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[00:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:54] <exec> 08└─Is there a tactical advantage to using a url that looks like something Msft official?
[00:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:55] <exec> 08└─You get the domain registrar to hand over the domain name.
[00:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:57] <exec> 08└─Makes hacing easier. Microsoft uses hundreds, possibly thousands of websites for checking the "health" of its/your OS, so using URLs that "look" right makes changing things easier. It is very unlikely any sysadmins, home users, or even Microsoft themselves know how many URLs Microsoft are using, and...
[00:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:00] <exec> 08└─Hello, Namecoin!
[00:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:02] <exec> 08└─If they kept themselves to naziemetry.microsoft.com it would be much easier for people to know which sites that are good telemetry ;-) Or they could just clean up their shit.. (code & practice)
[00:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:04] <exec> 08└─Not sure when this behaviour started, but sometime between 1975 and now, it became self-fulfilling: didn't matter what Microsoft did to customers, they kept coming back. Bloatware? Removing functionality? Making updates worse (and worse..)? Telemetry? Auto-updates? Etc etc.. Apparently, you can fool...
[00:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:06] <exec> 08└─...inviting the defendants to contact them via postal mail, e-mail, or even fax.
[00:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:34] <exec> 08└─For those of us who require Windows, what anti-virus is the correct choice these days?
[00:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─Not good enough. Remove taxpayer funds from all religion.
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─Those 2 groups aren't exclusive. There is considerable overlap. A Reactionary wants things to be like they were in 1858 [google.com] e.g. The Compromise of 1850; Dred Scot (1857); women couldn't vote; etc. N.B. A Reactionary who isn't rich is simply stupid; back in the day, he wouldn't e.g. have bee...
[00:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:56] <exec> 08└─EVs have coolants systems if they want the batteries to work optimaly or not cook the power electronics. Gearboxes are used in some cases. The Volt has four loops. FOUR. Only one of them is for the gasoline engine, the other three involve electric parts. http://gm-volt.com
[00:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 1959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:58] <exec> 08└─To clarify, I didn't say I was driving 500-600 miles a day, just that was the range of my car on a full tank. My particular (rather niche) corner case is actually my hobby/secondary career - photography - which will often entail driving a couple of hours before dawn to the middle of nowhere, doing a...
[00:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:00] <exec> 08└─You can have my steering wheel when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. (I'm with you.)
[00:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:18] <exec> 08└─I gather the idea is to improve the economy? This won't do it. Now stores must spend more to keep the lights on. Little more would be bought; the extra Sunday purchases will come out of Saturday and Monday. Fixing the economy is easy except for politics: Stop the pervasive tax evasion. Raise retirem...
[00:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Repurposing Shuttle Cargo Module to Use for Lunar Orbiting Base - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:49] <exec> 08└─Like I said, point missed entirely.
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[01:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:53] <exec> 08└─Will this teach them the miracles of indoor plumbing and toilet paper?
[01:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:55] <exec> 08└─will program the supercomputer? Do the Indians have some competent programmers they keep back, somehow hide, and don't use for off-shored or cheap-on-a-visa contracts? Seems unlikely.
[01:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:10] <exec> 08└─You get the domain registrar to hand over the domain name.
[01:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:11] <exec> 08└─So a game of whack-a-mole? I don't see why the supposed group can't just rename itself multiple times or even subcontract their work to obfuscate their trails through multiple fronts.
[01:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:26] <exec> 08└─1849. Die the dream. Again. And again. And Again. Keep repeating history greedy little chimpoids.
[01:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:42] <exec> 08└─If SN had yearly awards (like best comments, best submissions, etc.), I'd totally nominate that for Comeback of the Year Award.
[01:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, because if I paid them, then there is a better chance of the authorities arresting them for fucking me over.
[01:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:46] <exec> 08└─In your dreams.
[01:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:48] <exec> 08└─For Windows 10, MS Security Essentials is just as good as any other resident antivirus, costs nothing, and at least the API is decently implemented. For Win 10, who cares? The OS itself is a virus.
[01:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:50] <exec> 08└─Kaspersky will use the data you contribute to improve machine learning across its products.
[01:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:58] <exec> 08└─A Reactionary who isn't rich is simply stupid; back in the day, he wouldn't e.g. have been able to vote, because he didn't own any land.
[01:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nnet [5716] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:00] <exec> 08└─Judaism is an ethnicity?
[01:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:02] <exec> 08└─Garland had his hearing. It went roughly like this: Senate: "Talk to the hand, we're not interested in anyone that Obama might nominate. NEXT!" You make it sound as if the senate just couldn't get it together. They did, just fine, and made a decision not to even bother. For once in their miserable l...
[01:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:04] <exec> 08└─Hey, there are people at AIPAC who paid good money for this bill! We can't have legislators re-negging on their backroom deals, now can we? AIPAC is closely allied with the very people that the Boycott-Divest-Sanction folks are upset with, namely the Israeli Likud Party. The Israeli Likud Party has...
[01:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:34] <exec> 08└─and I came to the conclusion long ago that in business the most sought after quality in everything is consistency
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[02:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:04] <exec> 08└─India's population [google.com] is about 1.324 billion and projected to increase past China's.
[02:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:06] <exec> 08└─I think I see where you're going with this. The transistor count [anandtech.com] of a Haswell ULT GT3 2C processor is 1.3 billion. So if each Indian mimes the operation of one transistor, they can simulate a recent Intel CPU in performance art.
[02:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:08] <exec> 08└─"Do the Indians have some competent programmers they keep back, somehow hide, and don't use for off-shored or cheap-on-a-visa contracts?" Yes, I can confirm, they definitely do. When you off-shore to save money, you don't wind up getting their best. Are you really naïve enough to be surprised by th...
[02:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:24] <exec> 08└─I'd love to hear from Fancy Bear. They can write to my office: The Trump Organization, 725 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10022. Call 1-212-832-2000 or fax 1-212-935-0141. DO NOT EMAIL! 🇺🇸
[02:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:00] <exec> 08└─They say that it "doesn’t come cut with all the usual nonsense like advertising-oriented user-habit tracking and confidentiality infringements." But suppose, for the sake of argument, that's a lie. If you're running Windows, why would you have a problem with telemetry? If you're not running Window...
[02:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:13] <exec> 08└─The Palestinians could've had a two-state solution; they didn't want that.
[02:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:14] <exec> 08└─It's worn away a bit at a time. About a generation ago they started slipping an exception in for 'hate speech' and just like a shim that's been used to carve exceptions. Now they just conflate BDS with anti-semitism and thus 'hate speech' and hey!? how could anyone have a problem with this? It's jus...
[02:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:16] <exec> 08└─"FWIW, neither side had a viable plan" True, but misleading. "When you find yourself in a deep hole, the first thing you need to do is stop digging." Now sure, that's "not a viable plan" for getting out of the hole. It's just the first step. It may not be possible to start off with a 'viable plan' f...
[02:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:18] <exec> 08└─"N.B. A Reactionary who isn't rich is simply stupid; back in the day, he wouldn't e.g. have been able to vote, because he didn't own any land." Why do you assume he *wants* to vote? "Non-rich people's reason for being Reactionary is bigotry/racism (whether they admit it or not)." That's simply poiso...
[02:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryzen Sales Boost AMD's Earnings, Ryzen 3 Launches on July 27th With Vega GPUs to Follow - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:35] <exec> 08└─Good catch, thanks for the update.
[02:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again? - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:49] <exec> 08└─Uh... Okay... This graph from U of Alabama indicates that enrollment has increased 150% in the last 10 years - http://eng.ua.edu [ua.edu] ISU has the 7th largest program in the nation and recently spent $27M rebuilding their engineering building. They have 10K students yearly, and are...
[02:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist... - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:38] <exec> 08└─You are no longer representative (or will not be in a shortish time) - get used with the idea, granpa'. The millennials are driving the economy now and they don't seem to care.
[02:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greek Law Allows Sunday Shopping - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:58] <exec> 08└─Communism [wikipedia.org] As far as that blurb goes, it's OK. It doesn't, however, mention the precursors (called out by Marx). That would be Democracy and Socialism. Socialism is an in-the-workplace thing. Communism is communal ownership expanded to the society (e.g. ownership of natural monopolies...
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[03:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:51] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg's "understanding of the subject is limited."
[03:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:52] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg doesn't even know how his own website runs anymore. He's a figurehead at this point, and even disregarding that, Facebook pretty much only exists as a tool to facilitate Five Eyes tracking. Facebook is not an AI company, their goal is to build and sell a complete web of your interests and...
[03:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:54] <exec> 08└─Who to believe, the steely eyed missle man funding a space program by running one of the most audacious cons in history on the greens or the sperg who runs a social media company. I'm stumped, what 'bout 'yall? Can't we agree "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" and avoid...
[03:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:56] <exec> 08└─"There aren't many people in the world who can justifiably call Mark Zuckerberg a dumb-ass" You could not be more wrong. "but Elon Musk is probably one of them." Oops, already proved me wrong. Seriously, how much do you get paid for this fluff-job?
[03:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:59] <exec> 08└─> ...and decide whether we SHOULD? How naive can you be? If there is money to be made (or saved), any thought of a debate for more than a few minutes in the board room or Pentagon meeting is not going to happen. Thus Musk and others before him like Eric Drexler have started the debate on future tech...
[03:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:01] <exec> 08└─What's the con?
[03:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:03] <exec> 08└─The other problem is defining the line that says "Anything past here is AI". By many definitions, we have already crossed that line.
[03:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:05] <exec> 08└─He who has the gold ........ Zuck Net worth US$63.7 billion Musk Net worth US$16.1 billion Musk is wrong.
[03:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:17] <exec> 08└─Milk Inside
[03:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:18] <exec> 08└─When an Amercian-based, Indian software company puts lousy coders on a project for a large Australian bank, there must be fine line between "saving money" and "getting such a sh!t reputation you won't get used again, or be recommended to others" I imagine they could (must?) have many, many accountan...
[03:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:20] <exec> 08└─"the damage to the company's reputation mspust be worth something, surely?" Not necessarily. If the company is unknown, or has a poor reputation already, there may not be anything worth protecting. Many businesses run on that model, bringing in the income by hook or crook and simply disappearing whe...
[03:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:22] <exec> 08└─Didn't you get that memo? Make a Bonfire of Your Reputations [warplife.com] From the blog of Michael David Crawford, whose reputation is the finest in the universe.
[03:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:25] <exec> 08└─The West refused to sell supercomputers to India, so they built their own, and this was decade ago. Still, computers are made with semiconductors, and semiconductors are all about economies of scale, and it took America and later East Asia decades to build up the industrial infrastructure. India tod...
[03:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:27] <exec> 08└─They are fixing their population problem by moving their people to Australia. Australia's population is now 2% Indian. The projection is 5% in 10 years time.
[03:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:19] <exec> 08└─Run it in an emulator in Linux: if it gets a virus, wipe and reinstall.
[03:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:20] <exec> 08└─But Trojans reduce the risk of infection: http://www.trojanbrands.com [trojanbrands.com]
[03:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:37] <exec> 08└─http://www.snopes.com/jill-stein-endorsed-donald-trump/ [snopes.com]
[03:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:38] <exec> 08└─It's straightforward virtue signaling as an AC noted earlier. I guess they thought such showboating would over well with their constituents.
[03:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:41] <exec> 08└─6 out of 7 judges who rules on the case, thought that The Frozen Trucker did the right thing. Only Gorsuch voted in favor of the corporation and thought that the guy should have allowed himself to freeze to death in order to abide by company rules.
[03:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:43] <exec> 08└─Then how do free speech zones work? Right of the people at assemble
[03:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:45] <exec> 08└─A view from outside the USA: Jill Stein was correct. However bad Trump may be, Clinton would have been worse. You can stand a loud, boorish fool, a few silly decisions, and a fair bit of corruption. The corruption is standard, and silly noises don't really hurt anyone. Clinton would either already...
