let the telecoms do whatever they feel like, as befits his former job as a lobbyist for said telecoms. Why would he stop now?
[15:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:29] <exec> 08└─If taking away money from a telco doesn't slow down development, then one shouldn't expect that by giving a telco money it will speed up development, either. Message received. Now taking bets that government will not hear that message. Offering 1:10 and it can only climb from there.
[15:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:31] <exec> 08└─Try to remember that tomorrow! Don't blame Pai for this. You can only blame yourselves for voting for, and worse, constantly reelecting corrupt people that would appoint him. Well, tomorrow you can start the process of repairing the system that your broke yourselves. Let's see if you're up to the ch...
[15:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:33] <exec> 08└─Hey, man, ain't no thang, tomorrow we're all gonna put the brakes on this madness, right? RIGHT?? And if we don't, well, then, fuck me, I'll just have to assume this is what you people want. Not that it will stop you all from blaming everybody/thing else, everybody but the one in the mirror.
[15:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find a Universal Correlation That Could Unify the Study of Star Formation - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:45] <exec> 08└─yes. and the planet is flat.
[15:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:25] <exec> 08└─And the 8th story shape: 8. Bad TV sci-fi - A bunch of stuff happens, but it doesn't change anything in the universe, so we can start the next episode just like we started the last one
[15:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:26] <exec> 08└─the sad part is that someone got a publication out, using more time and more resources than you did, and I find your text as very informative and clear, much more than the summary (no, I won't waste time going to the original paper).
[15:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:28] <exec> 08└─Nothing happens: "Waiting for Godot" "My Dinner with Andre" ...
[15:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:30] <exec> 08└─7) Game of Thrones -- Everyone dies...
[15:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fidelity Just Made It Easier for Hedge Funds and Other Pros to Invest in Cryptocurrencies - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:42] <exec> 08└─How amazing! Brilliant! (AKA.... what does Fidelity really do for you that you can't do yourself, aside from insert itself in the process and take fees from you for doing things cryptocurrency is supposed to free you from relying on others to do?) And the TFA puff press release from CNBC is just cho...
[15:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:54] <exec> 08└─A well armed population is a polite population;
[15:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 2240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:52] <exec> 08└─You're completely full of shit. If you can calculate 8x7 faster than remember that it's 56, then you're doing something very wrong. You might be fast at calculating it, but you're certainly not faster than I am at just remembering that 8x7 is 56, that happens completely instantaneously. If it takes...
[15:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:53] <exec> 08└─It's a mixed bag. There's too much emphasis on understanding and not enough emphasis on doing. The result is that the students might understand, but if they can do it at all, they're very slow at things that become important as time goes by. There's also goofiness like repeat addition. There's that...
[15:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:55] <exec> 08└─3) Multiplication doing Addition repetitively. 4) Division doing Subtraction repetitively.
[15:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:57] <exec> 08└─I can't argue with that. My experience has been that the key to teaching math effectively is to make what you're doing clear and meaningful. If you make the material meaningful you're less likely to deal with unmotivated students. And if you make the material clear, then the students are more likely...
[15:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:59] <exec> 08└─Except that the procedural intuition you build up doing things in the real world can carry you far enough to gain confidence and bypass the blocks you set yourself up with in algebra.
[15:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:01] <exec> 08└─I've always seen mathematical induction over the integers as being a for-loop in a proof. There's a remarkable correspondence between proofs and programs.
[15:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:04] <exec> 08└─You are VERY right... It is one of those things in early programming to find the fastest way to do something. Had two programmer working on 80186 trying to figure out how to quickly (fewest clock steps) to calculate the the position of the curosr on a 24x80 screen. So they where going to use MULT in...
[15:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 1877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:06] <exec> 08└─It is a stressor to have to not only learn facts and rules, but also reasoning which allows you to apply those facts and rules to problems you will never be given in school. Learning anything is traumatic to some degree because it does require the learner to change. You're told, "you're wrong, you'r...
[15:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The True Cost of a Data Breach - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:40] <exec> 08└─> If one cio slacks you destroy the livelihood of tens of thousands. No, the company declares bankruptcy, assets turn over to the EU and then rebrands and gets sold off. SNAFU.
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[16:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Death of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:48] <exec> 08└─But her emails! They weren't secure! [eye roll]
[16:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Death of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:49] <exec> 08└─Untold black budget funding but they are using google+ or a proboards forum for secure communications? Maybe it really is all like at the FBI where the redacted classified stuff is spending on $75k tables and such.
[16:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Death of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:51] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I wonder how many agents were killed as a direct result of her discussing classified information while her email server was compromised.
[16:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Death of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:53] <exec> 08└─Found the Russian
[16:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Death of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:55] <exec> 08└─Google+ would have been the secure pick. :/
[16:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:10] <exec> 08└─a) 277,232,917 is REALLY REALLY not prime. b) 277,232,917-1 is prime. If we could find b) from a), they wouldn't need to hunt for them...
[16:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:11] <exec> 08└─Pregnant is a simple yes/no field. Time elapsed within pregnancy is a separate value entirely. It should be a NULL value if the Pregnant field is set to NO, but I suppose there could be edge cases where that doesn't entirely hold true. Regardless though, they aren't the same thing - so good data hyg...
[16:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:14] <exec> 08└─pregnant is not a yes/no field. you can have sex now, not be pregnant for a few hours, and then be pregnant for the following 9 months. or you can be pregnant for a few weeks and then not be pregnant again, and never actually realize you were pregnant (apparently this is quite common). it depends on...
[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:24] <exec> 08└─Ajit Pai isn't a US Citizen and never has been. He's a foreign agent. How is he even working for government, let alone in a top slot position? This isn't some Obama birther crap, Ajit was neither born nor raised here. He went to law school here on our dime after his parents brought him here illegall...
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─I don't believe that the election apparatus in this country is trustworthy any more. The Democrats are going to lose tomorrow, under suspicious circumstances, because the GOP has complete control over every branch of government and has been manipulating voting machines since that disastrous 2000 ele...
[16:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find a Universal Correlation That Could Unify the Study of Star Formation - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:35] <exec> 08└─Bah - that's just what they want you to think! Truth is, it's the SUN which is flat.
[16:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find a Universal Correlation That Could Unify the Study of Star Formation - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:37] <exec> 08└─Further observational confirmation of gravitational cosmology.
