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[00:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:57] <exec> 08└─They also tap into the Fed's bottomless well No doubt they are asking for more
[00:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:59] <exec> 08└─Build planes that aren't designed to kill people and you might sell more of them.
[00:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:01] <exec> 08└─Nobody in their right mind would be buying new planes while the worlds passenger service has basically ground to a screeching halt. It's just smart business to cancel new plane orders. I'm sure when things pick up, the orders will be flowing in faster than they can be filled. Flight system bugs or n...
[00:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:03] <exec> 08└─The funny thing about your comment is that military contracts and maintenance are the only thing keeping Boeing alive at the moment. 3 and probably 4 Boeing airliners were all involved in 9/11. Perhaps Boeing itself was involved in 9/11? Who was in charge of Boeing when 9/11 happened? A goddamn Jew,...
[00:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:05] <exec> 08└─Between MCAS and their spaceflight issues it's clear the bean counters are running the company, not the engineers (nor the QA dept). Seriously, you launch a spacecraft without noticing the bottom part's clock differs by 12 hours from the upper stage? How the holy fucking fuck does that even happen?...
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[00:41:07] <exec> 08└─when things pick up
[00:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:09] <exec> 08└─Don't they make a lot of planes for the US military as well? Gotta figure that they won't let *them* go under.
[00:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:12] <exec> 08└─Seriously, you launch a spacecraft without noticing the bottom part's clock differs by 12 hours from the upper stage?
[00:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:14] <exec> 08└─Yup: you can bet the lineup just got longer and they jumped ahead to the front.
[00:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:38] <exec> 08└─Actually, the claim that physics works quite well without the continuity of the real numbers is a very strong claim, with strong implications about what the theories mean. But (judging by the summary) he's allowing his philosophical disposition to color his understanding of what those implications a...
[00:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:39] <exec> 08└─His barber? How many people do you think have as recognizable a photo as Einstein? Even if all you can see is his hair you can recognize him. Sometimes I wonder if he carried along a portable Van de Graaff generator.
[00:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:41] <exec> 08└─All the above comment sounds a lot like 2 Dimensional beings trying to figure out a 3 Dimensional universe. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:43] <exec> 08└─IIUC, there is a theoretical possibility that the universe is only meta-stable, and that it could collapse into a more stable form. But I don't think that conjectures about the continuity of the real number line would affect that, and last I heard nobody could think of any way to test whether it was...
[00:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:46] <exec> 08└─EF is an irrational number.
[00:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:48] <exec> 08└─close to death by alcohol poisoning
[00:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:50] <exec> 08└─What, specifically, is the reason for any "Alternative Interpretations of Classical Physics" when we *already know* that "classical physics" is but a simplification, i.e. in any precise formulation it is just plain *wrong*?
[00:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, the claim that physics works quite well without the continuity of the real numbers is a very strong claim, with strong implications about what the theories mean.
[00:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:04] <exec> 08└─Black-on-black crime in the dark foils BPD technology, so less Afro-Americans end up in prison.
[00:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:29] <exec> 08└─Runaway is the same kind of sociopath Trump is, although in my estimation he's an induced case rather than a native-born one: all that matters is t3h feelz. His feelz. And everything and everyone else is subordinate to, subject to, and disposable in the pursuit of said feelz.
[00:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:27] <exec> 08└─Just because no one has been seriously hurt doesn’t mean it isn’t reckless. (And can you be sure about all possible unofficial/unsuccessful attempts that have happened over the years?) The highway system is safe, but that doesn’t mean driving in an unreasonable fashion on it is therefore safe....
[00:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 1407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:47] <exec> 08└─Actually, I was going to get to that :) You see, you're completely correct: Christians all choose #1, but #3 is actually recorded in the Bible. ...and that choice completely destroys the neo-Platonic house of cards virtually all of Christian apologetics is built on. Yahweh did not start out as some...
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[01:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:14] <exec> 08└─If Boeing is so essential that they need to be bailed out, then they need to be nationalized--proportional to the value of the money they are asking for. If they're not essential enough to be nationalized, then let them fail and restructure on their own.
[01:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:15] <exec> 08└─If anybody decides that Boeing needs to be "Bailed out," it's the fucking Jews who will insist after Boeing perpetrated 9/11 and subsequently hired subhuman filth to write their life-critical guidance systems for the "Goyim," but not themselves. No. Boeing should die. Or hire true Americans again. A...
[01:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:18] <exec> 08└─You don't get how these tests work. More like: bottom part: "Clock shows 12:52" top part: "clock shows 00:52". This is so basic any high school QA would catch it. It's along the lines of "is everything plugged in?". If your test plan is so bad you can't tell which day it is, then I don't know what t...
[01:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:20] <exec> 08└─Nobody in their right mind would be buying new planes while the worlds passenger service has basically ground to a screeching halt.
[01:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:52] <exec> 08└─My guess — drawing on the philosophical slant to the present thread — is that he went to Russell’s barber [wikipedia.org] (the one who shaved all people who don’t shave themselves). But of course that barber promptly disappeared in a puff of logic, leaving Einstein with his unkempt hair.
[01:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:53] <exec> 08└─"E=mc^2. Yes, there's a number in it." No, there's not a number in it. It's used to denote a square operation.
[01:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:55] <exec> 08└─It's been a while, but it's more like e = lambda mc^2, where lambda is based on how fast you're moving relative to light speed to an observer. For most of us our velocity is close enough to zero that lambda is 1. But you get to, I don't remember, 80% of light speed or more and lambda grows at an exp...
[01:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:58] <exec> 08└─I read an interview of this guy a few month ago, and it seems his motivation was his faith-based refusal to accept determinism because of free will. It was more or less like "I know I have free will. But according to the standard model of physics with cause and consequences, all my actions are deter...
[01:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:00] <exec> 08└─I found a similar link to the one I read : https://www.unige.ch [unige.ch]
[01:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:02] <exec> 08└─And, while it seems at first glance that the existence or non-existence of infinitely precise numbers would be irrelevant to computing formulas - that overlooks the fact that those formulas are themselves constructed based on a multitude of mathematical laws that themselves assume that infinitely pr...
[01:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:49] <exec> 08└─Just get a Pi 4. You won't find that in any ventilator.
[01:43:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 7 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:31] <exec> 08└─the EPA
[01:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:35] <exec> 08└─Ammo-sexuals: guns, sex, and death. They worship power and stupidity. Did you ever wonder why Tom Riddle was such an incel?
[01:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:36] <exec> 08└─Keep flinging the insults. We'll mind our own business and keep buying guns, and see how that works out for you.
[01:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Develops 128-Layer 1.33 Tb QLC 3D NAND - 7503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:03] <exec> 08└─You have massively underestimated me, and badly overplayed your hand. Your second paragraph, "Your first argument about the behavior of a perfect being begs the question of imperfect beings would be able to know and predict what should be the behavior of a perfect being. It also assumes that the onl...
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[02:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:15] <exec> 08└─In general, any corporation that takes bailout money should be partially or completely nationalized until the money is paid back. The terms should be so bad that they literally use it as a last resort before layoffs or declaring bankruptcy. In the case of Boeing, it's even more egregious as they've...
[02:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:16] <exec> 08└─With the current state of the US government, though, I don't think that will happen. We've spent the last 40 years with the best president and Congress money can buy. And it's shown again and again that when the rich come to Uncle Sam hat in hand, they get however large a handout they need, while wh...
[02:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:19] <exec> 08└─Agile kills all right.
[02:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:21] <exec> 08└─And who the hell lets a software system keep forcing the plane into the ground, regardless of pilot input?
[02:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:59] <exec> 08└─EF is an irrational n̶u̶m̶b̶e̶r̶.
[02:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:01] <exec> 08└─Is that you, Uncle Larry? No one else talks like that anymore. I'll just get off your raggedy looking lawn . . .
[02:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:14] <exec> 08└─Safety - whether real or imagined - is less important than stopping mass surveillance, which threatens democracy and freedom. [gnu.org] This pandemic is being used as an excuse to increase mass surveillance, which will almost certainly not go away even when the pandemic is over. The US is supposed t...
[02:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:27] <exec> 08└─Don't use a fake name. Put your real name on your account, like Tom, or Michael David Crawford, or some other people here. Prove how manly you are. And, I'm quaking in my boots about you punching my teeth into my adam's apple. But, you do what you gotta do, internet tuff guy.
[02:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:25] <exec> 08└─One might want to know how England became the leader because China is about to do exactly the same. In fact China is probably doing it already. Hint: England inserted trade knife into Amsterdam while the old masters were busy fighting Spain. It did Dutch for good. Specifically, they Brits stopped al...
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[03:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:23] <exec> 08└─People familiar with Boeing will tell you that the company is not a single monolithic enterprise: its various arms and tentacles are fairly independent. It's not impossible that the US federal government (or even the company itself) could simply sever the diseased limb of the commercial air transpor...
[03:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:04] <exec> 08└─number of possible 'next states' is either infinite or finite. If infinite, author of TFA thinks he has free will if finite, author of TFA thinks he can't have free will if finite, but so uncountably large, that the heat death of the universe will occur before you count them, is that close enough to...
[03:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:06] <exec> 08└─He's arguing with TV shows now.
[03:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:08] <exec> 08└─Vacuum collapse (or decay) is another beast, and even more unconcerned with incomputables. I mean the main way you get from one vacuum to another is by quantum tunnelling, and that doesn't really care much about intervening values. Where you tunnel to may be different than where you end up, but the...
