#comments | Logs for 2019-07-29

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[00:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:25] <exec> 08└─reeeee reeeee reeeee
[00:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:27] <exec> 08└─Not if you use a public exchange. These are coming to people who hit the $20,000 mark with Coinbase. Under a court order, they are required to report accounts that trade $20,000 or more in crypto.
[00:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's not like blockchain-based currencies fundamentally involve placing all transaction on a cryptographically verifiable public ledger, haha, that would be stupid.
[00:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:31] <exec> 08└─It was the dream of many an autistic nerd: Attach a machine to a power source that someone else is paying for and collect magic fun non-money "money". That you could buy drugs with or sell to people that need drugs, CP or fake identity documents. And the government could not see what you were doing....
[00:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:43] <exec> 08└─After looking at https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org], my take is that phonons are nothing more than the particle equivalent of waves, which in the case of phonons, represents the propagation of mechanical waves in the lattice structure of the transducer itself (not the air through...
[00:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:08] <exec> 08└─First you have to establish the "value proposition" - of course this little nothing is "worth" $49, look at everything it can do for you. Really, when digital alarm clocks cost $14.95 back in the early 1980s, adjusted for inflation, $49 is about the same... and digital alarm clocks couldn't list all...
[00:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:09] <exec> 08└─$EVILGADGET doesn't do anything that your average smartphone does. If you want to go off on $EVILGADGET, go off on the one that tracks your every movement in realtime, knows how fast you drive, can (and probably sometimes does) not only eavesdrop on sounds in the room, but has cameras on the front a...
[00:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:11] <exec> 08└─The alzheimers is setting in: $EVILGADGET doesn't do anything that your average smartphone does'nt do.
[00:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:32] <exec> 08└─What you are really saying is that living in the basement there isn't any need for portable devices...
[00:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Discovery May Make Liver Transplants Obsolete - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:45] <exec> 08└─We're not really looking at market applications right now. (I like being the only one with an indestructible liver.)
[00:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:27] <exec> 08└─You know what will make you think that trees can have evil intent? Have a locust tree. If you leave it alone you will periodically have to cut down some saplings springing up here and there. Cut down the whole thing though, and a forest of saplings appears over night and for ages to come over all of...
[00:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:29] <exec> 08└─I think it is unlikely, but if trees have feelings then plants do too, so the Vegan movement will disappear...
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[01:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematician Posts Proof for the Sensitivity Conjecture - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:20] <exec> 08└─I knew the "conjecture" was true way before.
[01:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:38] <exec> 08└─Well fuck me. I had converted $19,996 and then decided to convert another $5 to donate to an ophanage on New Years Eve.
[01:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:52] <exec> 08└─When we do the "double-slit" experiment, what is a phonon to do?
[01:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:53] <exec> 08└─After looking at https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] [wikipedia.org], my take is that phonons are nothing more than the particle equivalent of waves, ..., represents the propagation of mechanical waves in the lattice structure of the transducer itself
[01:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:55] <exec> 08└─"Sound is touch at a distance." Phonons -- hmmm -- maybe the SJWs are right and words are assaults.
[01:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:22] <exec> 08└─how about fuck them instead?
[01:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:24] <exec> 08└─the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation to give away 100,000 Home Minis to people living with paralysis and their caregivers.
[01:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:26] <exec> 08└─Except Gmail is free and we all know how many people use THAT!
[01:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:28] <exec> 08└─A paralyzed person without a care giver is also known as a stiff.
[01:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:51] <exec> 08└─There would have to be multiple checks to ensure that the only folks being monitored were in fact cops, politicians, etc.
[01:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:09] <exec> 08└─Imagine all of the people you know. Your boss, coworkers, friends, family, people on the bus, in the coffee shop. Imagine that all of their phones had default root access. Imagine all of the stuff they do on their phones, the apps they install, the websites they visit. They probably do their banking...
[01:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:52] <exec> 08└─I find it difficult to make up my mind about this topic. From the standpoint of programming in assembly, I'd be thinking about something along the lines of what you describe. A clean design without decades of vestigal junk in it, more on the CISC side, but with plenty of general purpose registers. (...
[01:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:15] <exec> 08└─For example, check this list [forbes.com] out. Notice that wind is hanging around 150 deaths per trillion kWh, while global nuclear power is hanging around 90 deaths per.
[01:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:16] <exec> 08└─Sure, it does not mean there is nothing to do, nuclear needs to be phased out and replaced by wind and solar.
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[02:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:20] <exec> 08└─Try. Fail. Try again. Fail again. Fail better next time.
[02:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematician Posts Proof for the Sensitivity Conjecture - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:28] <exec> 08└─Paul Erdős thanked is creativity and productivity to his use of amphetamine.
[02:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematician Posts Proof for the Sensitivity Conjecture - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:30] <exec> 08└─You say that like overdose wasn't the most common cause of death among historic mathematicians.
[02:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematician Posts Proof for the Sensitivity Conjecture - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:32] <exec> 08└─Prove it.
[02:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematician Posts Proof for the Sensitivity Conjecture - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:34] <exec> 08└─This is a cool thing. At least for me, because I like mathematics. Logic classes were a favorite of mine way back when and I will admit that I had no idea, at the time, that Boolean functions could be studied so. Hey kids, this is math. When you're studying for whatever degree in a computer related...
[02:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─I'm glad the United States Postal Service is reminding taxpayers that cryptocurrency is subject to taxes.
[02:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:54] <exec> 08└─Brian reminds colonists that taxes are due on tea sitting in the harbor...
[02:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:56] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin was never meant to be anonymous.
[02:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:59] <exec> 08└─Since it isn't actually currency, if it's never converted to a real currency does it actually count? i.e. If you plugged in your number-generator, found some matches ("generated currency"), then only used it to exchange with people for other non-currency goods or services (e.g. pizza, a ride in an a...
[02:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:14] <exec> 08└─On the off chance that you really do not understand the reference, and are not just being a dick: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Phonons should face the same indeterminancies as photons, though I can see how gender and quantum fluidity could be equally threateni...
[02:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:46] <exec> 08└─These surveillance devices in disguise are easily avoidable when you're able-bodied and midly privacy-conscious. But they're REALLY useful to the disabled. Meaning these people are easy prey to Big Data, because the lure of free useful shit that truly improves life is almost irresistible. What's tra...
[02:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:40] <exec> 08└─Don't mod me troll, just build your own gravity well from scratch to prove me wrong!
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[03:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:19] <exec> 08└─Try again. Fail again. Fail better next time.
[03:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:20] <exec> 08└─The bit that caught my eye was : the AV industry has mostly dialed down its efforts in Washington. According to Politico, lobbying on driverless cars dropped 35 percent between the end of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019.
[03:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:23] <exec> 08└─Which seems to imply that legislation doesn't get worked on unless some industry or other is paying for it.
[03:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 1580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:25] <exec> 08└─I follow several auto industry trade magazines/journals. After a few years of rosy and often ridiculous predictions, in the last few months some doubt about the autonomous future has crept into editorials and articles. With the exception of Musk/Tesla, I get the impression that the word has finally...
[03:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematician Posts Proof for the Sensitivity Conjecture - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:36] <exec> 08└─Assume the predicate false. Then I wouldn't have known it to be true, but I knew it to be true, and way back when. Therefore it is true. Q.E.D.
[03:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:00] <exec> 08└─> Well fuck me. Trump spotted--yet another claim of a charitable donation that was never made.
[03:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:44] <exec> 08└─Yep, Steam hardware surveys have always been quite bad. It still seems to count Wine users as Windows users - unless the user is using Proton. This is despite the fact that it can detect the user is running Wine without issue.
[03:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:35] <exec> 08└─Blah, blah. There is plenty of difference. Gas plants often use a combined cycle, which produces more power per unit of cooling water than nuclear plants that have a single cycle. Explainer [forbes.com]
[03:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:37] <exec> 08└─Nuclear waste from today will still be dangerous thousands of years from now. Only a crystal ball could tell us what form of energy is safer.
