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[00:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Uncovers a 'Heavy Metal' Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:26] <exec> 08└─It's biased towards finding hot exoplanets with short orbital periods within the first two years of operations, except for narrow parts of the sky where it will observe for longer. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] After the first two years, they...
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[00:22:27] <exec> 08└─https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190731125428.htm [sciencedaily.com]
[00:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:52] <exec> 08└─I want a series about Red Claw [wikipedia.org], the hero Gotham's working class needs to throw off the shackles of vigilantes like Kate Kane, who only dispense "justice" according to bourgeois--their own--class interests. Expropriate Gotham's ruling class!
[00:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:53] <exec> 08└─Did they consider attracting more users with better quality content? </sarcasm>
[00:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:55] <exec> 08└─I see it like the Campbell soup company hiring some executive who thinks watering down the soup is a smart business move. Then don their suits and ties to make their business presentation that people are not buying much soup anymore. I am so sick of those vitality pill and bags under the eyes ads I...
[00:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:58] <exec> 08└─I bet the commercials are better than the show at this point. I cut the cord ( literally.. didnt go with a streaming service ) years ago. its all crap. The occasional movie, ill just buy on a DVD.
[00:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:00] <exec> 08└─We oughta make a "smart TV" with ad recognition technology using the content recognition technologies developed for copyright violation detection, and repurpose it to screen out unwanted content. I envision a Shazam type interface. Once you tag unwanted content in your TV, it will block it. You may...
[00:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:17] <exec> 08└─Ecobee (smart thermostat) offered me $25 to sign up and $20 annually to participate in a load shedding plan. They want the power company to be able to raise the thermostat setting by up to 4 F at peak load times (i.e. when it's really hot). No thanks.
[00:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:18] <exec> 08└─fridge makes the outside hotter and the inside cooler. so be sure the temperatur difference doesnt stall, like open a "shaded" window to outside or relocate the fridge? also measure fridge amps. it might be "broken". i had one, knew, sat on it until it really broke. replaced it with a smaller, inver...
[00:23:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 1778 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:45] <exec> 08└─I'm really confused by this comment. I'm even more confused about why it was repeatedly labeled "insightful." Here are a few concerns: (1) I have absolutely no clue what this has to do with "socialism." (2) While we have a regulated market in the U.S., it is definitely quite "free" compared to a lot...
[00:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:07] <exec> 08└─BS, prove it. Post the amount here then send btc from one address to the other to prove it.
[00:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, fascism is socialism...
[00:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:10] <exec> 08└─This was at a VA.
[00:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:13] <exec> 08└─From the evidence of this being the only outcome *ever* in cases like this, I'm pretty sure that is exactly how capitalism is supposed to work. Fairy tails to the contrary are just to placate the plebs.
[00:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database. - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:37] <exec> 08└─it's the exact same bug as the human being had, and has the exact same prejudicial outcomes.
[00:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida University Graduation Blinky Hat Scare - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:08] <exec> 08└─What is it? I don't know, but it says "MAGA". Run!
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[01:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:53] <exec> 08└─There exists many, many, many alternatives to spend your time doing. Recorded "entertainment", like trying to eat boney fish, just ranks lower and lower as the value perceived no longer commensurate with the time invested. It takes the extraordinary insight of a Business Degree to see the advantage...
[01:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:55] <exec> 08└─Or a smart tv that streams piratebay
[01:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database. - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:28] <exec> 08└─"I think you can call on state cops if the locals are giving you trouble" Sometimes, but it depends on the specifics and may vary by state. Some states have a 'State Police' force that at least in theory would have jurisdiction to investigate local cops. Others have a 'Highway Patrol' that probably...
[01:24:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06ASCII Table and History; Or, Why does Ctrl+i Insert a Tab in My Terminal? - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:44] <exec> 08└─Get off my lawn^H^H^H^H^H shared open space (can't afford a house)
[01:24:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crb3 [5919] 02 - 06ASCII Table and History; Or, Why does Ctrl+i Insert a Tab in My Terminal? - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:47] <exec> 08└─Careful, looks like you're leaking backspace into meatspace...
[01:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The 99% Got a Bigger "Raise" than Previously Estimated - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:11] <exec> 08└─Corporate profits are down because they are doing stock buy-backs at record rates. Stock buybacks increase their stock value, P/E ratio, and other figures at the expense of employee stock option plans.
[01:27:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06New Warning Issued Over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans - 226 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:25] <exec> 08└─I used to own chickens but the fox came. so I bought sheep thinking the fox is too small, and the wolf came. so I bought a cow thinking the wolf's too small, and the bear came. so I bought an elephant. still no omlette though.
[01:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Warning Issued Over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:44] <exec> 08└─Blokada for android: https://blokada.org [blokada.org]
[01:29:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Most Internet Service Providers are Gone. Sonic Has Survived - and Thrived - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:24] <exec> 08└─But where would they get the money to start Sonic? Doty had an answer: He opened up a drawer with paychecks from his campus job and remarked that payroll had been asking him to cash them.
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[02:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be any more Ridiculous? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:27] <exec> 08└─Agree. Stop it!
[02:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be any more Ridiculous? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:28] <exec> 08└─Insurance doesn't magically fix supply and demand problems. News at 11.
[02:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:09] <exec> 08└─We used to have a very similar technology some decades back. It was a neat little box you made yourself with plans from popular mechanics - as best I know no one ever risked the lawsuite that would have come with commercial manufacture. The way it worked was simply to sense the change in the base vo...
[02:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:11] <exec> 08└─Legacy media is dying, and deserves to die Have you been saying that since the early 80s? I would posit you were wrong and still are. In fact I would posit you are wildly wrong. If you think for 1 second that the existing media companies are going to go away you have not been paying attention. Disne...
[02:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:13] <exec> 08└─That is shit.
[02:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:15] <exec> 08└─Last week I watched a movie on TV. The last half was 10 minutes of move then 5 minutes of adverts. I can't do the math but it was basically unwatchable and obnoxious. You need at least 3 things on at the same time so you can flick between them. That is the only useful role of baseball on TV, I belie...
[02:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:34] <exec> 08└─Why don't progressives plug their Teslas into their buildings during power shortages? Teslas get electricity for free.
[02:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:36] <exec> 08└─Better than mine. They offer $30 a year to turn off your air conditioner compressor. They do a 15 minutes on, 15 minutes off cycle. They claim most people don't notice, but goodness help you if you have to wait 15 minutes for your AC to come on at all, not to mention the extra wear and tear on your...
[02:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:38] <exec> 08└─Because Telsas don't let you reverse charge them, otherwise I'm sure people already would.
[02:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:30] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Fascism is, in a nutshell, a union between big business and the government. Add a bit of nationalism to it and it will be Nazi.
[02:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:32] <exec> 08└─They do force. Similar to privacy settings we are familiar with, it has to be opt-in period and anybody who did nothing still have a right to do anything as if the settlement never happened.
[02:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, I completely understand and sympathize. If you think I don't understand your plight just because I wrote a clarifying message about the details of the lawsuit, please see my recent journal [soylentnews.org] about adventures with the credit bureaus. I've spent a lot more than nine hours of my tim...
[02:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 1524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:36] <exec> 08└─For the record, I completely agree with pretty much all of this. Our modern system of class action lawsuits is horrible. But I'd hardly call it "socialism" in any usual sense of the term. Note that the original idea behind class action suits was noble: most individuals can't or don't have the time a...
[02:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database. - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:02] <exec> 08└─The solution was there for a very long time. In general, people who have more authority should take more responsibility by law. A crime that is say 10 years of prison for a regular citizen should be mandatory life term for a cop. Right now it is exactly the opposite. Second, armed police should have...
[02:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida University Graduation Blinky Hat Scare - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:35] <exec> 08└─They destroyed it even after they knew it was innocent and fun? Assuming the article got the timeline right, the police destroyed that guy's arduino, 7-segment display and 9 volt battery AFTER they cleared him and let him proceed in (with a replacement hat). AFTER they knew that it was just a bit of...
[02:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida University Graduation Blinky Hat Scare - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:37] <exec> 08└─It's challenging to hire FIU graduates after all this - they need to think ahead to how their choices affects the graduates - FIU Police for the loss!