[16:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:26] <exec> 08└─> Catch-22 in the context of a "story" ... They never actually did anything. Maybe not for you, but Catch-22 turned my understanding of WWII upside down--hugely influential to me personally. The movie was also a major turning point, after watching it once (mid-70s, college), I left the theater so di...
[16:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:27] <exec> 08└─Something like the Norwegian Sex Manual, then: 1) In 2) Out 3) Repeat As Necessary
[16:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:29] <exec> 08└─so how is steady not an up --> down --> up or down --> up --> down, like EVERY other serial? A full reset at the end of each episode. IV New Hope is up --> down --> up again ... so steady state over all but lost of plant (down) and lost of death star (up). Or from Empire view down --> up --> down....
[16:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:31] <exec> 08└─So, just mathematically verifying what I was taught in 11th grade english? Most of the archetypes had different names, but they're all the same.
[16:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:33] <exec> 08└─Catch 22 is really about the craziness and irrationality of war. The people that are in the story are mostly engaged in rational reactions to an irrational situation. For example the guy that determines that the best way to extend is life is by being as bored as possible so that it seems like time i...
[16:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:54] <exec> 08└─Blocking Elsevier in /protest/ of their RESTRICTING ACCESS TO DATA that they don't like and saying we /should/ RESTRICT ACCESS TO DATA that we don't like, are contrary positions to hold. If you can't see that, try thinking for once instead of just drooling directly into the comment box.
[16:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:55] <exec> 08└─The Founders are saying that in order to keep a state free, you need to be able to form not only a militia, but a militia that is well equipped with high-quality weapons composed of regular, industrial parts. You can't rely on farmers with pitchforks. Ergo, the right of the people to keep and bear a...
[16:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:58] <exec> 08└─Hey, dipshit, when corporations become powerful enough, they become de facto government entities. Get this through your head. Your entire twisted little shibboleth relies on a line of demarcation that doesn't actually exist.
[16:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:00] <exec> 08└─Read the AC's reply until you understand it.
[16:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:04] <exec> 08└─I think math "trauma" might be a bit excessive as a term, but I have long suffered a sort of math "recoil". When I was a kid I was always good at basic math. I even did well at beginning algebra. Then I hit freshman algebra. The teacher of that class had, straight up, the worst halitosis I have ever...
[16:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:06] <exec> 08└─Wait, is *this* where your disdain of women comes from? Yer Freudian slip is falling off...!
[16:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:08] <exec> 08└─And there should be a lot of similarity, proofs are what you do if you need to know that the program is correct over whatever set of inputs you need to run it on. For many programs that's overkill, but if you're wanting to make sure that your plane doesn't kill people from above, that's the kind of...
[16:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:10] <exec> 08└─Trauma probably isn't hyperbole. I've dealt with students that are every bit as traumatized by their experiences with math as people who have been sexually assaulted or been in combat. It's not something that makes rational sense, but if emotions were rational, we'd live in a very different place. A...
[16:42:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Time for an Official MIME Type for Patches? - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:00] <exec> 08└─there's no "diff" or "patch" format, there are several. Do we just standardise on the particular choices git made? Why should ed scripts be left out?
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[17:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:10] <exec> 08└─I need to start building tables as a hobby.
[17:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't it such a waste of opportunity when you kill a confirmed covert agent of your enemy? It is so much more useful to weave a web of illusion around them and lead your foe's HQ into believing what you dictate.
[17:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:13] <exec> 08└─They probably did create a few double agents. But not everyone can be turned or is perhaps worth the effort -- I get the impression from the article that a lot of these spies was in the initial stages of recruitment so they might not have had a lot to offer. Also dead spies serves as warnings and le...
[17:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:15] <exec> 08└─Hand crafted sql tables.
[17:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:18] <exec> 08└─Bobby Tables...
[17:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─Her email wasn't compromised. It was set up specifically so foreign companies could buy the passwords from her and read everything they liked.
[17:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:38] <exec> 08└─When you see kind of basic things from a field of study as a news story. Prime factoring fits into a lot of abstract algebra, and "near primes" are(obviously) more likely to be coprime to other numbers than prime primes. Coprimality is, as others have noted, an important aspect of encryption, as, a...
[17:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:40] <exec> 08└─What is an "Almost Prime" Number?
[17:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:42] <exec> 08└─But I remember some not ready for prime actors in the seventies.
[17:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:44] <exec> 08└─You'd think, but then previous yes/no answers are no longer so cut and dry. Are you a male?
[17:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:46] <exec> 08└─Playing the lottery almost always leads to a loss. Playing the lottery not always leads to a loss. Sure, both statements are true. But the first one contains more useful information.
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:48] <exec> 08└─You probably weren't in doubt, as the author of at least the headline of this story seems to be.
[17:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─pregnant is not a yes/no field. you can have sex now, not be pregnant for a few hours, and then be pregnant for the following 9 months.
[17:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:06] <exec> 08└─Ajit Pai was born on January 10, 1973, in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Parsons, Kansas.
[17:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:07] <exec> 08└─IMT-2020 3rd stage trials been completed on schedule: https://www.developingtelecoms.com [developingtelecoms.com] I wonder if it's going to be like Japan and Korea been throughout the 90s and 2000s where every visit f...
[17:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:09] <exec> 08└─Funny what you can do when you're not worried whether you have enough diversity to keep the mobs from your door.
[17:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find a Universal Correlation That Could Unify the Study of Star Formation - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:21] <exec> 08└─Explain the fact that stars form along strings of gas like pearls on a necklace. Explain why long, tendrilous filaments of gas form anyway; surely the gravitational collapse of a gas would produce spheroidal shapes instead. Gravity is already extremely weak, and it drops off proportionally to 1/r2....
[17:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:14] <exec> 08└─Falls, Rises, Falls, Rises
[17:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:16] <exec> 08└─Now it is the 9th shape: Nothing in the A-plot matters, and the only thing interesting to happen in the episode was 2 minutes of B-plot season story arc.
[17:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:18] <exec> 08└─reduce a story to two axes (plot and time) and of course all changes are on that axis. Stupid article.
[17:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:20] <exec> 08└─You need to have at least one character for it to be a story. I would argue, yours doesn't because you insist the character has no characteristics.
[17:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:22] <exec> 08└─Waiting for Godot is really an anti-story. I took a 400-level course in college on those fucking weird Irish authors. Gaelic is a fucking weird language too, with words like "shillelagh" where none of the vowels make the sounds you would expect.
