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[12:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer Photosynthetic Bacteria to Produce Hydrogen - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:03] <exec> 08└─> So, engineering a version of photosynthesis that might be useful for fuel production has been challenging. Easy -- let the trees grow, burn the wood for energy. It's been in use since the "domestication" of fire.
[12:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer Photosynthetic Bacteria to Produce Hydrogen - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:05] <exec> 08└─one assumes that if this works, that not before long a "invasion off bacteria tanks, virus airplanes and navy" will lay waste to these colonies (providing "free energy"). furthermore the real challenge might be engineering a working "immune system" for these hydrogen liberating bugs?
[12:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:16] <exec> 08└─$4600 bonus plus you get to look at fun photos all day? Where do I sign up!
[12:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:17] <exec> 08└─Facebook Careers [facebook.com] Indeed [indeed.com]
[12:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:19] <exec> 08└─came looking for lame comment about how good it would be to have a job watching these videos.. was not disappointed.
[12:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:21] <exec> 08└─Lawyers take at least half..
[12:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:24] <exec> 08└─I can't hear you over the thunderous fapping. Like a jet engine inside the basement.
[12:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:26] <exec> 08└─So quick math.
[12:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:28] <exec> 08└─About 30 million Americans just became unemployed. They can trade one form of PTSD for another.
[12:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:39] <exec> 08└─USENET - No DRM.
[12:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:40] <exec> 08└─Beware of Russians hiding behind the Iceland domain...
[12:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:42] <exec> 08└─The Classics http://classics.mit.edu [mit.edu]
[12:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scrabble Fans Slam 'Sparkly Abomination' New App - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:57] <exec> 08└─This is only you against the computer - no players. Designed as a training tool for the logic. I got to 44-42 [winning] and in like 5 hands I lost 120-54. it is available here https://www.scotthyoung.com [scotthyoung.com] have windows exe plus source to compile for linux or...
[12:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scrabble Fans Slam 'Sparkly Abomination' New App - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:58] <exec> 08└─Nothing is stopping you from making a game with the exact same rules (as TFS points out, there are already games like this). The only thing making Scrabble Scrabble is the trademark. If the branding is your biggest concern, well, you have bigger problems.
[12:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Zen 3 CPUs Will Not be Compatible with X470, B450, and Older Motherboards - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:01] <exec> 08└─We don't want to run on apple II, mr. 50c army guy. We want to speculate on whether AMD is capitalizing on its tech supremacy by intentionally removing compatibility or whether there are unavoidable technical issues. From a theoretical POV it would have been better to build some failsafe mode for th...
[12:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD's Zen 3 CPUs Will Not be Compatible with X470, B450, and Older Motherboards - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:03] <exec> 08└─All you have to do is edit the code and remove older processor support. Make the board support only Zen3 and the code will shrink. I've had to remove intel ME or edit bios on almost all computers I buy now. Latest one I added menus to be able to do p-state overclock.
[12:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:16] <exec> 08└─Either he's rolling the dice that it will be manageable, or he's hoping for the magical liability waiver that the White House wants to give businesses. Either way his liability lawyers will be kept busy for a while if any of the workers suffer serious health complications. Makes him a Fox News hero,...
[12:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:18] <exec> 08└─How very right-wing of you.
[12:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:21] <exec> 08└─it's time for America's center of gravity to shift
[12:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:23] <exec> 08└─yawwn
[12:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:25] <exec> 08└─Oooo, creepy. Do you need to be institutionalized?
[12:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:13] <exec> 08└─When you bring out the "speculative fiction" descriptor, that's when I realize that there's nothing worth hearing that will follow.
[12:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:14] <exec> 08└─I've read them both. But nowadays I always get them mixed up. The City and the Stars is what I read first, and it was formative.
[12:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:17] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it Ralph 124C41+?
[12:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:19] <exec> 08└─If you were to include nonfiction, I'd have to say A Dutch book introducing Dutch phonics, from which I learned to read. Algebra I, Piet Vredenduin (in Dutch) The Elements of Mathematical Logic: Paul C. Rosenbloom The Meaning of Relativity, Albert Einstein LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual The Principles...
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[13:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:32] <exec> 08└─And there is a Canadian gutenberg site for books that are out of copyright in Canada but not in the US. They warn you to check your country's copyright laws before downloading anything if you're outside Canada.
[13:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:33] <exec> 08└─Australia also has their own Gutenberg. As they have stayed with a copyright expiration of 50 years after the author's death, can get George Orwell's books there. In the US, it's still, "Citizen, you can't steal 1984 from Orwell's grandkids." However, copyright has not yet expired for Ayn Rand's wor...
[13:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scrabble Fans Slam 'Sparkly Abomination' New App - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:50] <exec> 08└─Great! How do I get that on my wife's iPhone? Oh....
[13:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson to Sell 22% Stake in Virgin Galactic - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:04] <exec> 08└─> Stock market's doing great, huh? Actually it is, going up every day, sometimes by 2-3%
[13:47:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 1026 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:18] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance [wikipedia.org] Part of the problem is Trump's inability to coexist with others whose self-assurance is as strong or stronger than his. It's like that scene from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, where Zaphod Beeblebrox says, "If there's anythi...
[13:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:00] <exec> 08└─I still remember the one with "photographic proof" that aliens abducted cows. The proof was a picture of cows grazing on a hillside, and another picture of that same hillside with... NO COWS!"
[13:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:02] <exec> 08└─See Trump doesn't want to make the same mistake that Obama did with the avian flu. When that hit the States, we had a test out in about a week, and a vaccine in about 8 months. Then we shared both of those with all nations. We were even given thanks from ("death to America") Iran for how freely we s...
[13:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:04] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure the issue is Trump doesn't want research into the origin of this virus as it would invariably contradict his "hunch."
[13:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:06] <exec> 08└─Notice that in my characterization of the desired endgame, nationality had nothing to do with it. People who think this way would get along quite well with General Zod ... at least until there were questions about which of them would kneel before the other.
[13:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:08] <exec> 08└─It's not a human thing to want to profit off other's suffering. It is a sociopath thing to do that. Sociopaths are a parasitic subset of humans.
[13:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:11] <exec> 08└─See Trump doesn't want to make the same mistake that Obama did with the avian flu.
[13:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:13] <exec> 08└─I'm almost sure that if China will come first with a vaccine, the current US administration will just refuse to buy it.
[13:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:15] <exec> 08└─The proof was a picture of cows grazing on a hillside, and another picture of that same hillside with... NO COWS!"
[13:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:17] <exec> 08└─I'm sick and tired of everyone saying "China steals our IP".
[13:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:19] <exec> 08└─If there was ever a time for an open source approach to a problem, this is it. There should be no "intellectual property" involved in research for a cure, treatment, or vaccine for COVID-19. If you're working for one of these companies, in any country, and you've got some information of what to do t...
