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[00:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:18] <exec> 08└─That is a good point. I was thinking about how much kids enjoy fishing, and how easy it is. It must have been even easier in Portugal 100,000 years ago, the seas and rivers would have been swarming with fish. Even toddlers can gather oysters and mussels. There is no way Neanderthals were ignoring...
[00:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:19] <exec> 08└─i suspect it's a lazy journalist generalizing about primates.
[00:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:22] <exec> 08└─I don't think they're all willing to take the risk [youtube.com].
[00:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:24] <exec> 08└─Nom nom nomnivore! If it doesn't move, taste it, if it moves, club it to death, and taste it again!
[00:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:26] <exec> 08└─And of course, primates aren't paying attention [wildcard.co.za].
[00:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:51] <exec> 08└─They are loose fitting to prevent droplet based infections being passed to the patient. Almost as if half a coffee filter and length of underwear elastic could have saved us the cost of the shutdown if masks were made compulsory?
[00:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:52] <exec> 08└─By my calculation with the very latest numbers it's right at 20% deaths. That's more than the 4% that WHO said it was.
[00:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:54] <exec> 08└─I have a spare computer with a decent Nvidia card in it and wanted to install F@H. But dependencies hell. The F@H team needs to get their shit together and have a snap package or something. The sorts of people that run Linux are also the sort that would probably run F@H. There download page referenc...
[00:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:57] <exec> 08└─I have a face shield that I bought for wood working https://www.woodcraft.com [woodcraft.com] Now worn while in stores. Keeps my fingers from my face, my germs from other people, and might help a bit with other peoples germs too.
[00:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:59] <exec> 08└─As many of us have experienced this past month, we went from, I guess call it awareness and rational preparation, to mass house arrest and unemployment. Who is driving this? Even most of the billionaire class would probably prefer making a living rather than subsisting on government handouts. One wo...
[00:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:01] <exec> 08└─I'm no fan of the WHO, in fact they are still spreading dangerous disinformation about virus transmission. That said - your calculation fails to account for only a small percentage of people being tested, if you look at the figures for South Korea where testing is widespread the CFR is 3% [worldomet...
[00:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:03] <exec> 08└─And waste the opportunity to keep people locked into their homes and afraid for their lives?
[00:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:05] <exec> 08└─The reclassification in the UK allows patients to be treated outside of specialist HCID units, my understanding is that it was a bureaucratic decision.
[00:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 1782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:08] <exec> 08└─If you're only looking at closed cases, you'll still get a very misleading death rate when the number of cases is changing rapidly. Dividing the deaths by the total number of cases underestimates the death rate. Dividing the deaths by the total number of closed cases generally overestimates the deat...
[00:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 1901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:29] <exec> 08└─> Some examples would help. You must be new to 'net discussions! The original "blog" server (WordPress) I inherited in 2008 was pretty far out of date. There was no overlap between me and the previous admins, and I'm not sure how much time passed. The only bug I saw, and this might have been WordPre...
[00:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enigmatic Circles Of Mammoth Bones In Eastern Europe Date To Ice Age - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:43] <exec> 08└─Nobody wanted to live here, with the wind rushing down off the glaciers, but the hunting was good. Stick some big rib bones into the ground, and cover them with hides, and you've got a place to spend a night or two, preparing your kill to be packed back home. American Neanderthals still maintain hun...
[00:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Junior Scientists at the University of Rostock Invent a Funnel for Light - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:07] <exec> 08└─Have they invented a Maxwell's demon or something else that would seem to violate the laws of thermodynamics?
[00:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Junior Scientists at the University of Rostock Invent a Funnel for Light - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:09] <exec> 08└─Have they invented a Maxwell's demon...
[01:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:43] <exec> 08└─Why is this vitriolic drivel modded +4 Insightful? I dislike JavaScript very much, but saying "All JavaScript developers should go to prison" is uncalled for and unproductive.
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[01:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:16] <exec> 08└─What type of urine is needed to build transgender lunar washrooms? Does the urine need to come from transgender astronauts or can you just mix urine from boy astronauts and girl astronauts?
[01:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:17] <exec> 08└─All cost savings will be lost to the cost of air fresheners.
[01:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:20] <exec> 08└─Some scraps - or rather some coronas - were left ? The elite must take all ?! Crumbs !
[01:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:22] <exec> 08└─A big problem here is that you're using a very scarce nitrogen source for concrete. Sulfur would work better because it's somewhat more common and not as heavily needed for biological processes.
[01:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:24] <exec> 08└─"Regolith and moondust? Bah! We're here with the beer to build a moonbase! Piss on it, man!"
[01:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:26] <exec> 08└─While, it may be useful in that manner, is it the best use? Anything you take there while be at a premium, even Astronaut pee.
[01:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:40] <exec> 08└─Our ancesters followed a strict SeeFood Diet...see food, and eat it. ;-) Not surprising for omnivores.
[01:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:42] <exec> 08└─They ate sushi, right? Yeah, I like sushi, too. I don't blame them.
[01:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:17] <exec> 08└─The WHO knowingly lied [thehill.com] and Tedros is a known psychopath and mass murderer. [nytimes.com] A "troll" mod doesn't make these facts [reuters.com] untrue.
[01:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:18] <exec> 08└─Unemployment benefits. The feds are contributing funds to the states to use for unemployment. More, the states are waiving those waiting weeks before benefits begin, and the benefits are about double what they would normally be. All the hoops that beneficiaries usually have to jump through are being...
[01:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:20] <exec> 08└─And their statement about low mortality rates, was that a bureaucratic decision too?
[01:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:22] <exec> 08└─Even a terrible mask will reduce how often you touch your own face, which increases your chances of avoiding the virus. So it's no substitute for a (properly fitted) N95, but it's something.
[01:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:25] <exec> 08└─If we have an overwhelmed medical system and hundreds of thousands or millions dead, that will do plenty of damage to the economy. There is no easy answer here.
[01:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:27] <exec> 08└─My contribution to Folding@Home may be smaller, but I'm just running it on the CPU and it was fine to install and run. I don't think I had to manually install any dependencies.
[01:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:29] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that the usual state for resources is just under "overwhelmed". Companies generally don't rent office space when much of it will remain empty. Restaurants (remember those?) generally don't schedule waitstaff unless they will be close to 100% busy. Hospitals aren't in the business of sto...
[01:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:31] <exec> 08└─Triage isn't a new concept. It is commonly practiced by emergency response personnel. Not just EMT's but firemen, and even police. It has always been true that you can't save everyone in a major catastrophe. 40 years ago, when EMT's were a new thing, we were already being taught how we should ethica...
[01:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 1809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:33] <exec> 08└─"Dr. Didier Raoult of Marseilles and his co-workers have published another preprint on clinical results with the chloroquine/azithromycin combination that their earlier work has made famous. And I still don't know what to think of it." I don't understand why they would use something that was used fo...
[01:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enigmatic Circles Of Mammoth Bones In Eastern Europe Date To Ice Age - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:08] <exec> 08└─As far as we know, there never were Neanderthals [wikipedia.org] in the American continent. But wherever your ancestors came from, except never-left-Africa-before ones, you got Neanderthal genes on you. So you see, the joke is on you!
[01:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enigmatic Circles Of Mammoth Bones In Eastern Europe Date To Ice Age - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:10] <exec> 08└─I heard a rumour that they're shutting down the Internet to prevent the spread of false rumours on the Internet.
[01:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:32] <exec> 08└─It's also a silly solution, mental masturbation for academics. In particular: Critically, a special "key" for deciphering the RWM algorithm is transmitted through an encrypted channel from the sender to the receiver before the data transmission takes place.
[01:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:54] <exec> 08└─No, they don't. They only eat "way too much" salt if you go by the ridiculous recommendations being handed out to keep it under 3g a day. There's little scientific evidence to support the blanket recommendation. If there isn't a specific health condition being caused by excessive sodium levels, that...
