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[00:24:20] <exec> 08└─Unless they're doing an autopsy...
[00:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:21] <exec> 08└─Better than nothing? 100-120 is pretty small range of 100-175. Better not have the damn heart beat sensor at all.
[00:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:23] <exec> 08└─My resting HR was just above 125 with peaks up to 178 for a year after a PTSD trigger. They couldn't find any medical cause for the tachycardia.
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[00:27:41] <exec> 08└─Is if you have more than one pet. My uncle used to have two dogs (one died of old age, my uncle will probably get another one) and I have a cousin that has two cats. If you can figure out a way for the pet feeder to reliably feed each pet the right amount without them fighting over the food and one...
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[00:27:42] <exec> 08└─(same poster) In the meantime sometimes my brother or I get stuck having to feed my uncle's dogs while he is at work if it doesn't conflict with one of our schedules. Or sometimes my uncle will get my other uncle, his brother, to do it. Or sometime he would have to pay someone to do it which would p...
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[00:29:03] <exec> 08└─Are gravy waves caused by gravy trains?
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[01:24:12] <exec> 08└─We have dumb fuck politicians who still insist coal is the only way. Case in point? That dumb fuck Matt Canavan. These people literally wan the government to subsidise building new coal fired power. This battery array is the elephant in the room for all sides of politics. They are all literally subs...
[01:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:29] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, you just want confirmation of your heart rate and rhythm. There are free Android apps for that. They use a phone camera and light to mimic a pulse oximeter. Many Androids have their camera lens and light in close proximity, and you can cover both with a finger. When you place your finger...
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[01:24:48] <exec> 08└─What mattered was the possibility. People could not be sure that some patent troll with submarine patents would not pop up at the worst time and bring a lawsuit. Even with the certainty that the lawsuit was totally groundless, and the troll was guaranteed to lose in court, no one wanted to go throug...
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[01:24:49] <exec> 08└─In the DOS days.
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[02:24:02] <exec> 08└─Psyche asshole what? "Drank" some corona, did you? Need some 3m masks? BTW, I love 3M. Done it since the floppy disks days. The lovely texture of oiled paper sleeves. Verbatim seemed ... fake love.
[02:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Porsche Trials V2X at Dealerships - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:53] <exec> 08└─So tell us about how these systems will be secure from bad actors? Do I dare drive downtown with my fancy V2X enabled car, or will Nick Cage hijack it remotely and drive it straight to a chop shop (with or without me inside)?
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[03:24:14] <exec> 08└─n/t
[03:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06129 MWh Australia Tesla Battery System More Successful than Expected - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:16] <exec> 08└─Pokes around and couldn't find the initial cost of this Tesla "big battery" installation (batteries + support-electronics). Anyone? The "savings/year" number doesn't mean much if the payback is 20 years or something...
[03:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06129 MWh Australia Tesla Battery System More Successful than Expected - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:18] <exec> 08└─Tesla’s massive Powerpack battery in Australia cost $66 million and already made up to ~$17 million
[03:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06129 MWh Australia Tesla Battery System More Successful than Expected - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:20] <exec> 08└─Honestly, the cost savings is just a bonus to them. The proof of concept being functional was their main aim. I would say they've hit that target and then some. I expected it to turn out to be a wash on saving money at best. At worst, I expected some industrial fire that couldn't be put out. Though,...
[03:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:38] <exec> 08└─In case anyone isn't familiar with the old, approx. calculation: > You can calculate your maximum heart rate [target for vigorous exercise] by subtracting your age from 220. For example, if you're 45 years old, subtract 45 from 220 to get a maximum heart rate of 175. If you were really up to 178 b/m...
[03:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:39] <exec> 08└─If you don't want to use your phone (it might send your data somewhere???), they are cheap on eBay. Here's one for less than USD $3.00, with free shipping. Just wipe down with isopropyl when you get it, in case of contamination from China... https://www.ebay.com
[03:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Doodle Celebrates Alice in Wonderland Illustrator John Tenniel's 200th Birthday - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:56] <exec> 08└─When it splooged [urbandictionary.com] all over one of Tenniel's illustrations of her. Hooray for Alice in Wonderland!
[03:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:16] <exec> 08└─Actually, I like having my stuff with me, and keeping the rain and other people's fingers out of it. Besides, the DMV considers a van to be classified as a personal use vehicle, but they watch me like a hawk if I haul a load in the bed of a pickup truck unless I register it as a commercial vehicle....
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[03:26:45] <exec> 08└─* runs *
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[04:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:06] <exec> 08└─Government gonna cover it?
[04:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:07] <exec> 08└─Everyone overreact, shut down businesses, avoid contact with anyone, and mod this comment -1!
[04:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:09] <exec> 08└─Active Cases 41,679 including 7,568 (18%) Serious or Critical Closed Cases 45,313 including 2,979 (7%) Deaths https://www.worldometers.info [worldometers.info] Since we now have more closed cases than open, this 7% dead number is unlikely to go down unless more people with mild symptoms...
[04:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:11] <exec> 08└─Just for my own edification, I looked up US death rates from normal flu - they run between 12,000 and 60,000 annually, depending on the severity of the season. The first US death attributable to COVID-19 was officially recorded today: a 50 year old man in Oregon. What I want to know is: who wants th...
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[04:24:13] <exec> 08└─Democrats. It is in their best interest if the world is burning down or the economy crashing around Trump in order to remove attention from the DumpsterFire National Committee.
[04:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:15] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/YZrqxxahlyQ?t=281 [youtu.be] The link is to a specific time because the few seconds before the audio will explode in volume. There is no useful information lost except "we have a new coronaviRUSUSUSURURURURURURURURURURUR" *dead air* This video was not considered reliable enough for...
[04:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:56] <exec> 08└─and recognizing that getting good grades is important socially is also part of being intelligent.
[04:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:58] <exec> 08└─Economics is not science.
