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[00:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:33] <exec> 08└─You became a space power when you sent a probe to Mars, and that was enough. Thanks for shooting something at only 300km (months to a couple years to deorbit) rather than 800km like China (hundreds of years). But really, you've got nukes and almost 1.4B people (about 1B, since you refuse to notice y...
[00:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:34] <exec> 08└─Come on, USA, squash this feisty overgrown upstart before it gets too uppity. It'll be good practice for China.
[00:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:37] <exec> 08└─this is not a defensive weapon It is easier to build an offensive weapon, though -satellites fly unremarkably predictable paths - no need to heat them up so the missiles can find them.. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:39] <exec> 08└─Once everyone decides that shooting down all their rival nation's satellites is a good idea, Kessler syndrome will lock humanity down to this rock for a long time after.
[00:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:41] <exec> 08└─I had to look up Kessler syndrome. Here's a link. [wikipedia.org]
[00:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:52] <exec> 08└─I can say that the quality of the software varies from bad to worse than horrible. Somehow the bugs seem to come pre-installed in even the newest vendors' software. I shouldn't complain though - it certainly pays the bills.
[00:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:54] <exec> 08└─Even without corruption, I have never seen any government contracted software that was worth a damn. The middle and upper management and endless project managers suck up the entire budget; so little money left for the actual code means it will get farmed out to head shops across a dozen teams in Ind...
[00:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:56] <exec> 08└─But the order never made it to the lab; it had never been transmitted.
[00:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Birth-Year Hoax Locks Users Out of Accounts - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:15] <exec> 08└─We all should be so lucky.
[00:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 1806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:46] <exec> 08└─In all your thrown away items, the source of failure was not the complex machinery itself, but the battery. That tells me that: (a) battery technology sucks, so we should try to have as few things as possible running on batteries, and (b) if your thing must have a battery, you should only buy things...
[00:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:48] <exec> 08└─It's all just a show, anyway. I don't believe that any Congresscritter, from either side of the Party, views this as anything other than a tool for pandering to potential voters.
[00:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:50] <exec> 08└─In all your thrown away items, the source of failure was not the complex machinery itself, but the battery.
[00:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:52] <exec> 08└─You may think this is a joke, but NCR cash registers 100 years ago were not standard for precisely the same reason, to keep people from repairing them.
[00:39:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06Google to Enable "Dynamic Emails" Using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - 570 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:03] <exec> 08└─google serves one master: its business model. this is the only reaon for them doing this kind of crap. no user ever asked for this and no organization really wants this. google wants this. fuck google. (I wonder: can we fund a project that puts 'moles' into google as employees, with the sole goal of...
[00:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google to Enable "Dynamic Emails" Using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:34] <exec> 08└─dancing baloney
[00:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google to Enable "Dynamic Emails" Using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:36] <exec> 08└─I have a nice set of French Curves I could send you.
[00:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google to Enable "Dynamic Emails" Using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:38] <exec> 08└─I guess I'm going back to Tbird for my mail reader.
[00:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Medical Students Losing Dexterity to Perform Surgeries Due to Smartphone Usage - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:17] <exec> 08└─Well, my comment was mostly in jest to show that you can make studies like this fit whatever conclusion you want. P-hacking at its finest. The study was 15 years ago, I suspect the techniques for something as technical as laparoscopy have changed since then. And, honestly, either way I think the res...
[00:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Medical Students Losing Dexterity to Perform Surgeries Due to Smartphone Usage - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:18] <exec> 08└─My cousin is a Biology PhD that taught some pre-med biology classes early in his career. He said the amount of idiots in pre-med made him terrified of the entire medical industry.
[00:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill Survives First Vote - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:12] <exec> 08└─Because it doesn't have a catchy acronym, like PATRIOT, HELLPP and the others made up by jizzwaffles who think a name is more important than the bill.
[00:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill Survives First Vote - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:13] <exec> 08└─The external view of a decades-long-politically-aware European (with an American g/f who agrees with him) is that historically, the Dems have been more moderately likely to blindly vote along party lines, and thus almost certaintly with no respect for the voters they are supposed to represent, than...
[00:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill Survives First Vote - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:16] <exec> 08└─Can you extricate its storage and mount it on another machine? You might be able to find a known password hash in /etc/passwd. If not, can you interpose a box of your own behind your modem but in front of their modem that sniffs any attempts for them to control their modem?
[00:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill Survives First Vote - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:18] <exec> 08└─Communication should be trading infomation between the endpoints, yes. This means that the ISPs should be nothing more than dumb pipes. The service they trade is, or at least should be, "a connection", nothing more.
[00:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill Survives First Vote - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:20] <exec> 08└─Repeal NETFUCKER!
[00:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill Survives First Vote - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:22] <exec> 08└─I'm not impressed with your silly Illuminati cliches. Not a big follower, though the books were hilarious. Not my fault if your "joke" flopped. I took issue with something entirely different in the same post.
[00:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:57] <exec> 08└─I just took the given simple fact of 1 disease death per 100k population per year. That is a given (approximated) fact from the tables.
[00:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:59] <exec> 08└─You did chose a population, as there were clearly 2 possibilities. One was relevant, one was irrelevant, and I'm guessing you chose the irrelevant one. Lack of actual response argument, apart from flailing wildly, noted.
[00:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:01] <exec> 08└─No, I really do not know how many students are in these schools who were "exposed". They chose to not tell us that for whatever reason.
[00:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:23] <exec> 08└─I have an explanation: normal people ⊇ people on the wrong side of the autism spectrum ⊇ mathematicians
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[01:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:34] <exec> 08└─Hello this is Microsoft support calling. Your satellite is sending bad things to the internet, let me help you fix your satellite for you.
[01:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:35] <exec> 08└─Forget the Kessler syndrome. Most of the debris will decay, and the rest could be cleaned up by missions. The real issue is: What do you do when your GPS/GLONASS/BeiDou/IRNSS satellite is destroyed? Destroy an enemy satellite, or fire the nukes?
[01:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:51] <exec> 08└─What's the best option from hippie pinko socialist countries that have (ostensibly) a more mature, unified national health records database? I figure they would have solved this a long time ago, or at least be a lot further along.
[01:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:52] <exec> 08└─Well, surprise, surprise. The big complicated electronic medical system is just like any other piece of enterprise shitware. A giant squid like-monster of code with tendrils reaching out to thousands of external systems, maintained by a fleet of outsourced Indians that changes daily, built on long f...
[01:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Birth-Year Hoax Locks Users Out of Accounts - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:12] <exec> 08└─They did.
[01:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:48] <exec> 08└─The main culprit on small farmers being squeezed is explicit government policies. It's a long story, but the government has been looking for efficiencies, and on the mantra that bigger is better, they've been squeezing down small farmers for decades. This is why small private dairy farms were everyw...
[01:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:50] <exec> 08└─they are still guaranteed fresh until January 2139 So, they will outlast Unix?
[01:39:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Google to Enable "Dynamic Emails" Using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - 804 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:10] <exec> 08└─"That means you'll be able to RSVP to an event right from the message, fill out a questionnaire, browse through a store's inventory or respond to a comment — all without leaving your web-based email client." The web-based email client... that's running in a browser... and is more than capable of o...
[01:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill Survives First Vote - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:14] <exec> 08└─party lines = contributors/lobbyists demands or the money goes elsewhere. It's strictly business. And the democrats are indistinguishable from the republicans, aside from that they (democrats) have to play two sides to keep the "liberal" money in the corral. The republicans don't have this issue. Wh...
[01:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:53] <exec> 08└─just mentioning thruths that are inconvenient to what these idiots think is counterculture (actually programmed into their slave brains by the establishment) is routinely modded as trolling.
[01:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:55] <exec> 08└─Even if transmission should be possible, you do NOT infect people with actual measles.
[01:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Physicists Uncover Three New Pentaquarks - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:06] <exec> 08└─Hey, I deserve props for quoting that from memory across the decades, even if I didn't get every single little tiny syllable [youtube.com]
[01:45:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Apple Unveils... a Titanium Credit Card - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:28] <exec> 08└─Apple doesn't know what you bought, where you bought it, and how much you paid for it
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[02:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Chemical Reaction Can Combine Dinitrogen Molecules - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:30] <exec> 08└─at minus 30 degrees Celsius and under a moderate pressure of nitrogen (around four atmospheres).
[02:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Chemical Reaction Can Combine Dinitrogen Molecules - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:31] <exec> 08└─That's about the same as Canada I think. Just put a coat on, you'll be fine.
[02:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:45] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, Space Force is comeing. Separate but Equal!!!! 🚀
[02:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:47] <exec> 08└─and, don't ask-don't tell.
[02:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:49] <exec> 08└─What I don't get is: why space? Pakistan is right next door.
[02:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:51] <exec> 08└─Less fallout, this way.
[02:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:08] <exec> 08└─Oh, I still write it. I just won't use it personally.
[02:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:09] <exec> 08└─The waste and corruption at Epic [epic.com] is, well, epic.
[02:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 1672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:11] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget the HILs (Humans In the Loop). The doc could have / should have communicated the need for the test clearly to the patient. The patient then could have / should have followed up to ensure they got the test they need from the obviously indifferent system that provides the testing. The...
[02:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:13] <exec> 08└─HL7 is a horrendously lame protocol with roots back in the 1980s - transmit and pray is one of the modes acceptable under HL7. FHIR is slightly better, a little more closed loop, a little more web-friendly, but it's like trying to assemble plastic toy bricks from different vendors, and none of them...
[02:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:16] <exec> 08└─Electronic Health Records - as implemented in the US healthcare system - is a jobs program. Every time somebody proposes connecting one system to another, integration specialists on both sides make out $30K invoices for the "engineering" necessary to get them talking. It's big, but the thing that ha...
[02:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:18] <exec> 08└─...starting to think that subjecting myself to the medical-industrial-complex in the US does more net harm than good for my quality of life.
[02:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:20] <exec> 08└─The issue isn't the data protocols or formats, the issue is the inherent messaging protocols. Sender: "Sent message 200kb" Receiver: "Received message 1200kb" Both store both messages, with validation with date and time stamps. Both systems then flag anomalies "message sent, no reciept, re-send and...
[02:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:17] <exec> 08└─I repair agricultural equipment (mostly Planter/Drill Monitors and Scales) for a living. Believe me, many farmers are very skilled and capable. Part of the ethos of farming includes a do-it-yourself mindset. Of course, sometimes they open the box up and just screw things up. But that's not common. T...