[13:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:21] <exec> 08└─That's one good thing about China, while it's got its fair share of problems (insert giant shopping list here), it's also run by technocrats who know, and can sort out, what needs to be done in a crisis. Maybe countries should have a way of swapping out the politicians for effective leaders when the...
[13:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:36] <exec> 08└─How will we pay for Trotskybux?
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[14:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:02] <exec> 08└─When my doctor is drunk, he tells me bullcrap. Honestly, I go back to see him because he's a laugh, I've known him for years and I'm not a hypocondriac. But he really should lay off the sauce: I can't count the number of times he told me I may have something serious when even I could tell I didn't....
[14:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer Photosynthetic Bacteria to Produce Hydrogen - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:11] <exec> 08└─And storing the electricity produced by solar power so that it can be used at night remains an unsolved problem.
[14:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:45] <exec> 08└─http://shakespeare.mit.edu/ [mit.edu] Plus, my local library is once again opening up their reserve-and-pickup-curbside service a little over a week from now. (Although they've had e-lending available the entire time).
[14:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:46] <exec> 08└─There is also LibriVox [librivox.org] which has public domain audio books. Some of the readings are quite well done. It is good for listening while working with the hands away from the screen, or otherwise occupied such as on longer commutes. It also brings a lot of good material to the generations...
[14:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scrabble Fans Slam 'Sparkly Abomination' New App - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:04] <exec> 08└─Uh, you do know that rules to games are not copyrightable? Hence Zynga can make Words with Friends and Words with Friends 2 and Hasbro can't do jack about it? Just so long as the actual style design is different enough that Hasbro can't claim a trademark or design patent infringement.
[14:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson to Sell 22% Stake in Virgin Galactic - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:18] <exec> 08└─> Who's buying? Who's buying is the government. It's going on the national debt for all of us to enjoy later, so a few of us get our rewards now.
[14:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson to Sell 22% Stake in Virgin Galactic - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:19] <exec> 08└─Go back to Necker and ask the taxpayers there to fund your side hobbies.
[14:46:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Zhaoxin's "Homegrown" CPUs Power Full Range of x86 PCs for China - 744 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:28] <exec> 08└─If you're trying to build reasonably high-end CPUs to achieve some self-sufficiency, why do you need an x86 (presumably -64) architecture? The only reason you'd need this is to maintain compatibility with software that only runs on it, namely Microsoft Windows. So the Chinese aren't getting much sel...
[14:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin's "Homegrown" CPUs Power Full Range of x86 PCs for China - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:50] <exec> 08└─You can't make major shifts all in one go. They have to be done in baby steps. Look at every OS that has tried to compete with Windows. Apple was the only one that has succeeded, and even then they almost went under if not for a bailout from Microsoft. (Microsoft needed to do this or they would have...
[14:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin's "Homegrown" CPUs Power Full Range of x86 PCs for China - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:52] <exec> 08└─Is this 'new' x86 closer to Intel or AMD?
[14:47:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:23] <exec> 08└─It amazes me we humans have gotten as far as we have when I see things like this.
[14:47:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 284 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:24] <exec> 08└─What makes this so weird is that many research organizations are pre-publishing results as soon as they have something promising. I believe there are a lot of results up on non-peer-reviewed sites--testimony to the attitude that, "We (the world) are all in this virus thing together."
[14:47:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 979 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:51] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, at least one non-peer-reviewed site has at least some level of peer review associated with it, and in many cases, a great deal of consensus and wide dissemination. Oh, you weren't talking about Facebook! My bad. But it finally took an urgent and simultaneously worldwide/individual-level...
[14:47:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:52] <exec> 08└─I thought the US believed Covid-19 was a hoax? :) I see that same attitude in the scientific community. Everybody pulling together and trying to add what little they can to help in this fight against a deadly foe.
[14:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:30] <exec> 08└─Results, but not methods. At least, not well enough to be easily replicable. And I wouldn't attribute to altruism what can be replaced by greed. It's just as easily explicable as the group that gets to call firsties is well positioned to cash in on the resultant therapies developed by the research....
[14:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:32] <exec> 08└─To be entirely sincere, I don't think the actual administration will try to block the import, it will be Trump to fight importing it. Perhaps not in the most obvious way (e.g. suddenly FDA will be instructed to apply the most stringent certification protocols), but he'll very likely fight the import...
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[14:48:34] <exec> 08└─Well said. Trump didn't invent the phenomenon and he doesn't really convince people. Instead people are attracted to him, and he just taps into their crazy. The only question is the L. Ron Hubbard conundrum. Is he smarter than believing the shit he puts out and is really doing a con job, or is he re...
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[14:48:36] <exec> 08└─If China comes up with a vaccine, then the Intel backdoor will open wide and NSA will slurp their milkshake. We're not even secret about it. So worrying about China stealing it is the highest hypocrisy. The "migration" of any intellectual property will be faster than the migration of the virus itsel...
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[14:48:38] <exec> 08└─"All those bitchers" probably favor putting a dollar in this little Kickstarter ripoff we call taxation. Then have experts review proposals and give those dollars to the most promising. Yes, we could drop a dollar on random cures and let the free market sort it all out. But the Kickstarter ripoff mi...
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[14:48:40] <exec> 08└─> You just know someone like that will get shit done. Sure, as long as the solution is Cold War era population control, that kind of tool will hit the nail on the head. Oh you have a virus? Sounds like a little authoritarian crackdown is just what you need. What's that? Student protests? I know just...
[14:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:43] <exec> 08└─Let's see you be so generous with YOUR million dollar ideas, hm? Sure - scientists work for decades to solve problems. The second something works, someone in a suit comes in and takes it. Could be commercial interests or The People's Republic. Makes no difference to the scientists - *your* cool idea...
[14:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:45] <exec> 08└─If China comes up with a vaccine, then the Intel backdoor will open wide and NSA will slurp their milkshake.
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[14:50:01] <exec> 08└─"How enforceable was that order, " all they have to do to enforce the order is cut off the utilities. "and how relevant to public health?" unfortunately, if they do this it will put the careful preparation work Tesla has done into stark contrast with the lack of thought from the county.
[14:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:02] <exec> 08└─Would be nice to Elon Musk go to his people in the center of the country. Hey guys! I'm making electric vehicles in Kentucky because those California bitches are too snobby. So who wants an electric car? Nobody? Oh OK. Well I'm bringing tons of jobs - anyone with a PhD in EE step right to the front...
[14:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:04] <exec> 08└─Who's the shady "Trump" character now leaping into the affray to support Elon Musk. Boy, I sure love when govt and industry team up. I'd sure hate to be the sucker on the other team. Who are they by the way? The workers? Sucks to be them.
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[15:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:08] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that fascinating anecdote with the all important HELLS YEAH proof I needed. I'll be happy to use the AI on your kids next time they get sick.
[15:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:10] <exec> 08└─Clearly they need some professional human input -- perhaps a "cancer-captcha" or whatnot -- please click all the images with cancer and then you get some kind of reward.