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[02:01:11] <exec> 08└─Pulse also sucks up around 5% of my cpu when idle. It also puts out white noise after a while, when you least expect it.
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[02:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:09] <exec> 08└─In order for anyone to get a patent on anything this is the type of information that the USPTO should absolutely require before approving a patent. Something that's actually useful. Instead we get nonsense broad patents that are worse than useless and tell us absolutely nothing about how to do anyth...
[02:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:23] <exec> 08└─Battering Rams have rotten khallow ! To you are to say : Get Pregnant !
[02:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:39] <exec> 08└─Perfect. Baboons who eat seafood. Because why wouldn't they?
[02:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:40] <exec> 08└─That's probably why good cannibals get their long pig in the Ozarks or Appalacia: The long pig out there is grass or acorn-fed and doesn't have trichinosis like city long pig does.
[02:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:43] <exec> 08└─then post-ape got fire [wikipedia.org], so.. bbg as well.
[02:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:26] <exec> 08└─The antibiotics are for treating secondary bacterial infection.
[02:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:28] <exec> 08└─So instead of trying something that's more likely to work they try something that's less likely to work so at least they can later say they tried something and not be accused of not trying anything but later claim it was ultimately the expensive R&D and patent system that came up with what actually...
[02:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:30] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer, I was also resp-certified in a previous life, the employer had three classes of danger and I was in the middle. The application was particulate paint removal from Navy ships so it was a typical double-filtered 3M mask application with only safety-glasses as eye protection. The local seam...
[02:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:32] <exec> 08└─I know but I just had to put my crazy conspiracy theories out there for people to consider. I know they are garbage and they are doing R&D on Remdesivir for the virus. It's also possible that people on HCQ for other reasons were less symptomatic of the virus because of its other effects and maybe pe...
[02:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:34] <exec> 08└─(well, they decided to do R&D on Remdesivir later on, early on the administration was talking about HCQ and only after this thing got out of control did they later decide to give something that's more likely to work a try but before it got out of control they wanted to go with something less likely...
[02:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 1763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:37] <exec> 08└─(Use your favourite translator for the links) Spain's Government (PSOE + Unidas Podemos) knew in advance, late January early February. Police started to draft notices, so border staff could prepare: use PPEs, keep distance, etc. Police officer in charge of Employees' Health was fired March. https://...
[02:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:35] <exec> 08└─Another thing, in SCADA availability is almost always more important than security - think "we can't scram the reactor because the guy who knows the password is on his lunch break". Adding any level of extra complexity, particularly something as notoriously failure-prone as encryption, to something...
[02:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:36] <exec> 08└─Very true. Encryption would be mostly useful to maintain an authenticated session. It may be the most efficient way since many microcontrolers have built in hardware AES these days. Just negotiate a session key using diffie-hellman, use a signature to authenticate and from then on, it's offloaded to...
[02:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:38] <exec> 08└─Even that's going to be too much for most systems. Remember that the vast majority of stuff out there is using what was state of the art 20-30 years ago, not today. OTOH just a shared key and a MAC is enough, you're not looking for military-grade crypto, just something to force the attacker to look...
[03:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:18] <exec> 08└─"Executing. It's such a funny word. Taking stuff from remote and putting it locally and then doing stuff with it??"
[03:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ingenious Way TV Logos Were Made Before Computers - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:36] <exec> 08└─A more modern example is the default background on Windows 10. I was actually shocked to find out that is a photograph and not something rendered up by a computer. Yes, that's an actual photograph of some panes of glass, smoke, and laser light. There are some details here: https://techjourney.net
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[03:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:12] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, supply chain is one of the major bottlenecks in spinning up ventilator production rates. Some of the critical components can be alternately sourced from high profile sources like NASA and Tesla (one would assume these are solenoid valves & similar things), and they're already doi...
[03:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:26] <exec> 08└─Why not submit it tomorrow.
[03:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:28] <exec> 08└─Oh wait, still Mar 30th in SN timezone I see. Make it the day after tomorrow.
[03:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:47] <exec> 08└─Nom nom nomnivore! If it doesn't move, taste it, if it moves, club it to death, and taste it again!
[03:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:36] <exec> 08└─And put links in the abstracts. For example the claim that Australian pubs are selling out their stocks has no link, is submitted by Anonymous Coward, and a quick Google gives no useful hits beyond generic stuff about bars closing. AFAICT the source for that story is this [youtube.com].
[03:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:38] <exec> 08└─Really? [washingtonpost.com]
[03:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:40] <exec> 08└─When the current pandemic finally dies down, millions will have been infected and tens of thousands will have died, globally.
[03:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, that would have been great had the relevant governments had gotten prepped with testing systems. That's exactly what South Korea did, and it worked. There were several other countries that didn't take the problem seriously, and the result has been thousands of dead people. And it's true they're...
[03:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:44] <exec> 08└─Real people telling real facts, do not do that thing.
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[04:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:16] <exec> 08└─Why would you care if I work 4 hours a day or 14? If I meet our mutually agreed upon deadlines then you can fuck right off.
[04:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:17] <exec> 08└─at work, in the office, I walk to visit subject matter experts, IT people, managers. I leave the building for coffee (usually once a day), and I leave the building for lunch (usually 1 hour). I am physically 'at work' from ~9:15 to ~5:30 most days - some I leave earlier, some a bit later.. BUT I GET...
[04:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:20] <exec> 08└─Look, if you know an employer doing this please inform them that pornhub has premium membership free during the whole corona thing. They don't need to watch their employees spanking it at home.
[04:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:22] <exec> 08└─"Television Host: The feeling is definitely there. It's a new morning in America... fresh, vital. The old cynicism is gone. We have faith in our leaders. We're optimistic as to what becomes of it all. It really boils down to our ability to accept. We don't need pessimism. There are no limits." - The...
[04:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:33] <exec> 08└─If it says it can only be used for COVID-19, it is *not* open source. Please correct the title. COVID-19 is not a valid excuse to dilute the meaning of the phase "Open Source", this only qualifies as "Available Source"/"Auditable Source" not Open Source.
[04:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:35] <exec> 08└─The usefulness of manual respiration devices (ambu bags): https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Automating a manual ambu bag: https://scitechdaily.com [scitechdaily.com] You can attach manometers t...
[04:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:37] <exec> 08└─In addition to scoring points with the public for releasing medical device specifications, they may also wish to fan anti-government flames against excessive regulation. There are a ton of rules and regulations which probably could be streamlined and simplified. Some restrictions and rules are polit...
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[04:54:39] <exec> 08└─I had tramadol once. It worked for me but it was definitely a strange experience. It didn't take the pain away - I could totally feel that it was the same level of pain, I just didn't care about the pain and it didn't bother me to have it.
[04:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:55] <exec> 08└─A bigger problem is we don't have plumbing run to the moon. They're going to very much need that piss for drinking unless we're sending up rockets with nothing but potable water way more often than anything else.
[04:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:16] <exec> 08└─It's alright, I beat that to death with my tongue.
[04:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:11] <exec> 08└─Really. From the article *you* linked [washingtonpost.com]: “Homemade masks theoretically could offer some protection if the materials and fit were optimized, but this is uncertain,” Duchin said in an email. “It’s also possible that mask-wearing might increase the risk for infection if other...
[04:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:12] <exec> 08└─Actually no, health care professionals are saying the vast majority of cases are spread through hand-face contact. Social distancing and wearing a mask to prevent yourself from touching your face are the primary safety methods. Homemade masks work well for this. Also, if someone is carrying the viru...
[04:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:39] <exec> 08└─The population levels would, organically, probably be quite similar. Here [people-press.org] are some various stats. 55% of Americans have a negative view of socialism, 42% a positive one. 65% have a positive view of capitalism, 33% have a negative view of it. That said, I would generally keep popul...
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[05:54:31] <exec> 08└─"Wow. That's a lot of pain. I'm glad it's not really happening to "me" " A friend of mine describing how a certain anesthetic he was given felt.