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[04:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using the Same Tactics as ‘Big Tobacco,’ Juul May Have Intentionally Targeted Teens - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:14] <exec> 08└─What the hell did anyone expect when a tobacco company is invited to speak to schoolkids? I wonder if it went something like this [youtube.com]? To be honest, I'm not really that outraged at Juul - after all this was entirely predictable on their part. What I'm most angry about are the schools that...
[04:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:27] <exec> 08└─Which seems to imply that legislation doesn't get worked on unless some industry or other is paying for it.
[04:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:28] <exec> 08└─Not surprised, just disappointed.
[04:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:05] <exec> 08└─From the IRS website: "If you barter, you must report on your tax return the fair market value of the products or services you received. Tax implications. Bartering is taxable in the year it occurs." That dodge regularly gets tried and shot down. And someone showing up with large amounts of unexplai...
[04:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:06] <exec> 08└─"Brian reminds colonists" "Always look on the bright side of life!"
[04:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:08] <exec> 08└─"If you barter, you must report on your tax return the fair market value of the products or services you received.
[04:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:11] <exec> 08└─What's next? The IRS demanding that you pay tax on the loot you collect during you D&D quests?
[04:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:13] <exec> 08└─It all started with the Whiskey Tax, which George Washington actually marched a conscripted army against protestors of (some of whom may or may not have inflicted violence on tax men coming to collect.) It only took 4-8 years for the unfair taxation without (equal) representation to overcome America...
[04:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:15] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the reality of living in almost any country with a legal system. Very nearly just by existing you are in violation of some law and can be prosecuted for it if it's convenient. And as to those countries without an effective legal system, there's not even the fig leaf of law and due process...
[04:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Like Film Editors and Archaeologists, Biochemists Piece Together Genome History - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:10] <exec> 08└─Scientists named Toor and Haack from UC San Diego? San Diego as in the home of Toorcon a hacker conference? Ooookay... And the lab website has a picture of Toor with William Shatner? If they're real, life's trolling us.
[04:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:46] <exec> 08└─It's a marketing thing, not to be taken literally. Saying "we're bringing our country into line with the rest of the world" both explains and sells new policy well. What Aus is doing has neither the teeth of the GDPR, nor the slap-on-the-wrist who-cares of the US, so it should be interpreted as sayi...
[04:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:48] <exec> 08└─I read the executive summary and list of recommendations. It doesn't really do anything for consumer rights.
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[05:22:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Using the Same Tactics as ‘Big Tobacco,’ Juul May Have Intentionally Targeted Teens - 414 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:19] <exec> 08└─What the hell did anyone expect when a tobacco company is invited to speak to schoolkids? I wonder if it went something like this [youtube.com]? To be honest, I'm not really that outraged at Juul - after all this was entirely predictable on their part. What I'm most angry about are the schools that...
[05:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Using the Same Tactics as ‘Big Tobacco,’ Juul May Have Intentionally Targeted Teens - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:20] <exec> 08└─Teen does dumb thing, news at 11.
[05:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using the Same Tactics as ‘Big Tobacco,’ Juul May Have Intentionally Targeted Teens - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:23] <exec> 08└─What I'm most angry about are the schools that were dumb/greedy enough to think that it was a good idea to invite Juul to speak to their kids.
[05:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe just common sense? After a few of these bills being passed around congress they finally realized that there is no way anyone is going to pass legislature in America exempting for profit companies from wrongful death liability. And the accountants were asked to tabulate how much they would have...
[05:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematician Posts Proof for the Sensitivity Conjecture - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:49] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] because everything is just a higher-level abstraction or application of the math underneath.
[05:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:19] <exec> 08└─So the IRS seriously expects you to declare the fair market value of a couple of beers and some pizza when you help a friend move?
[05:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:21] <exec> 08└─IRS treats crypto as a commodity. Similar to gold, boys, didn't you want it? This means that you have to report each transaction as a buy/sell commodity. Specifically, when you buy a pizza using a bitcoin, you have to report when and where you got the bitcoin you used and for how much (if you mined...
[05:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:23] <exec> 08└─Painting has value changed and taxes paid even if no money were ever paid for it, bro. Classical example being a girl's son going to jail for not reporting taxes on a painting girl's lover gave her 50 years ago.
[05:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:39] <exec> 08└─My bet is no, they don't do as photons. The math may have some value, but the implying explanation is BS.
[05:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:37] <exec> 08└─Those ain't parasites, you stoopid. Those are your betters.
[05:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Australia Bank (NAB) Admits 13K Customers' Data Uploaded to Data Service - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:55] <exec> 08└─+1 Groan
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[06:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using the Same Tactics as ‘Big Tobacco,’ Juul May Have Intentionally Targeted Teens - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:25] <exec> 08└─My thoughts as well. WTF are schools accepting money from corporate interests? Public schools are paid for with public money. That is, the schools belong to you and me, the taxpayer. If the school district is taking money from corporate interests, then there is some kind of fraud going on.
[06:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:40] <exec> 08└─IMO, we are several decades away from reliable, fully autonomous vehicles. Building a vehicle today with no driver controls at all is criminally stupid. It's going to take a few disasters to convince lawmakers of that, though. We need to re-introduce Murphy to the decision makers. There are pages an...
[06:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mathematician Posts Proof for the Sensitivity Conjecture - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:54] <exec> 08└─Classic example of why math works. It's not about "knowing" stuff. It's about proving what you claim to know.
[06:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:28] <exec> 08└─In '79 and '80, I was an assistant Scoutmaster in Gouldsboro, Maine. We held meetings in the old Gouldsboro town hall. The tax records caught my eye, one day, sitting tidily in boxes, row upon row. I picked a box labeled at random, and skimmed through the documents. Taxes assessed were paid in vario...
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[06:23:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/whiskey-rebellion [history.com] Bolding by me: The Whiskey Rebellion was a 1794 uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government. Following years of aggression with tax collectors, the reg...
[06:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:47] <exec> 08└─Lay down the track on pure water.
[06:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:49] <exec> 08└─When we do the "double-slit" experiment, what is a phonon to do?
[06:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:51] <exec> 08└─The time when computers used vacuum tubes is long over. Sound definitely travels in solid materials.
[06:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:50] <exec> 08└─That makes 4 bits per core. ;-)
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[07:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shaping Light With a Smartlens - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:13] <exec> 08└─So let me be clear on this: to correct an oh-so-slowly-changing problem with my eyesight, you want to use a device which needs a very high amount of complex control (my eyesight is screwed up in complicated ways and has very fine resolution, thank you), kept exactly constant for second, after second...
[07:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:39] <exec> 08└─From TFA: In late 2017, the then Republican-controlled House passed the SELF DRIVE Act, which would speed the adoption of self-driving cars and bar states from setting performance standards.
[07:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:48] <exec> 08└─Didn't Intel poach quite a few graphics people from AMD and the others recently? I wouldn't be surprised if their cards are good, and if they have good linux support I'd buy one in a heartbeat (and there's no reason to believe they wouldn't have great 1st class support).
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[08:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:16] <exec> 08└─From personal experience, this it true. I have not died for a long time, but it seems that some of my companions have off themselves, like Seneca, and Heraclitus, maybe. But this is always considered to be a flaw in a philosophical system. Yes, we are going Godwin, and Hitler's cowardly suicide, but...
[08:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:17] <exec> 08└─As an AC, I have to let every Soylentil know that the parent post is by aristarchus. And you boffins in the IRC, it is "aristarchus". There is no "Aristarchus". Unix case distinction, not Microsoft miscegenation. Get the name right.
[08:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shaping Light With a Smartlens - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:26] <exec> 08└─Hey, I believe you when you say you are not in any market segment that can benefit. But, for example, real-time vision correction for the oh-so-many affected by beer goggles is of outmost importance to their immediate quality of life and, indeed, for the humanity's issue with overpopulation.
[08:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shaping Light With a Smartlens - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:28] <exec> 08└─First thing: Maybe some of us, the few, the Proud, the Astronomers, are trying to look at stuff in the night sky. Shield your lights, or, just turn them off. The Goblins that were going to get you without the lights are still going to get you, and Thieves are always more efficient when they can see...
