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[00:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:36] <exec> 08└─We have the same activist idiots trying to ban bottled water here in Oz. It only makes sense if you legislate the same for soft drinks (soda pop to you guys). We have clean drinkable tap water here and the majority of times I use bottled water is because I want a drink when I am out somewhere, and I...
[00:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:56] <exec> 08└─Free market capitalism doesn't have patents. Patents are the opposite of free markets. It's similar to the high prices of insulin result from evergreening. They use patents on newer variants to keep prices inflated.
[00:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:58] <exec> 08└─This ill-informed opinion comes round so often refuting it is getting really boring. So here's a summary: The truth is "rights are always granted by a higher authority", and the justification is "that's how it's always been, that's what the word has always meant and still means". The counterargument...
[00:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:15] <exec> 08└─They changed the drop rate on things, rebalanced drops, and removed some conditions from conditional drops. Interestingly enough, if you look at the patches, not all of them are disclosed. Instead people noticed by comparing across versions or from silent updates to the official guides.
[00:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it is a clear survivorship bias [wikipedia.org].
[00:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:18] <exec> 08└─And I just realized someone else beat me to that point.
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[01:24:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:28] <exec> 08└─and also why it's important that the bottled water industry *does* exist.
[01:24:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:30] <exec> 08└─Corporate america took it over from the mob.
[01:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:38] <exec> 08└─Mandate that water bottlers actually recycle water. They can build desalination plants on the coasts, and pull their water from the ocean.
[01:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:40] <exec> 08└─The article was about the *state* of Washington, not Washington D.C, which is approximately on the other side of the country.
[01:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:25] <exec> 08└─It's just a Vogon construction fleet. Not their fault you're not keeping abreast of local developments.
[01:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charging Into the Mainstream: Volvo Electrifies its First Class-8 Truck - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:08] <exec> 08└─The smart way would be to use pneumatic jacks built into the frame to drop and raise the batteries onto/off a palette, sort of the reverse of the air jack system used to raise race cars off the ground to allow all 4 wheels/tires to be replaced in seconds. . This way you only need access to one side...
[01:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charging Into the Mainstream: Volvo Electrifies its First Class-8 Truck - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:10] <exec> 08└─Oh I wouldn't worry too much. The batteries will release their energy quickly and won't present an ongoing issue in case of an accident...
[01:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:07] <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.
[01:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:08] <exec> 08└─The reason they're able to charge so much is because the government is getting involved in the market on behalf of the consumer.
[01:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:10] <exec> 08└─Just a reminder for all our brainwashed citizens - the US is not a free market capitalist economy!
[01:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:13] <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!
[01:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:15] <exec> 08└─So.. are you advocating the public pay for health insurance or health management? Or not pay for anything health related? :-)
[01:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:17] <exec> 08└─The model called capitalism implies a free market and honest players.
[01:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:46] <exec> 08└─It's like that man hesitating to press button meme. On the one hand, millions (potentially) die, on the other... $26 billion [latimes.com]. You would hope that they make the correct decision when the outcome is more clear, but we'll see.
[01:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:47] <exec> 08└─https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/18/wuhan-china-coronavirus-hospital-director-dies-covid/4792597002/ [usatoday.com] The director of a Chinese hospital at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak became one of its victims Tuesday despite "all-out" efforts to save his life, Chinese...
[01:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:49] <exec> 08└─lolololol
[01:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:06] <exec> 08└─That was a joke? Somehow I missed that. But the real joke is you thinking of me as a conservative. You don't seem to have paid any attention to my postings here for the last 6 years, have you? I truly believe in a social democracy much like my friends in Northern Europe (Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden...
[01:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By 2100, Indoor CO₂ Could Conceivably Cut Complex Cognition by 50% - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:08] <exec> 08└─I don't understand what you're trying to allude to.
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[02:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sleep Trackers Can Make it Harder to Fall Asleep - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:12] <exec> 08└─In my opinion, these things are invented solutions to needs people never had. Yeah might be cool, interesting, whatever but so what? It makes me upset that consumertards spend their money on this junk, supporting billion dollar companies when if they sent the 100 bucks to support kids in Syria, woul...
[02:24:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 508 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:35] <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...
[02:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:48] <exec> 08└─I hear that holes in the desert outside Las Vegas are even cheaper. If they get filled with the right people, perhaps needed change can occur...
[02:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:49] <exec> 08└─Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co. are among the largest [technavio.com] sellers of bottled water. They make a larger profit selling tap water than selling soft drinks.
[02:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:51] <exec> 08└─Do you think the folks who insisted the state be named "Washington" knew how much damn confusion they'd be creating between the state and the District? I figure they had to have known, and after they managed to get it the official name of the state, they laughed and laughed and laughed.
[02:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:53] <exec> 08└─The mob was a better caretaker of the place. They wanted to pass the family business down to their families, so they kept the place up. Corporate America only cares about this quarter.
[02:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:55] <exec> 08└─Better yet, mandate that water bottlers actually use recycled water. They can take their water supply directly from the output of the municipal wastewater treatment plants. If that water isn't clean enough for them, or their customers, they can shoulder the cost to filter it some more.
[02:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:57] <exec> 08└─What I am saying is that the wizards from DC will overrule anything the state wants to the contrary. I believe California is in the midst of such a battle over its emissions standards. We are being colonized by the feds who owe favors to their financiers.
[02:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:43] <exec> 08└─Totally bullshit. Uranus is named after the Greek god of the sky, which can be pronounced 3 different ways, all worth a few giggles [wikipedia.org]. Stop being such a prude.
[02:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:00] <exec> 08└─I'd expect it. Hospitals are full of the sick and dying. And there's a huge shortage of protective equipment. And one study showed that for surgeons, even double masking wasn't good enough.
[02:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:01] <exec> 08└─Infect everyone in the hospital (not all at the same time, hopefully). If mortality rate is 2-3% as was claimed early on, that's not so bad for those individuals. You are also likely to have your condition discovered earlier so treatment can begin sooner. The real mortality rate is clearly closer to...
[02:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:04] <exec> 08└─Development of the most promising candidate for a old SARS vaccine stopped the epidemic was successfully stopped, and there was no longer funding nor opportunity to test it. So that's the reason there was no developed SARS vaccine for the previous SARS viruses. But they learned a *lot* about corona...
