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[00:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:04] <exec> 08└─Facebook is under fire in Africa for undermining democracy
[00:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Orders First Segment of Lunar Station for 2024 Artemis Moon Mission - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:13] <exec> 08└─Price, contract terms helped Maxar secure Gateway contract [spacenews.com] An ability to get on contract quickly and a price far lower that other companies were key factors in NASA’s decision to award a contract to Maxar Technologies for the first element of the lunar Gateway, the Power and Propul...
[00:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:27] <exec> 08└─Seems more likely the UN has gone to contract Peace Keeper robots, ala Elysium, and found that not one comes with a Californian/Austrian accent. I mean even ED209 would be a huge leap over Siri. What would you do if a 20ft Siri was standing in front of you in a DMZ telling you to comply?
[00:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:29] <exec> 08└─Nope. There are only three genders. Male. Female. And the kind where you drink so much gin that you forget how to spell it.
[00:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Hopes to block AMD's RX 3080 with a New Trademark - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:11] <exec> 08└─Nvidia will get discrete GPU competition (including datacenter/maching learning) from Intel starting as soon as next year.
[00:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:43] <exec> 08└─Like I say, just imagine trying to complete a transcontinental railroad without using monopoly (state) power. Forget about completing it, try to just purchase the land necessary. Remember, no government handouts, no eminent domain, you have to come to a deal with each and every landowner on the pat...
[00:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:45] <exec> 08└─Wake up and look around, nobody cares what you buy or don't.
[00:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:47] <exec> 08└─Australias national telco (rebranded "Telstra") was such a disaster part of the governments mandate was unscrewing the situation, which of course was out of public hands...
[00:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Report Finds that Purdue Pharma Infiltrated WHO, Manipulated Opioid Policies to Boost Sales - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:09] <exec> 08└─It is so boring when you respond. You never have any good info of your own, mostly opinions or questionable info everyone has seen already.
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[01:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:09] <exec> 08└─The failure is in the education system. And it makes no difference whether it's in Africa, Europe, US, or anywhere else. Low education levels put low class people into power. This is being proven with each passing election. Once again, this is yet another call to control user input into mass media....
[01:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:10] <exec> 08└─Anything evil you can imagine a corporation doing, you're too late: it's already being done or it's been done. Kind of like governments.
[01:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:12] <exec> 08└─One may not know how their argument fails, but the conclusion is a dead end. What is supposed to come of Facebook "paying attention" to this? Either you're advocating that Facebook act as a censor, which is a different and more significant way to undermine African democracies, or you're advocating t...
[01:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:15] <exec> 08└─They thought they could contradict the media's narrative, so any small sob story will get pumped up if Facebook is involved. Not the computer manufacturers selling to the lonbyists, not the international telecoms providers serving them, but Facebook. Couldn't happen to a nicer company of dumb fucks.
[01:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services - 1683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:48] <exec> 08└─What you said is a subset of what is supported by current scientific research. You're also not advocating a hard and fast regimen of speculatively chosen foods to supplant an otherwise 'balanced' diet. The research is not fully complete, so changes to specifics will obviously alter adherence to the...
[01:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:49] <exec> 08└─iOS is worse, it explicitly says in the terms of service that 3rd party developers are not permitted to compete with Apple. So you bust your ass and if you fail it is all on you, but if you succeed and prove a large untapped market exists for some new application category you only get to reap profit...
[01:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:51] <exec> 08└─Beans and rice works well for my body (or just white rice), and I don't get thos cravings from that. I never understood the appeal of sugar coated breakfast cereals. I swear those things make you more hungry than you started out!
[01:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:53] <exec> 08└─If only technologists had an organization that vigorously protected their rights.
[01:48:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:13] <exec> 08└─A major reason female voices should be, and are, used for these devices is it's easier to make out the words. If you become hard of hearing, that's all the more important. "I'd blush if I could" — is the response Siri was programmed in 2011 to give if a user called her a "bitch."
[01:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Theory Proposes Large Ocean Killed Venus - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:05] <exec> 08└─leading to a thick atmosphere that becomes 99% CO2 and .005% H20 somehow
[01:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Theory Proposes Large Ocean Killed Venus - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:07] <exec> 08└─But Venus has no moon, so I suppose the Sun would be generating tides? I would have thought the Sun is too far away to have much of a tidal influence, but it is quite big.
[01:49:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Nvidia Hopes to block AMD's RX 3080 with a New Trademark - 865 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:23] <exec> 08└─Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten? Nigel Tufnel: Exactly. Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder? Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not te...
[01:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Hopes to block AMD's RX 3080 with a New Trademark - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:29] <exec> 08└─A judge says numbers cannot be patented. A barely above minimum wage trademark administrator who is probably sleep deprived "grants" a trademark on a number. Obviously, the latter overrules the former, and such trademarks are now legally enforcable.</sarcasm> You can trademark e.g. "GTX 5080", but n...
[01:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:04] <exec> 08└─You'd need to create a huge wide multi lane corridor that could handle a dozen competitors to do it properly. Open up a bunch of corridors and giving out sections to competitors is equivalent of the Bell monopoly break up where they broke it up by region. So as far as anyone was concerned there was...
[01:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Claimed to have Invented E-mail Settles with Techdirt - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:00] <exec> 08└─> Clockboy did the same thing... screamed racism for taking a Radio Shack clock apart, stuffing it into a briefcase with wires hanging out, taking it to school, and claiming he invented an alarm clock while at the same time making it look suspicious. America got trolled by clockboy and his father [d...
[01:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Officially Introduce Loot Box, “Pay-to-Win” Legislation - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:49] <exec> 08└─I don't think they're actually 'banning' loot boxes, but rather forcing them to be rated as adult-only (e.g. R). They absolutely will be able to do that.
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[02:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:18] <exec> 08└─More education isn't the solution. I have encountered many "Alabama will charge women with murder for getting an abortion." A lot from people far more educated than I am. Like on the PhD level. I correct them, but these people still refuse the believe the woman will never get charged. Even when I ci...
[02:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:19] <exec> 08└─They have to hire thousands of Africans to censor African political content as fast as they censored the doctored Pelosi video.
[02:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Orders First Segment of Lunar Station for 2024 Artemis Moon Mission - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:30] <exec> 08└─I think it's purely political, considering the dates 2020, and 2024. The budget is decided annually, but these are only the election years. What are we going to do up there anyway? Say the moon supports Hilary Clinton's 2020 campaign?
[02:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Orders First Segment of Lunar Station for 2024 Artemis Moon Mission - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:32] <exec> 08└─Best case scenario, the Gateway doesn't cost *that* much, "helps" land astronauts on the Moon, and could be used for some other purpose such as assembling space telescopes (but we could do that at the ISS, so...).
[02:47:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services - 1348 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:48] <exec> 08└─It depends on how they formulate their 'low carb' diet requirements. If it's like some over the top programs advocating just fat/meat minus large amounts of good stuff (vegies, nuts, etc), then that is bad. Simply cutting down the carb/sugar intake while keeping other healthy options is supported by...