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[05:24:13] <exec> 08└─Who is benefiting
[05:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:14] <exec> 08└─This is God's punishment to those who don't support Donald Trump. The one statistic not quoted by *anyone* is that not one Trump supporter has been infected with COVID-19. So, my friends, avoid the wrath of the almighty and the pox he has brought down on those who don't support our dear leader! #Tru...
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[05:24:16] <exec> 08└─Q: Should I be tested for COVID-19? A: If you develop a fever and symptoms of respiratory illness, such as cough or shortness of breath, within 14 days after travel from China, you should call ahead to a healthcare professional and mention your recent travel or close contact. If you have had close c...
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[05:24:18] <exec> 08└─Italy looks like it could possibly get its infections under control in a couple of months (there's some modest signs of slowdown in new infections), but I can't say the same for South Korea or Iran, both who still have number of new infections increasing at a rapid, exponential rate. My take is that...
[05:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:20] <exec> 08└─Remember the Maine! "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."
[05:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 2361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:22] <exec> 08└─February 28, 2020 Instagram Dear Friend, Coronavirus (COVID-19) has garnered a substantial amount of national media attention in recent weeks. While as of today no cases have been confirmed in Florida, it is important that we take the necessary precautions and increase awareness of how to prevent...
[05:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:24] <exec> 08└─Good - its symptoms are mostly mild, particularly to the young and healthy. It can get nasty for the old with respiratory issues. Bad - it's hella contagious. IT IS coming to the pub near you. Thank you, CHICOM. Cocksuckers.
[05:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:26] <exec> 08└─South Korea has been mentioned in pass, while being the next after China, with over 3000 cases, many linked to a cult site. Hyundai stopped car production in one plant after one employee became ill. Lack of parts not helping either. Then Italy with over 1000 and some towns quarantined, worst hit out...
[05:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:28] <exec> 08└─Tokyo Olympics is kaput. Radioactive olympics is a sweet sweet glowing memory.
[05:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:11] <exec> 08└─Saying categorically that economics is not a science strike me as well as a bit over the top. Economics is an area where science is sometimes crowded out of academia in favour of something politically correct. What fields are immune, however? There's even a politically correct physics, though it has...
[05:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:12] <exec> 08└─No, he Carl Poppa, did you read? I am disappoint.
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[06:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:02] <exec> 08└─Boomers see the headline doesn't read Mid-1950s; Boomers stop reading.
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[06:24:25] <exec> 08└─> The first US death attributable to COVID-19 was officially recorded today: a 50 year old man in Oregon. The story I read said he had other medical problems too.
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[06:24:26] <exec> 08└─I disagree with your interpretation of the data. I think you've interpreted the data incorrectly and I don't share your pessimism at all. Here are a few issues and some additional commentary: 1) It is widely believed that Iran is seriously underreporting the number of cases in the country. The death...
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[06:24:28] <exec> 08└─Although the post seems to be a sensible summary, it doesn't stress enough the effort we must make to slow the spread of the virus. The reason is that as it spreads faster, fewer people will get decent hospital care. https://medium.com
[06:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:30] <exec> 08└─I disagree with your interpretation of the data.
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[06:24:32] <exec> 08└─Well that just proves it, it's a manufactured virus cheaply mass-produced in China for getting rid of our Old People.
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[06:24:34] <exec> 08└─Real state of politics: prior to corona, Sanders looked/looks likely to win the DNC nomination, and Trump's approval rating was moving into the positive (49 vs 48). DNC and its media is looking to shake things up in any way possible. The virus is pretty nasty stuff, but the media is currently obviou...
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[06:24:36] <exec> 08└─Please. It's more than a problem with who is going to cover it. Social services were never adequately funded in the first place, and it's arguable whether or not they were setup to fail. There are no systems in place big enough right now to handle what is going to happen. Not to mention, so many of...
[06:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06129 MWh Australia Tesla Battery System More Successful than Expected - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:55] <exec> 08└─Hydroeletric's pretty damn fast. Wile E Coyote pedalling mid-air is the only quicker source of energy.
[06:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:16] <exec> 08└─I recently had an infection, and my pulse was 150BPM. I'm thinking whether your heartbeat is regular or not, you can safely alert someone that their heartbeat is over a couple beats a second when their lack of activity says suggests it should be much less.
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[06:25:37] <exec> 08└─That had nothing to do with it. Pure arithemetic coding was unencumbered, in the 1980s no-one cared or even knew about patent trolls, and even for patented stuff like LZW everyone used it because Sperry weren't enforcing their patent. Even ignoring all of that, no-one operates like that because then...
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[07:24:08] <exec> 08└─Even their seasons are upside down.
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[07:24:09] <exec> 08└─Related to all this is the calculation of the date of Easter each year. https://www.timeanddate.com [timeanddate.com] I remember having to write a program in my very first programming class (Pascal on the universities mainframe) that would calculate the day that...
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[07:24:39] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, overreaction. Even though we have the CDC, and world wide officials, saying "when" not "if". Most reasonable people, that don't see political enemies in all speech against them, are saying this is the time for containment and detection. But we shouldn't overreact right? It's not like we don'...
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[07:24:40] <exec> 08└─it's a manufactured virus Yes [nature.com] to examine the emergence potential (that is, the potential to infect humans) of circulating bat CoVs, we built a chimeric virus encoding a novel, zoonotic CoV spike protein...
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[07:24:43] <exec> 08└─For your #2, it's likely that many people simply recovered before being diagnosed. Early on it wasn't well understood what was going on and the early reaction was not very constructive. Think of it this way : suppose you are a resident of Wuhan. Are you going to go to the government today and say "I...
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[07:24:45] <exec> 08└─If we take proper precautions and don't allow hospitals to become overcrowded
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[07:24:47] <exec> 08└─Good ol' Rush Limbaugh says it's no worse than the common cold people! The Trumper that told me that, followed it up with, "These people are full of shit. Nobody knows they're doing". That's a sign of the apocalypse if anything, a Trumper and a Never Trumper agreeing on something against the will of...
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[07:24:49] <exec> 08└─At one level, you're entirely correct. Why overreact, when all the science says that only upwards of 2-3 million people in the US would die from it. Older people being the highest mortality, followed by weakened individuals. Fair enough.