[03:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:47] <exec> 08└─It is an ethnicity, a religion, a race, a political system, or whatever is most convenient at the time.
[03:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 2246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:50] <exec> 08└─your worship of the State You don't understand me in the slightest. (You also keep ignorantly insisting that something that isn't Socialism is Socialism.) In order for our slow, clawless, small-toothed species to survive, we had to work together. If it wasn't for the -collective- thing, homo sapiens...
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[03:28:28] <exec> 08└─Not per se. It is just that the real title was "Whales learn songs more like humans than previously thought."
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[04:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:08] <exec> 08└─If he's so rich, how come he's not smart?
[04:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:10] <exec> 08└─Can't we agree "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" and avoid the whole risk of Skynet?
[04:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:12] <exec> 08└─Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks
[04:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:14] <exec> 08└─Having cars that know how to follow the curves of a road, break when approaching a stopped vehicle
[04:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:16] <exec> 08└─Right, "smart" and "sociopath" are orthogonal :)
[04:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:34] <exec> 08└─Here in America, l33t d00dz build a "rig" from parts Made In China. What's your fucking point?
[04:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:52] <exec> 08└─What about Twitter?
[04:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:31] <exec> 08└─The AV approach in theory is harder than solving the halting problem ( https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ) since in many cases you don't even have the full inputs or source but you are supposed to determine whether the program is malicious. In practice imperfect solutions...
[04:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:55] <exec> 08└─Some facts: The reason he had stopped was that the vehicle's brakes were inoperative. (That's the fault of the company.) When the brakes of a tractor-trailer fail, they fail-safe i.e. they lock in the no-go condition. To have operated the vehicle, he would have had to literally drag the trailer with...
[04:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:56] <exec> 08└─...except that HiThere was completely wrong. He has terrible sources of information and does a lousy job of vetting those. As AC#544968 notes via a link to Snopes, Jill's actual advice was **Vote for Jill. The Reds and The Blues have awful candidates.** -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:59] <exec> 08└─In order for our slow, clawless, small-toothed species to survive, we had to work together.
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[05:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:15] <exec> 08└─Sure, we could refuse to make it. But then someone else will.
[05:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:17] <exec> 08└─I bet he knows about menorahs.
[05:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:19] <exec> 08└─Can't we agree "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" and avoid the whole risk of Skynet?
[05:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:21] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the "debate" consists mainly of making unfounded assumptions about what the AI will do, and depending on which fantasy is adopted, either assumes AI will doom us, or paints a paradise powered by AI. The first group will ask for banning AI, the second group will ask for developmen...
[05:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah...so why should we be building cars that are capable of behaving like "Christine" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_(novel))?
[05:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:00] <exec> 08└─For a minute I was like "What the heck does MS have against fancy "beer"?"
[05:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:04] <exec> 08└─I'm the Alt-Right guy here. I wouldn't object to calling this virtue signaling. But it is far more dangerous than the garden variety SJW crap. Btw, you wanna see real flaming about this horrid bill, come on over to the Alt-Right and get your fill. Vox Day for example has been blazing away with both...
[05:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:05] <exec> 08└─I put it a little different but yea, you are on the right track. Jews are quantum beings. Religion, ethnicity, nation? Yes. And No. And sometimes "It Depends". They can even be "white" or "not white" as best suits the Jew in question at the moment. They especially like being "white" when pontificati...
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[06:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:57] <exec> 08└─One victim required 40 operations and continues to receive frequent, lifelong surgery to alleviate complications such as scar tissue on windpipe.
[06:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:58] <exec> 08└─For Trump supporters:
[06:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much has NASA Downplayed SpaceX's Accidents? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:07] <exec> 08└─What accidents? -NASA
[06:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:32] <exec> 08└─Well until we know what form of AI is nearing a breakthrough it is hard to intelligently assess the possibilities and thus the risks and rewards. If AI is looking likely to emerge as pure software (Watson taken up a lot of notches) it is very different from a "positronic brain" scenario where an art...
[06:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:33] <exec> 08└─Until you ban AI explicitly in the law, I will make AI with the express purpose of destroying humanity. After you ban it, you better monitor all coding and hardware building activity.
[06:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03snmygos [6274] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:35] <exec> 08└─Who to believe, the steely eyed missle man funding a space program by running one of the most audacious cons in history on the greens or the sperg who runs a social media company. I'm stumped, what 'bout 'yall?
[06:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:37] <exec> 08└─Wife is Chinese, so total anti-semite fail! Take this back to your alt-right den of iniquity, you fucking racist! (Oh, if you do not understand why it is a fail, talk to any Jewish grandmother.)
[06:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:40] <exec> 08└─Too many people are missing the long goal. If AI is considered potentially dangerous, then it'll be blanked in regulations. Regulations only the large companies will be able to handle thus killing off all AI competition from startups. The Internet wasn't successfully controlled at it's start and the...
[06:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:23] <exec> 08└─Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said,...
[06:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verse by Verse, Whales Learn Songs Like Humans - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:06] <exec> 08└─the handle DJ Humpback.. the funky dude with the hump might get sued by PETA..
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[07:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:04] <exec> 08└─For Trump supporters: now imagine this in the USA. > perpetrator hates victim > perpetrator shots victim > victim dies Was not difficult to imagine that, are you trolling in favor of gun ownership, perchance?
[07:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much has NASA Downplayed SpaceX's Accidents? - 1426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:12] <exec> 08└─The cause of the SpaceX failure was quickly discovered. It was a defective strut which performed well under specifications. This was remedied for future missions. The cause of the Orbital Sciences failure was never able to be determined. Failure isn't a problem. However, failure without being able t...
[07:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:42] <exec> 08└─All Jewish grandmothers were gassed when they were little girls (little jewesses), so we cannot find a Jewish grandmother to speak to. Why would we want to talk to a Jewess anyway? And it is quite a miracle that the little Jewesses were able to grow old, get laid with Jews (who had been gassed when...
[07:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:35] <exec> 08└─The Bitcoin ledger is recorded in blocks that come out once every ten minutes.
[07:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:00] <exec> 08└─Kaspersky is generally ranked as the #1 antivirus available, and has been for years. Here [av-test.org] is one site that routinely sends a variety of major antivirus software through a set of rigorous tests. Click the arrow icon to get more information on the tests they use and the overall results....
[07:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:02] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of sites [av-test.org] that offer regular test suites for all major virus programs. Kaspersky has been and remains the #1 choice. If you're going for the red scare nonsense (they literally offered full source code access to the US government - so much to hide...), the other top opti...
[07:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:23] <exec> 08└─One thing you're ignoring. The birthday paradox completely disappears once you attach a date to the matter, which is what the research would culminate in. And a low p-value makes it increasingly apparent when less than ethical researchers are just retrofitting science to data. A lower p threshold no...
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[08:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:51] <exec> 08└─Psychiatrists don't diagnose the mental state of actors on stage. It's all an act.
[08:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:53] <exec> 08└─Every Republican candidate gets assigned one or more of "Evil", "Stupid" or "Crazy". Every single one. Doesn't matter who we nominate, the Narrative is one or more of evil, stupid or crazy. Nice Mormon guy? Evil. Every Democrat's favorite "statesman"? Crazy and Evil. Nice guy reformed drunken frat b...
[08:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:55] <exec> 08└─Last I check, there was no repercussion to publishing fake news with anonymous mind-reading spies as sources. Now with less anonymous, more actual named entities to go onto the org chart.
[08:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:57] <exec> 08└─Damn right, aristarchus is fucking delusional [soylentnews.org] but you don't see the niggers-in-charge calling the crazy wagon to take him away.
[08:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:59] <exec> 08└─Trump must be one dedicated method actor to be twitting such madness sunrise till dusk.
[08:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:01] <exec> 08└─How come that a rulebook established precisely because certain actions were deemed bad interference gets changed when a president the deep state can't control gets elected? Preparation for election 2020? or just hammer time until then?
[08:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:04] <exec> 08└─When I method act I like to play the parts of three people so I can have a threesome instead of masturbating alone.
[08:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:06] <exec> 08└─Hopefully this will trigger some pressure on the psychology/medical/psychiatry pseudoscience that has been flourishing the last few decades.
[08:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:08] <exec> 08└─They did not free members from the Goldwater Rule. The rule still applies, they are not allowed to diagnose anyone that they have not had as a patient in a clinical setting. They are; however, allowed to make public statements based on their expertise that are not diagnoses: for example, it's fine f...
[08:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:10] <exec> 08└─Fuck that shit. Let's return to the good old days when mental illness was a sign of demonic possession. Burn the witches.
[08:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:12] <exec> 08└─It's called "method acting". The insanity is real.
[08:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:15] <exec> 08└─This is his secret plan to dispatch ISIS. They think we're in disarray and self-destructing, then POW!!!
[08:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:26] <exec> 08└─And the government is discussing banning their weapons of choice.
[08:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Much has NASA Downplayed SpaceX's Accidents? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:35] <exec> 08└─The article also tries to imply that these sort of explosions would pose risk to human spaceflight. They would not.
[08:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much has NASA Downplayed SpaceX's Accidents? - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:38] <exec> 08└─Oh I completely agree there. I am of course just talking about fatalities. Only one launch escape has ever been executed. It was in the early 80s on a Soyuz capsule and the crew experienced upwards of 15gs of acceleration. That's one hell of a roller coaster ride, but it's a lot better than getting...
[08:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:08] <exec> 08└─"There aren't many people in the world who can justifiably call Mark Zuckerberg a dumb-ass" You could not be more wrong.
[08:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:10] <exec> 08└─Any AI that can design a better version of another AI is in the danger zone.
[08:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:12] <exec> 08└─How many percent can call him an evil asshole? ;-)
[08:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:14] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg's "understanding of privacy is limited." ;-)
[08:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:17] <exec> 08└─אתה אידיוט גזעני
[08:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:55] <exec> 08└─Most people are fools? ;-) But let's not forget the executive class with power and lesser clue. No one gets fired for buying IBM and then someone offers new shiny bits for that machine.. *like moths to the light* ..
[08:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:56] <exec> 08└─According to the Daily Beast, Microsoft and its lawyers have made several attempts to serve the unknown "John Does" via e-mail. According to the Daily Beast, those e-mails have been opened dozens of times and were equipped with a tracking beacon.
[08:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Launches its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:39] <exec> 08└─What anti-virus does Trump use? No matter ... as long as it's Russian.
[08:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:09] <exec> 08└─Time for some restoration? I had some thoughts that allowing people to say that "faggots should die" etc is something that should be outlawed. It seems reasonable. But after a while it becomes obvious it's such a slippery slope that it's a really bad idea and has to be handled like a nuisance otherw...
[08:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:10] <exec> 08└─Free speech zones works such to make it inconvenient for people to go there and thus not hearing your free speech. And also provides the thugs with a known place to intimidate any opposition and to identify and stalk them. Great, huh? ;) Or people could be allowed to express themselves everywhere at...
[08:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:05] <exec> 08└─THIS IS THE WHOLE POINT. By the time you get to human testing if you're not extremely confident you can hit a 99.5% threshold, then you shouldn't be testing that product. I'm fine with it encouraging falsification. The nice thing is that the tighter the threshold for significance becomes, the more e...
[08:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:06] <exec> 08└─E.g. imagine the threshold for significance was 0.000000001. It's reasonable safe to say that anything hat hits that that threshold is either genuine, or the 'scientists' behind it faked their data.
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[09:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:46] <exec> 08└─The remainder of the word day is for meetings and grinding out more hours to make the others look bad.
[09:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:47] <exec> 08└─yep, meetings, email, ticket triage and random "my PC is broke" messages from people that know you are techie and will not shrug them off like the real IT support team.
[09:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:49] <exec> 08└─Strict Workflow [google.com]. I block all the distracting sites for 25 minutes while I get started on coding. Combined with earphones, there are fewer distractions. Once in the flow, distractions don't matter so much as I'm concentrating.
