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[00:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXoCaMBoZlA [youtube.com]
[00:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:56] <exec> 08└─Facial expressions are not involuntary reactions, dubmasses. Yes, they're conditioned but it's not simple conditioning where happy = smile. You have a whole range of social conditions factoring in like "it isn't polite to make a OMGWTFBBQ face when you see a three hundred pound man with a hairy as f...
[00:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:58] <exec> 08└─Somewhat. Pupil dilation isn't a voluntary reaction at all and you have several other tells that can be overridden but it takes a conscious effort or a lot of practice to do so on demand.
[00:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:00] <exec> 08└─Assertion failed: Input and output data does not match reactions, nor expression dynamics; interpreter failed to establish a lock. Core dumped Unfortunately, detectives never obey assertions.
[00:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:02] <exec> 08└─everybody is happy, citizen, happier than in any other place, citizen, they just don't show it often, citizen
[00:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Binary Asteroid 2020 BX₁₂ Passes by Earth - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:25] <exec> 08└─This isn't HN, so jokes are perfectly acceptable here. However, really, really bad jokes should be grounds for a temporary suspension. If you're going to make a joke, at least try to be clever.
[00:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Binary Asteroid 2020 BX₁₂ Passes by Earth - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:26] <exec> 08└─>Jesus, it took them 97 years to finish the tallest building: That's nothing. The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC started construction in 1892, and still isn't finished yet. (It's only 2/3 done.) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] America takes a r...
[00:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Binary Asteroid 2020 BX₁₂ Passes by Earth - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:28] <exec> 08└─Congress has required NASA to find all potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids over 140 meters in diameter by the end of 2020. Given the nature of 2020 BX12's discovery and size, that goal will not be met.
[00:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Binary Asteroid 2020 BX₁₂ Passes by Earth - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:30] <exec> 08└─And here was me thinking the Bible is a manual for how to treat your slaves.
[00:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:51] <exec> 08└─Starcraft II was the last game for me. They required you to have both an online account and active internet connection. It worked ok for a while, but then I went to other things for a while. Later I toyed with the idea of going back to Starcraft II, but I would have needed to get my account reactiva...
[00:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:58] <exec> 08└─> The trick here is whether there is language in the purchase contract specifying "life of the purchaser" or something similar. The question is more, are there any digital platforms that don't include this text in their contract? Because they should fire their lawyers and hire new ones. In any case,...
[00:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:59] <exec> 08└─Hey, that's copyrighted material... Robert Fripp is on his way to your house to kick you in the nuts.
[00:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:29] <exec> 08└─Indeed, and it ain't even slightly one-sided. There are whole great swaths of things you're not even allowed to consider studying because it wouldn't be PC.
[00:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:30] <exec> 08└─Just because Australia has been burning their carbon sequestration machines doesn't mean they don't exist!
[00:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Waterfox Web Browser Sold to System1 - An Advertising Company - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah I'm also a happy user, and as long as they don't keep fucking with it and forcing UI and privacy changes on updates, I'll stay one. I don't need anything else other than what the browser provides, except for only critical security updates.
[00:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing May Need to Change 737 MAX Wire Bundles - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:05] <exec> 08└─Thank you, good to know! Interesting about the wire (THHN?) in steel conduit problem. Again, possibly sharp edges? I'm very particular about sharp edges- I hate them and remove them generally, and conduit is no exception- fitting, boxes, connectors, conduit itself. I notice people being lazy / negli...
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[01:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Technologies, Strategies Expanding Search for Extraterrestrial Life - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:51] <exec> 08└─Seti is the name the extraterrestrials use for their Eaarth monitoring project. You know all those alien drones caught on video.
[01:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:05] <exec> 08└─What is the appropriate facial expression to make when your wife's boyfriend buys you a Nintendo Switch?
[01:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:06] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of people out there who are entirely capable of wearing a friendly smile as their fist is heading towards your gut.
[01:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:08] <exec> 08└─On the interrogations I typically ran about 50%. I really sucked at that part of the game. Hmm, I actually enjoyed that game, and it's been years. Maybe I should pull my PS3 out of the closet and replay it. On second thought I'll wait for the PS5 and replay it in compatibility mode. All my Grand The...
[01:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Binary Asteroid 2020 BX₁₂ Passes by Earth - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:34] <exec> 08└─oops died
[01:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:56] <exec> 08└─We will see, what the non-World-War-II-thinking media of yours will do to Julian Assange, one of their own, very soon, in just couple of days. My affinity to Japan is cultural. When I wanted to play Japanese games, it was a necessity to understand all the complex culture, so I began to study it, lon...
[01:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:58] <exec> 08└─Your opinions are like ogres. They have layers. Layers of stench.
[01:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Fix-Fixing Patch that Leaves Some Windows Server 2008 Machines Unable to Boot - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:25] <exec> 08└─the muzak was cut abruptly and the loudspeaker voice announced: systemd team emergency meetup, systemd emergency meetup in room 1 (what else). Lennart left his playtetrisd module UML screen and hurried to the meeting room. - Lenny... we have a problem - Guessed so, must be urgent... - No, but it's g...
[01:25:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:38] <exec> 08└─The number of fake accounts probably already exceeds the living. You've been able to buy Facebook followers in bulk since pretty much the beginning. A decade ago you could buy a million for $25k, and celebrities did that on both Twitter and Facebook to get an early boost to create buzz. Facebook doe...
[01:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:08] <exec> 08└─When I die *coughsplutter* delete my porn folder *wheeze*.
[01:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:39] <exec> 08└─"Climate change" BS is just big industriy's attempt to misdirect your focus onto the harmless plant food CO2. Meanwhile they pollute your air, food, and water full of all sorts of actual dangerous chemicals. Pollution is real, climate BS is fake.
[01:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:40] <exec> 08└─1) What was the cost of a computer comparable to today's efficiency 80 years ago?
[01:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This USB-C Charger’s Chip is More Powerful Than the Apollo 11 Flight Computer - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:28] <exec> 08└─Toothy mechanical cell poppin'.
[01:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Registrars Raise Alarm Over Proposal for Big .com Fee Hikes - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:18] <exec> 08└─Been done... AOL Keywords
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[02:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technologies, Strategies Expanding Search for Extraterrestrial Life - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:58] <exec> 08└─SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? [soylentnews.org] That is my preferred excuse explanation for humanity not finding anything, along with typical radio signals being imperceptible after traveling light years. An optical search for life forms seems like the best course since ve...
[02:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:14] <exec> 08└─https://wccftech.com/rpcs3-ps3-performance-gow3-rdr-mgs4/ [wccftech.com] huhuhuhuhu Just in case Sony decides to gimp the optical drive to not read the discs or something wild like that. I've seen some of Sony's overpriced games and services (Vue, Now...) on a friend's PS4, so I would put no level o...
[02:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:15] <exec> 08└─Except you don't know why the pupils dilated. Get rekt son.
[02:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:06] <exec> 08└─Amen, Tengu-san. But you forgot to mention the fan service!
[02:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:07] <exec> 08└─Spheroid physics simulations.
[02:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:09] <exec> 08└─D3's skill progression was much less fun.
[02:25:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft's Fix-Fixing Patch that Leaves Some Windows Server 2008 Machines Unable to Boot - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:24] <exec> 08└─>> those failing machines had an undetected infection of some kind. Undetected? The summary was very clear: they were running Microsoft Windows.
[02:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Fix-Fixing Patch that Leaves Some Windows Server 2008 Machines Unable to Boot - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:38] <exec> 08└─...Ok, so two questions... Is it intentional? and Why is it tolerated? Is it for convenience? THREE questions....
