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[00:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:08] <exec> 08└─The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable?
[00:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:09] <exec> 08└─Good thing I only paid for a small coffee as just during the interval between nine last night and three this afternoon, my favorite WiFi spot just got firewalled. There is a certain well-known chain of... WiFi Spots... that's quite generous with its philanthropic effort to wipe out quite a common pl...
[00:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:12] <exec> 08└─looool, almost worth tanking the country just to see you fucktards get yours
[00:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:14] <exec> 08└─Why is this sustainability question being asked again, now? In any case, if this problem is getting too big to shrug off, it merely underlines the need to boost alternate business models. Put down the intellectual property hammer, and improve crowdfunding, government procurement, maybe advertisement...
[00:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:16] <exec> 08└─Having a system work for 35 years does seem to answer those questions of sustainability. As to the "free labor", are those people not getting anything back out? The big payback is that the developers used the software they developed. That seems a strong reason by itself to expect more such open sour...
[00:34:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 1129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:58] <exec> 08└─No, what they need is what they already have: Mandatory reporting from the companies about what capital distributions they have made and to whom, and certified auditors reports showing the books match up to what they disclosed to the government. Sure, a company can get away with a lot of shit, but s...
[00:35:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:02] <exec> 08└─A company who fails to do report correctly will find its assets frozen and men with guns and padlocks on their doorstep. And there are plenty of hungry agents looking to take down a big one to make their name.
[00:35:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:09] <exec> 08└─The Davos panel found the question hilarious.
[00:35:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 742 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:23] <exec> 08└─They laugh at the idea of higher income taxes because that's not how they make their money. Capital gains is how you make the wealthy pay. That's how you reduce the massive economic inequality. Naysayers still mock and say that the wealthy will simply move their money and operations elsewhere. It's...
[00:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:32] <exec> 08└─1. If you think there are any significant number of individuals making more than 10 million a year in taxable income you're absolutely out of your mind. So your version of it fails for only a slightly different reason - it would generate virtually no additional revenue, best case, with no flight. 2....
[00:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:34] <exec> 08└─MANDATORY: Tax at 95% ANY politician who takes money from a lobbyist or from a corporation. MANDATORY: Tax at 95% ANY company/corporation/rich person who tries or succeeds at influencing politician or policy or law. Don't allow corporations to donate money or influence employees to donate money to p...
[00:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:36] <exec> 08└─Honestly I have concluded that many people are just not capable of understanding cause and effect when it comes to finances beyond a very basic level.
[00:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:39] <exec> 08└─For the more empathic, compassionate ones, they see their perceived superiority as a responsibility to take care of the less fortunate. But even then, they never perceive those they help as one of their own. Their relationship with them is more akind of a dog shelter owner taking care of those poor...
[00:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:41] <exec> 08└─It's even worse than that though. For some reason people think giving the government money from the rich (those who run it or control the politicians who do) means they are getting money. No, the government will spend it however the rich tell them to. Like this idea of higher taxes that is supposed...
[00:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:43] <exec> 08└─Taking money out circulation is theft.
[00:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:46] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the military-industrial complex and an unsustainable entitlement system. The idea that we didn't get anything of value for those tax dollars is quite simply a lie.
[00:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:48] <exec> 08└─That's fine. Haven't you heard? The 1% own 50% of wealth and growing. I believe it was that lower 50% own 0 or less.
[00:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:34] <exec> 08└─I think I would rather buy pet-food and eat that. They at least have standards about what they put in those cans.
[00:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:36] <exec> 08└─You touch upon an important trend, one that it's good to be mindful for when acquiring things that should be of high quality, such as food: It's easy to make one, or ten, or even a thousand of high-quality somethings, but when you start making ten-thousand, or a million, the quality is almost certai...
[00:38:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06Gasp! First Audio Map of Oohs, Aahs and Uh-Ohs Spans 24 Emotions - 344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:17] <exec> 08└─If you can hear your surgeon say "oops" there is a problem with the anaesthetic... [ Yes I know, local vs. general anaesthetic, but I still wanted to say it. Last time I was operated on under local the nurse (who couldn't see from where she was) said "don't worry, it's not as bad as it sounds", the...
[00:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gasp! First Audio Map of Oohs, Aahs and Uh-Ohs Spans 24 Emotions - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:24] <exec> 08└─I still remember being under a nerve block, plus a sedative, rather than under a general, and being operated on. The surgeon...or *someone* handling things during the operation...said "oops". But I was so sedated that it didn't bother me at the time, and afterwards things seem to have been done prop...
[00:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:18] <exec> 08└─Oh great! Another one on the list then.
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[01:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:53] <exec> 08└─NASA is big on process. They must have had a reason if they awarded a more expensive option. Perhaps to support a second launch option. Cost is not everything. Even if X is cheaper and still reliable, it does not mean that there are not overriding factors. If there was such a reason, it should be...
[01:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:12] <exec> 08└─I'm no fan of that bunch of power-mad community-manipulating bad actors passing themselves off as SJW's. However, the fact that the E-F's comment above is so highly rated despite its cliche white supremacist rhetoric says really bad things about this community. Kindness (or rather simply avoiding be...
[01:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:14] <exec> 08└─Inevitable but unnecessary chemo:- Intersectional SJW cancer should have been irradiated from the outset.
[01:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:16] <exec> 08└─You don't win with kindness. You win with force.
[01:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:18] <exec> 08└─However, the fact that the E-F's comment above is so highly rated despite its cliche white supremacist rhetoric says really bad things about this community.
[01:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:41] <exec> 08└─Naysayers still mock and say that the wealthy will simply move their money and operations elsewhere. It's an empty threat.
[01:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:07] <exec> 08└─New York hates money? Yeah. Like, New York is all about money. It's why it's called "New York." For fuck's sake, Donnie is from New York.
[01:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:32] <exec> 08└─Ever learn something that by all rights you should have learned a long time ago, and then felt stupid for not already knowing it? Yeah, that's me here. 'Wait, when did they start actually shipping drives with glass substrates?' ... damn near 30 years ago. And the reason is that glass is tougher than...
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[02:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:00] <exec> 08└─The reason is in the linked earlier article: In addition to spurring problems for the car company Tesla, Elon Musk's puff of marijuana in September will also have consequences for SpaceX. On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that NASA will conduct a "safety review" of both of its commercial cre...
[02:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:01] <exec> 08└─n/t
[02:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:03] <exec> 08└─"SpaceX is the frat house,"
[02:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:06] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[02:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:08] <exec> 08└─Ok I'll be the guy. Please restrict your usage of that phrase to more appropriate situations.
[02:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:10] <exec> 08└─Don't worry Elon, I've heard that NASA is giving you the follow on mission called Charlie Brown. Its objective is to kick one of the asteroids that LUCY is holding. Good luck, we're all counting on you!
[02:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:12] <exec> 08└─You Sir, Are An Officer And A Gentleman.
[02:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:35] <exec> 08└─bad actors passing themselves off as SJW's
[02:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:37] <exec> 08└─You don't win with kindness. You win with force. We're talking about software bugs, not an enemy military. But maybe you have a point about force - you would need to apply it to me, as you certainly haven't persuaded me with your writing.
[02:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:39] <exec> 08└─IIRC, Linus sabotaged himself by raising a NPC daughter. It was only after she became involved that his tune began changing.
[02:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:41] <exec> 08└─As in, not at all.
[02:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:43] <exec> 08└─Regular bitrot is one thing. Enemy action is quite another.
[02:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:45] <exec> 08└─You are suggesting that SJWs are good people out to save the world, which is exactly what a propagandist would say. Nice comeback, Adolf. We're all in this together. 'All men are created equal' - noted propagandist T. Jefferson.
[02:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:48] <exec> 08└─Ah, I see. Editing text == force. Got it.
[02:36:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:03] <exec> 08└─1) What programs?
[02:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:14] <exec> 08└─The 1% own 99.6 % of the nation’s wealth. “That means the wealthiest 1 percent held an average of 225 times the wealth of the average median household in 2009 — a ratio that was 125 in 1962.” from a paper owned by one of those 1% https://www.washingtonpost.com
[02:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:03] <exec> 08└─go on Arby's sandwiches for all of the beta-orbiters to chew on for eternity.
[02:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:04] <exec> 08└─Now go eat your favorite food at McDonald's, Burger King, or Wendy's!!
[02:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:11] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, someone with the power to "make an example" out of a scammer in their home country did everything that he could to ensure justice was served.
[02:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:45] <exec> 08└─Those tech giants have enough cash to buy out entire states' governments. Therefore the deals they reach with single states should be held as fraud attempt and the difference between what they pay, and what auntie and her shop pay comparatively, should become additional tariffs to sell their goods....
[02:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:47] <exec> 08└─>then you've broken even Which means you've kept feeding off all the others for taxes. Is your name Bezos? no? QED.