[02:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The 99% Got a Bigger "Raise" than Previously Estimated - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:49] <exec> 08└─Be sure to record your face when you open your first paycheck. The look on your face will be priceless when you try to figure out why hours worked * hourly wage != check amount.
[02:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The 99% Got a Bigger "Raise" than Previously Estimated - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:50] <exec> 08└─You say "They make strawmen of one side" Trump did not say that Neo-Confederates and Neo-Nazis are "very fine people". Listen to enough of his speech for context, and you'll see. It's just a couple sentences more than the typical sound bite. Listen, and you'll see, unless you are only interested in...
[02:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Warning Issued Over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:24] <exec> 08└─Firefoxes catch chickens.
[02:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Warning Issued Over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:26] <exec> 08└─Firefoxes catch chickens. Is that a mixed metaphor?
[02:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Many As 100,000 IBM Staff Axed In Recent Years As Big Blue Battles To Reinvent Itself - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:27] <exec> 08└─Half of the value of old tech knowledge is the ability to recognize that the shiny new tech is just an old flop warmed over so you can either avoid it entirely or plan to avoid the known (but often forgotten) pitfalls. To managers, I know it's disappointing when you run in breathlessly pointing to a...
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[03:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:24] <exec> 08└─she learned that the cash price for the two ultrasounds was $521.
[03:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:25] <exec> 08└─It's a problem with the billing and financing of healthcare. I can't imagine the hospitals and doctors offices love tracking different information for every single (insurer, patient, procedure) when they'd rather, you know, provide the actual healthcare. They would have become accountants if they wa...
[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─They take cash out of my paycheck every two weeks for 'insurance' that conveniently won't pay for anything I actually need. Which makes it that much harder to save the cash needed. Mandatory insurance only benefits the insurance companies, and their pet politicians.
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:30] <exec> 08└─They tend to use a lot more consonants there, so basic supply and demand probably pushed the price of x-rays down a lot.
[03:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 3185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─I've had 4 kids (and a subsequent vasectomy) sans insurance in the southeast US. The totals I ended up paying for the kids were 7000, 1300, 1400, and 1700 to the hospital. The doctor was 3000 for each, which included prenatal and labs. I paid 700 for the vasectomy. The hospital bills range from bats...
[03:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─My fav in cancer treatments - they run your credit to see what assets you have - can't know what the prices is until they know what your life savings is...
[03:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:36] <exec> 08└─Which reminds me for all you old people -- get your colonoscopy done. A lot of times you can opt-out of the "amnes"-thesia and it's quicker.
[03:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:39] <exec> 08└─I have a EOB for a Lab test that was $1200 before the insurance company discount and under $20 after the discount. This is the fundamental flaw driving cost of care in American healthcare. Doctors start with the price they need to charge to make a small profit, and then multiply that number by a dou...
[03:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:41] <exec> 08└─Cost me $60 once a year for 5 years to screen for marijuana. Doc changed the lab they use for the piss test... $1250.00. Doc said call them and complain, they gave me a 90% discount. Then the price of fentanyl patches jumped from $95 to $1500 per month. The entire USA medical system is bullshit. I w...
[03:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:43] <exec> 08└─>blockquote>Insurance doesn't magically fix supply and demand problems. Is it insurance or an intermediary, though? Even more, an intermediary which, by its behaviour and existence (think "a big pool of money the insured never controls"), alters the supply/demand equation. Sorta the compromise that...
[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:45] <exec> 08└─Well, fuck! If that's the reason, then you, the Americans, should stop using so many dissonants then.
[03:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:48] <exec> 08└─"So why is it that when you go to the hospital, you have no idea how much something will cost until the bill arrives?"
[03:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:50] <exec> 08└─Usually cash price is higher than what insurance negotiated.
[03:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:33] <exec> 08└─My wife watches some TV, but I watch shows by .....uhhh....other means. What are TV ads?, lol.
[03:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:35] <exec> 08└─>you don’t want to miss your numbers and have your stock go down. Why? You never want anyone to buy your stock? Buy low, sell high.
[03:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:57] <exec> 08└─Cheap electricity and AC (invented in Buffalo*) made possible large population growth in the south of the USA. When electricity prices rise, there is likely going to be some migration back north. * https://www.bizjournals.com
[03:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:58] <exec> 08└─You seem to have confused demographics, Tesla buyers (and luxury car buyers in general) are monopolists, although many hide behind a thin veil of capitalism.
[03:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:01] <exec> 08└─Here in CA I open a window when I get home about 5pm and turn on the extractor fan. I'm good in about 10 minutes.
[03:24:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:45] <exec> 08└─...This story is about a government agency doing what the free market should be doing, very, very poorly to the detriment of all except the connected insiders who either own or are on the boards of corporations like equifax and have the bribed regulators and politicians in their pockets.
[03:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:56] <exec> 08└─Also telling: $31M for the claimants but the total settlement is over 22x that large, meaning that the lawyers decided that the 147 million affected parties are only due 4.4% of the settlement - guess who gets the rest?
[03:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida University Graduation Blinky Hat Scare - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:57] <exec> 08└─Heh, that's the most definitive info available on tech in Georgia vs Tennessee.
[03:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Warning Issued Over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:46] <exec> 08└─I stopped trusting browsers and extensions to do the right thing a long time ago. While I do use uMatrix and hosts file, I've recently begun using a Pi-Hole for the bulk of blocking on my home network. Not as elegant and certainly not as portable as an extension but perhaps we will be using cheap "a...
[03:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Warning Issued Over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:48] <exec> 08└─I'm (voluntarily) test driving the Edge Beta Chromium-derived browser. It's been my first-choice browser for about two weeks now. So far it looks good. Adblock plus has a dev version for it, but it's only about 80% effective. I'm reporting the misses so they can fix it. (Full disclosure, I work for...
[03:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Warning Issued Over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:50] <exec> 08└─Privoxy, and non-browser blockers, are simply not as powerful as in-browser blockers. They are close currently, but with anti-adblocking getting more common, you need the additional power that browser-based blockers have. For example, blocking Google Analytics breaks all sorts of web pages. That is...
[03:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Warning Issued Over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:52] <exec> 08└─For me the problem is both the ads and the malware. I have ADHD, professionally diagnosed though I choose to be un-medicated. Ads steal a big chunk of my working memory that I cannot spare. Working the web without them is a game changer for me.
[03:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Warning Issued Over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:54] <exec> 08└─Even your opinion about your opinion being invalid?
[03:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Warning Issued Over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:57] <exec> 08└─May want to avoid that RAT: https://www.hybrid-analysis.com [hybrid-analysis.com]
[03:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alarming Surge in Drug-Resistant HIV Uncovered - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:11] <exec> 08└─I thought only fudge packers caught AIDS and passed it on.
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[04:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:25] <exec> 08└─INF nuclear treaty: Trump says new pact should include China [bbc.com] US President Donald Trump has said he wants a new nuclear pact to be signed by both Russia and China. Mr Trump said he had spoken to the two countries about the idea, and that they were both "very, very excited". His comments cam...
[04:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:27] <exec> 08└─Interesting. A possible silver lining appears. Hope we get there.
[04:22:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 3185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:40] <exec> 08└─I've had 4 kids (and a subsequent vasectomy) sans insurance in the southeast US. The totals I ended up paying for the kids were 7000, 1300, 1400, and 1700 to the hospital. The doctor was 3000 for each, which included prenatal and labs. I paid 700 for the vasectomy. The hospital bills range from bats...
[04:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:49] <exec> 08└─Is there something abnormal here that I missed?
[04:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:51] <exec> 08└─That's not even a very big spread, I've seen 10x and more difference on items, and then there's the amount the insurance "allows" which could be $80 in a case like this.
[04:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:53] <exec> 08└─Holy fsck! The price for an ultrasound here is around USD70 walk-in, and this is a generic first-world country where things aren't that cheap in general. An X-ray costs about the same, and the tech was apologetic to me about how high the cost was. Just to clarify that, that's not government-subsidis...
[04:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:56] <exec> 08└─Compare the Socialist Utopia, Australia [thebillfold.com]
[04:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:58] <exec> 08└─I've had 4 kids (and a subsequent vasectomy)
[04:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah but that's Australian dollars which is like what, a buck fifty and a kangaroo-leather belt in the US?