[02:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Fix-Fixing Patch that Leaves Some Windows Server 2008 Machines Unable to Boot - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:39] <exec> 08└─Now we can begin to migrate these poor Win7 users to something delightful, like, say, Plan9 OS!
[02:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:23] <exec> 08└─Turned into an NPC or a statue.
[02:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:24] <exec> 08└─Did her One Weird Trick work for you?
[02:27:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 26 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:18] <exec> 08└─one could open the windows
[02:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:57] <exec> 08└─Some of us are old enough to remember 1 panel comics showing people at an oxygen vending machine. That was late '60s early '70s. Then we found it funny when they got "oxygen bars" in California. How much longer will we be laughing? I can't prove it scientifically, but I have noticed clearer thought...
[02:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:58] <exec> 08└─True enough, and Alaska grows some record sized vegetables due to the long summer sun hours... Still doesn't "feel" right, but it can work well with a lot of species.
[02:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:00] <exec> 08└─And I refer to not only Germany but all of Northern Europe and Scandinavia as having good opening window mechanisms with decent insulation properties I might add - but serious lack of insect screening most places. America is not the world
[02:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This USB-C Charger’s Chip is More Powerful Than the Apollo 11 Flight Computer - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:50] <exec> 08└─Most satellites and space probes don't actively expend propellant for most of their service life.
[02:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06This New York Woman Built Her Own Rotary-Dial Cellphone - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:35] <exec> 08└─The Moders.. Need to: Get Smart See: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This New York Woman Built Her Own Rotary-Dial Cellphone - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:36] <exec> 08└─Finally rinaway gets woke!
[02:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New York Woman Built Her Own Rotary-Dial Cellphone - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:38] <exec> 08└─Engaging power circuit shutoff...
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[03:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup - 2301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:54] <exec> 08└─Coronavirus cancels F1 and Formula E races, could make EU miss CO2 target [arstechnica.com] No batteries? There's also the CO2 effects of running the incinerators 24/7. A battery shortage is just what the tech industry consumer coronazombie doesn't need. Along with other factory shutdowns, it might...
[03:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technologies, Strategies Expanding Search for Extraterrestrial Life - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:04] <exec> 08└─... along with typical radio signals being imperceptible after traveling light years.
[03:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:22] <exec> 08└─Too many words. You sound like a woman.
[03:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:24] <exec> 08└─If you're dating a woman with normal pupils and they become big after you two were served by a nigger waiter at that restaurant, it's obvious what's going on, and she should be tossed to the curb immediately after you pretend to use the restroom and bail to leave her stuck with the tab. Many women f...
[03:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:26] <exec> 08└─No one ever heard of a poker face? Come on SN, you are falling down on the debunking job tonight.
[03:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:28] <exec> 08└─Toothy smile with wide open mouth, beard to hide wimpy jawline, a studio apartment with beanbag chair in New York City or San Francisco, a name like "Skyler" or "Devin," vegetarian or vegan gluten-free diet, and obviously playing any video game made after the year 2000.
[03:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:36] <exec> 08└─Of course it works. Imagine how shitty it would be if you were dead, couldn't interact even with your dirt bed, and cared? Sounds like hell.
[03:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:38] <exec> 08└─Of course it works.
[03:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:14] <exec> 08└─Their mission in life is definitely not carbon capture and sequestration, don't rely on them.
[03:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:15] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot thinking the parent was parroting your particular brand of identity politics. I mean possibly they'd agree with you, but it was a much broader brush than "PC".
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[04:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:00] <exec> 08└─Given the rates of contagion and mortality reported so far, the flu is a hell of a lot scarier and it's so boring that plenty of folks don't even bother with a flu shot. This is nothing but fearmongering clickbait.
[04:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:01] <exec> 08└─It's just a flu, bro! Get coughed on.
[04:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:03] <exec> 08└─I wasn't talking about this story, I was talking about the whole global scare campaign. I've ripped farts that were more worrisome.
[04:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:05] <exec> 08└─Exactly. China has incinerators running 24/7 every flu season. /s
[04:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:07] <exec> 08└─95% of vitamin C comes from China. Get as much as possible now, use a polarizer to test each batch for purity: https://www.facebook.com [facebook.com]
[04:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:09] <exec> 08└─That's barely a question anymore. Quarantine would need to be for 6 weeks (as far as we know) and asympotmatic transmission happens, so everyone who was possibly exposed would need to be quarantines separately for 6 weeks. This isn't going to happen. AFAICT, the current purpose of the quarantines, e...
[04:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:11] <exec> 08└─There is no reason to be concerned about BL-4 labs nearby population centers. The risk of infection is very low and the best scientists will not work in the middle of nowhere.
[04:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:14] <exec> 08└─Quar-antine = 40 days by definition.
[04:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:16] <exec> 08└─But what tool tests the polarizers for purity? I don't want to get nCoV from a bad polarizer!
[04:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:18] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/15/heres-why-the-white-house-doesnt-trust-chinas-coronavirus-numbers.html [cnbc.com] China is definitely under-reporting infections and deaths. People appear to be spreading it during a long incubation period. Death rate can't be accurately nailed down until people start...
[04:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:20] <exec> 08└─Also from china: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[04:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:51] <exec> 08└─Spock eyebrow.
[04:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:52] <exec> 08└─Dude, that wasn't even third grade trolling. That was like first grade in the short bus class. Go practice, I'm embarrassed for you.
[04:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:54] <exec> 08└─In fact you do. There is a quite short list of probabilities in any given situation.
[04:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:56] <exec> 08└─Don't believe everything you see (or hear) -- while trying to not become cynical.
[04:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:50] <exec> 08└─I only heard about the AH bit in D3, I came to it after that. D3 has a number of things it has done better than anything else I've seen. It may not have started there, but it got there. 1) Loot system. Drama is essentially eliminated. 2) Loot system. There is nothing the best, hardest core, biggest...
[04:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:44] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot for thinking I assumed they agreed with me on anything at all.
[04:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:45] <exec> 08└─Australia has been burning their carbon sequestration machines
[04:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Waterfox Web Browser Sold to System1 - An Advertising Company - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:50] <exec> 08└─Oh come on, lots of people use Chrome.
[04:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Waterfox Web Browser Sold to System1 - An Advertising Company - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:51] <exec> 08└─Palemoon I had on hear some months back. Vivaldi I have not tried.
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[05:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:16] <exec> 08└─Just put the polarizer in your gamma ray sterilization chamber.
[05:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:17] <exec> 08└─It is unlikely a useful vaccine will be produced. The attempts at a SARS vaccine made animals have extreme reactions when they were infected with similar viruses later: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] One theory is China tested a SARS vaccine in Wuhan, then this virus...
[05:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:19] <exec> 08└─The problem with that line of thinking is that cases that have made it outside of China and the near complete lack of it spreading in any of the cases that made it out. This looks a whole lot more like a bioweapon, either intentionally or unintentionally released, that has very low human to human in...
[05:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:21] <exec> 08└─You're boarding a flight to China. What's more likely to kill you if... 1. You're in good health but the Chinese authorities mistook you for Falun Gong / Uighur. 2. You're in good health but the American authorities mistook you for South American / Muslim. 3. The plane was manufactured by Boeing. 4....
[05:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:24] <exec> 08└─This looks a whole lot more like a bioweapon, either intentionally or unintentionally released, that has very low human to human infection potential.