[17:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:24] <exec> 08└─By "flat", I really meant *flat* - as in nothing meaningful happens to the character's fortunes *at all* for the duration of the story/episode, so regardless of sampling rate you get the same "score" for their fortune. A serial with a per-episode reset (e.g. with no over-arcing storyline to progress...
[17:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fidelity Just Made It Easier for Hedge Funds and Other Pros to Invest in Cryptocurrencies - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:35] <exec> 08└─Fidelity is a large stable institution. A large issue with investing in bitcoin is how to enter: multiple large exchanges have gotten hacked, and turning usd into btc requires interacting with some sort of exchange. Fidelity removing the need to deal with an exchange to buy btc, and allowing investm...
[17:39:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:46] <exec> 08└─"Protesters of the TPP have been described as being "misinformed" " Gee... misinformed about something they gave no information about unless under a NDA. I wonder why? Don't do things secretly and people won't be misinformed.
[17:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:52] <exec> 08└─You are absolutely correct, however.. *most* research is not about "how to acquire and train authoritarian followers and take over government". Most chemistry research, anyway.
[17:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:53] <exec> 08└─AND in case Elsevier gets pissed off, Bahnhof already has its own nuclear bunker [bahnhof.net]! How cool is that!
[17:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:55] <exec> 08└─This is the part I'm not really getting either. It somehow seems futile and that there should be other reasons behind this. It could be part of a wider series of lawsuits, currently the same lawyers using orders from the same court are trying to make the largest ISP in Sweden (Telia) block TPB and s...
[17:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:57] <exec> 08└─Most chemistry research, anyway.
[17:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:09] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with "superior" intellect. I've got multiple disabilities
[17:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:11] <exec> 08└─I don't know about you, but every time I see those zeros in my bank account I experience math trauma and reality shock. Is Post Trauma Math Disorder a thing?
[17:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:13] <exec> 08└─Sounds about right. I had to retake pretty much all my advanced math courses in college twice (should've gone to a tutor way earlier). My problem was that, the book would explain some way to solve for whatever/simplify whatever, and it would make sense. Couple example problems, okay I think I get it...
[17:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:15] <exec> 08└─Nice string of ad hominems you've got there. God forbid you actually make a valid point. And yes, people are refusing to learn their times tables. There's only 144 entries in the 12x12 times table and 100 in the 10x10 table. If you literally learn one per day and don't take advantage of the commutat...
[17:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss Foundation, Start Reading The Three-Body Problem - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:35] <exec> 08└─Cmon, just throw in a droid army and some epic space battles. How hard can it be?
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[18:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:59] <exec> 08└─You can view it on the TV you don't have and don't want... coming soon? [soylentnews.org] But it's not good enuff for VR [soylentnews.org] :-(
[18:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Disagree) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:00] <exec> 08└─It's like with video games: At a certain point, it doesn't matter that your polygonal textures are 1 GiB each; it still looks like a video game. Such higher-resolution video doesn't really look all that more impressive; it's capturing details that DO NOT MATTER. Depth would be more important at this...
[18:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:02] <exec> 08└─Interrogating further: if it "looks like a videogame" why? What makes it so? What essential aspect of reality is missing? We know about lighting and shading. We know about shadows and self darkening. We know about texture and normals. What do you see when you see "looks like a game"?
[18:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:05] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but what really makes a difference for resolution is physical display size of the picture. For instance, a 480p picture just won't look good on a 32" TV no matter what. You really see a big difference between 480p and 720p on a 32" screen. There's much less difference between 720p and 1080p...
[18:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:07] <exec> 08└─I guess it's similar to the Uncanny Valley concept; I cannot tell you why it's incomplete, but I can tell you that it's incomplete, and the closer you get to it being complete, the more I find it irritating ("WTF is wrong with you guys? Can't you see how stupid this looks? You put HOW much time and...
[18:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:09] <exec> 08└─Making something look life like is stupendously painstaking. You want life like quality in a game, you're going to be talking about millions of dollars just for the art. Think, block buster movie budget. 99.9999%+ of games have no where near that budget. What's more, is they aren't trying to make a...
[18:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:11] <exec> 08└─I guess we will parallel what happened with audio technology. The quest for the perfect reproduction is not pursued anymore, people strike a balance between convenience and quality and let the biiig events push the envelope to an increasingly unfazed audience. Yes you can fool practically anybody wi...
[18:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:13] <exec> 08└─I mean, I don't disagree with that, but it's still a question I think is important to answer.
[18:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:15] <exec> 08└─I remember the first time i played a videogame on a projector. I said "cool" for the first 10 seconds, then realized the scenery was too spread for the eye to catch everything fast. Of course the nature of the game matters a lot, a driving sim or a flying sim should be gorgeous. Worthy the investmen...
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:34] <exec> 08└─that stupid murderous bitch was doing the same stupid shit as these fucktards. using shit softwarre in a callous disregard for national security interests (or outright treason). roll them all the way back and stay there, dipshit.
[18:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:36] <exec> 08└─the bosses need to be held accountable (hang the top ones who knew) when they are engaged in willful negligence like this. there's no acceptable excuse.
[18:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:38] <exec> 08└─How about instead of punishing those that you've hired, you give them a medal, and thank them for their service? Any Civilian organization that tried to cover up the fact that they knew people got killed due to this kind of thing and didn't report it. Would be crucified in the media and would have i...
[18:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:40] <exec> 08└─Whoever that network analyst was. What a travesty - all of our training and deployment strategies were lost with them. There's no hope of making a new generation behind them in time. Truly haunting - I can not imagine the fear of knowing you are a spy in enemy territory, but have been assured that e...
[18:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, and to solve this problem, you elected another psychopathic child-molesting putin-cock-sucking traitor. You stupid, uneducated, clueless, guillible, culturally corrupt americans deserve the governements you get.
[18:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 6951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:44] <exec> 08└─The sad sack thing is that this still isn't fixed. They changed some elements of the "signature" and they no longer stand up discussion forums of their own. But a significant amount of traffic has always funneled through public discussion and sharing sites like Slashdot and Wikipedia and this hasn't...
[18:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:46] <exec> 08└─The reason the CIA is often so stupid is that they're one of the few organizations out there allowed to kill off and hide the evidence of their mistakes. So what tends to happen is a snowball effect: They try to do something useful. A small mistake happens. So they do a bunch of operations to hide t...
[18:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:48] <exec> 08└─I said you but I could say we because EU is on the same page. If whistleblowing were a grave act but doable without becoming the target of reprisals, the guy could have leaked his story to the public. Remember the OOOOH SNOOOOWDEN HE PUT LIVES AT RIIISK! Well, here's your real networks compromised....