[15:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:12] <exec> 08└─Artificial stupidity is just as incurable as the natural one.
[15:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:14] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is you think you're joking.
[15:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:16] <exec> 08└─Literally, automated lying. These things are fine and dandy in artsy contexts, but slipping them into anything related to natural sciences is crazy at best, malicious at worst.
[15:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:19] <exec> 08└─A drunk will sober up sometime
[15:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:21] <exec> 08└─This is like looking at patterns in the clouds. Sure, maybe you'll see boobs but that doesn't make God a pervert. Seriously. AI is a pattern matching system. The less details you have, the more garbage will come out. AI doesn't make your camera infinite resolution! https://www.youtube.com
[15:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer Photosynthetic Bacteria to Produce Hydrogen - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe they just mean unsolved in the sense of the economics and scaling of these existing technologies. I think that's probably the most favorable interpretation?
[15:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:49] <exec> 08└─That is a bit unclear from the article if the 11250 moderators are just the current employees or if it also included previous moderators/employees. Still it's not a lot of $ for whatever PTSD they may or may not have gotten.
[15:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:51] <exec> 08└─The easiest and cheapest remedy: Stop Censorship.
[15:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:53] <exec> 08└─So how much do we get for modding the brain raping filth here on SoylentNews? :P
[15:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:55] <exec> 08└─They say a picture is worth a thousand words and SoylentNews is all text based. Expect your bonus to have a NaN result.
[15:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:57] <exec> 08└─https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51954968 [bbc.com] Facebook has approximately 15,000 content moderators in the US, who are hired by third-party contracting companies.
[15:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:15] <exec> 08└─Another one related: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu [tufts.edu]
[15:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:16] <exec> 08└─Icelandic Saga Database https://sagadb.org [sagadb.org]
[15:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:18] <exec> 08└─All seven of my books in various formats, all but printed copies are free. There are also fourteen books others wrote.
[15:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scrabble Fans Slam 'Sparkly Abomination' New App - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:36] <exec> 08└─Not sure exactly what to call it, perhaps "pursuit of the popular". It involves selling short the existing customer base in order to pursue a new customer base who may or may not be brought to the product, usually by imitating some other product that's populr.
[15:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin's "Homegrown" CPUs Power Full Range of x86 PCs for China - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:24] <exec> 08└─Chicken and egg. There's no mainstream distros targeting MIPS because there's no non-router machines out there using MIPS. PCs with MIPS CPUs simply don't exist. However, if someone wanted to make such a PC, getting a Linux distro to build for that arch would not be difficult. The source code is all...
[15:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin's "Homegrown" CPUs Power Full Range of x86 PCs for China - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:25] <exec> 08└─I never understood why China didn't embrace Linux and open-source more. They both are commie plots to undermine America. Also, since their so good at math, why don't they fix the Equation Editor in LibreOffice? It's a joke compared to Word 2000.
[15:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin's "Homegrown" CPUs Power Full Range of x86 PCs for China - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:28] <exec> 08└─Also in China and Russia they eat babies.
[15:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's Zen 3 CPUs Will Not be Compatible with X470, B450, and Older Motherboards - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:50] <exec> 08└─How many different pwnware from how many different government agencies do you need to bundle? Use the same pwnware for all and just bundle their public keys.
[15:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's Zen 3 CPUs Will Not be Compatible with X470, B450, and Older Motherboards - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:52] <exec> 08└─AMD platforms last practically forever. I am pretty surprised they are sticking with AM4 for the next CPU revision, it's already pretty much the worst thing about Ryzen. I guess they are not going to do a new socket until DDR5 memory forces it. Intel releases new incompatible sockets with almost eve...
[15:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Zen 3 CPUs Will Not be Compatible with X470, B450, and Older Motherboards - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:54] <exec> 08└─Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000 desktop) = AM4, 16 cores, DDR4 Zen 3 (Ryzen 4000 desktop) = AM4, 16 cores, DDR4 Zen 4 (Ryzen 5000 desktop) = AM5, 24 cores? DDR5 PCIe 5.0 was rumored for Zen 4, but they will probably kick that can down the road for desktop users. More memory channels? DDR5 supports 2 memory channe...
[15:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Zen 3 CPUs Will Not be Compatible with X470, B450, and Older Motherboards - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:56] <exec> 08└─1 pwn per thread, 1024 cores, 2048 threads.
[15:48:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:46] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, most of his supporters still seem to think so. Some of them are basically saying the whole thing is a big conspiracy so the Illuminati can take over the world. I wish I was joking, but this is seriously what a large fraction of Americans believe these days.
[15:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:18] <exec> 08└─Hey, I never blamed Trump for this. Don't put words in my mouth. I'm just pointing out what a bunch of Americans believe. As another responder pointed out, this kind of crazy has been around long before Trump, but he's brought it out into the open and made it socially acceptable.
[15:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:20] <exec> 08└─If that were really true it should be companies like Intel that are ahead of the curve. Companies that manufacturer their products in the U.S. No, it's companies like Samsung and TSMC that are ahead of the curve. The U.S. just hoards a bunch of useless patents and uses those to claim that we are ahe...
[15:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:22] <exec> 08└─That's the way science is supposed to work. "Stealing"? That's just brain-dead stupid but the reaction I expect from those who worship money and power..
[15:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:24] <exec> 08└─Some of Trump's supporters, none of them with an IQ over 70, still do. This is the worst possible time to have a narcissistic, incompetent pathological liar in the White House.
[15:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:26] <exec> 08└─Lots of them don't think covid-19 itself is a hoax, but they don't think that it's a serious enough disease to lockdown. They think the death counts are overcounts.
[15:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:28] <exec> 08└─I couldn't tell, I keep the guitar amp turned up to 11.
[15:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:31] <exec> 08└─Bears repeating: The larger and more legalistic the organizations are, the less ethical and moral they tend to be.
[15:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:33] <exec> 08└─Or realistic appraisals of human nature.
[15:49:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:51] <exec> 08└─If we can establish that the coronavirus contains HIV genes, we could get the entire state back to work.
[15:50:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:16] <exec> 08└─False, or misattributed?
[15:50:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:26] <exec> 08└─If letting people go to work is a death sentence, then I guess we're only doing that to 'essential' workers, eh?
[15:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 1984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:53] <exec> 08└─There is so much random in this last comment. First - Republicans are larger investors in green-energy technologies across the board (https://grist.org/article/republicans-are-buying-rooftop-solar-will-it-change-their-politics/). There are two things that drive this - (1) Republicans are generally r...
[15:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:54] <exec> 08└─Turning that around, why wouldn't a business with a dispute turn off the utilities to city hall to enforce their opinion? There's more to such things than merely doing them.
[15:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:56] <exec> 08└─Dude it's 7.52am.
[15:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:59] <exec> 08└─> Would Musk himself along with other entrepreneurs leave California? Bwaahahhhaaa! Thanks that made my day.
