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[00:22:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 388 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:16] <exec> 08└─Good to see US dollars being spent to benefit American tax payers while bankrolling R&D and production of life saving medicine. Such a rare success for trickle-down economics that manages to spur nationalist competition and gets the EU and Asia to start funding their own medical research instead of...
[00:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:41] <exec> 08└─China is subject to confirmation of reciprocity. They can buy it with copper bars.
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:43] <exec> 08└─We print our money like there is no tomorrow and it's still worth something, and Chinese buy them by the bucketloads, because of our global geopolitical/economic position.
[00:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:45] <exec> 08└─DaFuq? Are you really this stupid or are you playing to the /. overflow? 2 completely different meanings of stock. I mean buying part of a company, you are talking about how many widgets are available.
[00:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:47] <exec> 08└─I regret the $ we spend helping the rest of the world.
[00:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:49] <exec> 08└─You have a water line in your outhouse?
[00:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─One last, desperate, flailing attempt to keep President Kanye out of the oval office. #BillionaireLivesMatter
[00:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:54] <exec> 08└─Is he doing his job here? The US just spent $1.2 billion dollars for 500,000 treatments (while presently it's experiencing roughly 50k new reported cases per day). Who will get that and when? How effective will it be? Sure, if the study that justified the purchase is accurate, that means about a thi...
[00:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:56] <exec> 08└─with or without permission.
[00:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:58] <exec> 08└─If all you want is to have a schadenfreude moment, why postpone?
[00:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:00] <exec> 08└─India and China would be able to do it, for example.
[00:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:02] <exec> 08└─And that's precisely what he did. Very effectively.
[00:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:04] <exec> 08└─> Who will get that? Rich people.
[00:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:07] <exec> 08└─"Another thing the US could have done is buy the drug IP outright and then have global generics manufacturers produce vast quantities of the drug" That's exactly what the US should have done. Get it together, align others to follow, and tell the whole world: "We got this. Come to papa. We've got yo...
[00:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:09] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter who, as long as needs are met... if the stuff really works
[00:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:11] <exec> 08└─the total number of active cases in US is 1,558,511, which is 34.8% from the total number of cases.
[00:23:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:33] <exec> 08└─Fuck 'em. The law is abusive and deserves nothing but contempt. Maybe, with it's original 17 years duration and compulsory licensing, it might become respectable again, but not until then
[00:23:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jbWolf [2774] 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:37] <exec> 08└─Copyright holders get no sympathy from me. Fuck 'em
[00:23:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:46] <exec> 08└─This is not correct. It was 14 years, with a possible extension of 14 years. Extensions were actually quite rare. Only if the original author was still alive, still in control of the work, and still deriving enough profit from it to justify taking the trouble to apply for an extension would it becom...
[00:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:34] <exec> 08└─By the time a person has a fever, if they have COVID-19, they've almost certainly been contagious for awhile.
[00:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Explosive Physics of Pooping Penguins: They Can Shoot Poo Over Four Feet - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:29] <exec> 08└─Don't have your babies within poo-shot of your neighbor.
[00:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Pulls Offline Huge Dataset That Taught AI Systems to Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:43] <exec> 08└─Could be worse! Could be the Portland Police, with well known Proud Boy sympathies, putting their collective knee on the throat of the judicial system with a grant of qualified immunity.
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[01:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Mac Ransomware is Even More Sinister than it Appears - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:05] <exec> 08└─It's the appy app from your fave TLA.
[01:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Mac Ransomware is Even More Sinister than it Appears - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:07] <exec> 08└─She was just telling us the other day how wonderful Mac was. Enjoy your malware, suckers.
[01:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Mac Ransomware is Even More Sinister than it Appears - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:09] <exec> 08└─She was also just telling us the other day how the protesters practiced safe distancing and wore masks. I guess that's what you believe if the only news channel you watch is anchored by Teletubbies.
[01:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:59] <exec> 08└─So... what exactly could you do to help? Duuuuuh they are doing it right now on the internet. Bitching.
[01:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:00] <exec> 08└─Eleventy-Brazilian of them. At least.
[01:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:03] <exec> 08└─By lying? Do you for 1 second think China's numbers are reality? Or do you just want Trump to look bad? If it is the later maybe you should spend some time self reflecting who you are and what you really stand for.
[01:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:05] <exec> 08└─Gee, it's almost like you think history started in 1945 and ended in 1990...
[01:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:07] <exec> 08└─How petulant of them to want what pretty much every other american expects out of the post office unless you live in a apartment complex. HOW PETULANT! How DARE they expect the best out of the post office.
[01:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:09] <exec> 08└─You are aware that, absent a vaccine, herd immunity in this case means "Everyone who could die from this has already died", right? How is the US in a better place having everyone already dead?
[01:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:11] <exec> 08└─By lying?
[01:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:14] <exec> 08└─And, based on the percentage, the USofA is doing dandy, just fine, thank you, no need for help? What is your point?
[01:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:16] <exec> 08└─Except he's not looking after the US by buying up all of the Remdesivir. It's just theater. Trump is unwilling to do anything that requires effort to reduce COVID. That much should be clear to anyone. So, rather than steer the Titanic away from the iceberg, he'd prefer to plow full steam into it and...
[01:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:12] <exec> 08└─I would guess that most people don't know that Bruce Willis had a career in music, and know him for his acting career as well as all the times he saved the planet. To be fair, it seemed that Bruce Willis kind of did the whole music thing on the side for fun rather than trying to make a living off of...
[01:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:40] <exec> 08└─To avoid this post from being needlessly confusing, I've quoted your text without additional formatting, but quotes from peer-reviewed journal papers are in bold. The conclusions drawn by the papers you linked to were that viral load peaks a few days after symptoms develop.
[01:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:09] <exec> 08└─You can think everything in the crapper without thinking it's Trump's fault
[01:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:11] <exec> 08└─...It [the_donald] called out the 'left' on exactly what they were doing...
[01:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:13] <exec> 08└─My wife has TDS in a serious way, but after a month of watching rioters destroy, loot, burn, and exacerbate COVID, she said to me the other day -- "maybe Trump should win. This stuff is just unacceptable." You can bet your bottom dollar, if she was called for a poll, even though she is harboring her...
[01:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:15] <exec> 08└─So are you talking about RussiaRussiaRussia or the white nationalist who ran over two people on I-5 in Seattle this weekend?
[01:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:17] <exec> 08└─she would answer in a way that opposes Trump.
[01:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Pulls Offline Huge Dataset That Taught AI Systems to Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:58] <exec> 08└─No. I don't drink that corporate swill. Too much sugar and ideology. Support your local roaster.
[01:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Pulls Offline Huge Dataset That Taught AI Systems to Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:59] <exec> 08└─Snide snark does answer the question: what circumstance is one living through, when a violent group uses explosives to effect political change?
[01:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Pulls Offline Huge Dataset That Taught AI Systems to Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:02] <exec> 08└─Pampered and cowardly American! Fireworks? Not even a pressure-cooker to produce some actual concussive force? Lucky for you that you never lived in Beruit, or Northern Ireland, or Iraq or Afghanistan, or Israel, or any place that had actual use of real explosives, instead of peaceful and colorful p...
[01:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Pulls Offline Huge Dataset That Taught AI Systems to Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:04] <exec> 08└─Understood. You seek to destroy America, otherwise you would not minimize how serious it is when armed groups, 100s to 1000s strong, fire deadly weapons at people and buildings.
[01:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Porn Star's Fans Help Remove X-Rated Videos - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:40] <exec> 08└─Ublock Origin, Noscript, Ghostery and others handle that pretty well AFAICT. So no. I *don't* pay for porn.
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[02:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03agr [7134] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Mac Ransomware is Even More Sinister than it Appears - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:23] <exec> 08└─“For your Mac to become infected, you would need to torrent a compromised installer and then dismiss a series of warnings from Apple in order to run it.”
[02:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:25] <exec> 08└─India is doing it [newindianexpress.com] - under license. China started to do it in Feb [time.com], without license at the time. The licensing is unclear ATM.
[02:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:26] <exec> 08└─Clearly the US, particularly the South, sucks at following directions - or, possibly, the young'uns silently wish their pain in the ass parents would die already. As for a point? Not trying to make one, but perhaps an embedded point would be: the U.S. (finally) is counting cases now, probably quite...
[02:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:28] <exec> 08└─Oh gee... Only China. With all the lies China is telling about covid you can bet your chicken chow mein that China lies about their economic status. Look at all the bullshit Chinese discoveries being posted here.
[02:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:30] <exec> 08└─With both India [newindianexpress.com] and China [time.com] producing it, there are some interesting photo opp for a "world savior" pose.
[02:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:33] <exec> 08└─Quick. Ask for a public inquiry and, more important, defund IMF [theconversation.com] immediately! (grin) And, while at it, defund the police too, don't forget the police.
[02:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:35] <exec> 08└─What? I expect my mail in the mailbox, not delivered to my doorstep. Entitlement is the worst affliction of the ignorant and arrogant.
[02:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:37] <exec> 08└─Ah but does it come in patented easySwallow(c) coated capsules?
[02:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:39] <exec> 08└─The only ones who did worse were everyone. I challenge you to imagine what goes on in other countries that makes them SO SHIT.
[02:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:41] <exec> 08└─herd immunity in this case means "Everyone who could die from this has already died"
[02:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:44] <exec> 08└─... if the stuff really works
[02:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:46] <exec> 08└─Everyone on talk radio knows it started in 1776. The American founders (who were American by definition) invented democracy based on an executive branch, law making branch and judiciary. Completely different from the British Parliament, Her Majesty's govt and the Supreme Court, and the traditions of...
[02:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:48] <exec> 08└─Next he'll buy all the bleach and needles.
[02:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:50] <exec> 08└─The US just spent $1.2 billion dollars for 500,000 treatments...
[02:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:52] <exec> 08└─It was (and still is) a privately maintained road, dirt, the post office isn't required to drive on private roads to deliver mail - I'm still surprised he made that happen.
[02:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:51] <exec> 08└─New hashtag #BLDFM
[02:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:53] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear, your comment moves the goalposts significantly. The lawsuit isn't about whether Google accepts copyright notices from smaller rights holders. In fact, they do. Anyone can send a copyright notice to Google through a number of mechanisms (web forms, email, postal mail, etc...), and G...
[02:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:55] <exec> 08└─Kanye is one of the most influential producers in the modern music scene, and he's had a lot of legitimate classics and his fame is not undeserved. Sure, he's done plenty of pop garbage, but who cares what you say when it pay the bills? [youtube.com]
[02:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:23] <exec> 08└─Why does America want pictures of my dick SOOO bad?
[02:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:25] <exec> 08└─Your claim that "they've almost certainly been contagious for awhile" has been thoroughly trounced too, I see.