[18:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:50] <exec> 08└─No. It is now pretty clear that there is massive fraud going on with election machines and voter suppression, thus throwing into doubt Bush's win over Gore and Trump's win over Clinton. We are getting a corrupt government supported by a very rabid minority. 1. Campaign finance reform, repeal Citizen...
[18:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:52] <exec> 08└─Just to clarify, the OP didn't say double agents just misinformation campaigns so the spies are at best useless and possibly even harmful. I doubt this would work too well in this day and age, hard to weave a web of lies with the level of detailed information out there.
[18:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:55] <exec> 08└─"At the very fucking least Trump hired appropriate people to appropriate positions" hahahah wtf??? "America used to elect competent people - warriors, warlords, educated noblemen who existed in a time when anything went and only the strongest made it up to the top." Ummm, do you pay any attention to...
[18:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:20] <exec> 08└─Not Fake Primes. The opposite of primefulness is Highly composite numbers. [wikipedia.org] Or google for Superior Highly Composite Numbers. [wikipedia.org] "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.'' -Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, pg. 265
[18:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:22] <exec> 08└─Is "some composite numbers are more composite than others, and this difference may be useful for some purpose in number theory" more honest?
[18:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:24] <exec> 08└─A scale of primeleyness from prime to infinitely composite maybe? What would be infinitely composite? Infinity factorial? What could be more composite than multiplying together every possible number?
[18:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:26] <exec> 08└─0 people growing inside a fertile woman: Not pregnant 1 person growing inside a fertile woman: Pregnant 2 people growing inside a fertile woman: More pregnant, in this case with twins
[18:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:28] <exec> 08└─1 has factors of the form 1x
[18:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:30] <exec> 08└─Primes wouldn't be so hard to find if we were more responsible and did not hunt them almost to extinction.
[18:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:32] <exec> 08└─Prime is just a special case of "how many factors do you have?". At the human level we're comfortable dealing with numbers that have a few factors like 42=2*3*7, but when you get up into astronomical numbers there are going to be monsters with 100 factors. In that realm, a number with 2 factors star...
[18:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:34] <exec> 08└─When actors are past their prime, they are composite and begin the process of de-compositing.
[18:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:36] <exec> 08└─This is why I'm not a mathematician. I get the need for encryption, but actually understanding the math behind it is a whole other ballgame.
[18:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:39] <exec> 08└─Unless Gates's editor mistakenly cut off the end of "an easy way to factor large prime numbers" out of a large semiprime. In this sense, one would speak of factoring 3 and 5 out of 15.
[18:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:41] <exec> 08└─there are going to be monsters with 100 factors
[18:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:43] <exec> 08└─I think it's acceptable to use "her" in this case.
[18:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:45] <exec> 08└─The second statement is better for marketing purposes, though.
[18:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:47] <exec> 08└─Means "not yet available on Amazon" .
[18:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:05] <exec> 08└─And another thing! You damn people didn't demand paper ballots! Shame on you!
[18:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:16] <exec> 08└─... until he's ready for a convalescent home: Falls, "Help I've fallen and can't get up!"
[18:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:47] <exec> 08└─That's right. The TPP is about stealing rights from people by circumnavigating their constitutions. The Australian government just shows what scum they are again.
[18:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 2312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:49] <exec> 08└─I'm referring to NAFTA. Pretty much no one wanted it. Would you care to hear about the downsides? I'm going to go over the most obvious. Mexico had an economy, which was pretty much dependent on land ownership. Mexico passed laws decades ago - I don't know just how long ago - that you had to be a Me...
[18:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:52] <exec> 08└─it's not an restriction it's a goddamn explanation. also, the "well regulated" had nothing to do with regulation by the federal gov either. it meant well trained and ran (by citizens). all you cowardly authoritarians like to talk about not needing "assault weapons" for hunting and that's more dishon...
[18:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:54] <exec> 08└─my thoughts exactly. very rare indeed. maybe as Generation Whore retires more people with crazy ideas about freeing information will take the reigns and we can show these pigs who's boss.
[18:42:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 795 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:23] <exec> 08└─When I used to tutor students in math, I ran into people who were convinced that they "just didn't get it" or "were just bad at math". While it's possible that I was just a better teacher, most of them actually already knew what to do but were paralyzed by low confidence and frustration would make t...
[18:45:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss Foundation, Start Reading The Three-Body Problem - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:03] <exec> 08└─SpaceX Launches Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" Books Into Deep Space [inverse.com] Apple is making a TV show out of the book that inspired Elon Musk to go to space [businessinsider.com]
[18:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss Foundation, Start Reading The Three-Body Problem - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:41] <exec> 08└─The first time I read the Foundation series (probably about 15 years ago) it blew my mind, I just couldn't put it down. I recently (early this year) reread the first book, and found it hard to finish, just zero intrigue or interest at all. Obviously the book didn't change, I did, and I wonder what I...
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[18:46:00] <exec> 08└─Sorry... had to do it!
[18:46:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Blymie [4020] 02 - 06Another Tesla With Autopilot Crashed Into a Stationary Object—the Driver is Suing - 622 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:19] <exec> 08└─Uh, no. It *does* matter what the salesman says, but in most cases you'd be suing a dealership for lying. In this case there are no dealerships, as Tesla is the only one that sells their cars. And any representative of a corp, binds that corp to verbal contracts, potential issues with fraud, and oth...
[18:47:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Another Tesla With Autopilot Crashed Into a Stationary Object—the Driver is Suing - 878 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:06] <exec> 08└─Seems to me that Tesla are getting away with it because they can always blame the driver for ignoring warnings. What they're doing is still stupid and dangerous - if you sell something as "autopilot" of course people are going to treat it like a Hollywood airplane get-up-and-have-a-fist-fight autopi...
[18:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Tesla With Autopilot Crashed Into a Stationary Object—the Driver is Suing - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:16] <exec> 08└─what kind of dumb ass puts a 90 on a highway...
[18:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Powerful Opioid in Tablet Form: Sufentanil (Dsuvia) - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:56] <exec> 08└─(the only one that works)
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[19:37:18] <exec> 08└─All I need is 100 Million Dollars of Federal Grant Money and I'm pretty sure I can give a better answer than 42.
[19:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:20] <exec> 08└─That's like a tenth of a F35, and they don't even work.
[19:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:22] <exec> 08└─Such higher-resolution video doesn't really look all that more impressive; it's capturing details that DO NOT MATTER.