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[07:24:51] <exec> 08└─That's not what there is to be panicked about. Nearly everyone agrees that the mortality rate is lower than the viruses that came before. I don't know if it's general knowledge, but most people seem to know that babies have the best chance, and its' the old and immune compromised that are getting hi...
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[07:25:30] <exec> 08└─Unless they're doing an autopsy...
[07:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:32] <exec> 08└─Hopefully, those who think they should rely on it will eventually find themselves the recipient of a Darwin award.
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[08:24:09] <exec> 08└─The article does not as such mention leap seconds (there is a link to another article, which is about leap seconds [theconversation.com], though), but they too play a role stopping us from ending up the wrong side of night and day every 43 200 years or so. It sure is a complicated world we live in...
[08:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:11] <exec> 08└─...we are lucky just to find lunchtime in any given day.
[08:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:13] <exec> 08└─You're speaking of Zeller's Congruence [wikipedia.org] right? I remember coding that too, and also in Pascal :)
[08:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:15] <exec> 08└─I'm using your post as my sig from now on :)
[08:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:17] <exec> 08└─Oh damn, that was so long ago. Many, many Easters, lol. I'm afraid I can neither confirm nor deny :)
[08:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:19] <exec> 08└─It's an interesting article that finally cleared up the puzzle how the Gregorian calendar, making the average year a bit shorter is a better approximation to the real year than the Julian calendar, despite the exact length of the year being even longer than the Julian year. The solution is exactly t...
[08:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, agree. Trust the media to hype it to the max. Every few years, there's some new terrible disease. Couple of years ago, it was Zika. Before that, Ebola. Way back in the 1980s and 1990s, it was AIDS. And when it's not something most people have never heard of before, it's some new flu strain tha...
[08:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 1704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:56] <exec> 08└─When I suggest that improved treatments were responsible for the lower death rate, that was a general statement and not just about remdesivir. Regarding it being promising, I'll cite Scientific American [scientificamerican.com], which discusses very preliminary tests involving SARS and MERS. Remdesi...
[08:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:59] <exec> 08└─Odds are, Knowledge_Troll is going to get infected, and die. Mostly because of underlying conditions, especially a paranoiac fear of contracting the Crown Virus, and dying. Something of a self-fulfulling hypochondriac prediction, if you know what I mean. So, the odds are, oh, I dunno, 57-84% that he...
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[08:25:01] <exec> 08└─The story I read said he had other medical problems too.
[08:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:03] <exec> 08└─Italy looks like it could possibly get its infections under control, . . . same for South Korea or Iran, . . . we still have a chance to stop the disease . . .
[08:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:05] <exec> 08└─France I don't think would be a huge problem, because if you get sick their right now, both culture and socialized medicine provide for them to stay home in their own beds and to be visited by a doctor.
[08:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:07] <exec> 08└─There's worse things than death. You could have your balls wither and fall off from constant fear, and your brains eaten by zombies, yet still be alive, if that counts as being alive.
[08:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:55] <exec> 08└─Being able to figure out the conformance that the test is demanding is part of being intelligent, and recognizing that getting good grades is important socially is also part of being intelligent.
[08:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:00] <exec> 08└─Economics is too dependent on human behavior, which is always changing. It's basically group psychology for how people relate to money and work. That's why the economics Nobel Prize is not a real one, and sponsored by some bank.
[08:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:01] <exec> 08└─More likely, he heard shitty arguments like that one (discounting someone's argument through mere assertion) What? That's not "assertion", that's demonstrating that we should expect persons with his conclusions, among intellectually honest and capable persons. Where did I assert that he's wrong? I d...
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[08:28:03] <exec> 08└─Poor Norwegians and Swedes, huh? *eyeroll* You sound like a foolish USA'ian, conflating centrally planned authoritarian communism with socialism. Anyways.
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[09:25:07] <exec> 08└─That scientist has ulterior motives. Her brother is Rod Rosenstein, who undermined the Trump administration when he was the Deputy Attorney General. https://theconservativetreehouse.com [thecons...
[09:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:08] <exec> 08└─This video was not considered reliable enough for inclusion
[09:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06129 MWh Australia Tesla Battery System More Successful than Expected - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:29] <exec> 08└─The problem with hydroelectric is that it is not available everywhere. Where it is, even the energy storage is a solved problem: If there's excess electricity from other power forms, use it to pump water up. When you later need that energy, run that water through the plant.
[09:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03zmodem [9643] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into the History and Evolution of Zip Compression - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:13] <exec> 08└─Author here. I didn't write about LZW as I wanted to focus on Deflate, which is not based on LZW. While LZW is also interesting, and PKZip's legacy "shrink" method used it, I figured the article was already long as it is :-) LZW's patent problem does get a brief mention, as the motivation for why zl...
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[09:28:08] <exec> 08└─A quote from Dyson: Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but they look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. Both le...
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[10:24:18] <exec> 08└─Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. (Thanks Douglas)
[10:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:04] <exec> 08└─Why does this have to have a political driver behind it? This is happening worldwide - it has got nothing at all to do with US politics. However, if your media is trying to present it in a way that shows that the US government is ill-prepared for a pandemic, well the same could probably be said abo...
[10:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:05] <exec> 08└─Tokyo Olympics is kaput.
[10:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:07] <exec> 08└─We publish and discuss submissions - and we haven't seen any telling us that any firm plan has yet been decided and publicised. Sure, there is plenty of well-intentioned advice, but nobody has submitted the details of a National Plan for this situation.
[10:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:09] <exec> 08└─I didn't think the editorial choice was a bad idea though I didn't think about the case of verifying that the video is not something like bait and switch. Such a decision sounds good to me. Additionally I had not pondered the fact that there had never been a video used like that before in an article...
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[10:25:11] <exec> 08└─Doesn't anybody 'think' about what they read and hear from TV in the USA?