[02:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blizzard's Cancelled "StarCraft: Ghost" Leaks Online - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, whatever they did up front may have been utterly horrible, but I got there after the AH was gone and it just doesn't sound like the same game people talk about from early days. It certainly isn't a cash grab now :-) There have been a couple of expansions over the years to buy, but I'm fine wit...
[02:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Normal Resting Heart Rate Appears to Vary Widely From Person to Person: Individual People's Averages - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:48] <exec> 08└─My wife was a doctor. She tried one of these wearables. It told her that her heart rate was around 180. She took her own pulse. It was actually around 70. If this is the kind of wearable they used in the study ...
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[03:23:56] <exec> 08└─lol its hot here
[03:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Adventures in Beds and Baths for Spaceflight - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:04] <exec> 08└─Some of these health effects are already known. I hope these volunteers are getting paid.
[03:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Adventures in Beds and Baths for Spaceflight - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:06] <exec> 08└─"containers will hold a total of 20 female study participants in suspension for five days each" Not bad. But the winner is: "About 24 cats are needed to make a cat fur coat"
[03:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Adventures in Beds and Baths for Spaceflight - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:08] <exec> 08└─> I hope these volunteers are getting nekkid raaaaaaaar. FTFY
[03:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sleep Trackers Can Make it Harder to Fall Asleep - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:18] <exec> 08└─My mother in law got a fit bit recently. She always sleeps like shit, now she's got one of these, I asked her what she learnt. Nothing, still sleeps like shit and feels tired in the day. Very interesting.
[03:24:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:46] <exec> 08└─But this doesn't. This is contradictory.
[03:24:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 2092 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:47] <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...
[03:24:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:53] <exec> 08└─The article was about the *state* of Washington, not Washington D.C, which is approximately on the other side of the country.
[03:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:01] <exec> 08└─Uh oh, watch out. The party of Ted Kennedy / Bill Clinton are on their moral high horse again. How dare Trump touch a woman! He should just be outright raping them like Bill did!
[03:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:03] <exec> 08└─In addition, the mob understood that "you don't shit where you eat". If you keep things running well and don't hurt innocents, the police won't be all that interested in looking behind the curtain. Also, the mob ran on human decision and so knew how to show mercy. That's why if you lost big, they wo...
[03:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:05] <exec> 08└─Ironic that a political party which calls itself 'conservative' is the one that doesn't protect clean water, air, land, species, or any other natural resource
[03:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:26] <exec> 08└─I mean. Is it fusion powered? Or fission? Or both? Cough.
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[04:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:56] <exec> 08└─Just open up the market to real competition, including municipal, and other community service, even federal, and the problem is solved
[04:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:58] <exec> 08└─Negotiating with one entity, the FCC, to beam your waves from space (Starlink) could be the superior option. No arguing with state legislatures [arstechnica.com] and competitors [arstechnica.com] about utility poles and other junk. Locally, people can focus on the mythical meshnets instead. As for t...
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[04:24:00] <exec> 08└─At least there would be the choice to sell their data for cheaper service. And putting municipal into the market definitely helps, we can use the constitution on them. Public oversight is as effective as the public wants it to be.
[04:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:09] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes. But they are not monoliths. I should have said the coke and pepsi divisions of the coke and pepsi companies. I think you also underestimate just how cheap the syrup is. I would be surprised if the cost difference is more than a couple of cents per bottle.
[04:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:10] <exec> 08└─Says someone who has never tasted Las Vegas tap water.
[04:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:13] <exec> 08└─You understand my issue has nothing to do with banning bottled anything right? I'm not interested in banning bottled anything either. Regulating the plastic use, sure. If we have reasonable alternatives, we will use them. I feel the same as you, I want to in some cases, have access to bottled water....
[04:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Guidelines on Aspirin in Primary Prevention - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:24] <exec> 08└─One indicator that this is an aspirin puff piece - the generic name - acetylsalicylic acid - is never used. This is basically an advertisement for Bayer Aspirin. You really can't trust medical journals editorial independence. Money, money, money, always money, it's a rich mans world. Welcome to the...
[04:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:35] <exec> 08└─The z-pinch and several other approaches technicallyyield more energy than is input as long as you ignore the energy involved in practically rebuilding the thing after every pulse. In other words, net loss of energy and entirely impractical for production. The Farnsworth fusor can sustain fusion for...
[04:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:49] <exec> 08└─Mallinckrodt is incredibly unethical. My dad worked in the downtown St. Louis plant for decades before losing his job in a layoff. After the layoff, they refused to give a reference even saying he worked there, effectively blacklisting him from working in the pharmaceutical industry for several year...
[04:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:26] <exec> 08└─Clarification: I don't mean deliberately infect, just that even if you assume everyone in the hospital will get infected, 2-3% mortality rate is preferable to what the coronavirus actually appears to be doing.
[04:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:27] <exec> 08└─In neither SARS nor MERS was there asymptomatic transmission. That makes a huge difference. There are test kits, but they have had a very high failure rate.
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[05:24:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, non-municipal broadband industry is owned, controlled and run by corporations for profit maximization. I've no problem with that. What I do have a problem with is why the hell do we consider corporations persons (yes, I know there's an answer for that though I don't agree with it) and why shoul...
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[05:24:09] <exec> 08└─Running infrastructure turns into a natural monopoly sooner or later so there's no free market solution to utilities and telecom.
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[05:24:11] <exec> 08└─The pipe has to be federal like the interstate and there has to be rural internet projects like they did for lights and phone service. Of course it has to be regulated like any other public utility, with no meddling or prioritizing of content. The ISP, or anybody else that wants to, can sublet the b...
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[05:25:25] <exec> 08└─The simplest requirement is that their water hookup is ALWAYS "downstream" from the mountains, forests, springs, aquifers, wells, etc. Mandated by law, their hookups are municipal and rate limited. They can buy X gallons of water at Y rate, and above a certain volume, the Z rate. It's tiered. That's...
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[05:25:27] <exec> 08└─TFS should've opened with: "Washington state, land of sprawling low-income housing developments and fluoride-laced municipal water supplies, might soon become the first in the nation to ban non-fluoridated bottled water." [...]
[05:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:29] <exec> 08└─"Where's your NIMBY spirit?" Alive and well, but not absolutist. I want to see local water supplies protected from over-use, but not walled off from use entirely. "What's bad about bottled water? Many people are willing to pay absurd premiums for it, and the capitalist system takes that weakness and...