[02:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:01] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why Facebook did this. Can someone please explain this?
[02:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:55] <exec> 08└─The only thing that happened is that marketers and focus testing has entered the fray. Rather amusingly, tons of marketers are also SJW's, so it looks like they're upset about the result of their own work now.
[02:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:56] <exec> 08└─No apostrophe in SJWs. - (Grammar) Nazi
[02:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Proposes Large Ocean Killed Venus - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:19] <exec> 08└─Venus has an induced magnetosphere, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] which helps. It is also has close to 3 times the gravity compared to Mars and it seems, much more volcanic activity, including a resurfacing event in the last few billion years...
[02:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Proposes Large Ocean Killed Venus - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:21] <exec> 08└─Wait a billion years and there won't be any habitable planets in the Solar System due to the Sun getting hotter. Once the oceans boil, the Earth won't be very habitable. On the bright side, in perhaps 5 billion years, the Sun will expand and warm up Titan.
[02:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Proposes Large Ocean Killed Venus - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:23] <exec> 08└─Major disappointment?? Venus is hawt! There's just no pleasing some people....
[02:50:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Appalbarry [66] 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 278 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:43] <exec> 08└─China already has a high-speed train network, just not mag-lev. Correct though that the US won't do the same because it would require a large government investment, and too many people have been convinced that it's Communistic for government to provide actually useful services.
[02:50:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Username [4557] 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:51] <exec> 08└─Yes. My understanding is that all maglevs have wheels on the underside. That way it doesn't go airborne over a bump or crash and burn when the power gets shutoff. So, yeah, they do roll on occasion.
[02:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:20] <exec> 08└─Private is usually more expensive then public due to needing to make a profit on top of operating costs. The exception is when someone who wants to kill it is put in charge and they then proceed to sabotage it.
[02:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, Sony Partner on Streaming Games, Chips and AI - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:37] <exec> 08└─At $60US for one game, for me that's a no-go.
[02:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Officially Introduce Loot Box, “Pay-to-Win” Legislation - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:09] <exec> 08└─Actually, no. They have a stronger legal argument for banning them entirely. They have authority to regulate interstate commerce but they don't have much ground to stand on when it comes to mandating age limits on anything except holding office or voting. That's why they've had to tie drinking, smok...
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[03:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:08] <exec> 08└─There's really nothing wrong with expensive drugs - when there's a beneficial cost-benefit analysis, that's fine. If you've got a drug that costs $30K per year, but it relieves $100K per year in other healthcare costs, that's a clear net win for everyone. And, even if the production of the drug onl...
[03:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:24] <exec> 08└─wswswswsws citation needed
[03:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:25] <exec> 08└─Funny, how these guys trust Facebook to do the right thing.
[03:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:06] <exec> 08└─What I said is not at all a subset of what is supported by current scientific research. They have refused to study it altogether and instead pretend to study it by coming up with their own fake definition of low carb. I didn't bother to read the rest of your post.
[03:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:01] <exec> 08└─Actually, that's not right. The same way you'd put 's after CD's to refer to plural CD's (but you would write compact disks, this is because CD is an acronym and the 's isn't part of said acronym). Common practice.
[03:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Proposes Large Ocean Killed Venus - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:27] <exec> 08└─What? A billion years? Hardly worth hanging about then. Time to start looking for a new neighbourhood. Titan's no good, it's too small. A man's got to have room to spread out.
[03:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Proposes Large Ocean Killed Venus - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:29] <exec> 08└─Well, you're in luck, the numbers may be off and you might only have to wait 500 million years.
[03:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Hopes to block AMD's RX 3080 with a New Trademark - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:52] <exec> 08└─RTX, STX, TTX-- um, better skip that one, too close to TXT which might make it seem like it doesn't do graphics at all-- UTX, VTX .... When will the Radeon ZZGO be released?
[03:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Hopes to block AMD's RX 3080 with a New Trademark - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:54] <exec> 08└─Looks like the product will be called AMD Navi RX 5700. 5000-series reflecting AMD's 50th anniversary.
[03:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:28] <exec> 08└─"Government - good for the first one, bad-bad-bad boy after, kill it with fire." Summarises perfectly 'socialize cost, privatise profits' attitude your are pushing.
[03:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:30] <exec> 08└─Private is usually more expensive then public due to needing to make a profit on top of operating costs.
[03:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:32] <exec> 08└─Private companies operate efficiently in a competitive atmosphere. Generally governments get involved in businesses where for various reasons, there is little or no competition. Once a business is in a position where there is little or no competition, efficiency doesn't matter as much as profit.
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[04:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:02] <exec> 08└─When I moderate a comment, my thoughts are for the next person to come along; how can I help curate the discussion to best help them out?
[04:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:03] <exec> 08└─With respect to moderations, a user may moderate anywhere from 0 to 4 comments by another user.
[04:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:05] <exec> 08└─ACs do not receive any mod points and are unable to moderate other stories. It is part of the price one pays for anonymity. As for having their comments moderated, the staff can still view moderations given by others and are able to take action if somebody is unfairly moderating a specific AC. This...
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[04:47:07] <exec> 08└─Ah, I was asking from the point of "if I moderate more than 4 comments posted by AC, do I run afoul of this?"
[04:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:16] <exec> 08└─what value a human life? Do you measure potential, based on some local/regional/genetic average? Do you round up (as most pro-life people are wont to do)? If so, $2million to save all that potential is cheap. Or, is it just that some are born rich, so their parents can choose to (try to) save them..
[04:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:19] <exec> 08└─~$2361.11 per month for 75 years not including interest.
[04:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:21] <exec> 08└─Where it becomes unconscionable is when that 99.9%+ profit margin is fed to corporate jet operation, executive salaries stock options and bonuses, television promotion campaigns of marginal drugs, junkets for prescribers, lap dances, etc. And, the only way to really track that is with transparency i...
[04:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:13] <exec> 08└─Not for older people, which was GP's point. Hearing loss associated with age begins with high frequencies, which first leads to decreased ability to differentiate certain consonants (which often rely on high frequencies in their production). As the loss increases, sensitivity in the upper range of v...
[04:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:14] <exec> 08└─Not at all. But the world we live in.....well.....that's another side to a three sided coin...
[04:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Hopes to block AMD's RX 3080 with a New Trademark - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:06] <exec> 08└─ZZTop!
[04:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:45] <exec> 08└─Summarises perfectly 'socialize cost, privatise profits' attitude your are pushing.
[04:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:46] <exec> 08└─Private companies operate efficiently in a competitive atmosphere.
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[05:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:02] <exec> 08└─Read those "use by" labels, people! https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[05:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:03] <exec> 08└─We all know that there are legitimate uses for torrent files, which is the argument put forward by torrent sites when trying to stay open. In the case of Bestmixer, they seem to have actively advertised the fact that the site can be used to wash dirty Bitcoins. But is there even a legitimate use for...
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[05:47:05] <exec> 08└─The legitimate use would be to allow private transactions.