[05:55:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 995 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:27] <exec> 08└─The problem with advising against masks is not because of lack of protection for the wearer. It is that if said potentially asymptomatic carrier has a mask, they are less likely to spread the virus. Likewise, even if the non-infected recipient has a mask, the difference to them is at worst neutral g...
[05:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:04] <exec> 08└─meaningful stats... Great there are X number sick or dead or white or tested or ... What is the X vs the population? With that you can compare real rate in the US to UK to China to .... What is count for one day to next? Not total, but the change? Then you can see if graphic is going up, down, plat...
[05:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 3121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:06] <exec> 08└─It's been known for some time (years) that chloroquine can inhibit the replication of some viruses in vitro. Biochemists often screen large numbers of chemicals of many types looking for the few that have an effect. It's a standard thing to try. The High Throughput Screening Facility where I work is...
[05:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:08] <exec> 08└─Gilead (the maker of remdisivir) started trying it in January in China and has actively been working on it for a long time as a possible Ebola treatment. Similarly, hydroxychloroquine was first tried about the same time. Remdisivir was viewed as more likely to be a good candidate at that time. I hea...
[05:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:10] <exec> 08└─https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/why-france-is-hiding-a-cheap-and-tested-virus-cure/?fbclid=IwAR3ire6DQ6mT4HDOBmcx_-gTHZdNZxv-4Nb2TsdRA0Mk999quAGfUm42a70 [asiatimes.com] TL;DR Suggests that chloroquine works when used early. Raoult is pushing for extensive testing and early dosing for chloroquine to sh...
[05:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:12] <exec> 08└─Everyone knew in advance once China started locking down Wuhan and building hospitals AND started reporting death rates. I'm actually amazed at how fast China did things. People blame them for initially covering stuff up, but if what they did was cover up what do you call what most of the rest of th...
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[06:00:16] <exec> 08└─Shurg, no idea. Anyone who wants me tested is going to have to pay for it themselves. Unless it lands me in the hospital, I don't really care what kind of chest crud I have.
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[06:54:18] <exec> 08└─Just say NO to: Microsoft Microsoft Windows Bill Gates ID2020
[06:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:30] <exec> 08└─You can only be abused as long as you put up with the abuse. Make it clear that you can't be intimidated, and tell them where to stick their abuse, and it ends. That goes for in person, as well as online. "I'm not going to raise my hand, and ask permission each time I have to answer the call of natu...
[06:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:31] <exec> 08└─There always have been sycophants. In case you didn't know, that word is properly pronounced "suck ups".
[06:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:33] <exec> 08└─Who knew Ice T was a prophet?
[06:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:35] <exec> 08└─Axos Financial Inc, what a bunch of assholes.
[06:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:37] <exec> 08└─from this shitty company that is obviously going to fail sometime soon. Wha'ts that you say not got enough money to be free of your indentured servitude?
[06:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:08] <exec> 08└─Just how much will be needed for a modest-sized construction project? It seems doubtful that a small team of space explorers would be able to produce enough piss to satisfy those requirements. The raw materials that the human body eventually turns into urea have to come from somewhere of course, and...
[06:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:09] <exec> 08└─Both use cases (construction and fertilizer) assume that the urine is distilled to produce drinking water, with concentrated urea as a byproduct.
[06:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:32] <exec> 08└─You think a home made mask gets anywhere near 50%? I'm not a mask technician, but I know HVAC. And to get anywhere near 50% of particles the size of this virus (200nm from what Google tells me) you are looking at a MERV 13 air filter. Depending on the humidity and the droplet size, you could get by...
[06:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:33] <exec> 08└─It takes a minimum of 2 editors several hours to produce the round-up every few days. It is very labour intensive but remains more effective than publishing each story individually. If we publish each story as it comes in the COVID-19 stories will simply swamp all of the other submissions that cover...
[06:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:56] <exec> 08└─I think a lot of the problem is that many people don't understand this stuff. That is why the pay someone else to do so. The problem is that many of them only understand "cheap" or "big name." So they go with cheap hosts, or well-known hosts that host for cheap. Both of those usually make you end up...
[06:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:06] <exec> 08└─On a related note: https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[07:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:22] <exec> 08└─A minority might well sign up willingly, I'm fine with them doing so. Not so fine with it becoming a general requirement. Not at all sure how serious to take your comment. Are you the other AC that replied to yourself?
[07:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:24] <exec> 08└─It's not a mistake. You're correct insofar as I was alternating genders, which is no the same thing as sex. But there's no mistake and no confusion. You're correct insofar as one possible, and in my view logical and unobjectionable approach is simply to default to the unmarked gender. Plenty of prec...
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[07:54:08] <exec> 08└─You're a goddamn nigger.
[07:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase in Cloud Service Uptake - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:09] <exec> 08└─Nah I have seen pictures of Bill. He is like a crusty old white dude. He da man!
[07:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:38] <exec> 08└─https://e-vent.mit.edu/ [mit.edu] I guess they are more of a DIY solution. Not sure if all was included, didn't fancy register just to find out the specs and such since I don't plan on building my own.
[07:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:39] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wrin8FYtEo [youtube.com] Dave's breakdown indicates the license expires after the Covid crisis, which'd stop a manufacturer from recouping the costs of a crash setup to make them.
[07:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:58] <exec> 08└─So if the urine is used as a construction material instead of recycled and cleaned and made into drinking water again or at least water used in some other system that would then leave the question what are they going to drink? Are they going to have to bring along gigantic tanks of water? In which c...
[07:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:22] <exec> 08└─From the link that you provided: Now there are conflicting reports on whether the new coronavirus can. The studies suggesting that it can be aerosolized are only preliminary, and other research contradicts it, finding no aerosolized coronavirus particles in the hospital rooms of Covid-19 patients. T...
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[08:01:31] <exec> 08└─The internet would be a better place.
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[08:54:10] <exec> 08└─KNIG KNOG equals KING KONG! (Why's that?) 'cause the White man be weak, and the Black man be stong!
[08:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase in Cloud Service Uptake - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:20] <exec> 08└─In addition, there's been a 3x surge in Remote Desktop use
[08:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase in Cloud Service Uptake - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:22] <exec> 08└─And they know this because...?
[08:54:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:32] <exec> 08└─Look, if you know an employer doing this please inform them that pornhub has premium membership free during the whole corona thing. They don't need to watch their employees spanking it at home.
[08:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:40] <exec> 08└─So, they want to install spying software on worker's own computers. I wonder if that's even legal to do.
[08:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:56] <exec> 08└─Never underestimate the end of an air tube poked just so deep in a bucket of water as an overpressure relief. Under the bed. You do not want to make a siphon. https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com]
[08:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:37] <exec> 08└─Everybody likes to "eat at the Y," [onlineslangdictionary.com] don't they? Why would Neanderthals be any different?
[08:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:42] <exec> 08└─Your calculations do not include the vast majority of people who contract the virus, self-isolate, and recover without ever being formally tested. Until we have accurate figures for the total number of infections - a test that isn't being done today - nobody can make a better estimate of the true fi...
[08:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:43] <exec> 08└─More importantly, what good is a loan to make payroll if you're not able to conduct business for months? How on earth are you going to pay months of expenses with no revenue, let alone repay an additional loan?
[08:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:45] <exec> 08└─You may not get evicted or have the power cut off for the next couple months, put you're still going to owe for it all. How is the average Joe supposed to repay two or three months of expenses afterwards? As soon as they're allowed to evict people or shut off the power again, it will likely all hit...
[08:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:47] <exec> 08└─Tens of thousands have already died. 37829 at last count, currently increasing by almost 4000 per day and rising. Deaths will be in the hundreds of thousands, we're now just trying to keep it from rising to millions.