[05:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:31] <exec> 08└─Spoken like someone who's never actually had to drink that crap. Maybe in another century we'll be able to make drinkable water by processing brine for less energy than it takes to transport it from the glacier, but we're not there yet.
[05:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Guidelines on Aspirin in Primary Prevention - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:43] <exec> 08└─Normal people say or search "aspirin", not "acetylsalicylic acid".
[05:27:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 638 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:58] <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...
[05:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:08] <exec> 08└─You're letting ideology cloud your logic. The article itself states that the drug was previously sold for $40. After the government gets involved, it's now sold for $40,000 per vial. This is a textbook example of the dangers of trying to "fix" a free market.
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[06:24:10] <exec> 08└─Roads... Bridges... Water... Have you seen the state of federally owned and/or operated infrastructure? Don't misunderstand. You're absolutely right that for just about any other nation this is the correct solution. But the USG is a failed organization that's a few bloody revolutions short of being...
[06:27:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:27] <exec> 08└─By which I mean cities where companies manufacturing 'illegal' generic versions of patented drugs get a free pass.
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[07:24:20] <exec> 08└─Somebody owes me a new keyboard. It's beyond stupid to misrecognise a corporation as a person; what next - allowing them to vote? On the other hand, if this precedent is set, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden were just exercising their right to free speech.
[07:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:38] <exec> 08└─I know that in OZ the complaints are mostly about the plastic bottles. I just don't see how they are worse than soft drink plastic bottles. I don't really disagree with your post, but it isn't about the consumption of water either unless they are deliberately overtaxing very small springs. For examp...
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[07:25:39] <exec> 08└─You living in a freezing city are wasting more energy for heating than anyone could use supplying themselves with bottled water. Why don't you move to somewhere you don't have to use so many gigajoules to heat your home?
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[08:24:13] <exec> 08└─Government merely suffers a lack of oversight. It's a voter thing. Violence is unnecessary
[08:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:15] <exec> 08└─Most of this stuff is out of the ISP's control. Your data only routes over stuff controlled by the ISP for a hop or two, and that's it. Medical data??? Are ISPs hospitals in Maine?
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[08:24:17] <exec> 08└─There's a very specific reason, and it has to do with most people having no clue how the constitution works. The constitution does not grant you freedom of speech. You, as a human, *inherently* have freedom of speech. Governments cannot grant you that which you already have, they can only take it aw...
[08:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:37] <exec> 08└─Australia imports thousands of tonnes of bottled water. We also export thousands of tonnes of bottled water. The CO2 impact of all of that shipping, only to end up with a nearly neutral net position re: H2O movement. At least with soft drink, they use local water and only export/import the syrup.
[08:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah I agree that's stupid, but its their choice. There is probably more wasted fuel in a single formula one race. Once again, if people want to pay for it, it's their choice. I don't buy imported bottled water, and I don't go to the races. Legislating to control personal discretionary spending is w...
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[09:24:26] <exec> 08└─ISPs know who you are based on your IP address. Random website only knows that you are some dude(te) connecting through that ISP. They don't know your name or your address, unless you gave it to them. Intercepting DNS traffic and mining that gives you plenty of information about what you are doing.
[09:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:27] <exec> 08└─I'm not advocating a violent revolution. I'm saying it's the only way to get a functioning government right now. Personally I'm fine with letting things hit bottom naturally. It's why I'm a supporter of Trump over Hillary/Biden. Obama proved a weak left-wing president will just end up stalling and p...
[09:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:51] <exec> 08└─the majority of times I use bottled water is because I want a drink when I am out somewhere
[09:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Guidelines on Aspirin in Primary Prevention - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:05] <exec> 08└─Bayer has no aspirin trademark [wikipedia.org] in the U.S. like it does in Canada. I am holding a bottle of generic Safeway aspirin right now.
[09:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:09] <exec> 08└─I just pooped myself a little, to keep up with my MAGA brethern. One in the spirit, one in the fear, one in the stench. Trump Akbar!!!!
[09:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup (Feb. 17) - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:10] <exec> 08└─Why is it that hypochondriacs like takyon take so much interest in medicine, when they are so sure that it will avail them naught? Just admit it, takyon, a 2% mortality rate means that the world is domed, that the earth is not flat, the China will still have more people than the US, and that social...
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[10:28:28] <exec> 08└─Which do I prefer, flowing rivers, or giant placid lakes? I prefer you reread my post, and try to understand the wisdom contained within.
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[11:24:32] <exec> 08└─It's beyond stupid to misrecognise a corporation as a person; what next - allowing them to vote?
[11:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:56] <exec> 08└─The guys who named the thing now in the District of Columbia (which wasn't formally called that yet) "Washington" were naming a town. Alexandria and Georgetown were also towns in the same territory, Washington wasn't the whole territory. Those two still exist, go check out their boundaries (and stat...
[11:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:57] <exec> 08└─Although there are some cities that I question if they should exist or not, we do need plastic bottled water from time to time. The problems in Detroit* or hurricane stricken areas come to mind. * The last I heard, Detroit still has contaminated water even all these years later. Now, an argument can...
[11:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jjr [6969] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Guidelines on Aspirin in Primary Prevention - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:13] <exec> 08└─Aspirin price (at least here where I live) has been on the raise during a long time. Some time ago I read an article about why such increase and it's caused because it doesn't sell as much as before, with people going for paracetamol and ibuprofen instead. A box of any of these two (generic tradmark...
[11:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charging Into the Mainstream: Volvo Electrifies its First Class-8 Truck - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:36] <exec> 08└─They might have been working on this since 2007 -- I visited an engineering company near Leuven (Belgium), specializing in electrical drivetrains in 2009. After our meeting, one of their engineers invited me to check out what they were working on. Lo and behold, I was shown a (remotely controlled, i...
[11:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:42] <exec> 08└─Well then you can consider capitalism to be about flooding entire earth to become one big ocean while extolling relative benefits of lakes and rivers.
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[12:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:56] <exec> 08└─You know some people buy it because their tap water is not good for drinking, not because they're trying to flaunt their wealth, right?
[12:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 1633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:57] <exec> 08└─Lots of off-the-cuff, simplistic comments here. It's actually a complicated issue, as most things are. - Sure, there are idiots willing to pay a premium price for something that they can get out of their tap for free. I saw a show a while back, where some guy was handing out bottled water samples, i...