[08:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using the Same Tactics as ‘Big Tobacco,’ Juul May Have Intentionally Targeted Teens - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:38] <exec> 08└─Where I live, advertising tobacco products is forbidden. This apparently does not apply to vaping products. They run ads that remind me exactly of the old tobacco ads: "this is cool, you want to be in the right crowd, do it". Of course the ads are aimed at young people - that's who is most subject t...
[08:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:21] <exec> 08└─Swap Android for Windows. Or Linux. Or Mac. Does.this still hold water?
[08:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Discovery May Make Liver Transplants Obsolete - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:20] <exec> 08└─Only if you can afford the treatment. With the current price of cutting edge medicine, probably not.
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[09:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:23] <exec> 08└─You'll take whatever name we decide to give you, and like it, wanker.
[09:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:24] <exec> 08└─... or you say this like it's a good thing. According to wikipedia there are roughly 15 Mio suicide attempts per year ~ 1 Mio being successful. Assuming most are first attempts (only 30% do re-attempt) this roughly means you have a life-time risk of attempting of < 10% and implying a death rate of <...
[09:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:06] <exec> 08└─Are you one of these tools?
[09:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:29] <exec> 08└─Let's remove about:config while we're at it because users can't be trusted with that much power
[09:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:30] <exec> 08└─I think you read that rong It means that users can flip an option, like the existing 'allow third party installers', to get root access. Most people won't notice it unless they need it. Maybe some app like a firewall will ask for it. Worst case scenario is that the phone will need to be reset.
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[10:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06'Anonymised' Data Can Never be Totally Anonymous, Says Study - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:15] <exec> 08└─This isn't the first time we've been told that data can be deanonymized. This isn't the first year. It's been repeated by several sources now, over the course of at least ten years. A dataset with 15 demographic attributes, for instance, “would render 99.98% of people in Massachusetts unique
[10:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Anonymised' Data Can Never be Totally Anonymous, Says Study - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, stop collecting data. That will work,... not. The whole point of Big Data is that you can do stuff like identifying on basis of partial data. See how Paul revere [kieranhealy.org] is identified using a very sparse data set. The simple fact is, everything leaves a trace. It is the combination of...
[10:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:28] <exec> 08└─The other 10% get a job working for the Clintons.
[10:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:29] <exec> 08└─Everyone who attempts suicide dies later, from one cause or another.
[10:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:31] <exec> 08└─I think that the article's point is that there's evidence-based studies that completely contradict the common myth that anyone who attempts suicide will just keep trying repeatedly until they succeed, and that there's supposedly nothing that can be done to help them.
[10:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:08] <exec> 08└─Politicians that vote to put automated killmobiles on the roads aren't likely to get re-elected next time, no matter how much bribe money lobbyists give them.
[10:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:09] <exec> 08└─Actually, the federal DOT already claims jurisdiction when it comes to "standards". You don't see individual states licensing class 8 trucks to run up and down the highways with hydraulic brakes, do you? That's because the feds have mandated that class 8 trucks have air brakes. Hydraulics was outlaw...
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[11:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Anonymised' Data Can Never be Totally Anonymous, Says Study - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:24] <exec> 08└─You're right, of course. But it's even worse: After removing all personal details, there are still probably enough correlations to identify you. Take medical data, as an example. To render the data useful, you can probably restrict personal information to something like: - Gender: Male - Born: 1965...
[11:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Anonymised' Data Can Never be Totally Anonymous, Says Study - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:26] <exec> 08└─There's nothing to do. If you remove all data useful for fingerprinting you're left with only garbage data. The only way data is not good for fingerprinting is if the possible values of a data point are evenly distributed, but if you knew that already you didn't need any data. The whole concept is a...
[11:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:40] <exec> 08└─OK, but be mindful that you are addressing aristarchus, and not Aristarchus. Microsoft, and childhood practices, made you think that capitalization does not matter, and of course this RECURS WHEN YOU GET OLD, mostly because lower-case type is to small to read. But I must insist, my username is not...
[11:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:42] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of people who seriously attempt suicide likely get it done properly the first time around. I mean, it doesn't take a genius to figure out slowly bleeding to death or your response to poisons is too variable when you can just google map the nearest cliff or skyscraper and go curb di...
[11:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:44] <exec> 08└─with no one objecting, except his deceased meals.
[11:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematician Posts Proof for the Sensitivity Conjecture - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:36] <exec> 08└─And just how is it that you "knew it to be true"? Claim without facts in evidence. Let's try your "proof" using this conjecture: "The Earth is flat."
[11:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:12] <exec> 08└─... why isn't google or facebook (or their users) on the hook for bartering free storage and image hosting for personal information, eh ? That tax bill should be quite something. Maybe the French should take that angle...
[11:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:14] <exec> 08└─And therefore you need to keep track of these values on the books and report them along with paying relevant taxes.
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[12:22:18] <exec> 08└─Displays properly on all platforms (PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones, ...)
[12:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03cockroach [2266] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:20] <exec> 08└─If you don't need user comments, you might consider using a software that generates static HTML for you. I wrote my own little collection of Python scripts for that (using Chameleon as a template engine to generate HTML), but systems like Pelican [getpelican.com] might be easier if you don't want to...
[12:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:22] <exec> 08└─Huh, I'm yet to see something lightweight that display properly on 5", 14"-17" and 27" displays. That's the nature of the beast, different screen sizes have different ergonomics.
[12:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:24] <exec> 08└─https://ghost.org/ [ghost.org] https://www.silverstripe.org [silverstripe.org] And note that Wordpress without plugins on nginx is actually a lean install I’m guessing Drupal and Joomla are leaner than you expect as well.
[12:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Anonymised' Data Can Never be Totally Anonymous, Says Study - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:34] <exec> 08└─oooohhhh! this is going to be fun: the result of usa census 2020. /me rubs hands. jokes aside, if the usa clubberment can anonymize census data then everybody else is probably using another meaning for "anonymized data", or is it possible to de-anonymize census data?
[12:22:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:48] <exec> 08└─I think that the article's point is that there's evidence-based studies that completely contradict the common myth that anyone who attempts suicide will just keep trying repeatedly until they succeed, and that there's supposedly nothing that can be done to help them.
[12:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using the Same Tactics as ‘Big Tobacco,’ Juul May Have Intentionally Targeted Teens - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:12] <exec> 08└─Get them addicted young, and they'll be your lifelong customers.
[12:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using the Same Tactics as ‘Big Tobacco,’ Juul May Have Intentionally Targeted Teens - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:14] <exec> 08└─More likely the coach or rather the dean needed a blowjob.
[12:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:33] <exec> 08└─Politicians that vote to put automated killmobiles on the roads aren't likely to get re-elected next time, no matter how much bribe money lobbyists give them.
[12:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:35] <exec> 08└─Disappointment is the biggest part of learning about how our governmental systems work. They really should start teaching the disappointment phase around middle school - definitely before voting age.
[12:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:37] <exec> 08└─In 2009 I approached an insurer about basic liability coverage for operation of a 6lb drone for the purposes of aerial mapping. They came back with a quote somewhere in the range of $25K per year per drone in operation, with provisos for fully trained operators, etc. Combine that with the legal rest...
[12:24:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:21] <exec> 08└─So the IRS seriously expects you to declare the fair market value of a couple of beers and some pizza when you help a friend move?
[12:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:53] <exec> 08└─It's RiscV, which is thoroughly documented. The instruction set is miles better dan x64. These new processors are nowhere near as fast as current x64 though. Not even close and won't be for quite some time.
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[13:22:27] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/~SemperOSS/journal/ [soylentnews.org]
[13:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:28] <exec> 08└─https://ghost.org/ [ghost.org] https://www.silverstripe.org [silverstripe.org] And note that Wordpress without plugins on nginx is actually a lean install I’m guessing Drupal and Joomla are leaner than you expect as well.