[05:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:15] <exec> 08└─Thank you. That is exactly what I intended to say, but you phrased it much more clearly than I. An example would help: That comment was pretty funny, not hilarious, but very good. I think it rates about a +3. If it is currently less than 3, I would mod it up (with a +1 Funny)... but if it were alrea...
[05:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:17] <exec> 08└─Excellent question! In general, don't worry about it. If you've been going at it hard and heavy with a single AC in a discussion and there are a bunch of nested replies as if you think it is the same AC each time, it is hard to plead ignorance of it being the same AC for moderation purposes, at the...
[05:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:43] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that capitalism allows wealth and power to be concentrated into the hands of the few.
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[05:48:25] <exec> 08└─Jews.
[05:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Self-Made Millionaire Invented a 'Gun' That Shoots Salt at Flies - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:42] <exec> 08└─We caught a racoon in our trash one night and sprayed it with a water fire extinguisher (starting pressure ~100 psi or ~6-7 bar). It went up a nearby tree as high as it could go...but was still in reach of the water spray. So we kept hosing it down. I don't remember it messing with our trash after t...
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[05:50:54] <exec> 08└─Love the attitude, they really seem to have learned from this.
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[06:47:05] <exec> 08└─That has to be banned, because some people will do Bad Things if we allow privacy. And, as we all know, everyone's ability to have privacy should be taken away when it's most convenient for the government.
[06:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:07] <exec> 08└─Well, it does have a pretty compelling illegitimate use. I guess they'll just have to keep it alive in the usual sneaky ways.
[06:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:09] <exec> 08└─Disagree. You're not transacting privately with other people - you're washing your dirty Bitcoins and giving them back to yourself.
[06:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:11] <exec> 08└─So if you're a couple transactions down the blockchain from an illegal one, does this mean that those coins can be attached to you, and subsequently seized? Like if they, say, found a way to chemically distinguish various manufactures of cocaine [cnn.com], trace them back to individual drug cases, a...
[06:47:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:19] <exec> 08└─When I moderate a comment, my thoughts are for the next person to come along; how can I help curate the discussion to best help them out?
[06:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:26] <exec> 08└─martyb has already answered - and as I don't tend to get involved with managing the moderation he knows far more about it than I do. I must admit though that on those days that we seem to suffer from ACs who are clearly simply trying to ruin a good conversation with off-topic comments, trolling, or...
[06:47:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 1197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:34] <exec> 08└─There's really nothing wrong with expensive drugs - when there's a beneficial cost-benefit analysis, that's fine. If you've got a drug that costs $30K per year, but it relieves $100K per year in other healthcare costs, that's a clear net win for everyone. And, even if the production of the drug onl...
[06:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:39] <exec> 08└─Where it becomes unconscionable is when that 99.9%+ profit margin is fed to corporate jet operation, executive salaries stock options and bonuses, television promotion campaigns of marginal drugs, junkets for prescribers, lap dances, etc
[06:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:57] <exec> 08└─Facebook isn't even close to liberal, and haven't been since their salad days. Progressive, yes, in the sort of half-witted touchy-feely way we've come to expect of ivy league grads and silly valley startups, but not even as liberal as the centrists in the US. Far too much of the "smart techies know...
[06:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:58] <exec> 08└─No, government thugs will merely force women - mainly poor women, since it's an attack on the poor - to remain pregnant and give birth. Their wish is to give women fewer rights than corpses by inventing some right to reside in someone else's body that doesn't exist in literally any other context.
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[06:49:38] <exec> 08└─3. Women like the men in power more because they aren't such assholes anymore
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[07:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:01] <exec> 08└─With blackjack! And hookers! Google can reaffirm its commitment to being "open" and "free" all it wants, but ultimately it’s still a gatekeeper.
[07:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:27] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's the "worst that can happen." I don't think so. Because The Mighty Buzzard got banned for a month!!!!
[07:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[07:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Orders First Segment of Lunar Station for 2024 Artemis Moon Mission - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:10] <exec> 08└─Good point, we should give up on any advancement that Trump (or any politician) might claim as a win. That'll show em!
[07:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:40] <exec> 08└─Word Hippo [wordhippo.com] would disagree: The noun CD can be countable or uncountable. In more general, commonly used, contexts, the plural form will also be CD. However, in more specific contexts, the plural form can also be CDs e.g. in reference to various types of CDs or a collection of CDs.
[07:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Perform Simple Calculations by Shining Light Patterns Through a Translucent Cube - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:24] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/05/26/1239258 [soylentnews.org] You were saying?
[07:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:14] <exec> 08└─The unit for length is the meter (m). The K in Km stands for 1000. You cannot leave the 'm' out. Kudos to China for being one of the few countries that still regularly use governmental funds for science, education and large infrastructure projects. And for being active in space despite the Americans...
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[08:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:07] <exec> 08└─If the U.S. were in a trade war with South Korea instead of China, Samsung phones — still the most popular in the world over — could face a similar fate.
[08:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ataradov [4776] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:09] <exec> 08└─The problem is not the Chinese market. They are fine there with AOSP and their own services. The problem is that in the western world everyone needs Google Play. Even if you were to trust those Chinese services, half of them will not work or will be useless.
[08:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:11] <exec> 08└─They have already announced that they have 'something being prepared' for this eventuality, but as yet we do not know any details - particularly how advanced it currently is. If they produced their own version of Android, how many countries would ban it for security reasons, exactly as is happening...
[08:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:13] <exec> 08└─Not exactly true that Samsung has nothing. They do have their own app store etc. Probably not the full suite of apps, but not nothing either.
[08:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:12] <exec> 08└─Facebook is decidedly liberal
[08:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:14] <exec> 08└─Citations needed.
[08:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:16] <exec> 08└─Your point. In the broader scheme of things, Facebook is not "liberal". However, within the scale of US politics, Facebook favors the D party, which is progressive and claims to be "liberal". Facebook is most assuredly not conservative, and very anti-R. We might even say that they are anti-A - they...
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[08:48:29] <exec> 08└─Sounds to me like they're just going around in circles...
[08:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:00] <exec> 08└─> Fun fact: British Siri's name is Daniel, and he's Yeah, but even when configured to be male "he" answers to "Siri" not "Daniel", and doesn't complain about it either, there appears to be no "boy named Sue" hang-up built in so "Siri" must have been intended to be gender-neutral from the start. Whic...
[08:51:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] 02 - 06This Self-Made Millionaire Invented a 'Gun' That Shoots Salt at Flies - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:09] <exec> 08└─I've had mine since the original Indiegogo purchase in 2012 and it's still going strong.
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[09:47:12] <exec> 08└─Huawei chief would be ‘the first to protest’ China retaliation to Trump ban [theverge.com] CEO doing damage control, leaving the door open. The U.S. Commerce Department did grant Huawei a 90 day temporary license [engadget.com] to deliver updates to users (good time to throw some of that Chinese...
[09:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:14] <exec> 08└─Samsung could also intensify work on Tizen [wikipedia.org] if shit hit the fan (Huawei is prepping its own "HongMeng" OS [wccftech.com] that appears to be Linux-based).