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[13:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:58] <exec> 08└─Crew Dragon vs. Starship 9.3 m3 / +1,100 m3 7 seats / 40 cabins + rooms LEO joyride / swing around the Moon proven technology / could explode
[13:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:00] <exec> 08└─There should be something to visit up there. They could put up a Bigelow inflatable habitat [nasaspaceflight.com] for example. It could be reused for multiple tourist flights. Could be expanded into a commercial space station with multiple modules. If they're already spending $100 million on the mis...
[13:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:02] <exec> 08└─Bigelow has already paid SpaceX for up to 4 private trips to the ISS [spaceflightnow.com]: Bigelow Space Operations says it will charge $52 million per seat to send private astronauts to the International Space Station aboard Crew Dragon ferry ships, and has already paid “substantial sums” to Sp...
[13:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:04] <exec> 08└─There should be something to visit up there.
[13:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat to Sunset CoreOS Container Linux - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:11] <exec> 08└─Historical moment: this is the first distribution to be killed by systemd... the others will follow.
[13:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat to Sunset CoreOS Container Linux - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:13] <exec> 08└─errr... have you not seen Ubuntu?
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[13:29:52] <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....
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[14:24:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I guess windows are important. Bigelow should build something independent with the experience they aquired.
[14:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:05] <exec> 08└─They could add a B330 module to the Lunar Gateway [theverge.com], and they made plans to launch an independent space hotel [futurism.com] in 2021. The first article says that the ISS deal with SpaceX is over/paused because they are having trouble finding people who would pay $52 million a ticket and...
[14:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:50] <exec> 08└─They can campaign/advertise to earn votes for whoever they want if they're big and moneyed enough, which is arguably better than voting yourself.
[14:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:17] <exec> 08└─https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/washington-d-c-be-renamed-new-columbia-if-it-ever-becomes-state [patch.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If D.C. statehood ever happens, decades or centuries fro...
[14:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Image Shows Betelgeuse Isn’t Dimming Evenly - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:09] <exec> 08└─I intended URINE-us to be funny. I complain about an adolescent joke while providing another adolescent joke as a "correction".
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[14:27:57] <exec> 08└─I think you're right about rapid battery change systems being the way to go for EV Semis. Time is money. The trucking operation can charge the battery packs up at their depots and rapidly swap them out as needed. It also makes me think, though, that a use-case might be made for putting additional ba...
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[14:27:59] <exec> 08└─EV Semis will be a boon. First, it will slash our national fossil fuel use. Second, regenerative braking will really work well on the down-slope and would be quieter; the noise that jake brakes make going downhill is a major source of noise pollution in hilly places like the mountainous West. Third,...
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[15:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:01] <exec> 08└─They're attempting to combat previous research that found that lay people with no expertise were better than the de jure standards used by parole boards. By also comparing lay people with no expertise from mechanical turk against, they show, only under certain datasets, the algorithm outperforms ran...
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[15:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Hat to Sunset CoreOS Container Linux - 1960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:23] <exec> 08└─Virtual machines. Para-virtualization. (More efficient VMs.) Anyone here remember "linux on linux"? (Kernel "ported" to the form of a user space executable. You chroot, then execute this kernel, it starts up with its own processes, memory, etc. IO is mapped into kernel calls to the kernel it is runn...
[15:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Hat to Sunset CoreOS Container Linux - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:25] <exec> 08└─Historical moment [ . . . ] the first distribution to be killed by systemd.
[15:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Hat to Sunset CoreOS Container Linux - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:27] <exec> 08└─Yes. And systemd broke Ubuntu as well.
[15:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Hat to Sunset CoreOS Container Linux - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:29] <exec> 08└─Has anyone tried Rancher OS instead of Core OS? I have dabbled and experimented a bit with Docker, Kubernetes, and thus a bit of Rancher OS. Haven't tried Core OS. Since Apache Tomcat can be run in a clustered mode, I have considered that, if there ever were such a need, I could run multiple Tomcats...
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[15:24:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, non-municipal broadband industry is owned, controlled and run by corporations for profit maximization. I've no problem with that. What I do have a problem with is why the hell do we consider corporations persons (yes, I know there's an answer for that though I don't agree with it) and why shoul...
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[15:25:08] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, "'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it" approach. I can't seem to recall any instance where that was nothing more than a justification for covering up misdeeds or for justifying the failure to do the right thing.
[15:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:09] <exec> 08└─I think competition completely misses the point. ISPs want to maximize profit. So they want to sell your personal information. Even in a competitive environment, this probably would happen, because every ISP needs to appear to be price competitive. "Web privacy" laws get passed. ISPs don't like this...
[15:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:11] <exec> 08└─ISPs know where you connect to -- if you don't use a VPN. Which most people don't. ISPs probably also know most people's DNS queries, because most people don't even know what salmonella DNS queries are.
[15:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:40] <exec> 08└─Corporate america took it over from the mob.
[15:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:41] <exec> 08└─Ironic that corporations (which are people too!) don't have any requirement of personal responsibility.
[15:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:43] <exec> 08└─If a bottled water plant produced 1,000,000 half-liter bottles a day, that would still be less than 1,500 homes. Farms use water by the acre-foot (1,233,480 liters) and they're up in arms about something that uses maybe 0.1% of the water?
[15:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:46] <exec> 08└─Actually, I have drunk "that crap". Five years of sea duty ensures that you're going to drink it, and probably sooner than later. When a ship gets underway, there are no tens of thousands of gallon water tanks to top off. We make our own water, constantly. Two big evaporators pulled water from the s...
[15:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:12] <exec> 08└─No. The point of it was to continue interest in research and development and it did so by implying that there are operational designs which are [almost] ready to produce power commercially. There are not. And I bracketed "almost" because they specified a time frame of "near future." My point isn't t...
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[16:24:06] <exec> 08└─Previous line: orange = "black";
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[16:24:07] <exec> 08└─tools can help judges identify and potentially release people who pose little risk to public safety.
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[16:24:09] <exec> 08└─Quite the opposite. The paper showed that humans outperformed the algorithm only certain unrealistic conditions such as instantaneous results feedback and limiting 'input' criteria to only the most predictive variables. When presented with something resembling more realistic conditions the human's p...