[08:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:50] <exec> 08└─The only reason we are being told to not bother wearing masks here is simply because there aren't enough available. The experts from the Asian countries that are advising governments in places like Italy are absolutely horrified that people aren't wearing masks. If masks were actually plentiful, the...
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[09:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rheumatic Diseases: The Cost Of Survival During the Little Ice Age - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:24] <exec> 08└─i don't know if I'm in the haplogroup of interest (the VA might know). A few years ago, I developed RA, but it seems to have been kicked off by a case of Lyme Disease that was caught very, very early. Do we have any studies that show whether, or not, someone pre-disposed to RA will have symptoms "sp...
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[09:54:36] <exec> 08└─I suppose I glow in the dark, too?
[09:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:57:00] <exec> 08└─Your calculations do not include the vast majority of people who contract the virus, self-isolate, and recover without ever being formally tested.
[09:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:57:01] <exec> 08└─Data is from JHU CSEE (https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19) The outcomes have been shifted back 11 days to match the subset of confirmed patients they represent. World https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] China https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] South Korea https://i.imgur.com...
[09:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:57:03] <exec> 08└─Did you read the subject line friend? Apparently not.
[09:58:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:13] <exec> 08└─They don't notice the time spent ensuring things don't go south.
[09:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:34] <exec> 08└─***The more hermetic we are, the less danger we put you and everyone else in.*** True, but that kills the narative that only the grunts are doing their part, while all those in isolation are just useless fat cats who serve no purpose. Everyone is the savior in their own eyes and the rest fodder for...
[09:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:53] <exec> 08└─The guy was basically told "It's just an opinion.... let's not get silly with lawsuits" and decided to proceed anyway. The costs are incurred beyond that point... where he could have just said "Okay" but instead brought a frivolous lawsuit.
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[10:54:54] <exec> 08└─Because the boss needs to feel he did something too, otherwise it's his job that gets redundant.
[10:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:55] <exec> 08└─In October 2007, the company named Gregory Garrabrants as CEO, who was head of corporate development at IndyMac Bancorp at the time. IndyMac failed the next year as the "fourth largest bank failure in the United States."
[10:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:13] <exec> 08└─Dave's analysis is good. He goes through the files and provides commentary. Saved me from signing up and downloading the files out of curiosity. The Youtube comments were interesting and funny too.
[10:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:42] <exec> 08└─Friendly reminder that the "A and C ark" people all died, because they failed to see what "B ark" people actually did. Most of the "B ark" people survived.
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[11:54:38] <exec> 08└─And they know this because...?
[11:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:34] <exec> 08└─Concentrated or not, you still need enough water left in it to get the chemical reaction going. That's not just physical mixing that goes on. And you're not going to be able to recover that water.
[11:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:09] <exec> 08└─Exactly this. Asia is seeing relatively better results and that is because now basically everybody is wearing a mask. But that's, in turn, because masks were already ubiquitous over here. People already regularly wear them when they're sick or during pollution. They seem to be having a significant i...
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[11:57:10] <exec> 08└─In the UK, the instruction is if mild symptoms begin, start isolation. Nobody in isolation can leave home for any reason. If you are well after (I think) 7 days and all symptoms have disappeared then you may leave your home (under the restrictions in force at that time) and continue to follow the in...
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[12:54:23] <exec> 08└─"Imagine, for instance, a cellphone add-on that passively soaks up ambient T-rays and uses their energy to charge your phone." Why would I imagine that when I could instead imagine Gal Gadot and her spoilt rich bitch cronies shutting the fuck up, whilst I get free beer and curries for the rest of my...
[12:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase in Cloud Service Uptake - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:46] <exec> 08└─Can they be more specific about exactly what services people are using?... Oh, right. "cloud". Cloud cloud cloud, cloudy cloud cloud, in the cloud because cloud.
[12:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase in Cloud Service Uptake - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:47] <exec> 08└─The specifics are lacking and are probably so unflattering that they will never be revealed on purpose. The claimed increase is probably all resulting from increased use of Hotmail, or whatever it is called lately, behind that, on the long shot that they aren't just plain lying again. Their other st...
[12:54:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:55] <exec> 08└─Why would you care if I work 4 hours a day or 14? If I meet our mutually agreed upon deadlines then you can fuck right off.
[12:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:07] <exec> 08└─https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/performance-review [smbc-comics.com]
[12:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:08] <exec> 08└─sashimi
[12:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:23] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Sorry, I was speaking of the US only and the American government's push to reopen businesses as soon as possible. I keep seeing the question of reopening businesses presented as a false dichotomy: either reopen business soon or the economy takes horrific damage. But if we reopen business whi...
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[13:54:19] <exec> 08└─There just isn't much power in the Terahertz waves around us -- by regulation! For the cell phone, you'd probably be better off putting a solar panel on the back and laying it face down when not in use, as compared to this Terahertz rectifier.
[13:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Energy-Harvesting Design Aims To Turn Wi-Fi Signals Into Usable Power - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:20] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our teraHertz pico-powered overlords...
[13:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:20] <exec> 08└─That's a great overpressure relief system, however, who are you going to get to squeeze the bag 24-7 for 2 weeks? A rotating shift of 4 volunteers means 4 more people heavily exposed to the virus - it's probably easier/cheaper to build a mechanical vent than all the PPE required to do volunteer bag...
[13:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:21] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It is not even slightly open source [opensource.org], the license is limited in time: Limited Term. This permissive license is effective from the time you download the Design Materials and Software until the earlier of (i) the final day the WHO’s PHEIC is in effect or (ii) October 1, 2024...
[13:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:05] <exec> 08└─Or kingfishers. You know, there might even be a clue in their name that hints towards their food-finding behaviour. More so: Some land mammals even headed out unto the see to fetch food so often their land-adapted limbs eventually started to sea-adapt as that was the priority for them. So much so, w...
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[13:57:22] <exec> 08└─Do you really think so? The electric company knows that I've been right here, for thirty+ years, and they'll get their money. I don't have a landlord, but landlords know who is good for the money, and who can't be trusted. If you're being evicted, it's probably because you have a history. I mean, pr...
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[13:57:23] <exec> 08└─So what medical school did you graduate from? One of the things I've definitely noticed is that when faced with something like this, everyone suddenly starts pretending they're some kind of expert. And the fact is, unless you have the formal study and degrees combined with a substantial body of real...
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[14:54:21] <exec> 08└─Gal Gadot? I had to look her up on wikipedia... but it doesn't say anything about her politics or whatever. What is she saying that you wish she wouldn't?
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[14:54:22] <exec> 08└─I am concerned they might try to start boosting the waste radiation as a feature... Especially if they find a way to tie it in with all those law enforcement companies trying to use local wifi signals to spy on people behind closed doors https://www.extremetech.com
[14:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase in Cloud Service Uptake - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:46] <exec> 08└─While I have no reason to doubt this, it would mean that they are collecting usernames and passwords of everyone. Any proof of this? Any at all?
[14:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:26] <exec> 08└─The MIT design looks a lot like the one the University of Oxford organised a few weeks earlier. The interesting thing from reading about the UoO was that there are currently two kinds of ventilators in most hospitals. First, there are simple ones used for operations. These are cheap to produce, but...
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[14:57:29] <exec> 08└─You mean the DKE-19 [medium.com] pandemic?
[14:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:30] <exec> 08└─She doesn't talk about losing patients, especially on a large scale, in the same way that many veterans don't talk about what they experienced during the war.
[14:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:32] <exec> 08└─50% of the viral load, not 50% of the fine particles. If the severity depends on the initial viral load, then stopping one big drop could make the difference for you individually and everyone collectively. A knee-length sock split down to the heel and tied in back of the head with the foot part hang...
[15:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:02] <exec> 08└─I'm with you until that last line. For one thing, 1m apart is not "crammed together". As to why? "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." [wikipedia.org]
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[15:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:19] <exec> 08└─It's good for the medical industry.
