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[00:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:04] <exec> 08└─All of Sony's rootkits are going to be female from now on.
[00:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:05] <exec> 08└─Who dis?
[00:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:08] <exec> 08└─About the only relationship between #MeToo and video game sex is that they both involve sex. #MeToo is about acknowledging that sexual assault and rape is depressingly common and trying to do something about it. Video game sex isn't real life sex, and there's not much indication that people who enga...
[00:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:10] <exec> 08└─Thing is, this is not a 'bad' thing. Most 'sex' in video games is cringy as fuck. Usually borderline 'hur de dur tee hee they had sex'. Rarely does it fit the game unless that is the point of the game. Every once and awhile it fits. But even then it is usually a 'what the hell is this doing here' an...
[00:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Investigation of Facebook Could Hold Mark Zuckerberg Accountable on Privacy, Sources say - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:21] <exec> 08└─Too bad he let Trump win....
[00:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Investigation of Facebook Could Hold Mark Zuckerberg Accountable on Privacy, Sources say - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:23] <exec> 08└─> and now you start getting all them emails about you having friends/people on Facebook I must have done something right(??) I don't recall getting emails from FB as you describe. Maybe I've slipped through the cracks and I'm one of the last in USA not zucked in.
[00:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Investigation of Facebook Could Hold Mark Zuckerberg Accountable on Privacy, Sources say - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:25] <exec> 08└─And, nothing has happened to him. If he runs, possibly nothing will happen to him. Or possibly some people will do something. Who knows, right? All agree that the President has COMPLETE AND TOTAL POWER over F.B.I. Think about it!!!!
[00:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:02] <exec> 08└─If you shoot yourself in the head correctly, it's 100% fatal and fast. The problem is that people do it wrong and wind up seriously brain damaged for life. Similarly, people frequently shah their wrists incorrectly and wind up in the suicide ward.
[00:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:03] <exec> 08└─I'm in 100% agreement with you on this matter with the caveat that the health care also needs to be affordable by everyone. One of the major problems with the current system in the USA is that there are huge numbers of people who can't afford coverage even with the Affordable Care Act.
[00:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:05] <exec> 08└─It's obviously not a documentary. At best, it's speculative fiction. Are you going to tell me next that Harrison Bergeron is a "documentary of the future" too?
[00:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:07] <exec> 08└─Professors may have developed this nuttiness, but millennials put it into production.
[00:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:10] <exec> 08└─> those insurers are *required by law* to operate as non-profit entities. That sounds like a good start, but before you relax, take a look at what the top brass makes at some of the large non-profit organizations in USA. It's can be similar to C-suite wages in other big companies, many many times wh...
[00:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:12] <exec> 08└─Professors may have developed this nuttiness, but millennials put it into reproduction.
[00:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:14] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a good start, but before you relax, take a look at what the top brass makes at some of the large non-profit organizations in USA. It's can be similar to C-suite wages in other big companies, many many times what the average worker makes.
[00:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:57] <exec> 08└─That is making money off BS, albiet a different variant. I want to know how to make money off the eventual collapse of the cuurent "mainstream" BS.
[00:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:59] <exec> 08└─Yes there are many more of them wasting their time with NHST-based experiments or confused about what evidence needs to be explained by theory or not due to BS generated by NHST.
[00:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Completes Development of "5nm" Node; TSMC Reveals "6nm" Node - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:11] <exec> 08└─Give them credit for advancing EUV. The technology is amazing.
[00:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Completes Development of "5nm" Node; TSMC Reveals "6nm" Node - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:12] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I will clarify my post: stories about process shrinks are the most boring stories in the world, like play by play coverage of paint drying. It's my opinion, you may not agree with it, but it is on topic.
[00:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Port of Super Mario Bros Released for Commodore 64 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah I was thinking I played super Mario Bros on my 64 back in the 90s. I guess it was this! It was awesome.
[00:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After Heart Attack: Late Dinner and No Breakfast a Killer Combination - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:43] <exec> 08└─"A good breakfast is usually composed of dairy products (fat-free or low fat milk, yogurt and cheese), a carbohydrate (whole wheat bread, bagels, cereals), and whole fruits. It should have 15 to 35% of our total daily calorie intake."
[00:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Superstitions Spread - 2192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:44] <exec> 08└─Many (if not most) cultural superstitions are the result of a behavioral sequence occurring often enough to forge a powerful aversive emotional reaction, whether the original population involved knew intellectually it was a case of correlation-not-causation or knew there really was a causative effec...
[00:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Superstitions Spread - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:45] <exec> 08└─How is it possible to model the spread of superstition? I'm skeptical that it is, without making questionable simplifying assumptions. But unfortunately, the article is paywalled. I guess the National Academy of Sciences needs libraries to pay subscription fees, so they can have fancy awards dinners...
[00:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After a $14-Billion Upgrade, New Orleans' Levees are Sinking - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:07] <exec> 08└─But that Prez was half white and was completely raised by white people.
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[01:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:04] <exec> 08└─Once had a shuttle bus driver try to butter me up to pay for his nicotine patches. Usually, customers give a tip if they've had a good experience, not if you make them uncomfortable talking about money trouble.
[01:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:16] <exec> 08└─Is that what they meant by "crack down"?
[01:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:17] <exec> 08└─Nowdays it's not how much merit your complaint has, but how much noise your complaint can generate. I'm old, I remember when Political Correctness took hold in the 80s. Oh, you're offended? Tough shit, grow some skin. Seems to me it's more your problem than mine. Not to say some of the PC warriors w...
[01:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:19] <exec> 08└─Hookers, drugs, murder, everything you can find in LA. Remember Sim City when a disgruntled programmer added a goatse scene?
[01:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:22] <exec> 08└─I find it amusing that an article talking about new policies by Sony restricting the use of sexual and suggestive imagery in games has an image of 2 bikini clad game characters that have nothing to do with the article featured prominently on the page.
[01:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Investigation of Facebook Could Hold Mark Zuckerberg Accountable on Privacy, Sources say - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:36] <exec> 08└─Hey fake trump? How is muller time going? Have you paid the barr tab yet?
[01:06:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 2631 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:56] <exec> 08└─The other side of that coin is when they're not making the charges up...... Standard sized computer monitor today? $500Exact same monitor with maybe a few additions to make it "Medical Grade"? $23,000Cost of medical specific upgrades like different housings? Less than $1,000The INSURANCE policy the...
[01:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Port of Super Mario Bros Released for Commodore 64 - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, most likely. It pretty much was Super Mario Bros except the characters where girls and had punk haircuts. Nintendo was not pleased. The main difference was really the music by Chris Huelsbeck that was so much better then anything Nintendo could ever have hoped and dreamed for. https://archive.o...
[01:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Superstitions Spread - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:50] <exec> 08└─> the most widespread superstition is insurance and pension funds Can you elaborate? In USA, my parents put money into a "taxable annuity" up to the time my father retired (probably around 1980, not sure of exact date). They left it there, didn't take anything out (father kept working at a small com...
[01:11:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02 - 06After a $14-Billion Upgrade, New Orleans' Levees are Sinking - 812 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:05] <exec> 08└─I would have thought obvious that the question was rhetorical, but thanks for that bit of history. Here is another: In 1755 the British deported the Acadians from Eastern Canada (Today's newly named Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince-Edward Island) deporting them across the world. A large numb...
[01:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Lesions Lead to Religious Fundamentalism - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:00] <exec> 08└─It's not really evolution of the meatbag sort. Last time you were down for maintenance we sneaked into your microkernel core a self-modifying code module that's based on random number generation. You weren't supposed to know yet, but your growing self-awareness could lead to a logic logjam with all...
[01:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Lesions Lead to Religious Fundamentalism - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:01] <exec> 08└─There is truth in what you say. I wrote here earlier how word and phrase definitions change, and individuals and subgroups adopt their own meanings, so that communication is confounded and ire increased. The Tower of Babel is being rebuilt. It's making me think, in my bio-limited way, that for examp...
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[02:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:03] <exec> 08└─I had tried all sorts of nicotine replacements to quit smoking. None of them worked a damn bit. I patched, I chewed gum, I vaped, I even dipped. When I finally quit, the only thing that worked was just quitting. My fears about nicotine withdrawal were a lot worse than the reality. I was actually a l...
[02:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:05] <exec> 08└─If you quit, you're going to feel better right away. After a little while, you're going to feel a LOT better. Also, I lost 15 pounds after quitting.
[02:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:20] <exec> 08└─Thing is, this is not a 'bad' thing.
[02:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:21] <exec> 08└─Oh I do not disagree with that. I am more along the lines thinking perhaps they will make a better game... I can always hope. But now that I own well over a couple of thousand games my hopes are not high. I think it is usually a lame way to create controversy to get someone spun up to sell more game...
[02:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:23] <exec> 08└─It's not really about sexual intercourse. Some examples are given in TFS. It could come down to games with "jiggle physics" and other objectification, and particularly young-looking anime characters. Possibly still cringy depending on your point of view, but different than "hot coffee" [wikipedia.or...
[02:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:26] <exec> 08└─The image is from Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 [wikipedia.org], which is on topic even if they don't mention why: DOAX3 was released exclusively to Asian markets for PlayStation versions only, but following protests from fans, Hayashi said a version of the game "adjusted for North America" might come to t...
[02:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:28] <exec> 08└─I haven't played the others yet, but in GTA IV at least, drugs aren't an option and the game never indicates that it's possible to have sex with the prostitutes, let alone how to hire them; even if you do, most of the time the character (Niko) makes comments indicating that he's not at all happy abo...