[03:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:10] <exec> 08└─> I've tried to use it to pick up chicks at the bar with no luck, That's because you lack an ego like Zaphod Beeblbrox. Nothing wrong with your pitch, it's the delivery.
[03:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:12] <exec> 08└─Einstein (1907) M = μ + E0/c^2 Lorentz (1913) ε = Mc^2 and ε0 = mc^2 Einstein (1946) E = m c^2 (but only at rest, as it removes kinetic energy) E = m0c^2 for an object at rest, or E = mrelc^2 when the object is moving. it was only an elegant simplification when he wrote it - Einstein never claime...
[03:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:14] <exec> 08└─Well, I tend to be a finitist, myself, to the point of only considering continuity to be a useful kludge in calculation. But I don't really see that this has any consequence WRT free will. FWIW, anyone who takes finiteness seriously runs into just as many weird things along the edge as those who acc...
[03:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:16] <exec> 08└─Can we build a math where this continuity is violated? Let's call the smallest difference between two numbers a Plank's number p. Question. How many dots a circle with radius equal to one has? One can't use our regular formula with this precision because the dots on the circle would be on a curve th...
[03:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here’s an Unprecedented Look at Apollo 13’s Damaged Service Module - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:28] <exec> 08└─Not much to debate, but I want to say that stories like these are very nice to see here.
[03:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:18] <exec> 08└─That went over the youngsters heads.
[03:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:56] <exec> 08└─Or you go to Germany where portions of the Autobahn still have no speed limit... Germans are taught to use the fast lane for passing, not hogging.
[03:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:52] <exec> 08└─I noticed that afterwards. Propellant not projectile. 57 grams would be something like a M230.
[03:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:46] <exec> 08└─Just to insert some facts, APK does have a SoylentNews account [soylentnews.org]. Yes, that's actually him. Who knows why he can't be bothered to log into it. I believe SN allows for longer usernames than Slashdot, so he could probably register AlexanderPeterKowalski or something like that if he wan...
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[04:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Brightest Supernova Ever Seen - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:58] <exec> 08└─What the fuckety-fuck? Ergs? Yes, an energy unit, but why the fuck would one want [stackexchange.com] to measure the output of the most energetic supernova in 0.1μJ = 100nJ? Then, the linked The Conversation [theconversation.com] FA The most massive Main Sequence stars, the O-stars, are enormous...
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[04:40:59] <exec> 08└─Except when people want to make stupidly big numbers? From Wikipedia: 'An erg is approximately the amount of work done (or energy consumed) by one common house fly performing one "push up"'
[04:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Brightest Supernova Ever Seen - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:02] <exec> 08└─2.39 x 10^26 gigatons of TNT.
[04:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Brightest Supernova Ever Seen - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:04] <exec> 08└─And here I thought this was a political thing, like Pluto. Trump claiming absolute authority, just as stars do, just before they implode, dramatically, and then rebound ekstatically, in a dazzling display of ignorance and heavy metal generation and massive energy that could have been more effectivel...
[04:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06So What Is Protein Folding, Anyway? - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:12] <exec> 08└─It seems that FAH is having a minor slowdown with the work servers. Nothing as bad as a couple weeks ago when the number of donors exploded, but a slowdown all the same. I've not had all five of my clients working at the same time since about noon Saturday. Each, in turn, requests a work unit, and w...
[04:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06So What Is Protein Folding, Anyway? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:14] <exec> 08└─More than one exaFLOPS is termed ... exaFLOPS's? exaFLOPSies? exaFLOPSes?
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[04:41:29] <exec> 08└─If Boeing is so essential that they need to be bailed out, then they need to be nationalized--proportional to the value of the money they are asking for. If they're not essential enough to be nationalized, then let them fail and restructure on their own.
[04:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:39] <exec> 08└─This is so basic any high school QA would catch it.
[04:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:41] <exec> 08└─The term is correct here, but let us be sure it is applied correctly. Somehow, in my mind, the term seems to apply to the engineers and workmen who actually build the plane. But, that is probably just me. The real incompetence applies to the bean counters and management. The engineers designed the a...
[04:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:43] <exec> 08└─Seriously, you launch a spacecraft without noticing the bottom part's clock differs by 12 hours from the upper stage? How the holy fucking fuck does that even happen?
[04:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:45] <exec> 08└─Taught or not. The whole devops thing is now dev-ba-qa-sec-ops. The bean counter were so happy that they can role all those into 1 and pay for 1 headcount instead of 5. I kid you not, I work in a place where it has actually happened. The devs that stayed just ignore everything else, keep their heads...
[04:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:32] <exec> 08└─This is a good point, about classical vs. quantum physics. It's hard to see the motivation to re-do a classical theory with motivation from a quantum one (and I don't think this is even a good way of doing it.) Some theoreticians *are* trying to describe QM in terms of GR, but most are going the oth...
[04:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:33] <exec> 08└─Our code to "balance tags" has a bug. If I open a <i> in a comment and fail to provide a closing </i>, then all text on the page that follows it would be in italics. The balance_tags routine detects the omission and automatically inserts one, in the appropriate place, before the comment is saved to...
[04:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 2061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:36] <exec> 08└─Intuitionism doesn't say that precise real numbers don't exist. pi certainly does exist, and it has a precise value. The fact that sin(pi) = 0 does not depend on pi being computed. Intuitionism considers a real number to be given when you have a procedure that will produce arbitarily close approxima...
[04:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:38] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Could you adjust the Allowed HTML <b|i|p|br|a|ol|ul|li|dl|dt|dd|em|strong|tt|blockquote|div|ecode|quote|sup|sub|abbr|sarc|sarcasm|user|spoiler|del|strike>
[04:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:51] <exec> 08└─The usual standard for this thing is the idea that in public, there is no expectation of privacy. Walking around? Caught on camera from every storefront, every police cruiser, every passing smartphone? You have no cause to go to court because you were in public. I could easily see the BPD saying tha...
[04:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Team Designs Carbon Nanostructure Stronger Than Diamonds - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:03] <exec> 08└─It could be used to build a tower though. If you make one 100km tall and launch from the top you reduce your fuel load significantly and you can optimize your engines for use in a vacuum. If your navigation is good enough even better would be to use the tower as the pickup point for the pinwheel HiT...
[04:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:29] <exec> 08└─Why would an application like this need a real time OS? I would think the time latencies between all the necessary sensor measurements can very easily handle many tens of milliseconds.
[04:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:16] <exec> 08└─Well, at least he didn't throw in a reference to "bread and circuses". That was real trendy a few years back where everyone thought it made them sound well read and insightful if they said it, but since so many of them did, they didn't realize how uninsightfully trendy they came off along with their...
[04:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contact Tracing in the Real World - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:08] <exec> 08└─A Polack? No point in arguing with him then. Us Poles argue just for the fun of it. He's just another big dumb bastard.
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[05:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:59] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a bad idea. The best time to sell would have been before the market crashed and before the government started rolling the presses to buttress the market.
[05:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:00] <exec> 08└─This isn't true: "It is illegal for senators to buy and sell shares using non-public information." Correction: It is illegal for non-senators to buy and sell shares using non-public information. They wrote the law. They exempted themselves. They can do insider trading as much as they like. They also...
[05:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:38] <exec> 08└─It's not to do with infinite size; it's that there's infinite precision in the irrationals
[05:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:40] <exec> 08└─I sure as hell see the number 2 there, it is literally a number used to write down the last character of the equation. A number "2" at that!
[05:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:42] <exec> 08└─I thought I *did* do that! It's late, and I don't dare mess with it on my cell phone. Will look into it. Thanks for the heads up!
[05:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:44] <exec> 08└─Kyle Larson, is that you?
[05:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:58] <exec> 08└─Safety - whether real or imagined - is less important than stopping mass surveillance, which threatens democracy and freedom.
[05:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:37] <exec> 08└─That's not what real-time means. The most important part is that the order of execution is completely defined.
[05:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:30] <exec> 08└─The problem with your theory is that methane floats
[05:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms Release More Methane Than Previously Estimated - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:32] <exec> 08└─True, but there's a difference between a sink that's almost nonexistent and a sink that can scale with methane concentration.
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[06:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:00] <exec> 08└─"They wrote the law. They exempted themselves. They can do insider trading as much as they like." Which is why I think all elected federal officials should be required to put all their investments into a blind trust while they are in office; even cabinet level and elected officials at the state leve...
[06:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:02] <exec> 08└─By late January America had already had its first case. Anybody with more than half a brain cell had already realized we were likely going to hit the shitter fairly soon, let alone by mid February. Even the CDC was telling people as much, though in less panic inducing terms. It was also just reasona...
[06:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06So What Is Protein Folding, Anyway? - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:20] <exec> 08└─Thanks for your encouragement in the FAH discussion 2 or so weeks ago. I've kept 2 computers running FAH (4 cores, no GPU work units though...) I find I have to occasionally pause and reboot. I think today is the first I've noticed not all 4 cores are busy. Shame each work unit only uses 1 core- got...
[06:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:49] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't we have a metric clock? There could be 10 hours in the day, each one 100 minutes long. The day would therefore be a kilominute. The second could be set equal to a centiminute.
[06:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:51] <exec> 08└─If you changed the clock that much, the US would never, ever, EVER switch to it. Besides which, neither Europe nor the military has ever suggested changing away from the 24 hour clock. What would be the benefit?