[15:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah it's either an elite conspiracy, or it could be the self-evidence of 100deg+100% fafter 10 seconds when you step off the private jet.
[15:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:03] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't the electric chair be more appropriate?
[15:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:05] <exec> 08└─You say that... but homeless keeps on increasing in Los Angeles. Where DO they come from? Are you not sending your BEST people? I'm sure some of you aren't rapists.
[15:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:07] <exec> 08└─Let me guess... you're also pro-choice, non-religious, speak multiple languages and eat kale?
[15:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:09] <exec> 08└─> How will we pay for Trotskybux? We simply give $2T to the job creators and wait for them to trickle all over us.
[15:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:01] <exec> 08└─You're smart enough to code this site, so until proven otherwise, you're smart enough to understand what I posted there. Since you're framing poisonous shit in a way designed to look plausible, I'll spell it out so your recruitment troll for the unwary becomes less effective: It is essential that fa...
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[15:54:03] <exec> 08└─You're right.
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[16:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:21] <exec> 08└─What they're trying to do is take a low resolution image and turn it into a high resolution image without errors. That cannot be done. That the AI makes different guesses than the doctor about how to "fill in the blanks" doesn't make the doctor right. He's more likely to be right because he puts in...
[16:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but this isn't just about image interpretation, where pattern matching is important. This is about image construction. This is about trying to take shortcuts in what should be a deterministic process, namely gathering data and sequencing it to become information in the form of images. The end...
[16:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:25] <exec> 08└─These things have been out performing humans since the 1990s. Literally, in 1998, I stood in Rockville M.D. at FDA show and tell day with my crazy medical device, between a knee repair drill and epoxy system on one side, and an automated cancer screener on the other side. The automated system had be...
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[16:45:27] <exec> 08└─What matters is the actual results. Run the proposed system in parallel with the accepted systems. Measure changes in outcomes, decide if the benefits outweigh the costs. If additional people dying is showing up in the costs column, the system should never get accepted. If people end up having to co...
[16:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:29] <exec> 08└─That the AI makes different guesses than the doctor about how to "fill in the blanks" doesn't make the doctor right. He's more likely to be right because he puts in into a larger context...which is the answer about "how to improve the AI", but he's inventing the missing details too, and can be wrong...
[16:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer Photosynthetic Bacteria to Produce Hydrogen - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:39] <exec> 08└─Engineer bacteria to produce gasoline and you've got something worthwhile. This idea seems a cross between stupid and dangerous. It's only dangerous, of course, if the bacteria can survive in the wild, but since hydrogen leaves the planet, that could be a good way to get rid of all that water. Oops!...
[16:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:03] <exec> 08└─F'ing idiot has no idea what PTSD is, however... I highly question the validity of a PTSD diagnosis for moderating Facebook posts.
[16:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:04] <exec> 08└─In that case here's your goatse... (‿ˠ‿)
[16:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:26] <exec> 08└─Authentication Required. https://classics.mit.edu [mit.edu] is requesting your username and password. The site says: “TT Internal”
[16:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin's "Homegrown" CPUs Power Full Range of x86 PCs for China - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:37] <exec> 08└─Without salt.
[16:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin's "Homegrown" CPUs Power Full Range of x86 PCs for China - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:39] <exec> 08└─Of course you can expect other things baked-in...
[16:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:37] <exec> 08└─More seriously. Would love to see a vote in the UN that the vaccine/cure should be free to copy and manufacture.
[16:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:38] <exec> 08└─https://prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com/cbsnews/vr/hls/2020/05/10/1736051779875/2062892_hls/master.m3u8 [cbsnews.com]
[16:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:40] <exec> 08└─I'm just from Europe, but is it too late to pick that young dude from the democrats. He seemed like a calm and reasonable man compared to the rest and he doesn't look like he's going to fall over and die within a presidential term like the rest. I know nothing of the politics, it's just a human "vib...
[16:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:43] <exec> 08└─We'd get a philosophy speech about how "the other side" thinks differently, and they're content to nibble away at a problem one little piece at a time
[16:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's what they do. But they have an incentive not to if we get them to wise up. Those guys in the suits and their families can be killed by this virus as long as the virus can find a way to survive and mutate. If we make treatment unaffordable, the virus and its descendants will spread throug...
[16:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:13] <exec> 08└─He probably just looked at the data and determined the stay at home orders are at best ineffective and actually most likely harmful. Also the death rate is blown out of proportion and heavily politicized, while the infection rate most likely holds up.
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[17:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:07] <exec> 08└─I trained on Elite, synchronizing with the starion's rotation. Eventually bought a docking computer, I tired of the work and the occasional scrapes on my spaceship.
[17:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:08] <exec> 08└─If you've ever managed to dock anything in orbit above Kerbal then this should be a piece of cake. As they explain, small movements are key and approaching very slowly - just try and do the exact opposite of what you see in Star Wars and you'll be just fine.
[17:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:11] <exec> 08└─Pitch Yaw and Roll are relatively stable in the simulator... lock them in on zeroes then translate your Y and Z to zeroes as best you can (they will drift, particularly as you get close), then head in and slow down to "blue speed" as you get close. Without reading the instructions I had to reset onc...
[17:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:13] <exec> 08└─Try to align with the hexagons and go slow, lunar lander was way more difficult (also bc we never went to the moon but this is another issue)
[17:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:15] <exec> 08└─Full throttle @720° spin with a few loops.
[17:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:17] <exec> 08└─Well, that was easy.
[17:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:19] <exec> 08└─BTW, three hexes = 666.
[17:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:40] <exec> 08└─" ...small changes in the input may result in big changes in the output..." Garbage in, garbage out. If you use AI programs to flag a potential problem, that is one thing. But in my opinion a trained radiologist should always check the output.
[17:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 1479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:42] <exec> 08└─The problem is, we're doing too much screening for the trained radiologists to handle. If they'd open up training for more radiologists, I'd agree - but the present system asks too much of them, and even when radiologists have all the time in the world to examine an image, they're going to miss stuf...
[17:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:44] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reminder than SN is more of an anti-science forum than a science forum.
[17:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:46] <exec> 08└─Imagine that, observing things to learn about them!
[17:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer Photosynthetic Bacteria to Produce Hydrogen - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:58] <exec> 08└─Easy -- let the trees grow, burn the wood for energy, then die ten years early from lung disease.
[17:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 2156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:24] <exec> 08└─You are correct. You have proven you have no idea what PTSD is. It is my pleasure to educate you as to the diagnostic criteria [va.gov]: DSM-5 Criteria for PTSD Full copyrighted criteria are available from the American Psychiatric Association (1). All of the criteria are required for the diagnosis o...
[17:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:25] <exec> 08└─Freedom can't exist because of CP.
[17:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:48] <exec> 08└─As someone who read Ayn Rand years ago, why would anyone n their right mind want expose themselves to utter boredom.