[09:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:16] <exec> 08└─https://wccftech.com/huaweis-hongmeng-kirin-os-is-9-years-old-optimized-for-linux/ [wccftech.com] It's coming.
[09:48:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:02] <exec> 08└─Anything evil you can imagine a corporation doing, you're too late: it's already being done or it's been done. Kind of like governments.
[09:48:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services - 310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:47] <exec> 08└─Handing your company's public profile over to a single company that has no requirement to be fair, provide a specified level of service, or even tell you what they're doing is an insane idea. People buying iOS devices (and those developing for them) are in the same boat. You serve at the pleasure of...
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[09:52:36] <exec> 08└─Riiiiight, because the Maglev hispeed train is able to run alongside and on the same routes as the steam powered or diesel ones. There just aren't any change required, no considerations on slopes, the tightness of the curves, everything is fine and dandy. Yeah, well, maybe the passengers be in for s...
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[10:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:04] <exec> 08└─This movie has dealt with injuries caused to American Football players and is based on a real incidents. While conducting an autopsy on former NFL football player Mike Webster (David Morse), forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith) discovers neurological deterioration that is similar to Al...
[10:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:06] <exec> 08└─Either diet or concussive impacts to the chest (which they get far more of on average than head) are causing a *7* year decline in expected life compared to their Baseball athletic peers. I am not sure what the steroid use is in the NFL versus Major League, which should also be looked into, but it s...
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[10:47:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not a fan of either one, but my impression is that there's a lot more physical activity involved in american football than in basketball. someone please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm thinking mainly of the training, where emphasis on strength vs speed/endurance makes a difference in energy requir...
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[10:47:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, didn't Dash have something like this as a built-in feature?
[10:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:51] <exec> 08└─I think it's worth mentioning(for those that are unaware) that the ability to comment AND moderate on the same story is something that makes this place different than the green site many of us came from. This is something I think that is a huge benefit, but care must be taken not to abuse it. Down-m...
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[10:48:03] <exec> 08└─Making another baby would be much cheaper than paying $2 million to fix the first one. Or maybe you could get pro-life people to contribute to your go-fund-me.
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[11:47:09] <exec> 08└─also, have they run a control group of similar men by build/height? even finding a few 'non-elite' men in the morgue and comparing the age and cause of death of the larger muscley ones vs the tall ones... Men who bulk more easily as teens are likely to continue to bulk more easily when they stop spe...
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[11:47:11] <exec> 08└─The simplest explanation is that they
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[11:47:39] <exec> 08└─I have a naive question: Why, exactly, is money laundering illegal? Consider: I have a $10 bill, you have something of value, and we agree to swap. Further suppose that I want to get rid of my $10 bill because it's stolen. You are guilty of money laundering...when? It depends on what you know, and w...
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[11:47:41] <exec> 08└─Somebody cares to elaborate how this works? My guess would be that it is an ordinary exchange and depends on the fact that cross-coin transactions are only known to bestmixer. Maybe they delete logs after transactions are confirmed enough in the respective blockchains?
[11:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:58] <exec> 08└─I spanked myself because the Spam moderation was involved. Were it not involved they would have just been reversed.
[11:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:59] <exec> 08└─What martyb said plus you don't have a real way to tell one AC from another at the moment, so we can't bust anyone's chops for hitting the same one too many times with downmods. And we don't track ACs on the potential mod bombs admin page, so we'd have to look manually. Which we don't because ACs su...
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[11:48:01] <exec> 08└─What The Mighty Buzzard said, but with a qualification. I'll repeat that if you have been having an argument going back-and-forth in the comments with an AC, and from the discussion it appears you think it is the same AC each time, don't try and pretend otherwise when it comes to moderations you had...
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[11:48:14] <exec> 08└─There's really no great need for lots of these gene fixes. It's cheaper to test for the genetic defects and abort at an early stage. If you keep producing lots of duds then perhaps you shouldn't reproduce at all. There are billions of people already on this planet, what makes your messed up genes th...
[11:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 2126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:37] <exec> 08└─What should we ask the secretive faceless hierarchical organization for? To better censor content on their platform or to better prohibit faceless hierarchical organizations from using their massive, spyware-enhanced, datasets to manipulate society in favor of secretive faceless hierarchical organiz...
[11:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:23] <exec> 08└─so you're implying that crossfit is actually the aggressor here and that this is all part of some anti-facegag cabal that was set loose after facegag revealed some phony number about russian advertisement spending? Can someone flag this comment as insane consensus-cracking whataboutism? I can't bel...
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[11:50:43] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, missed the solar tide reference. I would imagine the inverse square law applies. The state of Venus and the state of Mars are major disappointments with this solar system. With only a a few minor tweaks there could easily be three habitable planets instead of one. Poor design. 2 Stars.
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[11:53:03] <exec> 08└─Riiiiight, because the Maglev hispeed train is able to run alongside and on the same routes as the steam powered or diesel ones.
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[12:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:43] <exec> 08└─The basic principle of a mixer is that they combine multiple transactions, so that simple totals can no longer be followed. They may muddle the waters even more by using multiple crytocurrencies. Without a mixer: You have 10BTC. If you transfer those to some other wallet, they are still 10BTC and ca...
[12:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:45] <exec> 08└─It's not necessarily the person who wants to launder his money, its the launderer as well. It's like aiding and abetting criminals. E.g. your buddy steals a car, you sell it as a regular car in your garage and give him part of the money. You laundered the stolen car into clean cash. You are also ai...
[12:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:05] <exec> 08└─What martyb said, with an addendum. I'd refer folks to Wheaton's Law but it coming from such a colossal, intolerant douchebag would land me in court for contributing to the breaking of people's irony meters.
[12:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:19] <exec> 08└─My guess is that the 2mio exactly come from a cost-benefit calculation. In western countries a quality adjusted life year (a year lived in good health) is seen to be worth around 20k-30k. Multiply this by a life expectancy of 100yrs and you are at 2mio-3mio($€). The attitude is: how much can we sq...
[12:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:20] <exec> 08└─By one definition , it is what can be earned in a lifetime. So a college graduate is not worth saving with this drug because They on average are worth only: $1.8 million http://www.incontext.indiana.edu [indiana.edu]
[12:49:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services - 581 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:07] <exec> 08└─Saw this quote over at BAR: "The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal...
[12:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:29] <exec> 08└─The obvious problem is that we got bit in the ass again by someone claiming that, once more, 'if we just centralize the internet, everything will work out great!' 5 years later the centralized internet entity shows its true stripes, continues apace trying to centralize and police the human entire sp...
[12:49:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 22 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:45] <exec> 08└─Stupid isn't a gender.
[12:49:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:51] <exec> 08└─If the voice is female, that's bad because it's implying these female assistants are subservient. If the voice is male, that's bad because it's implying these males are experts we refer to. Anyone involved with this report should just go kill itself.
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[13:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:12] <exec> 08└─You accidentally the post.