[09:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:08] <exec> 08└─Well today they are diagnosing ~1/6 people with some kind of "mental illness"[1], you are claiming during the time of possessions they were missing all these? Or perhaps they were actually more accurate at diagnosing these types of problems back then? [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com
[09:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:10] <exec> 08└─"How many times can we use the exact same playbook?"
[09:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:12] <exec> 08└─They are; however, allowed to make public statements based on their expertise that are not diagnoses
[09:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:14] <exec> 08└─it's fine for them to say 'based on the behaviour that I've observed, Donald Trump is a pathological narcissist,'
[09:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:16] <exec> 08└─I doubt it's an act. It's a rational response to having your facade as a business genius exposed as a laundering operation for Russian crime syndicates for the past 3 decades. https://newrepublic.com
[09:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:18] <exec> 08└─Hang on, weren't you also insisting that Trump does look Crazy and Stupid, but that it was all an act [soylentnews.org] and that he's just trolling us all [soylentnews.org]? So your current argument is that the left is making it up out of their playbook, but it's all true, but it's an act, but they'...
[09:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:29] <exec> 08└─more likely: > violent perpetrator hates victim, but can't get gun because of a police record, so attacks with a knife > violent perpetrator gets shot by victim 5 times in the chest, once in the stomach, and once in the face at close range > you learn that criminals don't follow the law don't need t...
[09:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:30] <exec> 08└─If the UK government bans knives, the gangs will switch to sharpened rock arrowheads! Well this chemical warfare is a pit stop on the way back to clubs and stone tools.
[09:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:33] <exec> 08└─Wow, look! We are up to UID 6620! Too bad it is an ammosexual idiot. > violent victim hates (insert racial group here) but can get a gun because of white privilege, so attacks. > (racial group person) gets shot by victim 5 times in the chest, once in the stomach, and once in the face at close range...
[09:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:35] <exec> 08└─Before they transfer other grotty activities like thighing
[09:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much has NASA Downplayed SpaceX's Accidents? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:45] <exec> 08└─This article is shit. A simple google through reddits /r/space comments regarding it would easily explain that the second "sitting on the ground" explosion was solved as well. And as for "people"? That's why they don't put people on ANY launch ANYWHERE until the last minute. Because even pre-mixing...
[09:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:22] <exec> 08└─أنت أحمق عنصري
[09:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:23] <exec> 08└─> Seriously, how much do you get paid for this fluff-job? Unfortunately, Elon Musk is the new Steve Jobs and has many fanboys ready to suck his tiny cock for free.
[09:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:43] <exec> 08└─Wish list: * Sit down toilet (no squatting) * Hot and cold water plumbing * Reliable power and telecommunication * Pawed streets * Bury cables * Keeping a calm and moderated voice * Hygiene * Air conditioning Vote Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ? [quora.com]
[09:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:44] <exec> 08└─Can India buy high performance chips from China?
[09:22:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:57] <exec> 08└─Not sure when this behaviour started, but sometime between 1975 and now, it became self-fulfilling: didn't matter what Microsoft did to customers, they kept coming back. Bloatware? Removing functionality? Making updates worse (and worse..)? Telemetry? Auto-updates? Etc etc.. Apparently, you can fool...
[09:23:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jdavidb [5690] 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:15] <exec> 08└─Some prominent figures in the Bitcoin community saw an easy fix: just increase that 1MB limit. But Bitcoin traditionalists argued that the limit was actually a feature, not a bug.
[09:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:14] <exec> 08└─If you're seeking your own funding, there's no time or reward for looking at someone else's data. Ditto for checking reproducibility. You need NOVEL SHINY WHIZZBANG to get grants. The university does not care about your results or your science. Bring in the grant money because the Dean of Science an...
[09:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:16] <exec> 08└─You're not wrong. One disturbing thing I am noticing is tons of shitty shitty studies that weakly confirm older studies but don't cite them. Instead they cite 40 articles from 2015 and later written by their fellow countrymen. It feels like a "yellow" washing of science. The number of publications a...
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[10:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:56] <exec> 08└─1) Don't visit sites like Soylentnews.org, social media and other non-work related sites. 2) Don't visit supposedly work-related sites till you have started on the work and need to visit those sites 3) Have a decent but not too heavy meal (too heavy = sleepy). 4) Find a quiet place (or use headphone...
[10:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:58] <exec> 08└─Think of other worse and important stuff that you have to eventually do. Work on the current task to delay doing those stuff... :)
[10:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:00] <exec> 08└─Awesome list. Worth pinning to the wall. Find a quiet place? In an open plan office? No. A colleague now has $400 noise cancelling earphones muff things. Overkill?
[10:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:46] <exec> 08└─They better implement the one-child policy or they will have trouble. China already learnt this.
[10:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:48] <exec> 08└─Population is power. Being the most populous nation in the world has its advantages.
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[11:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:00] <exec> 08└─Personally, I don't mind a 5-10% allowance for fucking off or general grabassery but the rest of the time you need to be producing useful work for the company. If you don't have any good code left in you for the day, fine; comment and document code, proofread already written code, update yourself on...
[11:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:01] <exec> 08└─I agree, if paid by the hour (yes salaried are too), then anything to progress the workplace can be work. Brain powered work is not something most people can keep up for 8 full hours, or even the 5-6 expected of cage chickens in a workday. Elitests who only eant to contribut a few good hours should...
[11:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:27] <exec> 08└─Well today they are diagnosing ~1/6 people with some kind of "mental illness"[1]
[11:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:28] <exec> 08└─It's Trump time and the rules go out the window... Even for his opponents... Seriously what is the benefit of breaking this rule? You think those who aren't already against Trump will change their opinions because some "expert" says Trump is nuts? Looks like those psychiatrists need their brains che...
[11:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:44] <exec> 08└─Solution: Drive prisoner transport buses to the streets where gangs hang around, push them on board with force and drive them to detention centers where they will live on bread and water until they figure out their country of origin at which point they are flown home. If the destination country refu...
[11:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:33] <exec> 08└─Can't we agree "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" and avoid the whole risk of Skynet?
[11:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:35] <exec> 08└─And which is that even greater "xI" that will be the judge of "even better"? Mind you, we as a species and as a community of communicating sentient minds are not hoarding intelligence, but the knowledge - prepackaged solutions, or building blocks for solutions, to recurring problems. With AI left on...
[11:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:59] <exec> 08└─Like with Africa?
[11:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:00] <exec> 08└─Africa ain't a nation/country. But it does have a lot of natural resources and China in particular is moving to help them exploit that wealth. It is expected to add over a billion to the world's population by 2050, and if these people are slightly richer, better educated, packing more smartphones, w...
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[12:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:07] <exec> 08└─Well if the elitests weren't so mind-numbingly idiotic, the elitists wouldn't get so mind-numbingly bored fixing their shit.
[12:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:08] <exec> 08└─I sea what you did their.
[12:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:11] <exec> 08└─Is the workplace really designed to make people work, I mean productively? * Open space plans * Phones * Meetings * Efficient tools.... or tools that don't do what you want, crashes and isn't permitted to be replace because.. because! * Duplicating "IT-support" * Obligatory social...
[12:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:53] <exec> 08└─Legalise LSD.
[12:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:54] <exec> 08└─Trump supporters
[12:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:56] <exec> 08└─discussing banning their weapons of choice
[12:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much has NASA Downplayed SpaceX's Accidents? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:08] <exec> 08└─If Musky says it's solved, it's solved! Send them to the moon, now!
[12:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much has NASA Downplayed SpaceX's Accidents? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:10] <exec> 08└─Nobody knew rocket science was so complicated!
[12:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:15] <exec> 08└─Or how to bathe and use deodorant. While they're at it: not drench themselves and their hair with nasty smelling oils that try to hide the stench of poor hygiene which only compounds their already overwhelming BO.
[12:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:52] <exec> 08└─Why not increase the rate at which new blocks are released?
[12:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:51] <exec> 08└─The constitution simple states that people have the freedom to exercise it at home etc.
[12:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:52] <exec> 08└─Bigotry is hating someone because you have a normal, inbuilt need to hate. Bigotry is trying to make yourself look big by making someone else look small.
[12:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:01] <exec> 08└─Good points, I agree with and extend my remarks to my proposal only makes sense if (as I suspect) the rate of injury is highly non-linear with player mass and has recently become more of an issue because of extensive steroid and other enhancement use. He's significantly before my time, but Ray Nitsc...
[12:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:02] <exec> 08└─Good point AC, I always thought using head in soccer was pretty idiotic self destructive, and a simple rule change would allow a bit more arm use to deflect without damaging the game much, while another rule change that using head means kicked out of the game until medical professionals perform a co...
[12:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:53] <exec> 08└─I'm going to make your mod rating a little bit smaller.
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[13:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:54] <exec> 08└─The cons of conducting business in the USA is on the increase. Are the pros also going by the same rate?
[13:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:55] <exec> 08└─Well, we're winning so much that we're sick and tired of winning.
[13:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:57] <exec> 08└─Free prostate exam?
[13:20:59] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 945 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:00] <exec> 08└─Dumkie always hated the smart kids, mainly because he didn't understand what they were doing. Dumkie never finished high school, and had trouble making more than minimum wage until he got hired by the TSA. Now Dumkie stares at a TV screen all day long, every day, bored out of his tiny skull. Except...
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[13:21:02] <exec> 08└─> Are the pros also going by the same rate? Yes, but in the other direction!
[13:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:04] <exec> 08└─Yet another reason why, if you fly more than 2-3 times a year, or travel in any professional capacity at all, its practically a job requirement to have pre-check. It exempts you from so many of these security theatre requirements being put in place by an agency that can't find over 90% of the ACTUAL...
[13:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:28] <exec> 08└─Nowadays my productivity is low because for many years, people have been bothering me with stupid questions, which sometimes take hours of help by phone to get rid of. But when I was a lot younger I discovered that whenever I severely slowed down while coding, it usually was due to a bug I had intro...
[13:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:29] <exec> 08└─After work, and since it is unavoidable anyway, I think of what to program/fix next. And that's what I start with the next day. I could at least be debugging the whole day to make that happen. If I get lucky, I have a day to keep improving it. I also refuse the urge to do it on the night, just after...
[13:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 2620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:32] <exec> 08└─That dude is smart and I have great respect for him, but he's ignorant. If you want to see an extreme example look at a site like hackernews, holy shit those kids have high IQs and low life experience, pretty funny to watch sometimes. The problem is, Joel just doesn't understand habit. Only slightly...
[13:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:34] <exec> 08└─During my PhD, I typically worked 3-4 hour days. People kept asking me 'how are you so much more productive than me when I work much longer hours than you?' completely ignoring the fact that the answer was in the question. A study came out about 2/3 of my way through which showed that, for knowledge...
[13:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:36] <exec> 08└─You're being paid for work; not working is cheating your employer
[13:21:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 960 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:59] <exec> 08└─I doubt it's an act. It's a rational response to having your facade as a business genius exposed as a laundering operation for Russian crime syndicates for the past 3 decades. https://newrepublic.com
[13:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:03] <exec> 08└─You forgot about Hitler. Every Republican is and always has been Hitler. I know a Republican isn't worth voting for unless he's been called a Hitler.
[13:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 1771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:06] <exec> 08└─Its simpler than that. Why do all the mainstream journalists hate Trump? Because he's in the "R" group and they're almost all in the "D" group and its middle school sociology hate of the outgroup. They hate Trump viciously because he eats at the wrong lunchroom table, nothing more. If he "came out"...
[13:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:08] <exec> 08└─Well today they are diagnosing ~1/6 people with some kind of "mental illness"[1]
[13:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:10] <exec> 08└─C'mon, be fair. Every Democrat is a Hitler as well.
[13:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:12] <exec> 08└─TFA that you quoted that from seems to be written by someone who skim-read another article about the actual announcement. The announcement that they sent out explicitly stated that they were not freeing members from the Goldwater Rule, but that they were clarifying its meaning.
[13:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:14] <exec> 08└─Why do all the mainstream journalists hate Trump? Because he's in the "R" group and they're almost all in the "D" group and its middle school sociology hate of the outgroup.