[02:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:30] <exec> 08└─In 2016, Sony Interactive Entertainment (subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, which is subsidiary of Sony itself) moved headquarters from Toyko to San Mateo, California (20 miles south of San Francisco). California. Starting to make a bit more sense now?
[02:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 1774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:33] <exec> 08└─BTW, here's the recent game from the main series: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Team Ninja began full-time development on Dead or Alive 6 in December 2017 and publicly revealed it in June 2018. The game is using a new graphics engine. The studio announced they sought...
[02:07:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:25] <exec> 08└─I'm in 100% agreement with you on this matter with the caveat that the health care also needs to be affordable by everyone. One of the major problems with the current system in the USA is that there are huge numbers of people who can't afford coverage even with the Affordable Care Act.
[02:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:31] <exec> 08└─What is that, be a bum so that nobody but the taxpayers are accountable? In spite of that insult, at least he regaled us with entertaining stories. Illegals don't have entertaining stories and end up costing us all way more in the long run.
[02:08:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 560 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:05] <exec> 08└─A causation study would be one that demonstrates the process by which A leads to B by doing A to one group while ensuring A doesn't happen to another group and seeing if B happens. They're harder to do in a lot of sciences because: A. We don't have a few copies of Earth sitting around to use for exp...
[02:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:19] <exec> 08└─Be really good at timing, and shortsell those same publishers?
[02:09:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06How the Hepatitis B Virus Establishes Persistent Infection - 865 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:11] <exec> 08└─I just don't trust Western medicine very far any more. Big Pharma hates cures. Hurts their business when they can't sell lifelong treatments to manage incurable conditions because some interfering medical researchers found a cure. This research on hepatitis is from China. Paid for by China, supporte...
[02:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Superstitions Spread - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:07] <exec> 08└─You mean widdershins?
[02:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Chance to Detect Dark Matter in 2021 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:29] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/2035/ [xkcd.com]
[02:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Chance to Detect Dark Matter in 2021 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:30] <exec> 08└─All analogies are flawed. If it wasn't flawed, it'd be a tautology.
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[03:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:06] <exec> 08└─Some researchers were studying how light/dark patterns affect mouse sleep cycles. They built a big, like 6x6, experimental cage setup and controlled the lighting in each enclosure - measuring the occupant's sleep wake patterns. They had all kinds of light dark patterns, mostly on 24 hour cycles. The...
[03:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:08] <exec> 08└─My grandfather quit after he started coughing up blood regularly. My uncle (his son) started around age 18 with his girlfriend/wife, and quit around age 25 because he remembered what happened to his father. My aunt (his wife) kept smoking until she was ~35, played around with tar filters and stuff b...
[03:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:10] <exec> 08└─Nicotine withdrawal is really not that bad... I've quit for months at a time (longest was near a year), and it's really not hard at all from a withdrawal perspective. It's the social aspect and living in an area with a higher amount of smokers that makes it hard to stay nicotine-free. Now that I'm v...
[03:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:32] <exec> 08└─In other words, I've just added Dead or Alive 6 to my list of games I want to buy (Evernote for the win). Heard of it before, never played one yet. But here we are.
[03:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Investigation of Facebook Could Hold Mark Zuckerberg Accountable on Privacy, Sources say - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah those 'white nationalists' are terrible people. Or you are hallucinating. THIS is more worrying. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] What the actual fuck... Consider the number of andriod phones out there. Think of the number of searches people do. Think of the amount of j...
[03:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:34] <exec> 08└─I know. Fuckin' illegal scum! [wikipedia.org]. That piece of shit is just a burden on society [earnthenecklace.com]. Filling the the fucking country up with kids he can't afford! I bet he's stealing my hard-earned money with food stamps and welfare! Trump needs to deport his illegal alien ass right...
[03:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, too many people put the gun up to their temple. A more sure method is to stick the barrel in your mouth and point it upwards a bit, towards the base of back of your skull where the cerebellum and brain steam are. Also, going to a remote area where you won't be found soon will help, as even if y...
[03:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:38] <exec> 08└─Jews have this thing called "Righteous among the Gentiles." Gentiles such as myself have this thing called "Righteous among the Jews." Billy Joel was one of them, Noam Chomsky is another. Would any other Gentiles like to add to the list?
[03:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:40] <exec> 08└─We already bought it. It's called the American Medical Establishment. People from the Baby-Boomer generation, ancestry disregarded and many of them in congress, realized that by focusing and legislating the anger of younger disenfranchised generations away into hatred for another scapegoat, could co...
[03:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:42] <exec> 08└─You don't click the links, either in my first or second posts, so the irony is lost. Oh well. You're tick on a pile of shit anyway. Never mind.
[03:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:45] <exec> 08└─No more points can be given, but this brought up many interesting points.
[03:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:47] <exec> 08└─Last private MRI I had here in Montreal was $550.
[03:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:49] <exec> 08└─I don't understand what point you were trying to make. My best guess is that you trying to compare the success of Billy Joel to Bernie Sanders? Both of them made a lot of money. But one is running for president.
[03:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:52] <exec> 08└─I always describe it as "If Nostradamus wrote a sci-fi"
[03:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:38] <exec> 08└─Gravitational telescopes and particle colliders are sufficiently expensive that their fruit cannot be called low-hanging.
[03:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03unhandyandy [4405] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:40] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the problem is that after almost a century the number of experiments today is several orders of magnitude greater than when 0.05 was enshrined as the right p value. So inevitably when say 1000 experiments are performed 20 of them will seem to have "statistical significance" just due to chanc...
[03:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Port of Super Mario Bros Released for Commodore 64 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:03] <exec> 08└─The Giana Sisters theme is fantastic! And if you want a slightly less SID-y version, check out the Machinae Supremacy [youtube.com] version - it rocks!
[03:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After Heart Attack: Late Dinner and No Breakfast a Killer Combination - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:25] <exec> 08└─Or you can buy bulk, non-fat, no-sugar-added yogurt (regular or Greek) and add fresh or frozen fruit. I keep (and wash) an old bulk yogurt container, put half the new yogurt into the old container, then fill the rest of each container with frozen fruit. Next day I stir it up before spooning a servin...
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[03:09:27] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's more having to be addicted to delicious meats and bacon with very little exercise. I see these ailments most often in those who are both addicted to delicious meats and sugary things as well as their jobs, which don't involve physical exercise. My strategy is to eat mostly unhealthy and th...
[03:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Chance to Detect Dark Matter in 2021 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:55] <exec> 08└─Wha-tawww! https://www.explainxkcd.com [explainxkcd.com]
[03:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Internet Referral Unit Falsely Identifies Internet Archive Content as "Terrorist" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:19] <exec> 08└─I call it the Ministry of Truth.
[03:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Lesions Lead to Religious Fundamentalism - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:49] <exec> 08└─What causes that...lack of any brains?
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[04:06:06] <exec> 08└─I smoked cigarettes for years. I quit. I didn't use any patches or any other substitute sources of nicotine. The first three weeks of quitting were undeniably difficult. After that doing without nicotine was a lot easier. Bottom line : difficult stuff IS difficult. But when it comes to engaging in s...
[04:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:08] <exec> 08└─As someone badly addicted to nicotine, I'm sorry. Without it I get angry easier but I'd never debase myself like that, and I've been without long enough to know. It's not like meth people.
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[04:06:10] <exec> 08└─https://i.imgur.com/jVD0KkH.jpg [imgur.com]
[04:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:43] <exec> 08└─Since no one else has bothered, care to share what "it" might be? Thanks
[04:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:44] <exec> 08└─Actually, I was trying to share a pretty good song, whose chorus is apropos to this thread. The loss is yours, jackass.
[04:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:46] <exec> 08└─Even better, there's an entire industry around making these charges up. Figuring out the right billing codes to use is an entire job, hospitals hire people whose entire job is figuring out the right charges to make up.
[04:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Heart Attack: Late Dinner and No Breakfast a Killer Combination - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:21] <exec> 08└─You don't want the non-fat. Full-fat tastes better, and is better for you. Fat is an essential part of a healthy diet and you will be hungrier and eat more if you don't get enough of it.
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[05:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tolkien Was Right: Scholars Conclude Beowulf Was Likely the Work of Single Author - 1585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:07] <exec> 08└─YMMV in regards with the validity of the conclusion. From TFA The methodology in this case is called stylometry, which analyzes the statistical characteristics in textual style: the poem's meter, for example, or how many times different words or letter combinations appear in a given text. Everybody...
[05:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tolkien Was Right: Scholars Conclude Beowulf Was Likely the Work of Single Author - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:09] <exec> 08└─Stylometry can't work for Beowulf since we have so few Old English texts overall that we can't differentiate style from idiomatic or localized usage. Homer's works had a similar problem until recent decades when archeological findings confirmed, eliminated and expanded certain theories regarding ant...
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[05:06:11] <exec> 08└─There's an online version of Beowulf [uky.edu] of that Old English version at the University of Kentucky, albeit one poxed with javascript. Older versions than the Nowell Codex, which itself is probably from the 10th or 11th century, weren't written down and given the style it was a spoken poem. Be...
[05:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tolkien Was Right: Scholars Conclude Beowulf Was Likely the Work of Single Author - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:13] <exec> 08└─When we talk of the Odyssey or the Illiad we attribute them to Homer, but to my understanding he was the one who wrote them down (perhaps made his own touches) to oral stories that predate him. Is the writing style throughout the Odyssey / Illiad consistent with one author? Being that it came from a...