[02:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:00] <exec> 08└─The White Nationalist Manifesto: https://thepiratebay.org [thepiratebay.org]
[02:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Pulls Offline Huge Dataset That Taught AI Systems to Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:46] <exec> 08└─The White Nationalist Manifesto: https://thepiratebay.org [thepiratebay.org]
[02:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Pulls Offline Huge Dataset That Taught AI Systems to Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:47] <exec> 08└─I'm tempted to call you a dumb cunt but I suspect you wouldn't get the joke.
[02:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Pulls Offline Huge Dataset That Taught AI Systems to Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs - 2394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:49] <exec> 08└─Well, not really an American, so whether it is destroyed or not seem to be American's business, except insofar as it affects the rest of the world. I have been constantly pointing out these armed groups who are attempting to overthrow your constitution, the 3%ers, the Oafkebblers, the Sagebrush Rebe...
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[03:23:35] <exec> 08└─WE ARE THE CAPITALISTS DEATH IS IRRELEVANT LOWER YOUR MASKS AND SURRENDER YOUR PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEMS RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
[03:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coligny [2200] (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:36] <exec> 08└─“ proven to work against Covid-19,” That’s not exactly what real scientistering people are saying... And from memory it’s the third time Gilead try to push its miracle snakeoil. Last time it was against ebola. Can’t remember the first one. I’m just surprised they didn’t try to sale it...
[03:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:38] <exec> 08└─Source?
[03:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:39] <exec> 08└─Yep. That's exactly what the polls say [fivethirtyeight.com].
[03:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:44] <exec> 08└─So is it camel tow or camel toe?
[03:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:46] <exec> 08└─He may be a Russian puppet, but at least he didn't steal a pair of sneakers.
[03:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:48] <exec> 08└─A large number of people moved from reddit to thedonald.win in the days after this. The most fascinating part of this to me is that reddit blocked links to that website, mentions of that website, and even softly obfuscated mentions of it e.g. thedonald dot win. It is their platform and I support the...
[03:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coordinating Complex Behaviors Between Hundreds of Robots - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:21] <exec> 08└─The network is the computer. The computer is the robot. The cluster is the computer. The robot is the cluster. So fuckin' easy. Do I get a job in Robots now?
[03:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Pulls Offline Huge Dataset That Taught AI Systems to Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe jogging was against their religion and the black guy was oppressing them?
[03:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why DIY Magic Mushroom Growers are Gathering in an Uncle Ben’s Rice Subreddit - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:49] <exec> 08└─Wow, nothing like my experiences with from 1g to 14g trips. Visual effects varying with dose, but even half an ounce at one didn't being me close to the visual effects of an acid trip. Emotional response is heightened, but empathy and social inhibitions are reduced. Always prepare a vomit bag, you w...
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[04:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:40] <exec> 08└─If the drug were more effective, I'd consider the move more sinister. As it is it's almost as sensible as the HCQ stockpile. A bit more sensible, as it reduces the stay in the ICU by an estimated 4 days. Unfortunately the same report didn't say it reduced the death rate, and didn't mention other ser...
[04:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:41] <exec> 08└─Sweden is in a better position to laugh. They didn't fuck up their economy at all, especially compared to what certain state and local leaders are still imposing on their subjects in the US.
[04:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:43] <exec> 08└─Wellllll.....it works, for certain definitions of "works". It seems to shorten the average length of stay in the ICU. By an average of 4 days out of around 15. But the study that said that didn't say it decreased the death rate. And it didn't talk about after effects. Welll....lets be a little cauti...
[04:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:45] <exec> 08└─proven to work against Covid-19
[04:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:47] <exec> 08└─I would also hazard that out of all the countries that might have snagged it, the U.S. is the only one that generally shares whatever aid another country needs, at no cost to the recipient. Would y'all that's sayin' how mean this is rather that, say, Russia bought it all up? Cuz they sure as hell wo...
[04:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:51] <exec> 08└─Open your eyes, there's racism everywhere.
[04:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:22] <exec> 08└─So should I trust medical experts or an internet poster using "khallow" as a pseudonym?
[04:26:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:32] <exec> 08└─We may be pathetic, we may be a smaller site, we may even run on a cloned forked copy of Slashcode. What's definitely true though is your desperate flailing about spamming the site is far more pathetic than we could ever be. For fuckers that don't exist, we're clearly getting under your skin somehow...
[04:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:01] <exec> 08└─The left does not care about you. They have picked sides and you are not on it. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:02] <exec> 08└─Keep going with RussiaRussiaRussia -- it gets more believable with repetition and you look more rational and intelligent the more often you say it. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) For values where: believable means ridiculous rational means crazy intelligent means moronic
[04:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:04] <exec> 08└─The function of polls is not to take the public pulse; it is to sway the undecided toward the "winning" side. And a well-crafted poll can produce any result you care to pay for.
[04:28:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Uncovered: 1,000 Phrases that Incorrectly Trigger Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:17] <exec> 08└─"Okay, who is reading a letter about the unacceptable election in a city in Montana?"
[04:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why DIY Magic Mushroom Growers are Gathering in an Uncle Ben’s Rice Subreddit - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:07] <exec> 08└─Uncle Tom was a real person who was really nice and shone the best shoes.
[04:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why DIY Magic Mushroom Growers are Gathering in an Uncle Ben’s Rice Subreddit - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:08] <exec> 08└─I'm looking forward to the day they legalize this drug. That and MDMA. The world will become so much chiller. MDMA kicks the butt out of getting drunk. Or do a bit of both. Why do we have to be miserable and drink to oblivion every night? I mean, not me. Other people too probably.
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[05:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:54] <exec> 08└─So what happened to the stockpiles of hydroxychloroquine that the U.S./various states acquired? IIRC they expire. Were they given away or are they just going to sit around until they expire?
[05:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:55] <exec> 08└─Wanna bet US won't share until at least Jan 2021?
[05:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:57] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the same report didn't say it reduced the death rate, and didn't mention other serious after effects.
[05:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:01] <exec> 08└─The petty bureaucrat can bring down giants Nobody can match their power of obstruction.
[05:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:03] <exec> 08└─Elections are often decided on which side gets their base out along with keeping the other sides base at home. The way it looks now is a lot of Republican's will seriously consider not voting.
[05:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:05] <exec> 08└─You will find very little criticism of rap music (hip-hop is a subgenre nowadays, so it's not really accurate to use) that doesn't boil down to "blah blah offensive/politically incorrect/violent/dumb n****r music". Reminiscent of popular criticism of country music, there's no attempt at differentiat...
[05:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:07] <exec> 08└─And so what if that happened? Our utterly broken electoral system has apparently not demonstrated its utter brokenness enough times yet for us to actually fix it. Maybe one more time would be enough.
[05:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After a Second Stage Failure, Rocket Lab Loses Seven Satellites - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:56] <exec> 08└─So if he gets elected, does every American get free fishsticks?
[05:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:18] <exec> 08└─the white nationalist who ran over two people on I-5 in Seattle this weekend
[05:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:19] <exec> 08└─I wonder if that is Trump's campaign plan. He's pretty much abandoned governing since April, hasn't intervened with state governments to further a national reopening of the economy. The Democrats are driving social unrest, Talibaning our monuments, shitting on "racist" beliefs the people have in val...
[05:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uncovered: 1,000 Phrases that Incorrectly Trigger Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/listening [smbc-comics.com]
[05:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coordinating Complex Behaviors Between Hundreds of Robots - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:56] <exec> 08└─As long as nobody checks the robot-made chips against the robot-designed specs, they'll never catch on. Meatbags always think the software is what matters.
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[06:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:10] <exec> 08└─Healthy athletes getting their natural cartilage replaced with this just for the gains.
[06:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:12] <exec> 08└─So how much would it cost to have some control arm bushings made out of this stuff?
[06:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:52] <exec> 08└─Right! Half a million treatments... Gone in a week! Then someone will be complaining about other countries not selling it to the USA.
[06:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:53] <exec> 08└─Or do you just want Trump to look bad?
[06:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus US: People Try Microwaving Library Books Amid Virus Fears - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:45] <exec> 08└─Technically that's a book burning. With the microwave, you can argue you're just reheating.
[06:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Porn Star's Fans Help Remove X-Rated Videos - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:49] <exec> 08└─If you think those somehow make you untrackable or somehow immune, you've got another thing coming. Pornhub and anyone else under a first-party name can see what you are doing just fine and your browser gives them plenty of information for them to track and sell.
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[07:22:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:49] <exec> 08└─Such a rare success for trickle-down economics that manages to spur nationalist competition and gets the EU and Asia to start funding their own medical research
[07:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:55] <exec> 08└─invest in pillows!
[07:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:57] <exec> 08└─No need for more effort than switching the oxygen line to the mask with a pure nitrogen one.
[07:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:59] <exec> 08└─So what? So USA has to give and give for 244 years? What's your measure, royal highness? Are you a US citizen? I hope not. The US doesn't need more self-loathers.
[07:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:01] <exec> 08└─It's truly horrible. People have lost limbs, and I'm sure worse if that's possible. I guess oxygen deprivation is a big factor. Crikey, what's happening here? https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[07:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:08] <exec> 08└─Ooopsie, we lost all of that sweet data, sorry for that!
[07:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:40] <exec> 08└─In troubling times it is good to have something to laugh about.
[07:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After a Second Stage Failure, Rocket Lab Loses Seven Satellites - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:00] <exec> 08└─In my town the street between 12th and 14th isn't 13th!
[07:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Pulls Offline Huge Dataset That Taught AI Systems to Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:17] <exec> 08└─They are a social construct, you stupid fuck. FTFY, but I am not at all confident you will understand the correction. There are no "races". You left out the Semitic, the Altaic, and the South Dakotian Republican Party. They all can interbreed, as all us mud-bloods in the world, especially the trans...
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[08:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Mac Ransomware is Even More Sinister than it Appears - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm not losing too much sleep over this one. Call me when it just requires visiting a compromised site.
[08:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:59] <exec> 08└─you want them to die... Hallucinations Increased intensity of vision and hearing Sense of impending blackout or of levitation Dizziness, euphoria, Disorganization of the sense of time, changes in facial appearance Unconsciousne...
[08:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:01] <exec> 08└─Hhaha maroon We haven't been giving, we have been looting the world and paying off enough to keep the world from turning on us. Yet tightwad dipshits like Trump are so selfish they'll stop the bits of good will to save a buck. Sad how this country is being destroyed by greed, incompetence, and stupi...
[08:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, this really does suck. Get overseas arrivals to quarantine in a hotel for 2 weeks after arrivalAssign a bunch of poorly trained, junior, not-too-bright novices as security guards. Bonus points - have them belong to communities that traditionally have large families and are culturally very physi...
[08:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Pulls Offline Huge Dataset That Taught AI Systems to Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:19] <exec> 08└─Well, you seem to assume that I cun't cunt the letters in “clitoris”. Because, you know, ate is not equal two for.