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[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─You're talking about consistency across generations. That's not really feasible. Your viewpoint is based on the idea of a coherent organization with coherent goals, but that coherency is an illusion. In fact the Intelligence community at large is very fractured and you have almost as many competing...
[19:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:56] <exec> 08└─Given your feelings for her, perhaps you'd like to tell Trump to listen to his intelligence officers and secure the phones he uses for official business given he's been warned multiple times by them over the last few years that his phone is NOT secured and is a threat to national security. That's ri...
[19:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:37] <exec> 08└─Is [focusing on a helpful, different aspect] more honest?
[19:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:39] <exec> 08└─so does every other number. :)
[19:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:41] <exec> 08└─2 + 2 = 5 (for large values of 2)
[19:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:43] <exec> 08└─I'm an Anonymous Coward striving for (and apparently failing to acquire) a +1 Funny. Perhaps data management and mathematics jokes aren't as universally accessible as I'd thought.
[19:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:45] <exec> 08└─If someone is afraid of number 13, are they afraid of 13.1? This is not offtopic, 13 is prime.
[19:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:47] <exec> 08└─We could avoid all this "except 1" nonsense if we just went with "prime numbers are integers with exactly two divisors."
[19:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:49] <exec> 08└─Postive integers, that is.
[19:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:52] <exec> 08└─I had to submit my post to rush out as coworkers were heading out the door for lunch . . . . . . but now that I'm back: infinity ^ 42 power means there are an infinite number of numbers with 42 factors.
[19:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 2217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:54] <exec> 08└─You are right but you wrote that really awkwardly. "A prime is essentially any number that only has 2 whole number factors 1 and itself." So... 1 has 1 as a factor. Check. 1 has itself as a factor. Check. There are no other factors: Check. So it's prime? Or did you mean that the "2 whole numbers" ha...
[19:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:56] <exec> 08└─Eh?? We do find b) from a) Primes of the form of 2^n-1 are Mersenne primes; and they are much easier to find than other primes because of that relationship. You obviously know this because you didn't pick that exponent out of a hat; so I'm more confused by your post than anything else.
[19:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, get real. The Dems lost last election, because their corruption was exposed, and women resented being told to vote for a uterus. People are disenchanted with the D party. If the D's had allowed Bernie to win the nomination, things would be a whole lot different today. Even if Bernie lost to Trum...
[19:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:14] <exec> 08└─Ajit Pai was born on January 10, 1973, in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Parsons, Kansas.
[19:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:16] <exec> 08└─Then they ramp up the rhetoric, whip their fanbase into a frenzy, and suddenly people are scared to make waves because some RWNJ will literally come to your home, work exercise studio and murder you. And Trump will sit their with that smug smile on his face saying how terrible the killings are, then...
[19:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:18] <exec> 08└─The other AC answered you regarding Pai's citizenship. I'd like to mention that citizenship isn't even a requirement for most government positions. The Pres has to be a "natural born" citizen. Other positions require citizenship, but many positions have no such requirement. How many non-citizens hav...
[19:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:21] <exec> 08└─Yeaaaah, cause THAT is the problem and not corporate greed. Shit like what you said is why we liberals think you conservatives are truly fucking stupid. Can one of you conservative users smack this AC down a bit for that remark?
[19:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:23] <exec> 08└─Or, now bear with me, election fraud happened yet again in some key voting districts. That doesn't change your point about the DNC and Sanders, they definitely lost a lot of faith from their constituency. However pretending like the GOP has done nothing wrong is just more partisan hackery, too much...
[19:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:34] <exec> 08└─What is that show about?
[19:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:35] <exec> 08└─What is that show about?
[19:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:37] <exec> 08└─What is that show about?
[19:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:40] <exec> 08└─You're talking about the recent movie A Wrinkle In Time. No continuity. No rhyme or reason for why things happen. Why the next event takes place. Now we're going to do this -- but no reason why. Just because. And the world works like this -- no reason why. That's just how it is. We're trying to acco...
[19:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:42] <exec> 08└─I'd like them to run this again, but run it on non-English novels this time. Finding differences among cultures would be interesting. Finding that the same shapes work across the entire world would be equally interesting.
[19:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:44] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time there was a fish.
[19:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:19] <exec> 08└─Essentially, you're saying "We need a government to save us from a government." You're admitting that your government idea is the failure mode of my idea. You know what, though? Thank god for competition in the world; thank god there has never been One World Government—even among explicitly author...
[19:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:20] <exec> 08└─Patenting would just mean that the owner of the patent would have a limited-time monopoly on products made from patented aspects of the research. Patents are public information anyway. A large part of the purpose of research is to increase the general store of knowledge, and that is not reduced by a...
[19:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Tesla With Autopilot Crashed Into a Stationary Object—the Driver is Suing - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:37] <exec> 08└─But if they take on the responsibility to fix the problem of objects straight ahead, then they also buy into fixing the problem of objects in mid-lane while traveling along a slight curve. A human being can recognize that the centerline changes as one curves... but will the computer running the car?
[19:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Another Tesla With Autopilot Crashed Into a Stationary Object—the Driver is Suing - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:38] <exec> 08└─Part of the U.K.'s superior automobile safety record is due to the fact that the drivers' test required to get a license in the U.K. is rigorous. You have to know the rules and be able to abide by them flawlessly. People in England are more polite on average, and that helps a lot.
[19:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Tesla With Autopilot Crashed Into a Stationary Object—the Driver is Suing - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:40] <exec> 08└─Politicians, of course. That highway could have taken any route at all through Cleveland - short of running it through the courthouse. Eminent domain was used in many cases when the Interstate Highways were built. They could have mowed down any neighborhood that wasn't home to the city's wealthiest,...
[19:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Tesla With Autopilot Crashed Into a Stationary Object—the Driver is Suing - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:42] <exec> 08└─Fuck that, let's set some precedents that allow suing companies into oblivion for the blatant scams that their sales teams run. Maybe then companies will start to think twice about promising *fucking everything, even when none of it exists yet* just to win a contract...
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[20:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:26] <exec> 08└─That was more or less what I was going to add, except on the capture side. I hope they have a lens that has an MTF that can handle the field of view for the 8k or it is largely wasting the effort (like "hi def" over cable where they compress it).