[10:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03zmodem [9643] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into the History and Evolution of Zip Compression - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:14] <exec> 08└─Author here. Unless I missed something, they're all LSB-first. The only code that uses MSB-first values is the Huffman decoder based on canonical codes, but that's more of an implementation detail.
[10:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:32] <exec> 08└─I'd be concerned about the meta. NASA is a big customer still, and while it shouldn't matter - humiliating them is probably not good for business.
[10:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:33] <exec> 08└─Mine never missed a beat. https://www.tractorsupply.com [tractorsupply.com]
[10:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/pet-lodge-chow-hound-dog-feeder-50-lb-capacity?cm_vc=-10005 [tractorsupply.com] Fill it with 50 pounds of dog food, and let the dogs sort it out. Come back next week, and do it again. OK, so, next week, you can't empty a whole fifty pound bag in it. Come bac...
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[11:24:03] <exec> 08└─it just keeps moving around and around and around nothing i do can stop it what do i do i think i'm MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW
[11:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Sues Analytics Firm For Allegedly Harvesting User Data - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:04] <exec> 08└─I read the article, it was pretty light on what exactly was malicious about the software that Facebook doesn't already do with it's apps. I get that it harvest user data, so does damn near everything else these days. Truly I think the issue is that Facebook is protective of the data it holds reign...
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[11:24:13] <exec> 08└─Isn't it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground You in mid-air Send in the clowns Isn't it bliss? Don't you approve? One who keeps tearing around One who can't move But where are the clowns? Send in the clowns Just when I stopped Opening doors Finally knowing The one that I wanted was yo...
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[11:24:29] <exec> 08└─Well, by the end of February everyone (except Antipodeans) is really tired of Winter and wants Spring to arrive.
[11:25:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 2639 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:00] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, overreaction. Even though we have the CDC, and world wide officials, saying "when" not "if". Most reasonable people, that don't see political enemies in all speech against them, are saying this is the time for containment and detection. But we shouldn't overreact right? It's not like we don'...
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[11:25:21] <exec> 08└─Just for my own edification, I looked up US death rates from normal flu - they run between 12,000 and 60,000 annually, depending on the severity of the season.
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[12:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Sues Analytics Firm For Allegedly Harvesting User Data - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:06] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I thought the title would be more accurate as, "Facebook Sues Analytics Firm for Allegedly Using Harvested Data". The data was already there, it was already harvested by Facebook which went as far as making it available via an API. The firm that Facebook is trying to shift blame towards has...
[12:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Sues Analytics Firm For Allegedly Harvesting User Data - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:08] <exec> 08└─What's next, Google suing the mafia for being evil?
[12:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Sues Analytics Firm For Allegedly Harvesting User Data - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:10] <exec> 08└─are three words contained in the sentence I'm thinking of right now.
[12:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:35] <exec> 08└─The original Roman calendar was lunar based. A year consisted of 355 days, which is about 12 lunar months. Using just straightforward math, this would have resulted in some months with 29 days and some with 30 days. However, even numbers were considered unlucky at the time, so instead they opted for...
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[12:25:27] <exec> 08└─To prevent this from happening again, we only have to convince those backwards Chinamen that eating random critters is a bad idea. Chairman Winnie-the-Poo should declare all meats except chicken, beef and pork to be off limits, with the sale of any other animals being punishable by death penalty (wh...
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[12:25:28] <exec> 08└─No problem - we didn't think that you were trying to pull the wool over our eyes but once we let one person do it well, you can imagine the possible outcome.... However, in this instance, you had done exactly what we suggested others should do and you included it in your journal. Thank you.
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[13:26:30] <exec> 08└─The author took a deep dive into ZIP, that's all. I mean, if you want to go on about what was left out, there's LZ78, and a whole host of tweaks and improvements, of which only LZSS was mentioned. LZMA and LZMA2 are perhaps the current state of the art in all the LZ variants. Then there's Huffman co...
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[13:26:43] <exec> 08└─7z for the win. Until we banned Russian software.
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[14:24:10] <exec> 08└─Of course if we're going to use data centers it's good news that they don't consume inordinate amounts of power. But huge collections of data in the hands of a few corporations would seem to offer fertile ground for exploitative AI or other abuses, and my paranoia tells me that we'd be better off wi...
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[14:24:12] <exec> 08└─Why's Javascript clientside vs. Serverside work then? Easy IF you think about it (power-consumption by MANY MORE CONSUMER END-USERS eats MORE POWER vs. a SINGLE server doing so BY FAR after all). THIS is why it was done - so YOU "FOOT THE BILL" people, NOT the corporation... this in turn, led to SHI...
[14:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:14] <exec> 08└─The scientists' findings suggest concerns that the rise of mammoth data centers would generate a surge in electricity demand and pollution have been greatly overstated.
[14:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:16] <exec> 08└─The technology needed to enable an unprecedented automated surveillance state exists today. China is leading the way, and the U.S. will follow. Now make the computing, storage, networking, etc. 10x or 100x more efficient/cheap than it is right now.
[14:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Sues Analytics Firm for Allegedly Harvesting User Data - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:27] <exec> 08└─Just read the summary carefully: to improperly harvest user data from the social network.
[14:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Sues Analytics Firm for Allegedly Harvesting User Data - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:29] <exec> 08└─Damn, the last word of this should of course have been "Facebook"!
[14:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:56] <exec> 08└─Interesting. This also gives a possible explanation for the error mentioned in the article, that leap years initially were every three years instead of every four. If the lunar year was 10 days short compared to the solar year, that difference would up to 30 days, or an additional month, every three...
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[14:25:26] <exec> 08└─Please. It's more than a problem with who is going to cover it. Social services were never adequately funded in the first place, and it's arguable whether or not they were setup to fail. There are no systems in place big enough right now to handle what is going to happen. Not to mention, so many of...
[14:25:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 313 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:31] <exec> 08└─Good ol' Rush Limbaugh says it's no worse than the common cold people! The Trumper that told me that, followed it up with, "These people are full of shit. Nobody knows they're doing". That's a sign of the apocalypse if anything, a Trumper and a Never Trumper agreeing on something against the will of...
