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[00:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:13] <exec> 08└─Back when I was in 20s, I could smell coffee when I am pissing into the urinal. But what's the problem? I had no issue sleeping or palpitating heart or any anomalies.
[00:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:15] <exec> 08└─I drank about 12 cups of coffee per day right after a bad PTSD trigger. I got about 20 minutes of sleep per night for 6 months, then went to the ER twice for tachycardia (180) and wildly swinging BP. Even my shit smelled like Jose's Vanilla nut coffee.
[00:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Record-Setting Transistor - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:24] <exec> 08└─Found a nice comparison chart on page 5 https://www.mmumullana.org [mmumullana.org]
[00:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:42] <exec> 08└─The only really decent thing to do behind a person's back is pat it.
[00:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network - 2176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:14] <exec> 08└─I think China has made some advancements partly because they have focused their attention on innovation while the U.S. innovation has slowed down partly because they have been focused more on litigation. Money spent on litigation is money that could otherwise be spent on innovation. Innovation =! li...
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[00:52:16] <exec> 08└─never sought a patent or copyright
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[01:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:14] <exec> 08└─OK, so we're sincerely curious... Please do tell us about your "PTSD." The Internet must know.
[01:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:15] <exec> 08└─November 8 2016, Trump was elected.
[01:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:17] <exec> 08└─This happens to me as well, though my delivery vehicles tend to be black tea and diet Monster. It's really weird to stand up and realize you've basically just pissed watered-down Mt. Dew...
[01:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:20] <exec> 08└─It's really not even funny and instead just so worn out and exhausting. Technically it would be considered Traumatic Stress Syndrome since "Post" would imply in the past. Please stop trying to steer every topic into something god damn political. I don't want to hear any juvenile remarks about "caffe...
[01:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Record-Setting Transistor - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:31] <exec> 08└─If we had editors who knew some shit (like transistors/solid state physics in this post), summary would make some sense (why this is worth posting).
[01:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:49] <exec> 08└─"Copyright" is playing out to be the wet dream of malware writers needing to keep suckers from seeing what their machine is really being told to do.
[01:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Devices Made Of DNA Detect Cancer With Fewer False Alarms - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:10] <exec> 08└─No mention of "Cyber" nor how "blockchain" can detect cancer, nor Apps, or Docker, IoT, Rust, or how Slack can cure mother fucking cancer. It also makes no mention of how Huawei, TikTok, and systemd are the causes of all cancer.
[01:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:31] <exec> 08└─They add another book to buy and increase profits for WoTC.
[01:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:46] <exec> 08└─Freedom from what? Our government is incompetent, and some actors malicious, but I don't think that we have a global freedom issue. The problem is that most voters are equally stupid and incompetent. Just be glad we aren't burning witches at the stake anymore. There is no boggeyman at the top, just...
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[02:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interstellar Comet Borisov Gets the Close-up Ghostly Glamour Shot It Deserves - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:08] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/605/ [xkcd.com] Extrapolating (observed) interstellar bodies on a collision course with our solar system... could get scary fast. Is Bruce Willis available for another COMET! movie?
[02:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:21] <exec> 08└─Well, GP sure found your trigger. "OMG muh Safe Space!!1111111!!1 Where is muh Safe Space???"
[02:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Record-Setting Transistor - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:32] <exec> 08└─https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.7567/1882-0786/ab3e29 [sci-hub.tw] Talks about characterization and fab process.
[02:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:53] <exec> 08└─I have one video game that I have bought 5 times. The first time it was worth the 30-40 bucks I paid for it. It really is a good game. Over the years I have ended up with this same game in different bundles and whatnot. I did not seek out to buy this game again. Yet the publisher of that game got mo...
[02:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:54] <exec> 08└─it is a shame that groups like this can act they way they do.
[02:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:56] <exec> 08└─They don't force copyright terms so long that it takes two (or is it 3 now?) full generations of people to live and die before anything can enter the public domain.
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[02:49:54] <exec> 08└─Just be glad we aren't burning witches at the stake anymore.
[02:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:55] <exec> 08└─> I'm all in favor of increasing friction applied to those who are increasing their control of power, I think the friction (on people increasing their control of power) should be increased until they get stuck. Wouldn't it be funny to see rich fuckers lined up at the emergency room?
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[03:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interstellar Comet Borisov Gets the Close-up Ghostly Glamour Shot It Deserves - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:11] <exec> 08└─Visitors from BEYOND THE STAAAAAARS!! might be quite common. We are only just now figuring out how to spot them. Unlike husbands which are rare.
[03:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interstellar Comet Borisov Gets the Close-up Ghostly Glamour Shot It Deserves - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:12] <exec> 08└─Unlike husbands which are rare.
[03:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:26] <exec> 08└─Do people in the USA tend to use drugs and medication more than most of those in other developed world countries? How common is it for people in Europe to take alprazolam/xanax or sleep medication?
[03:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:28] <exec> 08└─Free range non-GMO vegan fed human bood - ethically sourced - free trade
[03:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:30] <exec> 08└─Almost had it s/free/fair/
[03:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:16] <exec> 08└─Typical Runaway sub: both redundant and off-topic at the same time. Takes a special kind of stupid to do this. But at least he's keeping the Ari subs off the front page! All alt-right, all the time!
[03:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:18] <exec> 08└─It may be the case that the Soylent Eds are suffering from the ravages of old age. Some admit to having programmed on PDP machines, or used pre-Apple Personal Computers. These are seriously old people. TMB may be the youngest, allegedly clocking in at 56 years old (yeah, he says 40, but that is lik...
[03:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 1636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:04] <exec> 08└─https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/private-foundations/acts-of-self-dealing-by-private-foundation [irs.gov] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] "Self-dealing is the conduct of a trustee, attorney, corporate officer, or other fiduciary that consists of taking advantage o...
[03:51:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:14] <exec> 08└─You now have 15 seconds to comply. You are in direct violation of treats to bot dogs code 1.13, Section 9.