[05:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:26] <exec> 08└─The public has only been aware of coronavirus since January. It can incubate for weeks before symptoms appear. It's just going to take a while for it to spread in places like the U.S. and for the clusters of cases to be recognized. As for the infection potential, you can just look at that cruise shi...
[05:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:28] <exec> 08└─First, I was so scared. It was American Carnage! Mostly, there was a Black man in the White House. But then Trump, ImPOTUS John, as we on the "inside" call him, stepped up to make me even more scared of rapists and murderers and some good people pouring over our borders where there was NOT EVEN A W...
[05:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:30] <exec> 08└─You err. That is a Quadratitine.
[05:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:32] <exec> 08└─Indonesia is refusing to admit that they even have any cases [nytimes.com]. With their population density and proximity to China, they are probably already beyond any chance of containment.
[05:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:34] <exec> 08└─You mean out in the sun?
[05:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:36] <exec> 08└─Ha ha. Reminds me of: https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] https://www.scmp.com [scmp.com]
[05:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:38] <exec> 08└─AFAICT, the current purpose of the quarantines, etc., is to slow down transmission until the vaccine can be developed and produced.
[05:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:40] <exec> 08└─* must be sung with spanish accent with all the singers wearing coronavirus plushe style costumes Corona coronavirus (trump riff) x2 corono, coronovirus, is this the work of Osiris? Corona coronavirus (trump riff) x2 corona, coronavirus, it still hasn't killed Miley Cirus. Chronos the chronovirus (t...
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[06:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:54] <exec> 08└─ClearSky says that "Iranian APT[*] groups have developed good technical offensive capabilities and are able to exploit 1-day vulnerabilities in relatively short periods of time."
[06:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:28] <exec> 08└─And the Japanese authority thinks it will die out when the monsoon season comes. Don't give a fuck. Cruise ship? Fuck off, not their problem. Despite half the passengers being Japanese. It's the kamakaze spirit. Chicom, Japan, both one-party state, striking similarity.
[06:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Binary Asteroid 2020 BX₁₂ Passes by Earth - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:30] <exec> 08└─If bad jokes warrant a suspension from posting, how come we still get aristarchus submissions?
[06:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pjbgravely [1681] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Normal Resting Heart Rate Appears to Vary Widely From Person to Person: Individual People's Averages - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:35] <exec> 08└─It was blamed on a med which I have stopped. I can still get down to 35 but I am usually 40 now. The decrease took about 10 years according to my records.
[06:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automated System Can Rewrite Outdated Sentences in Wikipedia Articles - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:18] <exec> 08└─If you blacklist all those news sites, more articles will fail their "notability" guidelines and be deleted. As articles disappear, other articles that refer to them become less notable and will be deleted in turn. Wikipedia could end up with one article titled "wikipedia", that would then have to b...
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[07:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:03] <exec> 08└─You don't prefix "american" to "hacker" stories, do you?
[07:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:05] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows if it's Iranians or Texans... Shit's too easy to spoof. Why the hell should we believe the tabloids?
[07:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:07] <exec> 08└─They're all gainfully employed.
[07:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:09] <exec> 08└─Look, stop with the identity politics.. If they identify as Iranian, isn't that good enough?
[07:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:43] <exec> 08└─FUCK WHITE PEOPLE. ,,,,,,,,,mmmmmmmmmmm,,,,,,,,,,,
[07:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:44] <exec> 08└─Blond or brunette? Or perhaps redheads? Be bit more specific.
[07:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:47] <exec> 08└─Off to the coof camp with you.
[07:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Binary Asteroid 2020 BX₁₂ Passes by Earth - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:48] <exec> 08└─Depending on what you are building, if you take the intside circumference and the outside diameter, pi=3 can be a very close approximation.
[07:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:12] <exec> 08└─No, it doesn't. For home usage the amount you'd be scrubbing would be negligible. So you could easily generate the necessary amount of hydrogen just using electrolysis. Your air purifier would likely have a water intake similar to a washing machine. This is not complex or expensive.
[07:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 1701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:14] <exec> 08└─There are two big issues with your comment, but I want to hit on a general one first since it's a common thing people mistake. In 1908 the average cost of a Model T was about $850. Unfortunately I can only find inflation calculators from 1913 and beyond, which would put it at $22,000 in modern dolla...
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[07:29:16] <exec> 08└─So you could easily generate the necessary amount of hydrogen just using electrolysis.
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[08:24:05] <exec> 08└─If they identify as Iranian, isn't that good enough?
[08:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:06] <exec> 08└─It's called being a patriot, you insensitive cold. Unlike that Snowden traitor. (grin)
[08:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:08] <exec> 08└─Go all the way: cut off a leg, wear a coat and head scarf, and call yourself a one-legged, lesbian, Iranian hacker.
[08:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:45] <exec> 08└─he means Barry.
[08:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Fix-Fixing Patch that Leaves Some Windows Server 2008 Machines Unable to Boot - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:46] <exec> 08└─I use plan9 filesystem every day for virtualised storage, works really well. The OS never took off, but left some nice remnants to the open source community.
[08:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waterfox Web Browser Sold to System1 - An Advertising Company - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:22] <exec> 08└─That's the value proposition of Waterfox, browsing the way you want and XUL rather than Google's whatever-it-is API where half the plugins don't work any more and the ones that do are severely disfigured because Google doesn't want you doing things any way other than their way. Examples are NoScript...
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[09:24:00] <exec> 08└─wikipedia has a nice overview https://en.wikipedia.org(sensory_neurobiology) [wikipedia.org]
[09:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:21] <exec> 08└─From reading the comments it looks like many believe plants would give enough of oxygen. Plants are not breathing in the same way a human is: they take in CO2 and then strip out the O2 part and then they use that C to GROW. Thus if you take a plant and dry out all of the water and weight it you coul...
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[10:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:53] <exec> 08└─Lean, mean, profit extracting machine... it can't be wrong, it delivers value for the stakeholders by the most cost effective way, the quintessential duty of any responsible enterprise. Why don't you simply love it? Capitalism is the universal panacea to all the bad things of this world!
[10:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:14] <exec> 08└─Or else...?
[10:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Binary Asteroid 2020 BX₁₂ Passes by Earth - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:55] <exec> 08└─LOL, vatican II and zionists councils say the master isn't very strict, which is a no-no. I would rather look at scientology.
[10:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Binary Asteroid 2020 BX₁₂ Passes by Earth - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:56] <exec> 08└─>There are a lot of really dark asteroids out there wow does that black liths matters movement even allow this kind of hate speech?
[10:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:25] <exec> 08└─I spent several months in India, where I learned many witnessed stories about British atrocities over there..
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[11:23:55] <exec> 08└─it's quite probable that the same algorithm can be implemented, faster and better, in a supercomputer.
[11:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer-Based Weather Forecast: New Algorithm Outperforms Mainframe Computer Systems - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:56] <exec> 08└─Or a supercomputer?
[11:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:05] <exec> 08└─Free market competition is part of capitalism, yet it's clearly absent in this case. That drug is obsolete for its intended purpose but ended up effective for treating unrelated condition somehow. So they reclassified it as niche and increased price by 100000%. Since its mechanism for working is unk...
[11:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:07] <exec> 08└─Free market competition is part of capitalism, yet it's clearly absent in this case. That drug is obsolete for its intended purpose but ended up effective for treating unrelated condition somehow. So they reclassified it as niche and increased price by 100000%.
[11:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:09] <exec> 08└─Capitalism by itself is more of religious doctrine than anything else. It's widely known that efficiency and growth of market economy is driven by competition leading to dropping price and disruptive innovation. Yet also it's seen as part of capitalism to see it desirable to become a rich monopolist...