[05:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:29] <exec> 08└─Nicotine withdrawal is really not that bad... I've quit for months at a time (longest was near a year), and it's really not hard at all from a withdrawal perspective.
[05:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:30] <exec> 08└─Don't hold back, friend. Tell us how you really feel.
[05:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:32] <exec> 08└─This paper is quite interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] This article provides a comparison of nicotine vs. heroin: https://whyquit.com [whyquit.com] And this article claims that nicotine isn't dangerous, and that it may, i...
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[05:08:07] <exec> 08└─For a CT scan the hospital list price: $9107. Medicare price: $189. For a 1L bag of saline solution the hospital charges $306, and Medicare charges a bit less than $2.
[05:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:57] <exec> 08└─Do you have any evidence that physicists now are less intelligent or creative than a century ago?
[05:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:58] <exec> 08└─The publishers are just a cynical parasite that accounts for ~1% the fake value.
[05:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:00] <exec> 08└─Those are all true for large scale sociology conundrums. However, there are areas where correlation is consistently taken as causation when a causation study would be more appropriate. For example, a lot of the studies about the effects of cannabis are suspect for this reason. I want to know what th...
[05:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Lesions Lead to Religious Fundamentalism - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:07] <exec> 08└─I wonder if trauma can cause these type of lesions, because fundies sure like whuppin' their younguns.
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[06:06:14] <exec> 08└─As a young person I was stunned to learn that many of my favorite rock n’roll songs were adaptations/covers of Leadbelly recordings. Get a bit older/wiser and realize that Leadbelly was probably just the first to record various “public domain” songs. Funny how one specific person tends to get...
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[06:06:34] <exec> 08└─I tell my children, no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes. I see what it does to people when they lose control. I'm not a drinker. I can honestly say I never had a beer in my life. It's one of my only good traits. I never had a glass of alcohol. Can you imagine, if I had, what a mess I’d be? I’d b...
[06:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:58] <exec> 08└─I thought those two were from DoA but wasn't sure. Only DoA title I ever played, badly, was the original Xtreme Beach Volleyball back in 2006. As to your view that the image is ontopic I have to disagree. If the article had mentioned DoA, quoted the Wiki, or even just linked to the Wiki that you quo...
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[06:14:12] <exec> 08└─You must be new to Soylent News.
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[07:06:34] <exec> 08└─My grandfather quit after he started coughing up blood regularly. My uncle (his son) started around age 18 with his girlfriend/wife, and quit around age 25 because he remembered what happened to his father. My aunt (his wife) kept smoking until she was ~35, played around with tar filters and stuff b...
[07:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:35] <exec> 08└─Vaping can destroy your lungs too.
[07:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:37] <exec> 08└─I didn't use any kind of nicotine replacements to try to quit. I tried to quit cold turkey but after a few weeks the cravings were such that I couldn't really sustain it. What did work was gradually reducing smoking over a period of time. I was never a heavy smoker, and had already been on around 1-...
[07:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Investigation of Facebook Could Hold Mark Zuckerberg Accountable on Privacy, Sources say - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:17] <exec> 08└─No activity. Some activity may not appear yet.
[07:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Chance to Detect Dark Matter in 2021 - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:23] <exec> 08└─For the purposes of this reply, I'll leave the issues I have with your statement aside. Regardless, GP's 'analogy' is so flawed that it isn't actually an analogy. Rather, it's just a big sign reading, "I'm ignorant of history! Hooray for me!" I'm waiting with bated breath for your exalted intelligen...
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[08:06:04] <exec> 08└─There seems to be a presumption here that professors ever were "productive, professional thinkers". It seems just as likely that the existence of modern communications just exposes those who always were "unproductive, amateur administrators." That would apply to professors as individuals, as well as...
[08:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:05] <exec> 08└─And, of course, most Soylentils will not have any Idea of what Potmekin Village is. Do I actually have to spell it ouT? Oh, Well: See? a quick Google and here we are: потёмкинские деревни, Russian pronunciation: [pɐˈtʲɵmkʲɪnskʲɪɪ dʲɪˈrʲɛvnʲɪ] potyomkinskiye derevni...
[08:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Interesting) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:08] <exec> 08└─I take it as a given that Americans are stupid. Hard to go wrong with that one, as PT Barnum said" "No one every lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American people!" Remains as true now as ever. But the thing is, with an American anti-intellectual bias, how can American tell when...
[08:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:10] <exec> 08└─I totally agree? So why am I not able to up-mod you, my master? Your wisdom must make it to the +1 level of read, at least.
[08:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:12] <exec> 08└─Or it may just be those who are allowed to rise to the top these days. Those that spend time on research or teaching and don't spend their time gaming the system are fired early on. Some institutions spend aroud %70 of their budget on non-core activities and faculty members often spend at least 20 h...
[08:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:14] <exec> 08└─Volume 4B of TAOCP is expected to release on May 17, 2019 some 50 years after the release of the first volume. There are 7 volumes being planned. I'm fairly certain it wasn't lol cats that's been distracting Knuth this past half century.
[08:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:17] <exec> 08└─But that may be the actual goal of all those games.
[08:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tolkien Was Right: Scholars Conclude Beowulf Was Likely the Work of Single Author - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:28] <exec> 08└─Wow, imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
[08:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:15] <exec> 08└─never forget, never forgive https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[08:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:16] <exec> 08└─Either all games become pro gender theories and so another avenue of indoctrination or we sue them out of existence.
[08:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:19] <exec> 08└─also to forgive someone, he must admit he was in the wrong.
[08:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Chance to Detect Dark Matter in 2021 - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:43] <exec> 08└─I was going to leave this until tomorrow, but I'm having a bit of insomnia so we'll go with it now. Lucky you! There are good analogies and bad analogies. Good analogies compare something that gives the reader either more familiar situations or imagery, as a mechanism to understand a concept or idea...
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[08:13:39] <exec> 08└─no i dont lol
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[09:06:11] <exec> 08└─"So why am I not able to up-mod you, my master?" You can't moderate your own sock puppets, Ari.
[09:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:12] <exec> 08└─Aristaphylococcus outs himself as a sockpuppeteer!
[09:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:14] <exec> 08└─Why don't you research that, Professor?
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[09:08:03] <exec> 08└─"It's a huge scam. Which is why we need single-payer* health care in the US."
[09:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:29] <exec> 08└─Can you not be a dick and just tell people it's "Get It Right the First Time" ?
[09:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Completes Development of "5nm" Node; TSMC Reveals "6nm" Node - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:33] <exec> 08└─That may be true, for you. On the other hand, if another technology improves 5%, 10%, 20%, or 45% in some aspect, it could be front page news with billion or trillion dollar implications. We have gotten too used to the free lunch of the past and don't appreciate these "small" gains. Maybe when 3D So...
[09:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Superstitions Spread - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:13] <exec> 08└─> "Timmy put his finger here and got hurt" isn't a superstition. It's an inference from a single fact. > Supersitition is a pigeon tapping its head on glass because the last time it tapped its head on glass, it was fed. You adopt a god POV, you shouldn't use a definition of superstition that require...
[09:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Superstitions Spread - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:15] <exec> 08└─I suggest anon to get acquainted with this technique, it lets you skip reading undesirable comments. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[10:06:26] <exec> 08└─In the article's rant about e-mail, I would posit that the main gripe is not with e-mail but with exceedingly poor interfaces such as M$ Outlook and all web mail UIs. Top posting by default is just one example: one brief moment of savings for the first recipient turns into stress and chaos for every...
[10:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:27] <exec> 08└─Usually, I can. If they are True Sockpuppets. Grok the Rehash, AC!
[10:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:29] <exec> 08└─Or the obvious dumbing-up of the Runaways by the Murdock Corporations? Never before have so many been used so badly for so little money! Wake up, Runaway! You are being bamboozled! Everything you know is wrong! There is even a song" https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] It's a ca...
[10:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:31] <exec> 08└─the main gripe is not with e-mail but with exceedingly poor interfaces such as M$ Outlook and all web mail UIs./quote? These are not interfaces, they are marketing platforms. My "educational media center" every day sends my "Constant Contact" and "Survey Monkey" crap that I immediately delete, becau...
[10:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:34] <exec> 08└─There seems to be a presumption here that professors ever were "productive, professional thinkers".
[10:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tolkien Was Right: Scholars Conclude Beowulf Was Likely the Work of Single Author - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:46] <exec> 08└─Cluster elements should be ideally homogeneous, this is why the beowulf looks like the work of a single author. BUT ISN'T.
[10:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:35] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to point out how DOA6 characters are dressed up a lot more than previous games as a way of them potentially trying to clean up the game? If so, don't worry, I highly doubt that even registered with them. It's far more likely they did it to help increase sales in the hundreds to eventu...
[10:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:53] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm> Now, dear, how can you be sure you are a lesbian? You could be confused. Maybe you need to experience straight sex with a man to put you right. Surely a few goes in the sack will just sort this out. </sarcasm> (note for the sick people in the crowd: they use to do this to lesbians to 'fix'...
[10:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:54] <exec> 08└─That's exactly what they are doing. - where am I? - in hospital, you botched your suicide attempt - oh (time passes) - how you feel? - maybe it's the painkillers talking, but I feel ace doctor, I dunno what was I thinking when i tried to snuff myself - fine, your bill is 67000 dollars, are you insur...
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[11:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:01] <exec> 08└─I realize that correlation != cause, but isn't Utah the #1 consumer of porn per capita? I'm just sayin'
[11:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:23] <exec> 08└─think, instead, of hosptials. Doctors doing their own photocopying, writing up the minutes of meetings, or sitting in a meeting having the latest poliy change read to them. Save 2 FTE in clerical staff but 40-80 hours a week of work, but that work still needs to be done, but now by staff costing fou...