[03:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Shares Mid-Sized Robotic Lunar Lander Concept with Industry - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:34] <exec> 08└─I would think fuel storage for the spheres also. On the solar arrays, there are a few snips on them in the technical document that shed light: Yes, looks like they provide power during descent for the lander as well as initial charging of the rover. I didn't see any obvious to their use post landing...
[03:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Set New Upper Limit On Neutrino Mass - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:01] <exec> 08└─Although I must say that neither GR nor QM have ever been used to make an useful prediction.
[03:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europe Police Agency Hits Islamic State Servers in Blow to Jihadist Publicity - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, maybe the internet is, but the service providers have other ideas, and they are the single point of failure that is very difficult to reroute around. And the server/client nature of the connection is another dependency issue. We need ad hoc networking on the WAN.
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[04:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Interstellar Comet Borisov Gets the Close-up Ghostly Glamour Shot It Deserves - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:14] <exec> 08└─Extrapolating (observed) interstellar bodies on a collision course with our solar system... could get scary fast.
[04:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interstellar Comet Borisov Gets the Close-up Ghostly Glamour Shot It Deserves - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:15] <exec> 08└─It's an interstellar spy masquerading as a mundane Russian spy.
[04:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Interstellar Comet Borisov Gets the Close-up Ghostly Glamour Shot It Deserves - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:18] <exec> 08└─The first successful prediction of an asteroid impact [wikipedia.org] happened in... 2008. We have had some advance warning for 5 impacts so far. Now we have been able to detect 2 interstellar objects entering the solar system since 2017. The next step (besides detecting all of the impactors and mil...
[04:48:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 376 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:50] <exec> 08└─If you ever hear someone talking shit about another person behind their back, you better believe they do it about you the moment you turns yours. Same goes for organisations like this. If they shit-stain anyone "against" them, the moment you aren't a member, expect a hose pointed in your direction....
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[04:48:54] <exec> 08└─"In an era of creative decimation perpetrated by the world's biggest technology companies" Yeah, it's all the tech companies fault. It can't POSSIBLY be the publishers' fault. They don't lock up works, making them harder to access. They don't charge unreasonable fees for things. They don't abuse the...
[04:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:06] <exec> 08└─This ^ 100%. Because of Windows, people are accustomed to downloading indecipherable blobs, and clicking through to get those blobs installed. We can thank Apple as well for that. Some *nix users actually LOOK AT the source. If we can't look at the source, at the least, we almost all download our bl...
[04:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:08] <exec> 08└─Well heh. Bear in mind that a topic like this, 'copyright', enters the mind of one in 1k people. Ever. Maybe even one in 10k people! Most people don't even know what copyright *is*, and could care less if you started to explain it to them. They have other concerns, whatever those may be. Which isn't...
[04:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:51] <exec> 08└─This. Any ‘game’ company that sells a 2nd ed is rent seeking. A pathway to profit for any company that produces nothing but ideas.
[04:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06400-Year-Old Warships in Swedish Channel May be Sisters of Doomed Vasa - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:38] <exec> 08└─Oi, Musky boy, stop it with your hair-brained doped-up visions of inevitably-suicide-missions to mars and beyond, forget your fantasy futures, how about putting some dollar behind preservation of a very real past? (But, please, don't fling any cannon balls at these boats, capisce?)
[04:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Would It Cost to Store All 2018 Phone Calls in Norway? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:40] <exec> 08└─Probably a typo. I'm sure they meant 2048 phone calls (1024 x 2).
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[05:48:10] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just build a little shed for the printer instead? Or was there some specific reason that required the printer to be in a building for which there was no space for it?
[05:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Record-Setting Transistor - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:49] <exec> 08└─Thanks for your insightful commentary.
[05:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Record-Setting Transistor - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:51] <exec> 08└─Well the paper claims it can oscillate at 444GHz, which is pretty damn fast. The graph also shows 10dB of gain at 70GHz!
[05:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:31] <exec> 08└─#BoycottRunawaySubs New hashtag, designed to save the SoylentNews from descent into hillbillydom. If it be a Runaway Sub, do not comment, do not mod, do not do nuffin. 'Cause Runaway be Russian poison. He be Tucker Carlson, as Tucker imagines himself to be a low-life ex-trucker White non-racist mis...
[05:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts State Police Performed Testing with Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog "Spot" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:36] <exec> 08└─It's not a weapon. It's an aggressive sex toy.
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[06:48:13] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't be a little shed. They don't give the length or the model number, but a 4-colour Komori would be upwards of 10 to 15 metres long, and would need plenty of space all round. That's also the reason for: The state-of-the-art printer is described in press reports as being 2.1 metres high and...
[06:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:15] <exec> 08└─Ask legislators to table a motion to build a shed [wikipedia.org]? It may never be completed.
[06:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:17] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be a better idea to sell it to someone else -- hopefully at not too much of a loss -- and go for something else?
[06:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:19] <exec> 08└─Come on now, you are not thinking! They are Irish....!
[06:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:21] <exec> 08└─The whole thing sounds like a PHB got the measurements and never considered that the operators would need to work around and over the machine.
[06:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:23] <exec> 08└─Well the headline alone tells you that: Irish parliament counts cost of €1m printer error
[06:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:26] <exec> 08└─So the tender was for: "a four-colour printing press, folding machines, guillotines and the installation and maintenance of same" And they got: "The printer cost €808,000. A plate-making machine cost over €100,000 as did a folding machine. In addition, the cost allotted for a guillotine (to cut...
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[06:49:31] <exec> 08└─I like "The Facts Illustrated" page on their site. It contains no facts, really.
[06:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:49] <exec> 08└─You may not have noticed that it is Thanksgiving Day in the USA, followed by Black Friday. Many Americans are celebrating or shopping. I have just edited 15 consecutive stories single handedly and I expect to do a lot more this over this weekend. There are also fewer high quality stories submission...
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[06:49:50] <exec> 08└─Some admit to having programmed on PDP machines, or used pre-Apple Personal Computers. These are seriously old people.
[06:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 2113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:39] <exec> 08└─There are a seemingly never-ending number of problems with centralized DNS. And it's so absurdly easy to fix, but we're all just so g'damn lazy when there's no money in it. DNS, in particular, is like the ideal dream fantasy scenario for something that decentralization takes care of in such a nice w...