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[03:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:52] <exec> 08└─All these satellites, stages, wrenches, nuts, bolts and flakes of paint fly on unique orbits, with different speeds. The satellite won't be able to match orbit/speed with more than one or two targets. This means that we have to launch a satellite to each target and hope that it has enough fuel to re...
[03:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Xerox's Most Famous Blunder - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:01] <exec> 08└─Nuro, Voyage, whoever... gone the instant someone gets killed in one of their truly driverless cars. They'll be hit with a lawsuit with the word "reckless" in it so hard their investors will flee faster than a fart in a hurricane. Google on the other hand are playing the long game: they're playing i...
[03:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Xerox's Most Famous Blunder - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe there's just too many unresolved, really hard, technical problems that don't make it into news articles. There aren't any fully autonomous tractors on the market yet, just a few research projects and trial units. One guy in the midwest made his own fully autonomous tractor and actually uses it...
[03:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Xerox's Most Famous Blunder - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:05] <exec> 08└─https://farmweeknow.com/story-autonomous-tractors-usher-age-swarm-farming-0-177780 [farmweeknow.com] https://www.yanmar.com [yanmar.com] https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com] http://archive.fo [archive....
[03:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:20] <exec> 08└─Double standards- sure it’s ok if YOU smoke a doobie but not Musk
[03:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:22] <exec> 08└─YOU are not bidding on a national contract valued in a hundred million dollars. Caesar's wife [writingexplained.org] and all.
[03:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:24] <exec> 08└─450,000 miles refers to the distance his Tesla has traveled so far. Quite the accomplishment for frat boys (maybe Real Genius [imdb.com] frat boys...) The cult of personality aspect mentioned is not an entirely unreasonable concern though. He needs to have the appropriate plans and processes in...
[03:34:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:34] <exec> 08└─Really the only thing to do is move on and watch them turn on each other.
[03:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, he finally realized how it felt to be on the other side of his assholery. Having high standards and enforcing them is great. Needless abuse isn't. Bro-coder: Your code sucks, you suck. gonna cry now, titty-baby? SJW: White male? Patch denied. Back of the bus, privileged pig. Everybody else: Hm...
[03:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:56] <exec> 08└─However, the fact that the E-F's comment above is so highly rated despite its cliche white supremacist rhetoric says really bad things about this community.
[03:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:58] <exec> 08└─i>You're free to GTFO. Would be better for your virtue signalling cred too. I'm also free to stay and comment as long as I am no less civil than those I reply to. As is everyone here. Or is ethnic hate a TOS requirement for an account here? If so, just confirm by replying to this and I'll fuck right...
[03:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:00] <exec> 08└─The Free Rider Problem rears its head again?
[03:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:13] <exec> 08└─Consider that the _specific_ reason that a telegraph operator at what at the time was the Ground Station for America's Spy Satellites - the former Onizuka Air Force Station in Mountain View, known by the locals as "The Blue Cube" for its large, roughly cubical windowless light-blue building totally...
[03:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:15] <exec> 08└─World War I bullet-proof vests were made of silk, it's just that there weren't enough Mulberry Trees to go around. Don't think DARPA isn't looking into GMO Worms.
[03:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 3113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:17] <exec> 08└─It takes a special kind of soldier to wear so much heavy gear in the desert. I know from actual experience just _why_ traditional Arab garb actually works: in the Summer of 2012, I walked two hundred miles from Santa Cruz to Oceano Dunes State Beach, just South of Pismo Beach in San Luis Obispo Coun...
[03:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 3447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:20] <exec> 08└─They proposed to the Marines that their Robot Dogs be used to pack supplies over terrain that was too rough for vehicles. That would have worked _really_ well has those DogBots not been so noisy that they'd be dead-certain to give their positions away: The energy density required to not make the dog...
[03:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:46] <exec> 08└─Bizarre choice for an example of legitimate use. If I am responsible for writing a missive that will be relayed to hundreds or thousands of people, I am going to write it by hand and have someone else check it before hitting send. I am certainly not going to outsource that task to a bot.
[03:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:03] <exec> 08└─I'm no fan of Amazon -- or Jeff Bezos, sometimes referred to as Jeff Bozo. But in real estate, when the prices go up, that's tremendous for the folks that own. We love it. So long as there's somebody that can buy at the new price, right?
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[04:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:56] <exec> 08└─Aren't we already lasering the crap out of the universe with our current crop of telescopes? Those are perfect for locking onto things in orbit any way. Amp'em up a bit and blast the stuff!
[04:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:57] <exec> 08└─That could make it take longer to deorbit. What you want is a tractor beam.
[04:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:59] <exec> 08└─When you laze them bits start vaporizing leading to random propulsion from out-gassing. Probably anybody's guess what would happen then. The solution seems to be a bigger laser.
[04:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Xerox's Most Famous Blunder - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:10] <exec> 08└─Inventing a thing, building and demonstrating functional prototypes, even owning protective IP, does not require the risk and investment of actually attempting to commercialize it. Taking a self-driving car to market, barring the fall of civilization, will happen eventually - but it might not be a g...
[04:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:29] <exec> 08└─Their reasons for using ULA seem sound. SpaceX has shown to be reliable enough for commodity space hardware, but when you are dealing with one off craft with very specific needs and which have taken years to build, its worth it to go with the more expensive launch platform for now that has a longer...
[04:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:03] <exec> 08└─Why? It's Vice. They like stirring the pot to create controversy, regardless of who the tread over to do that.
[04:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:24] <exec> 08└─So, you plan to eat your own kids?
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[05:33:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ritZxM_uejA [youtube.com]
[05:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:51] <exec> 08└─I agree with the "no shit". The thing is, you can't tell the common fool with a smart phone anything. You can't even tell the common fool with a desktop about bandwidth, tracking, surveillance. They don't know, don't care, and can't be bothered. All they care about is, "Ohhh, SHINY!"
[05:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:53] <exec> 08└─This isn't on the users, it's on the web developers and their bosses.
[05:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:55] <exec> 08└─It's way WAY more than 60%.
[05:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:58] <exec> 08└─It's on the users for not crying to the high heavens about the bloated shit the web has become if you try to use it without ad- & script blockers.
[05:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:00] <exec> 08└─To some extent, it is on the users. There are all manner of browser addons, hosts files, and router configurations that will block the bullshit. If users were to be outraged by what is going on, and just block it all, the web would work a helluva lot better for all of us. The point at which the data...
[05:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:02] <exec> 08└─For someone like me, who reads more text than anything else, yes - it's way more than 60%. For people who do little more than watch videos and listen to music, it's probably a lot less than 60%. I can only presume that the researchers averaged for all of us.
[05:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe they just buy a new system whenever things seem to get slower (or they clog it with worse stuff like BonziBuddy viruses)? I have a 7.5 year old laptop. If I upgraded to 2019 or 2020 hardware it might load those ads like a champ. For a while.
[05:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:15] <exec> 08└─I nifty nether jittery hydrated nigh kiddish offset judo. The Only one that has a very strong team and I don't think it is the same time I don't think it is the same time I don't think I can get the best out of it and I don't think I can get the best out of it and I don't think I can get the best ou...
[05:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:16] <exec> 08└─I disagree. It would be better to make one large vehicle, with lots of fuel. Leave it up there, permanently. Give it a refueling capability, so that someone like SpaceX can fuel it up when needed. Let it wander around, collecting debris, one little bit at a time if necessary. When it can't haul anym...
[05:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:18] <exec> 08└─*starts reading* *starts reading again* *stops reading* WTF? My guess is blackout drunk, which could allow you to type surprisingly coherently but still end up looking like something OpenAI's algorithm spit out.
[05:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:20] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes [wikipedia.org]
[05:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 1599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:23] <exec> 08└─If we're going to use rocket fuel to grab this junk, we have to use a fully reusable rocket. Welcome BFR, which is supposed to be able to refuel in-orbit. Can it hit enough targets on one tank of fuel to be worth a $10 million price tag? Depends on how much you want that stuff gone. Actually, ion en...
[05:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:25] <exec> 08└─For a time, there reigned, too, a sense of peculiar dread at this flitting apparition, as if it were treacherously beckoning us on and on, in order that the monster might turn round upon us, and rend us at last in the remotest and most savage seas.
[05:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Xerox's Most Famous Blunder - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:36] <exec> 08└─>nobody gets killed when a GUI crashes Au contraire. The next time Seahorse crashes, I'm pulling out my crossbow. (Seriously though, that piece of shit segfaults on my machine when I try to change a keyring's password.)
[05:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:30] <exec> 08└─You're also free to stay. I guess you like hanging with us racists then...
[05:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:32] <exec> 08└─You're also free to stay. I guess you like hanging with us racists then... I like the site. I just disagree with some of you. I might come over to your dark side if you had tastier cookies. The SJW dark side cookies are vegan and icky. :-)
[05:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:23] <exec> 08└─30,000 litres is close to 6608 gallons, at 10 lbs a gallon, 66080 ibs, or 30,000Kgs or 30 tonnes.. Canadian article, so Canadian units, which is why the Zamboni reference instead of some foreign unit like Libraries of Congress. Tried to look up the regulations but in true Newfie fashion, only availa...