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[09:22:07] <exec> 08└─Lock Them Up! Lock Them Up! Remember Tulsa! Remember Turning Point Arizona! Remember Jacksonville (but not quite yet)! Lock Them Up! Standing your ground against potential Covid-19 infection is fully indicated. Second Amendment self-defense, and better safe than on a ventilator praying to our Orange...
[09:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:09] <exec> 08└─You had the common cold? Probable cause to search your phone and probe your routers logfile for MAC addresses that have connected to it. This is all for your own good.
[09:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:11] <exec> 08└─Is Citizen Kanye president yet?
[09:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:18] <exec> 08└─Finally, we step up again to fight for standardization [arstechnica.com] to reduce electronic waste, as we fought for privacy rights [zdnet.com], leading the way for the rest of the world. USA! USA! USA!
[09:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:21] <exec> 08└─Imagine how much human effort, energy and resources have been wasted over the centuries producing the same things over and over and over again with only slight variations, making them useless when the manufacturer is no longer around to supply parts, etc. It's utopian to suggest that people would ac...
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[09:24:17] <exec> 08└─Nitrogen narcosis requires multiple atmospheres of pressure to force the nitrogen to dissolve in blood. At 1 atm the only symptoms are drowsiness and death.
[09:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:18] <exec> 08└─See inert gas asphyxiation [wikipedia.org]. The minor disadvantage of the pillow method you alluded to is that it will trigger the hypercapnic alarm response [manicgrant.com] - the subject will die panicking. The major disadvantage: it requires the application of enough force to overpower the subjec...
[09:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:58] <exec> 08└─Do you actually have anything to contribute about presymptomatic people transmitting the virus? And these thermal IR cameras are probably safety theatre, not actually something that's going to slow the spread of the virus. The basic argument for supporting their use is that they're far more efficien...
[09:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Explosive Physics of Pooping Penguins: They Can Shoot Poo Over Four Feet - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:54] <exec> 08└─This should be +5 truthful
[09:28:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning - 4204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:07] <exec> 08└─They *will* come for you. Are all of your post friendly? *all* of them? Make no mistake they are coming for you and using shame as their tool to get you in line. The_donald is bonkers that is for sure. But hate speech? Not so much. Bonkers absolutely. It called out the 'left' on exactly what they we...
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[09:30:36] <exec> 08└─They all can interbreed
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[10:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:08] <exec> 08└─Hong Kong and South Korea have experience with SARS. They haven't needed lockdowns because people are generally cooperative about wearing masks and participating in things like contact tracing. They also greatly restricted people entering, requiring 14 day quarantines. Contact tracing, masks, and tr...
[10:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:09] <exec> 08└─These party people were irresponsible, but it's rather ridiculous, and not a little bit concerning, for NY to issue subpoenas for contract tracing. If you want to keep people locked down, don't open the economy. If you open the economy, don't expect the majority to keep following the pandemic rules....
[10:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:11] <exec> 08└─There's probably a large dose of anti-snitch mentality and refusal to admit to drug use or criminal associations influencing people not to cooperate. Americans aren't huge fans of authority in the first place, and people get tight lipped fast when outsiders are asking questions.
[10:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:13] <exec> 08└─The rest of the world is able to see shades of grey between the black and the white, why can't America?
[10:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:16] <exec> 08└─If you want to keep people locked down, don't open the economy. If you open the economy, don't expect the majority to keep following the pandemic rules. In the mind of mob, opening the economy means everything is back to normal. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too.
[10:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:25] <exec> 08└─I don't care about "repair" (in the sense of actually fixing a broken component) as such - I can't repair a smartphone, hell I couldn't repair an SMD device with any consistency.
[10:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MIRV888 [11376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:28] <exec> 08└─We (Americans) are way to short sighted to do as the article suggests in the long term. America is mid-collapse so it will never happen here. Sh1t, we can't even adopt the metric system. As a career tech and father, seeing standards like this makes me happy.
[10:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:30] <exec> 08└─Someone already designed a modular smartphone [wikipedia.org] in 2013. Motorola and Google ran with it, but it never really took off.
[10:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:32] <exec> 08└─There's a point of practicality here - I just want to swap the module for a working one. What a repairer does in a back-room to then turn a "broken" module into a "non-broken" module that they can sell on is not my concern. With modern electronics, those kinds of SMD/solder reflow jobs aren't partic...
[10:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:34] <exec> 08└─"There is no plan to actually produce the Phonebloks design as a commercial product." It's not that it didn't take off. It literally never got to market. If consumer had the choice on a shelf between the two, which would they choose?
[10:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:44] <exec> 08└─I find this number ridiculous. There are 300 million people in the US. That means that more than one people out of 400 will get a knee replacement a year. I've never met someone who got their knee replaced. Is it just because I'm under 40, and this doesn't come up in conversations?
[10:23:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 988 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:59] <exec> 08└─Except he's not looking after the US by buying up all of the Remdesivir. It's just theater. Trump is unwilling to do anything that requires effort to reduce COVID. That much should be clear to anyone. So, rather than steer the Titanic away from the iceberg, he'd prefer to plow full steam into it and...
[10:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorokin [187] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not from the USA and it looks like I'm in the minority thinking that there is nothing bad in the actions of the USA. Gilead are free to sell the drug to whoever buyer they want. The USA are free to buy whatever they want and I'm sure they paid a good premium to buy so much. They haven't bought e...
[10:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:37] <exec> 08└─The USA are free to buy whatever they want and I'm sure they paid a good premium to buy so much.
[10:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:39] <exec> 08└─Can you elaborate on bailed out?
[10:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:41] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, I used to wonder if he was trolling, but TMB has been pretty consistent about this for years. When it comes to scarce resources and earning potential (not necessarily money itself), he's all about "me, myself, and I". He usually finds a way to remind us common Joes how it's our fault if w...
[10:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03WeekendMonkey [5209] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:44] <exec> 08└─Trump is just like the boy who cried wolf. There are some many inaccuracies and lies that after a while everyone stopped doing due diligence checks on his statements and simply assume it is false.
[10:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorokin [187] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:46] <exec> 08└─Interesting. The linked letter has even better quote: We discounted the price to a level that is affordable for developed countries with the lowest purchasing power.
[10:25:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 500 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:17] <exec> 08└─I'd go one step further and say that copyright protections are only available for works that are available for purchase or distribution in a particular region. If you won't voluntarily make your content available legally, it shouldn't be eligible for copyright protection. I'd also criminalize the us...
[10:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:56] <exec> 08└─Why not just leave the copyrighted stuff online and divert some revenue to the copyright holder?
[10:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:31] <exec> 08└─Do you actually have anything to contribute about presymptomatic people transmitting the virus?
[10:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:32] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't really care so much if it weren't for the fact that 90% of this congress will be reelected in November to continue their 40 year careers while we rot
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[11:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:18] <exec> 08└─Just tell Africans that Mohammed is OK with eating locusts (better yet, rebrand them to something like "Allah Treats") and the problem will take care of itself.
[11:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:34] <exec> 08└─You do know that there's a difference between the common cold and Covid, yes? I'm genuinely asking...
[11:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:35] <exec> 08└─Seeing and handling shades of gray means reducing the "me, myself and I" mentality. That is very hard and many countries have imported the same egocentric tendencies in the past 50..60 years. The modern consumerism generation has an even more extreme attitude: "The world is here to entertain me. I'm...
[11:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:37] <exec> 08└─Your "rest of the world" is also seeing spikes and local outbreaks due to reopening early. You have the same idiot majority, but possibly more able leadership, and way less suspicion of all things government. Most other countries also don't have 50 country-sized states, a completely dysfunctional fe...
[11:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:39] <exec> 08└─Responsibly reopening is good - I'm in Michigan and very happy with how my governor has managed/is managing the situation. Most other states did not reopen responsibly, and are suffering for it.
[11:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:41] <exec> 08└─> The modern consumerism generation an even more extreme attitude (Adopts broad yorkshire accent) Young folks today. It's not like in my day etc etc
[11:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:44] <exec> 08└─Mostly you have more cooperation. And testing, most of the new cases have been discovered early due to increased testing, which in turn means that you can far quicker ensure that the infection cannot spread further because it makes a HEAP of a difference whether you find out someone is infected afte...
[11:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:46] <exec> 08└─In the US, we have many people who will arrogantly refuse to cooperate with contact tracers.
[11:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:48] <exec> 08└─Look up "slippery slope" in the dictionary, moron. Its' idiots like you out kneeling on their knee without masks that caused this second wave.
[11:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:50] <exec> 08└─I thought racial tension would be the excuse to enforce the police state, which has been in the works since the 60s. Turns out it's COVID. Oh well.
[11:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:03] <exec> 08└─Right to privacy and right to free speech are directly contradictory without the mental gymnastics that label some speech as effectively being not speech because someone didn't like it.
[11:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:05] <exec> 08└─There is a market for rebuilt car parts. In order to get a freshly rebuilt part, you need to give back your broken one. Else, you pay an additional "core charge". Very common on parts with custom castings...alternators, starters, and things like computer modules.
[11:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:07] <exec> 08└─Europe has the Fairphone. But I don't know if there's a market to upgrade modules to more powerful parts, while FP3 modules are incompatible with FP2. :(
[11:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:18] <exec> 08└─Well i know plenty of people in Portugal that has had it. Very common, even on people that do not do much sports.
[11:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:20] <exec> 08└─Medical tourism. The US has the best doctors in lots of specialty fields due to a combination of high wages/prestige and the most renowned medical schools. Rich people also like to skip the line in their home countries that have socialized healthcare.
[11:24:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:21] <exec> 08└─And that's precisely what he did. Very effectively.
[11:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:18] <exec> 08└─Well, you have to admit, who needs is more than them? Consider it his attempt to make amends for his initial blunder in the matter.
[11:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:20] <exec> 08└─I can see for myself that Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Croatia and a few more central European countries didn't have to fudge the numbers. They're through the mess. Yes, infections are slightly rising again in those countries that lifted the siege but we're talking about going from 500 infected to...
[11:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:22] <exec> 08└─I let you in on a secret: Everyone over here in Europe is secretly rooting for Trump. As long as he stays in power, we don't have to look like the good guys because you're even worse.
[11:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:24] <exec> 08└─We discounted the price to a level that is affordable for developed countries with the lowest purchasing power.
[11:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 2520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:26] <exec> 08└─You really want to compare the US to Brazil? Are you honestly stooping that low that you're basically going to compare yourself to a borderland-third-world country just to feel better about yourself? The US used to be the pinnacle of excellence. 50 years ago, if you wanted to know what the future ho...
[11:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:28] <exec> 08└─In reality, it will likely result in the rest of the world fabricating their own "generics". Brazil and India have already been producing their own drugs for years, China ignores IP protections already everywhere, maybe this time the EU will follow suit.
[11:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:30] <exec> 08└─If we are lucky, he will start using them on himself as a preventative.
[11:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:40] <exec> 08└─The problem is not the law itself but how it can be abused by large studios and how YouTube implements its execution. The way YouTube set it up it can well happen to you that you create something, some large studio infringes on your copyright and when you try to fight them, they get the right to you...