[02:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:18] <exec> 08└─At the Tractor Supply in town, they sell the cheapest grade hardware, but also the higher grade bolts, by the pound. Bulk hardware is cool, because you can go in with your project in mind and piece together exactly the bolts/nuts/washers you need, throw it in a bag, and they throw it on the scale at...
[02:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:20] <exec> 08└─Read a comic instead of wikipedia. You might know what you're talking about next time.
[02:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:23] <exec> 08└─I think farmers are great people, and it's a shame that "progress" continues to shrink their numbers. Most of the land-owning farming families who still work their own land have plenty of time to get smart about their equipment, and their politics. I think it's a much better lifestyle than working 4...
[02:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:25] <exec> 08└─> Read a comic instead of wikipedia. You might know what you're talking about next time. Hahaha. You are so weak. So utterly ignorant of american history. I didn't have to read wikipedia to know the history of captain america, true fans got fucking pissed when the movies tried to turn him into a ko...
[02:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:27] <exec> 08└─When you know not whereof you speak, your mouth is best used for chewing. Read a Cap comic. I've got plenty within five feet of me if you want to borrow one.
[02:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:29] <exec> 08└─They can, and do, make fake warranties. To get warranty coverage, they stipulate that you must take the item to one of their approved shops, which charges inflated prices for labor. And, what do you know, the warranty only covers the cost of parts. Labor is not included. The labor costs more than a...
[02:40:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Medical Students Losing Dexterity to Perform Surgeries Due to Smartphone Usage - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:24] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a cross-stitch or other cutting-and-tying-string type class should be a required course for medical students? I've heard that many surgeons take up such hobbies as a way to maintain and enhance their manual dexterity.
[02:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medical Students Losing Dexterity to Perform Surgeries Due to Smartphone Usage - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:55] <exec> 08└─The thing that scares me more than the idiots is the AMA's continued deification of them through the insufficient residency program filter. They have made M.D.s an overly scarce commodity and that's giving the ones that get through unreasonable amounts of power and responsibility, and far too many o...
[02:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill Survives First Vote - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:56] <exec> 08└─I probably can extract the data on the hard drive, but I haven't yet figured out how to do so. I'm just too busy to devote the time right now.
[02:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill Survives First Vote - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:57] <exec> 08└─That refrain gets so tiresome. We've all forgotten that Trump was a liberal. He was Hollywood's and the Democrat's Golden Boy for decades. Trump was admired by most of America, right up until he announced that he was running for president. Want to see what black folk - some rather important black fo...
[02:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:39] <exec> 08└─According to their latest financial filing, MMR2 made up just under 1.42% of sales, and markedly less than that of profit. Yeah, in terms of raw dollars, the money they make in sales sounds like a lot, but compared to the tens of billions of dollars in profit, let alone raw sales, it is basically a...
[02:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FAA Approves Blood Toting Drones at North Carolina Hospital - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:26] <exec> 08└─Pretty close for skeet/birdshot. Of course you can extend that significantly with larger (better carrying) shot sizes, longer barrels, and 3.5" magnum shells https://www.blog.thegunsandgearstore.com [thegunsandgearstore.com] Think how much do you have to hate...
[02:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FAA Approves Blood Toting Drones at North Carolina Hospital - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:27] <exec> 08└─Reminiscent of the original submission department from the add needles to draw samples directly and call them 'Dronecula' dept
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[03:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Group Claims Responsibility for February Raid on North Korean Embassy in Madrid - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:26] <exec> 08└─Well, of course the CIA had absolutely nothing to do with it! Pinky swear!
[03:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06New Chemical Reaction Can Combine Dinitrogen Molecules - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:35] <exec> 08└─That's about the same as Canada I think. Just put a coat on, you'll be fine.
[03:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Chemical Reaction Can Combine Dinitrogen Molecules - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:37] <exec> 08└─From TFAbs(tract) boron can coax two N2 molecules together under reductive conditions below room temperature. Two borylene units sandwiched the resulting N4 chain between them.. ... Both this complex and a derivative protonated at both ends of the chain were characterized crystallographically.
[03:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:55] <exec> 08└─why space? Pakistan is right next door.
[03:38:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:01] <exec> 08└─...we've found the medical records "Open Source conspiracy" at the VA hospitals, and we're eliminating it in favor of the magic of the free market [politico.com] (coincidentally generating vast profits for our friends).
[03:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:21] <exec> 08└─He literally told you not to google it, just RTFM. Are you stupid or just trolling?
[03:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:23] <exec> 08└─Most flashlights take batteries that are disposable/replaceable or rechargeable standard (usually a 18650 or 26650 from what I've seen). Why can't your shaver just use a standard battery? Tablet form factors are different, but there's little reason they couldn't use a standard battery either (it wou...
[03:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Students Losing Dexterity to Perform Surgeries Due to Smartphone Usage - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:50] <exec> 08└─Phones don't substitute for cutting textiles, measuring ingredients, repairing objects, learning woodwork, or holding instruments in any way. The reduction in manual labour for common folk is separate from the ubiquity of touchscreens.
[03:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medical Students Losing Dexterity to Perform Surgeries Due to Smartphone Usage - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:51] <exec> 08└─>I'm rather surprised that cross-stitch does. Why? Braiding isn't really a common surgical procedure, but stitching and tying are. And cross-stitch is all about making endless numbers of neat, precisely-placed stitches, and securely tying off your string whenever you change colors. Even a relatively...
[03:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:35] <exec> 08└─The paper mixes wrong assumptions and corrections wildly, so it's hard to make short convincing quotes
[03:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:36] <exec> 08└─Sadly, children under 1, the most vulnerable, used to be protected from measles by being breastfed by mothers with natural immunity. Vaccines put our most vulnerable in harms way.
[03:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:00] <exec> 08└─It all makes sense now, 42 = Life³ + (The Universe)³ + Everything³ The Question of what Life, The Universe, and Everything are is left as an exercise for the reader.
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[04:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Group Claims Responsibility for February Raid on North Korean Embassy in Madrid - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:39] <exec> 08└─Having a gun to one's head doesn't make one immune to backlash for the evil one does until the gun is removed, at that point it does.
[04:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Group Claims Responsibility for February Raid on North Korean Embassy in Madrid - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:40] <exec> 08└─The CIA wouldn't have left any witnesses and would have pinned it on some Islamic terrorist group.
[04:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Group Claims Responsibility for February Raid on North Korean Embassy in Madrid - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:43] <exec> 08└─But then they did claim to have handed data to FBI – something the CIA would never do!
[04:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Group Claims Responsibility for February Raid on North Korean Embassy in Madrid - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:45] <exec> 08└─Unless they wanted to start the long process of demonizing human rights activists, in which case this is a good start. Freedom of speech is already dying, and way too many people think it only limits the government since they've gotten it confused with the first amendment to the USA's constitution.
[04:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:13] <exec> 08└─No? Knocking out your attackers GPS, spy, communications, and orbital weapon satellites all seem like very effective defensive strategies to me. Sure, they probably have backup systems, but they are less effective (that's why they're only the backups), and the troops probably aren't as familiar with...
[04:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:38] <exec> 08└─Too much of the healthcare system in the USA is on its heels, reacting to emergency life-threatening situations, triaging those with the most immediate need ahead so: if you're not absolutely dying this minute, your typical experience is to wait hours in the ER, days for tests.
[04:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Birth-Year Hoax Locks Users Out of Accounts - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:59] <exec> 08└─If twitter uses DOBs for password resets, then this is even stupider than it seems.
[04:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Birth-Year Hoax Locks Users Out of Accounts - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:00] <exec> 08└─Indeed, that's where I also thought this was going. My answer to required secret questions like, What is your mothers maiden name, What is the name of your first pet, etc etc is something like kjgu6f&URF6iI7V/DF67565VU%ERV7¤¤#0.,/&RyrJYTDChjKHbgku6bvu5eCV(%EV&E098%##. And no, I never expect to inp...
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[04:39:47] <exec> 08└─Yes.
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[04:39:49] <exec> 08└─> adequately spec'ed from the McMaster Carr catalog. Good luck finding high strength connecting rod bolts at McM-C...the kind that are installed with a spec on bolt stretch. More generally, the variety of custom/specialized high performance fasteners is much wider than any supplier could hope to sto...
[04:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google to Enable "Dynamic Emails" Using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:35] <exec> 08└─(is there any android email client that will NOT auto-open and run non-text emails? I have not found one yet; would love to dump k9mail if there is such a thing as secure old-school email readers for android).
[04:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google to Enable "Dynamic Emails" Using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:36] <exec> 08└─I have an ebay account with a specific search notification set up, so I get occasional emails from them. I use Thunderbird in plain text mode, and starting a few months ago, there is no plain text section in them anymore, the emails are just html.
[04:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google to Enable "Dynamic Emails" Using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:38] <exec> 08└─Oh well, looks like you gotta reach out a little. There are still alternatives. There is no monopoly outside of service provision. Work on that angle and everything else will fall into place. I have to ask, were you alive before there was gmail? Was there even life before gmail?
[04:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medical Students Losing Dexterity to Perform Surgeries Due to Smartphone Usage - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:22] <exec> 08└─I so wanted meccano sets when I was a kid, but no way could we afford them. That's probably why I'm not a surgeon now.
[04:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill Survives First Vote - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:25] <exec> 08└─Definitely both. I for one pay for my connection. Many people shop online. And it's certainly cross state, even global.
[04:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:10] <exec> 08└─Read the MMR vaccine insert. The vaccine only provides temporary protection. If you want to be "fully" vaccinated you need to keep having the vaccine every few years. Read the MMR vaccine insert. It's only effective in ~70% of people.
[04:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:11] <exec> 08└─From the studies mentionned in the MMR vaccine insert, the vaccine is only effective in ~70% of the population, removes breastfed protection for babies from mothers with natural immunity, and is only temporary and needs booster shots every few years for the 'dangerous' years. So, will never achieve...
[04:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:14] <exec> 08└─Actually the only thing it suggests is that the vaccine is not 100% effective (we already knew that). You would need to know how many fully vaccinated were exposed to measles and how many un-vaccinated were exposed to compute the effectiveness of the vaccine.
[04:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:37] <exec> 08└─As a practical matter, number theory is the basis for cryptography. But it goes far beyond that, and the Quanta article is well written. If it weren't for human curiosity, we'd still be in the stone age.