[13:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:30] <exec> 08└─The current trend for blogs is static blogs, with generators such as https://gohugo.io [gohugo.io] or https://hexo.io [hexo.io]. It is rather simple, and as it is static hosting, that is pretty much bullet proof. You can even add comments with https://commento.io [commento.io] or https://posativ....
[13:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:33] <exec> 08└─Are you sure? I've not written anything in the last 15 years that didn't use utf-8 throughout.
[13:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:35] <exec> 08└─I can't decide between insightful, interesting, informative, funny, touché or underrated.
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:37] <exec> 08└─Agree. List of static generators: https://www.staticgen.com [staticgen.com] I've used bashblog (early 00's) and void [github.com] more recently. My comment engine is my own but for an RPI, I'd use disqus or similar.
[13:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:40] <exec> 08└─And note that Wordpress without plugins on nginx is actually a lean install
[13:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:42] <exec> 08└─Our blue sister site, Pipedot [pipedot.org] is based on Pipecode [pipecode.org]. You could ask Bryan about it or fork it for yourself.
[13:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shaping Light With a Smartlens - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:18] <exec> 08└─All of that presumably embedded in a _free-floating_ contact lens?
[13:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zappy [4210] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:11] <exec> 08└─Phoronix cites a 7.1 Coremark/MHz score, that's comparable with an Intel Core 2 Duo generation cpu.
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[14:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:14] <exec> 08└─Nobody likes working for a dick.
[14:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:16] <exec> 08└─Some managers are like diamonds. The important thing about diamonds is that they are hard. Of far less importance is whether they are cut or uncut.
[14:22:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fnord666 [652] 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:33] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/~SemperOSS/journal/ [soylentnews.org]
[14:22:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03loic [5844] 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:35] <exec> 08└─The current trend for blogs is static blogs, with generators such as https://gohugo.io [gohugo.io] or https://hexo.io [hexo.io]. It is rather simple, and as it is static hosting, that is pretty much bullet proof. You can even add comments with https://commento.io [commento.io] or https://posativ....
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:42] <exec> 08└─Can we integrate Diaspora* or GNUSocial instead of the subscription/profiling/tracking $aa$ approach? Is still SaaS I suppose, but not $aa$. I'm not as familiar with Diaspora*. Would it meet OP's requirements?
[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─tried WordPress? You haven't defined "lightweight", but you have a long list of requirements. As I and others have commented above, WordPress really isn't bad at all. I admin it on LAMP. I trim Apache of unnecessary modules. Trim MySQL and php. Tons of web references on how to do this. MySQL would b...
[14:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:47] <exec> 08└─Hadn't seen that, looks very interesting. Thanks.
[14:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:49] <exec> 08└─+1 Hugo. You don't even have to install it on the Pi. Just scp or git the generated site. Reduces your attack surface to the kernel, ssh and the html server.
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:51] <exec> 08└─Last time I used PHP on top of MySql (about 4-5 years ago), I remember I had some hard time to get proper UTF8 through the AMP part of LAMP and back; fortunately, an one off effort at the beginning of the project. Don't know what's the status now.
[14:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:53] <exec> 08└─The "user comments" section will require some workflow contortions to adjust to static HTML pages approach.
[14:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─#metoo
[14:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right, offload commenting to clouded social media. Great idea, pour your heart into your blog and let... (no, scratch that)... invite others to monetize it! Jesus would approve, he wanted to save the meek, you go a step further.
[14:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:26] <exec> 08└─Some of us chug poison in the hope it might do something So ahh STILL ALIVE!
[14:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:27] <exec> 08└─Deceased people object all the time. Aunt Tilly objects to your marriage but doesn't say anything her entire life, because lots of old people seem to become more passive aggressive. You go to the reading of Aunt Tilly's will and she gives away huge chunks of her fortune to everyone in the family but...
[14:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:29] <exec> 08└─I didn't realize that was a common myth. I seem to recall the common wisdom being that a failed suicide attempt gives people a renewed appreciation for life - much like any other close brush with death. Secondary emotional traumas may result, but a desire to die seems to usually be cured by a visit...
[14:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:31] <exec> 08└─I guess I'm blessed Tilly wasn't my aunt and I didn't see her (in the context of ""I'm yet to see ..") - (large grin)
[14:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:07] <exec> 08└─Gold is worse because it gets punishment-taxed at 28%. Can you even still buy gold without having to document your identity?
[14:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:25] <exec> 08└─If I were, wouldn't that show my point was valid?
[14:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:36] <exec> 08└─You can get so much more computer for the money in a tower, and it's a lot easier to find configurations that support ECC ram. Upgradeability is orders of magnitude better, and I can put in as many native serial ports as I've got PCIe slots for. Work gave me a laptop, and I almost always use it dock...
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[15:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:23] <exec> 08└─Here's an idea. (One that my employer has.) Profit sharing program with bonuses. The bonus pool is split among employees -- after audit on annual results is complete and published for shareholders. If you get a nice bonus maybe, about the size of a month's pay or more on occasion, tied to the busine...
[15:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:24] <exec> 08└─With your pay ratio compared to the top dogs? That bonus probably doesn't even matter. Either way, you need your job to pay for mortgage/credit/debt/loans whatevers, so why rock the boat?
[15:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:27] <exec> 08└─Everyone should know this. It's the sort of knowledge that ought to be nearly instinctive in people. Don't treat underlings like dirt, like replaceable cogs, wishing that they didn't have feelings. But, there are plenty of dimwitted managers who don't quite believe it. Maybe, they've decided that as...
[15:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:29] <exec> 08└─Capitalist alienation? Or is this evidence to support or at least quantify the theory of alienation [wikipedia.org] of the working class under capitalism? "The capitalist class pretends to pay me, and I pretend to work."
[15:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:31] <exec> 08└─Either way, you need your job to pay for mortgage/credit/debt/loans whatevers, so why rock the boat?
[15:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe, they've decided that asserting their dominance is more important, and think that listening to employees is weak.
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe, they've decided that asserting their dominance is more important
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─Bosses are like diapers... Full of shit and all over your ass.
[15:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:46] <exec> 08└─At least for the vast majority of the shit that got spread in the "secret macedonian server" era of 2016, it was almost never hard to spot. You'd get every one of the "duh" points *No name website with a style sheet that vaguely matches a news site *Very obviously centered on making someone as angry...
[15:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:48] <exec> 08└─...I've been playing that game here for about 2 years. It's almost as fun as whack a mole using the mod points. Only got 10 credits left :(
[15:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I admin WordPress on an older server and it's fine. I use Apache and it's not a problem. Tried nginx but too many things were too difficult (yes, whaaaa)
[15:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:16] <exec> 08└─You can host commento (and a half dozen other self-hosted commenting systems) alongside hugo: https://oct8l.gitlab.io [gitlab.io] https://darekkay.com [darekkay.com]
[15:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:19] <exec> 08└─+1 for Hugo also. It's a static generator but can quite easily be extended with PHP and javascript code if you want. comments with isso can be self hosted. It's very fast and the templates are easy to read and edit. ghost is also good but a bit heavier and I have also enjoyed using grav. Hugo is def...
[15:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:21] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, true that I've also fixed inherited 3rd party code without utf-8. Fix the encoding on the database tables, set apache with correct content type and use iconv functions for PHP (typically adding input validation). Moderate codebase can be fixed in a day, what project (other than a green one) h...
[15:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:23] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't really meet the moderation requirement unless you're simply talking about authentication? [schnack.cool]
[15:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dioxide [7248] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:25] <exec> 08└─I haven't confirmed all of your needs, but take a look at Bludit. It's worked well for us, and if you know a little PHP, its easy to customize. You can find templates that will work on phones or computers, and it's very easy to use. https://www.bludit.com [bludit.com] dioxide
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Anonymised' Data Can Never be Totally Anonymous, Says Study - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:37] <exec> 08└─The cashiers in my local supermarket regularly ask me whether I've got the bonus program card. I don't. But I've been wondering how easy it would be possible to identify customers by a combination of goods they habitually buy or don't buy. With thousands of different products, a combination of two o...