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[07:48:22] <exec> 08└─You usually hear projects going double or triple over budget.
[07:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Record-Setting Transistor - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:04] <exec> 08└─The summary makes enough sense as it is. Anyway, it doesn't really matter, from looking at other scientific posts most SN posters would rather do stuff like make silly posts about the transistor self-identifying as a diode than actually post something related to the topic. Maybe because they're like...
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[07:49:05] <exec> 08└─Summary is decent - improved transistor with low leakage, high frequency. I suppose it tested better than old GaAs transistors. You've done good, jan, and my comment sucked.
[07:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:31] <exec> 08└─They're trying to sound sarcastic like da millennials, and failing hard. FTFY In the original form, it suggests da millennials succeed in being sarcastic. If you believe that, you have a serious sarcasm impairment.
[07:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:33] <exec> 08└─Bottom line, used-to-be-useful-now-just-plain-idiots in the act of burning bridges. Nothing to see here.
[07:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:35] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you need your fix.
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[08:48:08] <exec> 08└─I am rarely nationalist but I have to say that *certain* elements from wartime really show you what you can do when your resources are stretched or limited, and certain decisions really made an impact - that we're still talking about them to this day. Who, in the middle of the worst modern war ever...
[08:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:53] <exec> 08└─How many aristarchus submissions have you personally killed, janrinok? I expect something like the stickers on Brit fighters bragging about enemy kills. How many, janrinock? One thousand? Two thousand? The entire 6800 rejected aristarchus submissions? No, that could not be you alone. But with the en...
[08:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:55] <exec> 08└─How many of those that I have killed have not been written in English, but rather German, Dutch, French or whatever? This is an English language site. How many of those that I have killed have been repetitive submissions about the alt-right, with nothing new to say at all? Who has posted the few sub...
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[08:49:57] <exec> 08└─So you are advocating that we suppress the speech of those that you do not agree with? That isn't going to happen. If you cannot argue against the topic under discussion it indicates a lack of intelligence on your part, not on the part of the submitter.
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[09:48:33] <exec> 08└─It doesn't just sound like it, it is a full scale 4-colour offset press. Deimos says below that "A plate-making machine cost over €100,000". You don't need one of those unless it is offset. Conversely, were they planning to start a publishing business inside the Irish parliament?
[09:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:35] <exec> 08└─Frederick William I, king in Brandenburg Prussia, used to call his bureaucrats ink-sh*tters. That was the country that invented (literally) "red tape".
[09:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:04] <exec> 08└─Theoretically, one is not supposed to donate blood if they have taken any kind of medication (even aspirin), was sick, or has gone to the dentist during the previous week. In Greece, one has to fill in a rather extensive checklist about one's medical history before donating, and the supervising doct...
[09:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:48] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you need your fix.
[09:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:49] <exec> 08└─Is it here yet? Should be any minute now. I'm tired of waiting.
[09:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dungeons & Dragons 5e Adds Psionics - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:40] <exec> 08└─In 3.5 it also allowed to bury spell slots for good and augment powers on the fly, which was awesome.
[09:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:19] <exec> 08└─Wake me up when the Democrats retake the Senate.
[09:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400-Year-Old Warships in Swedish Channel May be Sisters of Doomed Vasa - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:30] <exec> 08└─Neither of us will be alive long enough to find out if that's the case. I find all such discussion to be nothing but hubris on the part of the "we can do this" brigade. If we can't survive on a planet that's literally perfect for us, how on earth will we survive on a planet that's literally perfect...
[09:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook And Twitter Profiles Silently Slurped By Shady Code - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:48] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that Facebook et al should not be letting users access their own data via an API? If hypothetically I used Facebook, I would like to access my data via an API, including giving applications of my choosing access to that data. Clearly Facebook should have done the responsible thing an...
[09:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook And Twitter Profiles Silently Slurped By Shady Code - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:49] <exec> 08└─If users permit code to access their own data, the user should be liable for it. These assholes want the best of all possible worlds, in which they can explicitly authorize arbitrary untrusted third parties to access their data freely and not have their data abused.
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[10:49:01] <exec> 08└─The US has very lax controls over almost everything. Stuff that wouldn't even be suitable as pet food here is fit for human consumption over there. (Stuff doped with atrazine, rBGH, etc.)
[10:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:09] <exec> 08└─Watch your salt intake there, starchy.
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[11:48:09] <exec> 08└─They were the best in the business, now what?
[11:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Internet Access to Be Acquired by Kape - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:10] <exec> 08└─I've been using them for years, so now it's probably time to start looking for services to migrate to. Any suggestions?
[11:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:36] <exec> 08└─Wow. Just wow. Found this link [thejournal.ie] which gives the details, it's a Komori GL-429, 7.3 metres long, 2.68 wide, 2.1 high, with minimum space requirements 12m long, 5.8m wide, and 2.5m high. Many governments have an official government printing/publishing office, typically located in purpos...
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[11:48:37] <exec> 08└─the cost allotted for a guillotine (to cut paper)
[11:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:08] <exec> 08└─Theoretically, one is not supposed to donate blood if they have taken any kind of medication (even aspirin), was sick, or has gone to the dentist during the previous week. In Greece, one has to fill in a rather extensive checklist about one's medical history before donating, and the supervising doct...
[11:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:05] <exec> 08└─Is this a case of it?
[11:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:06] <exec> 08└─There are a seemingly never-ending number of problems with centralized DNS.
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[12:48:44] <exec> 08└─Heck yeah! I certainly looks like the speck in your neighbor's eye versus the $163 billion over budget, seven years behind schedule [politico.com] $406B development, $1.5T lifetime total [wikipedia.org] F-35 in your eye.
[12:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interstellar Comet Borisov Gets the Close-up Ghostly Glamour Shot It Deserves - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:57] <exec> 08└─Unlike husbands which are rare.
[12:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Record-Setting Transistor - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:32] <exec> 08└─i hope she doesn't "accidentally" hang herself from her toilet ...