[04:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:02] <exec> 08└─You think medical care pricing has anything to do with the abstract idea of "supply and demand", rather than scummy executives calculating what price they can get away with when "Grandma's on the table" [commondreams.org] For profit healthcare makes as much sense as for-profit policing or for-profit...
[04:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:05] <exec> 08└─Right now, 1 Australian Dollar = 0.68 United States Dollar Bit more than the peso, but not much..
[04:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:07] <exec> 08└─Your provider saves themselves a ton of paperwork and record keeping if you pay cash. Easily ninety percent of their paperwork is insurance or medicare/medicaid mandated. Since they have to pay very highly trained and paid people (starting with your doctor or PA and every nurse you deal with but inc...
[04:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:52] <exec> 08└─Local news is even full of ads. They scroll the bottom and even have "sponsored content" breaks with people sitting on a couch talking. That said I do like all of the sub channels that play mostly old programming.
[04:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:54] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that Jews cannot control their greedy nature, and will kill the host that feeds them? Racist! Bigot!
[04:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oldie but Goodie -- Cartoons in Vintage Tektronix Schematics - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:28] <exec> 08└─The WWII German TigerFibel [alanhamby.com] was written in this style, with humour and cartoons throughout. That's a damn fine piece of training/technical documentation, something that many modern manuals could take a leaf from.
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[04:24:30] <exec> 08└─" Donate to vintageTEK "
[04:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:19] <exec> 08└─4.4% * 5 is still too small for "people" vs lawyers, unless you're a lawyer.
[04:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:20] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I don't know why this is such a hard concept for many around here.
[04:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database. - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:48] <exec> 08└─It's not just races that look similar: https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
[04:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASCII Table and History; Or, Why does Ctrl+i Insert a Tab in My Terminal? - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:19] <exec> 08└─Probably because they might not have invented the CTRL key yet. The oldest terminals obviously didn't have it, but by the ASR33 in the 1970s it was there, but it was also ASCII so introduced after the standard was set. Tab was (and still is) a hard key just like T. To send a Tab you just pressed [T...
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[04:26:20] <exec> 08└─Of course while VIM is limited to a TTY. GVIM could indeed gain the functionality to map a function to CTRL+I or L_CTRL+I and another to R_CTRL+I, etc. Because X11 doesn't know anything about that ASCII/tty nonsense, it just provides events when keys up up or down and what modifiers are also down. O...
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[04:26:38] <exec> 08└─it also has the potential to scare people
[04:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Florida University Graduation Blinky Hat Scare - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:27] <exec> 08└─Hey, why do we need actual terrorists when we're doing such a good job of terrorising ourselves?
[04:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 99% Got a Bigger "Raise" than Previously Estimated - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:41] <exec> 08└─How about viewing it in terms of disposable income? Income not needed for food, shelter and costs associated with employment.
[04:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 99% Got a Bigger "Raise" than Previously Estimated - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:43] <exec> 08└─Go for it if you like. The perceived increases would be even more heavily weighted toward the low end though because of the way math works. How about we just tell the truth instead of trying to make it look any particular way?
[04:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alarming Surge in Drug-Resistant HIV Uncovered - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:39] <exec> 08└─Two reasons. First, you are too U.S.-centric. While true that almost 100% of U.S. infections are subtype-B, worldwide just under 50% are sub-type C. Second, HIV is classified by the phylogenetic features. Sort of how humans are apes, and apes are primates, and primates are mammals.
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[05:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:24] <exec> 08└─Cuba should get some missiles again
[05:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:25] <exec> 08└─It sounds like more of a golden lie.
[05:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:28] <exec> 08└─How so?
[05:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:30] <exec> 08└─You think? This is how Trump works. He presents the other parties with a choice between what he wants and something much worse. He's not subtle about it, though I expect he thinks he is. And it does work more often than not.
[05:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:01] <exec> 08└─Have you seen the requirements of medical billing and coding? It makes the tax code look friendly. They take something that should be relatively upfront and hide it behind 3 contractors and 7 extra layers of bureaucracy.
[05:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:02] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what autocorrect did to my final sentence, but I meant "a major procedure."
[05:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:05] <exec> 08└─butbut muh R&D
[05:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but for them all that upfront cost has already been paid. Your visit would be a single bill in the stream that goes to the multiple insurers, which I doubt would be be a big deal. However, it would mean they're guaranteed there's no back and forth to get paid; they can *negotiate* -- ask to ne...
[05:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:09] <exec> 08└─All """doctors"""" are evil. Death penalty for """""""doctors."""""""" Fake scientists, DIE.
[05:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:11] <exec> 08└─marijuana helped me escape alcoholism when nothing else could 10 step programs have a terrible rate of success, yet the puritans in charge insist on it, because they know it will keep us addicted to things that are harming us but are vastly more profitable
[05:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:14] <exec> 08└─I don't personally know a single medical professional that's not adamantly against socialized medicine. Ditto Obamacare. For "them" who? It sure as shit isn't already paid for our current healthcare providers. They have to keep a larger staff on hand because all the doctors and nurses spend at least...
[05:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:02] <exec> 08└─I love the scrolls at the bottom. Local station scrolls traffic reports, one constant is "67 SB between Broadway and 8 stop and go". Um, first that's maybe 1/4 mile. Second, there are traffic lights there. Of course it's stop and go, if it wasn't then everyone would be running red lights all morning...
[05:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:03] <exec> 08└─No, in the early 80s, they were manifestly not dying. They were making money hand over fist, and constantly expanding. But today, they're scrambling, they're losing, they're dying and they don't even seem to be capable of understanding why.
[05:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:05] <exec> 08└─A rational actor that doesn't understand human irrationality would be surprised. These folks make money by showing ads to viewers. If you lose viewers by driving them away with too many ads, you lose money. Simple. Any company that makes decisions based on their stock price is doomed, because the in...
[05:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:30] <exec> 08└─You raise a very valid point. Unfortunately it means you have to live around Californians. I'd prefer heat stroke.
[05:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:32] <exec> 08└─> They do a 15 minutes on, 15 minutes off cycle. 4 cycles per hour is the standard duty cycle for air conditioners. If you use an electric thermostat, it works like PWM, but with a 15 minute interval. For example, if the cooling demand is only 67% of the AC's cooling capacity, then it is going to ru...
[05:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database. - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:01] <exec> 08└─What I mean is that doing EVERYTHING to fight crime is just like the paperclip optimiser. You end up destroying the world to accomplish your singular objective. If you truly wanted to 100% eliminate crime, the most reliable way would be to kill everyone. People need to identify the point of diminish...
[05:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 99% Got a Bigger "Raise" than Previously Estimated - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:55] <exec> 08└─Don't forget: the definition of inflation is measured differently over time. And also, 1% - 2% today doesn't come close to making up years of deficiencies. [Skimming article] Hmm. There are a couple of places that make me question the accuracy of this article. And in June wages and salaries grew at...
[05:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Warning Issued Over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:37] <exec> 08└─Same here. I'm using Pale Moon 28.6.1 with NoScript 5.1.8.6, on Linux.
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[06:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:10] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, anecdotal bullshit. The assumption that systems can not be fixed is ridiculoys. The real problem is the health insurance. Insurance operatives are bean counters by role, the very definition of pain in the ass burearacracy. For profit is the major problem. Some sectors of human society should...
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[06:23:12] <exec> 08└─A few times I had an X-ray that the insurance did not cover. I had to pay full price. It was $35. In the USA.
[06:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:03] <exec> 08└─Here in the UK, the legal cap [ofcom.org.uk] is an average of 7 minutes an hour for (commercial) public service broadcasters, or 9 minutes an hour for all the other broadcasters. I'm convinced this average is set so low because of the existence of the BBC, which (as a non-commercial broadcaster) has...
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[06:29:35] <exec> 08└─On Android I only use Privacy Browser, available from F-Droid.
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[07:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:20] <exec> 08└─This is nearly as exciting as the Snow report on getting laid by his cow-orker! Or the cartoons on ancient hieroglyphic comment lines. Um, could we possibly have something of more interest to Millennials, and us Double Millennials? Let me tell you about those iron stylai and wax tablets, back in...