[11:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:42] <exec> 08└─unless it makes their job easier
[11:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:44] <exec> 08└─Yo, nigger, gonna fuck my ho Yo, nigger, drink some Dom Perignon Yo, nigger, shoot me a cop Yo nigger, rhyme 'til I drop ... sorry, my friend, hip-hop is not music.
[11:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:46] <exec> 08└─Typical systemic racism right there, hijacking the discussion about rap music to promote a rich while male. Shame on you, racist! #BLM
[11:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:20] <exec> 08└─Do you actually have anything to contribute about presymptomatic people transmitting the virus?
[11:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:22] <exec> 08└─You know the day is coming when the bathroom stall will lock you in and call the authorities should you have hot pee.
[11:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exotic Never-Before-Seen Particle Discovered at CERN - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:02] <exec> 08└─So THAT'S what happened to the Alabama Leprechaun!
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[12:22:10] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that Jesus was OK with that too. And the Torah.
[12:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:34] <exec> 08└─As an American, I don't imagine the EU to be at all similar to the US - they still have very much separate countries, cultures, languages, and governments. A good bunch of them still have feudal lords, even if they are largely symbolic! In American public school, I was taught that my own government...
[12:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:35] <exec> 08└─You do know that there's a difference between the common cold and Covid, yes?
[12:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:38] <exec> 08└─...that caused this second wave.
[12:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:40] <exec> 08└─And if you don't want to take the EU, take the United States of Australia, which is also a bunch of federated states in which each one can pretty much do whatever it damn well pleases. Main difference is that they have leadership at the national level. Granted he's an asshole, but at least he's an a...
[12:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, I do, but semantically what is the cut-off point? You know why no administration should be trusted to spy on their entire population, right? Because it's only one policy change away from being unleashed as a weapon against political opponents. So is a similar policy change inconceivable for som...
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[12:22:44] <exec> 08└─Thanks for making a partisan determination based on my explicitly non-partisan, anti-authoritarian post. Do you think Snowden's anti-authoritarian NSA leaks were bad as well? What a typical Republican, you must be.
[12:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:46] <exec> 08└─Versteht da jemand was der Depp sagt über Repooblicants? Ist das'n art Frosch?
[12:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:48] <exec> 08└─Young folks today. It's not like in my day etc etc
[12:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:51] <exec> 08└─We think the purpose of government is as a way to organise and manage things that happen at a country wide scale which has the general approval of all. We also think that the process for doing this is not very good, but no one has thought of a better one. If they do, we will probably adopt it. It he...
[12:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:07] <exec> 08└─No problem demonstrated. No solution demonstrated. But we need the government to step in. Here, if you want stuff that you can repair, then buy stuff that you can repair. Having people, who "don't know what a repairable product is" decide what a standard for a repairable product should be, is an ex...
[12:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:09] <exec> 08└─This would be the first time ever that rights were in conflict with each other.
[12:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:11] <exec> 08└─Managers get ahead by showing quarterly sales growth, not increased product lifespans.
[12:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:13] <exec> 08└─Now that governments can use the new standard to assess repairability, I still can't. To get the document I need a password, and there's no obvious way of getting it.
[12:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:15] <exec> 08└─No problem? Your anti-government glasses need cleaning.
[12:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:17] <exec> 08└─Take your straw man, set it on fire, and then jump into the fire: Not all repairs involve soldering hardware. I have several phones which work, but the OS is obsolete, and the information does not exist to replace it because the datasheets for the parts and the boot loader API are not publicly avail...
[12:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:29] <exec> 08└─I've never met someone who got their knee replaced.
[12:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:30] <exec> 08└─...Rich people also like to skip the line in their home countries that have socialized healthcare.
[12:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:33] <exec> 08└─I know several people who have had it. They are all older than yo. But I'm in Montreal, where you don't need to be rich to afford it.
[12:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.55 Billion or More in Funding - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:40] <exec> 08└─Without his endless China-bashing and childish take-my-toys-and-go-home tantrums, SMIC would be just another also-ran known only to other Chinese vendors. Now it's making international headlines and a ton of money. While I'm not much of a Trump supporter I've gotta say he's achieved quite a lot in t...
[12:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.55 Billion or More in Funding - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:43] <exec> 08└─China could easily retaliate by restricting the supply of rare earths to the US.
[12:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.55 Billion or More in Funding - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:45] <exec> 08└─Instead, they are simply using their own resources at home.
[12:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:35] <exec> 08└─I've provided multiple sources about the role of presymptomatic transmission of this coronavirus. Why are those sources, including two peer-reviewed papers, invalid?
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[13:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:15] <exec> 08└─$productname
[13:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:17] <exec> 08└─Right, because aerial spraying of pesticides over hundreds of square kilometers is just a really excellent solution. Locust swarms happen from time to time. Trying to kill them seems like a really dumb solution. This is one of the few time where food aid would actually be a sensible solution: You wo...
[13:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:19] <exec> 08└─Not food aid. Crop insurance redeemable in product. Food aid breaks normal market forces. In Haiti it evolved into dumping and the domestic agro markets never recovered. In Somalia the distribution network couldn't support the aid, so we got Blackhawk down. Foold aid helps the people. Crop insurance...
[13:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:21] <exec> 08└─Israel's not in Africa, moron.
[13:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:54] <exec> 08└─Our "political education" pretty much deals with the mechanics of democracy and how various forms of government work, but it does not qualify them in any way, neither as a force to be followed without questioning or a danger to liberty if it becomes overbearing. There's a general "nudge" to democrac...
[13:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:55] <exec> 08└─Ok. First, can the hysteria. Second, reboot your brain. Third, call me when you're done with that. We might be able to have a sensible discussion afterwards.
[13:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah they never taught that in school. The more you talk the worse you sound.
[13:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:00] <exec> 08└─The first are nice as talking points, but quickly cause irreversible slide down the second, unless the third are firmly set and adhered to. Plainly, if you do a "compromise" every time someone is forcing you to, in time you lose everything. There must be a point where you stand your ground, if you d...
[13:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:02] <exec> 08└─Really? You didn't study the constitution every year, and discuss it in depth, and what it means?
[13:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:04] <exec> 08└─Doing a lockdown with no reason to, nor any explainable benefit from (can you keep bunkering down in fear of that "second wave" for a decade?). How and for whom it has done good?
[13:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:06] <exec> 08└─That's what you remember from studying the constitution?
[13:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:08] <exec> 08└─She explained: My staff has been told that a person does not wish to, or have to, speak to my disease investigators. They hang up. They deny being at the party even though we have found their name from another party attendee or a parent provides us with the information. Many...
[13:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:11] <exec> 08└─That's what was drilled into me by all history teachers. Why did the colonies revolt, why the articles of confederation failed, the reasoning behind every clause of the constitution and the bill of rights - those were the questions we dealt with every year in US history. I was very much taught that...
[13:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:13] <exec> 08└─* ballot box not soap
[13:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:15] <exec> 08└─It's probably too much to hope for, but It would be wonderful if someone who is forced to divulge any information turns around and sues New York for violating his 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendment rights.
[13:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:17] <exec> 08└─Let me guess: You were educated in the south.
[13:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:19] <exec> 08└─Privacy is fine, just stay home. Problem in this case is that a whole bunch of people went out to a party and now don't want anyone to know about it. Tough. Things you do out in public or even at a "private" party with hundreds of other people are not private, by definition. Whole bunch of people wi...
[13:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:42] <exec> 08└─You cant even spell standardise. You are doomed, I tell ye, doomed!
[13:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:44] <exec> 08└─We standardized on Z, and calling it a zee.
[13:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:46] <exec> 08└─His glasses are of a special type that resists cleaning. It's much more cost-effective for the manufacturer if he just bought new ones.
[13:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:48] <exec> 08└─I care quite a lot about how easy it is to repair stuff, regardless of whether I personally can do the repair. And that's because it affects the cost and difficulty of having somebody else do the repair for me. As an example of how things work right now: I was having some brake trouble on my sedan,...
[13:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:50] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily - you can be free to say what you like (so long as it's true), while also NOT being free to violate my privacy by spying on me. If you're not spying on me, you have no information that would violate my privacy by speaking about. Historically (in the US at least), it's generally been...
[13:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:05] <exec> 08└─I foresee problems of contamination and degradation in a control arm application - bits of sand get in and shred the fibrous structures.
[13:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:06] <exec> 08└─Each person has two knees, so twice the amount of operations or two per person if you swap both. Then on top of that they don't last very long and need to be replaced eventually. Not sure if it's any of those things but I could at least come up with a few reasonable explanations. That said I'm intri...
[13:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.55 Billion or More in Funding - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:17] <exec> 08└─War isn't really good for either side. I've seen some nutty conspiracy theories out there that the current U.S. coin shortage is due to govt. redirection of metals to military stockpiles as well as Chinese export cuts... I don't quite class those with the "WHO says COVID is harmless" crap that's cir...
[13:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:09] <exec> 08└─Because they don't support your argument. It amazes me how people can think that merely providing citations to scientific papers is enough.
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[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─Intriguing. But wouldn't crop insurance be very difficult to administer when there are thousands of small farms...and (I'm going to speculate) those farms don't have good record keeping, or even a person capable of dealing with paperwork like this? Agreed that pesticides seem like a bad solution, un...
[14:22:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:57] <exec> 08└─The rest of the world is able to see shades of grey between the black and the white, why can't America?
[14:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:31] <exec> 08└─Oh grow the fuck up, stupid "give me liberty or give me death !" retards. Why don't you try living like actual members of an organized society, instead of like a bunch of individualistic barbarian cavemen who just happen to be in the same place at the same time. The american revolution was centuries...
[14:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:32] <exec> 08└─The modern consumerism generation
[14:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 2059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:34] <exec> 08└─These young folks aside, NYC folks are known to be street wise. It will be interesting to see what smart ways they find to ration a bit of virus exposure to have fun while keeping the virus at bay. In NYC the symptoms have been somewhere between huh? and your personal spot in a crowded reefer truck....
[14:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:37] <exec> 08└─I was taught this in the West as well. Maybe it's only in the large urban centers that they did not teach the core principals of the American system.
[14:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:39] <exec> 08└─Wear a aluminum foil hat, shinny side out. That will protect you from The Rays. So is a similar policy change inconceivable for something equally as deadly as influenza?
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[14:23:41] <exec> 08└─Northern Midwest.
[14:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:43] <exec> 08└─The key element here is cooperation. People who understand that this is a problem and that they have to work together to combat it. It simply is a matter of putting the common good over "muh freedumz".
[14:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:46] <exec> 08└─I went to HK during SARS. You won't find people more selfish than Hong Kong people. They warehouse a lot of common people who think nothing about spitting and shitting on the streets, several people left their quarantine area to take buses somewhere. And they didn't restrict anyone's transit through...