[14:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:52] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't take the word of Trump supporters either. Being a supporter or hater of Trump gives nobody any expertise in virus containment and protection. How about we listen to the scientific bodies that are responsible in their respective countries for providing expert advice? Keep politics out o...
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[14:25:53] <exec> 08└─So, AIDS was quite real, and the awareness campaigns did a lot to prevent spread, educate, and even IMO break down a bit of prejudice (can't tackle that one all at one go, but there's clearly more awareness and acceptance of LGBQT since so many prominent celebrities died of AIDS...) West Nile and Zi...
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[14:25:55] <exec> 08└─"it is not your decision to make. " You sure about that?
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[14:25:57] <exec> 08└─I only read the headline, I assumed the story would get into his complicating factors, and whether the story got into it or not, he's #1, after all this time and hoopla, after at least 2000 US deaths from "normal" flu, now we've finally got #1. I don't feel like the hospitals are overflowing yet.
[14:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:59] <exec> 08└─the media has not been working very hard to reduce panic in this situation.
[14:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:52] <exec> 08└─There is a difference between "you can" and "you are allowed to". Most people can kill other people (there are countless methods to do so, and if you don't know how, the criminal story section of your local bookshop provides you with plenty of ideas). That doesn't mean they won't get punished if the...
[14:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:53] <exec> 08└─Not the kind of thing that one typically learns in a book
[14:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:56] <exec> 08└─Social science secret to getting rich: Buy a BMW! That's clearly a flawed study. The way to reliably get rich is to buy a Rolls Royce!
[14:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:58] <exec> 08└─nobody has ever written books about such people?
[14:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:31] <exec> 08└─Many times I have considered to learn Morse just for having a Morse keyboard in the phone. The advantage of a such keyboard is obvious: as you have only one big button you can type without looking at the screen. There are so many situations when I would want to type something while keeping my eyes s...
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[15:24:12] <exec> 08└─have been greatly overstated.
[15:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:13] <exec> 08└─SHEEPLE is SO old I don't EVEN know WHAT it MEANs any MORE. Why ARE we TALKING like THIS? 111111!!!!!!!!!
[15:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:15] <exec> 08└─Australia. Move on.
[15:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Sues Analytics Firm for Allegedly Harvesting User Data - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:28] <exec> 08└─Or you could have, ironically, called it "Facepalm"! :)
[15:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Largest Explosion Since the Big Bang - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:37] <exec> 08└─That's....random. In a bit of minor synchronicity, I learned and sang that song as an 'exam' for a voice class once.
[15:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:58] <exec> 08└─Traditional Chinese calendar(s) use a leap month, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:59] <exec> 08└─If this is a topic you find interesting, I can recommend the book The Calender, by David Ewing Duncan [goodreads.com], which goes into a great deal more detail on the development of the Western (Gregorian) calendar.
[15:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:01] <exec> 08└─One of my common brainos/typos. I can actually spell Calendar. Colour me embarrassed.
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[15:25:03] <exec> 08└─A common programming mistake is trying to make small, yet inappropriate, abstractions. Then when they don't work the abstraction slowly becomes infinitely complicated and debugging is a nightmare. Or in summary, we should abolish the "month" along with the dreaded daylight savings time. We do pretty...
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[15:26:03] <exec> 08└─Trump's approval rating was moving into the positive (49 vs 48).
[15:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:04] <exec> 08└─Hi, I have box of n95 mask. Will trade for virus. Positive test only.
[15:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:06] <exec> 08└─What it WILL do is interrupt supply chains worldwide, because of how many people may get sick at the same time.
[15:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:08] <exec> 08└─clueless boomer here, what the heck do you mean by: > ...media format that is known to be overwhelmingly conservative... Would that be talk radio? If so, why not say so explicitly?
[15:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:10] <exec> 08└─except chicken, beef and pork to be off limits
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[15:26:12] <exec> 08└─> I don't feel like the hospitals are overflowing yet. No one expects exponential growth (with an apology to Monty Python): https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Anyone have a clue what the exponent is this time?
[15:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:14] <exec> 08└─There are no systems in place big enough right now to handle what is going to happen.
[15:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:16] <exec> 08└─You may decide not to go - but you cannot cancel the games. Others can, but I'll bet you can't.
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[15:26:18] <exec> 08└─when all the science says that only upwards of 2-3 million people in the US would die from it.
[15:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:20] <exec> 08└─unless more people with mild symptoms are tested.
[15:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:23] <exec> 08└─With all the impending Doom and Gloom™ hanging over the future of mankind, I decided that for our Saturday night "Pizza and a Movie" we would re-watch Contagion. The 2011 movie about a worldwide viral pandemic that originated in China and results in millions of deaths. https://www.imdb.com
[15:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:25] <exec> 08└─How do countries believe that they were ever in a position to defend themselves from military threats if our whole economy can be brought to its knees by a virus that has crippled one of the USA's potential enemies more than anyone else at the present time? Perhaps we ought to learn to live together...
[15:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:54] <exec> 08└─Including the most recent Oscar winner ‘Parasite’
[15:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:30] <exec> 08└─Would you then say that ethology is not a science either? https://en.wikipedia.org
[15:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:32] <exec> 08└─You know, the primary data?
[15:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:34] <exec> 08└─Economics is too dependent on human behavior, which is always changing.
[15:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:36] <exec> 08└─The only strange thing is that you think this is abnormal.
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[16:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:15] <exec> 08└─You're overstating your own case. Environmental concerns are reasonable concerns. Who wants to live in a neighborhood where factories dumped toxic chemicals for decades? Who wants their county to be a nuclear power spent fuel dump? Or, how about a biological waste dump? Camden, Ar has an army muniti...
[16:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:16] <exec> 08└─The whole watermelon propaganda strategy is a little past its due date. Its tired and low energy.
[16:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:18] <exec> 08└─Moore's law has been pushing down on energy consumption since its inception. Unfortunately, commercial applications for algorithms like convolutional neural networks are going to push in the opposite direction, hard.
[16:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:21] <exec> 08└─Every time they all turn out to be overstated. Every time.