[04:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06300 mph and Street Legal - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:45] <exec> 08└─Suspension mods on the 300 mph car designed by this specialist, http://www.ahlmaneng.com [ahlmaneng.com] There is a very good chance that the car rides OK and corners well, as long as the rear tires aren't lit up! (with traction control engaged).
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[05:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:28] <exec> 08└─Fair point, but small game. What about those ridiculous i-devices? Who's going to pay to recycle *those*, eh?
[05:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:30] <exec> 08└─The ban applies to products that are "use-once-and-toss". The obvious loophole is to reuse the products a second time so that they no longer fit into that category. For disposable diapers, just turn them inside out before reusing them. This trick also works for condoms.
[05:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 2206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:32] <exec> 08└─"No word on disposable diapers." Because though they contain polymers and a bit of polyethylene, they take only a few hundred years to decompose (rather than thousands), tend to be landfilled - not just washed out to sea like cotton buds/Q-tips - and you can't really flush them down your toilet easi...
[05:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:34] <exec> 08└─Juat another non-solution to a non-problem, that makes everyone's lives worse
[05:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Group Claims Responsibility for February Raid on North Korean Embassy in Madrid - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:51] <exec> 08└─Consider the timing. Right before a summit? Nobody's going to risk their career embarrassing the President like that. If these people are DPRK defectors, they may have stolen money on their way out, which could fund an organization.
[05:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:53] <exec> 08└─Are you stupid or just trolling?
[05:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google to Enable "Dynamic Emails" Using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:42] <exec> 08└─FTFY or at least citation added https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[05:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:16] <exec> 08└─Human cultures and loyalties are not identical. You are far too fixated on race to think clearly about this. Do you know how politics works? Voting?
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[06:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:33] <exec> 08└─ban the EU Parliament? I'm sure there is a process for doing so should there ever be a serious coherent desire. Shouldn't take much. Just vote "Dissolve", and poof! Up in smoke, like it never happened, like Bobby Ewing coming out of the shower.
[06:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:35] <exec> 08└─Or are we switching to thicker gloves which impair surgeons ability to feel?
[06:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:37] <exec> 08└─What about those ridiculous i-devices? Who's going to pay to recycle *those*, eh?
[06:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Radiation Pressure Noise Measured to Improve Gravitational Wave Detection - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:45] <exec> 08└─Just use it to make a prediction. Put that prediction out there so every idiot has heard about it too.
[06:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:26] <exec> 08└─If you found the concept interesting, check out the book seveneves.
[06:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:52] <exec> 08└─You're not wrong: software is unreliable. But what's the answer? Paper records are no better: things go lost, handwriting is terrible, they're unorganized and unportable. Like it or not, software is the better solution. The trick is buying from companies that invest in their product, rather than in...
[06:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medical Students Losing Dexterity to Perform Surgeries Due to Smartphone Usage - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:36] <exec> 08└─It's not just human doctors. For the past decade or so I've noted an appalling lack of basic surgical skills (incisions, sutures) in younger veterinarians.
[06:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medical Students Losing Dexterity to Perform Surgeries Due to Smartphone Usage - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:38] <exec> 08└─Your first kid makes more sense once you realize mobile != cell phone and busy box != busybox. :-)
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[07:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:22] <exec> 08└─Without sensing the world at least in the same way the humans do, there'll be no AI compatible with a human I. Note 1: the above is required, not sufficient. Note 2: "enhanced sensing" - sensing more than humans can do - may still evolve an AI at odds with human intelligence.
[07:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:23] <exec> 08└─It looks like he needs a brain. Maybe he can have MDC's since he no longer needs it.
[07:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:25] <exec> 08└─If a machine runs into a wall it can learn to map around it. How can it tell the difference between a wall of wood, concrete, water or fire? Do these machines need a nervous system like ours?
[07:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:38] <exec> 08└─One thing they keep missing with this anti-plastic movement is the packaging of items. Yes, those scissor-proof, bomb-proof SINGLE-USE plastic shells that surround almost every tech item in the store. And while we're at it, what about all the very single-use plastic packaging like packets of chips,...
[07:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:40] <exec> 08└─That's probably taken into account. Cotton swabs are already not plastic anymore but some kind of very dense waxed cardboard that mostly behaves like plastic unless you bend it like a paperclip. We're probably gonna get waxed paper straws soon and wooden picnic cutlery. It's actually a nice measure...
[07:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:42] <exec> 08└─Nah, by the time this kicks in all surgery will be done via robotic systems controlled by a remote doctor medical student. No gloves needed, crisis averted...
[07:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Group Claims Responsibility for February Raid on North Korean Embassy in Madrid - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:02] <exec> 08└─The CIA wouldn't have left any witnesses and would have pinned it on some Islamic terrorist group.
[07:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Group Claims Responsibility for February Raid on North Korean Embassy in Madrid - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:03] <exec> 08└─Consider the timing. Right before a summit? Nobody's going to risk their career embarrassing the President like that. If these people are DPRK defectors, they may have stolen money on their way out, which could fund an organization.
[07:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 1422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:59] <exec> 08└─EHR software in one place where we should ALL be using the same thing and on the same page, full stop. US gov needs to mandate that EHR software is opensource and GPLv3(orwhatereverversionisbest). Maybe put out a bounty of say 1Billion dollars to whomever builds the most feature complete system that...
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[07:44:44] <exec> 08└─According to a Numberphile [youtube.com] video about the discovery, Booker himself literally jumped for joy in his office when he found out.
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[08:37:53] <exec> 08└─The EU took a dump on you? Wow. That is Red Dwarf garbage dump epic. Must have hurt.
[08:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:55] <exec> 08└─Cotton swabs are already not plastic anymore but some kind of very dense waxed cardboard
[08:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:57] <exec> 08└─Must be one heck of a stool [youtube.com]
[08:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:59] <exec> 08└─Originally condoms were used repeatedly. Single use condoms were born from the invention of cheap plastic
[08:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:02] <exec> 08└─Money. Whenever the question is "why" the first answer to consider is "money" It is probably cheaper to mold plastic in to sticks than to construct waxed cardboard enmass
[08:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Chemical Reaction Can Combine Dinitrogen Molecules - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:32] <exec> 08└─I don't know if using boron is actually any better than a transition metal catalyst if you're looking to replace Haber–Bosch. Boron is not exactly a common element, and iron can be used as a catalyst for the Haber–Bosch process. Iron is some 5-6% of the Earth's crust, while boron is found in the...
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[08:39:41] <exec> 08└─my bank asks for those answers whenever I use a new machine to access the website, and sometimes just as a periodic security thing.
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[09:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:37] <exec> 08└─corporatespeak >>> english "our spying device needs mobility to spy better" perfectly agreeable, from their POV. From my own POV, instead, skynet needs true terminators, not a [sn|b]itch mewmewing with meatbags all day.
[09:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:38] <exec> 08└─What does "compatible with a human intelligence" mean?
[09:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:40] <exec> 08└─I'd tap that ass! [xkcd.com]
[09:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:01] <exec> 08└─Funny that as an anti-EU I think they have saved the good rulings towards the end of mandate, to promote the image of EU=no borders=young environmentalists=cool LGBT parties vs. Old greybeard sovranists who want you to go to confession every time you fap, breed 4 babies, and throw their plastic wast...
[09:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:03] <exec> 08└─Future surgeons can't use their hands anyway, I read it on SN.
[09:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:05] <exec> 08└─I've seen a lot of things made out of paper being replaced by plastic versions over the years, yet for some reason it seems for people harder to go back to the single-use paper/cardboard versions. The only reason I could come up with is things that are made of newly made plastic are cheaper than (re...
[09:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Chemical Reaction Can Combine Dinitrogen Molecules - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:36] <exec> 08└─I wonder where the hydrogen comes from when you break down N2 into NH3?
[09:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:23] <exec> 08└─Easy: x=y=z=11^(1/3) See? No decimal places anywhere. ;-)
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[10:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Hallucinations Studied in Mice - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:36] <exec> 08└─In the Ars article[1] it written that this David Nut(real name) fellow was fired from head of Britain's chief drug advisor because he expressed that psychedelic drugs were unfairly targeted. That is right! In XXI century western institutions still repress free-thinking of science. We, the westerners...
[10:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:49] <exec> 08└─Do these machines need a nervous system like ours?
[10:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:50] <exec> 08└─An intelligence that would produce outputs a human can relate to and accept like coming from another human.
[10:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:15] <exec> 08└─I'm used to single-use beer - should I undrink and re-chug it now?
[10:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:17] <exec> 08└─Plastic products are made from by-products produced by the oil and natural gas industries. As long as there is a need for fossil fuels these by-products will be created so we might as well use it to make other products. If the world has decided that plastics are too problematic then a better directi...
[10:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:19] <exec> 08└─It'd be Ok if you recycle the water by distillation and reuse it in making other beer. You know? Like it already happens now with the water cycle on Earth.
[10:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:38] <exec> 08└─> only you can define what you feel your quality of life needs to be The nature of the problem means that this is often not appropriate. Most health care is dealing with people who are mentally or physically incapacitated (I am thinking of elderly among others).
[10:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:39] <exec> 08└─This one in particular was likely a 'concession' (read: bribe) to a congressman for their vote for the ACA (aka Obamacare).
[10:39:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Twitter Birth-Year Hoax Locks Users Out of Accounts - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should lock out anyone below a certain IQ level.
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[11:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:30] <exec> 08└─Since when were floppies 1.5Mb? You're about 0.06Mb out.
[11:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:58] <exec> 08└─That's not nightmare inducing at all. Nope. We should be just fine.
[11:38:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 2206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:08] <exec> 08└─"No word on disposable diapers." Because though they contain polymers and a bit of polyethylene, they take only a few hundred years to decompose (rather than thousands), tend to be landfilled - not just washed out to sea like cotton buds/Q-tips - and you can't really flush them down your toilet easi...
[11:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:47] <exec> 08└─True but if a human being fucks something up, I have both someone to blame and recourse. This is not the case with software.
[11:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:48] <exec> 08└─Those who are physically and mentally incapacitated are still capable of defining what is and is not acceptable QOL and can take an active role in their own treatment more often than not. Elderly is not a synonym for incapable. For dementia-spectrum individuals one can still gauge whether they appea...
[11:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Birth-Year Hoax Locks Users Out of Accounts - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:12] <exec> 08└─I know this is bait but I would be glad if they banned we Europeans from it.