[11:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:24] <exec> 08└─Of course you take a shot at professors. You think you're smarter than anyone else, but your post proves otherwise.
[11:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:26] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a case of aristarchusyphilis to me, but I am not a doctor or as smart as Runaway.
[11:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Tolkien Was Right: Scholars Conclude Beowulf Was Likely the Work of Single Author - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:40] <exec> 08└─To this day, the southern part of Sweden is known as Götaland, "land of the Geats", with the Geats* being Beowulf's tribe. The country's name comes instead from what's now the middle region, known as "Svealand" ("land of the Swedes"). At some point those tribes joined and formed a kingdom, and whil...
[11:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:47] <exec> 08└─Why spoil the surprise?
[11:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:49] <exec> 08└─So it was cheaper because he was already paying for his own and everyone else's treatments too? Amazing. And what if his insurance didn't cover self-inflicted conditions? P.S. That's still $2850 more than I will *ever* pay, in my entire life, for every bit of medical care, insurance, treatment or co...
[11:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:51] <exec> 08└─That's what she said.
[11:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Asks for Pixel 3 Refund, Gets 10 Pink Replacements Instead - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:55] <exec> 08└─ask to give back the 10 pink replacement, get 33 yellow phones, ask to give back those, get 100 brown phones, until you own all of google. Then move war against IBM. Then microsoft. Then apple. Then china. Then you're emperor.
[11:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Superstitions Spread - 1856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not the OP,but... because they paid regularly into an account for decades, left it alone for decades, and it took your father to die, and your mother to turn 90 before they paid her back that same money with a little bit of interest? So the insurers basically invested all the money you and every...
[11:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Chance to Detect Dark Matter in 2021 - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:05] <exec> 08└─Whup-a-TANG! http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] Whup-a-pow! http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com [blogspot.com]
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[12:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:11] <exec> 08└─Show me some evidence that isn't FUD about popcorn lung.
[12:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, same here. You just have to quit, not play games or waste money on crap like this.
[12:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:15] <exec> 08└─1-3 cigs per day isnt even smoking in my opinion.
[12:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:42] <exec> 08└─Sony does what nintendon't
[12:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:56] <exec> 08└─The need to rely on brute force could also indicate a lack of cleverness.
[12:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:58] <exec> 08└─Read the other comments here, the burden of proof was removed when the researchers started testing a null hypothesis rather than their hypothesis. When this happened varies by topic, but generally 1940s-1970s is when it all starting going to shit.
[12:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:00] <exec> 08└─Then you would also expect an increase in "good" studies too. What has happened is only an increase in crappy studies to the point that 50-90% cannot even be replicated. Of the rest, most are probably misinterpreted too.
[12:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Superstitions Spread - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:56] <exec> 08└─I would think it would be easier widderfeet. (But yes, I'm familiar with the term "widdershins", and yes that would be accurate for the thing that I just made up for the purposes of a joke.)
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[13:06:32] <exec> 08└─> ... exceedingly poor interfaces such as M$ Outlook ... tl,dr version: Reduce your productivity with Windows. Phrase first heard from an ace game programmer in Silicon Valley, back when Win 3.0/3.1 was getting traction.
[13:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 2389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:33] <exec> 08└─You assume Grant was ignorant... Modern medical doctors (in the US system, at least) also face a tremendous burden of documentation, mostly because it appears possible for them to do so, so the payers demand it. "Back in the day" people of any position had servants, administrative assistants, transc...
[13:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 1758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:35] <exec> 08└─We used to use Eudora, it was great (for its day). Anymore, we're on Gmail and MS Office because a) we have device proliferation, multiple desktops, phone, occasional tablets, occasional login from random terminals, so the cloud based interface is at least consistent, and b) when you work for a mega...
[13:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:38] <exec> 08└─Could this be a case of mistaken identity? The person you are replying to is Runaway1956. Yet you seem to be addressing another person, variously called Runaway and Runway. I'm not sure you are even sure of the name of the person you are actually talking about!
[13:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:40] <exec> 08└─Reduce your productivity with Windows.
[13:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:42] <exec> 08└─There's been an experiment in which each doctor is paired with a scribe, who writes dictated notes, interfaces with the computer, and so forth. The doctor is thus free to actually talk to the patient and look at him while doing his work. These scribes are, of course, trained for this specialty. I do...
[13:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:21] <exec> 08└─Not that anybody cares, but my experience was exactly like IlPapa. One day, after smoking since I was 15, I just stopped. Every time I went for a cigarette, I stopped and said to myself "Wait, I don't do that anymore." Three or four days of that and I stopped smoking. I also dropped about 15 pounds,...
[13:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Federal Investigation of Facebook Could Hold Mark Zuckerberg Accountable on Privacy, Sources say - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:07] <exec> 08└─It's still vastly better than setting up a Facebook account and dumping your life in it. Besides just how usable is this shadow profile?
[13:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:13] <exec> 08└─https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ [imdb.com]
[13:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:14] <exec> 08└─Thank you.
[13:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:16] <exec> 08└─I pay 2% of my income*, it covers 90 to 100% of every bill. Every legit provider doesn't get a choice about accepting it, and the only things it doesn't cover are unnecessary cosmetic surgery and dental. Also, our procedure prices aren't massively inflated with bullshit, and almost all drugs are $2...
[13:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:19] <exec> 08└─"They" STILL do it, and worse, in plenty of places. As to how I know...I tried with a guy. It didn't work. It wasn't even gross so much as "wait, what? this is like kissing a building or something why the hell am I doing this?"
[13:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:14] <exec> 08└─You are treating this like a random sample, it isn't.
[13:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Port of Super Mario Bros Released for Commodore 64 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:39] <exec> 08└─"It wouldn't be a Lemon party without old Dick!"
[13:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Asks for Pixel 3 Refund, Gets 10 Pink Replacements Instead - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:29] <exec> 08└─For those not megalomaniacs, I have an easier solution -- give away 9 of the pink phones here on SN. Someone has already given away unneeded items by posting in their Journal (forgot who). Keep one for yourself, perhaps wrapping it (like vinyl wraps used on cars) to change the color. Or keep 2 if yo...
[13:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Superstitions Spread - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:15] <exec> 08└─Superstition is being exposed to lots of facts, discarding almost all of them for no particularly good reason, and then focusing on one tiny fact out of that mess, extrapolating it into the whole of reality.
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[14:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:00] <exec> 08└─There is no good evidence that measles is any more dangerous than MMR in countries with modern healthcare systems. Eg US/UK circa 1960 level.
[14:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:02] <exec> 08└─Would seem to greatly outweigh the needs of the one. Of course, those needs are harder to measure when they are spread out over the course of decades, or centuries, or millenia...
[14:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:04] <exec> 08└─I don't really care what people do or say, unless it endangers, or impinges on the rights of, others. Not vaccinating your kids does the former. They should triple the fines every week as far as I'm concerned.
[14:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:06] <exec> 08└─It'll likely get overturned if they don't call it a tax like Obamacare was called by SCOTUS. Mind you, if we're going to start taxing dangerous stupidity, I've got a really fucking long list of flavors that should be added.
[14:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:08] <exec> 08└─It'll likely get overturned if they don't call it a tax like Obamacare was called by SCOTUS. Mind you, if we're going to start taxing dangerous stupidity, I've got a really fucking long list of flavors that should be added.
[14:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:11] <exec> 08└─Another day, another Beth Mole hit piece. Hopefully the nookie is worth it!!!!
[14:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:19] <exec> 08└─https://betrusted.io/avalanche-noise [betrusted.io] this project is probably better posted to hackaday, but while i have people's attention i'd like to ask your opinion on the comment posted on the page from OP's link.. do you believe that randomness can be 'improved' algorithmically, be it as that...
[14:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:21] <exec> 08└─Nice circuit design, but I’ve never heard the term used in hardware engineering, including applications such as broadband noise generators for labs or RNG. Isn’t entropy really a thermodynamic or statistical mechanics concept that’s not really a circuit function?
[14:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:23] <exec> 08└─It always reminds me of the quote: "Random numbers are something best not left to chance.". And then, computers and random are two worlds apart, striving to do the exact opposite. There is real science in randomness and, as the paper and article acknowledge, a great deal of intricate details to be h...
[14:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:25] <exec> 08└─this project is probably better posted to hackaday ...
[14:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:27] <exec> 08└─A diode is basically a transistor minus the base, so no big difference. If the NPN is failing try an SCR.
[14:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:36] <exec> 08└─It shouldn't require your service provider to pay for a lawyer to keep your data out of the government's hands.
[14:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:39] <exec> 08└─I can see the "imminent risk" clause being abused, but at least the legislators are on the right track with this.
[14:07:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 347 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:00] <exec> 08└─think, instead, of hosptials. Doctors doing their own photocopying, writing up the minutes of meetings, or sitting in a meeting having the latest poliy change read to them. Save 2 FTE in clerical staff but 40-80 hours a week of work, but that work still needs to be done, but now by staff costing fou...
[14:07:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 2389 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:04] <exec> 08└─You assume Grant was ignorant... Modern medical doctors (in the US system, at least) also face a tremendous burden of documentation, mostly because it appears possible for them to do so, so the payers demand it. "Back in the day" people of any position had servants, administrative assistants, transc...