[05:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:25] <exec> 08└─Why would they steal water?
[05:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:02] <exec> 08└─Weapons of Mass Scamming detected in Jamaica! So when does the invasion (by the US) start?
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[06:34:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, BonziBuddy brings back memories, lol.
[06:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:12] <exec> 08└─For this reason, and others, it is an ethical responsibility to block ads, encourage others to block ads, and install ad blocking software on as many computes as you have legal access to. In addition to being a drag on resources and an invasion of privacy, the ad-networks don’t seem interested in...
[06:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:14] <exec> 08└─If users were to be outraged byeven notice what is going on
[06:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:16] <exec> 08└─What I find interesting is that so many ads include privacy busting tracking that installing Privacy Badger is nearly the same as installing an ad-blocker these days. That gives me an extra cynical laugh when a website soaks it's crying towel because I'm running an "ad blocker" when I would see all...
[06:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:18] <exec> 08└─I don't think I've used Privacy Badger in the absence of an adblocker and a scriptblocker. Sounds like an interesting experiment.
[06:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:35] <exec> 08└─I wonder what would happen if you worked out the largest mass that the BFR could lift to 1000km straight up, no orbit burn, just lift and fall. Then get a tank of argon that big, and loft it up. As soon as the BFR stops firing and you hit 150km high you open valves around the tank and start it spinn...
[06:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:43] <exec> 08└─Fair enugh The comment was a 4 when I posted. It's down to a 1 now. Perhaps I should have been more patient. In any event, thanks for considering my view.
[06:36:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:29] <exec> 08└─AOC suggesting 70% isn't unreasonable. Warren Buffet agrees, and claims he pays less tax than his secretary. "In 1981, Reagan significantly reduced the maximum tax rate, which affected the highest income earners, and lowered the top marginal tax rate from 70% to 50%; in 1986 he further reduced the r...
[06:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:05] <exec> 08└─Grow your own / Eat your own.
[06:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:06] <exec> 08└─2% or skim milk is basically sugar water. You remove the good fat and leave protein and mostly (~2/3) sugar.
[06:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:08] <exec> 08└─Reducing the fat is good?!?!? Do you also take your steaks well done?
[06:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:11] <exec> 08└─That "biologically same meat" is thoroughly rinsed in ammonia too?
[06:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:44] <exec> 08└─seven thousand gallons of vodka would barely support a tiny russian hamlet for a year. Is there a russian community in Newfoundland? I'd check for very angry sober people.
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[07:34:13] <exec> 08└─I can't really make my mind up on this. I think I agree, mostly. I also think it's up to the users to learn a little bit about the methods used to exploit them so that they may avoid being exploited if they choose to. They don't have to become experts. However, like everything else in life, it's wor...
[07:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:31] <exec> 08└─Sorry my android keyboard shit itself. Just saw what happened. WTF?
[07:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Xerox's Most Famous Blunder - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:45] <exec> 08└─I don't see a data analytics and software company ever building real things in a production environment. Do their phones count? Or did they just borrow the factory, supply chain, and production processes from someone else?
[07:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:11] <exec> 08└─part of that is that they're not reading carefully, see the 127 and the 3 and don't understand what the "million" and "billion" really mean
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[08:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:52] <exec> 08└─Why are you talking like _this_? I *really* want to _know_.
[08:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:54] <exec> 08└─You _need_ to take _your_ meds. _Knot_ some_one_ elses. _yours_. _soon_. Nip _it_ in the _bud_
[08:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Hacker Marcus Hutchins Loses Bid to Omit "Intoxicated" Testimony - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:09] <exec> 08└─The primary evidence against him appears to be whatever he said to the FBI, either at this interview, or at another interview after initially being arrested. This yet again shows that you should never, ever talk to the FBI. They are not there to "help you clear up a few things", they are there to bu...
[08:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:06] <exec> 08└─Drinking goat milk is equivalent to getting punched in the face and I have about an equal desire to repeat both experiences.
[08:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:19] <exec> 08└─More likely he just took is personally and tried to nail this one guy. I personally think that if somebody is stupid enough to hand over $600,000 to some guy on the phone with a foreign accent, they've earned it. Yeah, scamming is nasty but some people are incredibly stupid and rich.
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[09:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:51] <exec> 08└─Did a search for "how do you refine race" and the grandaddy fount of all knowledge showed up: Cliffnotes (: https://www.cliffsnotes.com [cliffsnotes.com] From that page: The term race refers to groups of people who have differences...
[09:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:53] <exec> 08└─I had a very black African GF who was a Muslim, and at another time a Malay GF ditto. Clearly neither were of the same race as Bin Laden. Of course, the snowflakes will say there is no such thing as race, in which case all race laws are void anyway.
[09:34:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 407 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:16] <exec> 08└─What I find interesting is that so many ads include privacy busting tracking that installing Privacy Badger is nearly the same as installing an ad-blocker these days. That gives me an extra cynical laugh when a website soaks it's crying towel because I'm running an "ad blocker" when I would see all...
[09:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:20] <exec> 08└─What will they do if Chrome and Firefox block adblocker plugins?
[09:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:22] <exec> 08└─We need more ads and bigger! More flashier, more pop-uppier and definitely more audio and autoplay video! Think of the loading time we can gain!
[09:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:40] <exec> 08└─It is a *STUPID* idea to use a harpoon - think of the small fragments that will be created when the harpoon hits - the sort of thing that we don't need.
[09:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Xerox's Most Famous Blunder - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:54] <exec> 08└─You Keep Using That Phrase. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
[09:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:08] <exec> 08└─The same way having a stream engine would be useless because. ..
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[10:33:55] <exec> 08└─Sorry, define not refine
[10:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:57] <exec> 08└─I've been laughing at the DNA test ads like the one where this one dude says something like "wow, i didn't know i'm 5% jewish". And when someone says something not glorifying about religion, the SJWs start calling you racist. People don't even know the terminology of discrimination (or anything else...
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[10:33:59] <exec> 08└─I posted links to a discussion about halal certification in a web forum. The response from the forum was that I was a racist. Have the SJW won?
[10:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:01] <exec> 08└─SJW's are a lower life form that don't have a personality. Basically... drones.
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[11:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:01] <exec> 08└─But - DAS RACISSSS!!!
[11:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:02] <exec> 08└─the social–cognitive approach to thinking about race
[11:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:04] <exec> 08└─Black parents generally have black children, white parents white children, and one black parent with one white parent generally have brown-ish children. Clearly something biological is going on, although scientists these days seem to be too frightened say anything other than they "Cannot detect it"....
[11:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:53] <exec> 08└─I disagree.
[11:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:54] <exec> 08└─But when it goes into the soft and blubbery flesh of the White Whale, Aye! Avast, ye scurvy dogs! Have ye not seen the White Whale! All hands to the boats! All harponeers on stand! We will take down this Iridium trash once and for all!
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[12:34:10] <exec> 08└─Hitler was a social constructionist too.
[12:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:11] <exec> 08└─Get a capo, you moron! And learn to play Alicia Keys, or I mean, in different keys. Any frequency can be your middle C, just tell me what you want.
[12:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:13] <exec> 08└─You are racist. Deal with it.
[12:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:16] <exec> 08└─Runaway is racist, the worst kind of racist: Archie Bunker West Pennsylvania Polack Racist. Nobody's coming back from that kinda racist.
[12:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:18] <exec> 08└─It is about keeping bad people (with bad intentions) out of country. Need PHYSICAL BARRIER!
[12:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:20] <exec> 08└─If a SJW speaks up against racists, doesn't that make them racists themselves?
[12:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:22] <exec> 08└─Sometimes they surprise you by actually making sane decisions. Belonging to a religious group is not the same as belonging to a race, or just biological subgroup. I could convert to islam (or any other religion) today but you can't really convert race, by becoming muslim I wouldn't change race. It m...
[12:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should just build "the wall" around the oval office. It would only have to be tall enough to keep someone in your physical condition out, so say 3 feet tall?
[12:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:27] <exec> 08└─It would only have to be tall enough to keep someone in your physical condition out, so say 3 feet tall?
[12:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:29] <exec> 08└─Nothing like derogatory racial slurs to drive home the point that the other guy's a racist.
[12:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Publishes RISC-V "SweRV" Core Design Under Apache 2.0 License - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:37] <exec> 08└─Anybody doing RTL to VLSI layouts for fun? We have on-demand PCB fabrication and assembly today, are IC's and microcontrollers next?
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[12:34:52] <exec> 08└─For this reason, and others, it is an ethical responsibility to block ads, encourage others to block ads, and install ad blocking software on as many computes as you have legal access to. In addition to being a drag on resources and an invasion of privacy, the ad-networks don’t seem interested in...
[12:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:00] <exec> 08└─I've been using Privacy Badger for years, without any other ad blocking. Very few problems, a few times I've had to adjust the PB sliders to allow a page to work correctly. Go EFF!