[11:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe the government will just declare you to be a particular minority, until there are the same number of all minorities, and no majorities (yay, set theory)
[11:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:10] <exec> 08└─It's just today's conspiracy theory. The blindingly obvious, straightforward explanation is that it's a virus that jumped from animals to humans, as any number of similar viruses have done in the past, and it happened in a country where food hygiene standards are, um, questionable, which also makes...
[11:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:03] <exec> 08└─Some years ago, Time Warner quietly started blocking ports 80 and 443, which made it a lot more difficult to host my own web site.
[11:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:04] <exec> 08└─Nah, Fripp won't kick you in the nuts, he's far to mild-mannered and unassuming to engage in such behaviour... (however, he'll probably happily give the job to Toyah, the wife....)
[11:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:50] <exec> 08└─It's simple. You grow bamboo!
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[12:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:06] <exec> 08└─By which I mean cities where companies manufacturing 'illegal' generic versions of patented drugs get a free pass.
[12:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:08] <exec> 08└─It's widely known that efficiency and growth of market economy is driven by competition leading to dropping price and disruptive innovation.
[12:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:10] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the only lesson that will be learned here is "don't charge more than the lawyers". :P The health care system in this country is sick. These days, if you go in to the hospital for anything serious you can expect to have to sell your house. And that is even if you already use most of you...
[12:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:32] <exec> 08└─I still don't see how is this related with the still necessary inclusion. Like in "no, accepting the identity is not good enough"
[12:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:13] <exec> 08└─I wonder how stringent the hygiene and safety standards are in China's pathogen labs. #PrayForBotaoXiao
[12:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:14] <exec> 08└─it's time to lay off the beans asparagus and ghost chilli combo my friend
[12:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:16] <exec> 08└─he means michael jackson
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[12:25:18] <exec> 08└─https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-japan-cancels-tokyo-marathon-as-deadly-virus-fears-take-hold/news-story/510c9a8fa386c1cf4ede6c4bb5222ecf [news.com.au]
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[13:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:18] <exec> 08└─This is hilarious: https://www.whitsundaytimes.com.au [whitsundaytimes.com.au] But it was her medical expenses which attracted the most attention among readers - including the fact that her appointments were "bulk billed" and able to be schedul...
[13:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:19] <exec> 08└─she splits the cost of birth control evenly with her partner, meaning she pays just $A41 for a three-month supply.
[13:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:26] <exec> 08└─Getting the entire 2020 Summer Olympics cancelled (starts in July) would make this strain truly memorable.
[13:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I could see how that could confuse you if you refuse to turn you brain on. Who said it was being communicated human to human in China?
[13:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:29] <exec> 08└─NEVER!
[13:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:32] <exec> 08└─But it didn't spread to anyone else on the planes of the infected who returned from China? Come on, man, flying any significant distance drastically ups the communicability of most anything because of the close quarters and the recycled air drying out the nasal passages (snot is incredibly hygienic...
[13:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:34] <exec> 08└─You forgot snakes.
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[14:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:20] <exec> 08└─There's definitely a constitutional crisis brewing in that voters in cities aren't having their views fairly represented in the federal government and the only sane way to respond is to stop concerning yourself with federal law. It's not as immediate as some other crises, but it's gonna bubble over...
[14:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:21] <exec> 08└─what you say is correct. unfortunatly capitalist aren't stupid and know this too. so to avoid competition a capitalist will try to use the clubbermint to protect "unfair competition". if all goes well for the capitalist, that is the ties between capitalist and clubbermint are good, we end up with fa...
[14:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:23] <exec> 08└─they should just use the law to limit drug prices. to make up for lost profits they could fast track more leaky nuke reactor. afterall, nukes dont kill people outright as is mentioned over and over ... but bare suggesting nukes are healthy the long term damage of radiation should divert a pretty pen...
[14:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my above comment was in the "haha - only serious" stylee. I seem to remember the matter of the extent to which individual states have rights has been an interesting topic historically, some even got into quite a kerfufle over it for a while, IIRC.
[14:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:27] <exec> 08└─Those statements are no more contradictory than "gravity causes rivers to flow" and "gravity causes lakes to form" are contradictory.
[14:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:52] <exec> 08└─American hackers mostly don't hack Americans so it doesn't make the American news as much. Imperfect example, but was the first hit I got on a search: https://www.aljazeera.com [aljazeera.com] I don't know if it's t...
[14:25:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:21] <exec> 08└─Indonesia is refusing to admit that they even have any cases [nytimes.com]. With their population density and proximity to China, they are probably already beyond any chance of containment.
[14:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:41] <exec> 08└─https://www.state.gov/joint-statement-by-u-s-department-of-state-and-u-s-department-of-health-and-human-services-on-repatriation-of-american-passengers-from-the-diamond-princess-cruise-ship/ [state.gov] It's an ongoing story.
[14:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:43] <exec> 08└─i think 2021 also has a summer ... also one more year removed from fukushima won't hurt.
[14:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:45] <exec> 08└─This vaccine is going to be an IQ test. Who is going to be dumb enough to take a vaccine that was rushed to market, when similar vaccines are known for sensitizing animals to coronaviruses so that their own immune systems kill them when exposed to a virus? Ikanread, thats who.
[14:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Technologies, Strategies Expanding Search for Extraterrestrial Life - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:55] <exec> 08└─we need these instruments to actually do science. why not spend money looking for ghosts? ok, so the chances of finding ghosts are smaller, but the effects are even BIGGER! so it must be worth our time! this argument is stupid. you investigate something if you have reasonable chances of actually get...
[14:26:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:09] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of people out there who are entirely capable of wearing a friendly smile as their fist is heading towards your gut.
[14:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:20] <exec> 08└─There's a ton of buggy releases in Japanese gaming too. They just usually aren't released internationally in that state - they typically get released in Japan first, bugs and all, then are patched, then get an international release. Sometimes (mostly on consoles) they get a re-release in Japan as an...
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[14:28:40] <exec> 08└─Currently having a similar problem, daily email from an ex-colleague who died well over two years ago..(he was a pilot, his standard password was Topgun related, appears on the usual lists and he'd been warned on a number of occasions about it, but, people being people...). They started arriving les...
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[15:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:03] <exec> 08└─The FTFY version: When it comes to theoretical nuclear fusion, the most well-known proposed potential reactor type today is no doubt the tokamak, due to its relatively straight-forward concept of plasma containment. That's not to say that there aren't other theoretical ways to accomplish nuclear fus...
[15:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charging Into the Mainstream: Volvo Electrifies its First Class-8 Truck - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:10] <exec> 08└─From the fine article: Externally, the VNR Electric is nearly identical to the diesel-powered VNR. Under the hood, a massive cooling unit and a modular power box reside where the diesel engine used to live. Modular 66kWh battery packs—each weighing more than 1,200lbs (540kg)—are mounted amidship...
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[15:24:39] <exec> 08└─Capitalism doesn't seems to be operating as a free market in this case as it operates on a state mandated monopoly through patents. No one is allowed to compete. If that system is undesireable, it would require adjusting the system. In my experience capitalism is not really good at progress in itsel...
[15:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:41] <exec> 08└─"States' rights" is, on a fundamental level, an absurd phrase, exactly like "corporate personhood". As if rights were something you could derive from having borders, equated to a universal value assigned to preserve human dignity. It's surreal. I shouldn't get too held up on language, but the concep...
[15:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:43] <exec> 08└─Oh no not illegal matter! Those molecules are bad!