[11:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google to Enable "Dynamic Emails" Using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:50] <exec> 08└─2) Install alpine
[11:42:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Medical Students Losing Dexterity to Perform Surgeries Due to Smartphone Usage - 738 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:18] <exec> 08└─Are you sure? Kid A as a baby gets a mobile and a busy box. Then as he gets older, simple wooden puzzles, blocks, then lego (or the big vlocks for younger kids, then lego). Makes art projects involving safety scissors, felt, construction paper, and school glue or paste. Learns to tie his shoes. Kid...
[11:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your Office Job is Affecting Your Metabolism - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:28] <exec> 08└─Kids have both the higher physical resiliency of their age and also far more free time to run around, play games, and otherwise exercise. I was starting to get back into shape a year or so back but my wife developed some medical problems so my 50% of the housework and ferrying kids around to orthod...
[11:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Your Office Job is Affecting Your Metabolism - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:30] <exec> 08└─Housework ain't much but it's a whole lot better than sitting at a desk. At least you're standing and moving around.
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[12:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:40] <exec> 08└─Zip drive [wikipedia.org] was still in the floppy category... Granted, it was way bigger than 1.5MB
[12:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:41] <exec> 08└─A 8 terabyte hard disk weighs about 300 grams. Both facts (one of which might not even be a fact) are utterly meaningless. The study might contain useful bits as well but the headline is a meaningless clickbait. Shame on these people.
[12:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:43] <exec> 08└─seemed a fitting enough quote for this
[12:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:45] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of ways to pack more than 1440 KiB onto a high-density 3.5" floppy disk. Distribution Media Format [wikipedia.org] and Amiga floppy format both pack sectors into a track with tighter tolerances, without the gaps needed for rewriting an individual sector. In those formats, an entire...
[12:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:14] <exec> 08└─And not in a sexual way.
[12:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:43] <exec> 08└─If you read beyond the first few paragraphs of TFA, there is also stuff about reducing plastic packaging, new targets for recycling plastic bottles, plus strengthening the 'polluter pays' policy. In the case of food packaging there's a packaging vs. food waste trade-off. However, those finger-shredd...
[12:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:44] <exec> 08└─Isn't that kind of waste already being carefully incinerated, so never actual "waste"? My single-use beer comment was silly, and supposed to be taken as a throwaway joke (boom, boom), but drawing an equivalence between surgical waste and mcdonalds straws with a straight face is really missing the po...
[12:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:46] <exec> 08└─I'm just over assuming laws are written by people who look at the edge cases. So many laws lack reasonable exceptions and rely on prosecutorial discretion it's an affront to rule of law.
[12:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 2371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:48] <exec> 08└─Once you start looking, there really is a shocking amount of unneeded plastic. One example: Buy a jumbo pack of pocket tissues, and you get a large plastic sheet holding together of bunch of smaller plastic sheets, holding together 10 tissues each. There's really no reason the same thing couldn't be...
[12:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Group Claims Responsibility for February Raid on North Korean Embassy in Madrid - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:10] <exec> 08└─They put mayonnaise on their freedom fries! Savages!
[12:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 2239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:13] <exec> 08└─The other important thing to understand is that the client/patient is expected to take an active role in their own understanding of health. Patients don't have the advantages of a medical education. Doctors, as trained professionals, have a duty of care - and while it is nice to have actively engage...
[12:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google to Enable "Dynamic Emails" Using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:16] <exec> 08└─I've made the shift from duckduckgo to startpage. I also use Ecosia, because I want to "OMG! plant a tree while you search!", but the results are shit results from Bing.
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[13:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:29] <exec> 08└─Money is about transactions, not about "wealth generation". If your entire capital is cash, then fuck you. The entire complaint is that you want your money pile to appreciate without doing anything about the money pile. But this defeats the purpose of CURRENCY. CURRENCY is about facilitation of TRAN...
[13:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah but that debt all them central banks have is much, much cheaper to pay back in fake printed money than real economic growth. That is why the criminals involved in running our banks fight the deflation, create the inflation to start with. I could not believe it when I first heard of this in the...
[13:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:32] <exec> 08└─Inflation stops the hoarding of wealth by all those rich people you hate so much and forces them to put their money back into the economy as investments. Deflation means investments not likely to produce a higher return than the percentage of deflation over the same time span are literally less attr...
[13:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:34] <exec> 08└─Inflation makes your debt cheaper. Oh... look at all that growth we have while we can borrow monies for nothing to buy us into this stuff.
[13:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:37] <exec> 08└─How does the Mises Institute deal with proletarianization [wikipedia.org]?
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[13:37:44] <exec> 08└─aljazeera.com > fire broke out in a 19-storey commercial building nytimes.com > large flames burning through the 24-story building, F.R. Tower. Not a skyscraper [wikipedia.org]. From the pictures looks like a good old reinforced concrete building with no external insulation. Should be fine. Not so m...
[13:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radioactive Elements Influence Volcanic Lightning - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:00] <exec> 08└─we definitly need more green and natural volcanos. and floods. floods are natural too! and viruses, like measels and aids. NATURAL STUFF IS GOOD! (f#cking morons are really trying everything to dull the edge of "radioactive". even good natural mother nature volcanoes spew it out.) rather it should b...
[13:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:56] <exec> 08└─well good. but what is the green and planet friendly alternative to earwax cleaning buds and cigarette filters? if you want to take away my tabaco filters then i want to take away your coffee cup! also mandate that all counters at shopping center MUST have CHEAP non dolce&gabanes hemp bags for sell!
[13:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:50] <exec> 08└─This isn't about being a space power, it's about being an anti-sat power before an upcoming treaty gets finalized and it becomes much harder, legally speaking, to do so.
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[13:41:34] <exec> 08└─> "Read a book!" > "Google it!" > "Read a comic!" You've got all those comics within five feet of you but you can't cite a single example because you are just full of shit, all you can do is double down on the classic unaccountable appeal to authority tactic. And that's after claiming that "every w...
[13:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:35] <exec> 08└─Citing a single example of Cap standing for liberty would be like pointing out the wetness of a single drop of rain. It's blindingly obvious to anyone but you. Unless, do you think I actually care about your opinion and you're getting me worked up? Doesn't work that way. I argue because it's my hobb...
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[13:42:27] <exec> 08└─From that article: The moat is the one between communications and applications. Communications say things, and applications interact with things. There are crossover areas, but something like email is designed and overwhelmingly used to say things, while websites and apps are overwhelmingly designed...
[13:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google to Enable "Dynamic Emails" Using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:28] <exec> 08└─What's that saying about "If you're not paying for the service, you're the product, not the customer." ? A bunch of fairly smart friends kept telling me how great gmail is, "And it's free!" I'm pretty happy to pay for my email. Not especially happy that my provider is working on JMAP [fastmail.blog]...
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[14:37:54] <exec> 08└─Sorry, folks, but this article doesn't belong here, any more than Creationist screeds against Evolution or articles promoting a Flat Earth. I'm not even going to debate the stuff about deflation/inflation, because one must consider the source of this "news," i.e., the Mises Institute. Let's be very...
[14:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:55] <exec> 08└─Of course something published by *Mises* would be arguing in favor of anything that lets the rich sit on their goddamn hands and still stay wealthy....
[14:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 2311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:57] <exec> 08└─increases the cost of long term debt. Ultimately this allows established capital to exercise more control over markets than new capital. Inflation is bad if there is too much, but a little bit is just right. It devalues the holdings of old-money trust fund kids and increases the likelyhood that new...
[14:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:59] <exec> 08└─There are several rebuttals. First, inflation distorts lending/savings, making that more complicated (though deflation would as well). Interest rates on debt are higher and savings accounts can lose money if the interest rate is lower than inflation. Second, most countries have some sort of capital...
[14:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:02] <exec> 08└─Apathy is very effective for dealing with nonproblems in general. I imagine it would work just as effectively with proletarianization.
[14:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:04] <exec> 08└─Money is about transactions, not about "wealth generation". If your entire capital is cash, then fuck you. The entire complaint is that you want your money pile to appreciate without doing anything about the money pile. But this defeats the purpose of CURRENCY. CURRENCY is about facilitation of TRAN...
[14:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:06] <exec> 08└─It screws over everybody who has taken out loans for the benefit of their creditors. This includes everyone with a mortgage, a student loan, or a business loan. Generally speaking, in a deflationary economy you want to be really really rich, because if you aren't you're going to be struggling, big-t...
[14:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:09] <exec> 08└─No central bank has any debt. They do create money by a simple transaction in their balance sheet (so why should they ever have a problem with debt?). The balance sheet total tells you how much money was created. Interestingly, since 2008 western central banks have roughly doubled their balance shee...
[14:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 3525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:11] <exec> 08└─The problem with pro-deflationists is simple: they never seem to think beyond some idea of stuffing money under their mattress and the fact that it will "grow" over time. They never consider the havoc deflation will wreak on the rest of an economy. Every deflationist I've ever met seems to only thin...
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[14:38:20] <exec> 08└─More to the point: Who the fuck cares? Why is this space-waster posted here?
[14:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:31] <exec> 08└─For example, when presented with the word "turkey," a young learner typically gathers bits of information by asking, "Is a turkey a bird? Yes, or no? Does a turkey fly? Yes, or no?" and so on, until grasping the full meaning of the word "turkey."
[14:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:33] <exec> 08└─ARJ to the rescue!
[14:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:35] <exec> 08└─Indeed, different file format. With your own storage system and trackloader of some kind you could get a bit more in there on the Amiga. As I recall it now the Amiga HD floppy (came as standard for the A4000) format was 1.76MB with the standard fast file system for a floppy disk, it could be increas...
[14:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Hallucinations Studied in Mice - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:50] <exec> 08└─*David Nutt Bookmark: http://www.ias.org.uk [ias.org.uk]
[14:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Hallucinations Studied in Mice - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:51] <exec> 08└─Why are they testing it on mice? Have there not already been large scale experiments on humans with LSD in and out of a laboratory setting. The upside there is that humans can talk and communicate the experience to, something mice will never do. I doubt there would be much problems getting a lot of...
[14:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Hallucinations Studied in Mice - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:53] <exec> 08└─Unchristian and unacceptable. No fun allowed.
[14:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:10] <exec> 08└─Stick it in a quake game with frog bots and let it learn?
[14:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:11] <exec> 08└─Just insert the Alexa into a RealDoll and be done with it? I'm sure they could find some cavity in the torso or someplace where they could fit it in. Done. TOTALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK LINK (depending on where you work ...) https://www.realdoll.com [realdoll.com]
[14:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:45] <exec> 08└─Went to the EU site, and of course they apparently don't actually like people knowing what they do. I've looked at 4 articles and none of the silly buggers has a link to what they're talking about.