[07:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:34] <exec> 08└─Just like North Korea. And it does work more often than not!
[07:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:35] <exec> 08└─All about the Brexit! Could the Brave and rather idiotic Brits stand off against all the intermediate nuclear weapons aimed at Europe? Of course not! So, the only option, for a rational game-theoretic Trump administration, and Stephens Miller and Bannon, is a pre-emptive strike on England. Unfortuna...
[07:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:16] <exec> 08└─What does credit have in common with assets under financial management or just under the mattress?
[07:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:09] <exec> 08└─look at show length (you can do that on netflix). big bang theory episodes are 22 mins. same as most sitcoms from today. so 44 mins of "useful" programming an hour, minus the 4 mins initial song/credits. I guess it's worse with sports and news though. extra comment: star trek original series ~50 min...
[07:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:36] <exec> 08└─That is way too short. I literally just talked to our AC guy (which is how I found out about the program in the first place), who suggested that we should have no more than 3 cycles per hour and no less than 2 on a hot day. Any more or less is a bad sign. In addition, compressor pumps suffer the mos...
[07:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rayko [6096] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The 99% Got a Bigger "Raise" than Previously Estimated - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:59] <exec> 08└─New data show much faster growth in wages and incomes. domain: archive.is person: Denis Petrov nic-hdl: DP36-IS address: Bilkova 16 address: Prague, Stare Mesto 11000 address: CZ phone: +420 775168924 e-mail: domains@dns.li created: May 16 2012 source: ISNIC
[07:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alarming Surge in Drug-Resistant HIV Uncovered - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:59] <exec> 08└─Jesus said in the Bible that the Jewish ceremonial laws (dietary laws and circumcision fit this) no longer had to be followed. There was a new emphasis.
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[08:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:27] <exec> 08└─Well you can try restoring an old plasma set or something. Perhaps a 1st Gen iPod would have the right collectible value to make restoration worthwhile?
[08:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:28] <exec> 08└─I did not play a part in selecting this story, but it is one that I have enjoyed reading. Renovation of old possessions is a skilled art whether they be Chippendale furniture, Fabergé eggs, old masters, or home items from yesteryear. Those that carry it out enjoy such endeavours and play an import...
[08:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:30] <exec> 08└─Ah, janrinok! I understand your interest. But I invite you to look at it from my point of view. At nearly 2400 years old, there is a plethora of things that may be brought back and restored, and what not. '64 Mustangs, Onagers from the Germanic Campaigns, Tycho's full scale astrolabes! So you can s...
[08:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:45] <exec> 08└─What a load of rubbish. I'm assuming that you think that this is humour?. Defence is nothing to do with Brexit, and the French also have a nuclear arsenal and the ability to deliver it. Your understanding of nuclear warfare is also flawed. The threat is not whether you have more nuclear weapons th...
[08:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:46] <exec> 08└─Ah, I've just looked at who probably submitted this comment, and also upmodded it. It explains the drivel that the submitter is spouting.
[08:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:28] <exec> 08└─But the Pound will soon undercut the Auzzie Dollar, and the Euro, and all other currencies, as the "No-deal Brexit" Brexits across the world. Poor Australia, and The Part of Ireland that is not Part of Ireland! You bastards should have thought better in 1914! Or so. Bloody Brits! Fricken Poms! Da...
[08:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:29] <exec> 08└─This is why we cannot have nice things, like single payer health insurance! o I begged the insurance person to just tell me what codes they needed so I could tell the doctor, but she couldn't tell.me that -- that would apparently be like facilitating fraud by telling me how to file my own procedures...
[08:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:31] <exec> 08└─Alcohol helped me escape a nasty marijuana addiction, when nothing else could! I went from being a socially rejected stoner polyamorist trans-gendered Bernie supporter, to just a normal drunk. So much easier. But the liver transplant is gonna cost me. And, Ten Step? Do you not mean Twelve Step? O...
[08:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:33] <exec> 08└─Massive conflict of interest. The Buzzard wants you to die, but only out in the open, where he might feed upon your internal organs. So his advice is, as they are wont to say, conflicted, ambiguous, not to be trusted. Best healthcare for Buzzards, by the way, is a shotgun. Lay down, with a bunch of...
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[09:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:28] <exec> 08└─Tell you what: when I finally get around to building myself an Antikythera mechanism, I'll write an article and submit it for you.
[09:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:29] <exec> 08└─I look forward to this with great anticipation!
[09:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:31] <exec> 08└─I've done a few running repairs to an RGB CRT that my retro computers use, so I can relate to the author's experiences. Skilling yourself up to replace a line output (flyback) transformer, inside a device you were told as a kid to never open because of the high voltages therein, is a bit of an exper...
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[09:22:48] <exec> 08└─To be fair, it does look like humour.
[09:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:49] <exec> 08└─British nuclear forces also appear to be an attempt a humour, much like James Bond is compensation for the sun setting on the British Empire. But at least they have Nukes! More often than not, American Nukes, but Nukes nonetheless! Ah, blimey, to be a bloke on the brimey back in the day of the Pox...
[09:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:51] <exec> 08└─Inspector Clouseau, I presume? Or who is it that you are not quite outing, janrinok? There are only five regular commentors on SoylentNews, and Runaway is asleep, c0lo just going to bed, khallow has posted his last journal, and Eth is in his cups again. So that only leaves, martyb? Oh, the cad!
[09:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:53] <exec> 08└─Our senses of humour obviously differ but, if it made you smile, I will retire from the discussion.
[09:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:56] <exec> 08└─...submitted this comment, and also upmodded it.
[09:23:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:16] <exec> 08└─Usually cash price is higher than what insurance negotiated.
[09:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:41] <exec> 08└─I think the in-procedure crises could be handled by adding a small surcharge to the price of the procedure (an "insurance" of sorts). The surcharge would be calculated by averaging the known risks of the procedure meaning that the many that do not experience any crisis would pay for the few that do...
[09:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:42] <exec> 08└─The most expensive by far. Yet the treatment results are mediocre.
[09:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:44] <exec> 08└─Is this legal? US only, I assume. Running a credit check in Australia would show up on the record.
[09:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hubble Uncovers a 'Heavy Metal' Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:54] <exec> 08└─I thought most planets were shaped pretty much like a football. Like this one .... ? https://www.argos.co.uk [argos.co.uk] Nothing special to see here.
[09:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oldie but Goodie -- Cartoons in Vintage Tektronix Schematics - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:17] <exec> 08└─You're right. No one should spend their disposable money on anything other than food, housing, and everything else for the poor. Of course, you don't have *anything* at *all* but the most basic of necessities, right? I mean, no computer, TV, only one fork and spoon. Right? Right? Or maybe you're jus...
[09:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oldie but Goodie -- Cartoons in Vintage Tektronix Schematics - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:19] <exec> 08└─I remember these: https://www.sm5cbw.se [sm5cbw.se] About a decade ago I was dealing with Macintosh IIfx schematics reverse engineered from mainboard, there was a "twist" of data lines for expander. Near the "twist", AFAIR between bus and some expanding buffers, there was a cute draw...
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[10:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:25] <exec> 08└─I mean, doubleplus good. We all know that opinion polls > peer review of repeatable experiments
[10:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:00] <exec> 08└─And it does work more often than not.
[10:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:49] <exec> 08└─Just wait until you have an actual medical issue to pay for. Being hit for thousands for something you thought you were covered for really sucks. I did a calculation for the 'insurance' I have. I would need to have several very nasty problems happen in one year to break even. Break even mind you. Co...
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[10:30:17] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your efforts. Your opinion is very much valid.
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[11:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:05] <exec> 08└─Do you really think that Russia and China are excited (much less "very, very excited") to enter into a new nuclear treaty with the U.S.? Especially given the less than amicable conditions that led to the current INF collapsing, or China's attention being focused on Hong Kong (and if that escalates f...
[11:23:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:14] <exec> 08└─she learned that the cash price for the two ultrasounds was $521.
[11:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:55] <exec> 08└─Usually cash price is higher than what insurance negotiated.
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[11:23:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's legal (health care in the US is a for-profit industry, and treating the customers/patients is a secondary concern to maximizing profits). The credit check will show up on credit reports, but the customer/patient has to approve the credit check or they simply won't be seen by a doctor (let...