[12:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:03] <exec> 08└─If they hadn't taught people to blindly do whatever software told them to do, no one would use MSOffice
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[12:51:48] <exec> 08└─Neither of us will be alive long enough to find out if that's the case. I find all such discussion to be nothing but hubris on the part of the "we can do this" brigade.
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[13:48:11] <exec> 08└─What an absurdly wrong submission. This appears to be the fault of the submitter, the paper in question doesn't appear to use either of those keywords. The subjects of the study were rat embryos. I couldn't make this stuff up, it's too absurd to be believable.
[13:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Babies in the Womb May See More Than We Thought - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:12] <exec> 08└─Abortion supporter found.
[13:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Internet Access to Be Acquired by Kape - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:22] <exec> 08└─https://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-services-keep-you-anonymous-in-2019/ [torrentfreak.com]
[13:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Internet Access to Be Acquired by Kape - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:24] <exec> 08└─I have been using AirVPN [airvpn.org] for years, and I warmly recommend them because: 1) Excellent Linux support 2) Free Libre open source client 3) Good attitude toward privacy 4) Lots of options for circumventing asshats that block VPNs - they even support VPN over Tor (not just Tor over VPN) 5) L...
[13:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interstellar Comet Borisov Gets the Close-up Ghostly Glamour Shot It Deserves - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:05] <exec> 08└─Now we have been able lucky to detect 2 interstellar objects entering the solar system since 2017.
[13:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:25] <exec> 08└─Technically it would be considered Traumatic Stress Syndrome since "Post" would imply in the past.
[13:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:26] <exec> 08└─That is incorrect. The current implementation of DNS is 100% centralized under ICANN which in turn oversees about a dozen centralized "authorized" servers for name resolution. It's the reason that domains, which are little more than an entry in a database no larger than the average users could store...
[13:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:28] <exec> 08└─e.g. Imagine if Facebook charged $0.01 per month for access. Anybody anywhere could afford that quite trivially, yet they'd nonetheless lose hundreds of millions of users. The barrier to entry is not the cost itself, but setting up the payment method itself and then persisting it. Imagine an interne...
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[13:52:00] <exec> 08└─And funny how all such discussion of the alleged pointlessness of the exercise comes from the "we can't do this" brigade.
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[14:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:08] <exec> 08└─and who cares? If people want to have kids, they can have kids. If they don't, they don't.
[14:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:09] <exec> 08└─Seems like we're bummed out, lost the will to live as it were. https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] drop driven by higher death rates among people in the prime of life... dying from so-called deaths of despair: drug overdoses, alcoholism and suicide.
[14:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Babies in the Womb May See More Than We Thought - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:19] <exec> 08└─But what do they actually see (not even touching on the subject if they can comprehend or make sense of what they "see")? Is that like being in one of them Matrix-tubes? It most be mostly like floating in some kind of sensory deprivation tank filled with reddish amniotic fluids. Sometimes there are...
[14:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Internet Access to Be Acquired by Kape - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:29] <exec> 08└─it's not certain whether the Black Friday campaign will happen this year
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[14:49:12] <exec> 08└─We've had telescopes for hundreds of years, and a pretty good grasp on orbital mechanics and escape velocity for at least a hundred...
[14:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbernardo [300] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group "CreativeFuture" After Criticism of EFF's New Board Chair - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:20] <exec> 08└─Everyone seems to be ignoring the interesting part in this. Out of this fight between creativefuture and Microsoft emerges that the new chair of the EFF is a Microsoft employee. So, suddenly it is clear who was behind the campaign against Stallman. This is the important information on all this, the...
[14:51:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 1478 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:23] <exec> 08└─Check out the movie The Public, the public kicked out of the public library Public is being kicked off the internet, only government and corp is left, and no one can tell the difference. 100 brain slugs could take over the planet by 2022 at this rate if they play their cards right. It is not a rando...
[14:51:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06As Pressure Builds Over .Org Sell-Off, Internet Governance Orgs Remains Silent - 1537 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:26] <exec> 08└─I have some issues though. Eliminating inheritance is denial of service attack to the unit called family. Sure the firstborn takes all was unfair, but it worked to prevent atomization and ultimately dissolution of wealth. Privacy: a fully transparent society is what technology would enable us to do....
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[15:48:12] <exec> 08└─The people who are complaining about overpopulation and such should be overjoyed by this news. Especially since Americans on average use far more resources than people of other nations. And it's also a strong sign that people aren't having kids they can't afford to have, and are taking advantage of...
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[15:48:14] <exec> 08└─> people aren't having kids they can't afford to have Additional possible reasons that they aren't having kids: - They don't see any way that a kid born today could have it better than the parents (many aspects--money, class, etc). - Possible infertility from recreational drug use - The who...
[15:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:16] <exec> 08└─The meth heads, crackheads, and trailer trash country bumpkins keep popping them out. They're the ones that need to turn the cable back on and sit down somewhere.
[15:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:18] <exec> 08└─As it turned out, even dummies can figure out sex is dope.
[15:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:20] <exec> 08└─Those who are invested in the Ponzi scheme care. They need to find suckers to pay for their old age. Even Ayn Rand died on welfare.
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[15:48:23] <exec> 08└─I am pleasantly surprised, if this is true. 20 years ago, American families had as a matter of course put out three children, even as the writing was on the wall that good jobs would become scarce and advancement opportunities limited. Other developed countries have long before transitioned to about...
[15:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:25] <exec> 08└─A good solution to that is to worsen health-care such that infant mortality and death in childbirth ramp back up to historical levels. Oh, looks like you've already worked that bit out.
[15:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Babies in the Womb May See More Than We Thought - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:36] <exec> 08└─I'll ask him tomorrow. My sixth grandchild will be born by the end of the day.....(:
[15:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Babies in the Womb May See More Than We Thought - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:38] <exec> 08└─Gz. So I should expect a prompt answer in about six to seven years or so then, or longer.
[15:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dambusting, R/C Style - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:56] <exec> 08└─But if we won, and don't get "tried", was it really a war crime?
[15:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:53] <exec> 08└─Aspirin is not allowed for 48 hours to donating blood since it disqualifies the blood for platelet use. I simply don't take any aspiring or at least 48 hours before donating. Most blood donations are not used in while blood transfusions. It's components are used.