[17:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:50] <exec> 08└─Thank you President Trump for posting here.
[17:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scrabble Fans Slam 'Sparkly Abomination' New App - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:10] <exec> 08└─[CITATION PROVIDED] [copyright.gov]
[17:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scrabble Fans Slam 'Sparkly Abomination' New App - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:12] <exec> 08└─A petition. On change.org. With a goal of 5000 signatures. Wow, that'll show them. slacktivisim at its finest! Want them to change their mind? Do not buy their product and tell others why. That does more than a running counter on a website most people do not care about that was created to throw poli...
[17:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:07] <exec> 08└─Aren't medications, and presumably vaccinations, patentable? If China gets a patent on a vaccine in, doesn't that mean that everyone else has to pay them tons of money, when this whole thing is objectively their fault in the first place?
[17:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:29] <exec> 08└─As you're posts make so achingly clear, superiority in one area does not extend to others. You are a good coder supposedly, but beyond that you have some very massive glaring flaws. No one is perfect, and assholes that try and set themselves or others on a pedestal are the scourge of human society....
[17:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:31] <exec> 08└─When someone can bend reality to suit his needs, why not just make the weapons disappear? Guess you got lost in that personal sense of righteous justice ChrisMaple :[ I wonder if you are a fan of Ayn Rand.
[17:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:33] <exec> 08└─ChrisMaple, being a stupid redneck since what, 2003? They say it is more effective to show how incel ideology doesn't match reality, but around here that seems to go nowhere. So mockery it is!
[17:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:35] <exec> 08└─LOL did they reset you? I already replied to your ill-fitting NERO CAESAR. A global financial and food crisis, an impossible to beat beast, nuclear reactors (the wormwood star) helicopters or likely drones (locusts prepared for wars) have been feasible only quite recently. Of course if you assume hy...
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[17:54:38] <exec> 08└─> person Person? me? if I could feel offended, I would.
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[18:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:14] <exec> 08└─Rather not support anything connected to Dictator Musk for awhile.
[18:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:15] <exec> 08└─I've docked tons of spacecraft in Kerbal. But in this simulator I don't see the MechJeb menu anywhere....
[18:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:18] <exec> 08└─You are confused about who the actual dictators are. Tesla and Alameda County came to an agreement, so it is moot anyway.
[18:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 1756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:43] <exec> 08└─Not quite sure what you mean by, "in parallel." This would be hard to do Level 1 randomized control trials on. Lest you have to say, "Yeah, sorry your father died of that tumor. If we'd only seen it in the initial scans we could have excised it, but that AI extrapolator just wasn't working correctly...
[18:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:44] <exec> 08└─A single story confirms AC Troll's biases about AI - "slipping them into anything related to natural sciences is crazy at best, malicious at worst." A single troll from an AC confirms DeathMonkey's biases - "Thanks for the reminder". It's interesting how much of the problem the most vocal pro-scien...
[18:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:24] <exec> 08└─The real problem is probably not the viewing of gore, it's that moderators are getting redpilled from all those videos of Blacks beating up Whites and looking at all the image macros showing the over-representation of Jews in the Media and government power-players. They've seen too much unofficial e...
[18:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:25] <exec> 08└─Sure you can. In the resume entry you can prepend "Facebook Contractor - " or append "(Facebook Contractor)" to the company name, then put "Facebook" in all the bullet points related to the gig. It never ceases to amaze me how rigid and old-fashioned people's approach to work is. OH MY GOD, I left o...
[18:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:27] <exec> 08└─Yup [theverge.com], nope [theverge.com] -- that is definitely not the worst of what they were tasked with moderating. Which makes me wonder why they're required to watch these videos through to the end before they can remove them.
[18:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scrabble Fans Slam 'Sparkly Abomination' New App - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:13] <exec> 08└─You mean like Canonical Unity, or Gnome, etc.?
[18:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scrabble Fans Slam 'Sparkly Abomination' New App - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:14] <exec> 08└─Not sure exactly what to call it How about New Coke syndrome?
[18:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:40] <exec> 08└─Right? Almost 4:20.
[18:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:42] <exec> 08└─LMFAO. Overrepresented in the Senate? Are you an idiot?
[18:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:44] <exec> 08└─OSH Act (OSHA) of 1970 General Duty Clause SEC. 5. Duties (a) Each employer -- (1) 29 USC 654 shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees;
[18:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:46] <exec> 08└─Republicans are larger investors in green-energy technologies across the board (https://grist.org/article/republicans-are-buying-rooftop-solar-will-it-change-their-politics/).
[18:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:48] <exec> 08└─The city has the legal right to turn off utilities thru their building code enforcement authority. The sherriff will help them if needed. A random business does not have that right, especially for city hall. (Unless you are talking about the power company) The sherriff (guy with guns) will be helpin...
[18:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pretty, Yet Painful: Rare ‘Blue Dragons’ Wash Up on Texas Beach - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:19] <exec> 08└─The worst puns. Served up daily.
[18:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:48] <exec> 08└─I thought it meant Soros Cheerleaders.
[18:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:50] <exec> 08└─Of the three that you mention, I have only read the Bible, and about 1/3 of the Qu'ran. I found that for believers, the Bible had the best possible ending.
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[19:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Interesting) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:09] <exec> 08└─Still no SN conservatives screaming about Trump for promoting dangerous treatments. Or at least promoting science over misinformation from Fox & Friends. Hmmmmm
[19:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:11] <exec> 08└─38% rise in bleach poisoning predates Trump’s suggestion, data shows [arstechnica.com]
[19:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:13] <exec> 08└─So the "bleach" these articles are referring to is chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and industrial bleaching agent. It's not sodium hypochlorite, which is commonly referred to as just "bleach" by the unbleached masses. So while you are still an idiot for drinking it, referring to it as bleach in hea...
[19:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:15] <exec> 08└─Good, people aren't as stupid as Carlin worried. Still though, waiting on conservatives to turn against the worst and most dangerous POTUS to ever occupy the office. But go ahead, continue making excuses, just a prank bro right? How many deaths does he have to indirectly cause with his ineptitude an...
[19:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:31] <exec> 08└─Expect an email, fax, phone call, and a Zoom notification from Musk. He put the sim up to find the next Starfighter.
[19:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:59] <exec> 08└─The sequential scans should not be a major concern to the patients - they've already showed up, been prepped, etc. If they happen to be claustrophobic, then they should ethically be excused from the double scan process - there's no need to include claustrophobics in the study, even though they are o...
[19:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:01] <exec> 08└─A single troll from an AC confirms DeathMonkey's...
[19:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:03] <exec> 08└─Your failure at reading comprehension is noted as well. In the interest of science, which part(s) of "AI could take a low-resolution image and make it into a high-resolution version. AI algorithms 'learn' to reconstruct images based on training from previous data" are too hard for you to understand?