[06:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:53] <exec> 08└─> Is QA or unit testing taught and/or required as part of programming courses? Isn't it generally part of Agile? And that begs the question: do they teach Agile in schools?
[06:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:55] <exec> 08└─But since the second is already an SI base unit, we'll have to slow the rotation of the earth to get a 100 kilosecond day (for an extra 114 metric minutes of work time each day.) And while we're at it we could speed up the planet's orbit to shave off 360 metric minutes and reduce the year to 315 met...
[06:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Team Designs Carbon Nanostructure Stronger Than Diamonds - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:15] <exec> 08└─1. Get carbon flakes. 2. Sprinkle flakes into liquid body armor. 3. ??? 4. Ow.
[06:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:44] <exec> 08└─The article specifically says that it is a Raspberry Pi Zero that is being used The current version of Raspberry Pi Zero claims both Bluetooth and 802.11n WIFI.
[06:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:45] <exec> 08└─I should have read the last paragraph of your comment before replying! Apologies.
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[07:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:11] <exec> 08└─"They also are exempt from Obamacare." I currently work for US DoD. As a federal employee, I have access to an insurance pool. There are roughly half a dozen to a dozen insurance plans to choose from in the pool I have access to. Every year during open enrollment (roughly around the beginning of a n...
[07:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:13] <exec> 08└─...For example, much of Trump's business dealing is not much more than name branding. How do you stop him from using the power of his office when he can't be truly divested of those investments?
[07:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:15] <exec> 08└─Politics started to change in a lot of ways after JFK was murdered. In particular, Gerald Ford became the first [thoughtco.com] president to charge speaking fees. Up until then it was an unspoken rule that presidents didn't do this since it was seen as compromising the integrity of the office. It's...
[07:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:17] <exec> 08└─Interesting how the dear senators reacted to the warnings when their money was at stake but didn't react when other people's lives were at stake.
[07:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06So What Is Protein Folding, Anyway? - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:37] <exec> 08└─Oh - two computers, and two CPU's, with a total of four cores? You can change that. Easiest is using FAHControl. Right click on one client on each machine. Probably whichever client is closest to being finished. In the dropdown, click "finish". When that client has finished and returned it's WU, go...
[07:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06So What Is Protein Folding, Anyway? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:38] <exec> 08└─FLOPS is an acronym and already plural or singular as needed. This means exaFLOPS is already plural or singular as needed.
[07:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:12] <exec> 08└─> And who the hell lets a software system keep forcing the plane into the ground, regardless of pilot input? Yeah, so I've been ranting about this many times here and on a less soylent but more green site. And my argument has been that any pilot should be able to handle the quirks of a MAX without M...
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[08:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03BlackGriffin [10149] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Brightest Supernova Ever Seen - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:29] <exec> 08└─The same people who like to measure the mass of stars in grams and the brightness of stars in magnitudes.
[08:42:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 384 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:05] <exec> 08└─People familiar with Boeing will tell you that the company is not a single monolithic enterprise: its various arms and tentacles are fairly independent. It's not impossible that the US federal government (or even the company itself) could simply sever the diseased limb of the commercial air transpor...
[08:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:10] <exec> 08└─I think this is based on a (very common) misunderstanding of free will. Randomness isn't free will, quite the opposite. If my actions are random, I don't do them because I want to, but I do them for no reason at all. An unintentional action is not an act of free will, it is an accident. Free will me...
[08:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:11] <exec> 08└─Actually he was wrong the first time. because he introduced it for the wrong reason: Because he believed the universe to be static. Which was then disproved by observation, which is why he then removed that constant.
[08:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:13] <exec> 08└─Is there a reason why the balance_tags routine wasn't fixed instead?
[08:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:15] <exec> 08└─Oh now you take note? Back when I posted about it [soylentnews.org] nobody seemed to care... ;P (On the up side, I learned about the "del" tag)
[08:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:18] <exec> 08└─That factor is usually denoted with γ (gamma), not λ. And no, it does not grow at an exponential rate; rather it has a pole at v=c.
[08:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:03] <exec> 08└─I don't think China's main goal is to win consumers in Africa and Asia. Rather they want the resources.
[08:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:05] <exec> 08└─Sadly we have evil people on this planet. Some types have been killing and taking over others for centuries. They just take.
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[09:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Will be 'Functionally Ready' in 2020, Musk Says - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:01] <exec> 08└─It needs autonomous bleach wiping installed to stop pranksters from licking the seats and giving the next passenger coronavirus.
[09:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:16] <exec> 08└─"Agile"? I thought that was MBA speak for "Take the Money and Run"!
[09:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BlackGriffin [10149] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:17] <exec> 08└─Numbers are tools we use, not the mystical things that have an existence of their own. So, arguments about what you're allowed to call a number are unable to reveal anything about reality. Bottom line behind the masked man fallacy, is the argument that space-time doesn't have infinite resolution. Sa...
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[10:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Brightest Supernova Ever Seen - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:33] <exec> 08└─Then you could compare with bars of Cadbury's Dairy Milk.
[10:41:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 1152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:55] <exec> 08└─Between MCAS and their spaceflight issues it's clear the bean counters are running the company, not the engineers (nor the QA dept). Seriously, you launch a spacecraft without noticing the bottom part's clock differs by 12 hours from the upper stage? How the holy fucking fuck does that even happen?...
[10:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:21] <exec> 08└─It's stochastic, chaotic and has free will. One step remote from conscience; would it not be Perl, it would have evolved into a self-driving AI and became an Uber gig driver. Don't fix it, it may make it worse and turn into a stable genius, evil by necessity, and will strike everything in this world...
[10:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:23] <exec> 08└─There'd be quite a lot to explore. For instance if we accept nondeterminism, is all nondeterminism created equally? In other words are things always nicely distributed, or might it be the case that factors might somehow influence the nondeterminism which could suggest a another argument against phys...
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[11:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:07] <exec> 08└─Flush the systems and use the water as grey-water (there is a lot of grey-water irrigation for city landscaping here). Or pipe it into the drinking fountains at the parks where the Blacks hang out. They sure don't give a fuck and won't taste the difference anyway.
[11:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:09] <exec> 08└─You went from "seems reasonable" to "holy fucking shit, batman" real quick there sonny
[11:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:11] <exec> 08└─Have you always been a white supremacist imbecile or has COVID-19 isolation tipped you over the edge? On one story you make racist remarks about Jews, this one 'blacks'. Fuck off neo-nazi cunt.
[11:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:13] <exec> 08└─Your comment is offensive to neo-nazis, women and the transgendered.
[11:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Will be 'Functionally Ready' in 2020, Musk Says - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:21] <exec> 08└─you have been slapped on your wrist once before for making (unfounded) stock-influencing announcements on twitter. I hope you will get the spanking you deserve this time around.
[11:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes ‘Important’ Flaws in ColdFusion, After Effects and Digital Editions - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:30] <exec> 08└─[nine-year-old]Adobe sucks!!![/nine-year-old] Photoshop: what does it do that you can't do in GIMP 2.8.18? "Seriously," asked the 30-years-in-the-business graphic pro. Be prepared: GIMP has finally evolved. Otherwise there's Affinity Photo. Premiere: Apple dropped the ball, hard. DaVinci Resolve? Lo...
[11:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi to Power Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:42] <exec> 08└─Raspberry Pi to -Power- Control Ventilators as Demand for Boards Surges Please!
[11:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:37] <exec> 08└─And when it happens, there will be douchebags then who will have been harping on about it and will feel very smart having predicted it when rather it was their random fortune to have been born at that time in history.
[11:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:39] <exec> 08└─C'mon, canopic. This kind of flight of fancy was fun during the Cold War, but now it's silly. Russia is a pale, pale shadow of the Soviet Union. It cannot invade and conquer Europe. If you want to game out geopolitical scenarios, at least choose one that is within the realm of the plausible, like "H...
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[11:46:41] <exec> 08└─We are grossly overtaxing the carrying capacity of the planet by current methods of production. But we are on the cusp of another huge revolution in material science. Several, actually. Better energy storage via new battery technology is almost there. Better energy generation via renewable means is...
[11:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:43] <exec> 08└─I just realized that we're allowing a criminal president to run in the next election. The US system has failed, with the GOP throwing Molotovs everywhere. If Trump is voted out we'll have a 4 year reprieve to try and rally for true reforms, if he wins the election and conservatives continue to suppo...
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[13:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 500,000 Zoom Accounts Sold on Hacker Forums, the Dark Web - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:56] <exec> 08└─Even less then a penny per account seems like they are overcharging, considering their horrible lack of security etc.
[13:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:07] <exec> 08└─His comment on blacks gets moderated Insightful and I get downmodded for calling out his racist bullshit? Do you guys burn crosses together?
[13:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:08] <exec> 08└─Was going to suggest putting a cell-phone controlled dispenser on it and selling it as "e-water" to smart phone users. But I see you already chug-a-lugged more than a few cases.
[13:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:10] <exec> 08└─Your comment followed the same pattern: you started out insightful but then you made the cardinal mistake of using the c-word. Do you not understand that the c-word is offensive to women and the transgendered? Fucking white male privileged bastard.
[13:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:12] <exec> 08└─Doesn't most buildings have some kind of janitorial staff? Go around and flush the toilets and turn the taps once in a while. If they are empty there shouldn't be any issues of infection etc. Perfect social distancing job.