[15:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Takes Another Stab at Privacy Law With Proposed COPRA Bill - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:04] <exec> 08└─What a strange community we are. The dupe gets more comments than the original. True, few of them are anything to do with the topic in question, but at least some people are enjoying it.
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[15:52:31] <exec> 08└─> The "we can do this" brigade has answers, if you're willing to listen. I guess I've listened to over 50 hours of this guy: https://www.youtube.com You'd agree he's in the "we can do this camp", I hope? I still think it's idealistic, blue-sky thinking, and to be per...
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[15:52:32] <exec> 08└─Do you not think "we can't do this" is the strongest argument for pointlessness? What would you say was a stronger argument for pointlessness, I'm genuinely curious how your mind works.
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[15:52:51] <exec> 08└─No, I'm saying that at all. I'm saying that there should be finer grained access rights, that's all, it shouldn't be all or nothing. And those rights should be primarily at the behest of the user. I'm not saying it's a good example, as it's implemented terribly, but it's at least an example of restr...
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[16:48:11] <exec> 08└─Weird, female ceo's earn 75 cents on the dollar so should increase the company price at least by 25%
[16:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:12] <exec> 08└─Only if the CEO is 100% of total wage bill - i.e. only if a one-person company. They are not usually listed.
[16:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:14] <exec> 08└─Clash of cultural paradigms is always fun. Well, this kind of bias is quite usable for subtle market manipulation without risk of statutory backfire.
[16:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:30] <exec> 08└─Evidence?
[16:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:31] <exec> 08└─Investing in children is the biggest ponzi scheme, adam and abraham are overflowing with cash rn, if only church fathers didn't invest so much clergy celibacy wouldn't be a thing, who knows maybe it would even solve the incel problem
[16:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 2390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:33] <exec> 08└─Think about every single child currently being born. They are largely all buy a ticket in the genetic lottery. Fertility rates determine the odds in that lottery which, in turn, determines what conditions these children will be born into and also plays a disproportionate roles in what their outcomes...
[16:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:36] <exec> 08└─Can't imagine why people would even want to have kids, when 30 years from now the only job position their kids will have available to them is as the main ingredient of soylent green.
[16:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:38] <exec> 08└─This just in: Donald Trump causes sterility!
[16:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:40] <exec> 08└─Muh collapse and apocalypse coming any day now! 2000 year old tradition with some who started it (jesus) being still the most worshipped overall after all these years. Eat bugs, stop sexing! Queue in carlin: earth doesn't give a fuck, stop saving the planet, worry about your species. Neither greta o...
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[16:48:53] <exec> 08└─Rats! Foiled Again.
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[16:49:05] <exec> 08└─If the have it, is the android client any good?
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[16:49:25] <exec> 08└─The whole thing sounds like a PHB got the measurements and never considered that the operators would need to work around and over the machine.
[16:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:34] <exec> 08└─this is the pervasive message. You, the human, are at the mercy of your government and other aggregations of power. Government only exists because we pay for it - and they make sure we do. There are 4 ways to spend money. 1) You spend your money on yourself, and you strive for the best result. 2) Yo...
[16:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Love Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Soft Drinks So Much, Caffeine is Literally in Our Blood - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:11] <exec> 08└─You can never understand how bad PTSD can be unless you experience it yourself.
[16:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06400-Year-Old Warships in Swedish Channel May be Sisters of Doomed Vasa - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:52] <exec> 08└─if we pretend that we don't have to scale them up by 12 orders of magnitude
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[16:52:54] <exec> 08└─Do you not think "we can't do this" is the strongest argument for pointlessness?
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[17:48:13] <exec> 08└─A company that made Sandwiches?
[17:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 1445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:15] <exec> 08└─The """""market""""" values what its controllers tell it to value. This is why sexism is demonstrable from a systemic level and is systematically prevalent throughout societies. Women earn less than men because people in a capitalist society value capital more than human life. The reason for the gen...
[17:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:17] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. Seriously, citation needed. Some fly-by-night small business might be getting by with that nonsense today, and some relatively small corporations. Larger corporations listed on the exchanges are being scrutinized by half a zillion neb-noses. I don't think you'll find many credible c...
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[17:48:19] <exec> 08└─learn from ancient wisdom, you bunch of barbarians donning statistical clubs: "chi dice donna dice danno"
[17:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:21] <exec> 08└─1) if you are shuffling around board members, there is trouble behind it and your stock is likely in for a decline. 2) if your primary selection criteria are not the skill-set needed for a job, you will tend towards reduced performance due to selecting people less capable in the position. A few h...
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[17:48:23] <exec> 08└─Et chi dice traduttore dice traditore. Samma sak.
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[17:48:26] <exec> 08└─>grow the f*ck up and stop thinking that money (capital) is how to value everything this hasn't been the case until after the industrial revolution and its ideologies, red/black socialism. "Capital", redistribution, property. Opposed to the one dimensional society, or a mere component of it?
[17:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:28] <exec> 08└─Also, did you know that US highway deaths decrease when more Mexican lemons are imported? https://pubs.acs.org [acs.org]
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[17:48:30] <exec> 08└─qui si tradisce per tradizione.
[17:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 2480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:51] <exec> 08└─The effect there is going to be negligible. The article mentions the death change per 100k going from 328.5 to 348.2 and that's for everybody age 25-64, so a good chunk of those deaths are well beyond fertility dates. So maybe an increase of ~10 people per 100k or, in other words, [literally] 99.99%...
[17:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's really puzzling, inexplicable, how making it artificially expensive to have kids is making it less popular to have kids. Also https://www.youtube.com
[17:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:55] <exec> 08└─Too many women on company boards [soylentnews.org]
[17:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:57] <exec> 08└─https://www.telegraph.co.uk/china-watch/society/china-birth-rate-fall/ [telegraph.co.uk] https://www.russiamatters.org [russiamatters.org] Most of the OECD has similar figures.
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[17:48:59] <exec> 08└─I don't understand how people don't see the natural corollary of their own views. Can't you see what happens when one group stops procreating while another group continues pumping out the babies? And due to the nature of reproduction where 2.0 is the baseline, even relatively small differences have...