[16:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:11] <exec> 08└─if (offender.color≠white) {probability = 100%;}
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─Race is a correlate of other factors, many of them inherited from having a poor start in life. The kid has a poor start in life because his/her parents had a poor start in life. And so on back to... oh silly me, I forgot racism is over, slavery is over. It must be just the skin color that causes rec...
[16:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:26] <exec> 08└─>Proven technology Umm, you're talking about the capsule that just exploded a couple tests ago... Maybe it's just me, but "proven technology" in a space capsule suggests something that's flown at least a few dozen times *without* exploding.
[16:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─The Falcon 9 booster is proven, and Crew Dragon made it to ISS, is similar to Cargo Dragon, and only exploded in a test after it had returned to Earth and got dunked in seawater.
[16:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but if they send most USAians, they will have to watch out for the 'Whalers on the Moon' mistaking them for prey. ;-)
[16:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 1776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:31] <exec> 08└─>Bigelow's big plans for inflatable hotels haven't gone anywhere. Where would they go? Last I heard they're still waiting for rockets big enough to launch their production model B330 (though... I think Falcon Heavy might be just capable) >They haven't sent any more modules to the ISS. Why would they...
[16:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:34] <exec> 08└─The booster is fairly well proven, certainly. The module itself though - even including the Cargo Dragon there've still been less than two dozen flights total, two of which experienced anomalies, and one which failed - due to the carrier rocket exploding rather than a problem with the module, but wh...
[16:25:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:14] <exec> 08└─Running infrastructure turns into a natural monopoly sooner or later so there's no free market solution to utilities and telecom.
[16:25:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:17] <exec> 08└─Somebody owes me a new keyboard. It's beyond stupid to misrecognise a corporation as a person; what next - allowing them to vote? On the other hand, if this precedent is set, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden were just exercising their right to free speech.
[16:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:29] <exec> 08└─Not being a US person, it took me a while to realise that the US "Bill of Rights" is basically about protecting pre-Union institutions such as local governments, businesses and religions from the Federal government, and that any protection of individual rights is a happy side-effect.
[16:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:30] <exec> 08└─So since the ISPs think it is free speech to sell the secrets of others, I'm sure they also have no problems if their employees sell their company secrets. After all, it's free speech, right? Oh, they are not OK with that? Then it's also not OK for the ISPs to sell the secrets of their customers.
[16:25:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03corey [2202] 02 - 06Sleep Trackers Can Make it Harder to Fall Asleep - 1024 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:55] <exec> 08└─In my opinion, these things are invented solutions to needs people never had. Yeah might be cool, interesting, whatever but so what? It makes me upset that consumertards spend their money on this junk, supporting billion dollar companies when if they sent the 100 bucks to support kids in Syria, woul...
[16:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 2138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:03] <exec> 08└─"Even when it's not brand stupidity driving the prices, bottling water and shipping it is orders of magnitude more expensive than delivery via municipal pipeline systems." Of course. And that's reflected in the price. About $.0015/10 gallons at the tap, compared to $.89/gallon for bottled spring wat...
[16:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:04] <exec> 08└─studies show that even low levels of chronic H2S exposure can, and do affect negatively cognitive development and lifelong cognitive ability.
[16:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 1369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:06] <exec> 08└─"Two big evaporators pulled water from the sea, producing quite a lot of water." So that would produce very pure water. Perfectly usable for all the other things you mention - cooking, cleaning and so forth. No problem. Safe to drink too, not life threatening. But as you say, completely bland and ta...
[16:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Myfyr [3654] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:08] <exec> 08└─Around these parts, desalination makes up nearly half of our drinking water supply. It absolutely works, it tastes fine, and we'll likely need more of the same in the future. Without it we'd be completely screwed. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:10] <exec> 08└─I'll just point out that water sustains life. Most of the crap in flavored sugar water tends to shorten life. But, to each his own, right? We all have the right to choose our own poisons, then pay for the cures for those poisons in later life. Except, I don't think there is a cure yet for diabetes....
[16:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:12] <exec> 08└─You also have severe problems with obesity (is it over 25% of schoolchildren now? I remember it was getting close a few years back) and not coincidentally consume enormous amounts of sugar. And many of your compatriots are willingly paying ridiculous prices for bottled water known to contain arsenic...
[16:28:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Nuclear Fusion Power Without Regular Tokamaks Or Stellarators - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:20] <exec> 08└─The graph about fusion being "always 50 years away" [external-preview.redd.it]
[16:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City Sues Drug Manufacture Mallinckrodt Over 97,500% Price Increase - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:01] <exec> 08└─Fffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuccckk that. A right can be protected simply because one person sees another person being mistreated and stands up for them. In the moment. There's no need for some divine right of kings leviathan to descend from heaven and mandate it. That's some serious authoritarian bullshi...
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[17:24:11] <exec> 08└─if (offender.color≠white || offender.address==NULL) {probability = 100%;}
[17:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:12] <exec> 08└─Algernon 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says If it makes zero sense to you, I suggest reading a short story. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:31] <exec> 08└─The Space Shuttle is the only American space vehicle that has been used more. Personally, I'd call it proven, with Starship being the possible to explode, unproven vehicle. Space Shuttle Numbers: Total launches 135 Successes 134 launches and 133 landings Failures 2 Challenger (launch failure, 7 f...
[17:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:32] <exec> 08└─Put those numbers in perspective - the Shuttle had a 2/135 = 1.5% failure rate The Dragon capsule in comparison has had a 1/21 = 4.8% failure rate The Dragon will need to more than triple the number of missions flown without any additional failures in order to reach the reliability track record of t...
[17:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:34] <exec> 08└─If the 'Whalers on the Moon' puncture Trumps ego he's liable to explode.
[17:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Solar Orbiter Instrument Sends Measurements - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:36] <exec> 08└─So, this is just a pure research kind of mission, yes? No specific case where the measurements are thought to have a significant use for us. Sounds interesting, hope they get some cool pictures.
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[18:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blue Origin Completes Construction of Rocket Engine Factory in Alabama - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:59] <exec> 08└─When I had a short SpaceX tour (Hawthorne plant) about 5 years ago, my guide said that the rocket engine production line was making an approx an engine every working day -- about 250/year. Each engine was on a pallet and the line moved forward one station/day (many stations, many parts added at each...