[14:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:46] <exec> 08└─Shame...
[14:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:49] <exec> 08└─http://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular-economy/pdf/plastics-strategy.pdf [europa.eu]
[14:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:51] <exec> 08└─So McBurgerKing/Starbucks etc are now all going to give you an actual cup/mug or cutlery instead of the paper/plastic once? I think most of the Burger places got rid of straws a few years ago, or well you can still get one if you ask for one but you have to ask.
[14:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 2308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:18] <exec> 08└─> EHR software in one place where we should ALL be using the same thing and on the same page, full stop. Yup, and since patients move round the world, this should be world wide, I mean obviously. Start at the UN. > Specifications to be created and agreed upon by a panel of doctors of at least 5 each...
[14:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:19] <exec> 08└─I was reacting also to a comment up the thread that suggested that the patient should be checking that they have received all of the appropriate tests and complaining if they have not.
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[15:37:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 739 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:42] <exec> 08└─Sorry, folks, but this article doesn't belong here, any more than Creationist screeds against Evolution or articles promoting a Flat Earth. I'm not even going to debate the stuff about deflation/inflation, because one must consider the source of this "news," i.e., the Mises Institute. Let's be very...
[15:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:51] <exec> 08└─> savings accounts can lose money if the interest rate is lower than You say that like there's saving accounts that beat inflation. I had one as a kid 30 years ago that almost matched inflation, but it's been a couple decades since I've seen a bank offer rates higher than about 1% - at least to norm...
[15:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:53] <exec> 08└─The really rich benefit whether there's inflation or deflation, so I don't see that as a reason to favor one over the other. But the impact to the non-wealthy of deflation isn't quite as damaging you imply. Yes, it makes debt cost more, but it also means that those with fixed salaries and hourly wag...
[15:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 1881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:56] <exec> 08└─> forces them to put their money back into the economy as investments but investments are meant to raise more money than the amount put in. I hear many right and reasonable things in this discussion, but personally i'd go with social credit. The situation now: usury is cancer. credit is cancer. the...
[15:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 1530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:58] <exec> 08└─> Inflation is a hidden tax on everyone who holds an asset Inflation is also a way to discourage hoarding. Use it, or lose it. That's not a bad thing. Another effect is that it also reduces the value of debt, as well as savings, and that rebalances wealth. I am unsure if it's a good way. Better to s...
[15:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 1588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:01] <exec> 08└─>No central bank has any debt. Quite so, at least in the U.S. The government has debt to the central banks, but the banks can just print money as they see fit. Technically the U.S. government is still allowed to mint coins as they see fit, and could theoretically mint a couple dozen trillion-dollar...
[15:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:03] <exec> 08└─First, inflation distorts lending/savings, making that more complicated (though deflation would as well).
[15:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:06] <exec> 08└─So downward social mobility is not a problem? I'd be inclined to agree so long as it was balanced by an equivalent amount of upward social mobility, but that's decidedly not the case.
[15:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bangladesh Firefighters Battle Blaze at Dhaka Skyscraper - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:16] <exec> 08└─Because this was submitted as story and there's no better space-waster? If you know more interesting things to talk about, let us see them -- https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[15:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:30] <exec> 08└─It was also quite a bit thicker than a floppy. And the president would agree.
[15:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:32] <exec> 08└─I remember other early language acquisition issues. Hearing of Turkey as a nation was confusing. NO and Know. The former seems you've done something bad, yet the latter is considered good. Sometimes simply hearing what you want or expect to hear. Examples: "I was wearing only my rope", but actually...
[15:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:34] <exec> 08└─Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With little bells, and taco shells . . .
[15:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:36] <exec> 08└─I used the journal article title for my headline, and it's basically the same as the Berkeley headline. The study might contain useful bits as well
[15:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:12] <exec> 08└─Without sensing the world at least in the same way the humans do, there'll be no AI compatible with a human I.
[15:39:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 1068 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:34] <exec> 08└─Funny that as an anti-EU I think they have saved the good rulings towards the end of mandate, to promote the image of EU=no borders=young environmentalists=cool LGBT parties vs. Old greybeard sovranists who want you to go to confession every time you fap, breed 4 babies, and throw their plastic wast...
[15:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:49] <exec> 08└─Yet we seem squeamish about the same process on a smaller scale, such as a space station.
[15:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:51] <exec> 08└─I have always despised the plastic swabs and deliberately sought out the old fashioned kind. If you stick the swab somewhere you don't want it to bend. You want it to remain stiff so you have precise control of exactly what you're swabbing. Nostril. Ear. Etc. Yes, I know they say not to do this. Bu...
[15:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:53] <exec> 08└─No need to tax coffee more, just force them to go to Starbucks.
[15:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:55] <exec> 08└─Funny to call this an agreement when it is imposed.
[15:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:50] <exec> 08└─To be sure, you have to do it from orbit.
[15:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 3029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:25] <exec> 08└─> True but if a human being fucks something up, I have both someone to blame and recourse. If the _system_ fucks up, you don't, whether it's hardware or software or wetware. I have been involved with EHR software projects, I've seen some of the stats on paper medical records failures, it _should_ be...
[15:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:41] <exec> 08└─Unix - yes. Linux - no.
[15:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:36] <exec> 08└─I don't believe the fields medal existed at the time of the guy who shot Galois. But then that was not a stabbing.
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[16:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:34] <exec> 08└─The most obnoxious part of this legislation is the mandatory use of "Black Box" recorders tracking every bit of driving and reporting back to the authorities. This detail seems to get swept under the rug when people are faced with a speed limiter, but the limiter can be overridden with a switch afte...
[16:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:35] <exec> 08└─They looked at Asia and said: We can't let them be the first to be a cyberpunk dystopia. And who can blame them? Snow crash was rad as fuarrrk.
[16:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:38] <exec> 08└─Iff this were combined with a realistic review of speed limit laws, it might make some sense. Problems with existing speed limit laws include (but are not limited to): Posted speed 10-15mph below average speed traveled during normal conditions, permitting heavy enforcement when drivers are caught a...
[16:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:40] <exec> 08└─I'm anti-surveillance - but I like the idea of black boxes. The thing is, the black box shouldn't be actively reporting on you. Let it record - then if/when anything goes wrong, like running down Grandma, or Santa, or the Abominable Snowman, THEN the authorities can get at the data. 24/7 surveillanc...
[16:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:42] <exec> 08└─Dear Citizen, We have registered your concerns regarding the required safety protocols associated to your motor vehicle. As such, your Attainable Safe Speed rating has been reclassified as 30 MPH. We recognize that your new ASS rating may be lower than you would prefer. If you feel ther...
[16:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Construct Artificial Photosynthetic Cells - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:50] <exec> 08└─I know minimum viable products are supposed to help you "fail fast" and "change course" but who needs a mvp for fucking life.
[16:38:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 618 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:06] <exec> 08└─Money is about transactions, not about "wealth generation". If your entire capital is cash, then fuck you. The entire complaint is that you want your money pile to appreciate without doing anything about the money pile. But this defeats the purpose of CURRENCY. CURRENCY is about facilitation of TRAN...
[16:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:18] <exec> 08└─Wonderful. A nonreply from an oil shill. I wouldn't be surprised if you fully support fractional reserve banking to boot. Didn't we have some subscribers to the Mises Institute and Austrian School around here? It seems we cannot have capitalism without a perpetual world war/reconstruction cycle (war...
[16:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:19] <exec> 08└─curious as to how you think buying precious metals and just sitting on them is any better than taking a stack of cash and just sitting on it. Metals, land, a pile of shit...none of these things that you mentioned actually generate any wealth either. They are not productive.
[16:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:21] <exec> 08└─> [Inflation] reduces the value of debt Eww, the value of debt? Debt is of no value to you unless you can beat the system, or at least out-play the banks, and in that case you probably don't need the debt anyway. Better wording would be: Inflation reduces the cost of debt. Except it doesn't, because...
[16:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 2324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:24] <exec> 08└─>They are, like those of logic and mathematics, a priori. Now there's a load of bullshit if I ever heard one. A priori has two largely unrelated definitions: A priori statements in mathematics and logic fall under the first: "1a : deductive. b : relating to or derived by reasoning from self-evident...
[16:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, and? If you invest your money into an asset that actually generates value, then your ROR is just that. No need for any capital gains or whatever until you actually want to sell your asset. You are thinking in terms of income from financial instruments. I was talking in terms of transactions to...
[16:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:28] <exec> 08└─here's the thing, though. If asset inflation occurs, but income inflation does not, and banks have baked inflation into their loan interest rates, it only helps the hoarders. That's our last 40 years of financial policy. Good inflation is demand side, the workers of the country get more money, the i...
[16:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:30] <exec> 08└─Inflation helps employers to cheat employees of pay. All they have to do is keep pay constant and it's continually decreasing in value.
[16:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:32] <exec> 08└─You're expecting the perfect Austrian geniuses who fill up the Mises institute to incorporate such mundane falsehoods as "history" or "the lives of human beings" into their economic models? How vulgar.
[16:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:35] <exec> 08└─> you'd do far better buying a S&P 500 index fund OK, in Jan 1 2000, I put 142500 into an SP500-linked fund. Using your "easy" maths, explain when I will have made a net profit compared to the person who put 142500 into a bank account. If you come up with an answer before 2013, you're deluding yours...
[16:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:37] <exec> 08└─Except, if deflation were the norm, nobody would have fixed salaries - you'd get an annual cost-of-living wage reduction, instead of an increase. Of course, as you allude, one of the other less-discussed effects of inflation is that employers get to give you an automatic "invisible" pay cut every ye...
[16:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:39] <exec> 08└─Currently we can observe a general slowdown in the annual growth rate in price inflation This implies that inflation is still increasing each year. That's not what this graph (US inflation over last 10 years) says https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] Inflation is not about general increases i...
[16:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:41] <exec> 08└─> Buy something that will generate money. Like precious metals. Holy jeebus, that's woo-woo talk. I'm pretty into PMs, and at no point would I consider them to *generate* anything. They are a value store, that is all. In fact, they're mostly indistiguishable from currency itself (apart from the pass...
[16:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:43] <exec> 08└─Pah!, it's a starting point for a discussion, and that's not a bad thing as long as people bring some science into the thread as a response. My contribution: https://www.youtube.com 'How private debt and credit cause financial crises'
[16:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bangladesh Firefighters Battle Blaze at Dhaka Skyscraper - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:54] <exec> 08└─Fire races through apartment buildings also used as chemical warehouses
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:13] <exec> 08└─FWIW, wild turkeys *can* fly. They don't like to, but they can. Domestic turkeys are too overweight, and it's common practice for those raising them to break one of their wings or at least clip the feathers short, so they can't fly at all. (Even without the wing mutilation, they're too heavy, but th...