[13:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:17] <exec> 08└─He probably grabbed them by the truth. ;-)
[13:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:19] <exec> 08└─diagnose with != have.
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[13:22:51] <exec> 08└─Seems like they may be lacking technically and perhaps contractually. X may hold a lot of cards here. Both the raw data from the vehicles and i would bet NDA's. OTOH, it's in X's interest to understand and fix the problem. It does seem like eventually either NASA or NTSB will be able to analyse and...
[13:22:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:58] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg's "understanding of the subject is limited."
[13:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:57] <exec> 08└─Nations in Africa share many of the same traits. China is definitely moving in to exploit, perhaps not so much else. Adding a billion more people to Africa ain't going to be pretty. If they get rich which they will only be if permitted and history tells otherwise. Better educated seems to be hopes....
[13:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:58] <exec> 08└─They get what they deserve: shit code. They are so blinded by greed that they don't care they are getting fucked right back with garbage code.
[13:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:37] <exec> 08└─The fundamental caractheristics of the Bitcoin protocol have been agreed upon a long time ago, at inception, and are difficult to adjust, since everyone participating in the network has agreed to those terms. Changing the block size is like adjusting an internal working of the thing, with little imp...
[13:25:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 699 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:19] <exec> 08└─And it likely won't be. Passing the law isn't the point. Congresscritters aren't stupid*. They know this has almost no hope of passage, and they certainly know that it will be shot down immediately on constitutional grounds if it does pass by the courts. This is grandstanding. It's getting your name...
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[14:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 Doubles Maximum Possible Bandwidth With a Type-C Cable - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:55] <exec> 08└─Still half-duplex? and the connectors look like gene-splicing gone wrong.. Let's not forget polling and strict host-device tree structure. The USB API is also overly complex, compare with SCSI. Thunderbolt seems like a better hope?
[14:21:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:03] <exec> 08└─Well, we're winning so much that we're sick and tired of winning.
[14:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:09] <exec> 08└─That's one thing. But now the TSA wants to grope my electronics too.
[14:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 1406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:38] <exec> 08└─That's what I like about contracting, when I'm done I'm "working with another client" see ya. Of course my other client might be playing baseball with my kids. There are contractors that F over clients, but not me. Sometimes I am burned out completely on topic A for client A but I can put in good ho...
[14:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:39] <exec> 08└─Agree and extend your remarks with the false belief "Every employee is an extreme extrovert, right?"
[14:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:41] <exec> 08└─The boss and the receptionist is a extrovert so of course everybody else are like them! :-) Many workplaces with qualified jobs should sometimes have the option to say "FUCK OFF!!", even to the boss ;-) Can just imagine the new plan with "loan desks" and open landscape. You put on the nice new noise...
[14:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:43] <exec> 08└─Actually I had hints that mental marathon people can't muster the peak IQ needed for many complex things.
[14:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03metarox [788] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:46] <exec> 08└─I come in at 5 am and I'm out at 1pm and eat lunch at my desk. No one is around here before 9-10 am anyways. I have access to all the labs and servers that are idling and get no distractions for a straight 4-5 hours. I get to enjoy the rest of the day, avoid traffic completely (even with winter stor...
[14:22:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 464 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:10] <exec> 08└─Hang on, weren't you also insisting that Trump does look Crazy and Stupid, but that it was all an act [soylentnews.org] and that he's just trolling us all [soylentnews.org]? So your current argument is that the left is making it up out of their playbook, but it's all true, but it's an act, but they'...
[14:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:21] <exec> 08└─Except of course, they are freeing members from that part of the Goldwater Rule. Maybe it's only a partial freeing with some residual of the Goldwater Rule still in place, but the AC's point remains. And let us keep in mind that it's your words now that are stating that they are freeing members from...
[14:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:23] <exec> 08└─C'mon, be fair. Every Democrat is a Hitler as well.
[14:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:25] <exec> 08└─The question is, what are we going to do about these dangerous pathologies at the wider, societal level?
[14:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:27] <exec> 08└─We like to observe some civilized rules, but we hate Trump so badly, we're giving up civlized behaviour.
[14:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─Are you sure that Aristarchus is delusional, or is Aristarchus the delusion? Or, alternatively, Aristarchus is just a douche.
[14:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:31] <exec> 08└─That post reminds me of those old candy bar commercials - sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. The post is informative, while being outrageously funny. I'll take a carton, to nibble on for the next few weeks.
[14:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:34] <exec> 08└─Wrong answer. The correct answer is, "We'll vote them into high office!"
[14:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:52] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millwall_brick [wikipedia.org]
[14:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:54] <exec> 08└─If the thigh sex is permitted, why aren't Western pedos moving to the Middle East?
[14:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─Everything I've read so far on this subject, says that this is an IMMIGRANT problem. Inter-gang? Oh, really? How many of those gangs are English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish? Yeah, I'm listening . . . to crickets and the sound of one hand clapping. Someone said "two Asian men were attacked", but no on...
[14:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:58] <exec> 08└─A truck would wipe many gangs on streets in one go? ;-) Politicians can't ban object operators because they want the industrialized nations to go down so there's less competition for resources.
[14:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:53] <exec> 08└─Only dangerous AI would be the one trained by purpose to be adversarial to all humans.
[14:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:01] <exec> 08└─but if anyone else had killed 34 sailors and wounded 172 plus rendering a US ship useless the response would have been very strong.
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[15:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB 3.2 Doubles Maximum Possible Bandwidth With a Type-C Cable - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:58] <exec> 08└─The use of two channels is possible only if a certified USB 3.1 Type-C cable is used to connect the host and the device.
[15:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 Doubles Maximum Possible Bandwidth With a Type-C Cable - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:59] <exec> 08└─USB 1&2 are half duplex. USB 3.x and C are full duplex and support interrupts without polling. See: http://inno-logic.com [inno-logic.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 Doubles Maximum Possible Bandwidth With a Type-C Cable - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:02] <exec> 08└─Garbage cables with missing differential pairs, or poorly designed cable that does not meet the physical requirements for gigabit speeds.
[15:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:15] <exec> 08└─They have all that x-ray technology, and none of it can figure out there's a brick of c-4 where your battery should be? Of course small explosives in the underwear are probably ok. If you want to blow your junk off that's none of my business as long as it relatively quiet, doesn't smoke too much and...
[15:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:16] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the TSA finally started listening to Randall... [xkcd.com]
[15:21:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 817 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:40] <exec> 08└─Is the workplace really designed to make people work, I mean productively? * Open space plans * Phones * Meetings * Efficient tools.... or tools that don't do what you want, crashes and isn't permitted to be replace because.. because! * Duplicating "IT-support" * Obligatory social...
[15:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:52] <exec> 08└─Sure, I have no problem paying for 20 hours instead of 40. You want to be paid by the job, be a contractor. You want paid by the hour, get paid for the hours you work. Jobs aren't there to provide you a living. They're an exchange of an agreed upon amount of work for an agreed amount of money. Viola...
[15:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:53] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. As long as you live up to your contractual obligations, they can go piss up a flagpole where ordering you around is concerned.
[15:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:55] <exec> 08└─As if maximizing productive output (if we can even define that) ever had anything to do with the work environment. It's all about control, baby. Ok, according to legend the 40 hours came from Ford research, but really, since this is only ever cited as a reason to work MORE hours, that hasn't much to...
[15:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:57] <exec> 08└─The main way to increase productivity with those earphones is when someone walks up and starts talking, you don't take them off
[15:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:00] <exec> 08└─Above 40, you lose more time fixing mistakes than you gain from doing more work.
[15:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:02] <exec> 08└─Compare this to mowing the lawn, or washing your car. I can sit on the couch all Saturday and not want to get up and go mow the lawn. But if I actually force myself to do it, then once I'm mowing the lawn (although it may still suck) at least I'm doing it and getting it done. Its harder to get off t...
[15:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:04] <exec> 08└─always worked in places that judge you by your outputs, not by your inputs
[15:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:46] <exec> 08└─Here's today's truth nugget [cnn.com] from the Trump inner circle: After Politico published a story about how the he continues to profit from the sale of his hedge fund SkyBridge Capital, Scaramucci slammed the leak of his Office of Government Ethics forms. "In light of the leak of my financial disc...
[15:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:48] <exec> 08└─Indeed, why do they dislike him? When someone keeps calling me fake, overrated, lamestream, enemy of the people, threatens to sue me, etc., every single day, I know I should start singing praises of that person. I do not understand this hostility by the press. What did Trump ever do to provoke it? I...
[15:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─American Psychoanalytic Association
[15:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:52] <exec> 08└─You're *almost* right, but there's more to it. They are Ds and they were never fans of Rs, that much is true. But the level of hatred, of vitriol, the way that standards of reporting haven't just been bent occasionally but rather thrown aside entirely in response to Trump, is something quite differe...
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─You gotta ask, why does every male psychiatrist have a goatee?
[15:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─It's alternately, not alternatively, unless your additional option necessarily includes a musical selection.
[15:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:59] <exec> 08└─What does Elron say?
[15:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:01] <exec> 08└─In all fairness, Trump is only an R of convenience, so different treatment scans as consistent.
[15:23:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:09] <exec> 08└─One victim required 40 operations and continues to receive frequent, lifelong surgery to alleviate complications such as scar tissue on windpipe.
[15:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:25] <exec> 08└─Muslims kill western pedos. They don't like competition.
[15:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:26] <exec> 08└─What is the tech or entertainment angle in this story? Is there a way to filter this stuff out from my RSS feed and limit to tech news only?
[15:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:28] <exec> 08└─This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard. Trump's worldview is consistently inconsistent with reality. INb4 "GOOD RETORT".. your post has little substance so this is not the argument we're having.
[15:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:31] <exec> 08└─Asian = Afghan ? It can be suspected. Now would be the time to assemble the killer drones :P
[15:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:26] <exec> 08└─Believe them both. As ambassador Delenn says, it's a matter of perspective. Musk: AI will lead to a dystopia. Zuckerberg: AI will lead to a utopia. One man's utopia is most other people's dystopia. So they're both right from their own POV.
[15:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:55] <exec> 08└─Didn't work in China. Too many female babies are already aborted or killed in india.
[15:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:36] <exec> 08└─Assuming I'm talking about Hamas is several decades too recent. I'm not talking about the clusterfuck the place is now; I'm talking about Mandatory Palestine into the '48 war. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The Palestinians in general ref...
[15:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:37] <exec> 08└─there was appeasement
[15:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:40] <exec> 08└─irremediably
[15:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:43] <exec> 08└─legislators re-negging on their backroom deals
[15:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:45] <exec> 08└─I know, I mean the sanctions against Iran and South Africa were a complete waste of time, right ? And trying to Boycott Israel is so ineffective that it doesn't worry the Israelis at all, right ? Try harder shill.
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[16:20:53] <exec> 08└─If they don't have some kind of detailed report to look at it is pointless to believe anything they are saying. Usually those reports aren't even very good anyway, but there is literally nothing to see here.
[16:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:54] <exec> 08└─Very much like every AC first post on this site.
[16:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 Doubles Maximum Possible Bandwidth With a Type-C Cable - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:06] <exec> 08└─How does certification affect the physical properties of the cable?
[16:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:02] <exec> 08└─Fire And Motion
[16:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:04] <exec> 08└─If the experiment lasts one day, sure. But the next day productivity will be lower the whole day. I've worked 70 hour weeks, and by the end I could barely function. My health also deteriorates.
[16:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:06] <exec> 08└─Actually, the Ford research picking the 40 hour week caused them to reduce hours to 40 (before that everyone demanded more work from workers).
[16:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:56] <exec> 08└─What's good for the goose is good for the gander, fight fire with fire, etc.
[16:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:58] <exec> 08└─Typical, can't see the naked truth right in front of your face. I understand, when you're a delusional evil person it is very hard to recognize the evil in others. Obligatory: fuck off
[16:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─This is why you conservative types get no respect or sympathy anymore. You're too blind and stupid, oh well.