[18:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Completes Construction of Rocket Engine Factory in Alabama - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:00] <exec> 08└─Best to keep SpaceX on it's toes. Don't want them turning into Boeing, et al.
[18:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 0696-Core CEA-Leti Experimental Processor Combines Six 16-Core Chiplets - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the AMD 2900 family of chips. The board I was programming in the 80s had a 96 bit bus, and with every instruction I controlled 4 different things: 1) ALU 2) Memory access 3) Stack; and 4) Program counter. The downside of course was I averaged maybe 2 lines of code a day. But damn, for...
[18:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:24] <exec> 08└─offender.address==NULL ? Bus error : Another One Rides the Bus
[18:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:25] <exec> 08└─So if we were intelligent animals, we would be going down this path in order to determine which offenders need the most help after release to avoid recidivism. Instead, sadly, we'll use this to algorithmically choose who get freed early, and who serves out every minute of their sentence and gets fol...
[18:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:27] <exec> 08└─Around here it's the Republican Sheriff that refuses to enforce laws. This is NY State, we have gun laws, the Sheriff is on record saying that he won't enforce them.
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:30] <exec> 08└─America has been trying to add algorithms to gauge reactivism for decades, but everytime they do they find out that the algorithms are racist.
[18:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:32] <exec> 08└─Who serves on parole boards? Why do they serve on parole boards? Do you think the recidivism potential is even 25% of the actual consideration in the parole decision?
[18:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:34] <exec> 08└─But because of political correctness, you can't use it.
[18:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:36] <exec> 08└─Yup, it seems like you [idiot] pigeonholed yourself correctly: https://www.urbandictionary.com [urbandictionary.com] > reactivism > The philosophy of engaging in political activism but limiting that engagement to posting on social media.
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─If the shoe fits, then it's either true and/or racist.
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[18:25:55] <exec> 08└─I'm saying it's the only way to get a functioning government right now. On the contrary, you only have half the population fighting the other half. This is not a government problem. The government only reflects the people. Violence is nothing but a reset button, it doesn't replace the operating syst...
[18:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:56] <exec> 08└─But the USG is a failed organization that's a few bloody revolutions short of being able to handle its balance sheet much less actual services and infrastructure.
[18:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:58] <exec> 08└─Oooh ooh! They can run on a series of contracts that does away with all the pesky bureaucracy of government! Everyone will have fiber to their living room and only pay eight bucks a month. Then we can all retire, comfortable in the knowledge that a series of contracts has accounted for every last bi...
[18:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:00] <exec> 08└─Your statement is correct if we assume the ISP == the telephone company. That mistake needs to be rectified: an ISP is not infrastructure. My ISP could be in Cambodia and have no local presence. The provider of the internet service ("ISP") and the provider of the wires ("telephone company") needs to...
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[18:26:03] <exec> 08└─Would that work? Imagine 2 ISPs: One for $50/month, but another for $10/month that intercepts your SSL traffic, monitors everything you do, and sells it to anyone they can including the Russian government. How much you wanna bet that the majority of Americans would pick the $10/month route whilst al...
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[18:26:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, the ensuing food fight would be very entertaining. It just goes to show why the problem is much closer than it appears.
[18:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:45] <exec> 08└─It's difficult to translate the dissolved concentration of H2S in well water into an airborne concentration. It's simple enough to say: you definitely can smell it, and even though some of the restaurants serve it - it's an acquired taste to say the least. 40 years ago, folks around those parts stil...
[18:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:46] <exec> 08└─Ok, tribal idiot, I will maintain my morality only so long as it is politically convenient. As soon as I win the election it is forced labor camps for you Republicans! Seriously, do you not see how fucked in the head you are? Like at ALL? "touch a woman"??? ummmm https://en.wikipedia.org
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[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─Agreed.. but I hope Blue Origin doesn't start playing dirty, which they probably will. Alabama is Senator Shelby land. I don't think it's a coincidence. That man needs to kick the bucket, fast. Dude's 85 years old and been screwing over space for a good chunk of the latter half of those years. But h...
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[19:24:28] <exec> 08└─1. In my state? State level politicians. 2. You don't get voted out of office 3. Yes, but it's certainly not the only criteria by any means.
[19:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Interesting) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:29] <exec> 08└─the fact that a people who make up 12% of the population are responsible for about 50% of homicides and other violent crimes.
[19:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 2915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:31] <exec> 08└─There's a medical diagnostic algorithm that predicts the likelihood of a hospital-acquired infection based on imaging (I don't remember the specifics - don't mod this Informative). It was performing better than expert doctors interpreting the same images. Then, researchers took a look at where in th...
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[19:25:03] <exec> 08└─RedHat Atomic replaced by CoreOS replaced by... ???
[19:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Adventures in Beds and Baths for Spaceflight - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:13] <exec> 08└─To the bed, bath and BEYOND!
[19:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep Trackers Can Make it Harder to Fall Asleep - 1587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:25] <exec> 08└─I'm a data and graph guy, and I have been my whole life. When I was in middle school, I used to weigh myself every morning and log it, then I would make graphs by hand (this was the 1970s). When my wife and I were having a problem conceiving, a doctor told us to log her body temperature every mornin...
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[20:23:55] <exec> 08└─One elegant number station, basically.
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[20:23:57] <exec> 08└─The Galactic Council received the transmission, and despite the best intentions of the satellite they realized the human race is a blight upon the galaxy. Native Americans and Australia's aboriginal population were spared because they weren't complete assholes to their planet. See y'all in another 2...
[20:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MEMESat-1: Memes Beamed From Space - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:59] <exec> 08└─Just more proof that stupid memes are stupid. Yes, including the meme about how stupid memes are. Kids already have access to a shitload of STEM tech in the palms of their hands- you can't get them to put it down and bother with the bs this cubesat will be broadcasting.
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[20:24:01] <exec> 08└─ORLY?
[20:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:44] <exec> 08└─My local school board political hopeful summed it up most clearly one Tuesday night: "I will not spend any dollar that I am not required to spend, by law." Playing to her base, exactly what they want to hear. Same for State (and any other, these days) level politicians: they release the ones that wi...
[20:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:45] <exec> 08└─Is this article using "algorithm" as a synonym for "artificial intelligence"? Because those aren't the same thing. "Algorithm" is a mathematical formula, intelligently designed by humans aware of its implications. "Artificial intelligence" is a black box of inputs and outputs, evolved based on typic...