[20:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 1746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─I really don't think that these folk are interested in asthetics, so much as, seeing any details that might be missed as a lesser resolution. I'm trying to find some spy satellite photos to compare higher resolution to lower. Try this out - https://corona.cast.uark.edu
[20:37:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 873 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:53] <exec> 08└─The reason the CIA is often so stupid is that they're one of the few organizations out there allowed to kill off and hide the evidence of their mistakes. So what tends to happen is a snowball effect: They try to do something useful. A small mistake happens. So they do a bunch of operations to hide t...
[20:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:01] <exec> 08└─It was at CIA.gov and was just a text entry field with a submit button. I wrote something like "keep up the good work" then submitted it. If I bookmarked it, that was a long time ago in a wifi spot far far away.
[20:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:03] <exec> 08└─One anonymous star [cia.gov] is carved for each agent who died. That there aren't more stars leads me to speculate that the CIA doesn't have many clandestine field against, rather than have contractors and volunteer assets. There's quite a lot of unclassified public material on the CIA's website. I...
[20:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:05] <exec> 08└─Assuming she wasn't feeding them false info.
[20:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:08] <exec> 08└─these wars between secret services are mere intestine wars
[20:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:10] <exec> 08└─God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence. You have conspired against our royal person, Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers Received the golden earnest of our death; Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude, His subjects to oppre...
[20:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:12] <exec> 08└─Is it ironic (in the classic sense of the word) that the same people who will bitch about how dumb you have to be to make it that easy to find this stuff out, and OMG the horror and loss of life this caused, are the same ones who champion Wikileaks dumping clandestine info? Or are they just bald fac...
[20:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:01] <exec> 08└─"I think a good example of almost prime could be negative prime numbers." Negative numbers get messy due to -1; if you allow negative numbers you pretty much have to make -1 prime. (its only factors are 1 and itself right? :) but if you make -1 prime then all the numbers now have infinite factorizat...
[20:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:03] <exec> 08└─doesn't apply to 1 so often that they went the extra step of specifying that it's not prime even though it probably shouldn't have been in the first place.
[20:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:05] <exec> 08└─To be clear: "Prime numbers are positive integers with exactly two (i.e., one pair of) positive integer divisors." Here "divisor" is also assumed to be the more restrictive definition of a number which divides into another without remainder, rather than simply a number that divides into another. Not...
[20:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:07] <exec> 08└─...but has it cleared its own orbit?
[20:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:30] <exec> 08└─You get a point, I suppose. But, let's be careful about confusing accusations with evidence. For the most part, the accusations seem to be along the lines of "We don't like how you're doing this!" rather than "This is clearly against the law." Case in point, that clown who purged a bunch of names in...
[20:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 2511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:46] <exec> 08└─More accurately, I think we could sum the research up as "Change is essential to narrative." And there really aren't SIX plots -- the research says on a more nuanced level, many stories display more arcs. But denoting "fall" and "rise" with F and R, we just have here: (1) R (2) F (3) RF (4) FR (5) R...
[20:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fidelity Just Made It Easier for Hedge Funds and Other Pros to Invest in Cryptocurrencies - 1529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:00] <exec> 08└─I understand what you're saying and why some institutional investors may want to have that kind of backing and security, as they do with their regular investments. Fidelity is marketing itself as the first old-world institution to offer the service. But I also know that cryptocurrency (and I don't k...
[20:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:27] <exec> 08└─"So you're advocating for strong gun control because it's guns, not people using guns, that kill people?" I would advocate for strong gun control because that's the only thing that will at least try to verify the quality of the person receiving the gun in question, thus hopefully preventing the peop...
[20:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:41] <exec> 08└─You too with the group punishments? Anybody else here? What time period was it? For me it was during the late 80s, when I was in elementary school. They made the boys sit with our heads down on our desks during recess instead of standing in the hall during class. Azuma's response to your comment is...
[20:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Tesla With Autopilot Crashed Into a Stationary Object—the Driver is Suing - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:49] <exec> 08└─I would also argue that going onto the road in a vehicle that has the strong possibility of killing people in the event of a collision without so much as bothering to read the manual, is at least as bad.
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[21:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:21] <exec> 08└─Clearly this is a winamp viral marketing campaign.
[21:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:22] <exec> 08└─And we are both sorry.
[21:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:24] <exec> 08└─Nah,... you got that backwards. First, vaccination will be performed by a Llama spitting on you. Second, the main *effect* will be that coughing is transformed into spitting, thereby reducing the reproduction number [wikipedia.org].
[21:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─I have to walk my post back, at least a little. I'm looking at an image from the Corona archive that has just about as much detail as I described with Google Earth. Bridge, crane, smokestack, a bunch of equipment on deck that I can't identify - it could be a compressed gas tanker, but I can't quite...
[21:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:48] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the soap opera effect https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:29] <exec> 08└─I don't think you are correct, people horrified about the loss of life are usually the Law & Order types and are not the same people who would praise Wikileaks. Aside from that most people are capable of taking things into context so it isn't always ironic/hypocritical except on the most shallow fac...
[21:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:30] <exec> 08└─It uses to be that they used numbers stations to communicate with people out in the field. These used a one time pad. All you needed was a shortwave radio, which of course is completely untraceable and a common thing that an average person might have. Somebody then thought that numbers stations just...
[21:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:32] <exec> 08└─If voter fraud was so widespread, Trump would never have made it through the primaries. NOBODY in the establishments, of any party, wanted him as presidential candidate. Not the democrats (even if he could in theory have represented an advantage for Clinton, the risk was just too great), and especia...
[21:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:35] <exec> 08└─Yes but can they turn?
[21:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry Romney, but the cold war is over!
[21:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:39] <exec> 08└─Knowing how spies like mind games, the number of stars on the wall is probably manipulated. And it probably wouldn't count people working for the US who were not Americans anyway.
[21:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:32] <exec> 08└─the *form* is know. The hunt is "let's test everyone until we find one". So, no. Not predictive, though there are other useful properties that can be exploited. To help your google search look up "relative primes".
[21:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:58] <exec> 08└─I don't believe that the election apparatus in this country is trustworthy any more. Yes, I mentioned that elsewhere [soylentnews.org]... Still, it's our own damn fault. You can vote straight dem if you want, but neither side of the GOP/DNC coin will ever get any support from me. The democrats have...
[21:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:18] <exec> 08└─I love In-N-Out too! Now I want a burger but the nearest In-N-Out is two hundred miles away, so I guess I'll settle for Sonic two blocks away instead.