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[17:49:01] <exec> 08└─Automation is proportional to a population. All automation will do is increasing the effective productivity rate. So perhaps today it takes 1 person working to generate the basic goods and services to provide for 3 other people, meaning you need at least 25% labor participation just to keep society...
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[17:49:04] <exec> 08└─US Birth rate vs Income [statista.com] Those earning $10k per year pump out 50% more babies than those earning $200k per year. The really disconcerting thing is that the relationship in the incomes in between is damn near perfectly linear. We've created quite a dysfunctional society. Now the next ge...
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[17:49:06] <exec> 08└─"I don't understand how people don't see the natural corollary of their own views. Can't you see what happens when one group stops procreating while another group continues pumping out the babies? And due to the nature of reproduction where 2.0 is the baseline, even relatively small differences have...
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[17:49:08] <exec> 08└─They're expecting the state to provide. The state has gone to great lengths, legal and extralegal, for a long time to condition them to do so. Hate the game not the player.
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[17:49:21] <exec> 08└─They see London, France, and China.
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[17:49:22] <exec> 08└─I'll ask him tomorrow. My sixth grandchild will be born by the end of the day.....(:
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[17:49:35] <exec> 08└─Everything about PIA seems too perfect. I wiresharked their mac application phoning home for telemetry, spraying to ip addresses all over, try it for yourself. I do not see how this helps the vpn service, the same telemetry that determines the optimal routing identifies my location by definition. I...
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[17:49:36] <exec> 08└─oh and virginia is pretty pretty dicey networking territory also... I mean the reasoning to open vpn packets is the same to open mail, you are not allowed to have secrets, plebe.
[17:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dambusting, R/C Style - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:47] <exec> 08└─While it may be cherry picking, I don't see the failures as casting a bad light. After all, even failures contribute to knowledge. With that said was there a failed project somewhere that led to the 'mad' idea of the bouncing bomb?
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[17:52:52] <exec> 08└─I do not support eliminating inheritance, I don't know where you got that. Privacy is a difficult balancing act, but we must make that effort, or we will get none. And with no privacy none of the other rights exist either, especially not to an inheritance, lol you prole.
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[17:53:30] <exec> 08└─To elaborate, what makes something possible? We've already demonstrated that one can land people on another body and we've landed mass on Mars. Landing people on Mars is physically merely landing more mass on Mars (certainly not twelve orders of magnitude more mass). We already demonstrated that we...
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[17:53:32] <exec> 08└─The Bayesian prior is that it's true. The evidence to change that is nothing. The Bayesian posterior is therefore that it's true too. Show me the evidence, the posterior will change.
[17:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06400-Year-Old Warships in Swedish Channel May be Sisters of Doomed Vasa - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:34] <exec> 08└─If you think the problem is "getting a man to mars and back" then you've underestimated the futurists goals by many orders of magnitude. That's jumping out of a tree and claiming you can fly. Oh, and getting a man to mars is pointless. Well done, you climbed a tree and jumped out. Now what? It's the...
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[17:53:36] <exec> 08└─>> 12 orders of magnitude > What has to be scaled up that much? Material for a sky hook or elevator. Remember to engineer into your numbers the fact that it *must not fail*.
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[17:53:56] <exec> 08└─Thank you, here, my latest meme you inspired: https://coinsh.red [coinsh.red] (archive.is is offline at the moment lmk if you can't get this) 'ranting done right' might be the nicest thing a stranger has ever said to me lol You might like my webs...
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[17:53:58] <exec> 08└─explicitly authorize arbitrary untrusted third parties
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[18:48:26] <exec> 08└─Found the pdf [iup.edu].
[18:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:28] <exec> 08└─*Qui* si tradisce per tradizione? ¿Aquí se traiciona por tradición? Vad fan säger du?
[18:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:30] <exec> 08└─Clash of cultural paradigms is always fun. Well, yeah, women and invisible hands. The president's hands are almost invisible, you know, very small. I hope people don't think badly of me for bringing it up.
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[18:48:32] <exec> 08└─Sudo®.Inc
[18:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:34] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, the pay simply reflects the stock performance as it is supposed to be by the current theory; right or wrong.
[18:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:36] <exec> 08└─Last week I attended a course sponsored by my company (IT infrastructure related course; large international co). Typically it would cost $1000 per seat per day. It was free for us and yes, useful. There were 50 seats (yes, $50K for the event). Two of them were occupied by females. The promotion lat...
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[18:49:08] <exec> 08└─So perhaps today it takes 1 person working to generate the basic goods and services to provide for 3 other people, meaning you need at least 25% labor participation just to keep society churning. Automation will simply change that to e.g. it taking 1 person to generate the basic goods and services f...
[18:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:10] <exec> 08└─Can't you see what happens when one group stops procreating while another group continues pumping out the babies? (numbers)
[18:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:12] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agreed. And no I hold nothing whatsoever against the people taking advantage of the system. I think any system that is to truly stand the test of time should take, as an assumption, the worst of humanity. That's not because I think we are inherently evil, which I do not believe at all, bu...
[18:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:14] <exec> 08└─While I can't say I agree with you, I have immense respect for your honesty. I think if all people spoke similarly we'd be a million times better off as a nation because there would be no pretext.
[18:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:16] <exec> 08└─Also it turns out 'rich folk' can be bigoted assholes too!
[18:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Babies in the Womb May See More Than We Thought - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:31] <exec> 08└─featureless diffuse red light, I'd guess
[18:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Internet Access to Be Acquired by Kape - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:46] <exec> 08└─They have an Android client, but since I don't own any Android devices I can't comment on how good it is. If you want to try before you buy, they do offer a 3 day free trial.
[18:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Record-Setting Transistor - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:11] <exec> 08└─...using gallium nitride (GaN) with indium aluminum-nitride as the barrier on a silicon substrate.... Well obviously. I would love to write about how you come to this conclusion, this combination is the golden formula. Did they randomly try every combination? Or was it more of a tuning process? I am...
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[19:48:38] <exec> 08└─Conversely. one of the advantages Western civilization has over Middle Eastern is that we approach twice the productive capacity per unit population.