[14:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:48] <exec> 08└─Give me liberty, or give me death. You only live in a civilized world because good men gave their lives for your freedom. Good men, who dragged themselves through mud and barbed wire and unspeakable horror so you can sit in your perch whining when your wi-fi goes out.
[14:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:50] <exec> 08└─Granted he's an asshole, but at least he's an asshole who's managing the pandemic well.
[14:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:52] <exec> 08└─I had surgery in NYC two weeks ago, and the hospital was a virtual ghost town. The doctors, nurses, and other workers were all there, but I was one of only a half-dozen patients in the vast medical complex called Columbia-Presbyterian in Manhattan. On the ground in Brooklyn, about a third of the few...
[14:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:55] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, this isn't an "either or" situation, it's a "both and". If you can be tracked, you can be tracked. Warrants are a perfectly reasonable intermediate "solution", because both problems are real.
[14:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:22] <exec> 08└─No problem demonstrated.
[14:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:24] <exec> 08└─In many cases it is the exact opposite. If we wanted durable electronics circuit boards would be coated with an electronically inert, heat conductive coating making all repairs 10 times are harder. The creation of the microchip was the biggest advancement in computing probably ever, and all it did w...
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[14:24:26] <exec> 08└─I believe you're painting an idealized image of the historical setting, but that's the theory anyway. Unfortunately it involved things like the theory that police obey the law, etc. Note, for example, that holding "health care providers to a higher standard" means things like "they all must use the...
[14:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:28] <exec> 08└─What car requires this custom brake bleeding tool-set? I've been bleeding brakes since about 1970 and, while slow, the same two-person method always seems to work (one pushes on brakes, the other opens&closes bleed screws). Really curious how some company managed to screw this up!
[14:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:30] <exec> 08└─Due to the psychopathic nosiness of the anti-male establishment, 'repairability' ain't happening. Blackbox designs, manufacturing methods, and devices are vastly preferable for covert surveillance.
[14:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:32] <exec> 08└─Right, I've managed to live without an un-fixable cell phone (except for a couple of weeks--that one didn't work right and I returned it...to Radio Shack if you even remember that chain store). Quite a few other things I don't really need either, so I do without and avoid the hassle/hustle.
[14:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:35] <exec> 08└─It's quite easy to make repairable phones if you want to. https://www.fairphone.com [fairphone.com]
[14:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:37] <exec> 08└─GDPR is way more than that though; "right to be forgotten" is a direct infringement on speech. Is logging downloads of a 1x1 pixel or a button logo an infringement of your privacy? How far can you go down that path while preventing others from being unjustly silenced?
[14:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:39] <exec> 08└─[...] If there is some space-faring civilisation out there, I bet that it actually got there by stopping all this kind of nonsense. [...]
[14:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, people in their 40s tend to not have their knee replaced. Once most of your friends are 70, talk of body part replacement becomes much more normal.
[14:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:57] <exec> 08└─Maybe not rich, but you do need to be willing to put up with several weeks of pain and restricted mobility. If you've already got pain and restricted mobility, then the cost looks a lot better.
[14:26:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:16] <exec> 08└─You are aware that, absent a vaccine, herd immunity in this case means "Everyone who could die from this has already died", right? How is the US in a better place having everyone already dead?
[14:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:22] <exec> 08└─With Rap. as with just about everything, Sturgeon's Law [wikipedia.org] applies. That elusive ten percent may be hard to find. Here's a little help: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com
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[14:29:03] <exec> 08└─Let's think this over for a moment... Maybe this will clarify things. Why are people being told to wear masks? Why are they being made mandatory in many locations? The reason is that masks, while not filtering out all viral particles, do a pretty good job of reducing the chance for an infected perso...
[14:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exotic Never-Before-Seen Particle Discovered at CERN - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:45] <exec> 08└─See the relativistic muon experiment [gsu.edu] for an example [wikipedia.org].
[14:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exotic Never-Before-Seen Particle Discovered at CERN - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:46] <exec> 08└─Replied to the wrong post before! Dang it. See the relativistic muon experiment [gsu.edu] as an example [wikipedia.org].
[14:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Explosive Physics of Pooping Penguins: They Can Shoot Poo Over Four Feet - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:06] <exec> 08└─Only four feet? That's only two penguins. I bet they could hit 10 penguins given how tightly they cluster together. /s
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[15:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─It's not so much about math as showing you're superior. Point scored.
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─>> Foold aid helps the people. Crop insurance helps the people help themselves. A thermonuclear bomb solves both the locust problem and the jihadi problem.
[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─Let them eat $productName.
[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:41] <exec> 08└─Plus free double glazing.
[15:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 1214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:13] <exec> 08└─We think the purpose of government is as a way to organise and manage things that happen at a country wide scale which has the general approval of all. We also think that the process for doing this is not very good, but no one has thought of a better one. If they do, we will probably adopt it. It he...
[15:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:40] <exec> 08└─Why that correction? Isn't it ballot box < soap box < ammo box ? I.e. if you don't like the choices on your voting ballot, try to form your own movement before resorting to revolt? Or has your education successfully convinced you to never even try to take part in democratic society? Because you're r...
[15:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:41] <exec> 08└─If we were picking up the guns, you would know. I'm not a Trump supporter either, I'm a member of the fucking SEP!
[15:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:43] <exec> 08└─GP was talking about the PM of Australia. Last I checked, he wasn't called Trump [wikipedia.org].
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:45] <exec> 08└─Give me liberty, or give me death is a good principle if you're standing up to an authoritarian dictator. It's a rotten excuse when you're dealing with an infectious disease, because in that case it's not an either-or question. It's also a hollow statement when you keep voting for an authoritarian d...
[15:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:48] <exec> 08└─It's actually *still* a consumerist generation. Consumerism isn't at its heart buying lots of stuff, it's more about not being able to make stuff, not choosing to make stuff, or not being able to afford to make stuff. So all you can do is consume. If you buy more, you consume more, but the focus is...
[15:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:50] <exec> 08└─Where have you been for the last 20 years? There hasn't been a possibility of any non-partisan stance since Dubya's "if you're not with me, you're against me" speech (remember that one? It was about the "evidence" we had for WMD's in Iraq). Because it's much easier to argue for your own position if...
[15:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:52] <exec> 08└─Doing a lockdown with no reason to
[15:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:54] <exec> 08└─Oh God, thanks for that!
[15:24:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1475 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─Imagine how much human effort, energy and resources have been wasted over the centuries producing the same things over and over and over again with only slight variations, making them useless when the manufacturer is no longer around to supply parts, etc. It's utopian to suggest that people would ac...
[15:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:32] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I think a lot of people have gotten so used to the "no user serviceable parts inside" mindset that they don't even realize that this is an incredibly new thing. Thirty years ago even my small home town had a machine shop, a couple appliance repair shops, an electronics (TV, etc) repair shop,...
[15:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 1348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:52] <exec> 08└─I'm in my 60s and know many people a little older than me that have had knee replacements. Sometimes they don't work and require extra surgery, and as a previous post noted the recovery can take awhile (meanwhile, whatever muscle tone you had is fading away during recovery). A Buffalo NY area surgeo...
[15:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:53] <exec> 08└─A lot of people have been kneeling on their knee recently, and this support for Black people eventually wears out the knee.
[15:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:19] <exec> 08└─> If you want a story that's based around a replacement for copyright, create the story. If you believe I can do that, most flattering. If I can, and I do, would you read it? > It also needs one of the classical human background stories. Romance it typical, but not the only one. Seeking for power is...
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[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─It's a simple formula. The only hard part is finding the square root. But in school it's always an integer and it should only take 2-3 guesses to figure it out. Can you tell I did college before calculators were a thing?
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:44] <exec> 08└─It's not much different from the usual formula. It just breaks it down to several steps instead of having to grok it all at once. May be an easier way to *teach* the solution.
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─I've been taught this method in high school, around 1995, albeit with factorization through the discriminant (b^2 - 4ac). Even wikipedia [wikipedia.org] already knows about it. So what's new here? Have other high school really been teaching this factorization by guessing?
[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─His major contribution: to search for the roots of a quadratic equation is to search for two numbers with a given sum and product; because if x0 and x1 are the roots, then the quadratic equation can be written under the from of x2 - (x0+x1)x + x0x1 =0. Oh, wow, amazing! His next contribution: transl...
[16:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:50] <exec> 08└─Clickbait title, a page-long summary full of airy prelude and zero meat.
[16:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:53] <exec> 08└─Didn't you read the history? For thousands of years nobody was smart enough, not the Babylonians nor the Greeks nor Albert Einstein. We are indeed fortunate to live in this time where $chineseImport at $majorUniversity benevolently casts out elegant proofs and solves problems we didn't even know we...
[16:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:55] <exec> 08└─From TFS: By this point, billions of us have had to learn, memorise, and implement this unwieldy algorithm in order to solve quadratic equations, but according to mathematician Po-Shen Loh from Carnegie Mellon University, there's actually been an easier and better way all along, although it's remain...
[16:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:57] <exec> 08└─x^2+px -q = 0 => x = -p/2 +- sqrt(p^2/4 - q), ah..., the memories. This was Germany btw. Seems the author needs some cultural awareness.
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA’s Most Iconic Building is 55 Years Old and Just Getting Started - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─It was designed to be extended upwards as and when required for building the Nova Mars rocket, with NERVA upper stage. I went on the KSC tour a couple of years ago. It was awesome and I (and a hundred other people) had lunch with an astronaut. Did I mention it was awesome?
[16:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA’s Most Iconic Building is 55 Years Old and Just Getting Started - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:08] <exec> 08└─I (and a hundred other people) had lunch with an astronaut. Did I mention it was awesome?
[16:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:25] <exec> 08└─Cell phone penetration is high in these countries. I imagine a system could be worked out. Regarding locust control, the answer is a simple one. Stop monocropping and start using permaculture principles in agro-engineering. Complex ecosystems support a wider diversity of natural predators. It isn't...
[16:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:27] <exec> 08└─For almost all these countries https://www.worldometers.info [worldometers.info] What would a locust swarm mean then?
[16:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:29] <exec> 08└─Neither is Saudi Arabia, moron.
[16:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:31] <exec> 08└─Permaculture is great, but any permie solution to locusts would probably be extremely long term.
[16:23:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 1418 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:42] <exec> 08└─Hong Kong and South Korea have experience with SARS. They haven't needed lockdowns because people are generally cooperative about wearing masks and participating in things like contact tracing. They also greatly restricted people entering, requiring 14 day quarantines. Contact tracing, masks, and tr...
[16:23:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 554 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:48] <exec> 08└─Seeing and handling shades of gray means reducing the "me, myself and I" mentality. That is very hard and many countries have imported the same egocentric tendencies in the past 50..60 years. The modern consumerism generation has an even more extreme attitude: "The world is here to entertain me. I'm...
[16:23:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:58] <exec> 08└─...that caused this second wave.