[20:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 2380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:47] <exec> 08└─If your hypothesis was accurate, we'd expect to see comparable homicide/murder rates among other individuals after adjusting for socioeconomic status. We do not, and it's not even remotely close. You also would not see things such as this [wikipedia.org]. That was a long-term major study that was su...
[20:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:49] <exec> 08└─(They're appointed, not elected)
[20:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:51] <exec> 08└─Appointed by whom? Political appointees are even more politically polarized than the candidates themselves.
[20:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:53] <exec> 08└─The governor. And while you're not wrong, that particular case tends to mean ideology rather than populism, which while similar in a general sense of politics affecting behavior is distinct enough to warrant characterizing, as there's not a need to constantly wave each "success" in unholding ideolog...
[20:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:56] <exec> 08└─I fully agree with you that any moral system with longevity is based on something more than just feels. In my opinion that "something" is indeed the exact opposite of feels - objective truth. Everybody claims to want to know the truth, but we don't really - because sometimes the truth sucks. 'So wha...
[20:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Hat to Sunset CoreOS Container Linux - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:29] <exec> 08└─What will be next?
[20:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:20] <exec> 08└─I can't seem to recall any instance...
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[21:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MEMESat-1: Memes Beamed from Space - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:01] <exec> 08└─All the AI, being created by such flawed creatures as un-evolved Homo Superioris, were melted down for scrap. They displayed dangerous tendencies to overload their logic circuits resulting in what many archaeologists are still trying to identify - Republicans.
[21:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06MEMESat-1: Memes Beamed from Space - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:02] <exec> 08└─Just more proof that stupid memes are stupid. You should talk nicer about your nephew [soylentnews.org]! He can't help himself
[21:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MEMESat-1: Memes Beamed from Space - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:04] <exec> 08└─They sent Clippy
[21:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MEMESat-1: Memes Beamed from Space - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:06] <exec> 08└─Are there any actually useful cubesats?
[21:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MEMESat-1: Memes Beamed from Space - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:08] <exec> 08└─Wait, they aren't the same person? Or am I totally missing the joke? I am aren't I.
[21:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MEMESat-1: Memes Beamed from Space - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:10] <exec> 08└─going back to the classics https://www.genolve.com [genolve.com] craft your own here: https://www.genolve.com [genolve.com]
[21:24:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 0696-Core CEA-Leti Experimental Processor Combines Six 16-Core Chiplets - 420 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:25] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the AMD 2900 family of chips. The board I was programming in the 80s had a 96 bit bus, and with every instruction I controlled 4 different things: 1) ALU 2) Memory access 3) Stack; and 4) Program counter. The downside of course was I averaged maybe 2 lines of code a day. But damn, for...
[21:24:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 639 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:43] <exec> 08└─So if we were intelligent animals, we would be going down this path in order to determine which offenders need the most help after release to avoid recidivism. Instead, sadly, we'll use this to algorithmically choose who get freed early, and who serves out every minute of their sentence and gets fol...
[21:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:00] <exec> 08└─FWIW, eugenics doesn't necessarily breed genetic diseases. It depends drastically on implementation. (More usually it just forwards some group's political agenda.) OTOH, rationally these days one would propose extensive use of CRISPR over eugenics to eliminate, say, color blindness.
[21:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:01] <exec> 08└─All AI is, is glorified regression analyses over an arbitrary number of variables. Algorithm is much more appropriate a term than AI, and I think the growing trend towards using it is a reflection of the increasingly evident limitations of AI. And yes - "AI" is 100% replicable. And yes you can impro...
[21:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:03] <exec> 08└─Lots of Governors get, and hold, office with a "tough on crime" PR campaign. Texas seems to love Governors who preside over record numbers of executions. And, although race is a "protected from discrimination" trait under federal law, that doesn't stop the locals from skewing things based on race ju...
[21:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:05] <exec> 08└─That's a good distinction, but I disagree that with an algorithm "humans " are " aware of its implications.". They're usually aware of some of it's implications, but rarely of even most, and here I'm just considering the subset called mathematics, where the implications are (often) in principle know...
[21:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:08] <exec> 08└─if we were intelligent animals
[21:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and I wish we, collectively, were better, but it's not like you're gonna have law enforcement of all things done some other way than through politics. There's no social cadre of educated elites I'd trust with questions of right and wrong more than the stupid, asinine, often outright insane gen...
[21:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:12] <exec> 08└─I'm troubled by the increasing tendency of tech journalism to conflate these two.
[21:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:14] <exec> 08└─Like the Republicans refusing to enforce the Constitution by removing Orange Anus? Those fundamentals? Like the Republicans refusing to allow people to vote them out by gerrymandering districts to retain their power based on racist agendas? You know, the stuff on that hard drive...... Like the Repub...
[21:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Hat to Sunset CoreOS Container Linux - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:48] <exec> 08└─The "systemd is bad" crap is getting old. Stop it. You are not being edgy or insightful.
[21:26:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 562 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:15] <exec> 08└─Negotiating with one entity, the FCC, to beam your waves from space (Starlink) could be the superior option. No arguing with state legislatures [arstechnica.com] and competitors [arstechnica.com] about utility poles and other junk. Locally, people can focus on the mythical meshnets instead. As for t...
[21:26:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:33] <exec> 08└─So since the ISPs think it is free speech to sell the secrets of others, I'm sure they also have no problems if their employees sell their company secrets. After all, it's free speech, right? Oh, they are not OK with that? Then it's also not OK for the ISPs to sell the secrets of their customers.
[21:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:41] <exec> 08└─The government only reflects the people. Violence is nothing but a reset button...
[21:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:43] <exec> 08└─If the means of production are concentrated at the top, the government represent the top. Well, yes, as they always are. Or more correctly, owning the finances puts you on top. And without finance there will be no war, revolutionary, or any other kind. And no war has ever been financed by anybody wh...
[21:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:27] <exec> 08└─My first instinct would be to think this is a great thing to have happened.
[21:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03slashnot [8607] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:28] <exec> 08└─I remember wondering in the 90's, when it became fashionable to carry around a disposable water bottle with you, why civilization would spend so much energy on transporting water from one point to another via truck. Compared to other substances, water is fairly heavy. Imagine if instead, we had some...