[16:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─I likely agreed that Clinton is neuro, if someone had stated so. I know that Clinton is evil. I feared Clinton being in charge of our country like any parent would fear a demon from hell babysitting their children. As for diagnosing Clinton, all on my own, I don't think so. I simply don't speak psyc...
[16:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:04] <exec> 08└─Hehehe, never an original thought from you crazy Nazis. Just pull the latest news article, the latest radio talk buzzwords and insults, slap on some patented stupidity and you've got a post worthy of being downmodded!
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─Trump IS dishonest horseshit. If the shoe fits :/ If you haven't figured that part out yet then you fall under a quite limited array of descriptors, none of them good.
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─You just see conspiracy everywhere, and magically it lines up with your political ideologies. I think those psychs you hate have a good term for it: delusional.
[16:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:11] <exec> 08└─Better a goatee than a goatse.
[16:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:38] <exec> 08└─How do you know which is his reality? through media? ;)
[16:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:39] <exec> 08└─No, SN is now the playground of the alt-right with many stories being submitted and accepted on the grounds that they fit the political narrative. Any chance to prove Muslims are evil, liberals are stupid, and Trump is not a human wasteland.
[16:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:41] <exec> 08└─This is simply amazing. An article *completely unrelated* to the US or even politics in general, and the very first comment is a Trump-hate post that has been modded +5 Interesting. Stay classy, SN.
[16:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:44] <exec> 08└─Where do you live? Here, in the USA, a violent criminal who "can't get a gun" because of his police record simply goes to the black market to buy his guns. Or, simply steals them from somewhere. There is no shortage of guns among criminals.
[16:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:46] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but a lot of crazed shooters don't have a police record, or don't have a bad enough record to prevent them from getting a gun (sometimes thanks to NRA lobbying to restrict the government from barring access to firearms to mentally unstable people). If nothing else, they can easily get...
[16:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, fuck off with your "white privilege" shit. More people are shot in Chicago, than in any other city in the USA. More BLACK people are killed in Chicago than in any other city in the US. And, more black people are killed BY black people than in any other city in the US. Sounds a lot like BLACK PRI...
[16:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:50] <exec> 08└─"And set the punishment for acid attacks to a minimum of 10 years." Nahhh. Death penalty. And, it shouldn't take a decade to impose the sentence, either.
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:53] <exec> 08└─Stupid douche, glance at the headline, and if you don't like it, don't click on it. Whiny fucking douches - they're taking over the fucking world! I can hear them whining when I pass them on the streets! Whine, whine, whine, ohh, boo-hoo, I'm a victim, waaah, snivel whine and cry!! You want me to te...
[16:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─Everything I've read so far on this subject, says that this is an IMMIGRANT problem.
[16:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:57] <exec> 08└─That's an odd way of characterizing the Sandy Hook cretin. His mother didn't buy the weapons for him. She bought them for herself. He KILLED HIS OWN MOTHER to get her weapons. That, right there,ranks among the lowest of the depths of depravity. Killing a couple dozen little children isn't any worse...
[16:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:07] <exec> 08└─Most of the people involved in making decisions in 1948 are long dead. The rest are nearly dead. Why should their foolishness decide what happens now?
[16:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:08] <exec> 08└─I didn't say it should? I just pointed out that in the past people have made dumb decisions. You're the one trying to make it about what they are or should be doing now.
[16:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:19] <exec> 08└─The thing is, that there are plenty of other sports with interesting tactics and logistics and strategy that don't involve giving opponents concussions on a regular basis. For example, ultimate [usaultimate.org], while being a cheap and simple game to play casually, also has deep strategy and intens...
[16:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Change in P-Value Threshold for Statistical Significance - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:11] <exec> 08└─Meh, I've seen the same BS from all cultures. Some are just more sophisticated about producing the junk than others due to steps they memorized in school.
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[17:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:04] <exec> 08└─slight psychopathy
[17:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:06] <exec> 08└─What I really want to know when it comes to gene editing: vi or emacs
[17:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:08] <exec> 08└─A person familiar with the research says “many tens” of human IVF embryos were created for the experiment using the donated sperm of men carrying inherited disease mutations. Embryos at this stage are tiny clumps of cells invisible to the naked eye.
[17:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:10] <exec> 08└─I do all my genome editing with sed, you insensitive clod!
[17:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:12] <exec> 08└─[...] the experiments are a milestone on what may prove to be an inevitable journey toward the birth of the first genetically modified humans.
[17:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:15] <exec> 08└─Knowing mutation rates, I'd naively expect 0-16 of these cells to spontaneously gain/have a mutation at the site they were considering in the case of NEHJ (when they only see any random mutation at a given site).
[17:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:17] <exec> 08└─Lazy punks, if you aren't manually coding the bits you're a slacker just like your old man!
[17:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 Doubles Maximum Possible Bandwidth With a Type-C Cable - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:28] <exec> 08└─Designed so you will buy the wrong cable or be unable to upgrade etc. Which force you to go and buy more.. profit.
[17:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:45] <exec> 08└─Road. Rail. Sail. Seriously, between the TSA gropefest, and airline abuses, and the general my-life-sucks of cattle class, you might as well ignore airlines for anything short of a real crisis. And if it's a real crisis? Flying probably wouldn't get you there on time anyway. So relax, find your zen,...
[17:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:47] <exec> 08└─I'm with you. I will drive up to three days to avoid the airport. However, don't think the goons will be content to stop at air travel. They're coming for everything, everywhere. Fortunately, they are a manifestation of bumbling, incompetent government, so it will take awhile. But it is as unstoppab...
[17:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:49] <exec> 08└─Rail travel isn't perfect in the US, but for medium to long travel, it's not bad. You have a comfortable seat, power points for your laptop/gadgets, you can walk around and stretch your legs, even enjoy the sightseeing because you don't have to watch the road all the time.
[17:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uber's Former CEO Travis and Google Co-Founder Both Face Deposition in Trade Secrets Case - 1840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:57] <exec> 08└─When I read through: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I am left with the singular impression that Levandowski has been working on self driving vehicles since he started in collage, and he's pretty good at. He appears to have developed and demonstrated what is n...
[17:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber's Former CEO Travis and Google Co-Founder Both Face Deposition in Trade Secrets Case - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:59] <exec> 08└─I am left with the singular impression that Levandowski has been working on self driving vehicles since he started in collage
[17:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:37] <exec> 08└─Agree and extend with "Make critical decisions based on which buzzwords non-technical people have heard recently."
[17:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:37] <exec> 08└─I must've misremembered. This was what I was referring to: http://www.snopes.com [snopes.com]
[17:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:38] <exec> 08└─No, there are fields of psychology that study why the delusions of psychology researchers and the clinicians they inform seem so difficult to stamp out. These delusions are not actually controversial. They are provably incorrect using well accepted mathematical and logical rules: http://library.mpib...
[17:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:40] <exec> 08└─actually, if you switch those around you would be accurate. the dems are socialists and the repubs are fascists.
[17:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:17] <exec> 08└─So why isn't he 50 points behind? He is not the only politician divorced from reality.
[17:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:19] <exec> 08└─Got one right here! Don't you know that more rednecks are shot by other rednecks than by any other group? The problem with white privilege is that those that have it don't know that it even exists!!
[17:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:21] <exec> 08└─Everything I've read so far on this subject, says that this is an IMMIGRANT problem.
[17:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:23] <exec> 08└─it's right on the label. taking our "meds" may make you a violent raving looney. attack big pharma's officers.
[17:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:25] <exec> 08└─as he clutches his ipad with one tear limping down his cheak.
[17:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much has NASA Downplayed SpaceX's Accidents? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:40] <exec> 08└─if i'm not paying for it and the people volunteer they can shoot them at the moon like a sick dart game for all i care.
[17:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:24] <exec> 08└─Could you make some paperclips please.
[17:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:26] <exec> 08└─There aren't many people in the world who can justifiably call Mark Zuckerberg a dumb-ass
[17:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft's Secret Weapon in Ongoing Struggle Against Fancy Bear? Trademark Law - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:16] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you, I think someone's hacked into my Twitter accounts. That's one of the things I want to talk about with Fancy Bear. 🇺🇸
[17:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:35] <exec> 08└─humans. that's the main weakness all these cryptocurrency projects have is the damn humans. too bad someone hasn't written a program that looks for stupid design decisions. "error: a hard coded block size is stupid. please redesign and resubmit. thank you."
[17:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:45] <exec> 08└─Don't you me follow the thirty pieces of silver?
[17:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:46] <exec> 08└─Trump's Raw Deal.
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[18:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:03] <exec> 08└─Oh, nice! Now FB is friends with a nation only slightly less dysfunctional than Venezuela, one that has nuclear weapons.
[18:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:04] <exec> 08└─We anti-social network privacy advocates have been saying for years. When you combine this with the fingerprint requirement for cell phones, the push for paperless money, and the ever increasing push for biometric data up to and including DNA samples, you start to put society into a very dangerous p...
[18:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:06] <exec> 08└─By engaging in illegal speech on social media they leave a trail of evidence which the government is able to request and Facebook complies with.
[18:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:08] <exec> 08└─What does it take to game the databases? And what are the gaps?
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[18:21:11] <exec> 08└─why people left Europe for America.
[18:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:13] <exec> 08└─We anti-social network privacy advocates
[18:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:15] <exec> 08└─The downside to having a company comply with local laws is you have a company that complies with local laws.
[18:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:17] <exec> 08└─Don't trust the MSM on Venezuela, in particular the US press. If you check the bylines on most articles, they are from people coming from the deep right wing of Venezuelan politics.
[18:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:20] <exec> 08└─Its been hanging around since WWII. Some psychopaths thought it was a good idea back then, and they didn't magically all go away. The military and government went away, but the ideas and money men simply sank into the background. It is a larger cultural trend that can not be wiped clean with one big...
[18:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:22] <exec> 08└─we cannot allow governments to mandate backdoors for encryption. Yes, I know this story isn't (directly) about encryption. But the idea that "companies will be pressured to conform to the laws in each country where they operate" combined with the knowledge that "things you consider abhorrent are the...
[18:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:24] <exec> 08└─Applying logic: anti-social generally refers to a personality type that does not easily mesh with popular culture, a very possible meaning. Followed by the very clear phrase "network privacy advocates" and paired with the idea that network privacy already implies a negative stance towards social med...
[18:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:41] <exec> 08└─Don't make rocket scientists, make really beautiful women. Make them like Marla: nice tits, no brains. A woman who is very flat-chested is very hard to be a 10. Would you go out with Marcia Cross or would you turn gay, DannyB? Make them like Princess Diana. She had the height, she had the beauty, sh...
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[18:21:43] <exec> 08└─Table S2 (~0.15%): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] Tables S5, S12 (~0.1%): http://www.nature.com [nature.com] Figure S1 (~1%): http://www.nature.com
[18:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:45] <exec> 08└─Heres another: Fig 3(1-2%) "Although rare (~1–2%), edits were detected with Cas9-only control treatment, including at the predicted CXCR4 cut site, potentially indicating trace amounts of experimental contamination of the Cas9 RNPs."" http://www.pnas.org
[18:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:47] <exec> 08└─First link: K562 cells (a triploid leukemic cell line) were electroporated with Cas9 plasmids (mock) - doesn't sound spontaneous to me. Their results do show that guide RNA can greatly enhance indel frequency at a specific region. https://www.atcc.org [atcc.org]
[18:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:50] <exec> 08└─edits were detected with Cas9-only control treatment
[18:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:52] <exec> 08└─Nah, real men just bone the woman directly, and the DNA arranges itself. :-)
[18:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Imposes Stricter Screening of Large Electronics in Carry-on Baggage - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:23] <exec> 08└─On the other hand if this keeps Samsung off the flight it might be the only non-theatric part of the security apparatus!