[16:24:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:04] <exec> 08└─Young folks today. It's not like in my day etc etc
[16:24:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03epitaxial [3165] 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah they never taught that in school. The more you talk the worse you sound.
[16:24:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 661 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:19] <exec> 08└─Privacy is fine, just stay home. Problem in this case is that a whole bunch of people went out to a party and now don't want anyone to know about it. Tough. Things you do out in public or even at a "private" party with hundreds of other people are not private, by definition. Whole bunch of people wi...
[16:24:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─Give me liberty, or give me death. You only live in a civilized world because good men gave their lives for your freedom. Good men, who dragged themselves through mud and barbed wire and unspeakable horror so you can sit in your perch whining when your wi-fi goes out.
[16:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:41] <exec> 08└─Bwwahahaa you American's literally CREAM in your jockstraps when anyone in uniform stands to attention and salutes the flag. You LOVE that shit.
[16:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:42] <exec> 08└─Ah yeah that's a good point. The more kids grow up around items that are very hard to dismantle and repair, the less interest and / or expectation they'll have in being able to do it. As you say, if they can't afford the tools and raw materials to make things, that will make the situation worse as w...
[16:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:45] <exec> 08└─No. You don't have to be devil's advocate here. You assume that we didn't think of that. We did. Just because we're not paranoid doesn't mean we didn't ponder the option. We just noticed that it's not a real one. And yes, I know, I know, you're the all wise men and we're just the sleeping sheep.
[16:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:47] <exec> 08└─In American public school, I was taught that my own government is the greatest danger to my life and liberty, and that it's my responsibility as an American to be vigilant and ready to take up arms against that government.
[16:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:49] <exec> 08└─So you were wrong about that too. But please carry on talking.
[16:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:51] <exec> 08└─It's main role nowadays is to yell FUCK YEAH while you roll coal at cyclists.
[16:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:53] <exec> 08└─We must stay locked down! Any offense is an assault on society and will be met accordingly! *one black guy murdered later* Feel free to join in mass mobs of thousands. *black guy riots sizzle out* We must stay locked down! Any offense is an assault on society and will be met accordingly! To those up...
[16:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:55] <exec> 08└─No. That's true anti-fascism. The power is in the people's hands, and it's staying there.
[16:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:58] <exec> 08└─Context matters. If you go to a party and nothing public happens, then nobody need ever hear about it; but if you go to a party and there is a fire, a crime, a medical emergency, then suddenly there will be an official spotlight, and the context switches from "privacy at a private party" to "witness...
[16:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:00] <exec> 08└─Throwing a party that risks lives and then refusing to cooperate with attempts to mitigate further such risks versus protesting against grave injustices that have cost lives. See the difference?
[16:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:02] <exec> 08└─The first are nice as talking points, but quickly cause irreversible slide down the second, unless the third are firmly set and adhered to. Plainly, if you do a "compromise" every time someone is forcing you to, in time you lose everything. There must be a point where you stand your ground, if you d...
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:41] <exec> 08└─So replace the board.
[16:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:43] <exec> 08└─'tis probably a good thing to have this mentioned in them lawZ "somewhere". so much other crap has a law. now to be honest, what really is not repairable? i suppose we need to first define "working/not broken" and "broken". now we can go all the way dooooowwwnnn the rabbit hole and we would end up w...
[16:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:45] <exec> 08└─A Toyota Prius, which has some fancy stuff on its brakes because it's capturing some of the kinetic energy to charge the electric engine battery. But that doesn't explain why nobody can get the equipment to handle it correctly if they're not a dealer, or why a 1-hour procedure costs $500.
[16:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:05] <exec> 08└─If you are going racing, replace with good quality rod ends or sphericals. The polyurethane kits I've seen make the car noisy (removing the nice rubber isolation). Since the original rubber was balanced in stiffness to give a tradeoff between noise and handling, just stiffening up all the joints wit...
[16:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.55 Billion or More in Funding - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:16] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_Manufacturing_International_Corporation [wikipedia.org] On June 23, 2015, Huawei, Qualcomm Global Trading Pte. Ltd., IMEC International, and SMIC announced the formation of the SMIC Advanced Technology Research & Development (Shanghai) Corporation, an equi...
[16:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exotic Never-Before-Seen Particle Discovered at CERN - 1426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, we can. It boils down to how particle accelerators work - you smash a few particles into each other at almost light speed, and that immense kinetic energy gets converted to other forms of energy - neutralizing the intense negative binding energy so that sub-particles can fly free, and as well a...
[16:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Explosive Physics of Pooping Penguins: They Can Shoot Poo Over Four Feet - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:17] <exec> 08└─"Life, uh, finds a way..."
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[17:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:29] <exec> 08└─It is an easy way to factorize a quadratic equation, without having to remember the formula for the determinant or how to use it to calculate the roots of the equation. It is equivalent to the determinant method of calculating roots (the author proves this at the end of the article), but, unlike the...
[17:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:30] <exec> 08└─I was wondering the same thing here. I guess I was though the "guessing" method of factorization as a substitute for the formula. Even tho I dispute that there is actually any or much guessing involved, it might be a semantic matter really. But The thing about factorization is that a larger problem...
[17:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:32] <exec> 08└─And in the era of BLM, everyone should be proud of their roots, even when some of them are imaginary!
[17:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:34] <exec> 08└─So he is really clever and has come up with a new method, yet cannot use google to find out what this is called "Completing the square" Been using it for decades and was taught as well
[17:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:37] <exec> 08└─So how do you classify a brilliant mathematician who leaves messes about the house and fails to bathe? I've met a few such fellows.
[17:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─Mathtards. There are corridors filled with them at most universities.
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─Some people do find it easier to re-derive the more complex formulae than memorize them. For those, the simplified derivation can be helpful.
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 1204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:43] <exec> 08└─This whole topic is about "When A is One," the whole thing can be simplified to -B/2 +/- u. (and then it goes through additional steps to find C, and so it's not a one-step process any more.) It ignores A. At least, it ignores A until the very, very end, and then it says "Oh but we can take B to be...
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:11] <exec> 08└─It will take a long time but there are several national scale reforestation projects going on right now. The one in north China is probably the most impressive. But there are a few in Africa. Yeah it will take decades if not a century. But that is the scale of the problem we created. And as with any...
[17:23:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:35] <exec> 08└─In the US, we have many people who will arrogantly refuse to cooperate with contact tracers.
[17:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:31] <exec> 08└─Thinking about this . . . I'm on record for opposing all that mask nonsense. I'm also on record as being opposed to closing down all the parks and outdoor recreational facilities. The whole "stay indoors" thing is stupid. We're doing a lot of things wrong here. But, the whole quarantine thing is on...
[17:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:32] <exec> 08└─I posted above. You have the virus. You refuse to cooperate in tracing how you got the virus. You're guilty of something. It's just so wrong. It's not like they are going to imprison you for admitting you talked to an attractive member of the opposite sex at a party. Or, even for talking to a member...
[17:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:35] <exec> 08└─I had surgery in NYC two weeks ago, and the hospital was a virtual ghost town.
[17:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:37] <exec> 08└─Mmmm-hmmmmm. That's why the "protestors" like to burn down businesses. They're killing off the virus in it's haven!!
[17:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:39] <exec> 08└─What are the "we"? Weren't you being an European some posts ago? Anyway, WHAT is the positive side of "applying harder lockdown" now when the very fact of "clusters caused by various reasons" NOW demonstrates that the lockdown game can NOT do anything useful? Except kill the economy dead, that is.
[17:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:41] <exec> 08└─I think you are confusing school with Rush Limbaugh.
[17:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:43] <exec> 08└─And exactly which "organized society" would you suggest? The one where it's okay to go out and riot and gather in massive numbers because some black guy got killed (all with corporate and political blessing), yet the one where we also suddenly where we go full police state because some people had a...
[17:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:46] <exec> 08└─Please look at actual statistics and observed hard facts, before spreading the journalistic verbiage of "a deadly disease", "efforts to limit the spread" and "we have no immunity". No one in the wide world is paid to enlighten you; you have to spend effort yourself, or be misled. Some elucidation, g...
[17:25:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 851 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:08] <exec> 08└─Take your straw man, set it on fire, and then jump into the fire: Not all repairs involve soldering hardware. I have several phones which work, but the OS is obsolete, and the information does not exist to replace it because the datasheets for the parts and the boot loader API are not publicly avail...
[17:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:27] <exec> 08└─It certainly is, with one of the biggest flaws being that it applies to public figures, whose "secret" activities are very likely to be of ongoing public interest. In general, I would say that if you care about privacy then logging *any* information about private citizens (without a warrant) should...
[17:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:28] <exec> 08└─You're now introducing software specifications. Almost every phone is nothing but an ARM chip, the bootloader isn't necessary to boot an alternative OS (proven by LineageOS). What you're suggesting is completely open hardware - admirable but more unlikely that someone just making a "CPU board" that...
[17:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:51] <exec> 08└─I'm in my 50s. I have severe osteoarthritis in both knees (side effects of cancer treatment). Doctors say I'll need knee replacements, but won't give them to me now because I'm too young; the replacements would wear out and I'd need another replacement. I offered to die early, but they thought I was...
[17:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:52] <exec> 08└─My grandpa had 3 knee replacements. The first one had to be re-replaced after a few decades as the summary noted.
[17:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.55 Billion or More in Funding - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─i wonder what is more difficult: putting chips you have into cases you don't -or- putting chips you don't have into cases you do. i suppose what you really need is the ability to "put". as for chips, they are "put" or made by ... well chips (in robots the size of factories). cases on the other hand,...
[17:26:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03agr [7134] 02 - 06New Mac Ransomware is Even More Sinister than it Appears - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:14] <exec> 08└─“For your Mac to become infected, you would need to torrent a compromised installer and then dismiss a series of warnings from Apple in order to run it.”
[17:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:19] <exec> 08└─well wait a minute. did somebody break into the artists home and stole a offline digital copy ... errr... original and then proceeded to upload it to the intArwebZ? no? if the artist him herself (this is getting tiresome) uploaded the original?copy? then i cannot shed a tear 'cause i feel once i get...
[17:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:02] <exec> 08└─Everything is as quick and agile as we want it to be This is absolutely true. Some day you will understand that we can capture the mosquito in mid flight
[17:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exotic Never-Before-Seen Particle Discovered at CERN - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:48] <exec> 08└─what wasn't detected was that some copper atom in a generator wiending in a nuclear powerplant or even hydrodam sprouted a neutral electron for the same brief period of time ... at the same time. maybe ^_^
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[18:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:14] <exec> 08└─as if Bats didn't have enough trouble from Humans already. rumor : "5G causes COVID!" Human response : burn 5G towers and lynch 5g techs Now we have Science : Bats are the source of viruses deadly to Humans. Human response : this is not going to turn out well for bats.
[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>Off course, scientists never thought about it before</sarcasm>
[18:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:17] <exec> 08└─Well, closest relatives to bats called vampires were exterminated long time ago; just wait a moment...