[16:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 3011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─Better speed/security/poweruse vs. SJW millenial NOT good enough for you that I put out? Ok. Obviously CRITICAL THINKING is beyond you even when I DO IT FOR YOU to think about! So, thus, it's time to ENLIGHTEN your "relaxed brain" (lol) then: From what I see of your kind? Cutting off your BALLS & "w...
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[16:26:19] <exec> 08└─Spanish Flu (1918) killed more people worldwide than WW-I and WW-II combined. Perhaps we ought to learn to live together
[16:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:20] <exec> 08└─They might also test you for spare kidneys...
[16:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:22] <exec> 08└─Is it the same lab that's engineering the climate hoax? Very smart people in JJJJJJJJJJJhina.
[16:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:25] <exec> 08└─> Anyone have a clue what the exponent is this time? It's the small number they draw on the top right next to the other one.
[16:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:27] <exec> 08└─> Noble thought, I believe it has been suggested before. So do it already. Jeez you guys are IDIOTS!11!!
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[16:26:29] <exec> 08└─I heard it's only dirty Chinese and other people like that (not that I'm racist) who get it. Sleeping with animals, dirty, dirty, dirty. Why can't they clean their dark skin. Good clean people don't have anything to worry about. Dirty germs - if that's even a thing - should be kept out of our Great...
[16:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:31] <exec> 08└─Are you seriously saying Anonymous Coward doesn't make the final call on the Olympics being cancelled?!?
[16:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:27] <exec> 08└─Intelligent children do read, create, invent... They are not intelligent BECAUSE they do read, create and invent.
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[17:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Sense Discovered in Dog Noses: The Ability to Detect Heat - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:07] <exec> 08└─We can detect low grade heat emanations over our entire skin surface, just not to the same level that was demonstrated by the dog's cold nose. I'm curious how much of this is specialization and how much is circumstance. If you cool down a section of skin (as the dogs nose is cooled down) would...
[17:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:26] <exec> 08└─Ok ok! G'damn dawg you WIN! Ok? Are you happy? You didn't say it exactly, but you're RIIIIIGHT!!!! Can you shut up now please? You have shown the world you're the looniest one here along with some obvious-to-everyone shit.
[17:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:31] <exec> 08└─"For example, in Europe, one is able to buy lamb, mutton, pigeon, partridge, pheasant, venison, grouse, horse, rabbit, goat, hare, duck, turkey, goose and more" Those are farmed animals, not bushmeat. Bushmeat IS risky - that's how some of the new epidemics came out of Africa. And this is the second...
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[17:26:33] <exec> 08└─Isn't this exactly what was said about Swine Flu? Now we have Zika too, something that provoked a similar reaction, but has already come-and-gone. This disease will now be with humanity for the rest of ever. There is nothing that we will be able to do to eradicate this virus from the human populatio...
[17:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:35] <exec> 08└─I was going to object to the inclusion of bushmeat, because I had somehow gained the impression that it referred to ape/monkey meat. A quick DDG to check says it includes any wild meat, so they are included, but not exclusively. Still, I think we should not be eating our simian cousins.
[17:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:37] <exec> 08└─Did we catch you between accounts? I've always wondered what other accounts you have. Can't be just aristarchus and E-F now. Any of them any good?
[17:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:39] <exec> 08└─I have many objection to this optimistic view, but let me point one. The US currently has under a million hospital beds - 0.3% of the population. The number of serious and critical cases is at 18%. Therefore, if we kick everybody out of hospitals, we could handle 1.5% infection rate. Now, I don't kn...
[17:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:41] <exec> 08└─AC will work on that after they cancel [soylentnews.org] the Olympics.
[17:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:43] <exec> 08└─Our "very stable genius" couldn't even get the gender of the first fatality correct. As for Rush, remind me to send him a box of his favorite cigars.
[17:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:45] <exec> 08└─Italy blamed high number of infections on testing and decided to scale it down - test only high risk people. Their tourist industry is 17% of GDP.
[17:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:17] <exec> 08└─K and M down....
[17:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:58] <exec> 08└─Ethology can be science, sure. Am I wandering into a trap here?
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[18:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:06] <exec> 08└─"As we fall toward a fiery death, you will be comforted to know that Boeing has acknoledged that there are some gaps in the software testing. These gaps are expected to be filled in sometime after we all die."
[18:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─> did not run integrated, end-to-end tests for the whole mission. Reminds me of the Formula SAE team (students build small race cars) that never ran a full "22 km endurance" run in their testing. Their car failed because the pickup in the gas tank didn't get all the fuel out--tank was large enough,...
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:37] <exec> 08└─200-600? That is one tiny electric space heater!
[18:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─yo AC stop speaking to urself it is a bad sign
[18:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:40] <exec> 08└─the quartz heater can do something with 400w, 800 better, but the cheap models seem not suited for prolonged use.
[18:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:42] <exec> 08└─It wasn't obvious to you SJW. It's obvious you're unable to extrapolate the inevitable result of your way of life and thinking as a welfare leech. Like his curve on a grade example shows, that when those keeping the grade or quality of life up stop trying, then everyone fails and becomes like you. A...
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[18:26:23] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't take the word of Trump supporters either. Being a supporter or hater of Trump gives nobody any expertise in virus containment and protection. How about we listen to the scientific bodies that are responsible in their respective countries for providing expert advice? Keep politics out o...
[18:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:58] <exec> 08└─Didn't we manage to elect someone like that?
[18:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:59] <exec> 08└─Let's hold massive re-election rallies for these people.
[18:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:01] <exec> 08└─Let them eat Vegemite.
[18:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:03] <exec> 08└─Pigeon, partridge, pheasant and grouse don't have to be farmed, neither do hare or rabbit. Hunters going to hunt! The farmers around here can often be heard organising shoots on their farms at the weekends. Bushmeat IS risky - that's how some of the new epidemics came out of Africa.
[18:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:05] <exec> 08└─Look up ebola. Both SARS and this SARS2 is linked to China's wild animal markets.