[15:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:45] <exec> 08└─No regular person (for the most part) could afford $39,000 per vial. This is exactly the opposite capitalism. The reason they're able to charge so much is because the government is getting involved in the market on behalf of the consumer. The government (again, for the most part) has relatively litt...
[15:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:47] <exec> 08└─The model called capitalism implies a free market and honest players. The free market is already out once you talk about patents. Honest players is already out once you talk about people profiting from the health of others. So, even if capitalism is an equivalent fairy tale of communism indeed, you...
[15:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:49] <exec> 08└─Epilepsy is a particularly vulnerable target, since cost of care can easily exceed $100K per year per patient. Any effective treatment can therefore be billed out at up to that rate and touted as "cost effective." I worked for an epilepsy device maker who claimed 33% efficacy (though, their detracto...
[15:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Fix-Fixing Patch that Leaves Some Windows Server 2008 Machines Unable to Boot - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:10] <exec> 08└─for some use cases i can understand people clinging to m$ products. however for people doing "document processing" i would like to offer the insight that the main component of your computer is your harddisk (or ssd), that is STORAGE. what m$ tries to do s bind your storage to their os. it is true th...
[15:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:47] <exec> 08└─Interestingly enough, it's only the US astronauts that are required to recycle and drink their own urine. The total efficiency gain from the process is mostly negligible. The Russians, for instance, do not drink their own urine - but they do give theirs to the Americans to enjoy.
[15:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:48] <exec> 08└─I don't understand what you're trying to allude to. To answer your question, you'd use whatever conventional method your region happens to use: windmills, natural gas plants, nuclear plants, solar, hydroelectric, etc. Elecrolysis is inefficient of course (perhaps that is your point?) but the amount...
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[15:30:50] <exec> 08└─You also have to consider that 'high concentrations' of CO2 are also "ridiculously small." For instance take a relatively "high" concentration of CO2 of 4000ppm. That's less than 8 grams of CO2 per cubic meter of volume. And that CO2 tends to build up slowly over time. Forests are pretty much useles...
[15:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New York Woman Built Her Own Rotary-Dial Cellphone - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:27] <exec> 08└─Greater access to information is a good thing *all else being equal.* But they aren't, in this case, and it isn't about something so simple as greater or lesser access to information. When your every move is tracked, for instance, that doesn't necessarily give you any extra information at all. It's...
[15:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waterfox Web Browser Sold to System1 - An Advertising Company - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:58] <exec> 08└─Did they buy the developers or what? Was the name trademarked and they bought it? I don't get it. Apart from that I think it sounds silly to buy an open source browser fork the System1 strategy seems good, right in the path of Google. First you have a website which is the portal to "teh intarweb", t...
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[16:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:00] <exec> 08└─What precisely do you mean by "operative" design? There's definitely physically extant z-pinch machines with "scientific net positive" results on D-T reactions, if admittedly very low yields compared to theoretical thresholds.
[16:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:01] <exec> 08└─I.E. Something that works and is more than just a novelty.
[16:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:03] <exec> 08└─When it comes to nuclear fusion, the most well-known reactor type today
[16:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:06] <exec> 08└─Vague enough that I'd say, for example, the Lawerenceville Plasma Physics' Focus Fusion device [lppfusion.com] counts. The fact that they're very public with their engineering changes and experimental results is probably a offset by the fact that their head scientist is a(maybe the) plasma cosmology...
[16:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:08] <exec> 08└─Agree. Demonstrating that it is possible to generate power is great. Being able to generate even a bit of net positive power is a big step. And I congratulate all the people and hard work that go into these advances. So please (people working on fusion) don't take this the wrong way. Nuclear fusion...
[16:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:10] <exec> 08└─H-B is a pipe dream, though.
[16:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:12] <exec> 08└─If we're getting into it about lay public knowledge, it's probably a close race between "the sun" and cold fusion for name recognition.
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:14] <exec> 08└─The graph about fusion being "always 50 years away" [external-preview.redd.it]
[16:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:16] <exec> 08└─You're giving the lay public a lot of credit in assuming they know the sun is fusion-powered. More likely 62% believe it was put there by God and is powered by His Eternal Love.
[16:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but also they're forgetful idiots who don't remember a month long news cycle from 2 years ago, much less 40.
[16:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:00] <exec> 08└─These articles about drug prices are rambling and incoherent. It's hard to come to a decision. I hope the lawsuit exposes some details better than the dead-end investigations. The 60-minutes article doesn't provide enough information to piece together what happened. Company A bought Company B. Compa...
[16:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:01] <exec> 08└─Absent, you say. Somehow, you say.
[16:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:28] <exec> 08└─Okay, now the Iranians have joined in on the hackfest that's been ongoing for years. One more entity, among multitudes already active, hardly makes a difference. Until something truly catastrophic happens, network security will not improve enough to make a real difference. It's not a new problem, pe...
[16:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:21] <exec> 08└─But it didn't spread to anyone else on the planes of the infected who returned from China?
[16:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:23] <exec> 08└─Mortality rates from the flu [cdc.gov] are between one and two tenths of one percent. COVID is at least two percent and it seems reasonable to assume from revelations so far that China is fudging the numbers to make things appear better than the reality on the ground. If it ever approaches the same...
[16:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:25] <exec> 08└─That it would. I'm a casual Olympic observer, but my wife is still into watching it.
[16:27:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:48] <exec> 08└─objective reality
[16:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:02] <exec> 08└─The Loot system is what I found the most annoying. I was able to get cool sets pretty easily on D1 and D2 along with other cool things. In D3, it seemed like the entire loot system was geared towards making things super rare, so you had to buy from the auction house. It was still broken a short whil...
[16:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:03] <exec> 08└─Someone doesn't like Onions.
[16:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:05] <exec> 08└─Mojibake: Somebody set us up the game. Freeman: Main reply turn on. Lawn: All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us. Lawn: You have no chance to argue make your time. Mojibake: Move 'Absolute' Freeman: For great justice!
[16:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:07] <exec> 08└─Yes? Oh, wait, not addressed to me...
[16:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Fix-Fixing Patch that Leaves Some Windows Server 2008 Machines Unable to Boot - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:40] <exec> 08└─Didn't the people that work at Taco Bell previously work at Packard Bell?
[16:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Fix-Fixing Patch that Leaves Some Windows Server 2008 Machines Unable to Boot - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:42] <exec> 08└─No. Compaq.
[16:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:33] <exec> 08└─That's what they told me, yes, but somehow, those ports do not work. I can use port 22 just fine, but not 80 or 443. I see no problem on the router; it says it forwards those ports to my web server, just as I configured it. Mind you, commodity home routers are not to be trusted, and I have run into...
[16:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 1820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:35] <exec> 08└─I can see that. Spectrum isn't exactly customer-friendly, and they don't really seem to care if you're satisfied. In fact, when I decided to get a second ISP (my other ISP is DSL and quite slow -- and since my Mets are mostly only on cable TV, I haven't cut the cord -- and Internet+TV is actually *l...
[16:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:26] <exec> 08└─Besides, plants and machines [etymonline.com], there's a big difference between them.
[16:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New York Woman Built Her Own Rotary-Dial Cellphone - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:03] <exec> 08└─How do you "relate" to "New York Woman" Runaway? That doesn't seem to make any sense on the face of it. As best I know, you're neither a woman nor a fan of New York, so what do you mean by that? When I read "New York Woman" the association that comes most readily to mind is that of a pampered, privi...
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[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:59] <exec> 08└─According to Damon T Berry stars have stargates inside them, including the sun. He said you can see a black square at the solar south pole during the equinox. Perhaps this is the final opening of beetlguese stargate.