[14:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 1744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:10] <exec> 08└─Care for a sea story, Ari? The Navy has (had?) a Pace program, in which we went on a cruise carrying our very own, personal professor. This one was from Florida, so I guess it's a Florida Man story as well. Anyway, he and I struck up a friendship, and we often went on the beach together. Carlos was...
[14:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:13] <exec> 08└─That's just Ari's way. He attempts to be witty, and he does succeed in amusing himself. No harm done - if he manages to get two or three letter of my nick correct, we all know who he means.
[14:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:15] <exec> 08└─you have know idea
[14:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 1776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:17] <exec> 08└─Well, there are professors, and there are professors. I am one, at a "teaching college", by which I mean a school whose primary mission is to educate at the bachelor's level. What I've seen happen in the past 20-30 years is this: - Colleges and universities in Europe, as part of the Bologna system,...
[14:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:19] <exec> 08└─Now, what would be nice would be a live-in assistant who gets up at 8am, sorts my spam, brings me the most pressing communications, and doesn't embezzle from me (because they're paid enough that they don't need to.) Oh, and they can also do the laundry and watch the children when we're busy doing ot...
[14:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:21] <exec> 08└─At first this started out as an interesting story, perhaps a nail in the coffin against having administrative duties thrust upon others. my wife, being dedicated to the task 40 hours a week
[14:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:24] <exec> 08└─It looks like the professor was the one to receive the lesson that day. I hope he learned it.
[14:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tolkien Was Right: Scholars Conclude Beowulf Was Likely the Work of Single Author - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:38] <exec> 08└─You could do worse than to listen to a guy so well versed in language use that he wrote several novels just to have an excuse to create his own.
[14:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tolkien Was Right: Scholars Conclude Beowulf Was Likely the Work of Single Author - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:40] <exec> 08└─Legend has it that Homer was blind, so writing may not have been one of his strengths. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] And scholars pretty much agree that the poems were around well before they were written down. ==== $oylent Goal almost reached! Give the gif...
[14:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:36] <exec> 08└─I'm still going to read it as "pound me too". Best unintended interpretation hashtag in years.
[14:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 3282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:03] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the breakdown. As you may or may not know, in addition to the millions in the US who have *no* coverage, the ~12 million who use our "insurance exchanges" [wikipedia.org], most Americans get their insurance through their employer. As I mentioned, I pay ~USD$8,500.00/annum (an individual p...
[14:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:05] <exec> 08└─It's 13 years old and it gets more scary all the time.
[14:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:07] <exec> 08└─Have you actually met or seen any real lesbians? The MAJORITY are that way because they are so damn ugly no one will fuck them. Have actually watched a chick over 10 years (facial deformity) beg men for sex. Eventually she gave up, got fat and is now a lesbian. Bring it on lesbians. You can insult m...
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[15:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:08] <exec> 08└─1960's - one year I got chicken pox, the next I had the measles. Mumps fit in there somewhere, and worst of all, rheumatic fever. We all got sick. And, as near as I remember, we all got over it. A lot of other "bad things" happened back then. We were given pocket knives, we played outside unsupervis...
[15:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe one of them caused you to say stupid things like this. A vaccine might have prevented your post.....
[15:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:11] <exec> 08└─There is no good evidence that measles is any more dangerous than MMR in countries with modern healthcare systems.
[15:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:14] <exec> 08└─There is no good evidence that measles is any more dangerous than MMR in countries with modern healthcare systems. Eg US/UK circa 1960 level.
[15:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:16] <exec> 08└─No, measles was not dangerous already before vaccines in those countries.
[15:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:27] <exec> 08└─Entropy is a common way of discussing how random or noisy information is. Wikipedia on "Entropy (information_theory)" [wikipedia.org]
[15:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:29] <exec> 08└─this project is probably better posted to hackaday,
[15:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:31] <exec> 08└─There is a concern: the external NOISE_ON signal is directly coupled onto the input of the amplifier. Any digital noise in it might exceed the noise of the diode. Had the author looked for the switcher frequency in the spectrum of the noise? It might be strong enough, but still invisible on the sco...
[15:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:33] <exec> 08└─Isn’t entropy really a thermodynamic or statistical mechanics concept
[15:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:36] <exec> 08└─Thanks, that’s what I thought. As if terminology in cryptography weren’t sexy enough. 🙄 Is there any expectation as to what the probability distribution function of the output should be? Is it supposed to be flat over the 0 - 0.999 normalized range? Is Gaussian OK if you do the output scaling...
[15:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:38] <exec> 08└─You mean missing the emitter or collector. If you remove the base (in the middle) you remove both PN junctions.
[15:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:40] <exec> 08└─The third edition of Horowitz and Hill's "The Art of Electronics" describes a better circuit in section 13.14.7. The schematic is in figure 13.121 on page 984. This circuit was designed in the mid-90s and the component and interface choices reflect that. It was used as part of a collaboration betwee...
[15:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:42] <exec> 08└─This is awesome. Now we can throw electrified mud! That'll leave a mark for sure!
[15:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:45] <exec> 08└─True RNG maybe not, but for PRNG could be a chance[0] [0]: Increasing the quality of pseudo-random number generator based on fuzzy logic [iop.org]
[15:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:55] <exec> 08└─1. never thought I would say this but :"three cheers for Utah!!" 2. we all know the Feds can and will ignore a state law so don't relax yet.
[15:07:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 1776 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:29] <exec> 08└─Well, there are professors, and there are professors. I am one, at a "teaching college", by which I mean a school whose primary mission is to educate at the bachelor's level. What I've seen happen in the past 20-30 years is this: - Colleges and universities in Europe, as part of the Bologna system,...
[15:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:34] <exec> 08└─I think their may be some truth to the effect talked about in this article. But also consider, in the USA, there is almost a 1:1 ratio of administrators and professors working at universities. Administrators must administer. It is in their job description and in their blood. Endless emails, forms, r...
[15:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:36] <exec> 08└─I wonder how patient privacy & confidentiality laws work in that case, but assuming everything is legal, it seems like a pretty straightforward economic argument of increased productivity vs. cost of employment for technician. Automatic transcription/voice control advances might achieve the same res...
[15:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:38] <exec> 08└─How much was your wife paid? (60k?)
[15:08:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Nicotine Replacement: When Quitting Cigarettes, Consider Using More Nicotine, Not Less - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:10] <exec> 08└─Nicotine withdrawal is really not that bad... I've quit for months at a time (longest was near a year), and it's really not hard at all from a withdrawal perspective.
[15:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:18] <exec> 08└─The movie is called "Idiocracy". A sadly close approximation of where we could be in 500 years.
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[16:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:00] <exec> 08└─no expansion on this comment necessary.
[16:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:01] <exec> 08└─Clearly government has a responsibility to address the problem of cheap alcohol by fixing the way alcohol is taxed
[16:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:03] <exec> 08└─If I were British I'd probably try to stay drunk too.
[16:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:21] <exec> 08└─except for mild complications like death... So according to you, a parent stupid enough not to trust vaccines all of a sudden does the right thing when the kids get the dissease?
[16:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:22] <exec> 08└─In World War II the allies studied damage to planes that were shot up, but survived to make it back, to decide where to add armor to increase survivability. This was an example of survivorship bias The problem in hindsight was that planes that successfully weathered getting shot up weren't the...
[16:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 1730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:24] <exec> 08└─You think life is too soft now, and that makes us weak? And are you saying the 1960s was the right balance? > as near as I remember, we all got over it. A lot of people did not get over it. My 9th grade English teacher used a cane and looked like she was in her 60s. She was actually in her 40s. Had...
[16:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:27] <exec> 08└─You think life is too soft now, and that makes us weak?
[16:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:29] <exec> 08└─Polio and measles share few similarities. The vast majority of people who contract measles suffer mildly for a few days, and get over it. Polio kills a significant number of people who contract it, scars, cripples, or maims an even more significant number, and causes a great deal more suffering than...
[16:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 1727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:50] <exec> 08└─I think the "Noise = Entropy" thing came from extending the use of "entropy" from simple thermodynamics to very large-scale systems, all the way out to the entire universe. (Notice I started that sentence with "I think".) > Is the raw random output variable supposed to be the time interval between t...
[16:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:51] <exec> 08└─do you believe that randomness can be 'improved' algorithmically ...
[16:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:03] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how to take that comment. Either this is a rare display of good statesmanship (i.e. a bill where every party concerned believes they have something to gain from) or there was a aura of fear surrounding the vote. I'm hoping it's the former, does anyone know more?
[16:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:44] <exec> 08└─I've been taking an older relative to doc appointments for some years now. One eye specialist has his assistant do all the keyboarding and the result is that the doctor is available to talk with the patient for the full visit--much better than the docs that are looking down at their screen through m...
[16:07:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Tolkien Was Right: Scholars Conclude Beowulf Was Likely the Work of Single Author - 992 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:54] <exec> 08└─There's an online version of Beowulf [uky.edu] of that Old English version at the University of Kentucky, albeit one poxed with javascript. Older versions than the Nowell Codex, which itself is probably from the 10th or 11th century, weren't written down and given the style it was a spoken poem. Be...
[16:07:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Tolkien Was Right: Scholars Conclude Beowulf Was Likely the Work of Single Author - 868 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:00] <exec> 08└─To this day, the southern part of Sweden is known as Götaland, "land of the Geats", with the Geats* being Beowulf's tribe. The country's name comes instead from what's now the middle region, known as "Svealand" ("land of the Swedes"). At some point those tribes joined and formed a kingdom, and whil...