[16:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:14] <exec> 08└─But the LS120 disks had the same form factor as 3.5" floppies (and the drive could also read normal floppies).
[16:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radioactive Elements Influence Volcanic Lightning - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:23] <exec> 08└─If idiots spend hundreds of dollars on "natural" water, what price do you think I can get for my "Natural water, now with enhanced energetic elements" ? I'd like to know before I place that bulk order of smoke detectors.
[16:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Hallucinations Studied in Mice - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:33] <exec> 08└─But there are so many objections when you kill the subjects afterwards to study how their neurons changed.
[16:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:53] <exec> 08└─I read the stuff, skimmed the comments. If we ultimately create "strong AI" by using some kind of neuromorphic hardware, it may need to develop by learning. It could be given inputs similar to what humans receive, using cameras, limbs with added touch sensors, etc. Or we could have it interact with...
[16:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:55] <exec> 08└─The world the AI lives in will be shaped not only by its sensoria, but also by its effectors. Eyes lead to a different model of the world than touch does. Etc. OTOH: Different motivations equally produce a different map of the world. This is one reason people often have difficulty understanding each...
[16:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:57] <exec> 08└─Well, it's SFW if you block javascript.
[16:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:38] <exec> 08└─Get with the times, FatPhil! :-) beer recycling (2015-07-03) [soylentnews.org] Disclaimer: it was me who posted that to soylentnews.
[16:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Chemical Reaction Can Combine Dinitrogen Molecules - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:13] <exec> 08└─. . . will not result in cheaper drugs. Quite the contrary.
[16:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Chemical Reaction Can Combine Dinitrogen Molecules - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:14] <exec> 08└─I wonder where the hydrogen comes from when you break down N2 into NH3?
[16:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Chemical Reaction Can Combine Dinitrogen Molecules - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:16] <exec> 08└─It will come down to the energy required. If this new pathway takes less energy, there could be serious savings. The world spends a LOT on making ammonia: approximately 3-5% of natural gas is consumed on the Haber process, which is about 1-2% of the total energy supply. Yes, boron is expensive, but...
[16:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:39] <exec> 08└─It depends, have those nukes been upgraded to use GPS/GLONASS/BeiDou/IRNSS?
[16:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:15] <exec> 08└─The more expensive the software, the more tolerated the bugs. I heard a CAD company discovered this when moving into subscription based software. Industrial customers buying professional software will tolerate bugs for years, but when the same company released a free app, they found zero tolerance f...
[16:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:16] <exec> 08└─If one is not absolutely dying this minute then the ER is not necessarily the location one should be in
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[17:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:41] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree with that. I can't go along with the day/night speed limits. It's enough to tell the public "Slow down in fog, slow down in rain, slow down if visibility sucks, you are responsible for driving according to weather and other conditions." Call me crazy, but I've exceeded 100 mph at nigh...
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[17:37:43] <exec> 08└─tl;dr ... Hold my beer
[17:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:45] <exec> 08└─I think that hit and run combined with the attempted escape was probably used as an excuse here somewhere. My only question is what sort of consequences this will have for rich fuckers with expensive fast cars and disabled/altered blackbox/speed limiter systems.
[17:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:47] <exec> 08└─I remember people draining the pellets out of catalytic converters in their vehicles when those first came out. The performance and mileage improvement was pretty noticeable. Presumably this won't impact performance and gas mileage however, and computers will just be set to require the box to repor...
[17:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─I admit 24/7 surveillance is a bigger problem. But with a black box, the same officer that currently installs a warrantless GPS tracking device on your car to see everywhere you go, could instead just plug into the black box and download a complete history of everywhere you've been. Given the much h...
[17:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:51] <exec> 08└─I could however see the value in a "graded license". Cop pulls you over because they think you're driving too fast for the conditions, you say sure - for most people maybe. But look, I'm rated AAA-safe to drive 60% faster than the average driver at the same risk level, and am allowed a 80% higher th...
[17:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:54] <exec> 08└─They will give you the same effect and will be ready only a few more years.
[17:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:56] <exec> 08└─LOL! +5 funny! (Totally not the same AC, I pinky-swears!)
[17:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:44] <exec> 08└─Smoothed to remove blips that graph does support the "increasing" claim. And secondly, just because a CPI claims to do that, it doesn't mean that it accurately does that, as what goes in the basket is somewhat arbitrary. Check out Shadow Stats for a different view on what the US inflation level is....
[17:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:45] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, many of the terms are not well-defined. That makes sound argument impossible. Even more unfortunately, many of the terms are presumed well-defined, but actually have wildly different definitions in different people's minds. This makes arguments that can appear to be sound reach ridicu...
[17:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 3160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:47] <exec> 08└─>Basically, in a depreciating economy, you have to ask yourself whenever you want to spend money or invest in anything, "Is this actually going to be better than stuffing the money under my mattress, or will putting my money into this item/asset/house/whatever just lock the money into a spiral of lo...
[17:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:50] <exec> 08└─You have to remember that these people are heavily influenced by Central Europe in the first half of the 1900s. So we're all agreed on what "war", "freedom", and "ignorance" mean, then?
[17:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Bangladesh Firefighters Battle Blaze at Dhaka Skyscraper - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:00] <exec> 08└─i wonder if it will collapse at near free fall speed in it's own footprint like our poor WTC buildings did?
[17:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bangladesh Firefighters Battle Blaze at Dhaka Skyscraper - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe it doesn't satisfy the modern definition of a skyscraper, but maybe it did when it was built; phylogenically speaking, once you're a skyscraper, always a skyscraper, surely? (You'd agree that humans are monkeys, I'd hope. And fish.) E.g. The Home Insurance Building in Chicago was a skyscraper...
[17:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bangladesh Firefighters Battle Blaze at Dhaka Skyscraper - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:04] <exec> 08└─You missed out the AP quote: Rashid said the building has 21 floors. If only the fire could have been contained to the floors that don't exist, then things wouldn't have been so bad.
[17:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:06] <exec> 08└─Dogs definitely have less intelligence than humans, and also a quite different way to sense their world (with smells that we cannot even perceive being a big part of their world). And yet, communication between humans and dogs works sufficiently well. And let me add, we are still far from creating a...
[17:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:49] <exec> 08└─Between 23 and 26 May, depending on country. So in 2 months. https://www.european-elections.eu [european-elections.eu] If you want to ban the EU Parliament, then you probably should vote for the ENF group [enfgroup-ep.eu], Europe of Nations and Freedom [wikipedia.org], but you should research for y...
[17:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:51] <exec> 08└─Both types are still readily available (here at least). The plastic is stiffer so if you have an itch in your ear canal (where you should never insert them) they are more effective.
[17:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:53] <exec> 08└─Regurgitate. Reswig. Repeat. American mainstream beer tastes like plastic anyway.
[17:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Radiation Pressure Noise Measured to Improve Gravitational Wave Detection - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:02] <exec> 08└─On the assumption that this is related to the upcoming upgrade to LIGO, then the prediction has been made - namely that they should be able to detect more than an order of magnitude more gravitational wave events after the upgrade. Given that we've only had one neutron star merger in a couple of yea...
[17:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 1911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:49] <exec> 08└─In case I'm yet again being misunderstood, I do all my own repair work, including rebuilding V8 car engines, automatic transmissions, differentials, welding, body work, appliances, tractors and all types of outdoor machines (including large wood chippers), all the way down to component-level electro...
[17:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:50] <exec> 08└─Big box stores (which I hate but that's a very different problem / topic) have lots of bolts in the bulk bins, including grade 8. At least the ones near me do. And there are some wonderful good old hardware stores not too far that have amazing fastener assortments. I've only been in a Fastenal store...
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[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long Interview About the Creation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:34] <exec> 08└─Elder Scrolls games are well done, but nothing about them is groundbreaking. The affection is mostly due to demographics and timing, being the rpg that most millennials cut their teeth on. Similar to how a whole generation thinks Harry Potter is comparable to Tolkien.
[18:37:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 959 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:50] <exec> 08└─I admit 24/7 surveillance is a bigger problem. But with a black box, the same officer that currently installs a warrantless GPS tracking device on your car to see everywhere you go, could instead just plug into the black box and download a complete history of everywhere you've been. Given the much h...
[18:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:55] <exec> 08└─Are you European? Or Asian? I understand they have schemes like that. A driver under age 18 is only permitted xx number of horsepower. I read of a motorcycle that sold for some exorbitant price because it fell within the purchaser's horsepower grade, but still looked and sounded sporty. I think this...
[18:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 1351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:57] <exec> 08└─So I went and did something unheard of, I read the actual article from the European Commission. It's pretty much reasonable standards: speed limiter (with override), distracted/inattentive driver warnings, improved safety features, accident recorder, alcohol interlock hookup I find the general react...
[18:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:59] <exec> 08└─Graded licensing exists for certain roadways and vehicle sizes in my location, but I'm not sure how having a range of allowed speeds would work on any given highway. I see a traffic nightmare with that. As for the alcohol: I'm a fim believer in 0%. Twelve hours bottle to throttle. There are enough p...
[18:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:01] <exec> 08└─Slow down in fog? If it is foggy, I want to get out of the fog quickly.
[18:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:04] <exec> 08└─I've wondered which would come first: people on mars, or male contraceptive. I think I should add self driving cars to that list. Maybe nuclear fusion.
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─Vehicle sizes would be another option - I see a speed grade working not by meaning you drive slow on the freeway, but that you're not allowed on the freeway in the first place. Though as I think on it, that'd mean you'd be redirecting incompetent drivers from a relatively easy-to-handle freeway, ont...
[18:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:08] <exec> 08└─I'd say speed limiters are mostly fine in theory, though they would interfere with, for example, getting someone to the emergency room in a timely fashion. Waiting around for an ambulance can often take several times longer, especially in a rural or other poorly-served area. But speeding without pro...
[18:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:00] <exec> 08└─I would have thought that "war" and "ignorance" were well-defined, but events during my lifetime have proven me wrong. I never thought "freedom" was well-defined.
[18:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dast [1633] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:02] <exec> 08└─Sure, serve me up a Japan style deflationary spiral. Sounds wonderful.