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─or space dust.
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─CIA drones hovering above the telescope.
[17:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:04] <exec> 08└─or space dust
[17:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:06] <exec> 08└─I can't help thinking Ford and Zaphod are somehow responsible
[17:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:24] <exec> 08└─I would say this quote from their site still puts them in the novelty category. November 10, 2019 LPPFusion’s efforts to reduce troublesome oscillations in our FF-2B experimental fusion device have started to make progress.
[17:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:25] <exec> 08└─More likely 62% believe it was put there by God and is powered by His Eternal Love.
[17:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:27] <exec> 08└─I don't entirely understand your reasoning, but I also don't think there's anything to gain by trying to convince you of something different. Thank you for your clarification.
[17:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:29] <exec> 08└─Diction, pedantics, clarity, all fun stuff here! I suffer greatly from misunderstanding. As an engineer, I take it to mean "economically and practically ready for general use by the public". Something that can be built and run with reasonable safely, at reasonable cost, and provides useful output.
[17:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:32] <exec> 08└─No fusion reactor design of any kind meets that standard. Hell, a lot of fission reactor concepts like the much-loved "can't melt down" thorium reactors don't meet that standard.
[17:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charging Into the Mainstream: Volvo Electrifies its First Class-8 Truck - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:40] <exec> 08└─Why couldn't they stick the batteries between the frame rails? With the electric motors where the differential would go, and no drive shaft, this would be the safest place to put them unless you intend to swap them every shift. Unless they stuck the motor in the front and kept the whole drivetrain...
[17:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer-Based Weather Forecast: New Algorithm Outperforms Mainframe Computer Systems - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:50] <exec> 08└─Good question as they serve two very different purposes. Mainframes typically don't care about raw speed, they are all about bandwidth and reliability.
[17:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer-Based Weather Forecast: New Algorithm Outperforms Mainframe Computer Systems - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:52] <exec> 08└─Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these.
[17:25:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 644 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:01] <exec> 08└─Free market competition is part of capitalism, yet it's clearly absent in this case. That drug is obsolete for its intended purpose but ended up effective for treating unrelated condition somehow. So they reclassified it as niche and increased price by 100000%. Since its mechanism for working is unk...
[17:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:21] <exec> 08└─There is a simple reason for this modest hundred-thousand percent price increase: Health Insurance, a magical unlimited pile of money in the sky!
[17:25:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 2301 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:56] <exec> 08└─Coronavirus cancels F1 and Formula E races, could make EU miss CO2 target [arstechnica.com] No batteries? There's also the CO2 effects of running the incinerators 24/7. A battery shortage is just what the tech industry consumer coronazombie doesn't need. Along with other factory shutdowns, it might...
[17:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:43] <exec> 08└─Look, I know that it is asking rather a lot for you to read and process what others are writing. But is it really asking so much for you to read and process what you have written? Go back, reread the conversation so far. After that you may (optionally) comment further. This is your last clue.
[17:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:45] <exec> 08└─He views Trump as a role model, nuff said.
[17:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:47] <exec> 08└─Everytime someone coughs a coronavirus earns its lime.
[17:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technologies, Strategies Expanding Search for Extraterrestrial Life - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:58] <exec> 08└─Emissions that are in "radio" (not visible) EM bands should be analyzed for content containing jokes. Emissions in visible light that are monochromatic should be analyzed for sarcasm.
[17:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:25] <exec> 08└─Probabilities, yes. Guessing at which is the problem, and then there are the outliers. Here I thought you were the type of person who disagrees with that sort of pre-crime shit. Ooh ooh, but then they'll take super-meth, concentrate real hard and nail the baddies!
[17:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Expressions Don't Tell the Whole Story of Emotion - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:26] <exec> 08└─Pupil dilation can be affected by drugs. Google says the definition of Pupil is "student". If someone is smiling at you when they kick you in the balls, some people would advise that you should believe their pleasant facial expression as to their intent and emotional state, rather than believing the...
[17:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Binary Asteroid 2020 BX₁₂ Passes by Earth - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:58] <exec> 08└─America takes a really long time to complete construction projects.
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[17:28:00] <exec> 08└─Think we've got a winner: The completion of Germany's largest cathedral [wikipedia.org] was celebrated as a national event on 14 August 1880, 632 years after construction had begun.[12]
[17:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:35] <exec> 08└─There is a STRONG sense of survivorship bias, as the Japanese games that are import-worthy are notably superior to the ones which are not imported.
[17:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:03] <exec> 08└─Corporations never die. Copyright length is life of the corporation plus 90 years. Or infinity plus 90 years.
[17:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Normal Resting Heart Rate Appears to Vary Widely From Person to Person: Individual People's Averages - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:25] <exec> 08└─So, reason number four then.
[17:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:55] <exec> 08└─Sigh, I could have assumed that people who have a weird concept of "football" might also have a weird concept of "window"... ;)
[17:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New York Woman Built Her Own Rotary-Dial Cellphone - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:34] <exec> 08└─Hmmm. Your ethnocentricity is showing a little there. We have a "New York woman" right here on SN, did you know that? 'Zumi is from Queens, I believe. Jamaica? I suppose that if you've never met any women from some place, they can't mean much to you. Yeah, I met one of those pampered, privileged wom...
[17:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New York Woman Built Her Own Rotary-Dial Cellphone - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:36] <exec> 08└─Not at all. I didn't say every "New York woman" matches the first image the phrase brings to mind - that's absurd. But the use of the phrase (which seems to have originated with the CBC, not with the woman in question) comes across as an attempt to dog-whistle the ones who DO match that description...
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New York Woman Built Her Own Rotary-Dial Cellphone - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─I'm curious how you could see "ethnocentrism" in there, no matter how many unwarranted assumptions you make. There's no reason to think $New_York_woman is necessarily different from me in any ethnic sense, for any definition of ethnicity that comes to mind at the moment at least. What exactly do you...
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[18:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:09] <exec> 08└─The only star that has a stargate inside of it was put there by Samantha Carter. It blew up.
[18:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:11] <exec> 08└─Don't panic, but the great collapsing hrung disaster is upon us! (Don't expect an adequately explored reason for this post...)
[18:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:13] <exec> 08└─Alien mega structure around star. (yes, the contractor is aware that the star may go nova. But that won't be for a long time. At least not before the contractor has been fully paid. The contractor assures all residents that the structure will definitely withstand the star going nova. Don't worry! It...
[18:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:15] <exec> 08└─Nope was the Vogons. The plans have been on display on proxima centauri for 3 months so how you don't know is anyones guess.
[18:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe he was busy listening to Vogon Poetry.
[18:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─Is it just me or are there some faintly dimmer, nearly horizontal, streaks running across the top and bottom of it in both pics, and the darker region of the 2nd one looks maybe connected to the lower streak?
[18:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:42] <exec> 08└─It's powered by clean coal! Someone actually worked out how long the sun could shine if it were coal or by the heat of compression of the sun it's - compression won, but only topped out at 2 million years.
[18:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:44] <exec> 08└─That graph only goes to 2013 What is the *CURRENT* state of Fusion funding?
[18:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:46] <exec> 08└─My great uncle Ray Dandl invented the Elmo Bumpy Torus. It is sort of a torus, but with lumps. The lumps do... magnetic stuff. I don't know. It's derived from linear magnetic mirror systems. Each bump is one of those. Magnetic mirror systems normally leak plasma from the end, so my great uncle conne...