[18:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─I Resist the Urge to Code. Seriously, most people start way too soon. Just don't go there. Draw diagrams, rough chicken-scratched flow-charts (that may never see the light of day), write in the dev-book, compile lists of programs that need to be adjusted, anything. Just don't write a line of code to...
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─If jobs aren't there to provide me with a living, then why am I not literally a slave? That would surely make more profit for the profit gods.
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─Headline could use a little context. I think that's what all the little text under it is for. Not that I read it, too busy working!
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─My list: 1: make a list of all the crap I need to do. 2: do all the stuff on the list. 3: screw around on Soylent for the remainder while looking busy.
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─Winter is coming!
[18:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:21] <exec> 08└─Yup, here's your sign.
[18:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:22] <exec> 08└─So you don't like it when people who are evil and/or stupid and/or crazy get called out for being evil and/or stupid and/or crazy? Too bad: WALUIGI TIME.
[18:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:24] <exec> 08└─To be fair, judging by your voting record, you would support a literal "literally Hitler." Aren't you a neo-nazi?!
[18:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:27] <exec> 08└─So you're opposed to Psychiatrists stating their political opinions. What was that about lefties being the ones who dislike free speech?
[18:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─Yep. You've got guns. I've got guns. These differences are irreconcilable unless we all decide to follow that one AC's recommendation and using a series of contracts instead of a “violently imposed monopoly.” However, as many of us have noted, even that will devolve into a violently imposed mono...
[18:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:12] <exec> 08└─Irish would still be immigrants. Aside from that, everything you've read must be not much reading at all. This weekend police arrested 24-year-old scaffolder Arthur Collins [...] He has since been charged with 14 counts of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and one count of throwing co...
[18:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:13] <exec> 08└─Here's more... William Burns, 56, threw sulphuric acid into Russell Findlay's face after turning up at his door disguised as a postman on 23 December 2015.
[18:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:15] <exec> 08└─Do onto them what they want to do onto others.
[18:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:18] <exec> 08└─So we're just eliminating due process then? Seems like there was a bit of a tussle over that one back in 1776...
[18:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much has NASA Downplayed SpaceX's Accidents? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:34] <exec> 08└─if you're an American taxpayer, you are paying for it. SpaceX is funded mostly by NASA contracts.
[18:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much has NASA Downplayed SpaceX's Accidents? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:35] <exec> 08└─Turns out rocket science is hard, news at 11.
[18:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:20] <exec> 08└─RNN's have been a thing for a while, and they're not a threat currently. I think people should really learn how the technology works before making an opinion on it. I don't think Musk or Zuckerberg understands the technology past the basic definitions. Not to mention you need to dig into some pretty...
[18:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Deal Could End Bitcoin's Long-Running Civil War - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:30] <exec> 08└─I don't think the compromise is a good one. If there is a problem with segwit, there is no clear way to roll-back. Just making the blocks larger is actually the most conservative approach. Miners generally avoid producing very large block due to orphan risks. The way I see it, we will have a 3-way s...
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[19:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Farenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got it Right - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:54] <exec> 08└─n/t
[19:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got it Right - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:56] <exec> 08└─This means that you can get a more exact measurement of the air temperature using Fahrenheit because it uses almost twice the scale.
[19:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got it Right - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:58] <exec> 08└─I think Fahrenheit does a better job of capturing the current air temperatures in comfortable numbers for people. So much of our number system is optimized for the 0-100 range, which is the temps most people live in. -10 to 40 feels sub optimal by comparison. Of course, I like Celsius better for sci...
[19:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got it Right - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:00] <exec> 08└─wtf is a stonehedge?
[19:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got it Right - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:02] <exec> 08└─Seriously, that's the best arguments you could come up with? If decimals in degrees don't matter for us in the Celsius world, it is mostly because we can't distinguish it any way. Also, for my comfort, relative air humidity is more important for feeling comfortable than the difference of a few degre...
[19:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got it Right - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:04] <exec> 08└─One Man Says the U.S. Got it Right
[19:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got it Right - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:07] <exec> 08└─I don't understand what you mean by "our number system is optimized." BTW In Phoenix right now it's 105°F or 41°C [weather.gov]
[19:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got it Right - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:09] <exec> 08└─If precision is the goal, then use more significant digits. Also, if our levels of perception cannot distinguish between two values (e.g. 22F and 23F; 98F and 99F) then extra precision is unnecessary. Perception of outside temperature is probably much more dependent on humidity, wind, and sun exposu...
[19:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got it Right - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:11] <exec> 08└─Celsius is great for measuring the temperature of water. However, we're human beings who live on dry ground. As a result, it's best to use a temperature gauge that's suited to the air, as opposed to one that's best used for water. This is one reason why Fahrenheit is superior.
[19:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got it Right - 1982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:13] <exec> 08└─european over here. I love making fun of USA citizens for using Fahrenheit, I actually went over the line into asshole territory a couple of times about it (and I'm not proud of that). However, it is just a convention. I will always argue for Celsius over Fahrenheit because the 100 degrees differenc...
[19:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got it Right - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:16] <exec> 08└─Celsius is great for measuring the temperature of water. However, we're human beings who live on dry ground. As a result, it's best to use a temperature gauge that's suited to the air, as opposed to one that's best used for water. This is one reason why Fahrenheit is superior. ... A precise reading...
[19:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:33] <exec> 08└─I'm sure this was implied, but once they create the backdoor for one country it would be pretty easy to sneak it into service for any given country. Just gotta come up with some sort of plausible deniability, like having an intern merge some code over the summer. Intern disappears conveniently, has...
[19:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:35] <exec> 08└─Making money is the first priority. Investors decided on "morals". Freedom and personal development were not part of the plan.
[19:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:37] <exec> 08└─What are context clues?
[19:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:39] <exec> 08└─According to the linked article Facebook says they don't help "round up" blasphemers: Facebook declined to comment on how many of these requests involved allegations of blasphemy, but said that it had not and would not disclose user data to the government in blasphemy cases.
[19:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:41] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan should sign up for a Facebook account, along with all his relatives and trusted associates -- how hard is it to open a FB account in someone elses name? Seems like Anonymous should be able to handle this with little effort. Shortly after, of course, FB cen...
[19:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:44] <exec> 08└─Say that you like books and movies that you really don't like
[19:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:46] <exec> 08└─> do we really want multinationals ignoring local laws Yes.
[19:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:48] <exec> 08└─Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan
[19:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:50] <exec> 08└─We want them to follow the Golden rule (Don't do unto another what you don't want to be done to you), like any decent human being. Bert
[19:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:52] <exec> 08└─Surveillance platform used for surveillance, news at 11
[19:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:55] <exec> 08└─There's a reason why people left Britain for the Netherlands in the 16th century and why people left Europe for America.
[19:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:57] <exec> 08└─Facebook isn't a human being, it's a company. Which means the other golden rule [ikanmedia.tv] applies.
[19:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:20] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but I do not see where they define "mock" in that way and your interpretation is non-standard: http://www.protocol-online.org [protocol-online.org]
[19:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:22] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what you are trying to insinuate. Of course mutation rates depend on cell line and conditions. By your definition of "spontaneous" there would be no interference at all (changing media, etc) and these cells would all just die.
[19:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:24] <exec> 08└─I thought you meant spontaneous mutations arising from the normal error rate in mammalian cells (~10^-10 per cell division). Your definition seems to be what I'd call Cas9-induced, independent of guide RNA. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[19:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03nnet [5716] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:26] <exec> 08└─Kha-a-a-a-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
[19:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:48] <exec> 08└─A colleague now has $400 noise cancelling earphones muff things. Overkill?
[19:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:50] <exec> 08└─None of it explains what "Fire and motion" means.
[19:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:52] <exec> 08└─That may be generally true, but I would not agree that it is always true. I've met mental marathon type folks who accomplish some fairly impressive and complex projects but they do it on their own timeline and often in their own unique way.
[19:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:54] <exec> 08└─Gee your ass in motion or else you're fired?
[19:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─What is this, Wheel of Fortune?
[19:24:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:17] <exec> 08└─"How many times can we use the exact same playbook?"
[19:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:50] <exec> 08└─This is not true. However, the community members who make the effort to submit stories do appear to be from the 'alt-right' side of things more than not in recent months. This is not an editorial policy or decision, it's editors working with what they have. We are always short handed when it comes t...
[19:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 1715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:51] <exec> 08└─Ignore the haters. I deliberately referenced the BBC rather than the Daily Mail to avoid inflamatory content. The BBC has historically been pro-Asian, in part due to the proximity of a large Asian communities to BBC studios. Indeed, the BBC has a radio station in the UK which broadcasts content pred...
[19:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:54] <exec> 08└─to crickets
[19:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:56] <exec> 08└─You are trying to find causation where there is some correlation, but it's not there. There is a high likelihood that 'immigrants' are involved in some of these attacks, but the contention by Runaway and apparently yourself that this is all about foreigners is factually incorrect as the quotes I pos...
[19:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:59] <exec> 08└─Well, the de-facto definition of AI is anything computers can't do yet, anyway. So we can just defer this discussion until forever.
[19:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:00] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna go with the guy who defeated the Stonecutters [wikia.com]
[19:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:30] <exec> 08└─"Will this teach them the miracles of indoor plumbing and toilet paper?" - Referring to Japan around 1950, of course [oxfordscholarship.com]
[19:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:24] <exec> 08└─In Canada, (effective) boycotts, AKA "Economic Terrorism", have been illegal since the anti-terror legislation of around 2002. You are still allowed to call for boycotts: so long as it does not amount to anything. Sort of like how revenue Canada ruled that charities are not allowed to end poverty (b...
[19:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:25] <exec> 08└─“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” Nah, nevermind, we're the land of the weak and cowardly now.
[19:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:27] <exec> 08└─Ah, so even if it's obviously illegal, that's why it's such a big deal to prevent it from becoming a law in the first place.
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[20:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:10] <exec> 08└─I did a poor job of phrasing there. I meant that our system of presenting numbers is often optimized for values from 0 to 100. One example is percentages, which are nearly always presented in that form. Another would be cash, which is denominated in bills from 1 to 100. It seems like humans have a p...
[20:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:12] <exec> 08└─Is the US the only place where household ovens use Farenheit?
[20:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:14] <exec> 08└─people don't like change, and, if your country didn't fully convert to metric, it won't any time soon. If you grew up in a Celcius country, you think about temperature in Celcius, if you grew up using Fahrenheit, you will think about temperature in Fahrenheit. Googling "one man says the U.S. got it...
[20:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:16] <exec> 08└─Yup, we use Gas Mark.
[20:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:18] <exec> 08└─Yes. Everywhere else they use mass, which is measured in kilograms, instead of heat, which is measured in degrees.
[20:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:21] <exec> 08└─About £12. Won't let you in with Euros, sorry, Brexit and all.
[20:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:23] <exec> 08└─I've long advocated that it also makes more sense to roast coffee in Fahrenheit degrees. That's still often done with a human monitoring a temperature read out that's changing continuously and adjusting controls manually (automation in coffee roasting tends to lag about a half century behind the sta...
[20:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:25] <exec> 08└─I'm not that dumb I can tie my own shoes.
[20:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03rst [2175] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:27] <exec> 08└─There are two different points that I always find interesting with these arguments. - the zero to one hundred argument. Around here (Southern Alberta, Canada), the range is -50 to almost 100 in farenheit. Some parts of California and Arizona, some parts of the middle East, and probably a number of o...
[20:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:30] <exec> 08└─Why? Because most of us only care about air temperature, not water temperature.
[20:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:32] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, a round-numbered 40-60-70 (or, for some grain bills, 50-60-70) 3-step infusion process measured in degrees celsius is pretty much ideally suited to brewing beer. [howtobrew.com] Beer is better than coffee, therefore your argument is invalid.
[20:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:34] <exec> 08└─I've never understood why non-U.S. people get so butthurt about Fahrenheit. It's not hurting you, dude. Just let it be.
[20:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rst [2175] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:36] <exec> 08└─In Canada they usually have both farenheit and celsius
[20:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:39] <exec> 08└─Not at all, you can use C for beer, F for coffee, and everybody can be happy. This notion around scales that there can be only one is bizarre.