[18:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:01] <exec> 08└─Assuming you live in Europe somewhere, because in the U.S. plastic cups and straws are very much still everywhere.
[18:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:03] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia, Satellite Shoots Down India!
[18:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 2550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:40] <exec> 08└─I agree with you that prompt care facilities should be held to something similar to EMTALA - show up and you must be treated - and you have a point. IANAL nor an expert in that area, only read this [youtube.com] just now where hospital-connected urgent cares may also have EMTALA liability. (For any...
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[19:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:35] <exec> 08└─Have you not noticed we get every day studies about the health impact of various foods and one day they're the worst, the next day essential...
[19:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:36] <exec> 08└─Who paid for the study?
[19:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:38] <exec> 08└─It is big science pushing propaganda!!! We Republicans are totally sane, hate fake news, and we see through the bullshit and have a 100% success rating of detecting such fake news. #Soros666BenghaziEmails
[19:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:41] <exec> 08└─What does Runaway 1956 think about this?
[19:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:43] <exec> 08└─From the dx.doi.org link: Funding: The author received funding from the National Science Foundation (IIS-1149599) and from the School of Communication at the Ohio State University for this work. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparatio...
[19:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long Interview About the Creation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:52] <exec> 08└─There are some drastic technological differences between for example Morrowind and Ultima 1, not so with Tolkien and J.K. "Dumbledore is Gay" Rowling (both are words on paper). The world of Morrowind was also interesting for being weirdly alien (a quality that was notably absent in the majority of T...
[19:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long Interview About the Creation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─Land of mushroom houses, kwamas and really distinct take on a "dark elf" race to the point this place doesn't really look much Tolkienian anymore. Very contrasting with other places in TES universe. There are good reasons to consider it the only entry in TES series that could be considered a cult cl...
[19:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long Interview About the Creation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:57] <exec> 08└─The core gameplay was extremely varied, even by today's standards. NPCs wandered their area, with limitations. It supported multi-action attacks using a keyboard and mouse, with different styles of attacks causing different damage (and an option for 'novice mode' where it would automatically use the...
[19:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:23] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure such data is already available on current cars with electronic motor control. And in many cases probably remote-readable, too.
[19:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:25] <exec> 08└─I am not, I'll have to look in to how they handle things. Horsepower limits are perhaps a better strategy to reduce reckless driving, though mass limits would be better to reduce consequences - after all, if you're keeping pace with traffic then the damage you'll do in a collision is based pretty mu...
[19:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:27] <exec> 08└─Call me crazy,
[19:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:29] <exec> 08└─Non-partisan politics.
[19:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:31] <exec> 08└─I agree that GPS + network connection could lead to surveillance, but I think that ship has sailed. I live in a city of 30k people, and we already have 4 police vehicles that have automated plate readers, and the public has had no information about whether the data from those devices is collated and...
[19:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:34] <exec> 08└─Not worth the effort, when well over 90% of the people who can drive already carry a tracker in their pocket. You shouldn't need a GPS-based limiter if you have a black box which records your speed. "God (your log) will get you if your fuck up" tends to work. GPS/galileo isn't perfect, and a bug in...
[19:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:36] <exec> 08└─I'd say speed limiters are mostly fine in theory, though they would interfere with, for example, getting someone to the emergency room in a timely fashion.
[19:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:38] <exec> 08└─...or the poor people in their 20 year old minivan.
[19:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:40] <exec> 08└─ok for blackbox but only if it belongs to me just like the rest of the car and i get to READ it too! without my consent the blackbox cannot be read. next we need to have mandatory sensors in the index fingers and the elbow that register excessive acceleration due to wielding a club to murder someone...
[19:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:43] <exec> 08└─no worries, the rabbit eared boyfriend in appleseed is a good guy! ^_^
[19:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:45] <exec> 08└─I really hope you're joking...
[19:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:47] <exec> 08└─>GPS/galileo isn't perfect, and a bug in a limiter (out of date map?) could cause a pileup. Indeed. As could a normal error in GPS data - I can't tell you how many times I've had a GPS device insist that I'm driving on a nearby street paralleling the highway (or vice-versa)
[19:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:50] <exec> 08└─With all the crap you get dealing with dealers having a black box capturing everything the VEHICLE is doing would be very useful in proving your case. But I imagine it will do everything it can to only track the driver.
[19:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:52] <exec> 08└─Tribalism is more important and goes back a long way. It's far more important than things like jobs, the economy, common sense solutions, defense, education, retirement, etc etc
[19:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:47] <exec> 08└─True, that's why I said dipping into deflation temporarily isn't so bad. We certainly don't want to stay there, but monetary policy makers seem to act like the economy would instantly implode if the money supply were to ever shrink at all.
[19:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:48] <exec> 08└─i thought wealth is about how many slaves you can command not about a fictional number over which you have no control? on a more serious side note, 95% of people don't understand economics including deflation and inflation because they are not producers but consumers and "just shovel paper" inside a...
[19:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:04] <exec> 08└─Narp. w3m (with images enabled) renders it NSFW. You were honouring fancy-schmancy stylesheets that hid the NSFW bits that are on the front page, but which w3m has no comprehension of.
[19:41:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 1352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:33] <exec> 08└─If you read beyond the first few paragraphs of TFA, there is also stuff about reducing plastic packaging, new targets for recycling plastic bottles, plus strengthening the 'polluter pays' policy. In the case of food packaging there's a packaging vs. food waste trade-off. However, those finger-shredd...
[19:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:51] <exec> 08└─Good point, how does it wind up in the ocean? At the same time, keep in mind that ND that over 90% of the plastic enters the ocean from Asia and Africa. The West is only a small contributor. We should still do what we can, of course, and changing products here will have a knock-on effect elsewhere.
[19:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Chemical Reaction Can Combine Dinitrogen Molecules - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:21] <exec> 08└─They've got a lot of lakes in Canada, so I've heard. At least one must be liquid methane, surely? Law of averages.
[19:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Shoots Down Satellite in Test - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, I have read seveneves. I did quite enjoy it, the general concept was very cool, but I did feel it rambled a bit at times.
[19:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 3854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:25] <exec> 08└─Nevertheless, a patient is generally expected to be responsible for themselves, first and foremost. A patient is expected to educate themselves or be open to being educated to make rational decisions. And patients who do make irrational healthcare decisions or refuse to take reasonable care of thems...
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[20:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:38] <exec> 08└─Social media had only a small influence on how much people believed falsehoods
[20:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:40] <exec> 08└─Social media is known to present to their users only views that agree with their own - the so-called filter bubble [wikipedia.org]. I fully expect social media to entrench users in their beliefs, not confront them to other opinions. It's a sad sad thing that threatens democracy for society as a whol...
[20:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:42] <exec> 08└─This image, from the paper, seems to contradict the claim that there was little influence: https://journals.plos.org THe influence was different for different duhmographics, but that doesn't mean there's no influe...
[20:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:44] <exec> 08└─Here is a lickable clink [plos.org] to your graphic.
[20:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:47] <exec> 08└─Obviously you face a "few" problems when trying to study these kind of things... Your test panel self-selected for willingness to fill out surveysYou can't randomly assign people to use or avoid social mediaThe prevalence of fake news changes over timeIt's difficult to compare the belief in differen...
[20:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long Interview About the Creation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:57] <exec> 08└─... and those were the best wasted hours ever. It was like a never ending summer holiday. Never finished the main quest as there was soo much to do beside it. Even running into ghostfence for the first time was a major wtf! The only drawback.... those f*cking cliff racers... every three steps anothe...
[20:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long Interview About the Creation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 1430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:59] <exec> 08└─NPC wandering was greatly improved in Oblivion and Skyrim (Radiant AI). Now NPCs can sleep in their home, go to work on the other side of town, go shopping, sleep again, etc. Morrowind is kind of this eerie collection of people standing around in various locations, taking a few steps, looking around...
[20:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long Interview About the Creation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:01] <exec> 08└─You triggered bro? Got some homophobia to work out?
[20:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long Interview About the Creation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:03] <exec> 08└─Morrowind is free, through March 31, to celebrate The Elder Scrolls’ 25th anniversary https://www.polygon.com [polygon.com] will auto-link a URL
[20:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:45] <exec> 08└─Where's the off switch for the GPS and network connection?
[20:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:46] <exec> 08└─I'd mod you redundant if your post wasn't requested.
[20:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:48] <exec> 08└─> I'm anti-surveillance - but I like the idea of black boxes. The thing is, the black box shouldn't be actively reporting on you. Let it record - then if/when anything goes wrong, like running down Grandma, or Santa, or the Abominable Snowman, THEN the authorities can get at the data. 24/7 surveilla...
[20:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:45] <exec> 08└─"Is there a better way to deal with proletarianization and wealth stratification from a capitalist standpoint?" - No The entire point of capitalism is to lock down all profits and equity for a small group of people. The "market forces" that supposedly balance out capitalism and make businesses compe...
[20:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:46] <exec> 08└─Did you get my reference, citizen?
[20:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bangladesh Firefighters Battle Blaze at Dhaka Skyscraper - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:00] <exec> 08└─Fire fighting strategy: confine the the fire to the 13th floor. Problem solved.
[20:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bangladesh Firefighters Battle Blaze at Dhaka Skyscraper - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, but what could go right? Sounds like the setting for the origin story for a new super hero...
[20:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information During Language Acquisition - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:23] <exec> 08└─"it's miserable to assume too much."
[20:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radioactive Elements Influence Volcanic Lightning - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:32] <exec> 08└─are miso paste, tuna flakes and seaweed considered "energetic elements"? if "yes" please put the pot on the fire, no need for a smoke detector, the smell will alert you for sure ^_^
[20:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Hallucinations Studied in Mice - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:45] <exec> 08└─"Brains! Squeak! Brains!"
[20:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Hallucinations Studied in Mice - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:46] <exec> 08└─Brain: We must prepare for tomorrow night. Pinky: Why? What are we going to do tomorrow night? Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!
[20:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:58] <exec> 08└─Junker's goal appears to be a post-civil war United States instead of a pre-civil war United States. They want all of the federal authority and lack of individual state sovereignty but they want to do it gradually and without risk of being killed.
[20:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:00] <exec> 08└─There will always be a need and a use for cheap and easy plastics. Eventually we will have to switch from the cheaper and easier petroleum based stuff to more expensive corn, dandelion, other plant based plastics. It would seem a better goal for me to stockpile the stuff for use in stuff that is use...