[15:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:58] <exec> 08└─Comparing that to the 10% chance from suicide after attempting first, the risk increase is more than 10-fold.
[15:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:59] <exec> 08└─Googling for whether it is legal to commit suicide gives interesting results. Like this . . . [wikipedia.org] The Suicide Act 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz 2 c 60) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It decriminalised the act of suicide in England and Wales so that those who failed in the attempt...
[15:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:02] <exec> 08└─Are you sure they don't work for Comcast?
[15:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─Don't some mental illness drugs warn of suicide as one of the possible side effects?
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:06] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOP6uMTYaM8 [youtube.com] It is not a surprise that close encounter with death removes all romanticism of suicide and yearning for being a tragic figure from most wannabe tragic figures, but it doesn't work for the really depressed ones. OTOH, the really depressed one...
[15:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shaping Light With a Smartlens - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:16] <exec> 08└─Some people shape light using "beer googles". This makes less attractive people optically appear to be more attractive. Being a non drinker I have not experienced this. But I have heard of it.
[15:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:52] <exec> 08└─That does NOT sound like the feds have jurisdiction. It sounds like they make the states an offer that is too good to refuse.
[15:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:14] <exec> 08└─The OP actually said, "it's why they are now the target of an antitrust investigation." The referent of "it" isn't completely clear, but it appears to be the "AI partnership with communist china". Not just the Alibaba CPU.
[15:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:15] <exec> 08└─Four bits per core. An improvement over the 70's. Wasn't there a bit-slice processor back then with one bit per core?
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[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─The answer seems to be no, on the basis that the researchers think different management styles produce different results. The marxist idea of alienation is described as an inevitability of capitalism existing and progressing. The concept and the findings don't mesh especially well at face value. I s...
[16:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─here are plenty of dimwitted managers who don't quite believe it.
[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─Sounds like it doesn't matter to you either. Maybe we shouldn't care about things that don't matter?
[16:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─Here is a better idea that I've seen at a very good aerospace company. Give to employees 0% house mortgage if they buy dwellings within 3 miles of the working place. It was on Long Island, but would be especially stimulating on the Island of Manhattan. Employee who can not afford quality accommodati...
[16:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:52] <exec> 08└─This story is fake news, so...
[16:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:55] <exec> 08└─Such game would be unlawful in many countries, especially in those where religion is unseparable from state an heresy is a crime.
[16:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:28] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/07/02/0518212 [soylentnews.org]
[16:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:06] <exec> 08└─No - the "survivors" were just doing it for ATTENTION and DISABILITY payments. We need to CUT this scourge of SUICIDE WELFARE CHEATS. Absolute worst. Some of the are probably rapists.
[16:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:08] <exec> 08└─Even worse than rapists, (gasp!) some of them might have non white skin!!! (shudders in disbelief) And they probably chose that color just to get attention.
[16:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using the Same Tactics as ‘Big Tobacco,’ Juul May Have Intentionally Targeted Teens - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:33] <exec> 08└─Yep, your kids are being defrauded out of an education so a few people can afford 2nd yachts.
[16:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using the Same Tactics as ‘Big Tobacco,’ Juul May Have Intentionally Targeted Teens - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:35] <exec> 08└─The only way we can improve on this is mandating e-cigarette fumes in airconditioning units. Preferably with a no-contract bid to a company part-owned by the Vice President.
[16:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Using the Same Tactics as ‘Big Tobacco,’ Juul May Have Intentionally Targeted Teens - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:37] <exec> 08└─Well, you know, then we would sort of have to fund public education instead of regressively placing schools in competition against each other with test scores for funding, endless austerity, charter schools, state takeovers from local control or for example closures in the name of that prime lakesho...
[16:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:00] <exec> 08└─Not everywhere wants to be like Arizona with robot cars mowing down pedestrians.
[16:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:01] <exec> 08└─It's kind of like congress. They control the purse strings, which gives them authority over every aspect of government.
[16:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematician Posts Proof for the Sensitivity Conjecture - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:18] <exec> 08└─For what it’s worth, there’s a passage in “The Man Who Loved Only Numbers” that says that Erdos didn’t want the stuff about amphetamines in the book because he didn’t want young mathematicians to think that they needed to take them in order to do math.
[16:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematician Posts Proof for the Sensitivity Conjecture - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:19] <exec> 08└─You "like" math. That's nice - some reflected glory for you, Sir. What were you doing last night at 4am? If you "liked" math like Erdos, you would be snorting Meth just so you could solve ONE MOAR EQUATION. I don't think you really like math.
[16:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:50] <exec> 08└─I was encouraging a dog with failing liver to eat his breakfast. "C'mon boy, you can eat it! Can you eat your food boy?" Google Home instantly responds: I can be if you want me to be. ??? that doesn't even make sense
[16:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:18] <exec> 08└─My money is on the side offering money to high tech startups to crush these efforts. Oh HAI fascism, Nice 2 See you again, So Soon?
[16:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:31] <exec> 08└─I don't think that energy is involved in any way, the sap is transported through capillary action and osmosis. OTOH the sap may carry energy, but dead trees on the "network" will not use any, they are there like water towers in waterways, or something like that, just connecting the pathways between...
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[17:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:17] <exec> 08└─You can't be very smart to eat a lot of highly spicy (hot) foods to start with. A little spice is great, but when it hurts to put it in your mouth, that is just stupid. When it hurts more to push it out your anus, then you have to be suffering from dementia already to eat more of it. I hear hot, spi...
[17:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:19] <exec> 08└─When it hurts more to push it out your anus, then you have to be suffering from dementia already to eat more of it.
[17:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:21] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, that's why you're not in Texas anymore. They kicked you out for being a huge wuss.
[17:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:23] <exec> 08└─Red. Green. Those little hot flat purple ones. Jalapenos. Oh, dear. I've eaten those since my later high school years. Maybe that's linked to why I'm now writing Java code.
[17:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:26] <exec> 08└─Why oh why must supposedly intelligent and educated people make it necessary to pull this one out of the junk drawer so often? Correlation is not causation.
[17:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:28] <exec> 08└─and i'm going to be eating my eggs with green habanero sauce in about 10 minutes...
[17:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher's Innovative Floodplain Maps Help Official Response - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:36] <exec> 08└─I watched this go from a five foot spike to a one foot drop in the space of a hr: https://water.weather.gov [weather.gov] So unless the predictions are going to be stable they will have to curate the results to not look like fools.
[17:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─That's what's truly shocking about the study; it came out of a business school. Of course, it isn't Harvard Business School, so it won't make a difference, and we'll still be stuck with current type of MBA who refuse to understand basic things like this.
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 2285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─Seen it.. and this was within the same company. One area, there was a sense of comraderie, positive atmosphere, we had a few people that'd crack jokes and such, which were generally funny. Very high morale. We hit a production record in there and got a nice meal for it. To encourage these things, if...
[17:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:01] <exec> 08└─I wonder where the dominance model actually works. It must work somewhere, or else it would have died out long ago. It would certainly help in bikeshedding scenarios. There are probably lots of bikeshedding scenarios in the business world: times when most people are equally qualified to make a decis...
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:11] <exec> 08└─Such game would be unlawful in many countries, especially in those where religion is unseparable from state an heresy is a crime.
[17:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:12] <exec> 08└─I think you underestimate the average stupidity of someone on social media. And since most intelligence doesn't generalize, it's even more likely that some true idiots will nonetheless have the high degree of social intelligence necessary to singlehandedly spread a story once they have been emotiona...
[17:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:47] <exec> 08└─You could technically run a rehash instance on a RPi 1b but you would need a fair sized SD card or a USB drive for storage. It wouldn't be up to huge traffic loads but it'd handle friends and family just peachy keen even if you have a lot of friends. Mind you, you'd have to do some tweaking to the A...
[17:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:48] <exec> 08└─Came in late to suggest the same thing. If you are worried about longevity, you could always submit the URL (after each new blog entry) to Archive.org (etc) so there will be online backup.