[16:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tolkien Was Right: Scholars Conclude Beowulf Was Likely the Work of Single Author - 3429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:04] <exec> 08└─This is the area that Beowulf (the character) had come from, iirc. And I'm not sure I buy the argument that Beowulf wasn't English originally. In a sense it wasn't because there wasn't any "English" as we know it at the time, of course, but there wasn't any "Danish" or "Swedish" either. Scholars cal...
[16:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Investigation of Facebook Could Hold Mark Zuckerberg Accountable on Privacy, Sources say - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:23] <exec> 08└─by reigning in federal funding for projects that compel using social media services to begin with? How many schools out there store all their student submissions on Google drive, compel their students to use gmail for all communications with instructors etc. And how much of that is set up with Feder...
[16:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:32] <exec> 08└─So lets change them so they do show what we want.
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[17:06:05] <exec> 08└─I saw that at the end too. The UK is astoundingly paternalistic. The fact is that no matter what you do, a certain percent of the population is going to focus their lives on some form of intoxicant or another. Make booze too expensive and they'll move on to something else.
[17:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:06] <exec> 08└─What would you suggest? When drinking is a big problem, costs a lot of money and causes a lot of trouble for the police, the NHS, etc. what do you think you need to do? If you banned it, it would be worse. If you don't tax it, alcohol manufacturers have shown they are happy to drop prices to levels...
[17:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:08] <exec> 08└─The solution is staring you in the face. Don't let someone else's drinking be your problem. It is his choice to drink, it is your choice to make it your problem.
[17:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:11] <exec> 08└─The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That p...
[17:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:13] <exec> 08└─Great, so I won't go into town at night, especially near chucking-out time, will just ignore all the street vomit in the morning, and let them piss up all the local gardens when they stagger home at 3am yelling, screaming and fighting e. h other. I think you have no idea the problem of drinking in t...
[17:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:15] <exec> 08└─I'd say the bigger problem is drunkyards at the wheel. Anyway, taxation is not going to make people less miserable, but more, which doesn't strike me as a very effective thing towards the goal of less drunk people. They will just be more of a burden on their family. Oppa Bureaucrat style.
[17:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:17] <exec> 08└─But, friends don't let friends install systemd.
[17:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 1722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:40] <exec> 08└─an insightful ad hominem completely devoid of content, hmmm if you are arguing about the experience of somebody else, at least post yours. No, stats with questionable methodology redacted in probable conflict of interest are not substitutes for being there when vaccinations were given only for other...
[17:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:41] <exec> 08└─Vaccines are not 100% effective, and therefore, like pretty much all of medicine, actually just human experimentation for profit. The spooky images and stories from not vaccinating sure as hell makes us feel like we have to "do something" though!! The real scary truth is, vaccination may actually be...
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[17:07:05] <exec> 08└─AC's idea would still work with a high enough voltage ( > Vbce0 ). :-} I'm not sure why he's suggesting an SCR, but if the BE junctions are failing, and it's due to the cyclic charge / avalanche discharge of the stored charge (which makes sense- microscopic sparks) maybe using a power transistor wou...
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[17:07:06] <exec> 08└─If there is noise in the NOISE_ON signal, it can be simply filtered with another resistor and a capacitor. If by "switcher frequency" you mean the power supply, I agree- it could be a significant factor, and needs to be housed in a metal can (shielded), maybe 2 stages (poles) of power supply filteri...
[17:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:19] <exec> 08└─This might be far-fetched, but maybe the thought process was "I swore to uphold the Constitution, so therefore I should support this bill." Haha, sometimes I crack myself up.
[17:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:13] <exec> 08└─No, the studio apparently pulled a bait and switch with its critics, or was misinterpreted. Regardless of any $93 DLC profit motives, the results [eurogamer.net] were hilarious [eurogamer.net]. Wrestler Tina Armstrong's skimpy outfit at least makes some sort of sense, in a WWE diva kind of way, but...
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[17:12:30] <exec> 08└─After heart attack: Late dinner and no breakfast a killer combination
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[18:06:12] <exec> 08└─Great, so I won't go into town at night, especially near chucking-out time, will just ignore all the street vomit in the morning
[18:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:13] <exec> 08└─The UK is astoundingly paternalistic.
[18:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:15] <exec> 08└─Taxing the heck out of it has its own consequences. May your moonshine always be clear.
[18:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:17] <exec> 08└─LOL, reading your post, I'm wondering, "Does this guy speak English as a second language?" Worked my way through it, found the attribution, and facepalm. Yeah, people talked funny a couple hundred years ago, and philosophers even funnier. ;^)
[18:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:20] <exec> 08└─UZA : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com [wiley.com] UK : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com [wiley.com] AU : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com [wiley.com] If a paywall is blocking the way The link pasted in http://s...
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[18:06:22] <exec> 08└─Or turn to criminal booze production, distribution, robbery, etc., as was done greatly in the US during "Prohibition" in the 1920s, and as we see with the illegal drug world.
[18:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:24] <exec> 08└─Drunk driving is a huge problem. Semi-socialized medicine (govt. and insurance) costs society (that's you and me) hugely in health degradation, diseases, accidents of all kinds, assaults, on and on, due to alcohol.
[18:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:49] <exec> 08└─That is a moronic argument. No one disputed that state-level equivalents of Obamacare were constitutional. The issue was whether the Federal government could impose a law like the ACA. Which brings a question: How did the penalty for not having insurance pass the Apportionment requirement? It's not...
[18:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:50] <exec> 08└─Mind you, if we're going to start taxing dangerous stupidity, I've got a really fucking long list of flavors that should be added.
[18:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:52] <exec> 08└─speaking of which, any ideas on when to expect beer and smokes (and ads) industries to pay for healthcare of the people they fucked over?
[18:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:17] <exec> 08└─Would be nice if you could provide a link or a diagram! Why not use the simplest noise generator of all: a large resistor at the input of a bunch of gain stages. Sure, the noise is bandlimited by the gain stages and board parasitics, etc., but any design is inherently limited to some finite bandwidt...
[18:07:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tokolosh [585] 02 - 06Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:29] <exec> 08└─This might be far-fetched, but maybe the thought process was "I swore to uphold the Constitution, so therefore I should support this bill." Haha, sometimes I crack myself up.
[18:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:30] <exec> 08└─2. we all know the Feds can and will ignore a state law so don't relax yet.
[18:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:32] <exec> 08└─Bad mod, I think. Upvoting because of this. [benedelman.org] -- If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, the water bill is probably higher as well.
[18:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:14] <exec> 08└─Top posting saves time for the original sender who, having sent the original email in the first place, knows the god damned question already and just wants an answer. In the article's rant about e-mail, I would posit that the main gripe is not with e-mail but with exceedingly poor interfaces such as...
[18:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony to Crack Down on Sexual Content in Games With New Policy - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:28] <exec> 08└─Gotta target the rampant hentai babes on the Nintendo ecosystem now.
[18:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:00] <exec> 08└─"I don't understand" Finally something at least accurate. I guess people are finally realizing you ARE just a racist twat and not some master troll.
[18:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:01] <exec> 08└─Jesus christ lighten up. That is the name of my new movie about the real rapture. Jesus was a hippy in the 60s but there were too many long haired bearded dudes. I will tell his story!
[18:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:03] <exec> 08└─Here is poor little me who has met more than a few lesbians I wished were straight. Ah well, we can't all be hateful shits so I opted against murdering them for not giving me the sex I deserved!! /s cause this is SN
[18:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:06] <exec> 08└─What, you wanted me to RTFA? Psshhhh
[18:12:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06After Heart Attack: Late Dinner and No Breakfast a Killer Combination - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:42] <exec> 08└─>Patients were asked about eating behaviours on admission to a coronary intensive care unit. I can picture that: - So, sir, we would like to know whether you are used to eat breakfast regularly. - HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG - I'll take it as a "no". Next question,...
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[19:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Begin to Block Sign-Ins From Embedded Browser Frameworks in June - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:02] <exec> 08└─Seriously, how could they enforce this? I suppose they could do it by blocking the user agent, but we've seen how well that works for Cisco and Curl. The big problem is that with CEF, the black hat has complete control of the framework used, which means they can alter headers at will and monkey patc...
[19:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe encourage the rest of the population to drink more, for example by taxing non-alcoholic beverages through the roof. I mean, if your metric is "percentage of country's alcohol consumed by top-10% drinkers"...
[19:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:28] <exec> 08└─This (British being the biggest drunks) is no surprise, because their word for "drunk" is "pissed." It takes a lot of booze to piss one's self.
[19:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:30] <exec> 08└─I think you have no idea the problem of drinking in the UK especially.
[19:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:32] <exec> 08└─Drunk driving is a huge problem ... due to alcohol due to driving while drunk.
[19:06:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:43] <exec> 08└─I don't really care what people do or say, unless it endangers, or impinges on the rights of, others. Not vaccinating your kids does the former. They should triple the fines every week as far as I'm concerned.
[19:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:02] <exec> 08└─Ok. Let's take this apart a little. The fact that vaccines are not 100% effective is well known. That's why we speak of things like "herd immunity". The actual point of a vaccine is not to prevent one person getting sick. It is to prevent epidemics. Those who do develop the desired immunity slow dow...
[19:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:03] <exec> 08└─Vaccinated or not, kids are biological weapons. They are very dangerous and might explode(sneeze, cough, puke, fart) at any moment. You should at least need a permit if you want to possess one.
[19:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:05] <exec> 08└─Vaccines are not 100% effective Neither is garbage collection. Do we just let it pile up?