[12:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:30] <exec> 08└─Ah, I see. Editing text == force. Got it.
[12:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:32] <exec> 08└─How is ESR these days? Is his Patreon account blocked for racism, of gun-loving, or young girl chasing? If not, probably should be.
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[12:36:34] <exec> 08└─SJWs are only a tool. Look for what they fight and you'll see that they protect particular interests. If discrimination will make profit for companies, this is suddenly not discrimination and it's OK to do everything with such people. Currently they're used to force "corporate" style into free softw...
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[13:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:52] <exec> 08└─Can they really blackmail you with medical information you've already mentioned on social media?
[13:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:18] <exec> 08└─... but you can't really convert race ...
[13:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:20] <exec> 08└─Change "Muslim" to "Jew" and ask someone whether it's "just a religion" or also something to do with ethnicity or even race.
[13:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:22] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the court addressed the contradictory precedents it was overturning. I'm pretty sure there are several, I was able to find 1 from 2011 in less than a minute: https://www.abc.net.au
[13:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:24] <exec> 08└─IMHO, it clearly isn't. It's a grouping, certainly, often with a default assignment by virtue of birth circumstances and in close correlation with ethnicity or other factors, but not a race in its own right. The crux for me is that you can *change* your religion (some local laws not withstanding)....
[13:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:26] <exec> 08└─The word 'race' clearly implies a biological division. Since there are no biological divisions between modern humans, it's inescapably true that we are all one race. But the way it's used is not so simple, or so honest. The way it's used is to reify the social constructs you mention - to contribute...
[13:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:29] <exec> 08└─Oz has a physical barrier, dummy.
[13:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:31] <exec> 08└─Not really sure why people view it as a slur. A male pole is a polak, a female one is polka. It's like calling a jew, a jew, and people getting offended. I think it would be more offensive calling someone jewish. Like you're not really a jew, you're just jewish. Like calling someone christianish.
[13:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 2297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:33] <exec> 08└─"Black parents generally have black children, white parents white children, and one black parent with one white parent generally have brown-ish children." All statistical generalizations that don't really tell you anything beyond themselves. The skin color (and other traits as well) of children *usu...
[13:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:36] <exec> 08└─Rachel Dolezal finds your words to be bigoted and hurtful.
[13:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:06] <exec> 08└─When loading a page have a status line showing what percentage is what you want to see, what percentage is ads, and what percentage is tracking. Grandma might not understand things like ublock origin, but she'll surely notice numbers showing half her load time is stuff she doesn't want. Percentage o...
[13:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:29] <exec> 08└─Just need a satellite armed with a gauss rifle that can acquires targets, determines mass, and appropriate trajectory to ensure both projectile and debris will enter atmosphere or be ejected while keeping the satellite in orbit. Bonus points if you can get the projectile to orbit back into the satel...
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[13:37:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, silk is not bulletproof. It's barely bullet resistant, if very heavy and up against bullets going extremely slowly. Silk armor was more useful against arrows. It wouldn't necessarily stop them, but they could enter the body without penetrating the silk, making it easier to remove them. There a...
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[13:37:03] <exec> 08└─"What it is about such heavy clothes is that it absorbs all your sweat but then _regulates_ that sweats evaporation at the surface of the cloth, so it has the effect of sweating at a constant rate rather then so-quickly is it would were your skin directly exposed to the sun, or if you only wore a t-...
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[13:40:43] <exec> 08└─You are different from most School board employees around here, bots already would do a better job.
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[14:33:52] <exec> 08└─they are just speculating.
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[14:33:53] <exec> 08└─the paper is actually a quite nice breakdown of modern cpu design. Having a model in principle, should make it possible to formally design a better CPU. *popcorn request*
[14:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:55] <exec> 08└─So what they are really saying is that "we know it's broken, but we ain't gonna do anything about it", probably some MBA is going to chime in there and then about how expensive it would be to fix and how it's not really an issue and that we should all just plonk down a lot of money to buy the new de...
[14:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:36] <exec> 08└─FFS, a polka is a god-damned DANCE, and a style of MUSIC. But you knew that, right, Ari? For those who are not familiar with polka, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:38] <exec> 08└─Not so very insightful, IMO. Both Islam and Judaism are political entities, and both are religious entities. Both apparently worship the same God, or at least say they do. The difference between them is, Islam seeks to convert, and thus, to command you, and me, and every human on the face of the pla...
[14:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:40] <exec> 08└─so in a sense, makes sense. but that court basically used the "No True Scotsman" line of reasoning. the intent of the law was probably meant to lump all those from 'Middle Eaatern' descent, and thus steteotypically fundamentalist Muslim faith. But only from that atereotype, what about Nigerians? Mal...
[14:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:42] <exec> 08└─Many countries have walls -- or, in many cases, fences. We made the list and it's 77 countries. A lot of countries, because WALLS WORK. And you know about Austria. Good for you. Good for you. They did Fence. Not as good as Wall. But it's a BARRIER -- it gives them control over their Border. So they...
[14:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:06] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping you mean that as a joke, because for ULA to remain relevant, I believe your words badly need to be a joke. Ultimately, reliability is measured in actual success rate, not the amount of gold plating in the process. The process stuff began to help remember lessons learned from things like A...
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[14:36:48] <exec> 08└─This is missing the dialectics used in modern world entirely. The same commodity, let's call it with modern newspeak, "intellectual property" has totally different value depending on who asks. If you use a logo on a fan site, you suddenly robbed a company for millions as they said it is worth such v...
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[14:38:35] <exec> 08└─(to the tune of Greensleeves) Alas my love you do me wrong To cast me off with pinkish slips And I have loved you oh so long To build profit in your company Pink Slime that lovely goo Pink Slime with growth of mold anew Pink Slime I could keep it down And digest it into some lovely poo I have been r...
[14:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Fakes and How to Spot Them - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:00] <exec> 08└─Hmmmm. Went back and generated ~20 new faces. Today, I don't see much of that burn victim look. It's still there, because I'm looking for it I guess. But, it's subdued. The mismatches in pore size, odd locations, and skin texture doesn't stand out today. I suppose that is easily explained by the fac...
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[14:42:02] <exec> 08└─Symmetry. I'm looking at one right now, of a female. She has a fat woman's jowl on her left side, a slightly mismatched cheek without a jowl on her right. Odd . . .
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[15:33:58] <exec> 08└─This isn't about consumers replacing their computers. Any major changes to CPU architecture would be expensive, and the new hardware would need to be sold enterprises and data centers. Those are the environments where Spectre and Meltdown are the most dangerous. Unfortunately, the companies that buy...
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[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─Can you make a CPU that runs fast and doesn't have this issue? One description of the problem is that the program can get the speculative parts of the CPU to gather protected information and then use it to adjust the CPU state. For example, a user program causing the CPU to read a bit in kernel memo...
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─"Can you make a CPU that runs fast and doesn't have this issue?" As I recall in the late 90s the fastest processors were more simplified, things like the DEC Alpha took a more direct path to speed and it did work. The market didn't reject them because they weren't fast. It was more about the industr...
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[15:34:04] <exec> 08└─Can you make a CPU that runs fast and doesn't have this issue? Can you win the race if you cheat? Essentially, the risk is due to speculation or otherwise in one thread impacting performance in another. This does not need to be possible. However, if you allow a thread to use data that is in the cach...
[15:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─Well... I guess I'll have to have my medical record of having hemorrhoids sealed.
[15:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:15] <exec> 08└─Yes. That's right. You read that correctly. In Australia the government outsourced the Bowel Cancer Screening Register to the National phone company Said company had zero experience with health systems, so it went out and purchased some. WTF, right?
[15:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:17] <exec> 08└─Well... I guess I'll have to have my medical record of having hemorrhoids sealed.
[15:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:56] <exec> 08└─Hitler was a social constructionistpsychopath too.
[15:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:57] <exec> 08└─We love Jew, sometimes referred to as Jewish. If you have some money that needs counting, you always always hire a Jew to count it -- if you're smart. And we love Israel. They're doing so many things in Israel, tremendous things. And they're putting the Middle East to shame. I think Middle East coul...
[15:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:59] <exec> 08└─If a SJW refuses to drink the coolaid and just once defends the right, does that make them a racist?
[15:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:02] <exec> 08└─They keep coming in by boat. "I was oppressed! I need sanctuary!" 'Why didn't you apply in the several counties that you passed on your way here?' "Racist!" 'Where is your passport?' "Racist!" 'Several passports washed up on the shore after your boat mysteriously sank just off the coast. Do you know...
[15:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:04] <exec> 08└─It is illegal to offend people now. In Australia. Think about that for a moment.
[15:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:06] <exec> 08└─definition: racism - prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. race - a group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group. "we Scots were a bloodthirsty race...
[15:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:08] <exec> 08└─Yet they can do whatever they like to my race in my country. Great.