[19:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:16] <exec> 08└─Why don't you just say "niggers?" We all know that's what you mean, and yes, you do mean that specific word. What is it with you assholes and being too chickenshit to put out there in plain language what you're actually saying? It's not like you fool anyone. Besides which, you're wrong anyway: these...
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[19:49:17] <exec> 08└─And your alternative is class-stratified genocide?
[19:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Babies in the Womb May See More Than We Thought - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:33] <exec> 08└─Why is it the people most against abortion are the best examples of why it should remain legal?
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[19:50:21] <exec> 08└─versus the $163 billion over budget, seven years behind schedule [politico.com] $406B development, $1.5T lifetime total [wikipedia.org] F-35 in your eye.
[19:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:22] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant. Once they get it running, they can print more money :-) After all, that's the gubbiment. The solution to every problem is "print more money." Besides, what's the big deal over a printer error.
[19:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:24] <exec> 08└─Trump == #3
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[19:50:26] <exec> 08└─I think you misread that. The size is the Komori but the space requirement was from the tender specs, not the press. There is no way you could run a press like that with only 40cm of headroom, and that's not enough space around it either.
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[19:50:42] <exec> 08└─True, but the couple we have spotted are small, fast, and appear in places that we haven't really been looking.
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[19:53:54] <exec> 08└─Material for a sky hook or elevator.
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[20:48:13] <exec> 08└─Having coons for dinner? How white of you!
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[20:48:15] <exec> 08└─Thanos was cursed with the knowledge of Falcon feasting on a raccoon corpse.
[20:48:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 1445 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:26] <exec> 08└─The """""market""""" values what its controllers tell it to value. This is why sexism is demonstrable from a systemic level and is systematically prevalent throughout societies. Women earn less than men because people in a capitalist society value capital more than human life. The reason for the gen...
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[20:48:32] <exec> 08└─Also, did you know that US highway deaths decrease when more Mexican lemons are imported? https://pubs.acs.org [acs.org]
[20:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 2193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:43] <exec> 08└─Equality is an annoying word when used as a general descriptor, because it can mean two radically different things: - Equality of results = you'd have equal genital distribution, equal skin color distribution, equal sexuality distribution, equal weight distribtuion, equal height distribution, eq...
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[20:48:45] <exec> 08└─CEOs aren't necessarily board members. The board of directors hires the CEO. Start-ups and other companies where the founder(s) are still involved have better odds of a board member being the CEO, but it's not guaranteed.
[20:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:47] <exec> 08└─What skill set is needed to fill a chair on the board of directors? Directors do long term and general planning. Any details are handled by the C-suite, CEO, CFO, etc..
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[20:48:49] <exec> 08└─The beauty of markets is that they're not driven by what they're told, but by self interest. You see apples on the market selling for $10/piece. You know you can grow apples for cheaper. And so you do. You start producing tons of apples and selling them for $2 per piece. The price of apples plummets...
[20:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:51] <exec> 08└─Well written. Turns out that many companies who seek to embrace equality by any means could actually be doing their shareholders a disservice. But hey, we thought equality of outcome was a guaranteed fast track to utopia! What happened?
[20:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:54] <exec> 08└─Equality of results = you'd have equal genital distribution
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[20:49:33] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, you just echoed the main point of the El Paso shooter
[20:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:34] <exec> 08└─Historically, yes. But there is a saturation point. You can only eat so much food, drive so many cars, and watch so many screens before you say "I don't want any more". Currently we average what, 30 or 40 years of work per person? Hell, add unemployment and extra schooling, unemployables, etc. and c...
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[20:49:37] <exec> 08└─> Can't you see what happens when one group stops procreating while another group continues pumping out the babies? What typically happens in USA (a nation of immigrants) is that after a few generations, these "groups" start to intermarry and have kids, and the hard group lines slowly dissolve. As w...
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[20:50:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it did seem a bit... optimistic, thus the comment that I'd expect to see one in a warehouse-sized space. The report from the inquiry will make interesting reading :-).
[20:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Irish Parliament Counts Cost of €1m Printer Error - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:43] <exec> 08└─True, it never bothered the Grauniad. Still, it'd be interesting to see what happens with "lp0 on fire" in Leinster House.
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[21:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawmakers Suggest Apple May be Using Privacy 'as a Shield for Anti-Competitive Behavior’ - 1834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:09] <exec> 08└─Those third party apps are the least trustworthy with your data. You can be pretty much guaranteed that all those Apps that fleeting ask for location permission so they can 'tag a photo', 'better target ads' or 'localise your service', will sell your data at the drop of a hat. At least Apple is a si...
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[21:48:18] <exec> 08└─Luring, baiting with drugs, capturing, and eating Black People?! It's not like we're Adam Schiff and Ed Buck or anything.
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[21:48:20] <exec> 08└─it's what's for dinner!
[21:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 2158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:52] <exec> 08└─The reason for the 'gender pay gap' is careful manipulation of statistics. As soon as you normalize for obvious factors, you find that in the large majority of carriers women get paid on average more. You must adjust for such things as experience and qualification in the job, hours worked, time spen...
[21:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:54] <exec> 08└─Actually, the whole article shows what we've always known to be true - the stock market is irrational. In a rational market, if the performance doesn't change, the value shouldn't either. The lesson is - buy stock in companies headed by women. The company is undervalued versus the underlying perfor...
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[21:48:56] <exec> 08└─Sure, go ahead and grow some apples, self publish your album or indie code your killer app. There are reasons startups only exist to get bought out and every artist sells their soul. Whales exist and fuck with the market. The average citizen has a pitiful disposable capital, most of their wealth is...
[21:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:58] <exec> 08└─One is that women tend to have children and by choice or pressure end up being primary care givers.
[21:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:00] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>And all the man-children of SN--including the gamer-gates and the MGTOW crowd--cried out in unison "Alleluia, amen!"</sarcasm> It figures that this one was submitted by that Runaway dude. Is anyone surprised?
[21:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:03] <exec> 08└─So half as many jobs available. Got it. Because distributing the work via a shorter work week would be socialist.