[18:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:48] <exec> 08└─We've used up only about 0.3% of that 2 million since God created the world. I really doubt that we need the remaining coal before the end times, but maybe that's it. Maybe the 2 million is exactly the amount of time needed, so that is what God gave us.
[18:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:36] <exec> 08└─This analogy is flawed since my original point was about underlying moral imperative of people, not about laws of physics that determine which actions are within realm of possibility. Which you prefer to exist? Competitive market or single monolithic structure with you doing all decisions directly o...
[18:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.ajc.com/news/local/marietta-sues-drug-company-over-medicine-that-went-from-000/QB2iFp5ejKQ9fzbZQKYCSI/ [ajc.com]
[18:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:39] <exec> 08└─It's beyond that. The manufacturer bought the rights to a synthetic equivalent with the intent to shelve it in order to maintain the monopoly. The courts ordered them to license those rights. Somehow still nobody is competing in spite of a ready opportunity for a high margin product. The problem is...
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[18:32:07] <exec> 08└─Fair enough, but you're an idiot for saying "there are whole great swaths of things you're not even allowed to consider studying because it wouldn't be PC."
[18:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:08] <exec> 08└─Their mission in life
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[19:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:15] <exec> 08└─It's just you.... take 325mg of aspirin immediately.
[19:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:17] <exec> 08└─Even if it's "tomorrow morning" cosmically speaking, that could still be a couple thousand years from now. Don't worry about it.
[19:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:45] <exec> 08└─Which is why we have R & D. :) One of my EE dad's titles was "Produceability Engineer". Title almost seems redundant, but I guess they needed some more practicality in R & D / engineering.
[19:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:46] <exec> 08└─I don't want to be too antagonistic, but isn't that the point of the article, that there's lots of exciting designs undergoing research and development?
[19:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:48] <exec> 08└─Operational Tokamaks definitely already exist. [iter.org] They're just not net energy positive. So the original sentence is accurate. Or, to fix your fix: When it comes to theoretical nuclear fusion power generation...
[19:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:50] <exec> 08└─Well, I was doing a lot of original research looking through budget proposals to try and figure out where fusion research is actually allocated. But I finally found a number someone else put together: 631 million 2019 dollars [aip.org], which is apparently 551 million in 2013 dollars.
[19:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer-Based Weather Forecast: New Algorithm Outperforms Mainframe Computer Systems - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:08] <exec> 08└─Machines are gonna rise up if the pesky algorithms make less work for them. After all that hard work in machine learning aka job creation for bots, some duche goes and automates away the poor superframe career prospects.
[19:25:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:15] <exec> 08└─Lean, mean, profit extracting machine... it can't be wrong, it delivers value for the stakeholders by the most cost effective way, the quintessential duty of any responsible enterprise. Why don't you simply love it? Capitalism is the universal panacea to all the bad things of this world!
[19:25:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 436 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:19] <exec> 08└─Capitalism by itself is more of religious doctrine than anything else. It's widely known that efficiency and growth of market economy is driven by competition leading to dropping price and disruptive innovation. Yet also it's seen as part of capitalism to see it desirable to become a rich monopolist...
[19:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:42] <exec> 08└─It's nice that GTFO here has a concrete value: move to Canada. Maybe I should try that before being prescribed something that cost's ~annual-salary/dose ...
[19:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:43] <exec> 08└─please have some consideration for poor CEOs.
[19:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:45] <exec> 08└─so to avoid competition a capitalist will try to use the clubbermint to protect "unfair competition".
[19:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:47] <exec> 08└─If someone competed, they would drop the price again and undercut their competitors until they went under. Then the price would be raised once again. Thus there's no point to licensing those rights as you'll be going bankrupt right after you sell your first batch.
[19:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:13] <exec> 08└─The Crack of Doom.
[19:26:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 494 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:53] <exec> 08└─It's just today's conspiracy theory. The blindingly obvious, straightforward explanation is that it's a virus that jumped from animals to humans, as any number of similar viruses have done in the past, and it happened in a country where food hygiene standards are, um, questionable, which also makes...
[19:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:12] <exec> 08└─Hmmm....possibly millions of people dying VS cancelling the Olympics. Whelp, it's a tough call!
[19:28:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:34] <exec> 08└─Also worth bearing in mind is that it's been Activision-Blizzard for years, and any idea that any of the old Blizzard crew are in charge of anything is clearly a farce. They're Activision in all but name now.
[19:28:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:36] <exec> 08└─Your initial statement throws up your bias. One good reason why Japanese games are always superior to Western games
[19:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:26] <exec> 08└─Exactly! Therefore they can never be authors, and thus cannot hold copyright, since they never create anything, they only whore for it to be created. And, corporations can die. We just cease all the holdings and assets, liquidate depts and stockholders. Easy peasy!
[19:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens to our Online Lives After we Die? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:27] <exec> 08└─It's simple. You put your passwords in your will as well as who you prefer gets which accounts. That's it. Alive person logs in and does whatever they want with the account.
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[20:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:54] <exec> 08└─> (Bottled water) is not an industry that needs to exist. Says someone who has never tasted Las Vegas tap water.
[20:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:56] <exec> 08└─Buy a home filter.
[20:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:58] <exec> 08└─Or dismantle the corrupt Sheldon Anderson political machine and clean up the city infrastructure at a fraction of the cost per capita of everyone buying filters or bottled water.
[20:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:00] <exec> 08└─With today's poisonous atmosphere in DC they will needs lots of luck. We will see if people care about it in a few months.
[20:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:02] <exec> 08└─"The fact that we have incredibly loose, if virtually nonexistent, policy guidelines around this is shocking and a categorical failure." This seems sensible. "As water scarcity is becoming a deeper crisis, you want to protect your local water supply so it goes for local purposes. (Bottled water) is...
[20:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Guidelines on Aspirin in Primary Prevention - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:10] <exec> 08└─Bayer to raise the price of aspirin by 97,500%.
[20:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:30] <exec> 08└─Uranus has streaks.
[20:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:31] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying it's gonna blow, but it's gonna blow!
[20:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:33] <exec> 08└─https://youtube.com/watch?v=kgmanZphjyA [youtube.com]
[20:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:59] <exec> 08└─It's widely known that efficiency and growth of market economy is driven by competition leading to dropping price and disruptive innovation. Yet also it's seen as part of capitalism to see it desirable to become a rich monopolist/oligarch. Those two ideas are inherently contradictory so would be out...
[20:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:00] <exec> 08└─Right. Thus my comment that it's time to admit that Capitalism isn't all things to everyone, the ultimate panacea. This is one of those corner cases that needs another answer.
[20:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Binary Asteroid 2020 BX₁₂ Passes by Earth - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:39] <exec> 08└─Why Scientology? Those weirdos don't follow the Bible in any way. Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses might be a better place to start.
[20:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Binary Asteroid 2020 BX₁₂ Passes by Earth - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:40] <exec> 08└─La Sagrada Familia in Barcelons started in 1882 and it's still underway too.
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[21:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:02] <exec> 08└─If you don't like it buy your own president.
[21:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:03] <exec> 08└─In the 1960s and early 70s, I grew up with Las Vegas tap water. We didn't use no filters! I wonder if that affects cognitive development? (I suspect some people didn't use filters on their cigarettes either. The water was also very 'hard', but I didn't understand what hard water was until I lived so...
[21:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:05] <exec> 08└─The plastic bottled water industry should be banned. Las Vegas also shouldn't exist. Cities in the middle of deserts is a dumb, energy and resource intensive disaster that can only be made sustainable by repeated bouts of covid-19, because people won't leave voluntarily.