[15:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Publishes RISC-V "SweRV" Core Design Under Apache 2.0 License - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:17] <exec> 08└─- Someone at ARM must have mightily pissed them off? - Someone at MIPS then was in deep sleep? - Someone at WD, up to the bigwigs, must really enjoy designing new things once in a while? When did corporate America ever come out with open hardware like this? The last time I can think of was with the...
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[15:35:42] <exec> 08└─that's not entirely true. most people that fall under your categories care more about what they are doing is actually working. sites load, pages open, computer doesnt crash and application doesnt fail. shiny has little to do with it on the desktop -- consider how people got the free upgrade for wind...
[15:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:05] <exec> 08└─Don't make more trash. That's a high bar for space trash collection.
[15:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:20] <exec> 08└─The problem with that argument and by extension, your kind of person, is that there's always somebody with more force. I have the abiltiy to be the bigger asshole, but I find it much more productive to work with those around me to achieve better results. In the real world, acting as you do will, at...
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[16:34:05] <exec> 08└─I would assume that Alpha would have been exploitable in this manner. But as you point out, it was simpler, so perhaps easier to fix?
[16:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe we can make a software fast enough? Seriously, There are lots of power used because some programmer had deadline too close and used another library on a framework on a library on a non-standard extension to the framework. From my experience in IT studies, students of 2nd year have a small asse...
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─Crikey dingo ate my baby!
[16:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:37] <exec> 08└─Didn't Opera browser used to do something along these lines?
[16:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:39] <exec> 08└─Use a fork, such as Palemoon or Basilisk.
[16:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:41] <exec> 08└─Same here. Way back in the day (20 years ago-ish), dialup modems, etc., I quickly found Opera browser which let me turn OFF javascript, images, and plugins. It had per-site control of javascript, image loading, plugins (Flash), and site blocking. You could right-click an image placeholder and load i...
[16:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:43] <exec> 08└─Indeed, 60% seems like the lower limit of the loading time increase... My Local newspaper's website, the index page is 316 KB, of that, 300 KB is a wankfest of mostly ad and tracking JavaScript..and this script has the further audacity to load even more obfuscated javascript shitfuckwankery off the...
[16:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:07] <exec> 08└─The 1st minute of the opening scene to the anime for Planetes [youtube.com] is the most concise & powerful visual example of this problem that I've seen. I think about it every time someone mentions space debris. (It's a much more realistic and probable example than the Kessler syndrome shown in the...
[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:24] <exec> 08└─As to the "free labor", are those people not getting anything back out?
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[17:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, From article : While one may expect financial hardship to predominantly affect those without insurance, we found that the majority of individuals with ASCVD suffering from financial hardship were insured, pointing towards inadequate protection with greater cost shifting towards patients and the...
[17:33:55] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03RedGreen [888] 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:55] <exec> 08└─That is what you get when you live in a country that does not give a shit about its people. Fortunately when they fixed my heart in my country Canada, it was without costs to me. And I will say it again, I will love them wonderful people at the QEII hospital that saved my life until the day I die.
[17:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:57] <exec> 08└─Sick people should die sooner, before they replicate and pass on the defective parts
[17:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:00] <exec> 08└─with perhaps a $6000 deductible, it really skews the costs of medical procedures. Medicare is $1.3 trillion. Medicaid $1.7 trillion. The federal govt is subsidizing healthcare by $3 trillion , and also has price controls on procedures (Medicare publishes a load of stuff on this), but not medications...
[17:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:02] <exec> 08└─I am heartened (no pun intended) to hear your heart was treated. I too love when people do their jobs, and get paid. The problem is the confluence of "we reserve the result to refuse service" (ok for a restaurant probably, *mostly* illegal for hospitals in the US, and rationed in other countries by...
[17:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:04] <exec> 08└─So you are saying that in RedGreen's [soylentnews.org] case they cut the Green wire, not the Red wire [youtube.com]?
[17:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:06] <exec> 08└─How does a 'non-elderly' person get clogged arteries? Shouldn't McDonald's et al be partly responsible?
[17:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:09] <exec> 08└─The only thing social darwinism would be good for is if trolls like you died sooner. Preferably very painfully.
[17:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:11] <exec> 08└─He says in the Headline, "oh, nearly half of U.S. adults" blah blah. But in the Summary it's the NON-ELDERLY adults. What is non-elderly? You have to pay $36 to find out. But, probably it's a lot. I'm 72, am I elderly? Crazy Bernie is 77, is he? What about Crooked H -- age 71? Rand Paul, 56 and elde...
[17:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─How does a 'non-elderly' person get clogged arteries?
[17:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:15] <exec> 08└─Bah, those incels need to learn how to live within their means. They ain't got no right to force me to fund their lifestyle choices. They should have thought about how they're going to afford it before they decided to get cardiovascular disease.
[17:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:31] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agree. > It was more about the industry addiction to blob compatibility. My angle: driven by short-term mass profit. RISC CPUs are also vulnerable, although slightly less so. We're currently seeing a rise in RISC, much of it ARM and ARM-Cortex processors- Chromebook, phones, more RISC-bas...
[17:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:33] <exec> 08└─The OS is supposed to "sandbox" user processes. That's been a big gripe of mine since 1990ish. Even generic Linux kernels don't do it properly, so we have "hypervisors" which are modified Linux kernels. Some hypervisors are forked Linux kernels, or written from scratch. The point is: IMHO ALL OSes s...
[17:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:45] <exec> 08└─They have that Right to be Forgotten thing, right? That'll fix that data the Chinese stole...POOF, the data is GONE! ... .....right?
[17:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:47] <exec> 08└─Try to extort money from me based on my medical history - I'll give you the finger, then when you "use" that information against me I can turn my case over to any decent lawfirm to recover treble damages from the party that hurt me financially based on my medical history.
[17:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:34] <exec> 08└─Religion is a choice, just like politics. So, if you choose to be an asshole about it, you should suffer the consequences.
[17:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:35] <exec> 08└─Off by one foot. Maybe relevant? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:37] <exec> 08└─Other people are NOT our creation! Oof! Don't tell your mother...
[17:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:39] <exec> 08└─Then call the FAA
[17:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:42] <exec> 08└─It's not just an Australian thing, most western countries have laws that in essence are there to do the same thing. Most of them appear to focus on various form of hate-speech targeted towards various minorities. Then we have all the normal "offend people"-type laws as various form of slander. Basic...
[17:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:44] <exec> 08└─Nah, just turn off the lights and cameras and walk away (don't leave the equipment). That'll hurt more than anything.
[17:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Publishes RISC-V "SweRV" Core Design Under Apache 2.0 License - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:54] <exec> 08└─When they are trying to save every penny on mass storage it makes perfect sense for WD to get rid of any CPU core royalties.
[17:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:24] <exec> 08└─Sadly, Opera has been sold [digitaltrends.com]. (I would have linked to the story atengadget [engadget.com], but seeing how their awful site breaks without javascript, I thought a different site would be better with this article. However, their is a spirtual successor to Opera, Vivaldi [vivaldi.com]...
[17:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Xerox's Most Famous Blunder - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah I'm always seeing articles like those, but no one has a product for me to buy. All the big tractor companies have a research project that has had working prototypes for years now. My guess is they just don't want to take the liability risk, or there are technical problems they haven't solved ye...
[17:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Xerox's Most Famous Blunder - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:05] <exec> 08└─No They've never been serious about producing a physical phone in volume that's what the Chinese and Koreans are for They just wanted to make sure they could inflict their spyware on everyone.
[17:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:25] <exec> 08└─somebody needs to send this link to NASA: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:09] <exec> 08└─The 'sustainable' idea is coming from the people with money. They are throwing that word around like it means something to them. So it is 'leaking' to other portions of the money stack and their sycophants in 'the media'. I know I sit through 'sustainability' trainings at large money company. There...
[17:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:11] <exec> 08└─is it sustainable? probably "yes" but only if future torchbearers are educated with tax payers monies and not corporate monies.
[17:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:34] <exec> 08└─>if the weight is better distributed it wouldn't need to be more cumbersome. True - though managing to do that in a "a-few-sizes-fit-all" fashion would be a real artform. However, the weight would still be an issue. A soldier can only carry so much gear, and every kg spent on armor is a kg that can'...
[17:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:50] <exec> 08└─Sure, then you can have the government defend you from the government. Pooh bear, is that you?
[17:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:15] <exec> 08└─The SEO guys will just use it to lay thousands of high quality pages
[17:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:01] <exec> 08└─is how did this guy get enough information to describe the victim, where he lives, etc... in order to make these threats? Did the victim have malware in his computer or something?
[17:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Fakes and How to Spot Them - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:28] <exec> 08└─"Normal amateur photographers will frequently capture a concept called "red eye" where the flash of the camera reflects off the retina producing a red glow that we are all familiar with" Can you distinguish between the red eye produced by the algorithm vs the red eye produced by a real picture of a...