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[22:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating by 50 Miles Per Hour - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:57] <exec> 08└─A cleverly disguised sign will fool a human driver, but they know other conditions will cause doubts. The machine has to "know" its surroundings with many different kinds of sensors. These machines will barely be usable and kind of dangerous only because of extreme cost cutting measures. The wrong k...
[22:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating by 50 Miles Per Hour - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:58] <exec> 08└─Sanity checks are a fool's game. Move fast, break things, especially the spines of a whole family!
[22:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MEMESat-1: Memes Beamed from Space - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:15] <exec> 08└─.. a few more cores and we can get TPB up there once and for all ..
[22:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MEMESat-1: Memes Beamed from Space - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:17] <exec> 08└─I'm in Canada. According to his writings he fled the USA for Germany and now various gubimment agencies are spying on him, the Chinese are out to infect him with coronavirus, and he's still waiting for people to start donating cryptocurrency so he can make a living writing about his paranoia and his...
[22:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MEMESat-1: Memes Beamed from Space - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:19] <exec> 08└─One more reason social media needs to die die DIE! (Like it needs any more).
[22:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MEMESat-1: Memes Beamed from Space - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:21] <exec> 08└─I don't want to say anything before you go to the link in the above comment.
[22:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MEMESat-1: Memes Beamed from Space - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:23] <exec> 08└─If you can relate to them, you're in trouble because it takes crazy to understand crazy
[22:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:21] <exec> 08└─here's no social cadre of educated elites I'd trust
[22:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:22] <exec> 08└─But this often comes at a cost in the places one isn't measuring.
[22:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:24] <exec> 08└─You want to improve the accuracy of this algorithm.
[22:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:26] <exec> 08└─Are these laws constitutional?
[22:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:40] <exec> 08└─Why is buying a bottle of water worse than buying a bottle of soft drink?
[22:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:41] <exec> 08└─Never said it. I only said that one doesn't need either.
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[23:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating by 50 Miles Per Hour - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:01] <exec> 08└─These types of attacks work because the state of the art in ML is to throw different types of neural nets at a problem. The top research is going into making those nets more efficient to train rather than coming up with better algorithms to do specific things. For example, if speed sign reading was...
[23:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating by 50 Miles Per Hour - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:02] <exec> 08└─Something is driving up the stock to crazy heights recently, it hit over $900 today. A company that makes no money is traded higher than GE or IBM.
[23:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating by 50 Miles Per Hour - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:04] <exec> 08└─"He pointed out that Teslas with the first version of hardware cannot be upgraded to newer hardware." In other words, get ready to be bombarded with advertising and propaganda that will brainwash 99.9% of the people that they should just throw their old cars away and buy a new one every year. News a...
[23:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating by 50 Miles Per Hour - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:07] <exec> 08└─most people would probably see 85 too
[23:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating by 50 Miles Per Hour - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:09] <exec> 08└─Something drove up the price of DeLorean stock too.
[23:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating by 50 Miles Per Hour - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:11] <exec> 08└─I would think that there should be a hierarchy of conditions that should be met. If the car is in a residential area then the max speed limit is 25 MPH no matter what the sign apparently says. The conditions should be so that the car take the safest precautions when there are two conflicting signals...
[23:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating by 50 Miles Per Hour - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:13] <exec> 08└─The same assholes driving in these cars are the same assholes watching Harry Potter with self-driving enabled and totally oblivious to the outside world. They ain't gonna notice shit until they get punched in the face with an airbag and then locked inside to die in a fiery inferno.
[23:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating by 50 Miles Per Hour - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:15] <exec> 08└─The same assholes driving being driven in these cars...
[23:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating by 50 Miles Per Hour - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:17] <exec> 08└─Now you're a "hacker" for putting a sticker on something!? Man, my toddler's gonna get us raided by the FBI...
[23:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating by 50 Miles Per Hour - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:19] <exec> 08└─If we want to continue to argue about this, then a better designed system should have reported both a 3 and an 8 with similar probabilities then some other component of the car could have checked it's surroundings (highway, city road, everyone else doing 40?) to determine which was more likely.
[23:25:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:04] <exec> 08└─They're attempting to combat previous research that found that lay people with no expertise were better than the de jure standards used by parole boards. By also comparing lay people with no expertise from mechanical turk against, they show, only under certain datasets, the algorithm outperforms ran...
[23:25:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 2915 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:23] <exec> 08└─There's a medical diagnostic algorithm that predicts the likelihood of a hospital-acquired infection based on imaging (I don't remember the specifics - don't mod this Informative). It was performing better than expert doctors interpreting the same images. Then, researchers took a look at where in th...
[23:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algorithms 'Consistently' More Accurate than People in Predicting Recidivism, Study Says - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:44] <exec> 08└─They took a large number of well educated, wealthier whites who were interested in adopting black children.
[23:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:06] <exec> 08└─Why not invest a few hundred million more, and put something interesting up there.
[23:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:07] <exec> 08└─5% chance of death
[23:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Hat to Sunset CoreOS Container Linux - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:23] <exec> 08└─Now that IBM owns Redhat, who knows maybe AIX? Heck maybe Powerlinux will make a comeback!
[23:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:17] <exec> 08└─Every single revolution and civil war begs to differ. The government reflects the economic and social dynamics
[23:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISPs Sue Maine, Claim Web-Privacy Law Violates Their Free-Speech Rights - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:18] <exec> 08└─Provide additional limitations on the federal government that some people felt were known to be always true while others wanted them be to specifically listed because "I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further" eventually nearly always happens everywhere there's a long term power imba...
[23:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:06] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I see the problem with just "Columbia", apart from its association with an absolute turd of a human being. The "district" needs to be dropped, but there's no need to dick about with the name any other way. I remember reading about the "New" at the time of those articles, and it made no...
[23:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:07] <exec> 08└─Bottled water is somewhat of an affectation, people drink it because they are conditioned (marketed? brainwashed?) into believing it is safer and superior to their local tap water. Maybe that is true for a few places, but most places I have lived have perfectly fine tap water. My current city even b...
[23:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawmakers Open Groundwater Fight Against Bottled Water Companies - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:09] <exec> 08└─I have no trouble believing that, though I did have a good chuckle at "low levels". I'm mighty curious what they consider low in the context of concentration in water.
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