[19:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:05] <exec> 08└─So what? The AC troll no doubt had been observing a pattern for a while too. Confirmation bias does that a lot.
[19:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Pay $52m to Moderators Over PTSD - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:48] <exec> 08└─Facebook has agreed to pay $52m (£42m) to content moderators as compensation . . .
[19:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:13] <exec> 08└─If you get tired of the articles. Read the discussions regarding editing of the articles. Read the ingredients on food packaging.
[19:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:14] <exec> 08└─It's an amusingly surreal story about drunk elephants and cyberspace. Good read, I highly recommend it. ;-)
[19:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin's "Homegrown" CPUs Power Full Range of x86 PCs for China - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:30] <exec> 08└─too bad arm is such a PITA in regards to upstream uboot support etc (for non arm nerds).
[19:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin's "Homegrown" CPUs Power Full Range of x86 PCs for China - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:32] <exec> 08└─If china made open hardware with all FOSS support, i would buy it over proprietary US tech. fuck Qualcom et al.
[19:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin's "Homegrown" CPUs Power Full Range of x86 PCs for China - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:34] <exec> 08└─Debian has a MIPS port that covers both big and little endianness.
[19:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:11] <exec> 08└─The city has the legal right to turn off utilities thru their building code enforcement authority.
[19:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:12] <exec> 08└─Indeed. So why should we think that this section is being violated?
[19:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:15] <exec> 08└─Because nobody would ever move to say, Texas, for a hot rocketry job.
[19:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:17] <exec> 08└─finally someone with lawyer money is taking a stand against these seditious parasites. these orders are prima facie unconstitutional and the people who passed the emergency laws they are based on and the judges and executive officers should be put on trial for sedition and hung on a live stream. peo...
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[20:45:18] <exec> 08└─stating it can cure things like autism, acne, cancer, diabetes and now COVID-19.
[20:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:19] <exec> 08└─When Obama did stuff I didn't like I just kept my trap shut. Sure, I wasn't out lambasting him because on the balance I thought he was OK. But I wasn't out there defending the stuff I hated. That they're so compelled to vociferously defend every single position, even when that position is the direct...
[20:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:21] <exec> 08└─How quickly would all those Trump supporting evangelicals disavow God himself if Trump told them to?
[20:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:23] <exec> 08└─They already have
[20:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:26] <exec> 08└─So, instead of Trump instigating an idiotic and dangerous hype, we have Trump parrotting an idiotic and dangerous hype? How is that any better for his president's image?
[20:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:43] <exec> 08└─I trained on kerbal space program. Eventually someone wrote mechjeb. Now ships dock themselves about 80% of the time. I docked to the ISS though today in three minutes. Easy as can be. Zero out roll, yaw and pitch and boost in fast until you get to 10m. Then creep forward and dock.
[20:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:44] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I came here to ask how this compares to Kerbal. Kerbal Space Program is amazing for learning some fundamental concepts behind rocketry/space travel, although I'm sure there are lots of technical details omitted.
[20:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin's "Homegrown" CPUs Power Full Range of x86 PCs for China - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:43] <exec> 08└─Who would buy a processor that runs exactly nothing, with no ecosystem around it?
[20:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:26] <exec> 08└─Not only whoosh! but also WHOOSH! Oooh! Oooh! I'll post more later -- It's almost 4:20!
[20:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:27] <exec> 08└─They're not my favorite states, but they have nice parts.
[20:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:30] <exec> 08└─COVID-19 has a high mortality rate, and given that there's an outbreak, putting people together in the workplace is putting them in harm's way.
[20:54:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:48] <exec> 08└─Right! Sci-fi would never ponder the implications of giving sentience to an artificial human!
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[21:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:06] <exec> 08└─Because if you never take them off, how would you wash them?
[21:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:08] <exec> 08└─I been wearing a bandanna lately. I'm not even a little bit worried about catching that shit cause it hates the south and it hates smokers but I do have allergies and people freak entirely the fuck out if you cough or sneeze without your shit masked now. Tomorrow The Roomie and I are going down to B...
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[21:45:10] <exec> 08└─Cool story.
[21:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:12] <exec> 08└─There was an initial speculation that it might not have much affect on smokers, but newer, more accurate, (I.E. not all china based statistics), show that smokers are actually at risk.
[21:45:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:27] <exec> 08└─When Obama did stuff I didn't like I just kept my trap shut. Sure, I wasn't out lambasting him because on the balance I thought he was OK. But I wasn't out there defending the stuff I hated. That they're so compelled to vociferously defend every single position, even when that position is the direct...
[21:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:32] <exec> 08└─You did not mention that it was Lev 13:6 and the translation was NASB.
[21:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:34] <exec> 08└─If they are not being sarcastic, perhaps they consider death to be 'a cure'.
[21:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:36] <exec> 08└─These guys are less of a church than John Oliver's "Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption". They're pretty plainly a for-profit business that declared themselves to be a church so they wouldn't have to pay taxes on their profits.
[21:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:38] <exec> 08└─Regardless of party, there have been things every president did that I liked and didn't like. Shockingly, I have never universally liked or disliked EVERY SINGLE thing any president has done. But Trump is uniquely different. He can do no wrong in the eyes of some. Anything he does is to be defended....
[21:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:40] <exec> 08└─Was that info important to the joke?
[21:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Techniques in Medical Imaging May Lead to Incorrect Diagnoses - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:30] <exec> 08└─> small changes in the input may result in big changes in the output Uh, of course that's true. The tiniest speck can mean the difference between healthy and cancer. "If we add random specks, the AI gives drastically different results, hence the AI must be bad."
[21:50:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:29] <exec> 08└─The people are stupid because public school teachers are horrible and lack the ability to teach common sense. That happens because dumb people appoint public school teachers. Unfortunately we have a cycle where dumb people appoint dumb teachers who produce more dumb people.
[21:50:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:34] <exec> 08└─It's not a human thing to want to profit off other's suffering. It is a sociopath thing to do that. Sociopaths are a parasitic subset of humans.
[21:50:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 640 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:43] <exec> 08└─To be entirely sincere, I don't think the actual administration will try to block the import, it will be Trump to fight importing it. Perhaps not in the most obvious way (e.g. suddenly FDA will be instructed to apply the most stringent certification protocols), but he'll very likely fight the import...
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[21:52:45] <exec> 08└─That's a simplistic and glib comment. There are people whose jobs involve a greater degree of risk than normal, eg. police, firefighters, mountain rescue, armed services etc. but they are usually doing a very important job, are properly trained and have the proper protective equipment and tools for...
[21:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:47] <exec> 08└─Someone wrote this [soylentnews.org] just for you, friend. Hopefully, you do have the courage of your convictions. No, not the felonies. The ideas and precepts that make up your world view.
[21:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Musk Dares County Officials to Arrest Him as He Reopens Fremont Factory - 1564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:49] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk, possibly, and a lot of other very rich and greedy people (see Jacob Rees-Mogg). There's an epidemic of a new and often deadly virus going about. It would be sensible, and the likes of Musk could afford it, if people were given a few months off work so that the virus could burn itself out....