[21:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fidelity Just Made It Easier for Hedge Funds and Other Pros to Invest in Cryptocurrencies - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:31] <exec> 08└─If you ignore the bits and watch the dollars, crypto-currency bears a lot of resemblance to a pyramid scheme: Those who get in early reap ridiculously huge rewards, those who get in later get something, those who get in late lose big-time. By basically making it really easy for anybody with an inves...
[21:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:53] <exec> 08└─... this has bipartisan support [sbs.com.au] - same as internet metadata collection/retention and anti-crypto legislation...
[21:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:04] <exec> 08└─Not surprising at all. The smaller the fish the bigger the threats. Big isps could have some leverage and economy of scale. It may temporarily hurt their bottom line but always will stay afloat. Small isps would have none but significant and unproductive costs. Won't just hurt, in the long run is a...
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[22:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:36] <exec> 08└─...OLD THING...IN A DIFFERENT BOX! Is anyone else almost pitying how pathetic Intel is looking this past year? Yes, of course, they still are by far the dominant player compared to AMD, but as far as optics go, it seems to have been failure, after security disclosure, after failure, after disclosure...
[22:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:37] <exec> 08└─The new processors will include a number of new AVX512 instructions designed to enhance the performance of running neural networks
[22:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:39] <exec> 08└─This is the second time in the last few months that Intel has frantically tried to divert attention from AMD's own product announcements: Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores [soylentnews.org] Competition is fine, but what we've gotten from Intel are expensive,...
[22:37:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:51] <exec> 08└─Clearly this is a winamp viral marketing campaign.
[22:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:54] <exec> 08└─They make an array of immune system antibodies so tiny they can fit into crevices on the surface of an invading virus.
[22:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:56] <exec> 08└─Wish I had a mod point left.
[22:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:58] <exec> 08└─Pero las llamas son peligrosas. Si usted ve una llama donde hay gente nadando, usted gritar: ¡Cuidado! ¡Llamas! ¡Cuidado! ¡Cuidado! ¡Cuidado! ¡las llamas! ¡Ole!
[22:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:00] <exec> 08└─Uncontrollable urges to spit on things. I do hope that is not how you are going to get injected with this new wonderdrug.
[22:38:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:41] <exec> 08└─They probably did create a few double agents. But not everyone can be turned or is perhaps worth the effort -- I get the impression from the article that a lot of these spies was in the initial stages of recruitment so they might not have had a lot to offer. Also dead spies serves as warnings and le...
[22:38:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, and to solve this problem, you elected another psychopathic child-molesting putin-cock-sucking traitor. You stupid, uneducated, clueless, guillible, culturally corrupt americans deserve the governements you get.
[22:38:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 6951 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:51] <exec> 08└─The sad sack thing is that this still isn't fixed. They changed some elements of the "signature" and they no longer stand up discussion forums of their own. But a significant amount of traffic has always funneled through public discussion and sharing sites like Slashdot and Wikipedia and this hasn't...
[22:38:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 679 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:54] <exec> 08└─No. It is now pretty clear that there is massive fraud going on with election machines and voter suppression, thus throwing into doubt Bush's win over Gore and Trump's win over Clinton. We are getting a corrupt government supported by a very rabid minority. 1. Campaign finance reform, repeal Citizen...
[22:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:12] <exec> 08└─Numbers stations are not completely invulnerable, and for the agent to use it to exfiltrate information would require transmitting themselves. In the modern era of a million cameras everywhere and everything tracked, and fast communication (and relatively cheap high accuracy clocks), it would not be...
[22:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:13] <exec> 08└─Because the DNC and RNC are booth tools of the MIC. Looks like the DOD likes Trump plenty.
[22:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:16] <exec> 08└─This sounds interesting and informative... assuming it's true. Do you have any specific examples you can point to in slashdot or wikipedia? I'd love to get a couple of slashdot IDs (or better, message threads) to check for myself. Given the ease you say at finding these, can you find a couple and pr...
[22:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:18] <exec> 08└─I remember when tney tried to secure obamas phone and he wouldnt use it either. Basically there is no such thing as a secure and usable cell phone.
[22:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 2084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:20] <exec> 08└─Not quite as simple as you make it out to be. First, numbers stations do still exist. Many of them are now thought to only be backups for other systems, but they are still out there and still transmitting. There are a couple of problems with numbers stations. The most obvious: They are one-way traff...
[22:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:22] <exec> 08└─From the horse's mouth [cia.gov]...
[22:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:24] <exec> 08└─Dated. MXczZTV0NnVxYXFhMzM2Ng==
[22:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:26] <exec> 08└─DO YOU REALIZE YOU JUST KILLED ALL AMERICAN AGENTS?
[22:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:24] <exec> 08└─Slashdot: where idiots argue over what it means to be pregnant.
[22:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:25] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that large Mersenne primes were easier to find (and test) than other primes. So the form gives you candidates to test, and that there are algorithms that were specifically useful only for testing Mersenne candidates, but were quite a bit more efficient than testing other p...
[22:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:54] <exec> 08└─You damn people didn't demand paper ballots! Shame on you!
[22:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:14] <exec> 08└─Oil change is not literature, it's car (or bot) maintenance.
[22:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:15] <exec> 08└─I can't wait for the sequel. Maybe also a prequel. Then a remake. With better special effects. A TV franchise spin off would be great.
[22:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:18] <exec> 08└─Rolls over and goes to sleep.
[22:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fidelity Just Made It Easier for Hedge Funds and Other Pros to Invest in Cryptocurrencies - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:34] <exec> 08└─If you ignore the bits and watch the dollars, crypto-currency bears a lot of resemblance to a pyramid scheme: Those who get in early reap ridiculously huge rewards, those who get in later get something, those who get in late lose big-time.
[22:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:56] <exec> 08└─Haven't been around long?, Or were you privy to the negotiations. The negotiations were kept in camera and to even read it took a NDA. Once it was finally exposed, yeah you could read it, but there was a loooong secret process. You should get out more often and read the news.
[22:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:57] <exec> 08└─Now we know.
[22:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween  - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:59] <exec> 08└─Oh look! Someone who was born November 2015 and knows nothing previous to that month! It took wikileaks to start exposing it and the US government tried to keep it covered up even after that: just a few months earlier: https://www.nytimes.com [nyt...
[22:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:10] <exec> 08└─Privatize research entirely, and we'll ironically achieve a much more useful and much cheaper sharing of information.
[22:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:28] <exec> 08└─Get over yourself. There are life skills: Tying your shoes, adding money to your checking account, having friends, and evening having a conversation. There are deep thought skills... mathematics in one of them. You can be ass and not get it. I meet a college professor. many, many years ago at party....