[20:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:41] <exec> 08└─And that's really all there is to it. Whatever you go with, you'll get used to it. But I do want to thank the author for this: This means that you can get a more exact measurement of the air temperature using Fahrenheit because it uses almost twice the scale.
[20:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:43] <exec> 08└─IMHO The argument over temperature scale won't help anybody when talking about how hot/cold it is outside or inside. I grew up with Fahrenheit and then moved to Europe/Asia and got used to Celsius. When I moved back to USA Fahrenheit took hold again and my wife who grew up with Celsius learned to lo...
[20:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:45] <exec> 08└─Well, as others have already said, this is a bunch of bollocks. A single degree Celsius is more than enough accuracy for everyday use. If you need anything more precise, then it's unlikely that using integers in Fahrenheit is going to be enough for you either. Furthermore, 0°F has no useful everyda...
[20:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:47] <exec> 08└─Please, compromise! You use Kelvin for both beer and coffee!
[20:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:50] <exec> 08└─Kelvin has the same problems as Celsius. Now, Rankine, on the other hand...
[20:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, confusion over units of measure has resulted in quite a few problems. There is no real reason to keep separate systems, it just causes problems.
[20:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:54] <exec> 08└─The Celsius scale was originally designed with 0 degrees as the boiling point of water and 100 degrees for the temperature of melting ice (it's now the reverse). The Fahrenheit scale was originally designed [straightdope.com] with 32 degrees as the temperature of melting ice and 96 degrees as human...
[20:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:56] <exec> 08└─And so is the entire metric system. The U.S. got everything right. And don't you forget it!
[20:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:59] <exec> 08└─Celsius / Fahrenheit Debate. Hold on a sec till I get the popcorn!!! So much of our number system is optimized for the 0-100 range
[20:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:01] <exec> 08└─One thing Celsuis has guoing for it is its easier to spell. Almost as easy as Calvin.
[20:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:03] <exec> 08└─Well no two people would have the same thermometer, so conversing about temperature would be a pain - one person's "cold" might be another's "nice"...
[20:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:05] <exec> 08└─Not true. I grew up with feet/inches/miles, and can say without reservation that meter/centimeter/millimeter/kilometer is better. I still don't actually remember how many feet there are in a mile, something like 5,000?
[20:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:08] <exec> 08└─His argument amounts to the claim that we humans can tell a difference of temperature of 1F, which is a difference of approximately 0.5C. Does anyone think that they can actually perceive a 1F difference and, if so, it makes a difference to them? In other news, an angry man shouted at some youngster...
[20:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:10] <exec> 08└─> They just happened to choose two different and equally arbitrary start and end points. They're both defined by the melting point of ice and the boiling point of water.
[20:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:12] <exec> 08└─According to wiki: [wikia.com] Stone Hedge is a castle in the Riverlands. It is the seat of House Bracken, a vassal house holding fealty to House Tully of Riverrun. The castle is located east of Riverrun, south of the Red Fork of the Trident.[1][2]
[20:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:14] <exec> 08└─A kitchen appliance such as a stove will have Fahrenheit markings because they are usually made in Mexico, mostly for the U.S. Market. It is also common for a thermometer to be marked both ways. Weather forecasts are always in Celsius.
[20:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:16] <exec> 08└─Fahrenheit is the most logical [iwastesomuchtime.com]
[20:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:19] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/526/ [xkcd.com] And, on the other hand, https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[20:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:21] <exec> 08└─Wrong! Kelvin has no negatives!
[20:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:51] <exec> 08└─And while most of us may not like this particular law, do we really want multinationals ignoring local laws?
[20:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:52] <exec> 08└─You can disagree if you want, but the data is already in. In the US: Freedoms restricted, corporations receiving massive benefits, people who protest put in jail. In the UK: same as above, but more cameras and government intrusion into daily lives.
[20:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 5070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:55] <exec> 08└─Lying plus Bayesian poisoning of data. An example of lying would be to put a commercial mail box on your drivers license. This is increasingly difficult since they are now categorizing addresses, but the gist is that you give an address held by some friendly party. Never an address of where you slee...
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:57] <exec> 08└─The US press is very popular in Venezuela now, since bath tissue is practically non-existent. http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─The answer is no. Obviously, someone leaked the existence of this research. It is big news regardless of whether it worked or not.
[20:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB 3.2 Doubles Maximum Possible Bandwidth With a Type-C Cable - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:37] <exec> 08└─Or buy more laptops: https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com]
[20:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:54] <exec> 08└─You are a slave though. A slave to the authoritarian fuckwads who "teach" you to think the world owes you something just for being born. They have thoroughly enslaved your mind and forever secured your vote.
[20:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:56] <exec> 08└─One of the aspects of "death march" projects is that the managers panic and press the "EVERYBODY WORK OVERTIME!" button. And the result is that the developers are tired. Which means they make more mistakes, and get slower. So the bosses, unaware of their mistake, say, "EVERYBODY WORK MORE OVERTIME!"...
[20:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:54] <exec> 08└─Everything I've read so far on this subject, says that this is an IMMIGRANT problem.
[20:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Details Supercomputing Plan - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:29] <exec> 08└─The lesson to learn from Japan is that it's best to burn the whole place down and start from scratch. That's what India/Pakistan/Bangladesh really need.
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[21:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nnet [5716] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:07] <exec> 08└─call trump directly, he said he'd take your call. you could ask him to employ you since the employer he alleged was keeping jobs thanks to him decided to lay you off anyway in the continued fight to be more and more greedy.
[21:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:09] <exec> 08└─Carrier has plans. Politicians ask them to change their plans in return for incentives. Carrier modifies plans, and then follows through on their modified plans. Wait, stop the presses! A business plan actually followed through? That's news! ... no, no, sorry, false alarm, still not news. It is howe...
[21:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:11] <exec> 08└─Guess you haven't gotten tired of winning yet. US workers don't need jobs, they can just pull themselves by their bootstraps right?
[21:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:13] <exec> 08└─We had a candidate who wanted to tax them more because corporations are evil, a candidate who said we don't need those jobs anyways, and a candidate who tried to work a deal to keep them in the US and faulted mexico. Sounds like only one of the three acted like they cared about the worker.
[21:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:16] <exec> 08└─Taxing corporations more isn't going to fix the problem, taxing workers more isn't going to fix the problem, so what do you do? You could go full isolationist and do tariffs everywhere, thats pretty much it. I suppose deregulation might temporarily relieve some of the stress, but between the minimum...
[21:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:18] <exec> 08└─How is this NOT marked 'Politics'? Two clues: 1 - 'World Socialist' 2 - The name 'Trump' included in the summary. I'm not saying that it's not a fine story for this site, but at least call it what it is.
[21:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:20] <exec> 08└─A man walks into a crowded bank. A second man walks into a crowded bank, pulls out a gun as part of a robbery, and during his shots, happens to hit the first man in the shoulder. The first man was the only person injured during the robbery. Was the first man fortunate or unfortunate? - The pessimist...
[21:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:22] <exec> 08└─You apologists can't seem to get reality straight, but hey you don't mind Trump apparently so you're already on shaky ground sanity-wise. This isn't Trump's fault, but failing on his MAGA promises is 100% on him.
[21:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:25] <exec> 08└─and a candidate who tried to work a deal to keep them in the US and faulted mexico.
[21:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:16] <exec> 08└─If you stick to Fahrenheit you'll never have to escape from the evil clutches of the EU because they won't let you join in the first place. In March 2019 we're going back to Fahrenheit and Pounds, Shillings and Pence. Rumour has it we'll bring back hanging too.
[21:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:18] <exec> 08└─Statute mile (5280 ft) or nautical mile (6000 ft)?
[21:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:20] <exec> 08└─Kelvin has no negatives!
[21:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 1601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:23] <exec> 08└─See, I live where 0C is an unimportant temperature - the weather here never gets within shouting distance of it. 100F, however, is our distinction between "pleasant in the shade" and "too warm even in the shade" (and 110F is where we start calling it "hot") (Local joke: Only in Phoenix would a forec...
[21:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:25] <exec> 08└─Because it obfuscates matters and results in accidents like Mars Climate Orbiter crash in 1998 because.. *drumroll* ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit. So NASA went full SI in 2007. US military and government adopted SI in 1975. Suppose you...
[21:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─Scientists do the Kelvin thing you insensitive clod! ;-)
[21:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:30] <exec> 08└─better precision for the number of digits For hot water, the Fahrenheit temperatures would be written with three digits before the decimal. In Celsius, they'd be written with two digits before the decimal. Suppose you had a three-digit readout with a decimal point. Then you could read it to the near...
[21:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:32] <exec> 08└─Fahrenheit is easy to remember: it's half a circle to go between the freezing point and boiling point of water, exactly 180 degrees.
[21:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin, Rankine... They all fail. The TPS scale is far better. 0 is absolute zero (-273.15 C) 500 is the triple point of pure water (0.01 C) Normal outside temperature falls somewhere between 425 TPS and 575 TPS. (-40 to +40C) Most things bake between 825 TPS (cookies) and 900 T...
[21:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:36] <exec> 08└─So make rules about which you use in scientific and technical contexts. Use by the man on the street doesn't hurt anyone.
[21:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─Does anyone here have another reason for advocating the continued use of the Fahrenheit scale ?
[21:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─It's a failure of definition, not a temperature that is actually colder than absolute zero. You guys bring this up every time :P
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─Communication is easier if everybody uses the same language. Celsius is the international standard, and the science standard. So it is Fahrenheit who hinders communication. Having said that, I'm not particulary concerned about Fahrenheit. Any debate about which is better is stupid, both scales are a...
[21:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:45] <exec> 08└─http://sploid.gizmodo.com/astonishing-picture-of-earth-compared-to-all-its-water-1472149072 [gizmodo.com] The planet also has an abundance of atmosphere.
[21:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:48] <exec> 08└─Actually it does, do you know how many annoyed world citizens have had to talk to US ignoramuses about how 20-30 degrees isn't freezing cold?
[21:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:50] <exec> 08└─One thing Celsuis has guoing for it is its easier to spell. Almost as easy as Calvin.
[21:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:52] <exec> 08└─Emergency Michael Boffin Stoffard comment?
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:54] <exec> 08└─It should be obvious to "annoyed world citizens" that they're talking about Fahrenheit. If they're willfully misunderstanding in order to call the other person an ignoramus, I've got a mirror to show you who the problem is.
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─It's not the size of the gradations on your thermometer that matters - it's how you use it.
[21:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:31] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this tidbit here When Did Comapnies Become People? [npr.org]
[21:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:33] <exec> 08└─How come American business have problem with sex but not violence in any media they touch? Europe doesn't have this problem at that scale. Still online social media corporation goes nuts over it. Hollywood movies on people getting hacked to pieces = OK, people having romantic sex = *OMG!!*.
[21:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:35] <exec> 08└─Europe had it's own Taliban back then. They didn't like competition..
[21:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:37] <exec> 08└─It may take some effort to cultivate. Renting a small place for a few months allows you to get utility bills. From there you could register that address with a few banks, voter registration*, the DMV**, and your passport. At the same time you have a commercial mail box that is registered as the mail...
[21:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:37] <exec> 08└─Point is some people are genius some days and retards others. Some people are quite good all the time but never genius or retards. Work environment is tailored around standardized work units not people that are uneven in performance.
[21:26:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:10] <exec> 08└─Why do all the mainstream journalists hate Trump? Because he's in the "R" group and they're almost all in the "D" group and its middle school sociology hate of the outgroup.
[21:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:44] <exec> 08└─If that was true, and you'd ever been laid off from a job, you'd now likely be a working at a workplace where you are a worker-owner (and not just another voiceless exploited employee at a top-down Capitalist operation). In 1985, Italy reworked its unemployment insurance law [google.com] such that a...