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[21:52:51] <exec> 08└─Ignorance much? [who.int]
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[21:52:53] <exec> 08└─It's a pretty unpleasant disease [theguardian.com] even if you do survive. With suggestions that some cases of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) may arise after illnesses including viral infections, Gill said concern was starting to mount. “There are a lot of people wondering whether or not we are go...
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[21:52:55] <exec> 08└─Was it too subtle? "and if nothing is done about the Mexican and H1-B problem in California" So much of racism is born out of political anger. Sometimes there is a kernel of validity to the anger, but once it goes racist that part no longer matters. That is just their excuse to be hateful.
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[22:45:11] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, in Sweden and Belarus the promised catastrophe entirely failed to happen.
[22:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DimestoreProstitute [9480] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:12] <exec> 08└─Sweden isn't the model situation everyone's claiming it to be.
[22:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:15] <exec> 08└─I been wearing a bandanna lately. I'm not even a little bit worried about catching that shit cause it hates the south and it hates smokers but I do have allergies and people freak entirely the fuck out if you cough or sneeze without your shit masked now.
[22:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:17] <exec> 08└─Georgia is also still waiting for the impending disaster.
[22:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/ [worldometers.info] 27,909 cases so var; 19,478 currently active; and 3,460 deaths. Is that what you want to call a success?
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[22:45:21] <exec> 08└─Both China and South Korea have the ability to do large scale testing and contact tracing. The United States does not. There are still issues with false negatives in testing, particularly for recently infected individuals. But it does significantly increase the ability to contain outbreaks.
[22:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:23] <exec> 08└─From the same site: [worldometers.info] Sweden has 343 death per million population, is doing better than the UK (489 deaths per million pop.) of Spain (580/million) US is only 13th - can do better - with 257 deaths per million people - but is early days, so you can (and most likely, will catch up)...
[22:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:25] <exec> 08└─The outbreak in South Korea was one gay guy on a night out: 54 people infected. Bit late to "test" isn't it? And testing does nothing to prevent communal infection as the Wuhan testing will demonstrate.
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[22:45:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.statista.com/statistics/525530/sweden-death-rate/ [statista.com] Do remember that people do die. From a multitude of causes. They did die in 2019, do die in 2020, and will continue to die in 2021. The bad-bad-bad 3.5 thousand attributed to COVID is what the grim reaper gathered there in...
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[22:45:30] <exec> 08└─Social distancing, like in Sweden, and isolating the infected, were the primary virus-fighting measures there. No lockdowns, no mandatory masks even. Still, apparently it worked.
[22:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:32] <exec> 08└─China intends to test all 11 million people in Wuhan [bbc.com] China has reportedly been testing 47,000 a day [canoe.com]
[22:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:34] <exec> 08└─so something working in one country, but not in another, suggests other things were at play. Do they respect rules more, and actually abide by them? Is this a result of being a former Soviet state? [wikipedia.org]
[22:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:36] <exec> 08└─》 Saudi Arabia (which has temps near 100F each day) reported 1,900 new cases today. Correlation does not imply causation. The high number of cases in Saudi Arabia is because God hates Muslims.
[22:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:39] <exec> 08└─Yes let's copy Sweden - except for the bits they get wrong obviously. Let's copy Somalia for those bits.
[22:45:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:51] <exec> 08└─If you drink enough bleach, I guarantee that you will not die from COVID. Truth on advertising, what more do you want? Akso known as "thinning the herd".
[22:45:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:52] <exec> 08└─So the "bleach" these articles are referring to is chlorine dioxide...
[22:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:03] <exec> 08└─Let these future posthumous award winners continue with their internal bleaching. The sooner they self annihilate the better the world will be.
[22:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:05] <exec> 08└─Stop playing dense, you know damn well what 99% of people think you are talking about when you say "bleach" and you know damn well that was my point. You are making an argument just for the sake of being contrarian and overly pedantic. As for "industrial bleach" go ask 100 chemists or chemical engin...
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[22:46:07] <exec> 08└─How and why do I care? I'm just pointing out a fact. Have a problem with that?
[22:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah this was super easy. It would be even easier with a joystick instead of four buttons for translation. There is a similar docking simulator at Kennedy Space Center which was a bit harder (but still not too bad) because you had limited fuel and once you ran out you couldn't make any more adjustme...
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[22:46:29] <exec> 08└─Almost in Star Citizen, just 0.1 versions more! The spaceships come pre-scratched and dusty, with complimentary smears on the windscreen for added immersion, so at least we have that.
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[22:46:31] <exec> 08└─Good choice, son. Boeing cares about their employees, especially the ladies, and wouldn't dream [seattletimes.com] of putting them at risk [king5.com] during this crisis. It's beyond irresponsible of little Elon to open a week sooner.
[22:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:33] <exec> 08└─Got it first time too. I hope the real thing shows more significant digits than the sim. Spending several seconds wondering if 0.1 meters was going to change to 0.0 or 0.2 was an unnecessary hassle. I can't say it was *easy*, especially towards the end. For some reason I couldn't get the Z-axis to s...
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[22:47:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe they need to take the pictures when it is sunny, rather than cloudy or night. We all know how that worked for the Patriot Missile system.
[22:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:14] <exec> 08└─Know your enemy.
[22:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:16] <exec> 08└─The question I want answered is, why do we even need to ask where to find writings? They ought to be freely available, period. Available all the time, not just during an emergency. And available unlocked, free of any and all DRM. Part of the problem is the very name, "book". Prints are indeed scarce...
[22:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:18] <exec> 08└─The majority of the cost of producing a book is in paying the writer, editors, etc. a semi-fair wage for 8-15 months of full-time work; the price of producing physical copies is actually minimal. Feel free to put in the long hours required to become good at writing fiction, complete a book, edit it...
[22:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:20] <exec> 08└─Or easier yet, Undernet's #bookz channel on IRC. (Yes, I know I just posted a comment about why books shouldn't be free; that doesn't mean that I've never pirated them myself.)
[22:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:22] <exec> 08└─I pirate almost everything. But if you impress me, I will pay you. Probably not for the work I've consumed unless you have high quality physical copies available, but swag, anniversary collections, concert tickets etc.
[22:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:24] <exec> 08└─Anyone who is a fan of Douglas Adams' work should check out Project Gutenberg's collection of works by P.G. Wodehouse, who also has been cited as an influence by John Cleese and a lot of other humor writers. Here's a collection of quotes by him [goodreads.com], for a taste of his style.
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[22:50:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, but there's more to it that that. It's not just a few people, it's a part of the system design. Drug discovery is costly. Really costly. Somehow it has to be paid for. If a privately owned organization is doing the discovery, the owner needs to be paid for the discoveries in order to stay in bu...
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[22:52:26] <exec> 08└─A couple of apropos quotes from Mark Twain "No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot" "Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."