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[18:34:07] <exec> 08└─Bah. You sound like an incel to me. It's called personal responsibility. Didn't your momma teach you to eat your vegetables? I don't know what GP is complaining about either. Just shop around. You can get open heart surgery for the cost of one of those iPhones you millennials think you need if you j...
[18:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:08] <exec> 08└─Single payer looks like "the best" from where I stand. You pay into it all your life, you benefit from it all your life. It isn't turned off and on, every time you change jobs. You aren't punished for having a condition, often referred to as "preexisting". You aren't punished if you lose your job, a...
[18:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:11] <exec> 08└─submit the proof they want, I don't dislike you enough to wish you sickness, especially uncovered. Afterwards inform the ACLU and fill a complaint with the BBB.
[18:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:13] <exec> 08└─But how to pay for it.... Tax the totally non-productive finance transactions of Wall Street. It's our money, we just have to recover it and put it to use. The U.S. can trivially afford universal health care, but we choose to believe the lies from the insurance industry and vote for their puppet pol...
[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─There are lots of different ways, and all the simple explanations are wrong. Not just wrong, but so wrong it's foolish to pay them any attention. There have been children under 10 who have died to coronary obstructive disease. The have been centenarians who lived largely on bacon and never exercised...
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─Oh dear! Did the poor little SJW get triggered by something so fucking obvious? Christ! Does everything need an emoji tag now?! Yes, even the package of firecrackers has a "Do not eat" warning to appease them. Heh, for them, it should be amended, "... before lighting fuse". You people are blowing it...
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─Considering nearly half of US adults have zero savings, this is hardly surprising. A lot of people in the country like to spend everything they get, no matter how much or little they earn.
[18:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─The only thing I see here is you getting triggered. Relax mate.
[18:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 2003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:40] <exec> 08└─You would need a "reset cache". The problem is that the speculative branch does things that shouldn't have been done -- like fetch data from RAM that turns out being unnecessary. Then, check to see how fast it is to access something similar from RAM -- no page fault, no delay? It much already be in...
[18:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:46] <exec> 08└─Still interesting that they found her comments to be vilifying and she apparently should be more touchy feely next time and think of all the people that get their feelings hurt.
[18:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:47] <exec> 08└─You say you can't become black, but a bit of genetic surgery could possibly fix that. It probably wouldn't even need to be systematic. If the viral approach gets developed well enough, a cream should do the job. Race is essentially a social construct. It has no definable genetic meaning. Most attemp...
[18:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:49] <exec> 08└─the original Jews and the original Muslims were cousins. Ya don't say! And here's the original "#me too" [youtube.com]
[18:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:52] <exec> 08└─FWIW, I've never been certain what halal meant, except safe for Muslims to eat. I got an idea that Kosher means it doesn't have blood or pork, it's been slaughtered "humanely", and it's been blessed by a rabbi, but I haven't got much of a clue what halal means. From what I can tell there's no centra...
[18:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:54] <exec> 08└─That one's a complicated question. There are genetic variations that are only common among the Jews...and among them only common among the Cohens (alleged descendants of Aaron). So. But there's also a large number of folk who are descendants of converts made at one time or another. And, of course, t...
[18:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:56] <exec> 08└─"...keeping bad people (with bad intentions) out of country." By that definition, we need to put a wall around just you. Say someplace like ADX Florence.
[18:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:58] <exec> 08└─The Canaanites would love to agree with your middle point, but since they're dead, they can't.
[18:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:46] <exec> 08└─Because cramming a locomotive-size steam engine in to a cube 4 inches to a side while maintaining equivalent power output, would result in enough energy in a small enough space to just burn/melt you and whatever it was mounted on. The fact it's 'comic book technology' isn't what makes it fictional....
[18:39:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 861 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:44] <exec> 08└─We need a tax structure designed to re-launch real capitalism and innovation in the West. Crony "capitalism," aka what we have now, destroys as thoroughly as the socialism the Cortez woman wants. We do not need Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos and their ilk to have billions of dollars. We need to give ince...
[18:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:04] <exec> 08└─i think selling self made steel should incur a (clubberment) tax, but taking shelter under a steel reinforced structure (you own) should not incur extra rust in form of a tax...
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[19:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:18] <exec> 08└─Processing so fast in gene therapy? Good people are such rubes, when will you learn to identify marketing materials meant to sell patents and pump stocks?
[19:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:19] <exec> 08└─You pay them all that money then don't even get proper healthcare. Save up $2k per year instead of giving it away to insurance companies and then you will have $60k by the time you are 30 which is plenty for most procedures at actual (not the fake chargemaster) prices. It could be implemented in a n...
[19:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:22] <exec> 08└─And a lot more people just aren't getting anything to spend in the first place.
[19:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:24] <exec> 08└─my colitis medicine monthly cost went from ~30 a month (15 years ago) to somewhere between $1000 to $2000 per month out of pocket with insurance via the same company I've worked for 21 years - I can't afford that so the disease will progress to the next steps we need to get this under control clearl...
[19:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:26] <exec> 08└─You think that without insurance you will get sick?
[19:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:28] <exec> 08└─How does giving money to the government help people without enough money? Why is there never a part 2 to these plans that actually helps people instead of giving more funding to corrupt politicians controlled by corporations and the super rich?
[19:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─Fortunately when they fixed my heart in my country Canada, it was without costs to me.
[19:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, insurance is like the flu shot. Were you born yesterday?
[19:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:35] <exec> 08└─Disbelief about how shitty people can be is why we're here in the first place.
[19:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:37] <exec> 08└─Are they not getting it because it is going to a do nothing insurance company?
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─It really is just stupidity. People somehow believe that forcing people to pay scammers would make the scams stop instead of growing larger and more powerful. There is no excuse for this.
[19:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:42] <exec> 08└─And even then nobody's sure what happens, you know, the otherwise 100% healthy active eats right just had a complete workup and stress test and suddenly dies of heart attack. And then you have people who do all the wrong things and live long and well (although very rarely if overweight). We're (huma...
[19:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:44] <exec> 08└─no but if he or his wife get sick without coverage the hardship is compounded
[19:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:15] <exec> 08└─... I will admit that I have a small penis. You may now begin the mocking and derision.
[19:35:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:31] <exec> 08└─Black parents generally have black children, white parents white children, and one black parent with one white parent generally have brown-ish children. Clearly something biological is going on, although scientists these days seem to be too frightened say anything other than they "Cannot detect it"....
[19:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:16] <exec> 08└─It is about keeping bad people (with bad intentions) out of country.
[19:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:17] <exec> 08└─different species [raxcdn.com] different species [www.dpz.eu] different species [imgur.com] totally same species [wordpress.com] totally same species [catbox.moe]
[19:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─different species [raxcdn.com] different species [www.dpz.eu] different species [imgur.com] totally same species [wordpress.com] totally same species [catbox.moe]
[19:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:58] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I quite agree about the newer "Opera". I specified "Old Opera", which is a fairly commonly used designation for up to version 12.18, based on the "Presto" rendering engine. 12.18 is great for most websites. Some with horrific code errors (as per validator.w3.org) can freeze it up, or just no...
[19:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Harpoon Pitched and Snags Target - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, while seeing "SPACE HARPOONS" instantly got my interest, the second thought was that this will make significant debris most of the time at least. I wonder if laser tech is about good enough we could send one up powerful enough to entirely vaporize small debris near its orbit. I know we've been...
[19:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Xerox's Most Famous Blunder - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:41] <exec> 08└─If you are unable to commercialize technology you develop, license it to someone who can.
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[20:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:32] <exec> 08└─"Insurance" is a crock anymore... high deductibles, additional premiums for "unusual" procedures like knee replacement, use it or lose it tax dodge accounts, constantly shifting prescription drug coverage (hey, let's give full Rx coverage this year, then yank it next year after they're hooked on a $...
[20:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:34] <exec> 08└─Copy the Canadian system? Yeah, that will go over like a Lead Balloon in Congress. It's bad enough that a bloody revolution would seem to be warranted. Death to the Corporations! That should play well to the plebes, now, how do we it past the corporate lobbyists?
[20:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:36] <exec> 08└─Medical research uses NHST, which is pseudoscience. That is why they generate and endless list of conflicting results like that. In science you have people independently replicating each others work and testing predictions of their theories on new data. You won't find this in medical research, only...
[20:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:38] <exec> 08└─Protip: Look up Poe's law.
[20:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:41] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the idiot that modded the OP down
[20:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:43] <exec> 08└─It is only compounded if you already gave your money away to an insurance company...
[20:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:45] <exec> 08└─"You can keep your doctor, you can keep your healthcare plan, it will be more affordable" BULLSHIT... It was to give insurance companies more profit.
[20:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:47] <exec> 08└─There is no "part 2". The voter get what he/she votes for. It is quite trivial to vote out the crooked politician. It takes nothing more than the desire.
[20:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:49] <exec> 08└─Yes that was part of it but the big deal which actually helped people was requiring insurance to cover people regardless of pre-existing conditions.