[21:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:37] <exec> 08└─Between the laughing dad getting his "sad camera face" on while news cameras were already recording, the "out one door, around the building, in the other", pedestrian footage from the chopper, the laughable claimed circumstances of the white bearded fraud, and the rapid closure and utter obliteratio...
[21:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:38] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? You're talking about the soylentnews where Azuma Hazuki, gewg_ and turgid run around playing who's-the-bigger-leftist? Where there are regular workers' movement posts from the gewgiverse? I mean, if you see a red-pill, MRA, Trumpeting, kill-all-brown-people sinister agenda, let me know,...
[21:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much has NASA Downplayed SpaceX's Accidents? - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:57] <exec> 08└─SpaceX had 9 launches in 2016. 3 were for NASA. They've had 10 launches so far this year, 2 were for NASA. The US taxpayer pays Boeing/Lockheed a billion dollars a year as part of a 'launch capability contract.' They get that money for literally doing nothing. It's supposed to be a sort of hedging t...
[21:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:12] <exec> 08└─No, YOU are the jerk, jerk!
[21:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Israel Anti-Boycott Act - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:14] <exec> 08└─There was only one part of the SA boycott that had any significant effect on the longevity of the Apartheid government: the financial sanctions. Coca-cola was still in SA. So were BP, Shell, IBM and Siemens. Toyota and Ford, GM and Nissan. The one thing that really hurt was the inability to turn ove...
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[22:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:19] <exec> 08└─We already had two politics stories for the day: "Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan" and "American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule'." This one couldn't go under politics, because three stories in the politics section in one day is too many.
[22:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:21] <exec> 08└─Ah, it's a with us / against us thing. Nice and simple, I like that.
[22:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:23] <exec> 08└─Trump claims credit for a win but at best it was a 2-sides of the coin, shades of gray, pluses and minuses outcome.
[22:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:25] <exec> 08└─Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Donald Trump; in that order. Maybe we should have voted for the moderate?
[22:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:28] <exec> 08└─Let's review the evidence: WATCH: Donald Trump Says He Forgot About His Promise to Keep Carrier in the U.S. Until Last Week [heavy.com]
[22:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:30] <exec> 08└─Assuming someone who doesn't hate $current_president is an apologist for $current_president is quite a leap. Implicitly calling said person insane is quite another leap yet. Also, you missed the original point, so I'll assume I didn't lay it out logically enough (the bank robbery scenario was probab...
[22:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:45] <exec> 08└─Celsius is not the standard. Kelvin is.
[22:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:47] <exec> 08└─But I can fuck your bitch.
[22:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:49] <exec> 08└─Celsuis
[22:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:51] <exec> 08└─You're either replying to the wrong comment or coffee roasting happens at substantially higher temperatures than you seem to think.
[22:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:53] <exec> 08└─So we're not going to address the elephant in the room, then? :)
[22:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe he was trying to spell "Celsuis".
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:58] <exec> 08└─Dammit, of course :-).
[22:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:00] <exec> 08└─The triple-point of water is used as a temperature standard, and it is 0.01 °C Triple-point: the temperature where solid, liquid, and gas co-exist. Example of a triple-point cell: http://us.flukecal.com
[22:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:02] <exec> 08└─I think Fahrenheit does a better job of capturing the current air temperatures in comfortable numbers for people.
[22:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─No, Fahrenheit is correct for Phoenix too. The simple rule with Fahrenheit is: if it's below 0 or above 100, it's too extreme for humans to live in. Which means the Phoenix is uninhabitable for part of the year. Does it really matter if it's 110 or 118? No, either one is much too hot to be outside.
[22:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:06] <exec> 08└─Above 200°F, right? So what's the advantage of the Fahrenheit scale?
[22:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 1843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:09] <exec> 08└─I agree about Fahrenheit being more fine-grained. My car has digital automatic climate control, which can be set to C or F. With F, it's easy: there's just two digits. I usually set mine to somewhere between 68 or 73, but each degree is noticeable. But in Celcius mode, the thing actually has half-de...
[22:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:11] <exec> 08└─Another reason it's great is that every weather report is a TPS report.
[22:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:13] <exec> 08└─I grew up with feet/inches/miles, and can say without reservation that meter/centimeter/millimeter/kilometer is better. For the most part, I agree. But miles are better if you're walking long distances: one mile is equal to 1000 paces (of an Imperial Roman soldier). So you can pretty easily count ro...
[22:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:15] <exec> 08└─This would be like arguing the kilometer is only "suited" to measuring distances on the earth's surface, because it was originally defined [wikipedia.org] as 1/10,000,000th of the distance from the north pole to the equator on a line passing through Paris.
[22:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:54] <exec> 08└─This whole "religious prosecution" is never told in its entirety. Yes, they were prosecuted for their religion, but they were prosecuted because they went TOO far, because they were lunatics.
[22:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Helps Round up Blasphemers in Pakistan - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:55] <exec> 08└─How come American business have problem with sex but not violence in any media they touch?
[22:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:25] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that should be "1e-8 mutations/bp/division"
[22:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:59] <exec> 08└─The boss and the receptionist is a extrovert so of course everybody else are like them! :-) Many workplaces with qualified jobs should sometimes have the option to say "FUCK OFF!!", even to the boss ;-)
[22:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:00] <exec> 08└─I say no to the "Friday Frolicks" (they go outside and play games for a half hour every friday afternoon...I prefer to have that half hour of peace and quiet to actually get some work done)
[22:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:03] <exec> 08└─If all people that are really relevant for you are far away. Why are you not telecommuting?
[22:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:10] <exec> 08└─The greatest power that the media has is its willingness to IGNORE a story. Stories that interest me, which I can read in alt-media, don't make it into Lamestream Media. These are typically items that are Science-based or would reveal people-unfriendly gov't actions. The usual suspects don't want to...
[22:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:12] <exec> 08└─I agree, 15 minutes is FAR TOO MUCH. I read a tweet that said it was a Chinese hoax. That settles it.
[22:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:07] <exec> 08└─I grew up around immigrants, i've worked with and for people from all sorts of ethnic and religious backgrounds...
[22:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:08] <exec> 08└─immigration didn't start at the turn of the century, nor did western cultural norms and criminal activity stop evolving after the turn of the century. comments like this highlight the desire to blame any social problems on foreign people just because some bad things have happened recently.
[22:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:15] <exec> 08└─I think we need to meet the AI on their home turf...and get there first to be ready for them. Sooner or later (And Musk himself is working to make this 'sooner') we're going to have direct neural interfaces. And *someone* is surely going to plug their brain into the Internet. If there is already AI...
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[23:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:18] <exec> 08└─Heh, assuming I missed your point because you couldn't see mine. But either way, we all know this is Trump's fault, of course. Hurry up and post the next Trump's-fault story, please.
[23:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:20] <exec> 08└─What? Where'd you get that? His "a candidate who said we don't need those jobs anyways" was clearly referring to Hillary Clinton. Like all the establishment Dems (who are neo-liberals, basically right-wing corporatists but who'll adopt progressive stances on social issues when it suits them to get v...
[23:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:22] <exec> 08└─only one of the three acted like they cared about the worker Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Donald Trump; in that order No. The Green Party platform in 2016 actually contained a nod to worker-owned cooperatives. Proposal Adopted [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [gp.org] ...which is not to say that the Wo...
[23:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:24] <exec> 08└─Properly used, Socialism is an economic term: The collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers The political system associated with Socialism is Democracy. ...though there are a bunch of "democracies" where you won't find any Socialism being practiced in the workplaces. -- Original...
[23:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workers Denounce Hundreds of Layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier Plant - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:27] <exec> 08└─What really matters is if he can sue the bank for insufficient security and go home rich.
[23:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:57] <exec> 08└─Our mains frequency and voltage are the same as in Taiwan, parts of North Korea, and Liberia.
[23:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 2995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:59] <exec> 08└─Its less binary than appears. I lived in a bachelor pad in the extreme north where we needed air conditioning about two weeks a year, aka no central air. So my AC themostat was calibrated 1 to 9. Yes it was so cheap it didn't even do up to 10, much less 11. Also hilariously you increased the number...
[23:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:01] <exec> 08└─Celsius is not quite accurate enough for food processing. You can't safely operate a cannery that way unless you overcook everything.
[23:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:03] <exec> 08└─So one degree celsius isn't accurate enough, but half a degree is? Just use decimal places.
[23:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:05] <exec> 08└─Apparently this guy has never heard of the decimal point or how numbers can be put after one.
[23:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:07] <exec> 08└─Even More BS.
[23:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:10] <exec> 08└─...if you grew up using Fahrenheit, you will think about temperature in Fahrenheit.
[23:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:12] <exec> 08└─You need 550 F to cook "baked Alaska" and you normally need 600 F for an oven cleaning cycle. An ideal temperature scale would describe one of those as 999, or perhaps 990 or 975 or 950. The other end is obviously absolute zero. Rankine is pretty close and already established.
[23:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:14] <exec> 08└─One example is percentages, which are nearly always presented in [values from 0 to 100].
[23:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:16] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure Fahrenheit is defined as exactly Celsius * (9/5) + 32. I.e. its defined by the metric system. Also pretty sure that Celsius is defined by absolute zero and the triple point of water, it's just that instead of absolute zero/triple point being 0 and 500, it's -273.15 and 0.01 Also pretty s...
[23:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:19] <exec> 08└─My shower water goes from "C" to "H".
[23:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:21] <exec> 08└─wtf is a stonehedge?
[23:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fahrenheit vs Celsius: One Man Says the U.S. Got It Right - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:23] <exec> 08└─I *personally* like F instead of C. However, that is only because I grew up with it. I do not want to spend the time relearning something that really only affects 'do I wear a jacket or shorts'. It is a convention. If I grew up with C instead of F I would be saying I like it that way. All to answer...
[23:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Known Attempt at Genetically Modifying Human Embryos in the U.S. is an Apparent Success - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:33] <exec> 08└─unless the orderly progression of the hierarchy is disturbed by inflammation, ulceration or trauma
[23:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:08] <exec> 08└─Interesting parties have a surplus of attractive females, good music, good food and intelligent crowd. Otherwise it's a waste of attention. So if the "Friday Frolicks" (what is that?), holiday parties, team lunches etc don't contain that well F--- O-- ;) Team members invitations are the same. The tr...
[23:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:10] <exec> 08└─Probably varies day to day among some people (and workloads, too)
[23:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire And Motion - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:12] <exec> 08└─Thats... actually kinda nice. I'm just saying that my first impression of "Friday Frolicks" was the usual BS come out of a mgmt meeting at 3:30pm on the way to the golf course "Oh BTW here is a weeks worth of work to accomplish before 8am Monday, it's super important and best of luck I got a 4pm tee...
[23:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:21] <exec> 08└─You forgot about Hitler. Every Republican is and always has been Hitler. Hitlery [soylentnews.org] Hitlery [soylentnews.org] Hitlery [soylentnews.org] Hitlery [soylentnews.org] Hitlery [soylentnews.org] You were saying?
[23:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:23] <exec> 08└─Thats what passes for journalism today
[23:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule' - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:25] <exec> 08└─One conspiracy is "people like money" and the other conspiracy is someone faked the entire history of the soviet system of using mental illness as a shaming or punishment system for obviously political purposes and people of the same political persuasion have taken over the field in here, also. My m...
[23:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:20] <exec> 08└─As some one who is living in Australia, which has an excellent health system, I just cannot fathom the hatred that so many Americans have with the concept of public medical healthcare. As a country, you seem to be perfectly happy to have taxes and universal access to police, fire trucks and so much...
[23:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Acid Attacks - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:22] <exec> 08└─It gets expensive, but otherwise I'm OK with death by slowly dripping acid. Each day, they get maybe one drop of acid on them. Cut back if they are at risk of dying before 10 years. Increase the rate or dose if they seem destined to survive past 10 years.
[23:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI is "Limited" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:28] <exec> 08└─Pure speculation on all parts. We have 0 idea how an AI will react. It is like trying to figure out how an alien will talk to us if they talk to us at all.
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