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[23:45:21] <exec> 08└─https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/ [worldometers.info] 27,909 cases so var; 19,478 currently active; and 3,460 deaths. Is that what you want to call a success?
[23:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:31] <exec> 08└─And somebody tested yesterday will be infected by someone due to be tested tomorrow ad infinitum.
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[23:45:33] <exec> 08└─IIUC the story is more complicated...but I don't understand the way it is more complicated. There is, IIUC, some indication that smokers are a smaller fraction of those who die after being sick enough to be put on a ventilator. Of course, over 80% of those die, so a smaller fraction isn't that signi...
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[23:45:35] <exec> 08└─Think about this logically. Estimates suggest that this virus may have an infection fatality rate of around 0.5%. In a population that begins with essentially no immunity, the virus can spread through the population until enough immunity develops that each infected person subsequently infects less t...
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[23:45:37] <exec> 08└─You've got a point, but it's not as strong as you think. If the measure is sufficient to get the R value below 1, the epidemic will subside. There are various time delays in the process that make this difficult, but it doesn't need to be perfect to work, just good enough. But lower R value is much b...
[23:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe because they stop smoking when they're on ventilators?
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[23:45:42] <exec> 08└─I been wearing a bandanna lately. I'm not even a little bit worried about catching that shit cause it hates the south and it hates smokers but I do have allergies and people freak entirely the fuck out if you cough or sneeze without your shit masked now.
[23:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:44] <exec> 08└─Ok, what is this common misconception about heat For example, if one looks at cases per 100,000, there's five northern states at the top (the worst of those states, Connecticut has 941 reported cases per 100k people as of 5/11). Washington, DC is the first spot below the Mason-Dixon line with crazy...
[23:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:46] <exec> 08└─I never understood the whole ventilator thing. Ventilators are a last resort for when the breathing muscles don't work, if a person is suffering from hypoxia then would standard oxygen not be effective? It underpins the theory that this is all prep for a world war (or possibly terrorist attack) ramp...
[23:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:48] <exec> 08└─Rīga municipality values historical architecture and cityscape, so even 10-storied buildings are few and far between; and in other municipalities, land is cheap enough for not needing to build high, nor to build houses close to one another.
[23:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:50] <exec> 08└─IANAMD, as I understand it we do give them oxygen first, but when their lungs crap out and turn to sponge even more, oxygen through the face just isn't efficient enough, so its ventilators down your throat to try to squeeze more efficiency, its pretty dire at that point.
[23:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:53] <exec> 08└─Or maybe they are culturally more inclined towards the well-being of society as a whole, unlike a certain "give me liberty or give me death, me me me and fuck everybody else" nation that shall remain unnamed.
[23:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:55] <exec> 08└─I thought herd immunity have been ruled out [abc.net.au]? Of course IANAMD, maybe you are and know something the experts don't. Keep in mind Australia ABC is not American ABC, they are unaffiliated nor as far as I know affliated with any political parties like the news channels in the US.
[23:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:57] <exec> 08└─The R value is an average, for the Korean guy mentioned in the story there were 54 infections with just 11 believed to be secondary. If you miss one case you could seed a new outbreak with 43 infections in a single day. Testing isn't any kind of preventative strategy without instant testing and 100%...
[23:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:59] <exec> 08└─That strategy does not work for children in any real disaster, no reason to expect it work any better for adults when applied countrywide.
[23:46:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 502 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:21] <exec> 08└─Regardless of party, there have been things every president did that I liked and didn't like. Shockingly, I have never universally liked or disliked EVERY SINGLE thing any president has done. But Trump is uniquely different. He can do no wrong in the eyes of some. Anything he does is to be defended....
[23:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:27] <exec> 08└─Not to mention corruption on a 3rd world level.
[23:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:29] <exec> 08└─I don't mind internal bleaching - as long as it's not anal-bleaching which is disgusting homosexual behavior. Keep the anus dirty as God probably meant if you interpret the Bible a certain way.
[23:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:31] <exec> 08└─Well if all universities are leftist propaganda outlets then all churches are Big Religion out for those tax breaks and money-parting-fools ;D
[23:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200 - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:34] <exec> 08└─It was about Leprosy... Which was vexing them like Covid is vexing us. This was written telling the priests what to look for and should he exile that person from the community. Serious stuff. A misinterpreted wart would ruin your life. Look how many of us still get patches of rough skin and warts.
[23:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:57] <exec> 08└─I trained on Orbiter - being a hard-physics accurate representation of space dynamics, virtually all of my skills are transferable to KSP, Space Engineers or other realish environments. If you want something with more depth and an extraordinary difficulty curve, give Orbiter a go. I used to carry my...
[23:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer Photosynthetic Bacteria to Produce Hydrogen - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:42] <exec> 08└─We've gotten more sophisticated, about 30 years ago my friends that heat (partially) with wood added a catalyst to their stove, cleans up at least some of the nasty exhaust. Because the catalyst is burning stuff that would have gone up the stack, they get more heat from the wood too.
[23:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer Photosynthetic Bacteria to Produce Hydrogen - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:43] <exec> 08└─> Probably the best fuel would be a chain with alternating double and single bonds about (wild guess) eight atoms long. Something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Pure 2,2,4-trimethylpentane (a highly branched octane) has an "octane rating" of 100, so it's clearly good...
[23:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:46] <exec> 08└─I did not say authors, editors, and others who work on writings should go unpaid. I do however object to trying to perpetuate a system that worked okay when copying was harder, but now that copying belongs to the masses, does not make any sense. Publishers may choose whether to roll with this massiv...
[23:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:47] <exec> 08└─HA! I often read the comment while skipping over the subject line. So, when I read: > If you get tired of the articles. I immediately thought of the old joke about reading Playboy for the articles...
[23:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:50] <exec> 08└─> ... develop and refine other business models ... Lots of people working on this problem--have you seen any model that actually works and results in more than pennies to the author (or artist in the case of streaming music)? You can beat on the publishing industry all you want (and some of the abus...
[23:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:11] <exec> 08└─I think its a bit of both. He's not smart like we how we would normally attribute that word, but he's a shrewd, ruthless and have enough business smarts to be more successful in business than your average joe sixpack. What I find amusing though is the "smart" people just blaming everything on him wh...
[23:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:13] <exec> 08└─My bad. I wasn't saying you did, was referring to the more general practice of "Blame Trump".
[23:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:15] <exec> 08└─I don't think it is a human thing to want to profit from other people's suffering While I agree in part to the above, capitalism makes people less human by logic then. Our prosper is based on suffering by others: garment workers in Bangladesh, people living next to chemical factories overseas, mine...
[23:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:17] <exec> 08└─Won't some countries just buy a sample, reverse engineer and manufacture anyway? There's enough countries that don't give 2 bits about patents, and in dire situations like these, if enough G20 countries decide to do the same, what's gonna happen?
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