[18:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 2915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, if we don't act to stop the spread of infections, this can easily overwhelm the hospital system here. We'll be stuck trying to create makeshift hospitals here, just like in Wuhan. The reason I'm hopeful is that social distancing would be implemented by state and local authorities rather than at...
[18:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:09] <exec> 08└─Source?
[18:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:23] <exec> 08└─So it's possible to scientifically study animal behavior. Are humans not animals?
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[19:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:10] <exec> 08└─Typically these are broken up into a handful of modules with specs indicating how everybody talks to each other, but otherwise each module is it's own fiefdom. Every once in a while you schedule an integration test, where all the modules are put together and tested to ensure everybody can talk to e...
[19:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:11] <exec> 08└─"Cost has never been in any way a key factor in how we need to test and verify our systems."
[19:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:13] <exec> 08└─We need an Insightful but Funny moderation...
[19:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06New Sense Discovered in Dog Noses: The Ability to Detect Heat - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:23] <exec> 08└─Just like a dog, liberals have their nose up everyones ass.
[19:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sense Discovered in Dog Noses: The Ability to Detect Heat - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:25] <exec> 08└─From the "how-does-he-smell-terrible" department, surely? By the way, we don't serve time travellers in here. A time traveller materialises in a bar.
[19:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:50] <exec> 08└─If you are heating the flat/apartment already (do you pay a heat bill?), then the laptop is just contributing a bit. Now, in the summer, you might want to turn it off to save on the air conditioning bill...
[19:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:51] <exec> 08└─I see you want him silent. Why is that? You don't want to appear even stupider than you are Mr. potato head? Yes. Keep talking. Please. I want to get your goat even more too. I see you went wild down moderating him when he was up moderated initially. It is too obvious you are butt hurt and retaliati...
[19:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:53] <exec> 08└─clientside cloud is all good.
[19:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:39] <exec> 08└─"It's lunchtime somewhere" -John Sheridan 'Intersections in Real Time'
[19:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:41] <exec> 08└─The old Roman calendar had months named Quintilis and Sextilis, with 31 and 29 days respectively. Julius Caesar in his calendar reform had ten days to add to the original 355-day Roman lunar calendar, so he distributed the days to the months, with Sextilis gaining an extra day, so it became 30 days...
[19:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:43] <exec> 08└─Another interesting thing that a lot of people don't realize is that the numbers seven, eight, nine, and ten in Latin are septem, octo, novem, decem - hence September, October, November, and December. The names, of course, come from the original Roman lunar calendar when those months were the sevent...
[19:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:19] <exec> 08└─Facts matter. I did make a mistake in the above post and I want to correct it ASAP. Here's an article discussing the amount of infected people arriving in the US prior to the travel restrictions: https://www.cnn.com [cnn.com]....
[19:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:20] <exec> 08└─There are no systems in place big enough right now to handle what is going to happen. That much paranoia out there, eh? From the moderation it got, I guess I never should have brought it up.
[19:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:22] <exec> 08└─Source: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Although it is not entirely clear how Ebola initially spreads from animals to humans, the spread is believed to involve direct contact with an infected wild animal or fruit bat. [...] Animals may become infected when they eat...
[19:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:25] <exec> 08└─You southern hemisphere heathen - real men eat MARMITE! Did anyone mention Vi v Emacs, or Apple v Android?
[19:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:27] <exec> 08└─the very first season may be very bad.
[19:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:29] <exec> 08└─What? Those experts who depend on government funding for their jobs? They have a vested interest in keeping everyone dependent on them and maintaining government power. This is all just a false flag Big Disease operation to spread the vaccinations which will sterilize 90% of the population, and thes...
[19:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:31] <exec> 08└─HAM radio
[19:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:33] <exec> 08└─LOL. One interesting thing, with the media beating the drums of death as hard as they can on this virus, if it turns out to not be that big of a deal (whether by luck or active measures), they just handed Trump a silver-plattered win. He'll thump his chest in victory over the virus. The media are re...
[19:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:35] <exec> 08└─If we just stop testing then the number of cases testing positive will surely go down. Right? What works for CO2 also works for COVID19. https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[19:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:37] <exec> 08└─That's right - they practically frothing at the mouth over End Times and prepping for Revelation. God help them.
[19:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:39] <exec> 08└─I remember 2002 SARS well because I had a trip to Asia planned and I took it right in the middle of the outbreak. Perhaps I was younger but... I did check statistics and decided it was a reasonable risk. I don't see the current one this way.
[19:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:41] <exec> 08└─It was on the same daily summary page https://www.worldometers.info [worldometers.info] No, I did not check their sources.
[19:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:43] <exec> 08└─Mike Pence, is that you?
[19:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06129 MWh Australia Tesla Battery System More Successful than Expected - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:04] <exec> 08└─Be sure to quantify all the human health savings on the lungs, and cancer from the chemicals. Usually pro-life people say you can't put a price on a human life, so if we take that route then renewables and battery tech win even if they bankrupt the country :P
[19:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:01] <exec> 08└─Humans are animals, but much of human behavior goes beyond animal instincts. To call someone an animal is to attribute unusual primal behavior to them. There are unchanging instincts, but once those are modulated by higher brain function which depends on culture, everything is in flux.
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[20:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:13] <exec> 08└─Well, if it isn't cost then it has to be competence, or rather the lack of it.
[20:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:14] <exec> 08└─...and competence as we all know, is not related to cost at all particularly in software. This is why you can hire perfectly competent software developers in, say, India, at $peanuts per hour and they are clearly competent as they have ISO 11001, CMM level 11, minimum of 3 degrees and a PhD each and...
[20:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:52] <exec> 08└─Companies running massive data centers don't want to give away money. So they try to keep their data centers running efficiently. This is the kind of thing that capitalism does well. Actually, nearly all of the recent "failures" of capitalism can be traced to government intervention. Prime example:...