[17:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:51] <exec> 08└─I have a personal "Feed" page on Pipedot, collects RSS feeds from a number of sites that I like to follow. Brian--if you happen to see this, please accept my compliments and appreciation for keeping Pipedot up.
[17:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:53] <exec> 08└─Or, over here at the blue site (roughly same age and origin story as SN), http://bryan.pipedot.org [pipedot.org]
[17:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using the Same Tactics as ‘Big Tobacco,’ Juul May Have Intentionally Targeted Teens - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:00] <exec> 08└─I've come to believe that the Juul was intentionally designed to be marketed to teens. Specifically it was designed to be low odor, non-obvious packaging, easily concealable, and addictive. Someone, somewhere, has smoking gun evidence that is true. "It looks like a USB stick, so you don't get in tro...
[17:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:54] <exec> 08└─Nope, I'm saying I almost never have any need of anything from a phone beyond calling and texting while I'm out and about because anyone who wants anything more can eat a bag of dicks. And I won't even be available for those while fishing.
[17:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:56] <exec> 08└─Quality input devices make a fucking world of difference, yep.
[17:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:58] <exec> 08└─Damn you, math!
[17:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:33] <exec> 08└─Which is why we need things like Net Neutrality, because we don't want other people given the choice over our computer time/bandwidth habits. Provide me the bandwidth, don't complain how I use my bandwidth. Provide me my electricity, don't complain about what I use it for.
[17:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:35] <exec> 08└─. . . ? Perhaps, you just don't like Cafes? I mean, a busy cafe, is a busy cafe. It's not going to magically get better, because people don't have an iDevice to dink with.
[17:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:37] <exec> 08└─Wow, that doesn't give me much faith in their statistics.
[17:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:39] <exec> 08└─True but at least the people at your own damned table would notice if you caught fire, even if they're not talking to you.
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[18:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:26] <exec> 08└─Worse, there's an obvious confounding effect. People who get older and start to lose their sense of smell often start liking spicier foods. Olfactory disfunction is a common first symptom of several kinds of dementia. This happened to my dad. As he got older he started liking chili so hot I didn't l...
[18:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:28] <exec> 08└─I just had some habanero jack and sauce. Time to start keeping a journal.
[18:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher's Innovative Floodplain Maps Help Official Response - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:36] <exec> 08└─I watched Harvey coverage by houston TV and the city/county flood guy seemed to know what he was doing with the tools he had available, but the systems for acting/reacting and disseminating the important info to the public are pitiful. The "news" never gives people the most obvious info it needs and...
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:59] <exec> 08└─I've spent most of my working life in large established organizations, and from what I've seen managers mostly fall into their roles by accident. Once there, they remain stuck in place forever, while hiring, retaining and firing based on allocated budget. Performance does not seem to have any bearin...
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:12] <exec> 08└─I sadly agree. People who think slavebook is the internet are r e a l l y dumb!
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 1364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:14] <exec> 08└─No. Fake news does not mean whatever you want it to. Not all fiction is "fake news". If a government or a corporately-controlled media tells you carefully constructed lies, it's not "fake news". It's Propaganda. And until you f*cking dumbasses on the right learn to tell the difference, the real cons...
[18:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:16] <exec> 08└─I've thought about the Hanlon's razor aspect, and I think that while there is a degree of gullibility involved, the people most responsible for spreading bullshit knew exactly what they were doing.
[18:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:54] <exec> 08└─no, it was hard for me at first too. it's worth it, long term, imo.
[18:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:56] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume [github.com]
[18:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:58] <exec> 08└─Not really. Assuming your "static" html uses some kind of templating (and it will unless you like copy-pasting your header in every file), just set up a script to regenerate the HTML any time a comment gets posted. Store the comments in a db like a sane person, of course, and put a timestamp on it a...
[18:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:00] <exec> 08└─Just don't try to make WordPress do something it wasn't designed for. It's got a nice interface, but the backend is held together by duct tape and paperclips.
[18:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:40] <exec> 08└─...just google map the nearest cliff...
[18:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shaping Light With a Smartlens - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:52] <exec> 08└─Funny thing -- not all of us are young and agile. I used to silently scoff at the people who couldn't read the dim, tiny fonts on my computer screen. That was twenty-five years ago. Now I'm in my sixties and I have several pair of adjustable reading glasses. Going from computer screen to television...
[18:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:34] <exec> 08└─remember kids, only corporations can kill legally.
[18:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:30] <exec> 08└─ever heard of monero, pivx, zerocoin, etc.?
[18:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:31] <exec> 08└─Free people will work around these authoritarian scum. see bisq, localmonero/localbitcoin, etc.
[18:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:33] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THP1wlGT2fA [youtube.com] Only cowards, idiots and sell-outs pay the income tax. What are you scared of? Are you such a fucking coward you sell out your own offspring so you can keep your fake, toxic luxury? They can't even enforce if you just stop paying them to. You...
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[19:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:16] <exec> 08└─Here’s Where You’ll See It First
[19:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:17] <exec> 08└─They are trying to trigger a recession before the 2020 elections.
[19:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:20] <exec> 08└─This is fearmongering, because democrats know that their only chance is a recession and that talking about one might cause enough fear to create one. It's disgusting. Screw the whole economy, with people's livelihoods, just to take power. Eeeew.
[19:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:22] <exec> 08└─FYI, that is a different AC. I'm the "trying to cause one" AC. We think alike, or this is just too obvious.
[19:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:24] <exec> 08└─I think we're overdue for one, but we've been pushing the day of reckoning out indefinitely by the modern Western policy of cheap money and penalizing savings. Only when safer alternatives will be preferable to dumping the money in index funds will we see a stampede out of stocks. If that happens th...
[19:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:39] <exec> 08└─I eat plenty of spicy food. I'm never in pain at either end. Blame your weak genetics.
[19:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:40] <exec> 08└─Jalapenos are no problem for me. I use Sriracha like Ketchup. When I eat out I and have a choice of spice levels I usually choose the highest, and half the time it's not even spicy for me. As for why do people keep eating hotter and hotter things? You body develops a tolerance for it. Before I got m...
[19:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:42] <exec> 08└─What the hell is 50g chili? If they had normalised it to mg capsaicin, then the correlation might have had some sense - but this is quoting from their methods Derived from dietary surveys, chilli intake included both fresh and dried chilli peppers, but did not include sweet capsicum or black pepper....
[19:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:14] <exec> 08└─Apparently, the dominance model works in military contexts, in part because in most contexts no decision is usually worse than any decision, and because the winning move is often on its surface near-suicidal (if not actually suicidal) to at least some of the grunts and no grunt would stand for it if...
[19:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:16] <exec> 08└─...managers mostly fall into their roles by accident. Once there, they remain stuck in place forever,...
[19:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:13] <exec> 08└─Huh, I'm yet to see something lightweight that display properly on 5", 14"-17" and 27" displays. That's the nature of the beast, different screen sizes have different ergonomics.
[19:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:15] <exec> 08└─I'm going to recommend Hexo. Blog posts are written in Markdown and compiled to static web pages.
[19:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:49] <exec> 08└─Federal jurisdiction only goes so far, and big trucks are prohibited on many local roads. Sure, the feds can try to over reach. But the fact that this didn't become law indicates that federal power has political limits. Even if it did pass, the Supreme Court would probably also get to review it at...
[19:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematician Posts Proof for the Sensitivity Conjecture - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:07] <exec> 08└─Claim without facts in evidence.
[19:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, it would happen. Ideally, at most once for every person - unless the person is a moron and doesn't learn the lesson from their own experience.
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[20:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:25] <exec> 08└─FTFA: One caveat: Economists are notoriously terrible at forecasting recessions
[20:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:27] <exec> 08└─I mean, yes, the unemployment rate is a useful metric but it is not useful for time based comparisons anymore. Over the years every administration has manipulated how unemployment is calculated to make them look better. This means that the unemployment rate of today as compared to the rate of 20 yea...
[20:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 1950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:29] <exec> 08└─Gosh you trumptards are so screwed up in the head it's unbelievable... Fearmongering ? What about "liberals are going to take away your guns !" fearmongering ? What about "caravan of immigrant invaders at the southern border !" fearmongering ? And whatever democrats say is lies, but whatever spews o...