[18:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─I'm no veterinarian, but aren't there also plenty of animal diseases where humans are the reservoirs? Like isn't it true feline leukemia virus get transmitted from cat to human to cat but its utterly harmless to humans? Maybe its just contact as opposed to infection, donno.
[18:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:22] <exec> 08└─#BatLivesMatter
[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:45] <exec> 08└─Ever try to figure one out in your head without a scientific calculator? Trippy shit.
[18:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─If I could have lived the rest of my life without hearing the words "Quadratic equation", i would've been much happier. For me, the quadratic equation made no sense. I remember staying up from after school till going to bed, trying to solve four problems. I even went in to get help during study hal...
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─"The only hard part is the square root." Slide rule works fine. We've had those for millennia too. How do you get simpler than this? Other than "I did it differently" I don't see the point of this "new" method.
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─if Loh's instincts are right, maths textbooks could be on the verge of a historic rewriting - and we don't take textbook-changing discoveries lightly.
[18:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─By this point, billions of us have had to learn, memorise, and implement this unwieldy algorithm in order to solve quadratic equations
[18:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:55] <exec> 08└─There are various recipes for solving diffieQs. For those types with known recipes, it's just a straight forward cookbook stuff. For other types, they are "research problems." No need for jacked-up calculator, unless you want numerical approximation.
[18:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─The next time you drive a car look at the speedometer. It's a Quadratic equation calculator. Now you have something to always remind you of the happy times in school.
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─>> Have other high school really been teaching this factorization by guessing The new way of teaching math (one program is called Jump Math) is for students to explore how they feel about numbers by picking one digit to become their Best Number Friend. They then get to role play that number for the...
[18:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:02] <exec> 08└─Not really. Those math founders were mostly slave owners and their work is still used to torture children.
[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─That's as quadratic as it gets. All your fancy "math" is like doing arithmetic in Java
[18:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:34] <exec> 08└─In Kenya, if you don't have a cell phone your only other option is cash (credit cards are not really a thing for places not catering to tourists). Not smartphones with (Apple|Google)pay, but M-PESA a txt based payment system. You can even pay for a taxi or stuff you buy from a produce stand with M-P...
[18:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:35] <exec> 08└─White nations (or what's left of them) need to stop sending aid to Africa. Let them deal with their own problems. Remember kids, it's racist to think we have to save them. Races are just a social construct and they are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. Not because i have anything again...
[18:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:03] <exec> 08└─You need someone to follow you around with a shovel for the amount of bullshit you spew. The only hospital you visited was Bellevue.
[18:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:05] <exec> 08└─It is the triumph of Trumpism It brings out the asshole in all of us. It is a sign of a weak mind and character. And all the silly political correctness around them only aggravates it, like constantly rubbing a rash.
[18:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:07] <exec> 08└─There is a difference, but the symptoms of a cold could easily be confused for covid in contact tracing situations.
[18:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:09] <exec> 08└─Having a "leader" that understands that issuing executive orders may lead to the immediate death of themselves, their entire family, and all their friends, and other random other people is clearly an excellent idea. The Sword of Damocles. It's up to us to keep it in proper working order.
[18:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, fuck the people, save the economy!
[18:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:13] <exec> 08└─Is that the same civilized world that resulted in the death of George Floyd? Just asking.
[18:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:15] <exec> 08└─We've covered this response ad nauseam. Those weren't the protestors I was talking about.
[18:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:18] <exec> 08└─...because they weren't legitimate protestors, unlike the majority. You almost got there yourself with your scare quotes.
[18:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:20] <exec> 08└─"and the hospital was a virtual ghost town." Yep, that sounds as expected at step 6. The interesting question is if street wise NewYorkers are smart enough to avoid step 7? (Repeating above with step numbers) This is an interesting virus. So far, given it has no brain, it is doing very well at outsm...
[18:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:22] <exec> 08└─I think you're a kneejerking jackass, but it's cool. That's literally what I and many others were told in school. I don't see anything wrong with that, but I was mainly attempting to demonstrate the level of distrust of government inoculated into Americans from a young age. Where did you go to schoo...
[18:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 1921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:24] <exec> 08└─Simple question for you. How many people do you think these "protesters" spread corona to? We can just stick to direct transmission, though an honest answer would also include indirect transmissions. If you're not keeping up with the numbers the US is just about pass 1% of the entire country confirm...
[18:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:26] <exec> 08└─> the symptoms of a cold could easily be confused for covid If only we had a test where we could confirm if someone has covid.
[18:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:29] <exec> 08└─the whole quarantine thing is on target. Sick people are to be isolated, and to have no contact with unsick people, other than medical personnel.
[18:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:31] <exec> 08└─i knew it would be her Big Pharma/Health whore ass. "these are the bedrock public health measures proven effective at stamping out an infectious disease before it flares to the point where the only option left is to foist draconian lockdowns on whole populations." typical beth mole propaganda. this...
[18:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:33] <exec> 08└─Actually better than the above is this [nypost.com]. Because of 'racism' NYDP did disband their plain clothes street crime unit on June 15th, a "relic of the stop and frisk era." The officer who killed Eric Garner, for instance, was part of this unit which was described as 'elite'. Anyhow, in an abs...
[18:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:35] <exec> 08└─We only live in a civilized world because good men were conscripted, by a government which understood you sometimes need to abolish certain freedoms, temporarily, to save the community from greater evil.
[18:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:42] <exec> 08└─Assuming 100,000 pulls is equivalent to 100,000 steps, then this is only 40-50 miles (65-80km). That is a pretty short test to be making any longevity claims.
[18:27:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:30] <exec> 08└─TMB: "Fuck you got mine."
[18:28:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Common Joe [33] 02 - 06US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir - 1219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:44] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, I used to wonder if he was trolling, but TMB has been pretty consistent about this for years. When it comes to scarce resources and earning potential (not necessarily money itself), he's all about "me, myself, and I". He usually finds a way to remind us common Joes how it's our fault if w...
[18:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:52] <exec> 08└─In the "old days" the only purpose of IR cams was to see thru womens clothes. Now that the standard college THOT uniform is semi-translucent yoga pants w/ camel toe, there's no IR cam required to actually see THRU anymore! Not that I'm complaining, having just gotten back from the gym this morning,...
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[19:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MIRV888 [11376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:25] <exec> 08└─Sounds like we have some studying to do on bat's immune systems.
[19:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:26] <exec> 08└─Well, closest relatives to bats called vampires were exterminated long time ago No they weren't. They were elected!
[19:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:28] <exec> 08└─maybe we can apply the same principles and modulate the immune response in humans
[19:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:03] <exec> 08└─Slide rules were invented around 1620, so only four hundred years ago.
[19:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:36] <exec> 08└─Predictable racism. Small twist though, this one is ashamed so tries to hide it with the dog whistle "Not because i have anything against Africans buuuuuut"
[19:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:20] <exec> 08└─The problem with cooperating is that these motherfuckers can't be trusted not to kidnap and kill you, take your kids "for their own safety", etc. It's not like they say "oh, you're sick? Well, get well soon. Thanks for letting us know." What happened to the American spirit of freedom? Oh that's righ...
[19:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:21] <exec> 08└─not all of us, motherfucker. There's still an handful of Real Americans (tm) left.
[19:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:24] <exec> 08└─The police as an organization are so bad, temporary chaos is a small price to pay if it can make higher ups give some serious thought to making a new and better system, fit for a free country.
[19:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:26] <exec> 08└─Wear a aluminum foil hat, shinny side out. That will protect you from The Rays.
[19:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:28] <exec> 08└─There have been more than 500,000 "excess" deaths associated with COVID-19. Should we ignore that? Are you claiming that the data (see links immediately below) is a lie? https://coronavirus.jhu.edu [jhu.edu] https://www1.nyc.gov [nyc.gov] https://data.ny.gov
[19:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:11] <exec> 08└─Prior to Bill Gates, almost all hardware had published datasheets which the manufacturer would happily send you free of charge. The 8008 datasheet explained exactly how the instructions were executed, to the gate level (I have a first edition). I headed a team that wrote an OS for the 8080 quite sim...
[19:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:12] <exec> 08└─ABS systems require some kind of external controller to cause them to open internal valves so you can purge the air out of them. There's no standard for that fun job- it all depends on car year, make, model. It could be through OBD2 / CAN interface, or proprietary ABS system interface.
[19:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:15] <exec> 08└─More and more laptop RAM and SSD are soldered onto the motherboard. I hate that maybe slightly more than I hate soldered and glued-in cell phone batteries.
[19:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.55 Billion or More in Funding - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:52] <exec> 08└─The coin shortage does need some explaining. As I understand it, US coins have a long lifespan, something like twenty years. So how did the US get into a mild shortage in four months? The coin supply would have shrunk a few percent at most even with zero replacement. I don't see higher usage of coi...
[19:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.55 Billion or More in Funding - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:54] <exec> 08└─So how did the US get into a mild shortage in four months?
[19:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:10] <exec> 08└─That is the idea behind compulsory licensing, to ensure access. It should be part and parcel to copyrights and patents so they can't be weaponized.
[19:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:54] <exec> 08└─In the meantime, we'll have to listen to you complain about problems decades or centuries old. Your arguments have a really short half-life, particularly compared to the problems you choose to complain about.
[19:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:55] <exec> 08└─Where have you heard me complaining? You do your thing, baby
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[20:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:34] <exec> 08└─It's the year that just keeps on giving in terms of pathogens...
[20:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:36] <exec> 08└─Forgive my smartass subject. First and last reference of its kind I promise. I honestly had no clue Florida had a literal brain bug problem but now I'm wondering if there's a futurama episode I need to rewatch. Anyway, this does explain a lot of things. We need to test vast swathes of my old stompin...
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:38] <exec> 08└─Trump is apparently now shedding skin cells all over Florida? Disgusting!
[20:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:40] <exec> 08└─since before the civil war. Welp, at least we know what makes 'em crazy, kinda like that cat shit virus
[20:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:42] <exec> 08└─These things crop up in warm weather in the Southern states - usually among fishermen who go wading with open sores below the waterline, standing in fresh water for hours like that. Another good method for amoeba insertion into the brain is high diving into same warm lakes (water gets blasted past t...
[20:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:31] <exec> 08└─To me, he's tweaked the A in Ax2 + Bx + C = 0 to always be 1 - and if you do that, then the classical formula simplifies quite a bit. Then, he's broken it into a two step operation instead of condensing it into a single formula... it's a good presentation, the Khan academy style blackboard helps a l...
[20:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:32] <exec> 08└─Graphing parabolas might have helped - your solutions are the X axis intercepts - if this is all too much, just stay away, it's not a big part of daily life for most people.
[20:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying its necessarily a bad idea, but it is more complicated to learn to derive than the original quadratic eqn.