[11:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:58] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to dive into the details because it's depressing for me and boring for you. I'm in my forties, lived a healthy lifestyle, non-drinker/smoker, no drugs. I'm self employed and paid for my own health plan for decades. Then the Affordable Care Act was passed, followed by 50+ lawsuits chall...
[11:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:01] <exec> 08└─Or just have them install an OBD-II! I bet that would save a lot of time and effort up front.
[11:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:03] <exec> 08└─They take cash out of my paycheck every two weeks for 'insurance' that conveniently won't pay for anything I actually need.
[11:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:05] <exec> 08└─Alcohol helped me escape a nasty marijuana addiction, when nothing else could!
[11:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:07] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. Prices vary widely based on provider, facility, city/state/region, etc. I've even encountered a significant price difference between doctors in the same medical practice.
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[11:24:10] <exec> 08└─Note to self: see if our tweeter-in-chief is leaning on the double quote key in his tweets.
[11:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:12] <exec> 08└─I was self-insured from 1998-2006. Cash price was always cheaper than insurance at the doctors I went to. I didn’t do a lot of shopping around, and frequently went to the then-new urgent care facilities. But I also went to the People’s Clinic [peoples-center.org] for routine stuff, as payment wa...
[11:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:14] <exec> 08└─The most expensive by far. Yet the treatment results are mediocre.
[11:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I only ever watch ABC (Australia). Public broadcaster, no ads other than future shows on between programs.
[11:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:37] <exec> 08└─No - I'm not annoyed at you - I'm annoyed at the system. Part of this story is that I actually worked hard to have "no credit" (credit score 0) and *still* had to spend time managing my credit score to protect against fraud. This is for a system that I decided to have no interactions with (I have ne...
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[11:26:39] <exec> 08└─"A large number of claims for cash instead of credit monitoring means only one thing: each person who takes the money option will wind up only getting a small amount of money," the FTC said in a blog post Wednesday. Actually, it says something else. Most folks think this company's 'service' isn't wo...
[11:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 99% Got a Bigger "Raise" than Previously Estimated - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:03] <exec> 08└─why is this in the opinion section of the Wall Street Journal?
[11:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 99% Got a Bigger "Raise" than Previously Estimated - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:04] <exec> 08└─just tell the truth instead of trying to make it look any particular way?
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[12:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 1798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:37] <exec> 08└─I'm more surprised that about half the people still think journalists are somehow trustworthy and working for the good and betterment of society along with about 1/3 for the politicians. For Scientists tho it's as noted probably in large dependent on what you do and whom you do it for. If you do res...
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[12:24:13] <exec> 08└─Free market capitalism assumes transparency. We have very little transparency. This is not free market capitalism. and all the advertising that we are constantly bombarded with does not provide us with much transparency. So the argument that advertising is good because it provides us with transparen...
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[12:30:49] <exec> 08└─And that's how you make poacher eggs... [/Badum-tss]
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[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately most of the people calling themselves scientists these days are something else. I call them "researchers", and I do not trust them. What they do is some mix of cargo culting, p-hacking, and committing strings of logical fallacies so they can conclude whatever gets the most papers publi...
[13:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:33] <exec> 08└─I don't. That's the whole reason behind their results needing to be reproducible. Faith has no place in science.
[13:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:35] <exec> 08└─Considering how the basis of *your* worldview came into being, the irony density in this comment of yours is somewhere between "neutron star" and "black hole with a binge-eating problem."
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, scientists reproduce each others work. That is not what is going on with this other practice I call "research". Doing direct replications is actively discouraged. In the rare cases they are done the results are only " reproduced" something like 25% of the time. And that is using a weak definiti...
[13:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:51] <exec> 08└─Are you planning to just duplicate the antikythera mechanism? Or update it with modern astronomical data, but using the ancient tech?
[13:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Trump lies, as usual. How do I know ? His lips move. And does Trump ever NOT talk like he's talking to a bunch of twelve-year olds ? I'll answer my own question: No, no he doesn't, because he knows full well the mental age of his supporters.
[13:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:17] <exec> 08└─i am not regular? dammit! fiber diet for the next two weeks then :(
[13:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:20] <exec> 08└─How do you look up who probably modded a comment?
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[13:23:22] <exec> 08└─No, it does work. Nothing that head cheetos has done has actually worked through.
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[13:23:24] <exec> 08└─*doesn't
[13:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:26] <exec> 08└─Man, please. Russia does what it does because Putin thinks it is good for Russia. When he concedes anything to us, it's because he wants something else. Ditto China. Any "let's not offend them in pursuit of a goal" talk is just fear and stupidity.
[13:23:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:54] <exec> 08└─You think medical care pricing has anything to do with the abstract idea of "supply and demand", rather than scummy executives calculating what price they can get away with when "Grandma's on the table" [commondreams.org] For profit healthcare makes as much sense as for-profit policing or for-profit...
[13:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:27] <exec> 08└─Mandatory insurance only benefits the insurance companies, and their pet politicians.
[13:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:28] <exec> 08└─No usually it is cheaper, the only people who think cash price is higher are those who tell them they have insurance before asking. Once they know you have insurance they need to tell you the cash price in their contract, not the real price. Admitting you have insurance is like writing sucker on you...
[13:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:31] <exec> 08└─This is one of the reasons big pharma are so against marijuana. They don't want a cheap product undercutting their expensive products.
[13:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:33] <exec> 08└─I've been living with one of these for a while. I am slowly dying. What can you do?
[13:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:35] <exec> 08└─I need to have a procedure done, and soon. I can ballpark what it may cost to start but if it gets interesting then there is no way to tell. They will tell me what the doctor may charge and what the fees may be to start but the final bill won't be known until they been a knock out doc and work out s...
[13:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:37] <exec> 08└─I don't personally know a single medical professional that's not adamantly against socialized medicine.
[13:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:40] <exec> 08└─He asked for anecdotal, dumbass. For profit is the major problem. Some sectors of human society should not be profit motivated, and should extend service to all. Humanity can support this, thus it is a moral imperstive[sic].
[13:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:42] <exec> 08└─My friend is diabetic and found out his new insurance (he became a federal employee) won't even cover insulin. Totally worthless mandatory waste of money.
[13:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:44] <exec> 08└─Several of the medical professionals I know just flat quit practicing when Obamacare went through. More bullshit, less helping people. The insurance industry we have today is by no means a good thing but then neither is our government. Neither is currently capable of being the answer to this questio...
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[13:24:46] <exec> 08└─The dreaded, yet inevitable, Aakor procedure.
[13:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:49] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the Chinese disagree with you and will eat the USA's lunch within 5-10 years. Being able to buy the same meds from Canada for much much cheaper than they can be purchased in the US clearly demonstrates that the US consumer is getting screwed. The existence of "medical destination" co...
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[13:24:51] <exec> 08└─Most of this "care" isn't really helping you anyway. You likely are not missing out on much, if that makes you feel any better. Just look at cuba with their chronic medicine shortages and old equipment yet life expectancy is about equal with the US. That alone strongly suggests the majority of the "...
[13:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry to hear about your situation. If you are willing to uproot and move to a country will good healthcare you could get affordable, quality treatment. Being self employed for as long as you have it may be tough to get a regular 9-5 job, but it sure beats the alternative of suffering (physically an...
[13:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hubble Uncovers a 'Heavy Metal' Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:03] <exec> 08└─The last fragment of a once living planet. Its body blasted into dust by the madness of its own inhabitants. While its head was cursed to roam aimlessly through time and space, screaming in pain and sorrow. In legend and in fact, it is known as "Metal Hurlant".
[13:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03den Os [2340] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oldie but Goodie -- Cartoons in Vintage Tektronix Schematics - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:30] <exec> 08└─On VMS when a program exits the exit status code is translated to a (usually) meaningfull message. One special value: $ exit 2928 %SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels $ I guess the VMS folks at DEC were monty python fans. Oswald
[13:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:23] <exec> 08└─Look up the policies of the nazis and compare to democratic party platform... In particular the newest developments such as modern monetary policy and the green new deal.