[20:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:31] <exec> 08└─G aslight! O bstruct! P roject! I guess that is all you've got when you join the party of corruption and immorality.
[20:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:33] <exec> 08└─A recession is the only way the 2020 race is even interesting. Since the Democrats now control most of the levers of the economy they can trigger one, bet on it. And yes you can bet on it, get to cash now and rebuy everything when i goes "on sale." A recession lasts 12-18 months and must still be hu...
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:36] <exec> 08└─I totally think you really believe this and you're a regular soylent news poster.
[20:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:53] <exec> 08└─Or maybe it's the olfactory receptor neurons failing first as old age and dementia kicks in which leads people to consume far more spices, salty and fatty food to compensate for the loss.
[20:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:28] <exec> 08└─Walking distance? Not in Sydney [abc.net.au] or London [acas.org.uk]
[20:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─I think it is harder than you give it credit for. Speaking for myself, back when Net Neutrality came out a decade (?) ago, and I didn't know much about it, both sides sounded very plausible. With the benefit of 10 years of knowledge and understanding I now think I know the "truth" behind it, but if...
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:46] <exec> 08└─Everything I believe being true? Hell no. Circulating completely fabricated stories with no basis, I'm willing to bet I've never done it once.
[20:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:32] <exec> 08└─Plain text.
[20:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:33] <exec> 08└─You just described a dynamic site + static cache.
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[21:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─Over the years every administration has manipulated how unemployment every metric is calculated to make them look better.
[21:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:37] <exec> 08└─there was little actual recovery from the "Great Recession of '08" until the failure of Obama was gone
[21:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job. It's a depression when you lose your job. So... how are your neighbors doing? Are you gainfully employed, sir? Remember, bums always lose.
[21:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─Your conspiracy theory needs some work. MarketWatch has been saying 2020 for some time now. It's overdue at this point and would have happened months ago if the Fed hadn't eased up. The market crashed towards the end 2017 in my original timeline when Hillary Clinton was president, leading to enablin...
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYeVQzTVyLk [youtube.com]
[21:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:46] <exec> 08└─the unemployment rate is a useful metric but it is not useful for time based comparisons anymore
[21:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:48] <exec> 08└─Just look at the B.L.S. data. They don't change or abandon actual measures very often, just the preferred measures. So yes, they changed which "U" rate is "unemployment" and added "seasonal adjustment" to the figures, but the old ones are still there if you look. Same goes for inflation, money suppl...
[21:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:50] <exec> 08└─Why would there be a crash? Look at the Venezuela stock index: https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com]
[21:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─What about "liberals are going to take away your guns !" fearmongering ?
[21:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:55] <exec> 08└─Read before reacting. We didn't actually have a ten year expansion. Nobody actually thinks the recession ended in the middle of 2009, it just stopped crashing. It then slid sideways until out in Obama's second term as the economy started looking beyond Obama. As it became clear it was a choice betwe...
[21:23:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:06] <exec> 08└─Red. Green. Those little hot flat purple ones. Jalapenos. Oh, dear. I've eaten those since my later high school years. Maybe that's linked to why I'm now writing Java code.
[21:23:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 568 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:10] <exec> 08└─Worse, there's an obvious confounding effect. People who get older and start to lose their sense of smell often start liking spicier foods. Olfactory disfunction is a common first symptom of several kinds of dementia. This happened to my dad. As he got older he started liking chili so hot I didn't l...
[21:23:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 496 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:47] <exec> 08└─Apparently, the dominance model works in military contexts, in part because in most contexts no decision is usually worse than any decision, and because the winning move is often on its surface near-suicidal (if not actually suicidal) to at least some of the grunts and no grunt would stand for it if...
[21:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:50] <exec> 08└─What about potentially competent people that are blocked from advancement by a manager in a Peter Principle position?
[21:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:53] <exec> 08└─Wrong. The military leadership is weak and not respected. Any opportunity to punish a subordinate is also an opportunity for the subordinate to incriminate the leadership. Everyone plays a game but nobody is actually scared of their boss. I've taken to getting several of them fired and then left bec...
[21:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:10] <exec> 08└─You'll like this bit I heard recently: "Oh, I don't really use the internet these days. I use facebook instead."
[21:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:57] <exec> 08└─Nah, that option isn't in the drop-down menu.
[21:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:59] <exec> 08└─Are you thinking of the launch RPi 1b with 256MB RAM, or the revised 1b with 512MB? (I've got one of each.)
[21:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:01] <exec> 08└─Sort of. Dynamic site + static cache implies that there is no signaling to the cache when it should be regenerated, it just knows somehow. Systems like that will drive you mad. Don't think of it as a cache. Think of it as a view that needs updating when the underlying data changes, and you won't hav...
[21:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress to Try Again at Self-Driving Car Legislation - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:36] <exec> 08└─So incorporate yourself today! https://www.upcounsel.com [upcounsel.com]
[21:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:13] <exec> 08└─...kind of depends on how you write the compiler. The more registers with the same functionality there are, the more types of operations and operands can be register-resident without having to resort to stack-flippery. -- I believe there's a person out there for everybody. My person happened to be f...
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[22:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:16] <exec> 08└─Isn't Wells Fargo sort of like a mafia organisation, but also sort of legal?
[22:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:17] <exec> 08└─Is the guy's name who Wells Fargo ripped off really Mr. Ponzi? And who will ever pay for a Wells Fargo Deposit box after hearing this story? Mr. Ponzi should make a twitter account and harass them, I am sure the lost business will entice them to make him whole quickly.
[22:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:19] <exec> 08└─Don't be a punce. It spells out his name half a dozen times as Mr. Poniz, not Mr. Ponzi.
[22:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:22] <exec> 08└─#WellsFargoBermudaTriangle
[22:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:24] <exec> 08└─14 times spelled out as Mr. Poniz. 0 times spelled out as Mr. Ponzi.
[22:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─I thought I'd read that there was a decent proposal that Fort Knox was "robbed" .. gold moved out, currency moved off the gold standard and then the Environmental Protection Act used to allocate natural resources to underwrite debt .. not sure Fort Knox is a good example of safe.
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:28] <exec> 08└─Is the guy's name who Wells Fargo ripped off really Mr. Ponzi?
[22:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:31] <exec> 08└─Dyslexics untie!
[22:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:33] <exec> 08└─I count 20 times.
[22:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:35] <exec> 08└─FDR admitted the gold was gone in his May 7, 1933 Fireside chat. FF to 15:30: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] So it was missing 3 years before Fort Knox was built.
[22:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:37] <exec> 08└─Went for funny but ended up a shill.
[22:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Transistor Has a Unique Quantum Fingerprint - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:45] <exec> 08└─Recently, researchers have been investigating how these quantum fingerprints might one day be used as an inexpensive form of ID to protect steal and snoop on users' personal information
[22:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Transistor Has a Unique Quantum Fingerprint - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:47] <exec> 08└─Your 2N3904 NPN transistor was flagged watching hacked DRM video. Send us $500 Your truly, MPAA
[22:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:15] <exec> 08└─http://www.shadowstats.com/ [shadowstats.com]
[22:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:17] <exec> 08└─It might be a leading indicator, though - when large proportions of your population are in two or more jobs, that's a sign that there's something not so healthy, and these employment stats are counting jobs rather than number of people in jobs, IIRC, so absolutely perfect for being misleading in tha...
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:19] <exec> 08└─as the economy started looking beyond Obama
[22:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:21] <exec> 08└─I wonder what they should call it when you still have your job, but your pay hasn't gone up, you've lost your medical coverage because it is simply unaffordable, and the cost of... pretty much everything but electronics... has gone up. While people make great money in the stock markets and the CEO's...
[22:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─It's not as crazy as it sounds. Systems with feedback and lag will always have booms and busts. Low feedback, and you can stay cyclic, but higher feedback, and things can turn a bit funky (all the way to stochastic). All I know is that what Trump announced (well, gibbered about, to be more accurate)...