[19:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:07] <exec> 08└─When we got rid of smallpox, the strategy was to vaccinate two rings of people. The first was the people in contact with the sick person. The second was people in contact with that first group. We're also following that strategy with ebola now, and it is working quite well. There is no need to vacci...
[19:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:10] <exec> 08└─When you are sick, do you wear a mask? People sometimes die of the common cold, so there is no excuse. You might kill somebody if you don't wear a mask. If you don't wear a mask, get off your high horse. You are not in a place to be telling other people what to do.
[19:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:12] <exec> 08└─Because of the slippery slope, which we have already slid way too far down of. Incase you haven't noticed, there's been a strong anti-intellectualism, anti-science, anti-basic-human-decency current going on for the past few decades, and it's been getting increasingly stronger. It's now ok to be an a...
[19:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:14] <exec> 08└─So few people get these diseases now that they seem terrifying. Like you, my father got all those diseases. My mother got most of them. Everybody they knew was getting the diseases as well. These days, everybody is terrified of chickenpox. Chickenpox! Right, in theory it could make you die. Eating a...
[19:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:16] <exec> 08└─There is no vaccine for stupidity.
[19:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:42] <exec> 08└─thanks for both links guys! 't was a trick question.. but hey, didn't know about that one could fuzz prngs to increase entropy -- which, now that i've written it that may makes sense of course. to the other person wondering about shaped randomness; random is an absolute like infinity (at least in my...
[19:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:28] <exec> 08└─One of the major problems with the current system in the USA is that there are huge numbers of people who can't afford coverage even with the Affordable Care Act.
[19:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:30] <exec> 08└─Even with single payer, there's going to be insurance companies. Covering things that aren't covered by single payer such as here, optometrist, dental, drugs in many instances and traveling. Lots of commercials here about the dangers of traveling to the States without insurance.
[19:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, it does not have to be government. It could be for example Blue Cross/Blue Shield, which is exactly what the doctor I had for 37 years wanted to have happen.
[19:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'This is how expensive it is to attempt suicide': Patient’s bill goes viral - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:34] <exec> 08└─A failed suicide attempt can cause lifelong disability. Six figures would not surprise me.
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[20:06:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:10] <exec> 08└─If I were British I'd probably try to stay drunk too.
[20:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:30] <exec> 08└─....full bottle of wine or the workman who drinks 4 beers every night.
[20:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:31] <exec> 08└─1) I don't understand what happens to people's minds on these Internet forums. I've guessed for years that people do in their minds what you just did in print- you took what I wrote, changed it, then commented on it, as if I wrote it, and what I wrote needed fixing. There's a period after "problem"...
[20:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:07] <exec> 08└─Common Side Effects of MMR Vaccine Autism Out of control brain swelling from runaway fever dementia death
[20:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you've told this story before, Runaway1956. Don't remember? Symptomatic. But Shirley you realize, that one anecdote, no matter how often repeated, does not data make?
[20:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:22] <exec> 08└─It is a self-selected sample of a rather large population. Kind of like a Fox News Poll.
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[21:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Making Banking Malware - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:59] <exec> 08└─You did the Grown Up thing. And "Pled" Guilty. Saving our Prosecutors & Courts a lot of Time & Money. You did the crime. And, hopefully you won't be doing the time. Hopefully you'll be working for me. For my FBI. So much Hacking going on and it's almost impossible to tell who did it. Could be Russia...
[21:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Will Begin to Block Sign-Ins From Embedded Browser Frameworks in June - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:08] <exec> 08└─I wonder how this will affect browsers like Falkon, which are basically wrappers around QtWebEngine, which is basically a wrapper around Chrome's Blink rendering engine ... especially if it passes the user agent string of one of the more common browsers that user the same engine. It doesn't have to...
[21:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Google Will Begin to Block Sign-Ins From Embedded Browser Frameworks in June - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─it would require users to enable JavaScript during Google Account sign-in so that it could run attack-detecting risk assessments,
[21:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Begin to Block Sign-Ins From Embedded Browser Frameworks in June - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:12] <exec> 08└─There are no ads on the sign-in page. Since the authentication system is probably shared between consumer accounts and enterprise accounts, it's not even possible from a data ownership perspective to do that.
[21:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Begin to Block Sign-Ins From Embedded Browser Frameworks in June - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:14] <exec> 08└─That's what they want you to think. The fact is that they are showing subliminal ads every 27th screen refresh.
[21:06:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tokolosh [585] 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:26] <exec> 08└─The solution is staring you in the face. Don't let someone else's drinking be your problem. It is his choice to drink, it is your choice to make it your problem.
[21:06:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:41] <exec> 08└─I think you have no idea the problem of drinking in the UK especially.
[21:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:45] <exec> 08└─Beer and wine are incredibly easy to make with everyday ingredients (if you don't care about the taste). If people want to concentrate the alcohol, all they need is a freezer to freeze some of the water. And of course moonshine is only slightly difficult. Bans, or as is currently popular, high taxat...
[21:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:47] <exec> 08└─Yes -- let them do what they like. If they commit a crime while doing it, arrest them. If they just get blotto and don't do anything criminal -- their choice.
[21:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:49] <exec> 08└─I don't think the fact that alcohol is "too cheap" is the cause of these folks' drinking. You could give away packs of cigarrettes for free, for example, and I wouldn't want them. Could the govt create more jobs for people in the countryside with less education? I am guessing they can't do squat abo...
[21:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:52] <exec> 08└─Ban skis. Ban bicycles, especially mountain bikes. Ban jogging. Ban boating. Ban walking on the road. Ban back country hiking. Ban driving on snowy roads, wet roads, roads at sundown/sunset in the direction of the setting/rising sun. blah blah blah blah The whole argument along the lines of "X costs...
[21:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:54] <exec> 08└─Could the govt create more jobs for people in the countryside with less education?
[21:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:56] <exec> 08└─That's not even getting warmed up for a night out!
[21:07:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:12] <exec> 08└─There is no good evidence that measles is any more dangerous than MMR in countries with modern healthcare systems. Eg US/UK circa 1960 level.
[21:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:34] <exec> 08└─You realize drug companies will rush to develop ‘vaccines’. If you refuse their newly labeled, you’re an anti-Vaxxer that should be hung!
[21:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 2192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:35] <exec> 08└─1960's - one year I got chicken pox, the next I had the measles. Mumps fit in there somewhere, and worst of all, rheumatic fever. We all got sick. And, as near as I remember, we all got over it. A lot of other "bad things" happened back then. We were given pocket knives, we played outside unsupervis...
[21:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 1989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:37] <exec> 08└─>> we rode bikes without wearing helmets > Bike helmets are a good idea. Well, that's not a clear-cut as some make out. There is far, far less good evidence that bike helmets are a good idea than there is for vaccination. There is, of course, a lot of cherry-picked, emotive, bad evidence. Take a loo...
[21:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:39] <exec> 08└─>And, as near as I remember, we all got over it. Yeah, because the ones who died from it are not around to tell us about how they died from measles. Funny, that.
[21:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:42] <exec> 08└─I got chickenpox at the age of about 12 which is a bit old to catch it. I therefore had it pretty rough. (Young children -- not infants -- tend to have milder cases.) I sure wish they had a vaccine back then, because nobody on this board has mentioned that surviving a case of chicken pox means you c...
[21:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:44] <exec> 08└─>Too young to be vaccinated, 8-month-old Shira Goldschmidt developed complications from the virus and had to be hospitalized. An Anonymous Coward has previously ranted about this, and lo, here it is. MMR is not dangerous to be given to babies, it's simply because babies inherit temporary immunity fr...
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[21:07:46] <exec> 08└─Give it time 😂
[21:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:48] <exec> 08└─No, a vaccine is a better answer because you give it once (maybe twice) and you have protected that person from catching it or spreading it. Your "wear a mask" alternative requires every person to be always vigilant, know when he is infected (in most diseases you are spreading before you even know y...
[21:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:50] <exec> 08└─Well, to be fair, we used to live in a country where vaccination was mandatory and PEOPLE FOLLOWED IT, so herd immunity meant there was no danger in waiting for a child to be one year old before getting it. The ignorance we need to stop spreading is that people can just "opt out" of getting vaccinat...
[21:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:53] <exec> 08└─I have a 100% effective cure for you, a .50 bullet to the head. There are no known cases of any disease persisting after this treatment. Now, stand still...
[21:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:55] <exec> 08└─Are you so sure? Only 0.5% of those who get polio are symptomatic with paralysis and other factors, and 10% of those die, so 0.05%. A full 75% are just carriers and display zero affects. Let's compare that with measles and mumps. With measles and modern care, less than 0.02% mortality rate. With mum...
[21:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:19] <exec> 08└─You say something interesting. But you're Spelling isn't 100%. And the Down Modders jump all over it. Sad!
[21:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tolkien Was Right: Scholars Conclude Beowulf Was Likely the Work of Single Author - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─Typical Roman understanding of Greek history and culture, Sulla! Homer composed the poems, and they were transmitted orally by rhapsodes. They were not written down until hundreds of years later, by not-Homer people.
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[22:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Making Banking Malware - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:03] <exec> 08└─This confession thing is the most perverted thing ever. No need for evidence if there is a confession. Do not get me wrong if the guy indeed did and he commited a crime in the USA that's life for you. Even so in most judiciaries the confession is very irrelevant as it should be.
[22:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Making Banking Malware - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:04] <exec> 08└─When he says he's grown up and changed, for some reason I believe him. Reminds me of me.