[20:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:52] <exec> 08└─It is quite trivial to vote out the crooked politician.
[20:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:54] <exec> 08└─http://selfpaypatient.com/about/ [selfpaypatient.com]
[20:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:12] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the companies that buy new hardware based on new CPU designs will not have a great market for selling their used equipment. "We replaced this stuff because it is a security risk ... so, you wanna buy it?"
[20:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:14] <exec> 08└─"RISC CPUs are also vulnerable, although slightly less so." Which RISC CPUs use speculative execution? I don't remember either the Alpha or the PPC using it. Rather thought it was introduced specifically to make the superscalar x86 architecture work.
[20:35:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 386 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:36] <exec> 08└─Did a search for "how do you refine race" and the grandaddy fount of all knowledge showed up: Cliffnotes (: https://www.cliffsnotes.com [cliffsnotes.com] From that page: The term race refers to groups of people who have differences...
[20:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:31] <exec> 08└─So dog breeds are all separate species? Fuck off. There are plenty of animals with wide variation in appearance. There are plenty with almost no variation in appearance from other species, but very large differences aside from appearance.
[20:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:32] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I suspect "vilify," like "pornography," is one of those "I can't define it but I know it when I see it" things. So far as religion goes, it's clearly not a race [which IMHO is a polite term for "breed"]. I can see insulting, rejecting, or vilifying people's religious beliefs as both protect...
[20:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:35] <exec> 08└─If it is a social construct, then why would you need genetic surgery? Shouldn't it be enough to declare that you feel black? Yes, racism is a real problem. And people have made many stupid claims about different races. And there probably have also been some misconceptions how races work. But then, t...
[20:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:37] <exec> 08└─It's really the height of ignorance to presume that gross visual similarity can be used to judge biological divisions. Close relatives can look very different, while animals that haven't had a common ancestor in over 100 Million years can look strikingly similar. You have to go much deeper than that...
[20:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Publishes RISC-V "SweRV" Core Design Under Apache 2.0 License - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:48] <exec> 08└─If the other guys stay with proprietary CPUs, they have a selling point for enterprise customers. Two birds with one stone - no backdoors in the storage controller, no royalties for the chips.
[20:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ad Code 'Slows Down' Browsing Speeds - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:19] <exec> 08└─are those most able to afford the offerings of ads also the most capable of blocking ads?
[20:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Xerox's Most Famous Blunder - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:02] <exec> 08└─Well, it was actually appropriate this time. I would have done it myself if he hadn't.
[20:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:25] <exec> 08└─Bad buds? The fuck are YOU smoking?
[20:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Protests NASA's Award of "Lucy" Launch Contract to ULA - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:26] <exec> 08└─Ehhh, did I mix up my druggie slang? Buds = marijuana buds. I'm not talking about smoking your headset :-p Maybe it's just an archaic term?
[20:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:35] <exec> 08└─Because html formatting tags are a pain.
[20:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:37] <exec> 08└─"True - though managing to do that in a "a-few-sizes-fit-all" fashion would be a real artform." :) "It's not a full power-suit, the upper body is a far more articulated challenge, but augmented legs alone can greatly increase your carrying capacity and long-range endurance" They certainly could. Wit...
[20:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clever USB Cable Can Accept Remote Commands - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:32] <exec> 08└─SyncStop.com USB Condom. Never travel without one!
[20:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clever USB Cable Can Accept Remote Commands - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:33] <exec> 08└─Well I can't speak for a USB condom but in my experience putting a condom over your ethernet cord before inserting it is 100% effective in preventing malware infections from the internet.
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[21:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extinct Human Species Lived Together in Siberian Cave, New Research Shows - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:58] <exec> 08└─It was a refugium - an area that stayed livable through the ice age. After the ice age ended, the population there grew, and eventually expanded out across Eurasia. It's tempting to identify them with https://en.wikipedia.org but the date on that is late enough that it...
[21:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:50] <exec> 08└─That's not the politician's fault. The voter is the only one that is responsible for the choices they make. When corrupt politicians win reelection, it's because the voters want a piece of that corruption for themselves.
[21:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:51] <exec> 08└─Ok well keep voting for giving more money to the government and blaming "the voter" when it is used for corrupt stuff then. I am sure your understanding of the world will lead to great success.
[21:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:13] <exec> 08└─Alpha had simple branch prediction. They wanted to go all in [ualberta.ca] with it for the EV8.
[21:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:14] <exec> 08└─You're essentially saying CPU vendors shouldn't try and fix the flaw because of those few users that re-sell hardware rather than re-purposing/scrapping it when its initial reason for purchase has been completed.
[21:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:16] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Well the Amiga proved you don't actually need a fast CPU if you design everything else around it I suppose.
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[21:35:19] <exec> 08└─Oh gosh, Arik, thanks for asking, but I'm not sure why this happens so much online: I never said RISC CPUs use speculative execution. I was only parroting what I read in many online articles about vulnerabilities, and they all say that RISC is also vulnerable. That said, after a quick search on term...
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[21:35:21] <exec> 08└─That's a great point. I never had my hands on an Amiga but always admired them. I think they made better use of sort of distributed processing with more intelligent peripherals, but I may be wrong. Probably much cleaner tighter code too. I've always been surprised (annoyed) by how much work most CPU...
[21:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:23] <exec> 08└─Google has a special deal on single tenant nodes .....
[21:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:25] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reply. AC already provied an interesting link taking it back further. ARM is generally considered RISC and I knew some ARM architectures did it, but few if any implementations are "pure" so I thought it was a reasonable question.
[21:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:40] <exec> 08└─I plead insanity. Can't blackmail the mentally insane!
[21:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:48] <exec> 08└─I guess I should add that there should never ever be an "excemption" from any law based on any religious, or "deeply held personal" beliefs. My dream: a government based on reality.
[21:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:49] <exec> 08└─If it's only three feet then filling it full of water wouldn't help the situation.
[21:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 1657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:51] <exec> 08└─"very large differences aside from appearance" Such as? I think classifying all humans as the same species has been done for political reasons not scientific reasons. Dogs are grey wolves and are closely related enough to smaller Canis species, such as the coyote and golden jackal to produce fert...
[21:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:49] <exec> 08└─Consider that I'm quite diligent about taking them. The Falcon and the Snowman was a non-fiction books. That Telegraph - actually Teletype - operator got Life for Treason.
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[22:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extinct Human Species Lived Together in Siberian Cave, New Research Shows - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:58] <exec> 08└─Muslims and humans live together in the same cities. From this, we can infer that the Denisovans were just a sleeper cell waiting to blow up the Neanderthals at the first opportunity.
[22:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extinct Human Species Lived Together in Siberian Cave, New Research Shows - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:00] <exec> 08└─Saying Neanderthals or Denisovans is racist according to a previous article.
[22:34:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 588 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:10] <exec> 08└─with perhaps a $6000 deductible, it really skews the costs of medical procedures. Medicare is $1.3 trillion. Medicaid $1.7 trillion. The federal govt is subsidizing healthcare by $3 trillion , and also has price controls on procedures (Medicare publishes a load of stuff on this), but not medications...
[22:34:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:32] <exec> 08└─Fortunately when they fixed my heart in my country Canada, it was without costs to me.
[22:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:53] <exec> 08└─Insurance is a crock in the classical sense of spreading out risk over a long term of paying premia, but it has become a membership club where you will pay $20 and the insurance company pays the remaining $180 that they negotiated for a blood test, while the guy off the street without membership get...
[22:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:54] <exec> 08└─the guy off the street without membership gets a bill for $5000 and filings against his credit rating when he can't pay.
[22:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:56] <exec> 08└─You're supposed to call the billing department and negotiate those bills. You probably won't get it as cheap as the insurance company, but they should be willing to negotiate it down to something that reflects the actual cost plus some profit. Especially, if it's something that you can't legitimatel...
[22:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:59] <exec> 08└─You pay into it all your life,....
[22:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:01] <exec> 08└─I don't know about that -- can healthcare-targeted actuarial AI programs feel pain? Seems like a good area for exploration.
[22:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:03] <exec> 08└─Blah blah blah ... bacon ... eggs ... waffle ... blah blah blah ok now I'm hungry.
[22:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:05] <exec> 08└─Technical progress that seems too slow to notice on the human scale is still happening too fast to be noticed on the evolutionary scale.)
[22:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:07] <exec> 08└─clearly this is a population reduction attempt
[22:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:10] <exec> 08└─More on NHST and p values -- here's a lecture that demonstrates how much more useful it is to use confidence intervals. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:12] <exec> 08└─Here's how it works out for me. Thousands of dollars taken from my paycheck and given to insurance companies that have no need to please me as they don't work for me. Thousands of dollars of medical bills paid from my own pocket because what I need is not covered and/or in-network providers cannot p...
[22:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:14] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they or their parents followed the advice in the '70s that butter was of the devil and consumed those yummy trans-fats in their margarine.
[22:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:42] <exec> 08└─Beta?