[13:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database. - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:53] <exec> 08└─Are you referring to a specific event? [thenewdaily.com.au]
[13:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database. - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:54] <exec> 08└─Are aboriginal? If so this may be a culturally acceptable event. [quadrant.org.au] From 1788, British and French arrivals were shocked at local misogyny. First Fleeter Watkin Tench noticed a young woman’s head “covered by contusions, and mangled by scars”. She also had a spear wound above the...
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[13:27:57] <exec> 08└─lets see: Propaganda on the TV. Fake news on the internet. Telescreen in your house: Hello ring and alexa! Facial recognition cameras all over public places. DNA database collected by 23andme + ancestry.com Great strides by private companies to deplatform and debank you Or you just get fed to the ou...
[13:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 99% Got a Bigger "Raise" than Previously Estimated - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:56] <exec> 08└─Nope. Stats in general and wages in particular are extremely easy to report in an unbiased manner. You just have to tell the truth. Which means you have to be able to admit the truth to yourself.
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[14:22:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 779 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─I did not play a part in selecting this story, but it is one that I have enjoyed reading. Renovation of old possessions is a skilled art whether they be Chippendale furniture, Fabergé eggs, old masters, or home items from yesteryear. Those that carry it out enjoy such endeavours and play an import...
[14:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 2808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:02] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem to mention that there was a digital to analog broadcast converted wired into this TV that was manufactured a very long time prior to such easy coaxial connection hookups were made possible, already functioning on the TV at the estate sale. I almost want to think that the author took...
[14:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─I expect he'll have connected an RF modulator to the antenna connection. Or perhaps used a VCR with a built-in modulator?
[14:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:36] <exec> 08└─It is a technical end of Gorbachev treason.
[14:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:37] <exec> 08└─That is tmb for ya, makes sweeping statements that are impossible to prove and trests them like gospel truth, and you're an idiot if you don't take it the same way.
[14:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:53] <exec> 08└─And I'll say it AGAIN for all the people who apparently aren't fucking listening: "supply and demand" is a dangerous oversimplification. Demand varies in its elasticity; for a very inelastic demand, say for lifesaving healthcare, "letting the free market decide" leads to hostage situations, quite li...
[14:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:54] <exec> 08└─And how much were you compensated for all that time and attention you had to spend on it? Don't shrug and say it was no big deal. Imagine if you had to do that every time for every product or service you buy. I went to a store with one of those self check-outs the other day. I couldn't figure out ho...
[14:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:56] <exec> 08└─Supply and demand has nothing to do with healthcare prices in the US, it is all due to carving out a tax break for health insurance benefits and then medicare/medicaid distorting the market.
[14:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:58] <exec> 08└─If you think about it, actual CASH prices (not prices for billed costs to customers, but actual payment on the spot in cash or something equivalent) SHOULD be cheaper, as it cuts out huge amounts of costs for the middleman, time for filing and arguing with insurance companies that providers do, etc....
[14:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:01] <exec> 08└─And no one said Obamacare was what they want. Medicare for all is the least that should be done, but since it will be universal then the bureaucratic red tape should disappear. I say should because those greedy insurance fucks will undoubtedly grease some wheels to keep the pork rolling in. Don't li...
[14:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:03] <exec> 08└─Being able to buy the same meds from Canada for much much cheaper than they can be purchased in the US clearly demonstrates that the US consumer is getting screwed. The existence of "medical destination" countries also prove this fact.
[14:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:05] <exec> 08└─Quite the opposite. Third party insurers, whether they be government, or private, drive prices UP. That's the whole idea of having a middleman. The middleman makes connections for you, while charging you for the privilege. That much should be obvious to all of us, no matter our age, sophistication,...
[14:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:07] <exec> 08└─That's basically what was said, there is no actual free market just hostages and extortionists.
[14:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:10] <exec> 08└─You're fucking hilarious. Even the other Dems running this time around know "medicare for all" will cost way, way, way too fucking much for us to pay. Estimates from the fucking Dems say it's going to cost like 75% of what we take in in taxes every year all by itself. The only ones fucking retarded...
[14:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:12] <exec> 08└─Eastern Europe? That wasn't exactly an X-ray, was it? They have an old Soviet nuclear warhead hidden behind the curtains. You walk in front of it, and the radiologist reads you, live.
[14:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:08] <exec> 08└─let's also remember most CEOs get their big payday by pushing the company stock price above the strike price of the stock options that are part of their compensation. they have every reason to kill the company with their short-term thinking because when it comes crashing down they plan to be on a be...
[14:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:10] <exec> 08└─that is true, and was already true ten years ago. my friend is head of programming at Starz. he complains how he has to fight and scrape everyday just to stand still.
[14:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database. - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:16] <exec> 08└─The key insight here is that legal != moral and illegal != immoral. Now, it *should* be this way; the law is a tool, a piece of emergent social technology that springs from morals. It is, you might say, the execute branch to the human race's collective legislative branch (morals). The problem is, to...
[14:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database. - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:17] <exec> 08└─NotSanguine, you've misunderstood me before, and here yet again. I was writing in the context that a good, proper society needs police, and they need to be some of the most trustworthy people in society... because, who is going to police the police? Not an easy task, unless and until we have video c...
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[14:28:19] <exec> 08└─Strong stance and I agree on all points. ...Any claim "I shoot him because I felt threatened"...
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[14:28:21] <exec> 08└─Amazing insight and wisdom, as always. My take on it is that the system has become more of a game and the players get caught up in the game play, rules of the game, tweaking the rules, dealmaking, etc. I know someone who recently got caught up in something illegal and knowing the details of the "jus...
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[15:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The SLS Rocket May Have Curbed Development of On-Orbit Refueling for a Decade - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:26] <exec> 08└─After all, if smaller, cheaper rockets could launch rocket fuel and stash it in low-Earth orbit for staged missions to the Moon or beyond, why should NASA spend $2 billion a year annually to develop the SLS rocket?
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[15:23:01] <exec> 08└─Undecided. At the moment it's still a vague aspiration.
[15:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps the article was written 20 years ago and is getting recycled.
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:36] <exec> 08└─Russia and China aren't the ones you shouldn't offend. Ditching the nuclear disarmament agreements isn't a threat for China or Russia. They're already in the mutual annihilation tier. What it does instead is to reinforce the post Georgia and Ukraine impression that that the US won't protect its prox...
[15:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:38] <exec> 08└─Does SN have policy about volunteer admins abusing their powers to dox anonymous cowards?
[15:23:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:50] <exec> 08└─They take cash out of my paycheck every two weeks for 'insurance' that conveniently won't pay for anything I actually need. Which makes it that much harder to save the cash needed. Mandatory insurance only benefits the insurance companies, and their pet politicians.
[15:24:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:03] <exec> 08└─Holy fsck! The price for an ultrasound here is around USD70 walk-in, and this is a generic first-world country where things aren't that cheap in general. An X-ray costs about the same, and the tech was apologetic to me about how high the cost was. Just to clarify that, that's not government-subsidis...
[15:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:03] <exec> 08└─Don't sweat it. English is evolving, after all. Kovfefe!
[15:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:04] <exec> 08└─Ten step, twelve step, just move to Texas, and it's all two-steppin'!
[15:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:06] <exec> 08└─Several of the medical professionals I know just flat quit practicing when Obamacare went through.
[15:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:09] <exec> 08└─Free market capitalism assumes transparency.
[15:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:06] <exec> 08└─Financially bigger than ever, while also less influential than ever. "Kids these days" don't understand that in the 70s, successful TV shows had like 1 in 4 people watching them, very culturally influential because its normal to meet people with similar entertainment backgrounds. Now a days a wildly...
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[15:26:07] <exec> 08└─There's a major typo in the article: As TV viewership declines
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[15:26:36] <exec> 08└─as electricity prices climb and solar prices drop, more people will switch. that will prompt utilities to raise prices more to maintain their revenues. then more people will figure out it's cheaper to switch to solar panels. a smart utility would add capacity to forestall that dynamic, but that woul...
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[15:28:19] <exec> 08└─Durkheim said in order to measure how advanced a society is, look at the things they outlaw. a primitive, disorganized society might outlaw murder, but care less about where you park your car. an advanced one will regulate how you add a deck to your own house. a corollary here might be, you can meas...