[20:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:36] <exec> 08└─In my kids' algebra class they teach factorization by guessing first with easy-to-guess problems like x^2 + 5x + 6, then they move on to problems that are harder to guess and the use of the formula. That's how it was taught to me too, 150 miles away and 30 years earlier.
[20:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:39] <exec> 08└─The author eliminates this guessing part, by describing how to calculate a and b simply, from their sum and product.
[20:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:41] <exec> 08└─I've come to the opinion that success as a student is partly determined by raw talent but partly determined by how well your teachers can communicate in a way that's meaningful to you. My dad had his bachelor's degree in math, and in one on one discussions at home he could explain clearly. I breezed...
[20:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, after I read this article, that's *exactly* what it sounded like to me too. Is he actually doing something different from: https://www.mathsisfun.com [mathsisfun.com]
[20:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─My experience is that the people who hate math the most passionately are those who focused on developing skills of persuasion rather than developing knowledge, and can't stand the fact that a wrong answer in math is still wrong no matter how persuasively you try to argue that it's right. Which corre...
[20:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:18] <exec> 08└─I agree with the first part: [...] nations [...] need to stop sending aid to Africa.
[20:25:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 412 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:23] <exec> 08└─Give me liberty, or give me death is a good principle if you're standing up to an authoritarian dictator. It's a rotten excuse when you're dealing with an infectious disease, because in that case it's not an either-or question. It's also a hollow statement when you keep voting for an authoritarian d...
[20:25:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 407 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:36] <exec> 08└─Context matters. If you go to a party and nothing public happens, then nobody need ever hear about it; but if you go to a party and there is a fire, a crime, a medical emergency, then suddenly there will be an official spotlight, and the context switches from "privacy at a private party" to "witness...
[20:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:55] <exec> 08└─the anti-male establishment
[20:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:57] <exec> 08└─I'll sell you an apostrophe, cheap, refurbished.
[20:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:59] <exec> 08└─It is a bit funny as our company was just looking at extending our warranty from something like 10 years to 15 or 20. Then again, we don't sell consumer grade stuff. This is seriously industrial stuff, and we sell at a mark up for our quality. Companies are willing to pay a bit more when they know t...
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[21:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:12] <exec> 08└─Hey now, if they could read and 've read what you just posted, they'd be very upset with you...
[21:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:13] <exec> 08└─Naegleria fowleri? Sounds like that old Nigger chicken walk, don't it?
[21:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:15] <exec> 08└─From the Summary: the amoeba enters the body through the nose.
[21:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:17] <exec> 08└─I got curious about the neti pots again so decided to do some googling. I was all geared up for "this is quack junk that can only hurt you", but I actually found some support for it. The consensus appears to be that under certain conditions it can be beneficial. Only use it for short terms though. D...
[21:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:32] <exec> 08└─Why do bats have this immune response that's so different from ours and so different from other mammals?"
[21:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─>And scientists want to know why Dunno, try the obvious. What do bats different? 1. THEY SLEEP UPSIDE DOWN, GET UP LATE 2. THEY DON'T GET VAXXED 3. THEY DON'T HAVE A FINANCIAL SYSTEM MANAGING THEIR FOOD SUPPLY AND HEALTH Experiment away, science people!!! Oh wait the financial system manages you too...
[21:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:36] <exec> 08└─"I didn't leak out, I was EVICTED!", signed, the coronavirus.
[21:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:38] <exec> 08└─Why do bats have this immune response that's so different from ours and so different from other mammals?
[21:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:21] <exec> 08└─I always did long square roots. The nice thing about knowing how to do it that way is that I usually found it faster than remembering which scales to use on the slide rule, it can be used for arbitrary sizes, and to arbitrary precision.
[21:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:23] <exec> 08└─You don't use a calculator for solving a differential equation unless you're talking about a particular solution using numerical methods. Generally speaking, the solution to a differential equation is just another equation.
[21:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:25] <exec> 08└─It looks like it's basically just this video [1] (the video cites Loh as the inspiration) [1]: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I mean, it's a clever way of framing the problem, but it's just a partially solved quadratic equation, the idea being that the partially solved for...
[21:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:27] <exec> 08└─There's nothing to remember on the slide rule, what you need to remember is that half the log is the square root. Then it's obvious that you need to find two scales, one with two decades (two cycles) against the other with one decade. Line up 2 with 4 for a quick check and bob's your uncle!
[21:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:29] <exec> 08└─Anyone who's ever listened to BBC radio knows Brits suck at language.
[21:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:31] <exec> 08└─> The next time you drive a car.. Probably not for newer cars--they count pulses on a tone wheel in the transmission (geared to the final drive) and divide by the time. All very linear (and done digitally). Previous generation of speedometers used eddy current "motors" to move the pointer, htt...
[21:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:06] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing they were very strong pulls that are not humanly possible. And you can still compare the result to titanium or other materials.
[21:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:37] <exec> 08└─Do you have an example? Maybe "bureaucrat" is just another one of those imaginary enemies you have to be constantly on the lookout for. There seem to be an awful lot of those.
[21:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:39] <exec> 08└─Arik was there, man, he don't need no sources.
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[22:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:19] <exec> 08└─For once, penises aren't off-topic.
[22:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:20] <exec> 08└─Structural engineers have known this stuff forever. And beside that, hypodermic needles and mosquito stingers are not tapered (except at the end for piercing).
[22:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:22] <exec> 08└─It's higher than I'd expect, just looking at the physics. Modelling them as beams, the ability to resist a bending force is proportional to the width times the thickness cubed, and assuming rotational symmetry, that's a 4-th power. 21% less width/thickness gives you only 39% (so 61% less) strength,...
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[22:22:38] <exec> 08└─I won't dispute what you said, but when that neti pot story broke, I looked into that specific story. From what I recall, the story was more akin to the woman saying she used a neti pot six months prior, and since they couldn't think of any other way it could have happened, suddenly the stories were...
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the news report on the lady that died from it said her doctor prescribed it. It's not crazy, but definitely talk to your doctor and follow the directions. Filtered Water is not necessarily Sterile Water. Best to either buy a solution or follow the directions for properly sterilizing water.
[22:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:41] <exec> 08└─According to Wikipedia 145 people have been infected with this thing, so it's obviously not that easy to catch. On the downside, 141 of them died. I can't imagine it being a pleasant death either.
[22:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:44] <exec> 08└─It's entirely possible, she was skinny dipping one night with her lover and neglected to inform her doctor of said event. Though, I wouldn't be too surprised if it was from the filtered tap water.
[22:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:46] <exec> 08└─Wow, that is a very high death ratio. I would have assumed it to be way less than that. Thankfully, it is indeed a pretty rare infection.
[22:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:48] <exec> 08└─Yes. If you get it you're probably going to die. The CDC don't offer much hope either. There is a drug which may or may not help, they're not really sure.
[22:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:50] <exec> 08└─Well, the state capital, Tallahassee is located in Leon county not Hillsborough. So, I am assuming that Ron De Santis (governor of FL) is not the person with the brain eating amoeba. Based on that assumption, Ron's brain disorder must be the result of having his head stuck too far up Trump's ass.
[22:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:52] <exec> 08└─Distilled water is what you're sposed to use. Unless the container it's being put in is contaminated, you're guaranteed it's sterile with about as much certainty as you can get.
[22:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:54] <exec> 08└─Everything you and freeman just said indicate to me I waterboarded myself with salt water. Multiple times. Using a device (mine was a blue teardrop made of rubber but neti pot is a hilarious name) that ultimately doesn't do much more than blowing your nose after a shower. Ah well, now I know what wa...
[22:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:13] <exec> 08└─Just because some weirdo on Fox News says something, doesn't mean it's true. Those people do not have your best interests at heart.
[22:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:04] <exec> 08└─WRONG! It's (-b + sqrt(b^2-4ac)) / 2a. Learn to speak English numbnutz
[22:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:05] <exec> 08└─My gods I hated quadratic equations. It didn't help that my fifth form maths teacher was completely unengaged and didn't really help. Also, Robert Smith sat beside me and spent the whole year drawing cartoons. Then the bastard got 94% in the end of year exams. Nice bloke though. Couldn't stay mad...
[22:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:14] <exec> 08└─what they erroneously perceive to be the foundation of their profession.
[22:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:15] <exec> 08└─The problem is not the law itself
[22:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:18] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to imagine what him eating a baby on live television would do.
[22:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:20] <exec> 08└─Do you have an example? For expedited service to your request, please fill out form 27B/6 in triplicate. Be sure to sign and date. An appointment will be set up within six to eight weeks after we receive the forms. Filing fees to be negotiated during the interview Thank you for your compliance
[22:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:22] <exec> 08└─You will find very little criticism of rap music . . . that doesn't boil down to "blah blah offensive/politically incorrect/violent/dumb n****r music".
[22:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:24] <exec> 08└─Right. That would be a no then. You're just repeating the scary things you've heard on the TV.
[22:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, you're right, the world is perfect in every way
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[23:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:16] <exec> 08└─Of course engineers can't spell (for some reason my spell checker doesn't work in the Subject box...)
[23:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:17] <exec> 08└─If your penis is stinging, you are doing it wrong.
[23:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:19] <exec> 08└─critics show. That's kinda harsh, isn't it? I mean, yeah, with quantizing and auto tune, you hardly need them anymore, but still, you know a musician's talent by their singing
[23:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:22] <exec> 08└─Don't you be bad-mouthing the next President, Kanye West.
[23:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─I got curious, so I looked it up. Her first clear symptom happened a year after she used a neti pot as instructed by he doctor (for a chronic sinus infection). That seems like an unlikely incubation period. A case from 2013 seems more likely. It was traced to a contaminated water system. I find that...
[23:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:49] <exec> 08└─Most of the sources I read said saline solution. It's probably the same stuff you use for contact lenses which is also supposed to be sterile.
[23:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:01] <exec> 08└─It's almost exactly completing the square as you calculate all the same intermediates, it's just that the motivations for their calculation is worded differently, practically in reverse. And to be honest, they're described in a far less simple way than classic completing the square, so this is no im...
[23:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:43] <exec> 08└─Racist A/C is too stupid to know that 90% of Kenyans are Christian.
[23:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:45] <exec> 08└─Jesus was a Jew...it's in The Bible.
[23:25:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:37] <exec> 08└─Wear a aluminum foil hat, shinny side out. That will protect you from The Rays. So is a similar policy change inconceivable for something equally as deadly as influenza?
[23:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:22] <exec> 08└─For things like laptops, the circuit boards themselves are rarely the problem. The problem is that parts like the battery and fan - which are parts that will wear out and need servicing, are sealed in and are difficult to access when those parts inevitably wear out. Or in some cases essentially impo...
[23:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wArlOrd [2142] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:28] <exec> 08└─Copyright extends enormous potential rewards and power to copyright holders (can anyone say statutory damages). I think the prospective copyright applicants (yes, let's fix this part of Berne right now) should choose either: 1) Accept copyright and all it promises, or 2) Put your money on Digi...
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