[22:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:44] <exec> 08└─No, you're right. It had dedicated chipsets to offload much of the work onto, and tight code? Haven't examined the code though IIRC it was leaked a few years ago, but that was definitely my impression. This was the end of the classic microcomputer days, OS code wasn't something written in a high lev...
[22:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:46] <exec> 08└─"Spectral analysis", in sciency terms.
[22:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, they will. Tough. That's still no reason why CPU vendors shouldn't try and fix this for good, in the CPU hardware, ASAP. If anything the enterprise/DC customers are the ones who are most exposed to Spectre, especially if they are in the VM hosting business, and therefore they (and any customers...
[22:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:04] <exec> 08└─Everyone already knows about small hands...does that count?
[22:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:05] <exec> 08└─It feels like the Russians managed to actually squeeze a small blackmail. Not sure on what, may not have been the hands, though.
[22:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:16] <exec> 08└─What level of differences between different groups of humans would be enough for you to accept the existence of different human species?
[22:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:17] <exec> 08└─So, if the different species and subspecies of gorillas or chimps or orangutans can interbreed within their group (different gorilla species/subspecies with other gorillas for instance) and produce fertile offspring and so can humans then why are they classified as different species/subspecies and n...
[22:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:19] <exec> 08└─It would only have to be tall enough to keep someone in your physical condition out, so say 3 feet tall?
[22:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:22] <exec> 08└─Can you not read? "Dogs/Grey wolves are closely related enough to different species, coyote, golden jackal to produce fertile hybrids." Different species, can breed and produce fertile offspring, but they are still different species.
[22:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:24] <exec> 08└─what determines species? Many species can interbreed and produce fertile hybrids including Ring Species in which some can interbreed with some but not others. So what the heck determines different species if not appearance, breeding, location or whatever. Is it just scientists wanting to say they di...
[22:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:26] <exec> 08└─Rubbish links Have this [youtube.com]
[22:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:00] <exec> 08└─If you're getting burnt out doing something you are doing on a volunteer basis, there's an easy way out - stop volunteering! If the thing you're doing is worth doing, someone else will step up to do it. If it's not, then nobody needs to do it. I don't care who you are, or what your role is, in any o...
[22:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:41] <exec> 08└─Kids: not just for unlimited free agricultural labor anymore!
[22:44:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe the Ruskies are way ahead of us on this. Would explain a lot of the stuff on social media and why reddit has become such a cesspool.
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[23:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Samsung to Stop Releasing New Blu-ray Players in the U.S. - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:56] <exec> 08└─Not crying any tears. BluRay devices are about as anti-consumer as you can get. Big Entertainment is on fucking crack if they think a 3D 4K movie is worth multiple times the price of a movie ticket. Get back to under $10 per title and I might consider a purchase, but never the hardware. Instead of p...
[23:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extinct Human Species Lived Together in Siberian Cave, New Research Shows - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:08] <exec> 08└─Denisovans – at one time lived alongside Neanderthals in the same cave
[23:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extinct Human Species Lived Together in Siberian Cave, New Research Shows - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:10] <exec> 08└─if neanderthals and denisovans were a different subspecies from modern homo sapiens sapiens then since europeans and asians have some of their dna aren't eurasians some kind of hybrid subspecies different from the baseline humans in subsaharan africa?
[23:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 2426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's my situation. $6000 deductible. Even with the pre-existing condition nonsense squashed, there's still excuse after excuse why whatever medical I need is not covered at all and I'll just have to pay out of pocket despite being insured. And it won't count towards the deductable. Lengthy d...
[23:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:15] <exec> 08└─I did keep my doctor. Most of the plans that went away were unlikely to actually pay out for anything. The people who were actually happy with them simply never happened to file a claim since signing up. I do agree that insurance was the wrong way to go, we should have tossed that entire industry ou...
[23:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:17] <exec> 08└─People still use confidence interval to do NHST, that isn't an alternative by itself. You can also do NHST with bayes factors...
[23:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:19] <exec> 08└─Why is it every single jackhole who says "hurr hurr social Darwinism" understands neither the modern synthesis nor prosocial behavior?
[23:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:22] <exec> 08└─If the idea of a waffle makes you crave food you have a carb addiction. That isn't hunger you are feeling.
[23:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:24] <exec> 08└─You mean Romneycare, since this individual mandate horseshit was his idea.
[23:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:26] <exec> 08└─Hey, I suppose your rigth, please forgive my ignorance about for profit health care, I live in Canada...
[23:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of US Adults With Heart Disease Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - 1493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:28] <exec> 08└─Depends on the motivations. The hospital may be trying to prove some point or other, and refuse to give a millimeter. Their billing department could well be corrupt and dishonest. They know they're full of it, and they don't care. I spoke with the head of the billing department at a hospital and he...
[23:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spectre is Here to Stay: An Analysis of Side-Channels and Speculative Execution - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:01] <exec> 08└─Something I'd been wondering since this came out: isn't the solution not to drop speculative execution entirely, but just to make sure parts of the chip can't read what they have no business reading? Ever since I learned what NUMA was, it's occurred to me that individual systems can look like an ent...
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:19] <exec> 08└─The way that rigth works in China, is that your data is forgotten at the same time as your existence.
[23:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:35] <exec> 08└─Since humans wiped out or outcompeted other hominids like the neanderthal, denisovan etc. its really lonely with just one human species. It'd be cooler to just think there are a bunch of different human species alive today that can all interbreed with each other. It would make the world more interes...
[23:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:37] <exec> 08└─Can you not read?
[23:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:39] <exec> 08└─What kind of divisions? If neanderthals and denisovans were a different subspecies from modern homo sapiens sapiens then since europeans and asians have some of their dna aren't eurasians some kind of hybrid subspecies different from the baseline humans in subsaharan africa?
[23:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:41] <exec> 08└─So, it's no racism because a religion is not a race. Reasonable enough. Except for the bit where her comment was about NATIONALITY, not religion! Residents of "Islamic countries" is NOT the same group as "Muslims". This is like when you criticize the foreign policy decisions of Israel and immediatel...
[23:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:43] <exec> 08└─Islam and Judaism are waaaaaaaay closer together than either one wants to admit :) And closer to one another than either is to Christianity. Ironic, no? Halal is more or less "permitted, sanctioned," and "haraam" is "forbidden, set apart, under protection/separation." And yes, the word "harem" share...
[23:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:46] <exec> 08└─I agree a single allele a unlikely to be a sufficient factor in determining race/subspecies. If DNA mutations occur in germ cells it is copied into every new cell of the embryo after fertilisation. Which is a way new DNA variants are passed on to the next generation. If the mutation affects a gene,...
[23:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:48] <exec> 08└─Judaism is the one religion that's also an ethnic group. They are very literal about being Yahweh's chosen *people,* humans, genetic stock (though they didn't have that particular concept back then). In particular, Jewishness is supposed to be passed down *matrilinearly,* which surprised me very muc...
[23:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:50] <exec> 08└─Rachel Dolezal is a nutbar and should not be taken seriously. I honestly thought she was some sort of ultra-right troll upon first hearing about her, but no, she seems to be one of the few genuine leftie crazies out there...
[23:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:52] <exec> 08└─"What kind of divisions?" *Biological* divisions. "If neanderthals and denisovans were a different subspecies from modern homo sapiens sapiens then since europeans and asians have some of their dna aren't eurasians some kind of hybrid subspecies different from the baseline humans in subsaharan afric...
[23:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Court Rules that Muslim Is Not A Race - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:55] <exec> 08└─Dogs and grey wolves can produce fertile offspring. Under direct human intervention, not without it. I've already posted that I consider them to be the same species as a result, but legitimately separated as subspecies. They're orders of magnitude more separated than any human populations you can ci...
[23:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Publishes RISC-V "SweRV" Core Design Under Apache 2.0 License - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:05] <exec> 08└─You must be new here! Oh... Wait...
[23:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:31] <exec> 08└─Hardware isn't free, internet access and the infrastructure thereof isn't free, CS training isn't free...but where is the money actually coming from and going? I'd be immediately suspicious of corporate beancounters and other various rent-seekers, and the more innocuous-sounding the name, the more s...
[23:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:16] <exec> 08└─Now you've tripped my sarcasm detector. You honestly don't see any problem with 1% of the population owning 50% of the wealth? Let me guess: you imagine yourself a temporarily embarrassed millionaire?
[23:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:18] <exec> 08└─I can't be bothered to find a link right now but I seem to recall reading somewhere that the uber-wealthy give substantially less to charity than those in the middle class. (By percentage of income I assume.)
[23:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:20] <exec> 08└─I'm talking about this idea where corrupt puppets of the super rich and corporations get more money in some scheme purported to decrease wealth inequality. It makes no sense except as a scam, probably why they all laugh at it.
[23:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:17] <exec> 08└─No you illiterate dipshit. Read the bottom sentence where I very clearly said that my hamburger wouldn't be anywhere in the vicinity of health conscious food.
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