[15:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:20] <exec> 08└─I mean I could see dementia leading to higher levels of air pollution but how does cardiovascular disease cause it to get worse?
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[15:54:22] <exec> 08└─Realize the interconnectedness of all things... Ohm nama sivaya Ohm Don't forget to wear your mask.
[15:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:30] <exec> 08└─to combat global warming. It does make sense to shut down pollution sources, no matter what you think of the global warming hysteria.
[15:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:32] <exec> 08└─So tiring this bullcrap. When one installs a 1GW regular powerplant, you can expect 365 * 24 = 8760 GWh per year of energy out of that plant (minus downtime). When you install a 1GW solar or wind plant, you get some amount of energy out of it depending on all kinds of environmental factors (like the...
[15:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:34] <exec> 08└─And the other good news is that the rise in renewables has mostly come at the expense of coal, which is probably the worst fossil fuel in terms of pollution and health problems. I know there are some delusional people obsessed with maintaining or growing the coal mining sector, but the fact is that...
[15:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rheumatic Diseases: The Cost Of Survival During the Little Ice Age - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:00] <exec> 08└─hey, glad they caught that early with you.
[15:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rheumatic Diseases: The Cost Of Survival During the Little Ice Age - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:02] <exec> 08└─I also was diagnosed with Lyme last summer, but I barely had symptoms. And I likely had it for years. Long story. How do you know your case was caught early? Were you getting regular tests? Is RA an autoimmune disease? If so, almost anything could trigger it, depending on the individual. But it foll...
[15:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase in Cloud Service Uptake - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:20] <exec> 08└─Remote Desktop is not "cloud", but software that allows you to access the desktop of one machine from another, using the Remote Desktop Protocol [wikipedia.org]. Think of it as the Windows equivalent of VNC [wikipedia.org]. Although MS may be making arbitrary claims about increased Remote Desktop us...
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[15:55:21] <exec> 08└─While they could be collecting user names and passwords (there's no way to know), all they need, in order to know that Remote Desktop usage has increased by 775%, is that for every 4 initiated Remote Desktop connections per day before the COVID-19 pandemic, there are now 35. One could argue that thi...
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[15:55:24] <exec> 08└─Of course they themselves are tracking this with great care. Vista10 has telemetry and surveillance down to and including keylogging. One of the questions I raise is how those outside that cult can get at any form of reliable information regarding the numbers. They appear to be going to great length...
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[15:55:42] <exec> 08└─In October 2007, the company named Gregory Garrabrants as CEO, who was head of corporate development at IndyMac Bancorp at the time. IndyMac failed the next year as the "fourth largest bank failure in the United States."
[15:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe the CEO needs a 24/7 surveilance, i mean, that's a lot of money. He can't have any down time.
[15:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:47] <exec> 08└─Because the boss needs to feel he did something too, otherwise it's his job that gets redundant.
[15:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:49] <exec> 08└─.. because they want the skills, intelligence, self-motivation, and insight only experience can provide .. of a salaried professional. And they want to beat you like a $2/day "emerging markets" worker and check the color of your pee. They would fuck your wife and chain your children to metal stampin...
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[15:55:51] <exec> 08└─The bosses who install this stuff are apparently unaware how unproductive people can be while actually at the office. Take managers, as a prime example.
[15:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 2336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:53] <exec> 08└─If only it was that easy. I've encountered many employers, bosses, and managers who spy upon, micromanage, and distrust their employees. Some want to own their employees. What they really want are slaves, and they'll try to rig things to make them utterly dependent upon the company, and them. A comm...
[15:56:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03exaeta [6957] 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:03] <exec> 08└─If it says it can only be used for COVID-19, it is *not* open source. Please correct the title. COVID-19 is not a valid excuse to dilute the meaning of the phase "Open Source", this only qualifies as "Available Source"/"Auditable Source" not Open Source.
[15:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:15] <exec> 08└─I understand that over-regulation has caused you real pain and suffering. But have you thought of the petty, stupid bureaucrats you would be putting out of work? Surely keeping fat stupid commies paid as they vote for more and more regulations and more and more of your monkey to pay their salary, SU...
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[15:56:37] <exec> 08└─Sad.
[15:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:38] <exec> 08└─Mixing urine may be the best solution to ensure consistency and uniformity across all of the building material. If you use a single individual's urine in a single batch of building material, then various batches may have variability in quality and suitability for construction. What if a load bearing...
[15:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geopolymer Concrete: Building Moon Bases with Astronaut Urine and Regolith - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:40] <exec> 08└─Ship up pre packaged dehydrated astronaut pee. Not just any kind of pee.
[15:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:04] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one who hates sea food?
[15:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:26] <exec> 08└─Not optimist. Procrastinator. All objects of type Future are a result of Lazy Evaluation.
[15:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:28] <exec> 08└─Buying masks limits the supply for necessary services.
[15:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:30] <exec> 08└─Yes they did, they made a realistic update from "tens of thousands" to "hundreds of thousands."
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[15:58:53] <exec> 08└─> I think a lot of the problem is that many people don't understand this stuff. That is why the pay someone else to do so. Well that makes perfect sense, and dovetails with the many stories about the too many cheap crap hosting companies who don't do good systems admin. And possibly incompetent, la...
[16:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:05] <exec> 08└─'I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts', he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me.'
[16:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:05] <exec> 08└─Open borders, especially when paired with socialism, invites a literally unlimited number of people to leech on the system - yet your inherent resources do not grow.
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[16:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:18] <exec> 08└─Trump relaxes EPA standards ... Dementia leads to increased air polution.
[16:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:19] <exec> 08└─When Joe Biden breaths out the air contains billions of viral particles. Some are so tiny they are not even a virus, others are nano-molecules that are missing an electron. Keep in mind it is the 21st century yet no one has ever observed, identified, and quantified a virus giving live birth.
[16:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:21] <exec> 08└─Man, see, I drop a perfectly good dumb joke that ain't offensive to anyone and you gotta go make it all shitty political. TDS.
[16:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:23] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what that was supposed to mean, so I can't tell if you're being an overly political douchenozzle or not.
[16:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:25] <exec> 08└─Air Quality Unsafe for 90% of People In Urban Centres [soylentnews.org] Air Pollution Costs France 100 Billion Euros Per Year [soylentnews.org] 80 Percent of World's City Dwellers Breathing Bad Air: UN [soylentnews.org] Lancet Report Says Pollution Caused 9 Million Premature Deaths in 2015 [soylentn...
[16:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:28] <exec> 08└─More trips to hospitals, more energy spent there, on tests, test transport, labs, etc. Then, increased cremation rate -> smoke, CO2, pollution.
[16:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:30] <exec> 08└─As usual, a study with low statistics, significant confounding factors and yet the authors do not quote a systematic uncertainty. How can anyone believe this?
[16:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:32] <exec> 08└─Leaving Trump out of it, wouldn't the existing higher EPA standards have been better for humans? How are people helped by lowering the standards? (I won't mention Trump) but how is allowing higher levels of lead in children's toys helping anyone? My point: It seems these acts are only intended to be...
[16:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:43] <exec> 08└─These costs of wind power, however low, are in addition to the cost of conventional generation, or batteries. You still need those other sources because the wind does not always blow, . While TFA makes the point that when the wind does blow it is saving fossil fuel, nevertheless the economics of win...
[16:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Energy-Harvesting Design Aims To Turn Wi-Fi Signals Into Usable Power - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:01] <exec> 08└─So devices in my home using my Wi-Fi to charge themselves will presumably degrade the strength of my signal. So either my connection speed and/or connection reliability will drop off, or I'll need a more powerful Wi-Fi adapter to compensate, at which point it would have saved more energy to just plu...
[16:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Energy-Harvesting Design Aims To Turn Wi-Fi Signals Into Usable Power - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:03] <exec> 08└─Apparently, she's helping to defeat covid through the power of song [uproxx.com].