[13:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:13] <exec> 08└─While it is interesting that they compare them to other pro-athletes again there is quite a difference between NFL and MLB players. There just are not a lot of 6.3" 350lb players in the MBA are there? While there are a few 'roided up players they are not exactly the norm. Nor is it that common that...
[13:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:15] <exec> 08└─Also: why are they not looking at baseball as well?
[13:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:18] <exec> 08└─Or the razor sliced his
[13:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:32] <exec> 08└─Android, both as a name and iconic symbol itself is a gender bias, no doubt. A mascot of circumcised penis as a symbol of operation system, created and operated by CIA investment frontend ( https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ) is maybe acceptable in Atlantic civilization for subj...
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[13:47:52] <exec> 08└─Thanks, that clarifies it a bit. I do not get the part with the small increments though, as when coins coalesce in a few wallets it is no (or no big) problem to trace them back through the small increments, so that would be just a bit of obfuscation. The transition to another coin I see as true anon...
[13:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:50] <exec> 08└─To add to my remark, there's been no organization above the size of a small tribe that doesn't have concentration of power and wealth. Someone has to make day-to-day decisions regarding the organization and that someone ends up managing the wealth and power of the organization, be it a large country...
[13:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:52] <exec> 08└─Wow, right on cue. For me, I worry about the government thugs that aren't imaginary.
[13:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:38] <exec> 08└─2 is a really hard concept though! - Confused Millenial
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[14:47:06] <exec> 08└─We all dead now.
[14:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:28] <exec> 08└─also, have they run a control group of similar men by build/height?
[14:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:44] <exec> 08└─Answer: Not Many. Result: much less Huawei devices outside China, and incidentally less currency income for Huawei and China in general. Seems like mission accomplished, from both security and trade war standpoints.
[14:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:04] <exec> 08└─Read those "use by" labels, people!
[14:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:05] <exec> 08└─So if you're a couple transactions down the blockchain from an illegal one
[14:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:07] <exec> 08└─It depends on what you know, and what you are thinking when you accept the exchange. In other words, money laundering presumes to know what is going on in your head - it is basically a thought crime.
[14:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:28] <exec> 08└─Any moderations in excess of 4 upmods or 4 downmods in a 24-hour period starting at 00:10 UTC will be reversed. It is our intention at some point to have the site impose that limitation automatically so no penalty is currently being imposed at this time.
[14:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we eventually update the docs. It may take a couple years but sooner or later we get bored enough.
[14:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:45] <exec> 08└─Are they supposed to be snorting JoeMerchant-approved blow off of JoeMerchant-approved asses?
[14:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:47] <exec> 08└─What is that in bitcoins?
[14:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:13] <exec> 08└─So why no rephrase the question? "Is Facebook Helping Democracy in Africa?" There... Betteridge and your heart neatly aligned :-D
[14:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nvidia Hopes to block AMD's RX 3080 with a New Trademark - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:54] <exec> 08└─This is due to a sign error induced by the pentium bug when running code written by Billy the Kid in MS Basic that is still in use to calculate Windows version numbers.
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[15:47:06] <exec> 08└─Will be a time to sunjump then.
[15:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Messier 90 on Collision Course with Milky Way - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:07] <exec> 08└─Assuming we don't kill ourselves off in advance, I doubt this will be an insurmountable problem for humanity millions of years from now. Starlifting [youtube.com] is removing material from the sun to prolong its life (and cool it) and provide lots of raw materials for whatever. How humanity can surv...
[15:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Messier 90 on Collision Course with Milky Way - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:10] <exec> 08└─Merica will kill that foreign invader.
[15:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Messier 90 on Collision Course with Milky Way - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:12] <exec> 08└─Trump to the rescue, MMWGA.
[15:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:34] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of things about football that are extremely unhealthy. From the physical contact to the rewarding of being overweight to the various body problems that affect mobility and the pain killers used to keep it in check.
[15:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:13] <exec> 08└─> You bought lobsters in the wrong kind of packaging ... Lobsters best bought from a tank, still alive, no packaging required. Maybe someone can find an analogy here?
[15:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:15] <exec> 08└─You're jealous, 'cause you can't get used?
[15:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Orders First Segment of Lunar Station for 2024 Artemis Moon Mission - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:33] <exec> 08└─Speed is not a good factor in special engineering. Nor is primitivity simplicity. Americans cannot properly handle their toilet on International Space Station orbiting Earth, that provides me some basic data for thinking what will happen to their Moon facilities.
[15:52:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06This Self-Made Millionaire Invented a 'Gun' That Shoots Salt at Flies - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:14] <exec> 08└─Great gift for the Germophobe that has everything!!!
[15:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Self-Made Millionaire Invented a 'Gun' That Shoots Salt at Flies - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:31] <exec> 08└─Also useful for repelling illegal immigrants from borders
[15:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:52] <exec> 08└─Must be nice in that universe of yours, where engineering and physics have no bearing on reality. Make sure you stay there, this one is messy, constrained and sucks. Like a square law of centripetal force with speed - 3 times the speed, 9 times the strain on the tracks at the same curve radius.
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[16:47:15] <exec> 08└─Global warming is causing this, of course.
[16:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Messier 90 on Collision Course with Milky Way - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:17] <exec> 08└─Space Force to the rescue!
[16:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Messier 90 on Collision Course with Milky Way - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:19] <exec> 08└─WMWGWGA? :-p
[16:47:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:49] <exec> 08└─If the U.S. were in a trade war with South Korea instead of China, Samsung phones — still the most popular in the world over — could face a similar fate.
[16:47:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:51] <exec> 08└─They have already announced that they have 'something being prepared' for this eventuality, but as yet we do not know any details - particularly how advanced it currently is. If they produced their own version of Android, how many countries would ban it for security reasons, exactly as is happening...
[16:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:59] <exec> 08└─I think more people should have a look at microG (basically a one-man operation) https://microg.org [microg.org] https://lineage.microg.org [microg.org] https://github.com [github.com] https://github.com [github.com] https://github.com
[16:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:01] <exec> 08└─If they've got any sense, they're already doing so. The current US govt. isn't exactly a reliable partner.
[16:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site News: Holiday Weekend, Staffing, Outage, Finances, Submissions, and Moderations - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:49] <exec> 08└─As it is, there are a few users on this site who have already attracted my attention. I am personally keeping an eye on their posting and moderation activities.
[16:48:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 629 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:58] <exec> 08└─Where it becomes unconscionable is when that 99.9%+ profit margin is fed to corporate jet operation, executive salaries stock options and bonuses, television promotion campaigns of marginal drugs, junkets for prescribers, lap dances, etc. And, the only way to really track that is with transparency i...
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[17:47:04] <exec> 08└─I grew up in Virginia with a huge double-trunked one in the backyard. It was one of those trees that made us a bit nervous during storms, but we never cut it down. Those flowers definitely had a medicine-like aroma, and I seem to recall that they'd be raining down in the back yard about this time of...
[17:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:27] <exec> 08└─Oh poor uneducated runaway. You are the poster child for "dumb arrogant american."