[13:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:15] <exec> 08└─Concerned about wasting flush water? That doesn't sound like the EF I know. It doesn't take much to flush a system. Cabins with galvanized pipes will "pour blood from the faucets" when you open them up for the season, running less water than a single shower / tooth brushing is usually enough to clea...
[13:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Will be 'Functionally Ready' in 2020, Musk Says - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:24] <exec> 08└─"Functionally Ready", that is not the same thing then as "Actually Ready". It's like all my ideas are functionally ready, they just have not been fully implemented or approved yet. But they are totally ready, I promise ...
[13:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Will be 'Functionally Ready' in 2020, Musk Says - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:26] <exec> 08└─Brilliant timing Musk : I think that sharing things with others, especially taxis where the air and seat are still warm from some stranger's lungs and arse, is going to be out of fashion for some time to come, even after the worse of COVID-19 is over. And where is he making these things? - is his fa...
[13:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes ‘Important’ Flaws in ColdFusion, After Effects and Digital Editions - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:35] <exec> 08└─Does Gimp do 16bit per channel yet? I stopped using it when Krita became mostly usable.
[13:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes ‘Important’ Flaws in ColdFusion, After Effects and Digital Editions - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:38] <exec> 08└─Great. Now maybe try can fix whatever insane thing they did to creative cloud desktop that makes it crash the entire windows 10 system when it is launched with the latest update.
[13:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes ‘Important’ Flaws in ColdFusion, After Effects and Digital Editions - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#when-will-gimp-support-hdr-imaging-and-processing-with-16bit-per-color-channel-precision [gimp.org] Krita, while similar, is a different animal. Of course the Venn diagram has some overlap between the two. An aside: just out of curiosity, crafoo, what do you do...
[13:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes ‘Important’ Flaws in ColdFusion, After Effects and Digital Editions - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:42] <exec> 08└─CORRECTION: I meant GIMP 2.10.18, not 2.8.18.
[13:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:57] <exec> 08└─Is there no way to sort/search by senator? Kinda limited functionality otherwise.
[13:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 2085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:58] <exec> 08└─A blind trust doesn't really help. If Trump had put his assets in a blind trust, do you really think that the trust manager would have immediately sold off all of the Trump* businesses and bought other things? Trump would still know that doing things that benefit Trump* businesses is good for him, e...
[13:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:00] <exec> 08└─Looking at the Marriott stock price, it was going gradually up until around February 20th. My March 17, it had lost around 2/3 of its value. Selling around the middle of February would have been a good idea.
[13:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:02] <exec> 08└─I guess it's interesting. It's just human nature. That's why we have checks and balances and oversight built in. It seems like most of these systems have either broken down or been subverted over the last 150 years or so. Our only option is to vote them out next election.
[13:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 1795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:05] <exec> 08└─Actually, if Congress wants the Government-supplied health care, they have to get it off of the Obamacare exchanges [npr.org]: What type of insurance do our elected representatives in Washington, D.C., have? Is it true that they're insured on the ACA exchanges now and that any repeal and replacement...
[13:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:07] <exec> 08└─You're lucky, it doesn't work for me at all in Palemoon (ff fork).
[13:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe buying more now is a better thing?
[13:39:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 1078 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:50] <exec> 08└─You don't get how these tests work. More like: bottom part: "Clock shows 12:52" top part: "clock shows 00:52". This is so basic any high school QA would catch it. It's along the lines of "is everything plugged in?". If your test plan is so bad you can't tell which day it is, then I don't know what t...
[13:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:07] <exec> 08└─You're bored and trying too hard.
[13:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:13] <exec> 08└─> Q=rationals (expressible as fractions), Q=reals (which include irrationals and rationals). Did you mean Q=rationals (expressible as fractions), R=reals (which include irrationals and rationals) ?
[13:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:14] <exec> 08└─> there is a theoretical possibility that the universe is only meta-stable, and that it could collapse into a more stable form. That sounds like it would be moderately painful.
[13:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:17] <exec> 08└─60 decimal digits should be enough for anyone!
[13:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:19] <exec> 08└─And if we begin to reject isotropy it kind of upends basically everything we've ever known hypothesized about anything about the cosmos.
[13:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:21] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think that the standard model (of QED) allows for free will, while GR denies it. This is the philosophical rift of our two primary physical theories. It is funny because they both seem to work well to describe everything we see, but they fundamentally cannot both be correct. This has bee...
[13:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:36] <exec> 08└─Sounds about right.
[13:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Team Designs Carbon Nanostructure Stronger Than Diamonds - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:50] <exec> 08└─It does bring up an interesting question, though. Just how strong are chemical bonds? What are the theoretical limits on strength of materials formed from atoms? So far I've only seen space elevators discussed in terms of *known* materials, like Kevlar or diamond. -- hendrik
[13:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Iron Isotopes Leaking from Earth's Core - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:39] <exec> 08└─De Beers, and others, manage the supply side of it to keep the value up. Not to mention what jewelers etc do -- sure this diamond (or diamond ring) is worth $$$$$$.
[13:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:22] <exec> 08└─Russia is a pale, pale shadow of the Soviet Union.
[13:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:24] <exec> 08└─Most European countries still have a universal draft and robust industrial bases to supply the materiel of war. Russia doesn't. And for all the hullabaloo, Europe still has NATO with the US in it. Russia has, well, Russia. Russia would get badly spanked on Day 1 of the glorious Putin offensive. So,...
[13:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:26] <exec> 08└─Have you smelled Surströmming? Teargas wasn't as bad as that even with the mask taken off. I think I would rather get invaded by the ruskies then have them open enough cans of that again.
[13:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:28] <exec> 08└─There are a couple real games to be had, though. India vs. Pakistan, This Time It's Nuclear! China
[13:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:30] <exec> 08└─They got rid of them? Well shit, that was my second favorite thing about the state.
[13:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:32] <exec> 08└─That's all fine and good if you're hunting. Most anything you're going to be shooting at isn't going to give you much of a chance at a second shot because it's fucking off with great enthusiasm if you miss with the first. Hunting is not why we have the second amendment though, so I'll stick with wea...
[13:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:34] <exec> 08└─I don't believe they would, I know without a doubt they would. You just don't want to believe they could so that your argument seems less bloody stupid. Look, for starters you're going to have one hell of a time convincing guys who volunteered to defend their fellow citizens' liberties to turn their...
[13:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:36] <exec> 08└─75/15/10 FTW.
[13:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:38] <exec> 08└─You know that you're talking to a veteran, yeah? Helps to be informed if you want to talk shit.
[13:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:40] <exec> 08└─No, it's not liberal. It's progressive. And it absolutely does not make people think for themselves. Free speech zones? Deplatforming? Ring a bell? Destroying the spread of any ideas that challenge your own is not even slightly liberal nor is it allowing the free exchange of information and ideas ne...
[13:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Would you like fries with that AR? - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:42] <exec> 08└─We're not wearing loincloths and wanting to hunt buffalo nowadays, retard. We're Americans and very well integrated into society, aside from a few who enjoy doing fuck-all and letting the government take care of them. We work in the same buildings you do, live in the same neighborhoods, use the same...
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[14:38:23] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Flushing the pipes is one of the first things you want to do when moving in to a building that has sat unused for a long while. Even if it's been winterized (no water sitting in pipes), there's still corrosion, outgassing, microbial buildup, etc. delivering nasty tastes. Quite possibly a bun...
[14:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:24] <exec> 08└─Nope. Just get mugged by the same people.
[14:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:26] <exec> 08└─TRYING to put energy towards helping others.
[14:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Will be 'Functionally Ready' in 2020, Musk Says - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:37] <exec> 08└─One would hope so. But things aren't always exactly the way you experience them. People don't generally take taxis because they like them, even Uber. And there certainly are people who have, and will, continue to need to use taxis because they can't afford their own transportation or it just doesn't...
[14:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03landshark [8216] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:10] <exec> 08└─The book "Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison" by Peter Schweizer is both interesting and very depressing about this subject.
[14:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:12] <exec> 08└─It's starting to recover. I bought some at the end of March, which are up a bit already. I'm expecting to hold them for at least a couple of years, so I'm not worried too much about the 5-10% fluctuations (though short-term traders are likely to be making a killing from the volatility) - I'm expecti...
[14:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06So What Is Protein Folding, Anyway? - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:35] <exec> 08└─Thank you, makes absolute sense. I had played with the slot control, and used "task manager" to watch CPU utilization and it didn't change. I wonder if the work units are pre-programmed for single core and won't spread out to multiple cores? The bottom line is I didn't put much time into messing wit...
[14:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06So What Is Protein Folding, Anyway? - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:36] <exec> 08└─I really have no cycles to spare, not in summer. My place has electric heat, so I thought, for winter, why not? Over the years, computer systems have improved greatly with the power throttling, fan speed management, and overall power usage. It's unpleasant to run these computation intensive programs...
[14:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:15] <exec> 08└─Every limb of Boeing has gangrene. Nothing healthy to save.
[14:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 1593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:16] <exec> 08└─What about Starliner? SLS? Other problems . . . New document reveals significant fall from grace for Boeing’s space program [arstechnica.com] "I have decided to eliminate Boeing from further award consideration." [ . . . ] Then there are the issues with the company's KC-46 Pegasus tanker program,...
[14:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:18] <exec> 08└─10 is not divisible by 3, so it would wreck havoc on any shift schedule. The only reasonable one i can see would be 4 x 2.5 decimal hour shifts (6 normal hours), that could be attractive (or not). I guess you could do the 3.33 metric hour shift, but that seems awkward.