[16:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase From Microsoft Teams' Users in Italy (Updated) - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:33] <exec> 08└─Apparently Microsoft’s Claim of 775 Percent Surge in Cloud Services Wasn’t Really Accurate [wccftech.com] The company has now made a correction, saying that the 775 percent increase was experienced by Microsoft Teams, not all of the cloud offerings, which isn't as surprising since the video call...
[16:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:59] <exec> 08└─If only it was that easy.
[16:56:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 416 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:06] <exec> 08└─In order for anyone to get a patent on anything this is the type of information that the USPTO should absolutely require before approving a patent. Something that's actually useful. Instead we get nonsense broad patents that are worse than useless and tell us absolutely nothing about how to do anyth...
[16:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:22] <exec> 08└─Dave does some great stuff and he calls 'em like he sees 'em.
[16:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:23] <exec> 08└─For COVID-19, what you want is something simple that can be mass produced and will handle the single set of common settings that most severe sufferers experience.
[16:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:25] <exec> 08└─I forget the name of whatever they gave me, I think it may have been oxycontin or a relative, anyway... I had some "dissolvable" stitches in my thumbtip that didn't dissolve after 3 weeks and needed to be pulled out, in their semi-attached state, before they became an(other) pathway for infection. I...
[16:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:28] <exec> 08└─That's kind of how I felt on sodium pentathol when I had wisdom teeth out, I regained consciousness in the middle, felt the drill bashing away in my jaw and thought "man, that should hurt... doesn't." Then I tried to lift my arm to read my watch - get an idea of how long we had to go - the nurse not...
[16:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:41] <exec> 08└─Woah now, don't be stepping on people's fear and bigotry ya hear?
[16:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:42] <exec> 08└─You hear that Mr. Anonymous Coward? How can you ask for accurate data in our National Emergency? It hurts people's feelings.
[17:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 2432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:20] <exec> 08└─You don't use AWS to save money. Or you shouldn't. That's stupid, and hey, nobody ever accused procurement managers of being smart. You use AWS because it is geographically diverse and it provides a superior product to snowflake on-prem servers. If you're as big as Facebook, you can build your own d...
[17:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:21] <exec> 08└─Econ 101, AKA - Assume humanity is actually made up of robots....
[17:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 2822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:22] <exec> 08└─You could maybe explain one decade of wage stagnation by increased worker supply. But not five. Women have been integrated into the work force and supply has not been increasing for many, many years now. And yet, wages continue to stagnate. As for immigration, not all immigration is created equally....
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[17:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:37] <exec> 08└─What's any of that got to do with spoiling a perfectly good dumb joke though? What you should hear when you read "TDS" is "Oh, fuck, someone who's going to blame the zit on their nose on Trump or call him Literally Hitler for scratching his own nose". This shit is a very real, very common phenomenon...
[17:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:38] <exec> 08└─As an example, they don't make any basic plots like "NO2 exposure for alzheimers" versus "NO2 exposure for no alzheimers". Based on this paper, I can't figure out anything about any of their study. I don't understand how it could be refereed, based on the paper, because there are no plots of the und...
[17:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:41] <exec> 08└─For foreigners, I have figured out what SJW means. What does TDS mean?
[17:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:43] <exec> 08└─Trump Derangement Syndrome. Folks who lost their entire minds that he got elected and have been in a constant fit of sanity-destroying rage about it ever since.
[17:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:45] <exec> 08└─We are finding more and more that small particles (dust, soot) are bad for health even at low levels. Anecdote: my sister was stationed in Mongolia for a few years. In the winter, everybody burns (I believe) brown coal for heat with no pollution controls. FILTHY. After returning to the States, she h...
[17:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:47] <exec> 08└─Climate science denial IS political. Making a political joke then complaining that someone else makes a different political joke seems a bit hypocritical.
[17:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:49] <exec> 08└─wouldn't the existing higher EPA standards have been better for humans
[17:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:51] <exec> 08└─The problem with the clean room approach is that it's wrong too - billions of years of evolution have taken place in a messy soup of bacteria, viruses, pollen, parasites, etc. Take those all away and lots of complex systems start to fail. https://www.nytimes.com
[17:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:54] <exec> 08└─Ima great douchenozzle! And I'm reusable! But wait! There's more! I'm also self cleaning, at least once a week!
[17:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:04] <exec> 08└─Looking at the usage numbers in KwH, US wind power use has more than doubled in the last decade, and solar and hydro have also increased, to the point where US renewable generation capacity approximately matches US nuclear generation capacity. So while I agree installed power isn't necessarily the r...
[17:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Energy-Harvesting Design Aims To Turn Wi-Fi Signals Into Usable Power - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:25] <exec> 08└─Wonder Woman is one bonable Jewess!
[17:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase From Microsoft Teams' Users in Italy (Updated) - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:57] <exec> 08└─i think you took his "keepin' it real" a tad too seriously. lol
[17:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase From Microsoft Teams' Users in Italy (Updated) - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:58] <exec> 08└─the masses truly are profane!
[17:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:25] <exec> 08└─should be easy enough to organize a strike or mass quit. then what would these stupid pieces of shit do?
[17:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 1995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:27] <exec> 08└─Like I said, Fuck You Money might not be so easily saved. We have this massive student loan problem that makes that a lot, lot harder to do. In families who come from poverty, the parents are unable to pay for their kid's college, and they have to take the loans. Or, they don't go to college, which...
[17:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 3285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:53] <exec> 08└─So, thinking logically through the criticism, there aren't BOMs or specific part numbers released which could (likely would) cause an even harder run on the very parts which are already in too short supply for the Medtronic / Tesla production lines to build the vents to spec. Just like the people ov...
[17:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:42] <exec> 08└─yes, and you're wrong! so wrong!
[17:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:08] <exec> 08└─The silver lining is that this would prove once and for all that capitalists would slit old ladies' throats by the hundreds for the sake of a few percent of quarterly profit. But I'm not willing to sacrifice 5% or more of the people I care about to make a point.
[17:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:10] <exec> 08└─The accurate data says the same thing I'm saying. You want to pretend that said accurate data isn't real, so I confirmed from somebody with direct experience that I have every reason to trust. And you still don't believe it. I'm pretty sure the only thing that would convince you that the problem isn...
[17:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:12] <exec> 08└─these stories need their own blog summary page on a subdomain or in a category, so people can comment on the story they want. this roundup format does not work well.
[17:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:14] <exec> 08└─I would put these on a subdomain or in a category.
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[18:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steam Limits Game Auto-Updates to Manage Peak Demand - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:23] <exec> 08└─This seems fair.
[18:54:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:34] <exec> 08└─Trump relaxes EPA standards ... Dementia leads to increased air polution.
[18:54:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 900 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:41] <exec> 08└─Leaving Trump out of it, wouldn't the existing higher EPA standards have been better for humans? How are people helped by lowering the standards? (I won't mention Trump) but how is allowing higher levels of lead in children's toys helping anyone? My point: It seems these acts are only intended to be...
[18:54:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:48] <exec> 08└─Climate science denial IS political. Making a political joke then complaining that someone else makes a different political joke seems a bit hypocritical.
[18:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:53] <exec> 08└─Trump eases regulations adopted after BP Deepwater Horizon disaster [theguardian.com]
[18:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:55] <exec> 08└─Reducing dust in your house and lungs doesn't mean zero exposure to microorganisms. You can just type a comment on SoylentNews for 25 minutes while eating Doritos without washing your hands. And don't use Lysol every day.
[18:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:06] <exec> 08└─Huh, I have only seen windmills that aren't turning when it appears to be intentional (that is one out of many turned the wrong way). Then again, I live in the middle of the US, perhaps our "calm" days are still pretty breezy.
[18:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:08] <exec> 08└─That number is only significant if they were jumpin' gigawatts.
[18:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:10] <exec> 08└─A Delorean requires 1.21 jiggawatts to punch thru time. How many time machines?