[17:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN Report Says Companies are Making Voice Assistants that Promote Gender Biases - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:17] <exec> 08└─But as we see almost every day it is an avian. You had a Dodo somewhere in your family line.
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[18:47:04] <exec> 08└─More neo-Confederate anti-science click-bait? What next, a ban on abortion? And on Memory Day!
[18:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Messier 90 on Collision Course with Milky Way - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:19] <exec> 08└─If it collides with the Milky Way, not only is that unlikely to eject/disturb many stars, the resulting galaxy will have more matter/energy that could be exploited. Cash money.
[18:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:43] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's the 'roids. Play some tackle football yourself, even with helmet and pads, then imagine doing that as your day-job for years at a time. If there's any drug-related reason for their ill-health it's the prescription painkillers handed out on the plane like candy by quack doctors. Ev...
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[18:47:45] <exec> 08└─I've played American football, Soccer, and Basketball, and would say that American football is typically more intense and explosive while being less sustained. Sports like soccer and basketball are more about the endurance and finesse and less impact and brute force. Much of the appeal of American f...
[18:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 2018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:47] <exec> 08└─I guess that is part of what I'm trying to convey here, NFL football is just very extreme. I'm not sure but I doubt we see the same extremes in the MLB, NBA or NHL (the other three big sports of the USA). If one goes back to the first post here I made and linked to and then follow that link to the a...
[18:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:30] <exec> 08└─there's no such thing as a dirty bitcoin. only people who may have broken the law who have bitcoins.
[18:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:31] <exec> 08└─it's a bullshit crime. just because i accept your money doesn't mean i condone how you got it or have a clue how you earned every single dollar. it's ridiculous on it's face, but people are pitiful, bootlicking slaves.
[18:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:33] <exec> 08└─Why can't useless pigs get jobs? Too busy extorting/stealing from working people?
[18:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:31] <exec> 08└─You need to spend more time looking at studies and less time trolling.
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[19:47:01] <exec> 08└─Ed. Note. I debated whether or not to run this story given the partisan source for the article,
[19:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:03] <exec> 08└─This is 100% monetary policy. Ron Paul was their last chance and the idiots called him a racist.
[19:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:05] <exec> 08└─I may or may not be a Millennial, but after having many discussions with younger or similar-aged friends and family, we are in consensus that the Baby Boomers are perhaps the most hated generation in American history. A lot of you, here, are all-right and we like you just like we like Pat Buchanan a...
[19:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:07] <exec> 08└─My children are Millennials. They don’t have student debt because I paid for their education, alas, well paying jobs are hard to find, rent is high, and it pains me to see them struggling even when statistically they are better off than many of their peers. Back in the day (get off my lawn!) a Uni...
[19:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:09] <exec> 08└─Oh noes! Socialism! Did you ever wonder why in America, Memorial Day is in May, and Labor Day is in August? When every other country has International Workingmen's Day on May 1, where it should be?
[19:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:12] <exec> 08└─Any changes are likely to increase US debt even more. At which point US is supposed to default, anyway?
[19:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:14] <exec> 08└─Generation X was the lost generation, Millennials are the daycare generation. If millennials want to see the neoliberal variant of socialism, they can move to San Fran Shithole.
[19:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil War Southern Plant Remedies Effective Against Drug Resistent Bacteria in Lab Tests - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:24] <exec> 08└─Neo-Greek science, maybe. The Greeks had brain surgeons. There are suggestions that the Egyptians had comparable skills. They did that, and more, long before modern corporate medicine was invented. Mankind survived, somehow, without modern chemical drugs, didn't they?
[19:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Civil War Southern Plant Remedies Effective Against Drug Resistent Bacteria in Lab Tests - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:26] <exec> 08└─... in the fight against germs and infections!
[19:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil War Southern Plant Remedies Effective Against Drug Resistent Bacteria in Lab Tests - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:28] <exec> 08└─Don't mention the Greeks. They surviving one has been nuttier than usual lately.
[19:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Civil War Southern Plant Remedies Effective Against Drug Resistent Bacteria in Lab Tests - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:30] <exec> 08└─Actually, we have more than one here. Like wheels, though, people only notice the squeaky one.
[19:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Civil War Southern Plant Remedies Effective Against Drug Resistent Bacteria in Lab Tests - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:33] <exec> 08└─It's like being nazis to use things that grew in the south during the civil war.
[19:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:58] <exec> 08└─So who are these 99 other folks? If the purpose of the exchange is to hide ill gotten gains, then law enforcement could just track everything that comes thru the exchange to get a list of suspects. Perhaps the reason it works is you would end up with a list of crimes and a list of the folks who did...
[19:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:39] <exec> 08└─The new guy says his price is reasonable because it costs less that what the old guy was charging. If the logic is not ok with 'guy'='gangster', why is is ok with 'guy'='drug merchant'? Both have the same basic business plan of your money or your life. It is true that one is bringing the bad and the...
[19:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:08] <exec> 08└─Funny, how these guys trust Facebook to do the right thing. Yeah 'dumb fucks'. When your company starts out on that premise you are on shaky ground. We have built some of the most sophisticated spying machines ever devised by man. The scope of the spying and manipulation that these companies are eng...
[19:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Orders First Segment of Lunar Station for 2024 Artemis Moon Mission - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, think more elliptical. But you have the right idea, it is questionable when they will manage to get anywhere useful.
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[20:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:11] <exec> 08└─So, are things really as grim as portrayed here? I'm too old to be a millennial, but have both personally experienced as well as witnessed many others facing the same trends listed here.
[20:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:12] <exec> 08└─Actually Labor Day is in September, not August. It is easy to remember that fact too... Labor Day is 9 months after New Years.
[20:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:14] <exec> 08└─Real question is: to whom owes the USA its debt? Mostly other nations grabbed of resources? No, those resources were grabbed for free... So, to whom, really?
[20:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:17] <exec> 08└─Born in 1959, so still a baby boomer but I'll agree that people like Pelosi should be in an old farts retirement home. Even when videos of her aren't slowed down she sounds like she's already hit the vodka by 8am. She act's like a drunken stingy bitch that can't get laid.
[20:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:19] <exec> 08└─Inflation benefits debtors. If anything, the most indebted generations should be cheering it on.
[20:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:21] <exec> 08└─From: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] To itself at 47% To foreigners at 28% To the States and municipal pensions plan at 6% To States and municipal governments at 5% The rest is pr...
[20:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 2519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:23] <exec> 08└─apparently i'm the only millennial on this site? albeit begrudgingly do i claim that cohort... yes, the economic situation really is this bad. i straight up will not be able to retire. inflation is so fast that without investments, that alone will be what kills you. guess who doesn't have any solid...
[20:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:26] <exec> 08└─Labour day is in September in the US. Canada too, and we're doing quite well here thanks.
[20:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:28] <exec> 08└─Wow, I read that Oscar Mayer Wienermobile piece. Sounds awful. The healthcare thing is one of the real American problems. If you've managed to get a job that pays you enough to live, and you start getting ahead, saving a little each week, then get sick you then have to worry about paying that $6,0...