[20:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:02] <exec> 08└─Dry land is not a myth! I have seen it! [youtube.com] - Chip Douglas
[20:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:04] <exec> 08└─I always assumed that the goal of most of the euro politicians, such as Junker, was the return of the Reich.
[20:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:47] <exec> 08└─Been working in hospitals since before the EMR took off widespread. Hospitals and clinics will buy whatever is cheapest, hands down. I’ve seen it over and over. Vendors will make promises and shit don’t work (I.e. yeah, that square peg will fit in the round hole). Deployment costs are known to f...
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[21:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lipid Vesicles Transmit Luminous Or Electrical Signals - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:33] <exec> 08└─Is that why neckbeards are so full of themselves? They're secret lipo-geniuses?
[21:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:50] <exec> 08└─Social media only entrenched the views held by liberals/conservatives from their existing meatspace social network, and televised new sources. The republicans particularly, but also democrats to a lesser extent parroting verbatim soundbytes and 'facts' that were told to them by mainstream news (on b...
[21:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:52] <exec> 08└─From the referenced study: More than a dozen possible issues were identified, and the final set was selected based on frequent references to them on the campaign trail, extensive media coverage, and evidence that Americans were at least occasionally mistaken about them. This approach is considerably...
[21:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:54] <exec> 08└─But...Butt...muh Russia! It was HER TERN!
[21:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:56] <exec> 08└─My (recently deceased) spouse fell into a filter bubble. I had to explain why all the "facts" in the postings were nonsense and how to search for alternate sources of information. It was sad and discouraging.
[21:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long Interview About the Creation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:11] <exec> 08└─Nope. It's just funny how you can write a book series and courageously alter the characters years later in an attempt to get more media attention and ticket/DVD sales.
[21:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Long Interview About the Creation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:12] <exec> 08└─Ive been considering doing a run-through of morroblivion as it appears most of it is completed and debugged.
[21:38:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 343 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:22] <exec> 08└─I'm anti-surveillance - but I like the idea of black boxes. The thing is, the black box shouldn't be actively reporting on you. Let it record - then if/when anything goes wrong, like running down Grandma, or Santa, or the Abominable Snowman, THEN the authorities can get at the data. 24/7 surveillanc...
[21:38:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Codesmith [5811] 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 1351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:33] <exec> 08└─So I went and did something unheard of, I read the actual article from the European Commission. It's pretty much reasonable standards: speed limiter (with override), distracted/inattentive driver warnings, improved safety features, accident recorder, alcohol interlock hookup I find the general react...
[21:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:54] <exec> 08└─To be fair, gold has better properties than aluminum or copper as an electrical conductor, but it isn't often used because of its cost.
[21:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:55] <exec> 08└─"Both are equally inflationary. But the latter destroys lives and achieves nothing." That is the goal in all of it they achieve what they wanted, destroying lives to keep the rest as compliant little sheep in step with the party line. Don't want them getting to uppity thinking they have a right to l...
[21:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:17] <exec> 08└─Alexa? How many people are you having sex with at this moment? Alexa: "I'm currently doing it with 25,562 humans."
[21:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:18] <exec> 08└─The world the AI lives in will be shaped not only by its sensoria, but also by its effectors. Eyes lead to a different model of the world than touch does. Etc.
[21:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU bans use-once-and-toss plastic items - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:10] <exec> 08└─I live in EU country and few years ago we implemented another directive, I don't remember was it European or our own, about banning plastic bags from being added to purchased products in supermarkets. This law became a nice tool to pull money from customer's pockets. So supermarkets started to sell...
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[22:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brazil Gunmen Shoot at Convoy Carrying Nuclear Fuel in Angra dos Reis - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:34] <exec> 08└─Police escorting the convoy responded and a shootout followed. No-one was injured or detained.
[22:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brazil Gunmen Shoot at Convoy Carrying Nuclear Fuel in Angra dos Reis - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:35] <exec> 08└─Spoiler Alert: When society tumbles into lawlessness you can probably expect people, at all levels, to no longer adhere to the law.
[22:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brazil Gunmen Shoot at Convoy Carrying Nuclear Fuel in Angra dos Reis - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:38] <exec> 08└─If that happened in USA, at least a dozen unarmed african-americans would be dead.
[22:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:05] <exec> 08└─It can be implied from the "outcome" that Facebook indirectly funded this 'study'. More 'science'... and they wonder why people scoff at scientists nowadays.
[22:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:06] <exec> 08└─Obviously social media is capable of changing ones opinion on anything. After all, as soon as hearing about this story we're all in agreement with the article. Unless we're not, which would imply its actually correct ... *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) IOW, most of the comments h...
[22:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:08] <exec> 08└─Here is Barack Obama, referring to his Muslim faith: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] That is right from his own mouth. His father and stepfather were both Muslim. This alone is enough; it is a Muslim belief that the child of a Muslim is inescapably Muslim. He grew up in Ind...
[22:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:11] <exec> 08└─Television Radio Newspapers Magazines Social events Water cooler Bars There are other means of interaction than social media, in case you had forgotten (or never experienced).
[22:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:13] <exec> 08└─Exactly correct -- at least my experience is that people do not go on major social media sites for debate/discourse. They go there to fight.
[22:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:15] <exec> 08└─Especially Dihydrogen monoxide... Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid f...
[22:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:17] <exec> 08└─Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds
[22:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:20] <exec> 08└─Probably around 90% of "normies" use go-ogle and failbook which both are total filter bubbles. It's horrible. It's well researched fact that this "social media" (what an oxymoron) tends to make people's opinions more extreme.
[22:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Long Interview About the Creation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:36] <exec> 08└─Morrowind had the best magic of the three. You can get close with some of the available mods in Skyrim but magic always felt lacking when vanilla.
[22:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:21] <exec> 08└─Even if we're designing cars to better protect the meatbags within, I don't think we're getting much better at avoiding collisions in the first place. I don't think improved safety means we can feel free to crash two ton blocks of metal into other people and their property on a regular basis. Reduci...
[22:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:22] <exec> 08└─Limiting speed is by definition impacting performance.
[22:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:25] <exec> 08└─I agree with the mass thing. I've been thinking that fines for speeding and recless driving should be proportional to the mass of your vehicle.
[22:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:27] <exec> 08└─They do this in Australia. It means selling your first 250 is easy. My first 250 sold for 50% what I paid for it 10 years later. Learners here are cc limited so the bike shops do a good turnover.
[22:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:29] <exec> 08└─Is it legal to block those systems from sending and receiving data? GPS and internet data that is.
[22:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:31] <exec> 08└─In the fusebox.
[22:40:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 929 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:10] <exec> 08└─here's the thing, though. If asset inflation occurs, but income inflation does not, and banks have baked inflation into their loan interest rates, it only helps the hoarders. That's our last 40 years of financial policy. Good inflation is demand side, the workers of the country get more money, the i...
[22:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:31] <exec> 08└─i mean yeah, this monopoly money is just good as long as the slaves keep believing in the economical system
[22:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:32] <exec> 08└─Japan is 93 (out of 95) in Hanke's Misery Index. The USA is 68, UK 62. Naturally, Venezuela is #1 with inflation that is off the charts. https://www.forbes.com [forbes.com]
[22:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:34] <exec> 08└─> Money is about transactions, not about "wealth generation". If your entire capital is cash, then fuck you. The entire complaint is that you want your money pile to appreciate without doing anything about the money pile. But this defeats the purpose of CURRENCY. CURRENCY is about facilitation of TR...
[22:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Visual Hallucinations Studied in Mice - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:33] <exec> 08└─in Canada phenyethyamine are blanket banned. but a lots of great tryptamines are not. you can buy some there https://www.rechem.ca [rechem.ca] or there https://bclsupply.com [bclsupply.com] or there https://syntharise.com
[22:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Visual Hallucinations Studied in Mice - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:35] <exec> 08└─also I prefer 2ci to doi. 2ci https://www.erowid.org [erowid.org] doi https://www.erowid.org [erowid.org]
[22:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon's Alexa Needs a Body to Understand the World - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:02] <exec> 08└─A person is not dead for as long as their name continues to be spoken.
[22:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Radiation Pressure Noise Measured to Improve Gravitational Wave Detection - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:03] <exec> 08└─I quickly skimmed the paper and they say that they have measured the effect, but I don't know if they looked into how they will mitigate it yet.
[22:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Chemical Reaction Can Combine Dinitrogen Molecules - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:36] <exec> 08└─We can settle for better drugs, and order them from India.
[22:45:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06New Elizabeth Warren Policy Supports "Right to Repair" - 1806 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:37] <exec> 08└─In all your thrown away items, the source of failure was not the complex machinery itself, but the battery. That tells me that: (a) battery technology sucks, so we should try to have as few things as possible running on batteries, and (b) if your thing must have a battery, you should only buy things...
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[23:37:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:55] <exec> 08└─Social media had only a small influence on how much people believed falsehoods
[23:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:13] <exec> 08└─Modded as "Flamebait"? Isn't anyone going to mod this up as "Funny"? Anyone???
[23:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Has Remarkably Small Impact on Americans' Beliefs, Research Finds - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:14] <exec> 08└─"Team Red" and "Team Blue" are to blame. Together and collectively. I think that most people think of the candidates and political parties in much the same way as NASCAR drivers or sports teams. The side they back is beyond fault, while the other side is a bunch of barely human infidels who need to...
[23:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:22] <exec> 08└─Night conditions vary... I'm thinking of Tamiami Trail in the 1980s - two lanes, bordered on the North by a shading tree line on the other side of which is a canal (dug to get the fill to make the road), said canal filled with alligators, said alligators prone to occasionally crossing the highway -...
[23:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU: Mandatory Speed Limiters Likely to be Required in All New Cars - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:23] <exec> 08└─the same officer that currently installs a warrantless GPS tracking device on your car to see everywhere you go, could instead just plug into the black box and download a complete history of everywhere you've been.
[23:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but I'd still prefer a start to discussion that isn't from a site that's blatantly and unabashedly anti-science. Maybe the Discovery Institute or the Answers in Genesis websites might run an interesting article on history now and then (I wouldn't know), but they would also not be a good start...
[23:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:29] <exec> 08└─Inflation is also a way to discourage hoarding. Use it, or lose it.
[23:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:31] <exec> 08└─So downward social mobility is not a problem?
[23:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Banks Shouldn't Fight Deflation - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not even going to debate the stuff about deflation/inflation, because one must consider the source of this "news,
[23:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bangladesh Firefighters Battle Blaze at Dhaka Skyscraper - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:49] <exec> 08└─I also think my own submissions are best submissions
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