[21:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:05] <exec> 08└─The beauty of markets is that they're not driven by what they're told, but by self interest.
[21:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:07] <exec> 08└─"They are biased a little bit against assholes, but, alas, asocial assholes are not a protected class of people." So, they fired you, huh?
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[21:49:09] <exec> 08└─A few months ago the corporate board came by for a visit. In a group of around 20 people, only one was a lady and who knew if she was actually serving her purpose. Being well-mannered, I told them all on their way out, "Good afternoon, gentlemen," while the lone woman added, "...And Lady!" as I apol...
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[21:49:11] <exec> 08└─All companies large enough to have boards are all ridiculously overvalued, and don't forget that stock and other imaginary incantations that others think is money need a serious correction. As much as I don't regret voting for Trump, everytime I hear "how well the economy's doing" I know it's comple...
[21:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:54] <exec> 08└─Can't you see what happens when one group stops procreating while another group continues pumping out the babies?
[21:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Babies in the Womb May See More Than We Thought - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:11] <exec> 08└─Thank you. It's one of the true joys of aging.
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[21:50:12] <exec> 08└─.what the help is that thing pumping in and out of mommy?????
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[21:51:05] <exec> 08└─Seems like kickbacks scam. I can't imagine why the irish parliament would need such a printer. What are they going to do with it? print money?
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[21:51:44] <exec> 08└─I take an anti-arthritis drug named "Remicade". It's very effective. However it has to be given as an infusion (IV drip over 2.5 hours), by a nurse, with a doctor available. Because introducing it faster can cause anaphylactic shock. My doctor told me I should not donate blood, because the residue o...
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[22:49:00] <exec> 08└─The beauty of markets is that they're not driven by what they're told, but by self interest.
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[22:49:05] <exec> 08└─Prop 47, decriminalization of HIV infection and public defecation have to be tolerated so the state can focus on serious crimes like not enacting Stalinesque diversity quotas. Commiefornia yes!
[22:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:07] <exec> 08└─Wait, why wouldn't slavery be economically efficient? You have full time employees, you have to pay them a living wage, whether or not the standards of living their wage can afford is acceptable is another debate but they must afford rent, food and taxes. Without even considering the fact that you c...
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[22:49:50] <exec> 08└─They don't want White babies because White people demand higher standards of living and want to do more with their lives than be consumerist debt slaves. That's why they bring in the culturally inferior who are willing to live packed into housing like clown cars. Put it this way: a Jewish property o...
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[22:49:51] <exec> 08└─This is by design. Anybody who tells you that this is the "new normal" are fatcats pissing on your heads and telling you it's raining. I would be a lot more likely to believe their narrative if income inequality wasn't so goddamn obscene.
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[22:54:31] <exec> 08└─> Tens of millions of larger rockets would do Glad to see you accepting that at least 7 orders of magnitude are required, even if not doing the more energy-efficient thing, that's a start. Where's your rocket fuel coming from? No, the other 99.99999% of it.
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[23:48:09] <exec> 08└─I see kids everywhere with their phones in their back pockets. Don't they break when they sit on them? Of course I keep my phone in my shirt pocket.
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[23:48:10] <exec> 08└─Straight to the face when holding it to your head. Also a funny fact, companies in the industry make human head-shaped dummy loads specifically for the purpose of determining the energy absorption pattern into the human head.
[23:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:11] <exec> 08└─Then how do you explain the pay gap for women who never have children? Same number of years of experience. Same career objectives as men, so your theory is just more patriarchal bs.
[23:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 3480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:12] <exec> 08└─If women were more likely than men to considered broader concerns and externalities, like employee health and happiness, corporate longevity, research innovation, environmental concerns, information security, or customer satisfaction, all of those might incur short-term costs that could potentially...
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[23:49:14] <exec> 08└─By definition money is used to 'value' (many) things
[23:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:16] <exec> 08└─Because distributing the work via a shorter work week would be socialist.
[23:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Company Stock Prices Fall When Women Are Added To Boards Of Directors - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:19] <exec> 08└─What skill set is needed to fill a chair on the board of directors? Directors do long term and general planning.
[23:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:04] <exec> 08└─Historically, yes. But there is a saturation point. You can only eat so much food, drive so many cars, and watch so many screens before you say "I don't want any more".
[23:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:05] <exec> 08└─I'd say "culturally inferior" refers to the government employees who tortured prisoners after 9/11, and those who defend that and the corruption in the head office. But that aside, every wave of immigrants has been pretty much the same. That "Jewish property owner"'s ancestors were living in a cramp...
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[23:50:07] <exec> 08└─The article mentions the death change per 100k going from 328.5 to 348.2 and that's for everybody age 25-64, so a good chunk of those deaths are well beyond fertility dates.
[23:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:09] <exec> 08└─Historically, yes. But there is a saturation point. You can only eat so much food, drive so many cars, and watch so many screens before you say "I don't want any more".
[23:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:12] <exec> 08└─" But, ya know, a couple of generations and their descendants are just like everybody else (and just as ready to dump on the newbies). "
[23:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:14] <exec> 08└─The historical consequence of such productivity increases has been to create more basic goods and services - such as the vast array of electrical devices in use in homes today.
[23:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fertility Rate in U.S. Hit a Record Low in 2018 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:16] <exec> 08└─Why would you massacre your indentured servants when you can squeeze some more of them a while longer?
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[23:50:35] <exec> 08└─What a beautiful thought. Thanks!
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[23:51:43] <exec> 08└─Jeez they are really trying hard to make that site even worse. Its a success.
[23:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06400-Year-Old Warships in Swedish Channel May be Sisters of Doomed Vasa - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:59] <exec> 08└─Glad to see you accepting that at least 7 orders of magnitude are required
[23:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06400-Year-Old Warships in Swedish Channel May be Sisters of Doomed Vasa - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:01] <exec> 08└─The Bayesian prior is that it's true. The evidence to change that is nothing.
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[23:55:03] <exec> 08└─If you think the problem is "getting a man to mars and back" then you've underestimated the futurists goals by many orders of magnitude. That's jumping out of a tree and claiming you can fly.
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