[20:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:30] <exec> 08└─https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/u6-rate.asp [investopedia.com] Consider the unemployment rate. Or rather, the rates. There are several, and they count in different ways, and they tell you different things about the economy.
[20:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:32] <exec> 08└─Fuck the Millenials. Or was it the KLF?
[20:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Messier 90 on Collision Course with Milky Way - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:01] <exec> 08└─Build the (Galactic) Wall!
[20:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:14] <exec> 08└─They should be money-laundering the old-fashioned way, with Real Estate and the Russian mob. Just saying. The Zurich connection?
[20:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life Saving Gene Therapy is Most Expensive Drug Ever - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:57] <exec> 08└─It's not your business how one cavorts with one's profits
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[21:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Accessible MySQL Databases Targeted by GandCrab Ransomware - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:05] <exec> 08└─Who in the cornbread hell allows anonymous Internet access to their database servers? Sophos has uncovered a wave of attacks targeting servers running MySQL on Windows.
[21:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Accessible MySQL Databases Targeted by GandCrab Ransomware - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:07] <exec> 08└─Great article, thanks randomfactor. Also, Buzz, sometimes attackers have a foothold inside the local network, at which point yes they can see the sql db, because if the prod network can't see it then it's effectively down and things using it will fail. So while this might not be exposing smart admin...
[21:47:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 669 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:17] <exec> 08└─My children are Millennials. They don’t have student debt because I paid for their education, alas, well paying jobs are hard to find, rent is high, and it pains me to see them struggling even when statistically they are better off than many of their peers. Back in the day (get off my lawn!) a Uni...
[21:47:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:21] <exec> 08└─So, are things really as grim as portrayed here? I'm too old to be a millennial, but have both personally experienced as well as witnessed many others facing the same trends listed here.
[21:47:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Valkor [4253] 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 2519 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:28] <exec> 08└─apparently i'm the only millennial on this site? albeit begrudgingly do i claim that cohort... yes, the economic situation really is this bad. i straight up will not be able to retire. inflation is so fast that without investments, that alone will be what kills you. guess who doesn't have any solid...
[21:47:33] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 2177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:34] <exec> 08└─As I've pointed out before, one of the problems with keeping wages low for most folks is that it depresses consumer spending. The US economy has been based on consumer spending for more than half a century. And that's what fueled the expansion of the US economy and improved the lives of so many peop...
[21:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:36] <exec> 08└─i still wonder what eldritch powers are keeping McConnell alive. so yeah, we're pretty fucking done with making the rich richer.
[21:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:38] <exec> 08└─personally i got lucky with healthcare, and got in on some socialized healthcare program my state started. no clue how long it'll last, but for the past few years i've been safe. things were much different before i *lucked* in to this (it was a lottery to get in, not based on income or other bullshi...
[21:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:41] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's just a side effect of two things: Women fully entering the workforce drastically drove down wages. Twice the supply (of labor) means half the demand.College degrees being held by so many people looking to avoid having to work for a living. If everyone's special, nobody's special. They woul...
[21:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:43] <exec> 08└─San Fran Shithole
[21:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:45] <exec> 08└─Stop foreign aid (bribes) and take care of ourselves and the debt disappears quickly.
[21:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:47] <exec> 08└─You know what really makes me laugh? Anti-mega-corp types who keep demanding we pile more and more employment requirements on every employer until only the mega-corps can afford to employ anyone at all and they have to do so at pathetic wages.
[21:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:49] <exec> 08└─i haven't had a legitimate raise in pay in over a year at my current day job
[21:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:52] <exec> 08└─I hope I don't live to see it.
[21:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:54] <exec> 08└─Keep repeating that to youself. Inflation benefits those who get access to the new money first. Wages are always the last thing to rise years after real estate, stocks, etc.
[21:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:56] <exec> 08└─Stop foreign aid (bribes) and take care of ourselves and the debt disappears quickly.
[21:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:58] <exec> 08└─History (which you eschew as useless) tells a different story. From a purely *capitalistic* standpoint, limiting the purchasing power of the vast majority of consumers is a recipe for disaster in an economy (like the US') based on consumer spending. Go look through the newspaper and note the listed...
[21:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:01] <exec> 08└─A followup piece was posted today. US millennials describe life on the brink [wsws.org]
[21:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:03] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's just a side effect of two things: Women fully entering the workforce drastically drove down wages. Twice the supply (of labor) means half the demand.
[21:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Civil War Southern Plant Remedies Effective Against Drug Resistent Bacteria in Lab Tests - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:17] <exec> 08└─Mankind survived, but plenty of people died from what we consider to be pretty minor infections. Not to mention the plagues that swept though every now and again.
[21:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:00] <exec> 08└─Plus, the Jews are trying to feminize and ultimately destroy American football because they believe that the only tribalism that should be allowed is theirs.
[21:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:02] <exec> 08└─I quite enjoy your American Football and I have often wondered what sort of game it would be if the teams were allowed only a limited number of substitutions per match. So, 11 players on the field, and 4 (or 6 maybe) substitutes. If someone is subbed off, they can't come back on. No offensive teams...
[21:49:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ataradov [4776] 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:12] <exec> 08└─The problem is not the Chinese market. They are fine there with AOSP and their own services. The problem is that in the western world everyone needs Google Play. Even if you were to trust those Chinese services, half of them will not work or will be useless.
[21:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:31] <exec> 08└─Most of us understand that, being that forward motion is necessary for levitation in most systems. They're working on that. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) And, yeah, you could've used the spoiler tag too
[21:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:33] <exec> 08└─:-) Can't let your rivals gain the advantage...
[21:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:35] <exec> 08└─Pro? or Anti?
[21:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:37] <exec> 08└─No, KPH is 1000 millimeters per hour... or maybe it's 1000 light years per hour, which is about what we will have to do if we want to make interstellar travel practical. And we'll have to do that in a second to make Andromeda a reasonable commute.
[21:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Unveils 600 KPH Maglev Train Prototype - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:39] <exec> 08└─At the time, most of the land wasn't owned by anyone. :-) Of European ancestry... It's a beaut'! No, it's a mound. And right purty, too! er- can ya' move it? But - why? Railroad's comin' thru! Right now!
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[22:47:07] <exec> 08└─Good point about the internal network, but if you're serious about security, database servers are on their own internal network. These things can be separated out so that an employee computer as no access whatsoever to other sensitive internal networks. Still though, this is Windows. If anybody has...
[22:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Accessible MySQL Databases Targeted by GandCrab Ransomware - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:09] <exec> 08└─Even so, how does an anonymous connection have the privileges to add and drop tables/functions, *let alone* write data directly to the filesystem? I did read TFA and they don't mention any attempts at bypassing authentication. At the same time, the "compromise" of the Sophos MySQL instance wasn't ac...
[22:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Accessible MySQL Databases Targeted by GandCrab Ransomware - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:11] <exec> 08└─Right, among the layers of configuration which are important are those perms. But you're overlooking scenarios. Dev DB servers often are more permissive, credentials are sometimes re-used or exposed, etc. This isn't a worm-scale problem. It's escalation. But escalation still matters. This isn't even...