[14:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 1217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:29] <exec> 08└─>So we don't need to eat a diet of yeast and microbes. Though I am curious to try Impossible Human (tm). So, what do we eat then? We're currently consuming a year's worth of ecological production in a few months, the rest of the year we "eat the capital", so that next year it takes longer to get the...
[14:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:31] <exec> 08└─>The treaty is moot on corporations; Not so. The first line of Article VI: https://en.wikisource.org [wikisource.org] States Parties to the Treaty shall bear international responsibility for national activities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bo...
[14:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Scrambles to Find or Train More COBOL Programmers to Help States - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:00] <exec> 08└─red button #1 an old cobol system, whose glitches you have gotten used to, that could come apart any minute now red button #2 a js on jsp on javavm on systemd linux on linux subsystem for windows to be incrementally developed by millennials *sweats profusely*
[14:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannonball Record Broken During Coronavirus - 26 Hours 38 Minutes - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah those who die or get caught might not announce their successful cannonball run. Whereas those who announce their cannonball runs in advance might have their attempt slowed down a bit by the cops.
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[15:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Developing its Own ARM SoC for Pixel Smartphones - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:54] <exec> 08└─... seems like working in social distancing conditions from their mothers' basements emboldens the geeks.
[15:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Developing its Own ARM SoC for Pixel Smartphones - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:55] <exec> 08└─... for the project, codenamed "Whitechapel."
[15:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Developing its Own ARM SoC for Pixel Smartphones - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:57] <exec> 08└─Some ARM SoCs from Qualcomm, Samsung, MediaTek, Huawei, [theverge.com] etc. already have some form of dedicated machine learning acceleration.
[15:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 500,000 Zoom Accounts Sold on Hacker Forums, the Dark Web - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:08] <exec> 08└─It's a shite service, we get it. So is the rest of The Cloud[tm]: concentrate on other targets for a change.
[15:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:28] <exec> 08└─Also, why would you shut down a building for an indeterminate (but likely prolonged) time without draining the pipes, water heaters, etc. first?
[15:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:29] <exec> 08└─It looks like we paid for something that any plumber should know. Flush out your pipes after returning to a closed up building. Surely somebody with a vacation home already knew this? "The researchers began their study upon receiving funding by the National Science Foundation's Rapid Response Resear...
[15:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:31] <exec> 08└─This. It's a solved problem. Just flush the series of tubes.
[15:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:33] <exec> 08└─There won't be any plumbers after the lockdowns end. Only sole proprietors acting as their own plumbers. If they can't grok it, they're back to shitting in the woods.
[15:39:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:07] <exec> 08└─...For example, much of Trump's business dealing is not much more than name branding. How do you stop him from using the power of his office when he can't be truly divested of those investments?
[15:39:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 1112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:08] <exec> 08└─Politics started to change in a lot of ways after JFK was murdered. In particular, Gerald Ford became the first [thoughtco.com] president to charge speaking fees. Up until then it was an unspoken rule that presidents didn't do this since it was seen as compromising the integrity of the office. It's...
[15:39:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:10] <exec> 08└─Interesting how the dear senators reacted to the warnings when their money was at stake but didn't react when other people's lives were at stake.
[15:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:21] <exec> 08└─A better solution would be to audit elected officials' holdings when they take office and require them to pay as tax any profits from their investments from the period that they are in office and a few years afterwards that are more than one or two percent above some index tracker. If they make the...
[15:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 1402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:23] <exec> 08└─I don't think the basic structure of oversight has broken down or been subverted, it is unfortunately is just being ignored. Think of how many Benghazi oversight hearings the Republicans had when they had the House majority, and how many email server hearings they had. Dozens of hearings and hundred...
[15:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:25] <exec> 08└─Sorry, meant to type "disallow oversight to occur"
[15:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:28] <exec> 08└─Correction: It is illegal for non-senators to buy and sell shares using non-public information.
[15:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06So What Is Protein Folding, Anyway? - 1801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:52] <exec> 08└─Time alloted is just a deadline. CPU or GPU, if you routinely butt up against the deadline, then there is most likely a problem. Most likely problem, is that the client is set to run only in idle, but the machine is never idle. The client looks for the screens to be shut off by power management, the...
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[15:40:32] <exec> 08└─May be true. I see it as MBAspeak for "I have to feel important and controlling."
[15:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:42] <exec> 08└─Well, IIUC, it would spread somewhat faster than light, so you wouldn't even notice it. But you wouldn't be around afterwards to notice that it had happened.
[15:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:43] <exec> 08└─Yes. Various consistent approaches can be devised. Many of them use modular arithmetic, so that the nearly as large as possible flows smoothly into the nearly as small a possible. A friend of mine is convinced that this is correct, and has published formal theorems and proofs. Well, he's proved that...
[15:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:45] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I didn't see your comment. And my fix needed one more step; that was an oversight on my part. Will post a story about this soon, so all are aware. Should be good, now. (/me should have done that, originally!!)
[15:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Team Designs Carbon Nanostructure Stronger Than Diamonds - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:15] <exec> 08└─Just how foolproof are systems to stop attacks on a space elevator? Or how strong does it need to be to withstand such attacks? Hijack or hire a plane, fly into the space elevator, you might not even have to stay or be on the plane.
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[16:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Developing its Own ARM SoC for Pixel Smartphones - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:19] <exec> 08└─They have SoCs [wikipedia.org] with NPUs/tensors/whatever already out in the wild. https://medium.com [medium.com] At Huawei’s Nova 5 Series smartphone launch event yesterday the Chinese tech gia...
[16:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Developing its Own ARM SoC for Pixel Smartphones - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:20] <exec> 08└─Maclunkey!
[16:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Developing its Own ARM SoC for Pixel Smartphones - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:22] <exec> 08└─Poodoo.
[16:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Developing its Own ARM SoC for Pixel Smartphones - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:25] <exec> 08└─Actually, Huawei does much better than funny ARM SoCs. They already have their own server grade AI on par with NVIDIA, maybe even better: https://www.huawei.com [huawei.com] And it is completely open source: https://github.com
[16:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Developing its Own ARM SoC for Pixel Smartphones - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:27] <exec> 08└─Time until they give up and sell it to someone else like the other 50 hardware projects before it?
[16:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 500,000 Zoom Accounts Sold on Hacker Forums, the Dark Web - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:37] <exec> 08└─So, is being sold on "hacker forums" and the dark web better or worse than them being sold openly on craigslist? Aside from sounding scarier to folks who don't use their brains, I mean.
[16:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:01] <exec> 08└─The water at least was theoretically sanitary once upon a time. With a company name like "Legionella Risk Management Inc." you'd think they'd consider the somewhat bigger problem of HVAC air handlers, especially evap coils. I tried to work an ethanol-fueled rant about the demographics of the south b...
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Will be 'Functionally Ready' in 2020, Musk Says - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:13] <exec> 08└─The Levels of Ready. 1. Ready - just push the button 2. Almost ready - your wife is doing her hair 3. Nearly ready - kids still watching cartoons 4. Functionally ready - are we sure we really want to do this? 5. Not ready - tell them we're functionally ready
[16:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Will be 'Functionally Ready' in 2020, Musk Says - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:15] <exec> 08└─Time to wake the fuck up. Peoepl have been living in close quarters for thousands of years. That's not changing. Grow an immune system, you fat pussy.
[16:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:54] <exec> 08└─You sound like a commie. Why do you hate America? That's a nasty question.
[16:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:11] <exec> 08└─This is actually great, I think. I am a mathematician by training but did not do any math for 30 year. I did always felt though that continuity approach was a shortcut. Greeks knew - or at least suspected - that the world is granular, but they ignored it in math for, I believe, simplicity. We may ha...
[16:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:20] <exec> 08└─A space program is not required to claim the moon. Some people will wage war over anything logic be damned. Also, Islam has taken over India. It's only a matter of time now.
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[17:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Device “jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:48] <exec> 08└─I've read speculation that ventilators may be harmful to some coronavirus patients, especially when they're on a ventilator for an extended period of time. One suggestion has been to treat coronavirus like high altitude pulmonary edema and supply a continuous positive airway pressure. In other words...
[17:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Device “jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─Yep. I was just thinking the same. Maybe being on a ventilator for an extended period of time is harmful in itself or with other virus related cases using one of them.
[17:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Device “jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:51] <exec> 08└─Even if the feature is embedded, I wonder if it really works. I'm sure every software developer has seen a case of over-promised APIs. I can see various situations which could cause this to happen: 1) They had wanted to do this, but couldn't make it work. Early APIs were there, but disabled rather t...
[17:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Developing its Own ARM SoC for Pixel Smartphones - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:06] <exec> 08└─Nah, the managers lost control on the engineers who are working from home now, they can't perturb the project enough. (grin)
[17:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03robobox [9927] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Over 500,000 Zoom Accounts Sold on Hacker Forums, the Dark Web - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:17] <exec> 08└─This would be less likely to happen if we just had a open videocalling standard, as you could easily encrypt it and you are not relying on one company.
[17:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:42] <exec> 08└─While ... schools and other buildings are closed indefinitely
[17:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Will be 'Functionally Ready' in 2020, Musk Says - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:56] <exec> 08└─Well, the butt are more erogenous than the wrist, the first time he could get no satisfaction (grin)
[17:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Will be 'Functionally Ready' in 2020, Musk Says - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:57] <exec> 08└─is his factory not locked down like everywhere else?