[18:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase From Microsoft Teams' Users in Italy (Updated) - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:03] <exec> 08└─No, it doesn't mean they need usernames and passwords. It means that when the system logs a remote services protocol event it echoes that event back to MS. Are you saying you need proof that MS collects system data as part of their QI program?
[18:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase From Microsoft Teams' Users in Italy (Updated) - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:04] <exec> 08└─Correction, AC, I see you were responding to the parent. No, I don't think there is a straight up keylogger. But certainly anything you push through Cortana's oh-so-helpful typing feature makes its way back there. And yes, they do relay the kinds of info they need to make this kind of call I'm sure....
[18:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase From Microsoft Teams' Users in Italy (Updated) - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:06] <exec> 08└─Yes but you need the appy apps to appcloud the cloudy cloud!
[18:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:34] <exec> 08└─It was him, actually. In March 2020, the Axos CEO, Greg Garrabrants, emailed employees to let them know he had instructed his IT team to install spying software on everyone's computer (excluding his own) to make sure they were indeed working from home during the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.
[18:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:36] <exec> 08└─Like I said, Fuck You Money might not be so easily saved.
[18:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:04] <exec> 08└─I was awake when I got my wisdom teeth out. I was novacained to the gills so there wasn't any pain. But the cracking, crunching and vibrations of teeth and socket bone breaking was pretty disconcerting. My conscious mind knew that it was a needed thing, but my subconscious mind was strongly saying "...
[18:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:24] <exec> 08└─big accident, i'm sure. war is coming, motherfuckers!
[18:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:25] <exec> 08└─F@H is doing unpaid work for closed source medicine. fuck them.
[18:59:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 1028 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:41] <exec> 08└─The author clearly had his head slammed repeatedly by a car door as a baby if he thinks that Wordpress is "good". It's free, yes. It's very easy to get started using, yes. You can very quickly get a 'productive' site up with it, yes. And that is why it is popular, because people don't know jack abou...
[18:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:50] <exec> 08└─Worst piece of shit software ever. Impossible to truly secure, ever.
[19:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:05] <exec> 08└─He tried to build a homebrew airplane, on live TV, once. He was foiled by having to layup fiberglass.
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[19:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steam Limits Game Auto-Updates to Manage Peak Demand - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:19] <exec> 08└─There's a setting not to update them until you play them. Unfortunately it's not a global option, you have to set it for each game. It's a lot easier on data caps when you have 200+ steam games.
[19:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steam Limits Game Auto-Updates to Manage Peak Demand - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:21] <exec> 08└─https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1241364123817926656 [twitter.com]
[19:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:51] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[19:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:53] <exec> 08└─According to the Urban Dictionary it means "Trump Defender Syndrome". https://www.urbandictionary.com [urbandictionary.com]
[19:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:55] <exec> 08└─Sorry Buzz, it was more like a dumb bad joke.
[19:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's stuff like that that calls for a "WTF?" mod. I mean, why do we even have "Agree" and "Disagree" mods?
[19:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:59] <exec> 08└─If one is eating a toxic substance like Doritos, they probably are not overly concerned about what's lingering on their hands.
[19:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:01] <exec> 08└─That definition won the popular vote, but still loses.
[19:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:04] <exec> 08└─Doritos, Cheetos, Pretzels, whatever. The point is that your keyboard contains some serious microbiome.
[19:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:06] <exec> 08└─It seems you did not read the JAMA article linked in both the summary and the brief Karolinska Institutet article. https://jamanetwork.com [jamanetwork.com]
[19:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:08] <exec> 08└─The problem with the clean room approach is that it's wrong too - billions of years of evolution have taken place in a messy soup of bacteria, viruses, pollen, parasites, etc. Take those all away and lots of complex systems start to fail. https://www.nytimes.com
[19:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rheumatic Diseases: The Cost Of Survival During the Little Ice Age - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:52] <exec> 08└─I went to Yosemite National Park just after Glacier Point opened a few years back (huge snow year). I was symptom-free at that time. We hiked around many of the trails, and I had no discomfort. Within a couple of weeks, I had some pain in all peripheral joints (shoulders to fingers, hips to toes). M...
[19:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:48] <exec> 08└─Yes. Almost invariably, yes. Because the computer doesn't belong to the worker, it belongs to the company. And most companies are smart enough to have something explicitly outlining this in a handbook. "We own the machine, you are on our time, we have every right to be aware of what you are doing ev...
[19:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:49] <exec> 08└─Be out of work. St. Louis Fed yesterday said unemployment may climb as high as 33% thanks to COVID. (Will it get there? doubtful. But no doubt the 'low unemployment' time is over, if we don't get pushed into straight depression.)
[19:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:19] <exec> 08└─Over-regulation is not the prob. It's wrongful regulation. It's selective enforcement. Regulatory capture. Corruption. When you say "over" you are priming yourself for the very thing I am warning about, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. You don't dismiss all the referees and umpires, burn th...
[19:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:41] <exec> 08└─Miley Cyrus still has coronavirus.
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[20:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06U.K. Internet Service Providers Lift Caps on Broadband Data - 1936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:18] <exec> 08└─HowTo: 7zip ultra settings & data + header archive encryption on WARNING: As per warning in the 'man 7z' man page, if you're using Linux and you want to retain username and permissions, DO NOT USE THIS METHOD! Instead use another archiver, or follow the instructions fro...
[20:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.K. Internet Service Providers Lift Caps on Broadband Data - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:19] <exec> 08└─Brought to you by "Use my HOSTS file" and "goatse for everyone".
[20:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:07] <exec> 08└─Looked it up: Total dissolved solids
[20:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:09] <exec> 08└─Enter Zen from there.
[20:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:11] <exec> 08└─Such a prize. Now if you would only stop playing with your fecal matter...
[20:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:13] <exec> 08└─#shithole Disgusting. Nasty people. Namaste.
[20:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:15] <exec> 08└─Oh, so it doesn't refer to the constrant fits of sanity-destroying rage that led to the election of Trump? I always got it backwards then.
[20:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:30] <exec> 08└─That will only work until the conventional plant reaches its retirement age
[20:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:31] <exec> 08└─One factor to consider: Given a wide enough geography on the same grid, the odds that the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining everywhere on the grid all at once is pretty low. And of course efforts to reduce electric consumption by efficiency improvements and/or off-peak discounts would mak...
[20:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jurov [6250] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Energy-Harvesting Design Aims To Turn Wi-Fi Signals Into Usable Power - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:52] <exec> 08└─You are imagining it would "suck" all ambient signals in a room somehow? No, the antenna can absorb only the rays falling directly on it, so unless you place it straight between wifi transmitter and receiver, it's fine. And practically everything, from walls to your own body, degrades the strength o...
[20:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rheumatic Diseases: The Cost Of Survival During the Little Ice Age - 1626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:04] <exec> 08└─Great answer. I so wish I had gone to med school. Anyway, I'm in a high Lyme area- NE USA, and I've been bitten many times, that I know of, over many years. I really don't know how long I had Lyme, and I didn't have any significant symptoms. Due to another issue (skin infection) I went to a doctor l...
[20:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:53] <exec> 08└─Can you provide links to these blogs, I would like to perhaps follow them since these are topics I am interested in. Thanks.
[21:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:18] <exec> 08└─Actually, you're dead wrong about the comparison to the Atari E.T Game. 200 years from now there will be a collector on a personal space ship showing off baseball cards and a fully working Atari 2600 with the E.T Game. Wordpress won't be cherished in the same way, and probably mentioned in a paragra...
[21:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 6110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:35] <exec> 08└─I have to say this is, by far, one of the most realistic endorsements of "socialism" I have ever read online. So on that account, I have to commend you. If people could only speak as cogently and impartially as you do, the world would be a vastly better place. And in fact I suspect our mindsets are...