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[15:31:18] <exec> 08└─Now you're browser-printing users? Or did DM say he uses palemoon? On topic I did check your link and while the % was higher for lowest earners the extra couple of points is literally cents. Like a full whopping quarter. Now a few % points for mid and top level earners is a massive portion of the lo...
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[16:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Suspends Siri Response Grading in Response to Privacy Concerns - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:26] <exec> 08└─We all strongly want this tech to become usable locally only and kept under individual control. Where is true open source, when we really need it?
[16:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Suspends Siri Response Grading in Response to Privacy Concerns - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:27] <exec> 08└─Bourgeois software cannot help us. We must develop socialist software, licensed with the GPL or compatible (sorry BSD/MIT petite bourgeois fanbois), that can perform these functions. Only then will our privacy be secure.
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[16:22:29] <exec> 08└─I plugged my usb into apple to copy my music pdfs. Instead of copying once, apple duplicated every music pdf over and over until the usb overheated. When I asked Siri she slapped me in the face without a refund.
[16:22:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─I mean, doubleplus good. We all know that opinion polls > peer review of repeatable experiments
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[16:22:55] <exec> 08└─'Zumi refers to irony in your post. If I may, I'll point out just one flavor of that irony. We've had multiple articles posted on SN, regarding worthlessness of many "research" papers. In various discussions, it has been pointed out that many published papers never do get a peer review - along with...
[16:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:57] <exec> 08└─90 years isn't all that long ago, really. I'm 62, and I remember my father's generation, my grandfather's generation, and my great grandfather's generation. That is, I distinctly remember real people who lived through those days. If I were black, if I were from Alabama, then, I may very well have pe...
[16:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:16] <exec> 08└─I like the article, but for me it's a bit more of a literary work than a technical writeup. The html file was last updated in 05/19, but it was created with Microsoft FrontPage 4.0, which is 1997-2003 vintage. He certainly could be still using that software, but it could be a 20-year old project (or...
[16:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:17] <exec> 08└─I suspect that none of you have breathed in the scent of warm Bakelite caked with dust that wafts out the slotted vents on the back of an old CRT TV. My grandmother had the first remote control TV I ever saw. There was a mechanical motor on the dial used to select the channel, and the remote itself...
[16:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:53] <exec> 08└─Might work for South Korea.
[16:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─Have you noticed how quick those free-speech-loving anti-censorship right-wingers are to downmod every post critical of their child-molesting orange god ? I guess amorality and hypocricy go hand-in-hand.
[16:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:57] <exec> 08└─The kingdom paid a very high price [wikipedia.org] for her nuclear arsenal. I would not trivialize it.
[16:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:26] <exec> 08└─Basically all that billing and coding is required by Medicare/Medicaid regulations. They're also why it's so damn hard to get a price upfront. If you look around, you can find physicians that refuse Medicare/Medicaid patients and are willing to operate on a cash basis, and the billing is so much eas...
[16:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that was one of the crazier things I encountered in this process. It was a really weird reaction from the person on the phone when I just asked (innocently) for the codes. She kind of made some noises and then said, "Of course I can't do THAT..." And I said, "Why not? I just need my doctor to...
[16:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:29] <exec> 08└─you should learn how nuclear weapons work before making stupid comments that attempt to be funny
[16:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:31] <exec> 08└─And how much were you compensated for all that time and attention you had to spend on it? Don't shrug and say it was no big deal.
[16:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:34] <exec> 08└─And, you should pull that three foot long stick out of your ass before you presume that I don't know how nukes work. I worked, slept, showered, shit and shaved within the confines of a floating nuke silo for 2 1/2 years. My shipmates and I joked about this shit all the time, thank you very much.
[16:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:36] <exec> 08└─If we do it the science of medicine slows to a trickle and you're all fucked though.
[16:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─Available care and advancements at the pace the US has set cannot be maintained without paying a whopping fuckload more than the US government takes in in taxes every year. Oh, sure, if your little nation is willing to be a parasite and sponge off US innovation you'll be able to get by for a while w...
[16:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:40] <exec> 08└─Nothing's perfect. But Bernie supporter! Them's fighting words!
[16:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oldie but Goodie -- Cartoons in Vintage Tektronix Schematics - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:23] <exec> 08└─Something to do with not being able to copyright a schematic by itself but the cartoons were considered art and therefore copyrightable.
[16:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database. - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:53] <exec> 08└─....stuff
[16:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03crb3 [5919] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASCII Table and History; Or, Why does Ctrl+i Insert a Tab in My Terminal? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:25] <exec> 08└─You're sure it's not just a bunch of BS?
[16:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASCII Table and History; Or, Why does Ctrl+i Insert a Tab in My Terminal? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:27] <exec> 08└─I must confess, You're the one leaking B. S. Into Soylent N. E. W. S. P. S. please redress This excess Of B. S. ;)
[16:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 99% Got a Bigger "Raise" than Previously Estimated - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:55] <exec> 08└─You just have to tell the truth
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[17:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The SLS Rocket May Have Curbed Development of On-Orbit Refueling for a Decade - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─SLS, if it ever flies, will be the most expensive rocket ever. The only reason the program exists is the sweet, sweet pork, and like all pork spending other programs get cut to feed it.
[17:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─After looking over this (including the detailed results, which go on for many pages at the first link the in summary), I'm not sure that this says anything about "science" or "scientists." I'm not sure that the people who conducted this poll know what "science" even is, let alone the general public....
[17:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:00] <exec> 08└─How many of us on SN actually work for the good of society? True probably for the average farmer, teacher, civil engineer, doctor, nurse, firefighter, etc. But I'm not sure I do for my IT job. I work to get paid. What I do does make some people's lives easier and save money for organizations but hon...
[17:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:02] <exec> 08└─As long as it is not destructive then it is for the good of society. If you don't feel enough civic fulfillment you can volunteer, go clean up trash, work on reducing your energy footprint. As techies maybe the best thing we can do is support freedom respecting software. Not only is it better for us...
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─It could all be relative. 90 years is a fairly long time when it comes to science on/with people. It's about three human generations. Which is a fairly long time. That said it might not really be the core issue at hand here. It might be more about how long can you hold a grudge or have beef with som...
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:07] <exec> 08└─Doctors wear the white coat like scientists do in the movies.
[17:23:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 2808 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:21] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem to mention that there was a digital to analog broadcast converted wired into this TV that was manufactured a very long time prior to such easy coaxial connection hookups were made possible, already functioning on the TV at the estate sale. I almost want to think that the author took...
[17:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:28] <exec> 08└─I haven't breathed Bakelite, but the first TV our family had was actually a piece of furniture. It was a big table-sized cabinet, with the TV on the right side, and a radio and stereo record player on the left. It even had a remote control: me.
[17:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:30] <exec> 08└─Where have I heard this before...... Is Tim Curry a personal hero of yours? ;)
[17:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─Only Beaver kids get this.
[17:23:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:54] <exec> 08└─And it does work more often than not.
[17:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:11] <exec> 08└─Russia, yes, Russia relied on the INF and saved money by doing so. They were very disappointed by the withdrawal, so yes, I could see that being the reaction from Russia. China? Yeah, that's less likely. I think they were happy with the INF without being a party to it. But, that doesn't mean this is...
[17:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:12] <exec> 08└─And who has been dox'ed?
[17:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:14] <exec> 08└─Does SN have policy about volunteer admins abusing their powers
[17:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:50] <exec> 08└─Ah, there's muh R&D.
[17:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:52] <exec> 08└─The record has been successfully corrected.
[17:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:29] <exec> 08└─How many will actually have financial losses due to breaches though? I'm talking about fraud and similar. Not OMG I spend 9 hours talking to people. That said I'm not even sure why someone's reimbursement for losses should be capped by this class action. Unless it's some easier payment scheme where...
[17:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database. - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:08] <exec> 08└─Can't help wondering how facial recognition in Asian countries, especially China, compares to facial recognition in the western world. When mostly non-Caucasians are working on the software, surely the software inherits different assumptions and presumptions?
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[18:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Suspends Siri Response Grading in Response to Privacy Concerns - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:39] <exec> 08└─You're copying it wrong!