[17:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:37] <exec> 08└─People always say the bankers should have been thrown in jail. But, what laws did they actually break? When the republicans deregulate all those institutions you can't just turn around and say throw them in jail for not following the repealed regulations...
[17:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06So What Is Protein Folding, Anyway? - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:05] <exec> 08└─You're particularly good at explaining things. You will never be hired to write technical manuals. They're only meant to confuse and make work for tech support. :) /s Thank you again. I did most of that, but I didn't register and get a passkey. I might do that to get the bonus. Again, I erased and r...
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[17:40:46] <exec> 08└─Brazilian airline Gol canceled 34
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[18:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:59] <exec> 08└─"something breaks, who holds the onus of responsibility? That's the problem, no one ( other than maybe the people selling and eating bats and scaly anteaters ) is "responsible" for their death. If given the choice between no ventilator and near certain death and an emergency hacked ventilator and a...
[18:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:00] <exec> 08└─Airbreak allows the AirSense 10 to work as a bilevel positive airway pressure machine, a device that many people refer to as a BiPAP.
[18:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:02] <exec> 08└─Asked this on an earlier ventilator thread, but was too late to the party to get an answer. How do the current devices (any of these ventilators or other breathing assist) compare with the old "iron lung" in terms of performance? Anyone tried one to help a covid patient breathe? Clearly the iron lun...
[18:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:04] <exec> 08└─Is the MSM currently still pushing ventilators? Or testing? Or microchipping everybody?
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─And "that is why we can't have nice things" . We can't have nice things because we put the planet into the hands of psychopaths.
[18:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:57] <exec> 08└─Donald J. Trump has ripped you off a hell of a lot more than any black guy ever has. It's not fashionable around here to point that out, though.
[18:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:58] <exec> 08└─Some people are still learning that this site is infested with alt-right trolls. Their goal is to shove racism down your throat as a "free speech" protest with the bonus of "pwning the libs." To what degree they are just assholes and/or bigots is known only to themselves. There is also complicity fr...
[18:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:14] <exec> 08└─I agree with that, but from your own explanation it just moves the question to what constitutes "me". For people who believe in an immaterial soul that drives the body, "I" may be independent of the "physical" past, therefore seem to be random even when knowing the past. In my opinion, the past (my...
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[19:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:53] <exec> 08└─So you load your software onto Microsoft's servers for free and...
[19:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─... it ends up as a free app in the next version of Windows (c) 2020 Microsoft. You should have read the fine print.
[19:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mce [2811] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 2170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:10] <exec> 08└─Not saying that you are not right about limitations of the devices - after all you do use them a lot. However, If I'm the manufacturer of both types, then: 1) Yes, I want to reuse the design as much as possible; but 2) I want the cheaper device to actually be cheaper to produce as well, so as to inc...
[19:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 500,000 Zoom Accounts Sold on Hacker Forums, the Dark Web - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:36] <exec> 08└─It is an interesting saga. Chinese teleconference software with severe privacy and security risks getting popular as the effects of the Chinese virus set in. Maybe we don't need daily updates on it, but it should be watched closely.
[19:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:04] <exec> 08└─Hardly - for the most part everyone is out of a job because there's nothing for them to do to earn the boss money, not because the boss is broke. Besides, someone was paid to lock the doors. Draining the plumbing isn't exactly a major endeavor, and saves you money in the long term (those heating bil...
[19:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:00] <exec> 08└─Something I'd mention that's as obvious to me as this thing was in mid February: Right now we're starting to bring the curve down, but that's only by completely suiciding our economies and engaging in massive lockdowns. Many countries, including South Korea, have reported multiple repeat infections....
[19:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:30] <exec> 08└─Depends on what you mean by "smashing it up." My preferred method was to vote for Sanders and as many real liberals as possible. Burning it down by letting a criminal like Trump burn everything down for another 4 years is a terrible idea.
[19:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:31] <exec> 08└─I've got to agree - China seems to be looking for Africa to do for them, what they did for the U.S. and Europe - provide cheap resources, labor, and places to dump trash and pollution rather than their own back yard.
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[20:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─Trump’s critique of WHO may be a diversion, but it resonates beyond the White House [washingtonpost.com] In the early days of the crisis, the WHO amplified Chinese claims and figures without signaling that they could be inaccurate. The organization was slow to address the risk of human-to-human tr...
[20:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:56] <exec> 08└─Need more scapegoats... Did the China scandal fizzle?
[20:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 1632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:58] <exec> 08└─Blaming the WHO and China Is Not Scapegoating [politico.com] There’s no doubt that Trump is always inclined to shift blame when possible (and even when it isn’t). He’ll never take ownership of the testing debacle at the outset of the administration’s coronavirus response or admit it was wron...
[20:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:00] <exec> 08└─The entire UN is an expensive boondoggle, that the US pays through the nose for. Let the rest of the world support those parasites. Cut all funding to the UN, and I'll praise the people responsible, even if I hate them otherwise.
[20:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:02] <exec> 08└─Identify the underperforming schools and take their funding away, that'll fix 'em.
[20:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:04] <exec> 08└─Patient Zero for both the Spanish Flu and Swine Flu (the deadliest pandemics of their centuries), were Americans.
[20:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:14] <exec> 08└─Took it in the bottom now I'm queer Took it in the bottom now my whole team queer, yeah
[20:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:16] <exec> 08└─Where's the money then? I know github enterprise costs more than any sane person would pay. But I don't see how this nets more github enterprise subscribers.
[20:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:18] <exec> 08└─The good news is that Microsoft can't hold your data hostage. That's part of the design. The bad news is that they're still charging you for free stuff. To interact with GitHub you've got to have Git installed, and if you've got Git installed then you've got unlimited free and very private repositor...
[20:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:21] <exec> 08└─So Microsoft will thenceforth be responsible for maintaining my buggy code and providing tech support to irate users? Cool. I guess Microsoft should have read the fine print code, eh?
[20:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:23] <exec> 08└─Only the best levels of unpaid volunteer tech support.
[20:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:25] <exec> 08└─You haven't explained what free stuff you have to pay for if you use Microsoft's github.
[20:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:40] <exec> 08└─Android/iOS Contact Tracing [google.com]
[20:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:42] <exec> 08└─It could be the same controller but with 2-way disabled for use in cpap. Kind of like buying an iPhone or Tesla with some feature turned off but still present.
[20:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Quality Could Change in Buildings Closed Down During COVID-19 Pandemic, Engineers Say - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:38] <exec> 08└─I tried to work an ethanol-fueled rant [...] but whatever, just assume for the argument I put some good comment here.
[20:40:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 2085 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:22] <exec> 08└─A blind trust doesn't really help. If Trump had put his assets in a blind trust, do you really think that the trust manager would have immediately sold off all of the Trump* businesses and bought other things? Trump would still know that doing things that benefit Trump* businesses is good for him, e...
[20:41:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 1172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:30] <exec> 08└─The term is correct here, but let us be sure it is applied correctly. Somehow, in my mind, the term seems to apply to the engineers and workmen who actually build the plane. But, that is probably just me. The real incompetence applies to the bean counters and management. The engineers designed the a...
[20:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:00] <exec> 08└─Thing is we use Λ in theory, not just by setting it to match observation, but by setting it to match Einstein's desired universe and others too. Getting the guessing game wrong is nothing compared to leaving it out. Someone would have to come along and *fix* his work in the latter case.
[20:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Iron Isotopes Leaking from Earth's Core - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:21] <exec> 08└─Yes.
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[21:38:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 1292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:04] <exec> 08└─Trump’s critique of WHO may be a diversion, but it resonates beyond the White House [washingtonpost.com] In the early days of the crisis, the WHO amplified Chinese claims and figures without signaling that they could be inaccurate. The organization was slow to address the risk of human-to-human tr...
[21:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:10] <exec> 08└─“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowled...
[21:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:12] <exec> 08└─It actually would, at least in urban areas where competition could work. You don't just cut funding to the under-performing school though, you have to shut it down. There's no real justification for schools to be a monopoly, unless you live in an area where there are more cattle than people. Also, t...
[21:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:15] <exec> 08└─No, this is more like finding an embezzler and cutting off his or her access to bank accounts.
[21:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, sadly only now are a few waking up to the idea. Communism did not fall with the wall, as one american actor declared. They just re-invented. Use the western tech and structures against them - a Japanese self-defense trick in Judo and others. Trump wanted a Wall and have Mexico pay for it. This...
[21:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:19] <exec> 08└─You meant "No retard left behind". If the class clown, the class bully, the class dullard, and the class delinquent all get passing grades, what is the incentive for any struggling student to work hard? NCLB was just another tool to help in the Great Dumbing Down of America. The globalists know what...
[21:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:21] <exec> 08└─Why fund an organization that tries to exclude Taiwan for petty political reasons that please only one state?
[21:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:23] <exec> 08└─Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! NOT
[21:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:26] <exec> 08└─Troll Moderators need the scapegoats too. They are on patrol to protect the narrative.
[21:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:28] <exec> 08└─nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
[21:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, the W.H.O should have deployed their shock troops to force the authoritarian nation of China to tell the truth. Meanwhile, the W.H.O was warning us about this virus while Trump was still calling it a hoax.
[21:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe there is such a cult, maybe or not. I know for a fact 20 years ago I would have upmodded that quote. I was an elitist asshole then. The left likes to put on this mantle that they're the smart ones, the educated ones, the benevolent dictators who if they could dictate, would lead us to a new go...