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[21:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.K. Internet Service Providers Lift Caps on Broadband Data - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:20] <exec> 08└─If they can lift the bandwidth caps now, then they could have done it yesterday, last week or last year. The caps are completely artificial. What, did you think they were dipping into their limited reserve of packets and graciously giving their customers some of them to fill up?
[21:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.K. Internet Service Providers Lift Caps on Broadband Data - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:21] <exec> 08└─Let's hope that this will be one of those "new normals" emerging from this.
[21:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.K. Internet Service Providers Lift Caps on Broadband Data - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:23] <exec> 08└─Something tells me we will have no such luck in burgerland. My internet connection has been barely working today.
[21:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:15] <exec> 08└─heh, ignorant douche can't even get his racism right
[21:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:17] <exec> 08└─We have Disagree so people who can't help modding anything they disagree with have a moderation that doesn't do anything. We don't have Agree because upmodding someone because you lack the emotional control of a teenager isn't much of a dick move. Mods aren't Facebook smileys though; they serve a re...
[21:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:19] <exec> 08└─Well, of course. I'm quite a lot of people's uncle. My humor does tend to reflect that.
[21:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:21] <exec> 08└─Dude, if you read anything about actual climate science into a dumb Uncle Joke like that, you have some serious fucking problems.
[21:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:23] <exec> 08└─Run someone who doesn't suck so horribly that Donald Fucking Trump kicks their ass if it hurts you that badly.
[21:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:25] <exec> 08└─Stupider things have happened than the election of Trump - the Re-election of W. for instance. What will be amazing is if we manage to re-elect a man who can't even properly read a teleprompter, who consistently demonstrates the maturity of a toddler combined with the mental acuity of an Alzheimer's...
[21:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:27] <exec> 08└─Sadly, the overall increased mortality from COVID-19, even if left to run unchecked, isn't going to make a noticeable difference in the overall CO2 emissions even if all the victims are cremated.
[21:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:30] <exec> 08└─I have to wonder: WTF do they care about the carbon isotope ratio in a cleaning chemical? Are they using it as a forensic tracer? Further, the cost of testing / controlling the isotope ratio would be insanely high as compared to any potential change in cleaning action the isotopes might have. I thin...
[21:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:32] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's the exact same definition as ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome).
[21:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:34] <exec> 08└─I read the paper - did I miss something?
[21:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:36] <exec> 08└─Masked zen is not the zen. Masked.
[21:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:38] <exec> 08└─Dude, just run someone who's not so colossally shitty that Donald Fucking Trump is a better alternative. It's really not that difficult of a thing to find. Hell, it's not even hard to find among registered Democrats. It's pretty fucking nonexistent among national-level Democrat politicians though.
[21:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:41] <exec> 08└─Yup, orange is the new black.
[21:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:43] <exec> 08└─I was being sarcastic, playing off of TMB's mostly misunderstood joke. And maybe you were too; difficult to tell sometimes... need a little "sarcastic" indicator... :)
[21:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:45] <exec> 08└─What's any of that got to do with spoiling a perfectly good dumb joke though?
[21:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:47] <exec> 08└─Shit, I'm out of mod points. That did make me laugh quite effectively.
[21:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:04] <exec> 08└─Some big wind turbines I regularly pass are not turning half the time - they are only going if there is a significant breeze.
[21:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:34] <exec> 08└─It would definitely be legal to do if the company supplied a computer to you. For BYOD (i.e. your computer that you bought being used at work), it would definitely be illegal. I actually work under both arrangements (I have a company supplied laptop, but sometimes use my desktop at home when I need...
[21:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:04] <exec> 08└─It's ok; they can't take back the information once it's out there. If nothing else, this data dump is still very useful for seeing how one of these things is designed, and serves as a good reference for anyone else who wants to make them, especially in other nations which don't worry so much about I...
[21:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:06] <exec> 08└─That seems weird; why would you give someone pill-based pain medication for an in-office surgical procedure? Something on your thumbtip should be numbed with injections using a local anesthetic, not a pill.
[21:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:08] <exec> 08└─I was thinking if one was going to build a mechanical motor-driven bellows, linkage adjustable for tidal volume variance, motor speed variable as well, I would probably have something like this beneath the bed to insure my apparatus did not overpressure the patient. You don't wanna pump the tummy up...
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[22:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Reveals What the Final X-57 All-Electric X-Plane Will Look Like - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:14] <exec> 08└─It will have Apple and Hillary 2016 stickers on it and be flown by insufferable douchebags.
[22:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Reveals What the Final X-57 All-Electric X-Plane Will Look Like - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:15] <exec> 08└─An "all electric" aircraft used to mean fly-by wire, with electric actuators working the control surfaces (as opposed to hydraulic or hybrid servos on the control surfaces). Electric motor power density has come a long way over the years.
[22:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steam Limits Game Auto-Updates to Manage Peak Demand - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:36] <exec> 08└─I was wondering why my download queue as filling up and instead of scheduled for the next update window (I set steam to update from 1-6am) they are all over the calendar.
[22:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:37] <exec> 08└─Alkyl (C12 40% C14 50% C16 10%) dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride: 0.3% You are reading the label wrong. The C12, C14 and C16 refer to the length of the carbon chain in the alkyl part of the molecule. CH3-Ch2.....-CH2-C(CH3)2NH3+ : Cl- If you actually had something tha was 10% 16C it would instantly...
[22:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:39] <exec> 08└─Saying "TDS" is simply an attempt to dismiss legitimate concerns or observations. Every time I hear "TDS" I read it as someone who is secretly embarrassed about the latest thing coming from the administration.
[22:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:41] <exec> 08└─All that and I dropped the benzyl. Doh. CH3-CH2.....-CH2-C6(H2(CH3)2)-NH3+ : Cl-
[22:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:29] <exec> 08└─As compared to the low paying jobs you can get with a college degree? At least you're four years of wages ahead.
[22:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:03] <exec> 08└─Regardless of what the license says, the IP is out there and it will be copied. Expiry of the license at the end of the crisis just means that competitors won't be allowed to advertise "built to meet and exceed the specs of the Medtronic ventilator..." not that they won't be able to do just that. I...
[23:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:26] <exec> 08└─Exactly as I said, that masks prevent droplet based transmission and there is evidence that the virus is viable in aerosol for 3 hours. How does the expert opinion contradict my claim? WHO claimed the virus is not airborne and that is untrue - measles is considered airborne because the viral particl...
[23:00:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 846 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:46] <exec> 08└─I hesitate to post here because everyone seems to hate WordPress. I've been a WordPress admin for 12 years and it's been great. To be fair and honest, about 13 years ago, just before my time in WordPress, there had been some infamous security holes that were quickly patched. I admin many active site...
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[23:03:10] <exec> 08└─I'll return the favor and thank you for the well-reasoned response. It's always a pleasure to have conversations like this! And I apologize in advance that I am definitely too verbose. For what it's worth, I like to think that the only way I would take the money to advocate for anarcho-libertarianis...
[23:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:12] <exec> 08└─I suppose it depends on where you come from -- 1m is definitely jammed to me. For people from NY or similar, maybe that isn't what they might consider jammed based on being conditioned out of having personal space, but it sure is inside exhalation range. Even pre-corona, a person within a meter of m...
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[23:55:36] <exec> 08└─Would you like to buy some N95 compliant brasseries, athletic supporters and MAGA hats?
[23:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:38] <exec> 08└─Whoops! Thanks so much for the correction! It makes much more sense, now. High school AP chemistry was a looong time ago. Got a 5 on the advanced placement exam, which fulfilled my college chem requirement. Next up was organic chemistry which was described to me as "Here's a 3-inch (~7cm) book. Memo...
[23:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:28] <exec> 08└─At least you're four years of wages ahead.
[23:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:02] <exec> 08└─Applicants used to have to send in a working model to get the patent. At some point that became impractical. With today's technology, it could now be practical to do the digital equivalent of that--requiring complete CAD/CAM files, schematics, etc. These could be reasonably stored in servers somewhe...