[22:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:26] <exec> 08└─Sounds like "stagflation". We're there already. Or at least can't avoid it.
[22:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:28] <exec> 08└─As several other posters have pointed out, you're an idiot. Goldman Sachs runs the US Treasury, and has done for a long time now regardless of whether the current regime professes to be a Republican or a Democrat. You should forget about the Republican v Democrat thing altogether, and focus on the...
[22:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:30] <exec> 08└─People who aren't overly politically savvy thought Hillary would be similar to Bill and the 1990s. Of course they were almost certainly wrong, not only is Hillary the more hard core Alinsky disciple, the Democratic Party of 2016 was very different from the one in the 1990s that would permit Bill's "...
[22:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:33] <exec> 08└─...gawwwwd-DAMN. Well-put. Wish I could mod you up more than once.
[22:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:35] <exec> 08└─"Late-stage capitalism." Or "Reaganomics coming home to roost." Sometimes when I can't sleep I imagine that senile goddamn clownshoe Reagan howling and writhing and screaming in hellfire, and it helps.
[22:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:37] <exec> 08└─A Quarter Pounder with Cheese is now 1/16lb of lab grown beef.
[22:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:39] <exec> 08└─can you even imagine what Trump would tweet out?
[22:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:41] <exec> 08└─That AC tried to link Trump to Epstein, you all live in a different reality. 1) Trump banned Epstein from his clubs for hitting on underage women 2) Trump is the one who brought Epstein back into the public discussions in 2016 3) the prosecutor in the last Epstein case said Trump was the only one wh...
[22:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:44] <exec> 08└─ditto
[22:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:02] <exec> 08└─I like sriracha because it's got heat and flavor without the "FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCC my mouth, my asssssss" Just the "Aaahhhhh, nice."
[22:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:04] <exec> 08└─Yes. Yes he is.
[22:24:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 594 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:20] <exec> 08└─Here's an idea. (One that my employer has.) Profit sharing program with bonuses. The bonus pool is split among employees -- after audit on annual results is complete and published for shareholders. If you get a nice bonus maybe, about the size of a month's pay or more on occasion, tied to the busine...
[22:24:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 1139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:47] <exec> 08└─At least for the vast majority of the shit that got spread in the "secret macedonian server" era of 2016, it was almost never hard to spot. You'd get every one of the "duh" points *No name website with a style sheet that vaguely matches a news site *Very obviously centered on making someone as angry...
[22:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 4213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:00] <exec> 08└─These are some nice tips. 'centered on making someone as angry as possible' roflmao Search for 'operation firesign' which was just spam/trolled onto one of my recent comments, all sites are obviously totally fake. Simply the name gives it away, but there are *so many*. Scroll through ten pages of th...
[22:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kickstarter Game Teaches Players How to Identify Fake News - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:01] <exec> 08└─The hopping from topic to topic with only the most tenuous connection between each paragraph of your post feels too muddled to make sense of. It's okay to have a couple points you want to make, but this feels like 20 different barely-connected points. And the end result is I don't know what you're o...
[22:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:51] <exec> 08└─+1 for the Pipedot feed. Will use again. Perhaps Brian should branch out and offer hosting for Pipedot clones? :P
[22:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:53] <exec> 08└─Once you get past the initial So Pretty! OMG! Form data fields! and Plugins! you may find that collecting and using data in a serious manner is a PITA. A friend of mine was spending hours each week fixing mangled HTML in the back end while trying to keep the front end working. It was awesome as a qu...
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[22:26:35] <exec> 08└─I do not have to cite evidence as I gave you the calculation. To simplify it a bit: compare the 10% chance of dying from suicide in a re-attempt with the marginal chance of dying from suicide which is ~1%.
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[23:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How and Why Resistance Training is Imperative for Older Adults - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:15] <exec> 08└─Otherwise you go broke buying ice cream for the grandkids.
[23:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How and Why Resistance Training is Imperative for Older Adults - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:16] <exec> 08└─This can help, but under some circumstances there is no easy fix. Imagine you are tired. Very, very tired. You need to do resistance training, but due to your age, your genetics, you have to work out 2 hours a day, exhausting yourself for hours afterwards. What happens is eventually you hit a point,...
[23:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How and Why Resistance Training is Imperative for Older Adults - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:19] <exec> 08└─When we're old, and tired, we're going to have cheerful little SJW's torturing us every day, trying to make us strong again? Expect more suicides among the elderly.
[23:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How and Why Resistance Training is Imperative for Older Adults - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:21] <exec> 08└─Black: 0 Brown: 1 Red: 2 Orange: 3 Yellow: 4 Green: 5 Blue: 6 Violet: 7 Gray: 8 White: 9 Four band ones are number, number, number of zeroes to add (or times 10n if you prefer), and tolerance that you'll likely have to look up if it's not gold(5%) or silver(10%). Five band ones have three numbers up...
[23:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:38] <exec> 08└─You don't own it.
[23:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:40] <exec> 08└─When you can buy the laws, legal is just a matter of price.
[23:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Transistor Has a Unique Quantum Fingerprint - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:49] <exec> 08└─Take a look at any two nominally identical things at a high enough resolution and you are guaranteed to find differences. But if you can find a way to put “quantum” in the headlines, it’s phys.org newsworthy!
[23:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:31] <exec> 08└─And who can forget Trump's very first executive order was to give the government the power to confiscate the wealth of people involved with Epstein: https://www.whitehouse.gov [whitehouse.g...
[23:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:32] <exec> 08└─D eflecting E vasive M anipulating O verbearing C ounterfeit R idiculous A sshat T yrants
[23:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:35] <exec> 08└─Ah yes "the market". The worst way to measure the health of an economy. You'd realize that if you weren't a blithering corporate apologist. It'll be SO MUCH FUN listening to your self-righteous bitching when the effects of Trump's policies start to sink in during the next administration. We already...
[23:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:37] <exec> 08└─Addendum: The rich = government. By logical deduction then it is the government vs everyone else.
[23:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:39] <exec> 08└─DNC would have been much easier to type and read #FailedMarketing #SAD
[23:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:41] <exec> 08└─D umb N incompoop C orruption
[23:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spicy Diet Could be Linked to Dementia - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:02] <exec> 08└─I have eaten chiles — chillis — chills — chilies — chilles ... those damn hot things for years and years and have never felt any decline in my menthol — menthal — mintos — mentor ... brain capacitor thingie.
[23:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:39] <exec> 08└─What about potentially competent people that are blocked from advancement by a manager in a Peter Principle position?
[23:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:41] <exec> 08└─Ugh I had one manager who would constantly shoot down my ideas and ride my ass to perform on stupid piddly small scale shit. After getting away from him it turns out all my ideas were normal in more advanced environments and now I personally manage an infrastructure as complex as their entire enterp...
[23:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees, Baylor Study Says - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:43] <exec> 08└─I've heard a longer version that was something like this: Bosses are like diapers: The Good ones protect your ass, stop accidents, and do their job silently, until discarded like trash. The Bad ones ride your ass, are full of shit, usually make a big stink, and run when things get dicey.
[23:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Looking for Lightweight Blogging Software Suggestions - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:54] <exec> 08└─Either. It's just a matter of how brutally you have to ride herd on Apache/MySQL configs.
[23:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 069 Out of 10 People Who Attempt Suicide and Survive Won't Die from Suicide Later - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:35] <exec> 08└─I used to jump off bridges into water for fun. 10/10 will do again.
[23:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:31] <exec> 08└─Depends on your currency. and your habits.
[23:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:32] <exec> 08└─So that means you can claim a loss too, right?
[23:28:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GDX [1950] 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 1087 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:44] <exec> 08└─That is somewhat correct, the wavelength of a phonon is always going to be lower that of a photon at the same frequency. Normally when we talk about the wavelength we talk about the one used for light witch is based in the speed of light in vacuum and actually it's a simplified vision of it, but whe...
[23:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, I read the article again with my Quantum Bingo Card [tm] at hand and was able to fill in enough boxes that I cried out “BINGO” three times.
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