[21:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:34] <exec> 08└─So the people get the gov't they deserve. It all "evens out" in the end. We all get what we deserve.
[21:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:36] <exec> 08└─The United States of America excludes Taiwan. The United Nations excludes Taiwan. HOW DARE the W.H.O exclude Taiwan!!
[21:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:38] <exec> 08└─Confucius says: "You broke it, you fix it."
[21:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:41] <exec> 08└─Swine Flu was a fucking nothingburger. And Bill Gates is a fucking Jew. The Wikipedia says that he's not a Jew, but he's pure Crypto: Those beady eyes, that hooknosed goblin look, that predatory shark-like grin you'd see on a hungry pitbull. His penchant for wearing Wal-Mart pullover sweaters despit...
[21:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:43] <exec> 08└─Are you joking? https://twitter.com [twitter.com] When WHO was writing killer (literally) tweets, even...
[21:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:45] <exec> 08└─Name a lefty that called this dangerous virus a hoax. Should be easy if they're both equally ignorant, right?
[21:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 2339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what to make of all of this rhetoric. It feels like people are anxious and antsy and have nothing better to do than point fingers. This is how I see it. Without the WHO or any other agency paying any attention to the planet then we have zero visibility and zero coordination. Without...
[21:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:49] <exec> 08└─They reported that there was no clear evidence back when there was no clear evidence. Once they found clear evidence, they reported it. If there was all this clear evidence back in January why don't you provide a citation of it.
[21:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:52] <exec> 08└─The problem with WHO is that it is subject to control and capture and can thus be moved easily in a direction defeating its purpose, as has happened here. What the world needs is some that is not multi-national -- it needs something that is NON-national -- a wikileaks for health or some such.
[21:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:54] <exec> 08└─Swine flu? Don't you mean the American Virus? Origin of H1N1 [cdc.gov]
[21:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:56] <exec> 08└─Trump is just desperately trying to deflect from his own incompetence. So, business as usual...
[21:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, the W.H.O should have deployed their shock troops to force the authoritarian nation of China to tell the truth.
[21:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:00] <exec> 08└─You know, there's an obvious flaw in Trump's little scapegoating circus of the WHO and China: No other nation is backing him up and cutting funding to the WHO. Let me clue you in on what's happening by making a prediction: When the dust settles the WHO will get their funding back and will switch mal...
[21:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:02] <exec> 08└─Do you mean literally used the word "hoax" or used other words, such as: The virus is NOT currently spreading the in the community Los Angeles County nor in the United States. The immediate risk to the general public in Los Angeles County is low. Public Health is carefully assessing this situation a...
[21:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:05] <exec> 08└─WHO warnings were crap. They declared a "global health emergency" [statnews.com] on Jan. 30 only after the CDC reported a case of human-to-human transmission [statnews.com], and even then they were handing out bad advice: In making the announcement, WHO leaders urged countries not to restrict travel...
[21:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:07] <exec> 08└─The WHO didn't do anything except regurgitate Chinese propaganda. Why exactly do they need billions in funding to do this, and why should anyone else be footing the bill for an organization that does nothing but praise the Chinese Communist party? Comparing this to Trump's response is pure whatabout...
[21:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 2019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:09] <exec> 08└─Our most likely future: 1) Everyone will need to take a mandatory vaccine. Even though the coronavirus has long been known to cause the common cold and they've never been able to vaccinate for that, this one is somehow different. It certainly is different in that it's a chimera built under Dr Fauci'...
[21:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:11] <exec> 08└─Exactly. If the country is mostly populated by smart people, you generally get a well-run country. If the country is mostly populated by utter morons, well...
[21:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:13] <exec> 08└─The left (center-left, not wacky far-left) in this country generally *are* the smarter and more educated ones. That doesn't mean they're geniuses, or even particularly smart. But when compare some random person to a drooling moron, it's not hard for them to look smart by comparison.
[21:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:29] <exec> 08└─They're charging for operating costs which happens to be almost nil for storage and a couple of bucks for CPU time. When your target market are developers you sorta have to do it otherwise they'll just rent cycles from Amazon and put together their own build servers. Besides, 2000 minutes of continu...
[21:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:30] <exec> 08└─I don't see how this nets more github enterprise subscribers.
[21:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:32] <exec> 08└─Every drug dealer knows that. You won't see the cost until you're both hooked and the competition has disappeared because they can't compete with free.
[21:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:34] <exec> 08└─Atlassian is valued at 17.8 billion dollars.
[21:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:37] <exec> 08└─Appropriate sig, then I suppose.
[21:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:55] <exec> 08└─It is already well-established in the medical field that being on a ventilator for a prolonged period of time can be harmful in itself. The problem is that, according to the numbers I've seen, is that the complication rate for COVID-19 patients is higher than the NNH of the intervention would sugges...
[21:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03slashnot [8607] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:56] <exec> 08└─The co-insurance alone for my Airsense 10 was more than $1,400 and my insurance company paid even more on top of that. I need this device to treat my apnea, but the whole CPAP scheme between the distributor and insurance company is a racket. Don't even get my started on the 10 months of Big Brother...
[21:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:58] <exec> 08└─More like dangerous shortage of medical personnel trained to operate ventilators. Did anyone even stop to consider qualifications required to operate ventilators? We're not talking emergency breath of life scenarios where an EMT squeezes a bag while you're being carted off to the hospital in an ambu...
[21:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:00] <exec> 08└─4) The device shares it's firmware with a more advanced unit that has additional hardware necessary for that functionality. It should be possible to determine which is true by comparing the hardware. Of course, in the consumer electronics world, it's not uncommon that the bargain basement model in a...
[21:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:03] <exec> 08└─I love finding new ways to use our current equipment. I enjoy hacks and alternate uses. In our legal environment today, how does this help though? These certainly aren't going to be certified by any agency that we know of for many reasons. Insurance companies aren't going to insure these. Liabilit...
[21:41:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Will be 'Functionally Ready' in 2020, Musk Says - 222 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:08] <exec> 08└─"Functionally Ready", that is not the same thing then as "Actually Ready". It's like all my ideas are functionally ready, they just have not been fully implemented or approved yet. But they are totally ready, I promise ...
[21:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Website Tracks Which Shares US Senators Are Unloading Mid-Pandemic - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:58] <exec> 08└─Sorry bud, Clinton repealed glass stegal act, not a repub
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[22:37:54] <exec> 08└─That's nice and all, but any of you schumucks actually got trump bucks? It's been a while since I've got my obama bucks, and my stash needs replenishing.
[22:38:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:09] <exec> 08└─“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowled...
[22:38:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, the W.H.O should have deployed their shock troops to force the authoritarian nation of China to tell the truth. Meanwhile, the W.H.O was warning us about this virus while Trump was still calling it a hoax.
[22:38:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:28] <exec> 08└─They reported that there was no clear evidence back when there was no clear evidence. Once they found clear evidence, they reported it. If there was all this clear evidence back in January why don't you provide a citation of it.
[22:38:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:32] <exec> 08└─Trump is just desperately trying to deflect from his own incompetence. So, business as usual...
[22:38:41] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 620 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how the WHO is very helpful at all here. You seem to thing that things will be better without them. To test this, let's examine one country that didn't have *any* WHO help: Taiwan. WHO won't work with them because it pisses off their masters in the Chinese Communist Party. How has Covid...
[22:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:44] <exec> 08└─Except there was clear evidence: https://www.msn.com [msn.com] In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus,...
[22:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:46] <exec> 08└─you get Trump.
[22:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:48] <exec> 08└─WHO should get their funding back (assuming Trump actually goes through with this) after Tedros is ditched. Directors-General serve 5 year terms, assuming no resignation or death in office (Lee Jong-wook). Or you can just let a President Biden re-open the money spigot. Either way, they will get thei...
[22:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:50] <exec> 08└─Plot Twist: The Jews were the Nazis all-along!
[22:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:52] <exec> 08└─Be careful about teachers being at-will. That's how you get fundamentalist principals firing science teachers that teach evolution or sex-ed teachers who mention that birth control is a thing. That's not to say that NO metrics should apply, just that the opposite extreme is filled with it's own pitf...
[22:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:55] <exec> 08└─The Administrators should be fired first, then replaced by the better-performing teachers. Then all students illegally here should be deported along with their parents. Then we put all of the low-IQ students in low-IQ classes where they belong away from the White and Asian kids, and offer trades wit...
[22:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:57] <exec> 08└─So you are are for strong borders and immigration? I agree.
[22:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:59] <exec> 08└─> No other nation is backing him up and cutting funding to the WHO. When the USA wanted others to boycott chinese routers, nations under USA influence didn't follow suit either. There is only one other nation who can say fuck you to China and is Russia, the others will carefully consider. The Chines...
[22:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 1576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:01] <exec> 08└─Taiwan Travel Act [wikipedia.org] The Taiwan Travel Act (H.R. 535, Pub.L. 115–135) is an Act of the United States Congress. Passed on February 28, 2018, it was signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 16, 2018. As a follow-up to the Taiwan Relations Act, the bill allows high-level offici...
[22:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:03] <exec> 08└─Instead of money, let's give them the equivalent in trained professionals and medical equipment each year to be deployed where they can do the most good.
[22:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:06] <exec> 08└─Are you off your meds again?
[22:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, how dare they exclude a country that has valuable information to share, you democrat numbnut.
[22:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:10] <exec> 08└─If the class clown, the class bully, the class dullard, and the class delinquent all get passing grades, what is the incentive for any struggling student to work hard?