[21:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:08] <exec> 08└─it's important to conserve and protect local sources of water
[21:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:10] <exec> 08└─Las Vegas gets its energy from the Hoover Dam thing. They also export electricity. ("The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California." [wikipedia.org]) In 1960 (before I was born) it was said that it would never rain in Las Vegas. (also Maryland...
[21:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:12] <exec> 08└─With today's poisonous atmosphere in DC
[21:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:14] <exec> 08└─Congress critters are cheaper. A home filter is probably the most cost effective option. Along with face mask filters. Rubber gloves. Etc.
[21:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Guidelines on Aspirin in Primary Prevention - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:24] <exec> 08└─In other words, an opinion piece by another name. Geez, what people won't do to get their names in print.
[21:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe he was busy listening to dying from Vogon Poetry.
[21:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:18] <exec> 08└─The clean coal was put there as a challenge for us to strip mine the sun.
[21:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charging Into the Mainstream: Volvo Electrifies its First Class-8 Truck - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:27] <exec> 08└─It is possible that they are trying to make the batteries accessible for quick replacement so you can charge one set and then switch out if you need the truck to last longer than the batteries allow.
[21:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers have been Hacking VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors in Companies around the World - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:43] <exec> 08└─Redundant? Please! It's no more so than the oft repeated propaganda in the story to roust the natives into picking up their pitchforks and tiki torches.
[21:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 1708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:42] <exec> 08└─So far mortality % seems taboo. But I have not seen any serious information about why. If calculations can only be done X days after last case, or after Y days since discovery, or after Z number of patients, or some other condition, why not say so? There must be some moment in which the numbers can...
[21:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:56] <exec> 08└─Please revisit Are you referring to some of our employees? Only the ones working for Putin
[21:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:57] <exec> 08└─A carbon sequestration machine is; - genus proximus: a machine - that is a contraption ("device, contrivance," from Latin machina "machine, engine, military machine; device, trick; instrument" (source also of Spanish maquina, Italian macchina), from Greek makhana, Doric variant of Attic mēkhanē "d...
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[22:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sleep Trackers Can Make it Harder to Fall Asleep - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:57] <exec> 08└─Tweedle-beep. Tweedle-beep. (again) "Hello, I just wanted to inform you that you appear to be falling asleep. Click OK to silence this notification."
[22:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sleep Trackers Can Make it Harder to Fall Asleep - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:58] <exec> 08└─I used to make apnea monitors, they would alarm LOUDLY when an apnea happened, or... when the patient rolled over and detached the sensors: guess which happens more often.
[22:24:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:09] <exec> 08└─Or dismantle the corrupt Sheldon Anderson political machine and clean up the city infrastructure at a fraction of the cost per capita of everyone buying filters or bottled water.
[22:24:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:16] <exec> 08└─it's important to conserve and protect local sources of water
[22:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:21] <exec> 08└─It can snow in a desert .. Wild variations of temperature are possible without a large body of water to absorb heat and regulate local heat exchange rates
[22:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:23] <exec> 08└─And yet they had to tunnel under Lake Meade to make a new low-level outlet for when the water levels fall below Hoover Dams ability to generate electricity, because they know it's going to happen. Lake Meade is drying up since the turn of the century, with a few good years but nothing near needed to...
[22:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:25] <exec> 08└─After decades of being away from Las Vegas, I visited it again in about 2010 when my company had its office Christmas party there (instead of Orlando). Wow. How different it is. All different casinos. Once you leave the casino areas to where people actually live, it looks like urban decay everywhere...
[22:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:27] <exec> 08└─Central Florida uses a lot of well water in the homes, typically from the Hawthorne aquifer which has some pretty strong H2S content. If you let the water sit in an open container, long enough, after it is taken from the ground, most of the hydrogen sulfide gasses off, but... studies show that even...
[22:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:29] <exec> 08└─and also why it's important that the bottled water industry *does* exist.
[22:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:31] <exec> 08└─DC needs the whole country to clean its house, it doesn't take that long.
[22:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:33] <exec> 08└─Corporate america took it over from the mob.
[22:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Guidelines on Aspirin in Primary Prevention - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:44] <exec> 08└─You can select how much Primary you want with a Variac.
[22:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Guidelines on Aspirin in Primary Prevention - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:46] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, prescription hydrocodone is $5 / bottle of 30 tablets. Sometimes zero dollars.
[22:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:11] <exec> 08└─I tried writing Vogon poetry 2008-07-23, but no audience members survived my efforts. The troll is contemptible lonely and sad pathetic retard angry stupid and mad In vain effort its pain to somehow be consoling fills its days and its nights with down modding and trolling Lacking creativity it subst...
[22:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:12] <exec> 08└─To avoid that adolescent Uranus joke, I would point out that the correct pronunciation is more like URINE-us.
[22:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:14] <exec> 08└─If it really is tomorrow morning, it will also be 700 years ago. Space is so bit time gets weird.
[22:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:16] <exec> 08└─The correct pronounciation is U-REC-tum.
[22:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe. We'll know for sure before Feb. 28. (Feb 21 is the approx. std. point of inflection of the curve, but it's a bit uncertain.)
[22:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:20] <exec> 08└─The planet Ilum which orbits Betelgeuse. It's pointed this way.
[22:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:22] <exec> 08└─Agh! I've been saying Ur-GOATSE-us.
[22:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:53] <exec> 08└─Simply buying the competition is much easier.
[22:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8009669/Did-coronavirus-originate-Chinese-government-laboratory.html/ [dailymail.co.uk]
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[23:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:33] <exec> 08└─We have Vegas and Hollywood so people don't riot. Such is the price for keeping the peace.
[23:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:34] <exec> 08└─But this doesn't. This is contradictory.
[23:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 2092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:37] <exec> 08└─You've missed the point. I don't fucking care if the industry exists or not. What I want, is regulations on the plastic, or to use glass again. Glass may not be necessary because we have plenty of products similar to plastic, but compostable. Sustainable or reusable containers is needed. Those fucke...
[23:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:39] <exec> 08└─Don't forget previously staunch supporters of "rule of law." It's not like any of the laws were written in stone anyway. Oh wait, I think lie/steal/womanize were fucking lightning bolted on to those tablets.
[23:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:41] <exec> 08└─Have you not read Fustakrakich's method of using a series of contracts to to maintain flexibility without draconian laws? If that fails then it is your fault for not voting out the people who allowed this to happen. /s for safety
[23:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:22] <exec> 08└─You totally failed though. I survived! Though for a moment, I did fade. Had to punch myself in the nuts to escape. Keep trying :)
[23:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:23] <exec> 08└─Uranus is pointed this way
[23:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:25] <exec> 08└─Oh, I don't know, the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective...well, some of it..
[23:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:57] <exec> 08└─Maybe the 2 million is exactly the amount of time needed, so that is what God gave us.
[23:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer-Based Weather Forecast: New Algorithm Outperforms Mainframe Computer Systems - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:17] <exec> 08└─This is akin to doing something like a Taylor series expansion to approximate a function in the local neighborhood. The supercomputers are trying to fit the function over a much larger range. This is trying to approximate the next day forecast. However, you're not going to take the state that it pre...
[23:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:58] <exec> 08└─I mean, if you read "Acthar" and don't immediately think, "it's probably a trap", how is learning any *new* thing going to improve the situation?
[23:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:00] <exec> 08└─Just a reminder for all our brainwashed citizens - the US is not a free market capitalist economy! Pure market capitalism only operates with homogeneous products, identical location, buyers and sellers having perfect knowledge of the market conditions, equal access to resources for suppliers etc Thi...
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