[20:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:54] <exec> 08└─"Prime example: health care in the US. The problems are almost entirely due to unnecessary gatekeeping enforced by the government." uh.. no, it was commercialization of healthcare by Bonzo Ray-Gun in the 80's
[20:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 4799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:56] <exec> 08└─Better speed/security/poweruse vs. SJW millenial COMPLETE w/ "RELAXED BRAIN" (lmao) NOT good enough for you that I put out? Ok. Obviously CRITICAL THINKING is beyond you even when I DO IT FOR YOU to think about! So, thus, it's time to ENLIGHTEN your "relaxed brain" (lol) then: From what I see of you...
[20:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:16] <exec> 08└─'Cold hands? Not even the fancier finger clip oximeters in the hospital worked, so you need to get your hands warmed up first.'
[20:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:07] <exec> 08└─You might try typing 8-bit ascii, using 8 buttons, one under each finger (leave your thumbs curled around the steering wheel.) Steve Roberts did this while on his recumbent bike, he was cycling around the USA in early days of the internet, using ham radio to connect to his site. Probably no harder t...
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[21:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Printer Toner Linked to Genetic Changes, Health Risks in New Study - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:06] <exec> 08└─ranged from 20 to their early 30s,
[21:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Printer Toner Linked to Genetic Changes, Health Risks in New Study - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:07] <exec> 08└─10 years from now: should have learned to drive trucks. 20 years from now: should have learned to unclog toilets. 30 years from now: should have elected Andrew Yang.
[21:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:22] <exec> 08└─Last few months, Boeing has shown utter incompetence in Q&A. Instead of "Gaps" should Boeing's HQ report that they have fired certain top people in their Q&A division. Not report that they have found gaps.
[21:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sense Discovered in Dog Noses: The Ability to Detect Heat - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:33] <exec> 08└─If you cool down a section of skin (as the dogs nose is cooled down) would it then be better able to detect the heat differential indicated?
[21:24:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:43] <exec> 08└─The scientists' findings suggest concerns that the rise of mammoth data centers would generate a surge in electricity demand and pollution have been greatly overstated.
[21:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:05] <exec> 08└─They got more "computing load" out of it? That's great but there is no upper bound on computing load. It's only limited by the imagination and/or the capacity of bloatware authors to feel shame. Which means this energy hog will continue to get fatter.
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[22:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Printer Toner Linked to Genetic Changes, Health Risks in New Study - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:05] <exec> 08└─Should have voted to make USA a province of Communist China.
[22:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Printer Toner Linked to Genetic Changes, Health Risks in New Study - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:07] <exec> 08└─Nah, just be part of some class action against your employer and printer manufacturers. It's the American Way.
[22:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:22] <exec> 08└─> should Boeing's HQ report that they have fired certain top people in their Q&A division. Maybe a start, but they need to figure out what the QA process they have been following is and where the flaws are in that process. Firing people sounds great but rarely fixes the problem; the job is rather to...
[22:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:23] <exec> 08└─Sort of it only hurts when I laugh?
[22:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:25] <exec> 08└─Six Sigma?
[22:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Seasonal Snarl-Up in the Mid-1500s Gave Us Our Strange Rules for Leap Years - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:56] <exec> 08└─It's only half past twelve, but I don't care It's five o'clock somewhere https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Yee-Haw! ;)
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[23:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Synapses Connect Biological and Artificial Neurons at a Distance - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:06] <exec> 08└─I am implanting nano-cortical fibres in your cerebrum. They are designed to learn and mimic your neural firing patterns. Once they are in place, I will destroy the existing brain cells. We'll see if the artificial neural network is able to take over your cognitive functions.
[23:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Synapses Connect Biological and Artificial Neurons at a Distance - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:08] <exec> 08└─I MUST CONSOOM PRODUCT BEEP BEEP BOOP.
[23:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Synapses Connect Biological and Artificial Neurons at a Distance - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:10] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah. You got adware in your artificial neurons. Why oh why didn't you disable JavaScript.
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[23:24:12] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to test for fidelity.
[23:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Printer Toner Linked to Genetic Changes, Health Risks in New Study - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:23] <exec> 08└─You would know, since you're such a litigious bitch yourself.
[23:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Printer Toner Linked to Genetic Changes, Health Risks in New Study - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:24] <exec> 08└─I think they should change the toner to a safer, more environmentally-friendly formulation [caranddriver.com].
[23:24:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:32] <exec> 08└─"As we fall toward a fiery death, you will be comforted to know that Boeing has acknoledged that there are some gaps in the software testing. These gaps are expected to be filled in sometime after we all die."
[23:24:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 534 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:35] <exec> 08└─Typically these are broken up into a handful of modules with specs indicating how everybody talks to each other, but otherwise each module is it's own fiefdom. Every once in a while you schedule an integration test, where all the modules are put together and tested to ensure everybody can talk to e...
[23:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:45] <exec> 08└─we would have seen that we missed the burn
[23:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:47] <exec> 08└─Boeing used to have a core competency as a system integrator, too, so integration testing should have come naturally.
[23:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Acknowledges “Gaps” in its Starliner Software Testing - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this was one of the dumping ground projects. Boeing used to make sacrifice projects, usually sold to customers who didn't know the aerospace game, where they dumped the least competent employees. Not that the other projects were necessarily full of competent people. Some highlights from...
[23:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sense Discovered in Dog Noses: The Ability to Detect Heat - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:01] <exec> 08└─Well, when they have to sniff out conservative brains...
[23:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:33] <exec> 08└─Duh, it's called economies of scale. Example: cooling is a huge cost of computing. Having tons of servers in one location, carefully tuned to maximize cooling efficiency, is going to be more efficient than ad hoc server room setups scattered in thousands of locations.
[23:27:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] 02 - 06COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 - CoronaVirus) Roundup - 1107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:45] <exec> 08└─Isn't this exactly what was said about Swine Flu? Now we have Zika too, something that provoked a similar reaction, but has already come-and-gone. This disease will now be with humanity for the rest of ever. There is nothing that we will be able to do to eradicate this virus from the human populatio...
[23:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe they're not testing the booksmarts that also coincide with streetsmarts. [theonion.com]
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