[18:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The SLS Rocket May Have Curbed Development of On-Orbit Refueling for a Decade - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─"Then-NASA Administrator Charles Bolden also said the agency could not plan its exploration plans around the Falcon Heavy and propellant depots because the SpaceX rocket was not a real rocket. "Let's be very honest again," Bolden said in a 2014 interview. "We don't have a commercially available heav...
[18:23:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 887 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:03] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately most of the people calling themselves scientists these days are something else. I call them "researchers", and I do not trust them. What they do is some mix of cargo culting, p-hacking, and committing strings of logical fallacies so they can conclude whatever gets the most papers publi...
[18:23:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 766 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:09] <exec> 08└─After looking over this (including the detailed results, which go on for many pages at the first link the in summary), I'm not sure that this says anything about "science" or "scientists." I'm not sure that the people who conducted this poll know what "science" even is, let alone the general public....
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─I'm more surprised that about half the people still think journalists are somehow trustworthy and working for the good and betterment of society along with about 1/3 for the politicians.
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─Doctors wear the white coat like scientists do in the movies.
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is one of the things that just makes public discussions so frustrating. People don't even understand the words they're using. You and I may know what 'scientist' means but to the news media and most of the population it's equivalent to 'priest.' You know, they wear white coats and know...
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:21] <exec> 08└─The only thing smarter than a doctor is a doctor with grey hair and glasses.
[18:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:26] <exec> 08└─With everybody getting only ten mod points a day, is that such a problem? If a post is without merit, others can downmod. You're have alluded openly to being able to deanonymize posters due to your position. There is enough partisan hatred on this site that I feel without clear guidance eventually s...
[18:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:28] <exec> 08└─With everybody getting only ten mod points a day, is that such a problem?
[18:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:07] <exec> 08└─Or for-profit prisons, or fire control, or allowing the ex-tobacco industry to dominate the retail grocery supply chain. Good business is where you find it, for as long as you can get away with it, and when it grows to the proportion of for-profit basic healthcare - you may as well be negotiating wi...
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[19:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Technical Side of the Capital One AWS Security Breach - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─Is it on the technical side of things that Capital One, a bank flush with your money, used Someone Else's Computer rather than use in-house expertise (supposing they hadn't laid them off already) and equipment? And when doing so, they did not use Someone Else's Computer for data that was accessible...
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Technical Side of the Capital One AWS Security Breach - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:29] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the greatness of cloud computing, specifically the one of clueless bosses that dance in the hands of commercial agents.
[19:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Technical Side of the Capital One AWS Security Breach - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:31] <exec> 08└─As AC implies: technically, this is about massive lazy greedy corporations shifting liability and hassle off on their little-guy captive customers who can't do anything about it. Technically: it's well known _how_ to secure these things, the problem is that, like pollution reduction in the energy in...
[19:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Suspends Siri Response Grading in Response to Privacy Concerns - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:41] <exec> 08└─I found this list [wikipedia.org] in a few seconds. It might not be prepackaged with shiny marketing and forced updates but I expect there's some libraries there that could be set up with a little effort to do whatever you wish.
[19:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The SLS Rocket May Have Curbed Development of On-Orbit Refueling for a Decade - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:51] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Bridenstine could be doing more, but he seems to have planted the seed of SLS's doom by suggesting that Falcon Heavy could be used for some missions instead. It's up to SpaceX to diligently do the work on Starship on their current fast roadmap and make FH/Starship vs. SLS into an actual poli...
[19:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The SLS Rocket May Have Curbed Development of On-Orbit Refueling for a Decade - 1438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─To expand on this idea: The vast majority of Americans haven't heard of SLS. Many more may have heard of Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy, since launches are live streamed and the Falcon Heavy maiden flight and "Starman" in particular were heavily publicized. Although many people in the know have complained...
[19:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Cruise Explores Carbon Cycle In Deep Ocean In Atlantic - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:01] <exec> 08└─Seriously? That money would be better spent on tax cuts so rich cunts could take cruises in the Bahamas.
[19:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:24] <exec> 08└─If what I work on works no one notices and life goes on. If what I work on did freeze up and die it would probably cause a global recession on at least the scale of what happened in 2008. No stress at all on that one.... A previous job I worked on if that system did not work correctly 911 calls woul...
[19:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:26] <exec> 08└─Look there is ZERO incentive in science to repeat others' work. The funding goes to the shiniest and the most novel. It doesn't matter if it actually works, just make it SHINY. And FAST.
[19:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:28] <exec> 08└─*male
[19:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My First Vintage Television Restoration - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:51] <exec> 08└─I too spent years working as a remote control. For many years we had a 21" colour TV without a remote control. (12 preset channels, yet only four channels existed in the UK!) A Christmas present of a VCR meant relatively little to my brother and myself as young kids, but a pair of Thomas the Tank En...
[19:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:35] <exec> 08└─What American goods? Even iPhones are actually produced in China.
[19:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:15] <exec> 08└─What ticks me off is they do not get this. Adding more middle man, AND gobs more money, and hid all the prices that drove up prices. They like to pretend economics does not exist for them at all. Then they want to pretend my insurance rates have nearly 100x from the early 90s. If I was paying what I...
[19:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 1766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:17] <exec> 08└─Most procedures are fixed cost beforehand. There is a LARGE set of documented procedures on it. They are all pre-priced pre-coded. Walk in X dollars. Cotton swab y dollars. Check for persistent cough z dollars. Test for a b and c, Q dollars. So on and so on. They have at least a ball park of what so...
[19:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oldie but Goodie -- Cartoons in Vintage Tektronix Schematics - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:00] <exec> 08└─There are people starving on the streets and Tektronix wants to beg for monies?
[19:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oldie but Goodie -- Cartoons in Vintage Tektronix Schematics - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:01] <exec> 08└─In this day and age of political correctness, what other companies take a light-hearted look at things and reveal it to the world?
[19:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, You’re Not Getting $125 From the Equifax Settlement, FTC Says - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:57] <exec> 08└─Apparently this court thinks it's worth less than a quarter. Equifax should have gotten the corporate death penalty. Dissolve it, sell the assets, jail the officers. If the FTC is so unwilling to do the job, then it should get the same treatment.
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[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Trust That Scientists Work for the Good of Society is Growing - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─The only reason it could cause a recession is because the economic system is so fragile to begin with (it is basically ponzi scheme bubbles forming on prior ponzi scheme bubbles). Is your software one that is tending to one of these bubbles?
[20:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:33] <exec> 08└─Our brave courageous president has been very effective. For the good of the nation. (the nation of Russia, that is) (and North Korea) Trump has also been helpful for our poor corporations. And a help and inspiration to embolden and empower people who are self-proclaimed Nazis. So self proclaimed tha...
[20:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insured Price: $2,758. Cash Price: $521. Could a Healthcare System be Any More Ridiculous? - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:15] <exec> 08└─You aren't factoring in the shitload of money people currently pay. So yes, M4A costs a ton of money, but the current system does too. A huge chunk of people just don't notice because the money comes straight out of their check, they get subsidies, or they are already on Medicare/Medicaid.
[20:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:16] <exec> 08└─I do sort of vaguely remember TV and Cable TV. But not in recent memory.
[20:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:17] <exec> 08└─I have said it on SN multiple times before that advertising destroys every form of media that it ever touches. Newspaper. Radio. TV. Cable TV. Magazines. DVDs. The Web. Let's not even get into the parasites like email spam or snail mail spam, telemarketing, and robo call scams.
[20:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:19] <exec> 08└─EVERYONE should watch at least 30 seconds of that video.
[20:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Networks Stuff in More Commercials Despite Vows to Cut Back - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:22] <exec> 08└─I remember Cable TV! From some time back. After your 3 minutes of ads, the show comes back on. Then characters and other bugs and junk appear on the screen right over the top of the show you are trying to watch. Sometimes obscuring important content which is critical to the plot.
[20:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:51] <exec> 08└─Isn't that like saying that any science data is from the past, instead of from the present or future? All this climate change data is from the past. Therefore irrelevant. All this medical data is from the past. All this earthquack data is from the past. Etc. What happens in the future is the best pr...
[20:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:52] <exec> 08└─Why don't progressives plug their Teslas into their buildings during power shortages? Teslas get electricity for free.
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