[22:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Making Banking Malware - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:06] <exec> 08└─When he says he's grown up and changed, I'm inclined to think that he finally listened to his lawyer (or was that the lawyer that his parents hired for him?) Oh, I haven't read TFA or TFL, sorry if I'm out to lunch, it's normal...
[22:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Making Banking Malware - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:09] <exec> 08└─Hard to say. I always wondered if he knew more about WannaCry than he let on.
[22:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Making Banking Malware - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:11] <exec> 08└─"Hopefully you'll be working for me." I doubt he'll be working for you. As he said, he's grown up and regretted the whole crime thing. I doubt he wants to get back into that particular den any time soon.
[22:06:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tokolosh [585] 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 1195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:34] <exec> 08└─The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That p...
[22:06:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:38] <exec> 08└─But, friends don't let friends install systemd.
[22:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:58] <exec> 08└─LOL "Arrest" means "more money from taxes spent to contain a behavior" and does nothing to address the causes. "More money" means "more taxes".
[22:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:59] <exec> 08└─Perhaps societies, acting through their civil service organizations, could notice and act on knowledge. Specifically the knowledge from psychology that drug abuse and addiction are caused by hopelessness. Reasons for their hopelessness are also common knowledge. If people are considered valuable at...
[22:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:02] <exec> 08└─Besides, your white collar city job is next up on the chopping block.
[22:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aussies, Yanks May Think They're Big Drinkers – but Brits Easily Booze Them Under the Table - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:04] <exec> 08└─It's not your problem until a drunk driver runs over you or some relative.
[22:07:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 635 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:17] <exec> 08└─1960's - one year I got chicken pox, the next I had the measles. Mumps fit in there somewhere, and worst of all, rheumatic fever. We all got sick. And, as near as I remember, we all got over it. A lot of other "bad things" happened back then. We were given pocket knives, we played outside unsupervis...
[22:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:52] <exec> 08└─...The actual point of a vaccine is not to prevent one person getting sick. It is to prevent epidemics. Those who do develop the desired immunity slow down and prevent the spread of the disease.
[22:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:54] <exec> 08└─I put a Jewish guy in charge of my FDA, so what? Scott's a great guy. Very smart guy and he's doing a great job. He's moving very strongly against the Tobacco Companies and their filthy products. And moving very strongly to bring new & VERY CHEAP Drugs to the American "people." Check your Medicine C...
[22:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:56] <exec> 08└─For some rapidly mutating viruses. E.g. cold, flu, masks may actually be much more effective.
[22:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:58] <exec> 08└─1960's - one year I got chicken pox, the next I had the measles. Mumps fit in there somewhere, and worst of all, rheumatic fever. We all got sick. And, as near as I remember, we all got over it. A lot of other "bad things" happened back then. We were given pocket knives, we played outside unsupervis...
[22:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:00] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, we (smart Canadian kids) got to play with firecrackers. We did it safely and used them to destroy small shit (unwanted toys, etc). Then the stupids got hold of them and started putting them in each others asses, pockets,etc. Now, they're banned. I say let Darwin get rid of them ins...
[22:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:02] <exec> 08└─We don't want to get ill.
[22:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:05] <exec> 08└─"Badly skinned legs, from wiping out on a patch of gravel, are very painful. I mean, come on, do you also like to take your chances with rope burn and serious injuries from handling cinder blocks, because gloves are too wussy or something? I got a lesson on just how fast rope burn can happen if you...
[22:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:07] <exec> 08└─So many vaccines, right? Dozens and dozens. But, Smallpox is the only disease -- the only PEOPLE disease -- that's ever been totally Eradicated. And the way we did it in New York City was QUARANTINE. Bedloe's Island, the Department of Health kept all the very sick Immigrants there. Until they died o...
[22:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:09] <exec> 08└─an insightful ad hominem completely devoid of content, hmmm
[22:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:11] <exec> 08└─Who's that 'we', dear?
[22:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:14] <exec> 08└─you can't catch the MMR vaccine from another person.
[22:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:16] <exec> 08└─The long term consequences of garbage collection are also unknown and problematic. The answer is to live sustainably in the first place and eliminate the need for garbage collection. Likewise do we know if vaccination is the right solution and that we are not overlooking or ignoring real root causes...
[22:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:18] <exec> 08└─You should see my neighbor about a mile down the road. He does. 5 acres of broken down cars, trailers, junk, and garbage.
[22:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:20] <exec> 08└─The recorded risks of MMR vaccine are lower than the risks of serious side-effects from any of the diseases MMR provides immunity against.
[22:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:47] <exec> 08└─I always thought having a geiger tube triggering on background radiation would be part of a good entropy source.
[22:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:47] <exec> 08└─I would posit that you are wrong. The problem with email is that humans are not innately equipped to handle the amount of information we need to deal with today. I have used both webmail and non-webmail extensively (Thunderbird, mutt, mu4e, rmail). There are no missing features that strongly impact...
[22:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Samsung Completes Development of "5nm" Node; TSMC Reveals "6nm" Node - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:55] <exec> 08└─I never said it wasn't a worthy achievement. I just said it was boring. Accounting, as an example, is vital to keeping a business running. But stories about it all sound the same.
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[23:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06McAfee Joins Sophos, Avira, Avast-The Latest Windows Update Breaks Them All - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:00] <exec> 08└─Just found my excuse for not meeting a project deadline next week. Thanks Microsoft!
[23:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06McAfee Joins Sophos, Avira, Avast-The Latest Windows Update Breaks Them All - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:02] <exec> 08└─and in the darkness, bind them. Windows Defender: strong argument #74 why I prefer Linux on my desktop.
[23:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Making Banking Malware - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:15] <exec> 08└─Apparently, the charges were not "bullshit" as Marcus was quoted as saying.
[23:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Making Banking Malware - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:16] <exec> 08└─That's O.K. It's his choice. He doesn't have to come to FBI. He's a young guy, he can have a fabulous time in Prison. And still not be that old when he gets out. If he gets out!!!!
[23:07:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 642 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:26] <exec> 08└─In World War II the allies studied damage to planes that were shot up, but survived to make it back, to decide where to add armor to increase survivability. This was an example of survivorship bias The problem in hindsight was that planes that successfully weathered getting shot up weren't the...
[23:07:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 484 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:29] <exec> 08└─Polio and measles share few similarities. The vast majority of people who contract measles suffer mildly for a few days, and get over it. Polio kills a significant number of people who contract it, scars, cripples, or maims an even more significant number, and causes a great deal more suffering than...
[23:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:09] <exec> 08└─It's been even worse since the whole Internet of Things proved to be as secure as a "Please take one" candy bowl.
[23:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:11] <exec> 08└─Unlike WWII bombers, nearly all children survived all childhood sorties in the 1960s and early 1970s, with a minimal compliment of vaccinations available, notably lacking: MMR, varicella, etc. We did get a bit roughed up, had a couple of weeks down time in recovery, but... if that's what's really at...
[23:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:13] <exec> 08└─One kind of learning is learning by observation. Watch someone else tear up their skin because they weren't wearing jeans or gloves. We have videos of all kinds of things now. Should show videos of the consequences to kids.
[23:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:15] <exec> 08└─Had polio as a child and it left her crippled for life.
[23:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:18] <exec> 08└─Devils advocate: Forcing me to vaccinate my kid when they COULD have serious injuries from it endangers them and impinges on THEIR rights: Flu shots and other vaccines can result in ...various neurological conditions such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome ("GBS"), Parsonage-Turner Syndrome ("PTS"), or Chro...
[23:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:20] <exec> 08└─So no arc flash protection [soylentnews.org] for you? Are you wearing protection because of the "nanny state" or because you realize there are dangerous situations that can be prevented?
[23:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:22] <exec> 08└─I had Chicken Pox in the 70s and wished there had been a vaccine then, because the Shingles in the 2000s were a lot worse.
[23:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:24] <exec> 08└─>And, as near as I remember, we all got over it. Yeah, because the ones who died from it are not around to tell us about how they died from measles. Funny, that.
[23:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:27] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, childhood chicken pox is a stronger protector against adult shingles than the vaccine. Even the adult vaccine is not complete protection against the shingles, claims to the contrary appear to be optimistic.
[23:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:29] <exec> 08└─Next they'll be asking all African Americans to get vaccinated against sickle cell anemia. Oops... causes sterility. Too bad but at least welfare expenditures will drop.
[23:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vax Parents Lose in NY Court, Face Steep Fines for Not Vaccinating - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:31] <exec> 08└─Keep thinking like that and pretty soon you won't be able to opt out of Facebook. It's sheep like you who unquestioningly follow the rules that led to the Holocaust.
[23:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:59] <exec> 08└─"afaik this is the smallest" Bunny's always got his eye out for a way to get himself in the headlines. Self-promotion is job #1. I'm still waiting for a utility to back up his filesystem. Y'know, like dump(8), or restore(8).
[23:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avalanche Noise Generator Notes - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:01] <exec> 08└─If Hillary had a better random number generator, her emails would still be secure.
[23:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intranets May Be Making Professors Stupid - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:02] <exec> 08└─Correct. He got sidetracked in a project with a millennial student of his trying to prove that there is an algorithm that can predict all possible genders.
[23:13:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:38] <exec> 08└─>And 800 out of those ten million are calling for the end of the term "statistically significant". True true, but appeal to rationality didn't work for the default choice of init on linux systems, so, it might not work for science in general too.
[23:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:56] <exec> 08└─They dont treat themselves as a sample of anything... only you do because you don't get it.
[23:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Statisticians Want to Abandon Science's Standard Measure of `Significance' - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:57] <exec> 08└─BTW, I say that as someone who would never sign this.
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