[22:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:51] <exec> 08└─A) If your standard of living is above that of most of the world, you don't get to claim The Man is keeping you down economically. B) If the market full of corporations that rely on consumer spending is kicking ass, you don't get to claim consumers don't have anything to spend. Yeah, it's something...
[22:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:52] <exec> 08└─If they don't want a con-man pedophile psychopath for their next president, maybe they'll get off their miserable millenial asses and go vote next time. Forthy freaking percent particiption rate to elections. You people are pathetic. You don't deserve democracy.
[22:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:54] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand my point. It's not about specific people or corporations. It's about the macroeconomic impact of wealth concentration. Spreading it around will still allow the rich to be plenty rich, and will create a more vibrant, robust and resilient economy. And that ain't socialism, it's Econ...
[22:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:57] <exec> 08└─You should think about leaving, if you can save up enough money to do so. Not just leave Kentucky, but emigrate. Come to a country that mandates 4 weeks holiday per year and supplies the healthcare you need, not what the insurance industry decides they ought to pass on.
[22:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:59] <exec> 08└─Stop foreign aid (bribes) and take care of ourselves and the debt disappears quickly.
[22:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:01] <exec> 08└─Inflation benefit debtors, when wages rise alongside inflation. This because very few loans adjust for inflation over its lifetime (instead they may hike the interest).
[22:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:03] <exec> 08└─Don't hold back, friend. tell us how you really feel.
[22:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:05] <exec> 08└─People don't like being shit on, doesn't matter if some stranger thousands of miles away gets comparatively more shit. If your standard of living is above that of most of the world, you don't get to claim The Man is keeping you down economically.
[22:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:08] <exec> 08└─Back in the day (get off my lawn!) a University degree was a sure-fire ticket to a good life, nowadays it barely gets you a job. And the job barely lets you pay rent.
[22:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip On Android - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:25] <exec> 08└─Funny that only Huawei is targeted by the US govt. How about all of the spying that Google and Facebook do? But no sanctions on Google or Facebook ... Likely the same or worse than what Huawei might/does do? Could this really be that Huawei is too far ahead in the 5G competition and the oth...
[22:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:07] <exec> 08└─Actually, women do (and have) faced murder charges [theguardian.com] in the US for miscarriages. So your Phd acquaintances are right and you're wrong. Perhaps education counts for something after all?
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[23:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Accessible MySQL Databases Targeted by GandCrab Ransomware - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:21] <exec> 08└─Reasonable points. However, under what circumstances is it appropriate to expose TCP/3306 to the Internet on a dev server (or a production server for that matter)? I'm sure we both could come up with some *plausible* scenarios where that could happen, but that doesn't make it appropriate or a good i...
[23:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Accessible MySQL Databases Targeted by GandCrab Ransomware - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:22] <exec> 08└─Oh the saga of little Bobby Tables! It warms the cockles of my heart! Pulling shit like that is almost enough for me to want to sire children. :)
[23:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Internet Accessible MySQL Databases Targeted by GandCrab Ransomware - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:24] <exec> 08└─There's a big difference between giving IT staff full root on every box and every service without authentication and sanity though. Even ultra all-systems, all-services admins shouldn't default to having the keys to the kingdom from logging in to one box. I'd have to authenticate three different way...
[23:48:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 606 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:00] <exec> 08└─History (which you eschew as useless) tells a different story. From a purely *capitalistic* standpoint, limiting the purchasing power of the vast majority of consumers is a recipe for disaster in an economy (like the US') based on consumer spending. Go look through the newspaper and note the listed...
[23:48:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:03] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's just a side effect of two things: Women fully entering the workforce drastically drove down wages. Twice the supply (of labor) means half the demand.
[23:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:13] <exec> 08└─Back in the day (get off my lawn!) a University degree was a sure-fire ticket to a good life
[23:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:14] <exec> 08└─No its not. Society is more than money. I swear Libertarians have to be the stupidest smart people around...
[23:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:17] <exec> 08└─The same processes that have produced vast sums of wealth for the ruling elite have left millions of workers on the brink of existence.
[23:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:19] <exec> 08└─Don't forget college degrees that are complete shite. Just because you have a piece of paper, does not mean you are smart or no anything practically useful. The implication seems to be that getting the piece of paper somehow puts you in another category of citizen with implied special treatment duri...
[23:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:21] <exec> 08└─(And yes, this is pedantic to some extent. But given the phrase "on the brink" is used in the title of TFA, the fact that the author doesn't seem to know what it means is worrying.)
[23:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:23] <exec> 08└─Hence stock buybacks, because how does that ever help a company? All it does is goose the stock price so bonuses for the Inner Sanctum go up, never mind nothing in the fundamental business has changed.
[23:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:26] <exec> 08└─Lol, everything is unfolding exactly as predicted.
[23:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:28] <exec> 08└─The added irony is that International Workingman's Day on May 1st is to commemorate a historical event that happened in Chicago in the USA.
[23:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:30] <exec> 08└─(And yes, this is pedantic to some extent. But given the phrase "on the brink" is used in the title of TFA, the fact that the author doesn't seem to know what it means is worrying.)
[23:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:32] <exec> 08└─wat? Anyone giving out loans without planning for inflation would quickly go bankrupt.
[23:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:34] <exec> 08└─Thank you. Hating on foreign aid is just a crowd-pleaser line for low-IQ xenophobes and isolationists. It's the refuge of simple-minded rubes who say things like, "why are we helping people in Africa when I can't afford my insulin!?" Well, Karen, your insulin and mobility scooter would be free to yo...
[23:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:37] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly certain, along with those of my generation, that the solution to the corruption causing our problems is guillotines. we have straight up oligarchies running the show in many offices, here in Kentucky we're poised to have two families retain control of our state government this election. i...
[23:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:39] <exec> 08└─It's about the macroeconomic impact of wealth concentration.
[23:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:41] <exec> 08└─From what I understand Ireland is a great place to live and work, if you don't mind the weather being what it is. Whenever I encourage an American to emigrate, you always give the whole "friends and family" excuse, but frankly it's not that big of a deal. I have emigrated twice myself (three times...
[23:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:43] <exec> 08└─Someone else doing well does not mean you're being shit on. That's just boring old envy on your part.
[23:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Millennial Generation in the US: Life on the Brink - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:46] <exec> 08└─So, to whom, really?
[23:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Messier 90 on Collision Course with Milky Way - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:17] <exec> 08└─Man, I like money.
[23:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Football Pros Die at a Faster Rate than Baseball Veterans - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:46] <exec> 08└─I know, right? He was totally on the wrong set of rails until that last sentence when he caught himself and got back on track. I'm guessing he's tired.
[23:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Facebook Undermining Democracy in Africa? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:49] <exec> 08└─You haven't even bothered to show that current concentrations of wealth and power are bad. It's merely assumed to be so. It totally depends on who you ask, and how much they have to gain or lose. It's a silly premise to even consider. It's a personal question.
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