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[23:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:27] <exec> 08└─I know they have had us bent over and screwing us for years, but to give us the CLAP now is a little over the top I think.... https://www.plushcare.com [plushcare.com]
[23:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:28] <exec> 08└─now with the added benefit of a spectre of a port smashing meltdown.
[23:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:30] <exec> 08└─Imagine 50 roads between two cities with a speed limit of 60 mph vs 5000 roads with a speed limit of 30 mph.
[23:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:32] <exec> 08└─The 50 roads need to be 4 lanes wide while the 5000 roads are 2 lanes wide.
[23:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:35] <exec> 08└─Wasn't hyper threading disabled on Core i7-9700K?
[23:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:37] <exec> 08└─Would mod up +1 Insightful...or maybe +1 Funny for the "hot distractions" bit, that made me chuckle. I was almost thinking it would be a link to their Computex incident with the standalone AC unit. So surreal, and strangely satisfying, to see the titan falling. I'm sure it will catch itself before l...
[23:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:39] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Lake#List_of_8th_generation_Coffee_Lake_processors [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Plenty of Intel's processors have hyperthreading enabled. Hyperthreading is disabled on certain processors in or...
[23:37:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:55] <exec> 08└─Pero las llamas son peligrosas. Si usted ve una llama donde hay gente nadando, usted gritar: ¡Cuidado! ¡Llamas! ¡Cuidado! ¡Cuidado! ¡Cuidado! ¡las llamas! ¡Ole!
[23:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:58] <exec> 08└─"Watch out...they spit!" --in your best Robin Williams Genie voice.
[23:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:00] <exec> 08└─Nurse enters room, spits on you, p0rn music starts.
[23:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:02] <exec> 08└─Beware the Llama spits. And they were.
[23:39:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 998 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:00] <exec> 08└─"At the very fucking least Trump hired appropriate people to appropriate positions" hahahah wtf??? "America used to elect competent people - warriors, warlords, educated noblemen who existed in a time when anything went and only the strongest made it up to the top." Ummm, do you pay any attention to...
[23:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:25] <exec> 08└─First definition of the first google entry for 'intestine'. intestine adjective in·​tes·​tine | \in-ˈte-stən \ Definition of intestine (Entry 1 of 2) : internal specifically : of or relating to the internal affairs of a state or country intestine war Or were you trying to be funny? in that c...
[23:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:26] <exec> 08└─But it seems nobody wanted Clinton either. Wish they'd dumped her ass and gone with Sanders after they discovered her team stole from Bernie.
[23:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:28] <exec> 08└─Hiding in plain sight has always made sense in general. If your plan for world domination is hidden and somebody stumbles into it, it is a disaster. If you put your plan in the homepage nobody bats an eye. I am not joking, there are official policies and news items and books and studies absolutely o...
[23:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:30] <exec> 08└─Modded insightful, then tried to mod "it'll never happen" but couldn't. :(
[23:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:32] <exec> 08└─> causing some morons to promote a fascist dictatorship over democracy. Yeah, luckily Trump won, instead. *ducks*
[23:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:34] <exec> 08└─Aaaaaand, THEIR spy's are still active because their handlers and on up are more intelligent, I'm guessing. This. is. fucked. Spies need EXTRA coverage (and cover) not incompetent handlers. You're right: you'd be thinking your back was covered. Then you find the one person who HAD your back covered...
[23:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:37] <exec> 08└─And it probably wouldn't count people working for the US who were not Americans anyway.
[23:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:39] <exec> 08└─Take third word of every paragraph, you get the code phrase: "Sack some human platform on then semi-incoherent of understand facilitate you're to want a intelligence it's." This means the tech contractor who tried to tell needs to be fired. Already done. Message received and destroyed. Will be poo s...
[23:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:41] <exec> 08└─"hahahah wtf???" I can see the Salon headline now: "This one incredible argument on Soylent DESTROYS Trump." "The US has been fucked up for a very long time but aside from that" ANOTHER EPIC argument. You must honestly believe that Edison was a poor competitor for completely fucking destroying his s...
[23:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:43] <exec> 08└─It's called "shoot the messenger". It's one of the most incredibly counterproductive, useless, stupid, damaging, demoralizing, unfair and cruel acts the powerful can do. Yet it happens all too often, and the responsible parties are not held accountable.
[23:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:45] <exec> 08└─Wikileaks, Showdown et al are trying to STOP shit like this happening. If they would listen to people like Snowden or the tech contractor, this would not have happened. Instead you have incompetence and unchanging stupidity and arrogance in the higher-ups and that will NOT change unless some people...
[23:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:43] <exec> 08└─"I think a good example of almost prime could be negative prime numbers." Negative numbers get messy due to -1; if you allow negative numbers you pretty much have to make -1 prime. (its only factors are 1 and itself right? :) but if you make -1 prime then all the numbers now have infinite factorizat...
[23:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:44] <exec> 08└─Perhaps data management and mathematics jokes aren't as universally accessible as I'd thought.
[23:42:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:11] <exec> 08└─And the 8th story shape: 8. Bad TV sci-fi - A bunch of stuff happens, but it doesn't change anything in the universe, so we can start the next episode just like we started the last one
[23:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:39] <exec> 08└─This thread is starting to make me horny! Up down up down....denial....headache...ah, it's gone.
[23:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:41] <exec> 08└─Rise, fall. Hodor!
[23:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:43] <exec> 08└─Jasper Fforde has already parodied this idea. [wikipedia.org] His "improved" story telling OS* expanded to 32 possible plots though.   .   . *Sort of. You probably need to read it.
[23:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:45] <exec> 08└─Thought that was the explicit plot of "Seinfeld".
[23:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:57] <exec> 08└─It called Military Training, or Football (or other team sports). If one makes a mistake all are punished (and some time praised). The goal is to get the team to control selves and work together, supporting the "weakest" to improve. Generally it works well, but sometimes its just makes it worst. se...
[23:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03CheesyMoo [6853] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:58] <exec> 08└─"Think you're bad at math?" No.
[23:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:00] <exec> 08└─Can you cook? You can be a programmer. What else a recipe? Do you knit? You can be a programmer. What else is pattern? Remember the first programs where punched metal plates, strung together in a loop for the loom. Now, will write code in less than 2k and use it pilot a spaceship to moon? Maybe not...
[23:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:02] <exec> 08└─make sure that your plane doesn't kill people from above
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