[22:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:12] <exec> 08└─Jew is a state of mind, after all, it's a race because jews are more comfortable with that subdivision. In this regard, Gates's pedigree as a jew squared is called windows, and even if he develops actual viruses and kills people with vaccines, he has already peaked his damage to humanity with the hu...
[22:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:14] <exec> 08└─Reference for Taiwan? I looked at the Johns Hopkins map https://coronavirus.jhu.edu [jhu.edu] and it shows Taiwan somewhere in the middle of the list of confirmed cases, here's a cutting from the list: ... 435 Djibouti 419 Honduras 404 Guinea 401 Jordan 399 Malta 397 Bolivia 395 Taiwan* 387...
[22:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:16] <exec> 08└─Trivia: who is the actual, biological, father of the nation of Israel? A____f H____r.
[22:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:18] <exec> 08└─The league of nations are there to restrict nations, so in a sense the UN is doing well. Of course defunding them would be the first thing happening should people actually wake up.
[22:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:21] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. Definitely let in the people with the bare minimum of smarts to show up the border saying they want to leave their current klepto/krato/pluto/theo/idiocracy and restart their life someplace that at the least provides a minimal level of support for discipline, hard work, government repres...
[22:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:23] <exec> 08└─Sweden and Byelorussia have also avoided the fascist route and kept their countries working. Sweden in particular is approaching peak curve right now: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] They have defied Interested Parties that have called on them to des...
[22:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:25] <exec> 08└─Good, withdraw from WHO, that's step one. For step two, start a new international organization for health issues, and invite the ROC to be a founding member.
[22:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:27] <exec> 08└─Jesus H Christ, two idiots modded that conspiracy theory word salad Insighful? Unbelievable.
[22:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:29] <exec> 08└─Wow. The President of the United States of America calls it a hoax and you come back with a city councilwoman saying people should follow local healthservice guidelines. Nice.
[22:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:32] <exec> 08└─It is not just bad rep. It can be demonstrated that american students are less knowledgeable compared to students of the same age of other countries. It has been shown in international science Olympiads, geography Olympiads, linguistics olympiads, many times and consistently. It had been happening b...
[22:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:34] <exec> 08└─That's evidence that China lied to WHO which was my entire point.
[22:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:36] <exec> 08└─...and will switch malaria medication suppliers to Trump's company.
[22:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:38] <exec> 08└─Ahh, I see that Bolshevik psychiatry is making a comeback beyond "take your meds, schizo." It's too late. The Goyim know and the Goyim knowing is now mainstream.
[22:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:40] <exec> 08└─All you lovers of human rights violations, government lies, gulags, authoritarianism, disappearing whistle-blowers, and of course mass death -- by which I mean Democrats -- you can all suck it.
[22:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:43] <exec> 08└─Another one of them precious snowflake AC.
[22:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:45] <exec> 08└─What good is an organization that just parrots lies without verification from a country with a history of providing false info for their own benefit?
[22:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:47] <exec> 08└─They declared a "global health emergency" [statnews.com] on Jan. 30 only after the CDC reported a case of human-to-human transmission
[22:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:49] <exec> 08└─So what you are saying is that WHO is a mere conduit for Chinese propaganda and not an agency with any ability to do research or ask hard questions. Tell you what, I'll be China's stenographer for a mere $1 million per year. We can use the other $500-800 million to do useful things. Fair?
[22:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Developing its Own ARM SoC for Pixel Smartphones - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:46] <exec> 08└─I cannot wait to see what, "don't be evil" looks like in silicon form! It should be glorious!
[22:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Customers Cancel Staggering 150 Max Plane Orders in March - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:37] <exec> 08└─Can you post this on dailywtf? I found this particularly valuable.
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[23:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Allowed Tags and a Brief Summary of How each Page is Created - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:07] <exec> 08└─Oh cool i tried using strike the other day, was disappointed, did not report it of course.
[23:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Allowed Tags and a Brief Summary of How each Page is Created - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:08] <exec> 08└─So are you still on Gentoo? If so, how is life with it in the long run? Are you ready to embrace SystemD?
[23:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 1877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:26] <exec> 08└─LOL no lefty will use the term hoax because once you suspect something of being an hoax you create a DANGEROUS precedent. The truth is one and is what we decide. Italian premier of a lefty gov, Conte jan 31: no panic, just wash hands https://www.fanpage.it
[23:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:27] <exec> 08└─It trickles down from colleges where you literally have majors like "Social Justice in Higher Education Administration" -- of course it leads to people pulling a Smollet on a grand scale: https://www.newsweek.com
[23:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:29] <exec> 08└─Yet another Trump failure https://www.medrxiv.org [medrxiv.org] Too bad there were so many users on here defending Trump and parroting the bad medical advice. I hope you weren't responsible for any deaths. ** middle finger to this site's shitty submission checks...
[23:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:31] <exec> 08└─https://cavemancircus.com/2020/04/15/taiwancanhelp/ [cavemancircus.com] Ad in the NY times -- see link above for picture. Text: WHO can help? Taiwan. In a time of isolation, we choose solidarity. You are not alone. Taiwan is with you. We know wha...
[23:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:34] <exec> 08└─Dumb people fear Islam and induced migratory fluxes, instinctively. Smart people embrace the change. Therefore smart people are dumber than drooling idiots. This is not a logical demonstration, this is a prediction. See you (JK) in 40 years.
[23:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:36] <exec> 08└─That is because your centre-left wants to run the joint in the way it has been run for most of the last 50 years or more. Most of the right want power. They want all the power and they don't care what they break to get it. And keep it. Look at what Republicans did in Wisconsin when they lost an el...
[23:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:38] <exec> 08└─Saying they had no evidence when they had no evidence (because China was hiding it) is not a lie.
[23:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:40] <exec> 08└─Except Trump never called the virus itself a hoax. Calling the media depiction of how he handled the response to the virus a hoax is not the same thing.
[23:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:42] <exec> 08└─Happy to burst your bubble, but there are plenty of conservative downmodders, except on top of that list of nasties you will also find pedophilia, rape, murder, bribery, intimidation, and everyone's favorite: treason! If it was OK to do to the Japanese I think we can open some re-education camps wit...
[23:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:44] <exec> 08└─> This is how I see it. Without the WHO or any other agency paying any attention to the planet then we have zero visibility and zero coordination. Somehow, that worked well for millennia. Enter the coordinated society, est. 1789, and the planet is over. Coincidence?
[23:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:47] <exec> 08└─Good lord. Bolshevik psychiatry. So, yes then.
[23:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:49] <exec> 08└─So some Chinamen are being helpful, at least those in Taiwan province.
[23:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:51] <exec> 08└─Last week, the committee had recommended that a PHEIC not be declared yet because of limited spread of the virus outside of China. Tedros reconvened the committee this week because some other countries, including Japan, Germany, Vietnam, and, as of Thursday, the United States, had reported limited h...
[23:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:53] <exec> 08└─No need for shock troops, but a little less cockgobbling would be nice.
[23:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:55] <exec> 08└─Thing is by pulling funding then the US has no further influence on the WHO. And they'll be even more influenced by, and pander to, China. And as a whole bunch of world leaders right now are saying, now is not the time for this type of action. Beat the virus, then sort out the WHO funding and politi...
[23:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:58] <exec> 08└─WHO will get their money back, but on terms that ensure that timely & accurate info is being conveyed.
[23:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:00] <exec> 08└─You're a little behind the times. The US is and has been saying fuck you for a while. It seems to be working. Meanwhile, in the EU it's appeasement as usual.
[23:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:02] <exec> 08└─In effect, what you're saying is that the US needs to keep flushing huge sums of money down the shitter to organizations that aren't really delivering any value whatsoever.
[23:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:04] <exec> 08└─Pretty much so, if Hitler hadn't persecuted the normal Jew, Israel would remain only as an experiment for the religious freaks. It still pretty much is, but even the non-religious are having it propped up in case they need it as their bug-out space.
[23:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:06] <exec> 08└─You are being intentionally obtuse. Take these two statements: 1) [RANDO] The virus is a hoax. 2) [EXPERT] There is no evidence to support person to person transmission. #1 is clear but not likely given much weight because of a lack of credibility. In contrast, #2 has built into it a whole slew of a...
[23:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:08] <exec> 08└─Works for Trump.
[23:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:10] <exec> 08└─Move the goal posts much? You asked for statements from lefties, not Trump? And Pelosi -- she's just a poor powerless little nobody nobody every listens too. Same with Cuomo and mayor of NYC. The LA Public Health Department is sooooo irrelevant -- it affects what, like 6 people? /sarc I suspect if o...
[23:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump to Halt Funding to WHO - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:13] <exec> 08└─Any organization composed of unelected Jewish managers, like the UN or the WHO, will gladly take money to espouse any talking point. But number one rule of the Jew organizations is to have a Black fall-guy so you're not racist, or something, if things go horribly wrong. That's why Obama was elected,...
[23:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub is Now Free for All Teams - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:32] <exec> 08└─"Valued" is a very subjective thing subject to rapid decline when sentiment changes ( see Tesla share price for example). What matters is how much cash they have... hard dollars, moolah, loot.
[23:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06So What Is Protein Folding, Anyway? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:21] <exec> 08└─Isn't folding@home in part or in whole proprietary software? I'm almost all for BOINC (even though it reports system names on their site in results) because it's FOSS, but I refuse to running proprietary code, no matter how good the cause may sound.
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